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NEWS BRIEFS
DETROIT
City Council
debates financial
deal with state
Recently negotiated labor
contracts could be nullified
under terms of a financial stabil-
ity agreement between the city
of Detroit and the state that was
being debated yesterday by the
City Council.
Council members said they
would not vote on the proposed
agreement yesterday evening,
and asked their legal department
to look into the language.
The agreement amounts to a
consent deal that lays out how
Detroit plans to work its way
from a $200 million budget defi-
cit and long-term structural debt.
The proposed agreement calls
for existing concessions to be
approved by two new directors
and a financial advisory board,
and the City Council cannot
approve the existing union agree-
ments if the pact with the state is
signed.
OGDEN, Utah
Utah teens' naked
run inspired by
American Pie'
Four Utah teens armed with a
BB gun told deputies they were
inspired by a scene from an
"American Pie" movie when they
went running naked through an
Ogden-area neighborhood.
Authorities said Wednesday
the teens were spotted streak-
ing in the residential community
about 45 minutes north of Salt
Lake City at about 2 a.m. Sunday.
When a deputy responded, a
17-year-old girl ducked behind a
tree, while the three teenage boys
kept running and were found
shortly after.
The teens said they brought the
BB gun because they feared they
would be attacked by deer during
the jog.
WASHINGTON
Deportation
reviews expand to
four more cities
The Obama administration is
temporarilysuspendingimmigra-
tion court dockets in four cities
while authorities review thou-
sands of cases as part of a plan
to indefinitely delay deportation
proceedings for many non-crim-
inal illegal immigrants.
The dockets in Detroit, New
Orleans, Orlando, and Seattle will
be suspended during the review
cases involving illegal immi-
grants not held in immigration
and Customs Enforcement custo-
dy, the Department of Homeland
Security said Thursday.
ICE previously reviewed 11,682
in Baltimore and Denver. Officials
recommended suspending more

than 1,600 cases in those two
cities. The reviews are part of an
Obama administration pledge to
focus deportation resources on
criminal immigrants and those
who pose a national security or
public safety threat.
STOCKHOLM
Swedish defense
0 minister resigns
amid Saudi row
Sweden's defense minister
stepped down yesterday, citing
the pressure he has faced from
the country's media over leaked
plans to build a weapons plant in
Saudi Arabia.
Sten Tolgfors denied any
wrongdoing . and insisted the
plans to help Saudi Arabia build
a facility for anti-tank weapons
were consistent with a 2005 mili-
tary agreement between the two
countries.
Tolgfors, defense minister
in the center-right government
since 2007, said he had planned to
resign anyway, though at a later
date.
"The media reports in recent
weeks have facilitated and has-
tened my decision," he told
reporters in Stockholm.
-Compiled from
Daily wire reports

TEDX
From Page 1
speakers like English Prof. Ralph
Williams, who spoke of six pri-
marytopics - theAmerican Proj-
ect, American Paradox, religion
and civic assent, living through
imagination, forming stories
with others and the future of the
nation.
"I took three classes with
Ralph Williams - it was the rea-
son I chose to pursue an English
major," Parrott said.
During his presentation, Wil-
liams specifically focused on the
ideaof America's plural society as
a melting pot, regarding religious
and social persecution as the
attainment of one binding belief
for all.
"We are, as a nation, on my
observation, profoundly con-
fused on this matter," Williams
said.
Students at the event explained
how TEDx has impacted their
lives, including freshman Cathe-
EVICTION
From Page 1
closing of Studio 4, on June 3,
2010 following a lawsuit that
detailed more than 200 calls to
the Ann Arbor Police Depart-
ment involving instances of
violence, overcrowding and the
violation of state liquor license
policy at Studio 4.
Dream Niteclub filed a $3 mil-
lion federal lawsuit against the
city of Ann Arbor in January on
the grounds that the city made
false claims of illegal activity at
the club. The lawsuit also accus-
es the city of civil rights viola-
tions, conspiracy and cruel and
unusual punishment.
The city filed a motion to dis-
miss the lawsuit in February,
and a hearing will be held at the
end of May. The first and second
nuisance complaints were dis-
missed in court, and the third
nuisance complaint - which
was filed last June in response to
a series of violent fights - is still
an open case.
Roger Farinha, Dream Nite-
club's attorney, said he believes.
the city is targeting the club
FAST
From Page 1
movements for solidarity around
the world.
LSA senior Abbas Alawieh,
education chair for SAFE, said
the organization decided to par-
ticipate in the hunger strike at
its meeting on Wednesday night.
While only one student was
asked to participate, Alawieh
said about 25 members agreed to
strike.
Members wore orange ribbons
around their arms in solidarity of
the international hunger strike,
and Alawieh said the strike raised
awareness for the more than 300
Palestinian prisoners being held
without charge in Israeli prisons.
"Unfortunately, a lot of these
prisoners have had to resort to

