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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
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SCHOOL SUPPLY SHOPPING,
ANN ARBOR CITY COUNCIL
City gets
DOJ grant
for crime
tracking
Art & Design senior Shelby Roback shops for school supplies at Michigan Book and Supply on State Street yesterday.
MICHIGAN STUDENT ASSEMBLY
MSA talks campus safety
In light ofrecent incidents
AAPD to receive
$27,996 for Law
Enforcement
Intelligence Device
ByADAM RUBENFIRE
Daily StaffReporter
Following a series of recent
unarmed robberies and multiple
assaults in July, the Ann Arbor
Police Department has received
federal funding for new technol-
ogy to assist in finding perpetra-
tors.
At its meeting last night, the
Ann Arbor City Council unani-
mously voted to accept and
appropriate funds from a 2011
Edward Byrne Memorial Jus-
tice Assistance Grant from the
U.S. Department of Justice.
The grant was awarded to the
AAPD to help them implement
a new and sophisticated crime
mapping "dashboard" called a
Law Enforcement Intelligence
Device, whichwill allowpoliceto
better identify trends in crimes,
such as the times or places they
frequently occur, according to
the AAPD's grant application.
Currently, members of AAPD's
support staff are responsible for
crime analysis, crime mapping
and generating statistics. How-
ever, the new software will allow
"patrol officers, investigators and
police managers" real-time avail-
ability to the information, rather
than having to wait for statistics
and maps to be generated by
staffers.
The application notes that
the total cost of purchasing
and implementing the LEID is,
$48,514. The JAG granted the
city $27,996, and the remaining
$20,518 for the device will come
from state or federal forfeitO
funds thatthe AAPDhas alreadN
budgeted for.
The LEID may also assist
police in determining where
and when to increase patrols in
response to recent crimes close
See CITY, Page 3A
BE
So
yond the Diag StudentAssembly's first meeting
last night took a somber tone as it
afety program addressed recent crime alerts on
campus.
introduced The meeting, held in the
MSA Chambers in the Michi-
By SABIRA KHAN gan Union, featured guest pre-
Daily StaffReporter sentations by the assembly's
Student Safety Commission and
er beginning with the the director of the University's
excitement that a new Sexual Assault Prevention and
tations come in the wake of a
number of crimes on and near
campus, including six assaults in
July and two unarmed robberies
in the past week.
Student Safety Commission
Chairs Josh Buoy and Stepha-
nie Hamel, both LSA students,
presented a new program called
Beyond the Diag - an effort to
disseminate information to stu-
measures. The commission's
work included passing out safety
literature with Department of
Public Safety Executive Direc-
tor Greg O'Dell and Ann Arbor
PoliceDepartmentChiefBarnett
Jones during Welcome Week.
The goal of Beyond the Diag is
to identify and focus on specific
off-campus residential neigh-
borhoods to create a sense of
See MSA, Page 3A
Aft(
usual,
school year brings, the Michigan
Awareness Center. The presen- dents about off-campus safety
CAREER PLANNING
Students secure top summer
internships across country
MICHIGAN'S PETER PARKOUR
- Editor's Note: This is the first
of a three-part series about
students' one-of-a-kind
summer experiences.
By SARAH ALSADEN .
Daily StaffReporter
Devoted Chicago Cubs fan
Doug Fischer fulfilled a life-long
dream this summer.
Fischer, a senior in the School
of Kinesiology, got the chance to
intern with the Cubs at Wrigley
Field in Chicago, working in the
newly created Fan Experience
department.
"Working at Wrigley was
incredible. It's just such a his-
torical place," Fischer said.
A highlight of his job was get-
ting to meet former Cubs play-
ers, like Ernie Banks and Lee
Smith, who told stories about
the team while Fischer led sta-
dium tours alongside them.
"Lee Smith came in, and he
was just hilarious," Fischer said.
"He just came in and was mak-
ing fun of everyone and telling.
these cool stories."
From the baseball fields of
Chicago, to the presidential
motorcade, to a media mogul in
L.A., students like Fischer left
campus this summer to expand
their educational and life expe-
riences and jumpstart their
future career paths.
LSA junior Ariel Halpern
originally thought he would be
interning this summer in the
executive department at Talmer
Bank and Trust - a private bank
PART I OF 3: STUDENTS'
S UM ME R E XPE RIE NCES
in Troy. At the beginning of the
summer, he never imagined that
a few months later he would be
driving White House staffers
around Michigan.
It turned out the chief of
staff at Talmer was the chief of
staff for former Michigan Gov.
Jennifer Granholm. Through
this connection, Halpern had
the chance to participate in
the presidential motorcade and
drive national officials from an
airport in Holland, Mich. to a
battery facility there., where
President Barack Obama deliv-
See INTERNSHIPS, Page 3A
ERIN KIRKLAND/Daily
Engineering sophomore Brendan Sassmannshaus, a member of Michigan Parkour, climbs outside the School of
Dentistry yesterday. The club meets Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m.
GREEK LIFE
Fraternity fundraises for MLK memorial
By LIANA ROSENBLOOM
Daily StaffReporter
For most Americans, the
30-foot statue of Martin Luther
King Jr. in Washington D.C. is areminder oftheir own determi-
a towering reminder of a pow- nation.
erful civil rights leader. But, for The University's chapter of
members of the University com- the historically African Ameri-
munity, the statue also stands as See MLK, Page 3A
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