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the education, enforcement and
engineering around creating a
more pedestrian-friendly commu-
nity," Hohnke said. "I think this
is a useful request to ask staff to
explore some new alternatives."
Due to changing technology in
pedestrian crossing mechanisms,
Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje
and Hohnke said they are looking
forward to seeing the proposals
the staff is expected to develop
and share with the council later
this fall. They both expressed
their support to explore alterna-
tives to the current High-inten-
sity Activated crossWalK - an
overhead lighting system acti-
vated by a button on the sidewalk
- which is installed at several
intersections throughout the city.
The current law states that
drivers must stop and yield for
pedestrians approaching or with-
in a crosswalk, as outlined in an
ordinance adopted by the city in
The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com
July 2010. Council member Sabra
Briere (D-Ward 1) stressed the
importance of clarifying the use
of "approaching" in the ordi-
nance due to the ambiguity that
she feels it creates.
"That language is too vague for
people to feel comfortable about
what to do," Briere said.
Briere also brought up the issue
of having a bus stop near a cross-
walk, which poses a threat for
pedestrians since drivers cannot
determine whether individuals
are attempting to cross a street or
waiting for a bus.
Council member Marcia Hig-
gins (D-Ward 4) said she appreci-
ates the resolution, which might
help to prevent dangerous situ-
ations like the one she said she
witnessed a few weeks ago at the
intersection of Crest Avenue and
West Liberty Street.
"I had been on a cross street
watching a person wait and saw
a motorist stop on one side of the
street and almost get hit and have
people honking horns and shoot-
ing out around them... and yet the
(vehicles) coming from the other
side never stopped because they
hadn't seen that pedestrian yet,"
Higgins described.
Initiatives for increased safety
measures for pedestrians in the
city have been a major concern in
previous years, especially in light
of a tragic incident in which two
University students, Teh Nan-
nie Roshema Roslan and Norha-
nanim Zainol, were killed when
they were struck by a vehicle
while crossing Plymouth Road in
November 2003.
Their deaths instigated an ini-
tiative by City Council to improve
crossing safety. A new traffic
signal and medians were con-
structed two years later at the
intersection of Traverwood Drive
and Plymouth Road.
Council member Stephen Kun-
selman (D-Ward 3) said he felt
there were other areas in the city
where safety measures should be
improved for pedestrians, such
as Packard Street, and added that
he would ask the staff to consider
these areas as well.
Pro-life and pro-choice groups debate issues of abortion in the Michigan Union last night.
Las Vegas still fumes over
2-year-old Obama remark
President counting
on Nevada in
re-election
LAS VEGAS (AP) - President
Barack Obama has a Sin City
problem that won't go away.
Obama is counting on Nevada's
support for re-election next year.
He easily won the Las Vegas Val-
ley in 2008 and will probably win
the largely Democratic, urban
center again next year.
But some Nevada state officials
and residents of this economical-
ly ravaged state have been fuming
over comments they perceived as
rants against the tourism indus-
try since he first made them two
years ago, and Republicans are
hoping that fury will pointvoters
in their direction.
The friction resurfaced as
Obama visited a Las Vegas neigh-
borhood Monday as part of a
nationwide tour to sell his jobs
plan. The stop came as Repub-
lican presidential candidates,
business titans and former Las
Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman
maintain that Obama has twice
disparaged Las Vegas tourism -
this Western swingstate's largest
employer.
The jabs are notable because
casino-dependent Nevada has
the highest unemployment rate
in the nation, and Obama can't
afford to have voters blame
him as his Republican rivals
try to convince the nation that
they would do a better job of
turning the stalled economy
around. Nevada's unemployment
remained steady at 13.4 percent
last month.
"He said it more than once,"
said former Nevada Gov. Bob
List, a national Republican com-
mitteeman. "You can't un-ring
the bell. You have to live with
what you say. It just shows a lack
of understanding of the engine
that drives the state."
The feud began in 2009, when
Obama admonished corporations
using federal bailout money: "You
can't go take a trip to Las Vegas
or go down to the Super Bowl on
the taxpayer's dime." A year later,
Obama warned families against
gambling away college tuition:
"You don't blow a bunch of cash
in Vegas when you're trying to
save for college."
The call for financial respon-
sibility didn't sit well with some
Las Vegans, and Democratic and
Republican lawmakers in Nevada
all lashed back at the time.
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"Human development begins
at fertilization and does not stop
at birth," LSA sophomore Joe
Lipa, a member of Students for
Life, said.
The discussion was heated
during the 90-minute debate.
Both sides expressed frustra-
tion about the complex argu-
ment concerning the definition
of life and the rights of both
women and fetuses.
While speaking about the
illegality of abortion, LSA
junior Dakota Hadfield, a mem-
ber of the Secular Student Alli-
ance, hit the podium and called
abortion unfair.
"This is masochism being
offered to you by sadists," Hat-
field yelled.
Earlier in the debate, LSA
sophomore Katie Dieckman, a
member of the Secular Student
Alliance, held up hangers and
knitting needles - which she
said are instruments used for
abortion in countries where it's
illegal - to argue the danger of
abortion alternatives.
"This is the reality we are
forcing if abortion becomes ille-
gal," said Diekman, while hold-
ing the instruments.
The Secular Student Asso-
ciation also talked about how an
overturn of the Supreme Court
ruling would directly affect
poverty and mortality rates and
unfairly penalize women and
doctors.
LSA junior Anna Paone of
Students for Life said there are
ways to support women's rights
without harming others.
"Feminine empowerment
does not mean killing unborn
women," Paone said.
Throughoutthe debate, mem-
bers of Students for Life held
steadfast in their beliefs of the
rights of the dependent unborn
over those of the mother, while
the Secular Student Alliance
stayed constant in their views of
the mother's right to choose.
"Our rights end when some-
one else's begins," LSA senior
Elise Aikman, a Students for
Life representative, said.
LSA sophomore Sahana
Prasad of the Secular Student
Alliance, countered: "(Abortion
is) depriving the fetus use of the
body ... which the fetus has no
right to in the first place,"
In an interview before the
event, Rackham Graduate
School student Andrew Patton,
a member of Students for Life,
said he saw the debate as an
opportunity for students to see
the principles of his group.
"I think people make the mis-
take that the decision to be pro-
life is irrational," Patton said.
Though there were criti-
cisms voiced during the debate,
Public Policy junior Michael
Jacobson, a Secular Student
Alliance representative, pro-
posed that the two groups work
together to address the roots of
abortion. Unplanned pregnan-
cy and alternatives to abortion
were proposed to be the focus
of future conversation.
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