the hunger strikes, and Hana isn't
the first to do a hunger strike,"
Alawieh said. "This is something
that has been employed by pris-
oners of countries for several
years, but her story in specific has
touched our group and groups
across the world."
According to SAFE's website,
the group's mission is to "pro-
mote justice, human rights, liber-
ation, and self-determination for
the Palestinian people." Alawieh
said SAFE represents all individ-
uas who endure the difficulties
Shalabi has faced.
"Our stance here at SAFE is
we oppose indefinite detentions
withoutctrials for anyone, regard-
less of if it was Hana or anyone in
the world," Alawieh said. "This is
something that is fundamentally
wrong."
During the group's hunger
strike, Shalabi ended her 43-day
hunger strike after Israelis
agreed to extradite her to the
Gaza Strip, accordingto the BBC.
LSA senior Mohammed-Ali
Abazeed said at first, he was
excited that Shalabi ended her
strike, but upon hearing the
terms of her release, he wasn't
satisfied since she will be unable
to return to her home in the West
Bank.
"My initial reaction was that it
was great, but as soon as Ilogged
on and read the story, it really
wasn't excitement at all," Aba-
zeed said. "If anything, this is a

rine Tao, who said she viewed the
online streams of past TEDTalks,
and said she was pleased that her
personal experience with the
organization has helped yield
creative discovery.
"The more creative you are,
the more success you can have. I
think TED fosters that," Tao said.
Architecture and Urban Plan-
ning senior Sabrina Wang, who
has attended two previous TEDx
conferences, including TEDxTai-
pei in Taiwan, said she was also
pleased with the event and its
ability to allow her to apply its
messages to her currentacademic
ventures.
"Combining passion with
research and technology togeth-
er is great," Wangsaid.
LSA sophomore Mike Perles, a
TEDxUofM team member, said it
was his firstcyear at the event.
"(TEDxUofM is) showcasing
how incredible people affiliated
with U of M are, and how inspir-
ing their ideas can be," Perles
said.
Perles said individuals must
because it attracts a multiracial
demographic.
"Any club that brings African
Americans to Ann Arbor is going
to be targeted," Farinha said.
"It's a formula that they're using
for nuisance abatement action to
intimidate and harass legitimate
businesses."
According to Engineering
senior MJ Gellada, a member
of the Filipino American Stu-
dent Association, FASA and the
Chinese Student Association
encountered difficulties with the
club during a benefit dinner in
November 2008, in which they
made an agreement with club
owners that their groups would
receive half of the cover charges.
Gellada claims that Dream
Nite Club only counted Asians
who participated, and -divid-
ed the cover funds based on
that number, rather than total
attendees. CSA and FASA lead-
ers confronted the club owners,
and an argument ensued during
which the owners began using
derogatory terms for female stu-
dents in attendance.
"What happened in short was
racial stereotyping," Gellada
said. "They didn't handle them-
possible worse situation than it
is now with what they agreed to-
do ... she's basically being trans-
ferred from one prison to another
in many senses of the situation."
LSA sophomore Suha Najjar,
a SAFE member who participat-
ed in the hunger strike, said her
father was held asa political pris-
oner in Israel for a year in 1988,
noting that her uncles have also
been held as prisoners. Though
her father never went on a hun-
ger strike while in prison, Najjar
said she felt a connection to him
through her experience yester-
day.
Najjar was unable to inform
her family, who live in the Pal-
estinian territories, about her
efforts to raise awareness due to
power outages caused by Israeli
bombings at power plants. She
said she intends to continue to
raise awareness about Shalabi's

situation and that of over 300
other Palestinian prisoners held
without charges in Israeli pris-
ons.
"On campus, I'm a very active
member of SAFE and stuff like
this is the number one thing:
raising awareness," Najjar said.
Before breaking their hun-
ger strike at 11:15 p.m., which
occurred earlier than midnight
in order to allow more mem-

complete an application to attend
the conference, which is based on
a scoring system and reviewed
and analyzed by the 2012 TEDx-
UofM team. Applicants with
the top percentage of scores are
accepted to participate in the
event.
Rhodespraised the workofher
fellow team members in organiz-
ing the event and said it was
gratifying to see such dedication
to a transformative cause come to
fruition.
Rhodes added that a common
sentiment at TEDxUofM 2012.
was the promotion of a sense of
synergy and community in vari-
ous public and private sectors
- an ideal that student .orga-
nizations should strive for, she
said.
"I think that we have so much
power inside of us, and I feel like
student organizations foster a
sense of competition," Rhodes
said. "The power doesn't lie in
who is in the organization but
instead, whom they connect
with."
selves professionally and they
broke the contract."
Ultimately, Gellada said nei-
ther organization took money
from the club.
In a separate incident in June
2011, injuries incurred dur-
ing fights at the club sent three
patrons to the hospital and a
22-year-old man was also shot in
the arm.
City Attorney Stephen
Postema said Dream Nite-
club admitted to two counts
of "allowing the annoying or
molesting of customers" last
September in relation to the
fights, for which the club was
fined $600 dollars.
Despite the multiple inci-
dents, Farinha said he believes
Dream Niteclub will win their
lawsuit against the city because
the city's current and previous
allegations have no basis.
"They have no evidence
except police officers' state-
ments which are hearsay,"
Farinha said. "I'm not worried,
we're goingto win."
Postema declined to comment
on all legal situations involving
Dream Niteclub because of the
ongoing litigation.
hers of the group to participate,
members of SAFE spoke about
their experiences duringthe day.
Among the participants, LSA
senior and SAFE member Abdal-
lah Ali explained that while
he did grow wary during the 11
hours, raising awareness and
striking with the other members
motivated him to continue.
"Honestly, today, there was
a period of time when I did get
tired, but it wasn't that bad," Ali
said. "There was aslot of stuff on
Twitter about Hana today and
I was like, 'You know what? I
can't not do this.' So I just kept
going... it's nice that we could all
come together."
LSA senior Bilal Baydoun,
one of the SAFE co-chairs, said
Shalabi's situation was benefi-
cial in raising awareness about
the widespread issue of admin-
istrative detention. He added

