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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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REGENTS PREVIEW
Regents to
review Yost
Ice Arena
renovations
AUSTEN HUFFORD/Daily
Desperately holding onto the bull, LSA freshman Alexa Weiss closes her eyes as she swings around. The "Go Blue, Wear Pink" campaign offered mechanical bull
riding on the Diag yesterday to promote breast cancer awareness month. The campaign has raised about $14,000 this school year.
FIRESIDE CHAT
Tr
Board expected
to approve Winter
Commencement
honorary degrees
By KAITLIN WILLIAMS
Daily StaffReporters
The University's Board
of Regents will travel to the
University's Flint campus on
Thursday to discuss building
renovations, faculty appoint-
ments and other projects that
will affect all three campuses.
Among the renovation proj-
ects the regents will review is
an update to Yost tce Arena,
which the regents originally
approved in June. The $14.7
million project is expected
to receive new bleachers,
increased handicapped seating,
additional concession stands
and a new press box.
In an Oct.10 communication
to the regents, Timothy Slottow,
the University's executive vice
president and chief financial
officer, and University Athletic
Director Dave Brandon recom-
mended that the regents award
early, procurement packages
- included in the $14.7 million
- to jsmpstari3tte fabrication
of windows and bleachers for
the facility and ensure that the
project is finished by its fall
2012 deadline.
The funding will come frq m
the Athletic Department, the
communication states.
REGENTS TO REVIEW
UPDATE FOR CENTRAL
POWER PLANT
The regents will also vote on
whether or not to ,fund apro-
posed $6.75 million. project to
update the Central PowerPlan,
which heats and cools many
buildings on Central Canmpus.
The renovations will mod-
ernize the plant's electronic
control systems and optimize
the power plant's efficiency,
Slottow wrote in an Oct. 10
communication to the regents.
Funding for the project will
come from the University's
Utility & Plant, Engineering
resources, according to the
communication. If approved,
the project is scheduled to be
completed in fall 2014.
See REGENTS, Page S
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needs more travel options
Stud calls for from North Campus to Central poration, presented the results a boomerang that encompasses
Campus may soon be relieved of of the Ann Arbor Connector Fea- North Campus, Central Campus
city, 'U'to create their transpor- sibility study, which concluded and downtown Ann Arbor could
tation woes. ,N A/Q that Ann Arbor is in need of a benefit from alternate transit
new rail, bus lines In a presen- z n more advanced transit system. options since the area is often
tation to the = The study - a collaboration congested with traffic.
By ADAM RUBENFIRE Ann Arbor City CObetween the University, the city The report recommends that
Daily StaffReporter Council yester- P of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Coun- Ann Arbor introduce options like
day, Rick Nau, -.. ... ty, the Ann Arbor Downtown light rail, bus rapid transit -large
Students who often find them- vice president of Development Authority and the busesuwith their own lane - or an
selves squished between back- the San Francisco-based engi- Ann Arbor Transit Authority elevated train system in a high-
packs and benches on the buses neering services firm URS Cor- - found an area in the shape of See TRANSIT, Page 3
FIRESIDE CHAT
Harper: Police are trying to
'tone it down' on game days -
At fireside chat,
students question
campus safety
By PAIGE PEARCY
Daily StaffReporter
Porch banisters strewn with
red Solo cups, dancing students
on the roof and beer bongs dan-
gling from third floor windows
are not uncommon sites for pass-
ersby walking to Michigan Sta-
dium on Football Saturdays.
While that scene occurs every
game day, E. Royster Harper,
the University's vice president
for student affairs, told students
yesterday that the behavior does
not accurately -reflect who Uni-
versity students are.
"I think there is quite a lot
of concern around getting to
the games healthy and safe and
sober," Harper said.
Harper expressed her sen-
timents about student safety
before footballigames at a fireside
chat with University President
Mary Sue Coleman and about 40
students in the Kuenzel Room of
the Michigan Union yesterday.
Harper addressed the issue in
response to a question from LSA
senior Sloane Wolf who asked
why it seems police are breaking
up Football Saturday pregame
parties more often this year than
they did in the past.
See HARPER, Page 3
FACULTY GOVERNANCE
New sustainability initiatives
discussed by lead faculty body
AUSTEN HUFFORD/Daily
Students participate in a National Coming Out Day rally on the Diag yesterday. Michigan Student Assembly President
DeAndree Watson, Law Prof. Bruce Frier and Spectrum Center Coordinator Ariana Bostian-Kentes spoke at the event.
'U' community celebrates National
Coming Out Day with rally on Diag
SACUA talks
hybrid buses, solar
panel fields
By MARY HANNAHAN
Ddly StaffReporter
A recent hot topic of discus-
sion on campus, the University's
environmental sustainability ini-
tiatives were on the agenda of the
leading faculty governing body
yesterday.
Don Scavia, director ofthe Uni-
versity's Graham Sustainability
Institute, reiterated the Univer-
sity's new goals for sustainability
in academics, energy systems and
dininghalls inthe meetingbefore
the Senate Advisory Committee
on University Affairs.
University President Mary Sue
Coleman announced the Univer-
sity's 14-year plan for sustain-
ability last month. The initiative
includes the $14 million purchase
of seven hybrid buses and the
installation of solar panels on
North Campus. The new efforts
continue a push for more sustain-
ability projects on campus that
began in 2009.
"It wastwoyears agoyesterday
See SUSTAINABILITY, Page 3
Event hosted by
MSA's LGBT Issues
Commission
By BRANDON SIHAW
DailyStaffReporter
LadyGaga's "Born This Way"
blared acrossthe Diagyesterday
as LGBT students and support-
ers celebrated their sexuality.
As part of National Com-
ing Out Day, about 75 people
gathered on the Diag yesterday
afternoon to show their solidar-
ity with the University's LGBT
community.
The speakers at the rally,
which was sponsored by the
Michigan Student Assembly's
LGBT Issues Commission,
included MSA President DeAn-
dree Watson, Law Prof. Bruce
Frier and Spectrum Center
Coordinator Ariana Bostian-
Kentes. They discussed recent
legislative measures, such as
the repeal of the U.S. military's
"don'task,don'ttell"policy,that
affect the LGBT community, as
well as topics like the develop-
ment of adolescent identities
among LGBT youth.
In his speech, Watson lauded
the University community for
its understanding and accep-
tance of all people, regardless
of their sexual orientation. He
added that though society does
not completely accept' differ-
ent sexual identities, everyone
should be proud of their iden-
See RALLY, Page 3
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