that it was also personally ben-
eficial in connecting himself to
the larger issue.
"(The experience) is more
humbling," Baydoun said. "You
feel really small about when you
think about what (Shalabi) went
through ... It really puts it all
in perspective, and it helps you
realize the little pain you felt
today is just a drop in the bucket,
more or less."

OAMI
From Page 1
know of that has the mission of
OAMI in terms of its strong con-
nection in academic affairs," he
said.
Monts added that he is con-
fident that the University will
experience an increase in diver-
sity because of its strong com-
mitment to multiculturalism.
"I believe those that come
after us will be celebrating the
50th year of this office's work in
the future," Monts said.
The symposium concluded
with a student panel consist-
ing of members of various cul-
tural campus groups such as the
Native American Student Asso-
ciation and the Latino Students
Association. The students com-
mented on what diversity means
WOMEN
From Page 1
The event featured a docu-
mentary called "A Vital Service,"
which emphasized Planned Par-
enthood's support for minority
and low-income communities.
Following the documentary, a
panel comprised of community
leaders, public health experts
and reproductive rights advo-
cates discussed the inadequate
health care access that many
minority women face.
Trudy Hall, program man-
ager of the University of Michi-
gan Health System's Program
for Multicultural Health, said
health care options for minority
women in Washtenaw County
are limited.
"(For) most racial and ethnic
minorities, we're doing pretty
bad on health statistics," Hall
said. "We just don't have the
resources."
Anika Fassia, a policy ana-
lyst for the Michigan League
for Human Services, said while
minority wonen face the great-
est health care disparities, the
issue transcends race.
- "Our fates are linked," Fassia
said. "Our next generations are
going to be increasingly people of
color ... and that's why you should
care. Itcis your burden."
After the panel, Wafa Dinaro,
the Michigan Consumers for
Healthcare communications
director, emphasized the impor-
tance of several provisions in
the health law. Specifically, she
discussed the policy's insurance
exchange program, protection
from annual or lifetime limits on
care and its mandated increase in
the number of premium dollars
that insurance companies must

to them and discussed how to
increase multicultural connec-
tions across the University.
LSA senior Chatoris Jones,
a member of IMMAD, said he
aims to encourage students to
attend events of different cul-
tures.
"We can't grow (if) we stay
in our own community," Jones
said. "You have to be able to
experience other cultures, and
it's not just a black and white
thing."
Jones also posed questions to
faqulty and students in the audi-
ence to encourage critical think-
ing of the University's diversity
and ways to improve it.
"How do we create that culti-
vating community that is Mich-
igan?" Jones asked. "When we
say the diversity of Michigan,
we're not talking about race,
we're talking about ideas."
put toward health care expenses.
"Starting this year, all insur-
ance companies have to spend 80
percent of your premium dollars
on health care needs," Dinaro
said. "If they don't, at the end
of the year, you will get a rebate
check."
Dinaro added that the Afford-
able Care Act will provide
improved coverage for women
and children.
"Women can no longer be
charged more for just being
women," she said. "Maternity
care must be covered starting
2014."
Dinaro concluded her presen-
tation by encouraging women to
write their legislators about the
importance of the law.
This week, the U.S. Supreme
Court heard three days of argu-
ments regarding the constitu-
tionality of the law, which is in
question largely due to a provi-
sion that requires all Americans
to obtain health insurance.
Maas said though this partic-
ular event was aimed at women,
the ACA benefits. men and
women alike.
"Everyone has a mother,"
Maas said. "A lot of people have
daughters and sisters, and to
deny women certain health care
that men have is an injustice to
all."
Nursing student Kathryn Bri-
eland-Shoultz said she attend-
ed the event to become better
informed about health care
issues.
"I'm in nursing school, and
we're focusing on social justice
issues right now," Brieland-
Shoultz said. "I thought that
Planned Parenthood, especially
the community-based center,
is a great resource and I just
wanted to find out more."

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