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FINANCING YOUR EDUCATION
Regents to
hear from
provost on
Luminaries lit up Palmer Field durieg Relay for Life Saturday night.
Rea fr Life raises$35
for cancer research efforts
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tuition plan
At meeting, Hanlon to the law's enactment to pay in-
state tuition rates. However, the
plans to discuss costs plan's future depends on how Uni-
versity administrators view the
for undocumented ramifications of such a policy.
Regent Julia Darlow (D-Ann
students Arbor) recently asked University
Provost Philip Hanlon to prepare
By TUI RADEMAKER a report on the potential plan. Dar-
Daily StaffReporter low declined to comment for this
article, noting that it would not be
While officials around the nation constructive to do so before she had
have continued to debate the ben- seen the findings of the report.
efits and challenges of establishing Though he was unable to com-
tuition equality policies, University ment directly on the specifics of the
administrators have begun consid- report, Hanlon said in an interview
ering the logistics of implementing Friday that he will be discussing it
a plan that would increase college with the regents at their monthly
accessibility to undocumented stu- meetingnext Thursday.
dents. "I think it's a very complex issue
Currently, University policy dic- and there are multiple things that
tates that undocumented students could be considered," Hanlon said.
are considered international stu- "I don't want to get ahead of the
dents for tuition purposes and thus board in its consideration ofthings."
required to pay out-of-state tuition Public Policy junior Kevin
rates. A potential tuition-equality Mersol-Barg, founder of the Coali-
plan would allow undocumented tion for Tuition Equality, said
students who have been living in he believes that a large reason a
Michigan for at least 5 years prior See TUITION, Page 3A
Rain-shortened
fundraiser hauls
in record amount
By PETER SHAHIN
DailyStaffReporter
Though there wasn't a car-
nival this weekend at Palmer
Field, it certainly looked that
way.
For 24 hours, the Universi-
ty's annual Relay for Life event
united thousands of students,
faculty and staff for the com-
mon cause of defeating can-
cer. This year's Relay funding
surpassed last year's record
of $340,000 with more than
$365,217 raised by Sunday's
10 a.m. conclusion ceremony.
This year's total is expected to
increase further because the
collection of money was dis-
rupted due to thunderstorms
at 5 a.m. yesterday.
Relay for Life strives to
fund cancer research and sup-
port services that the Ameri-
can Cancer Society oversees.
Relays are the main fundrais-
ing vehicle for the ACS, and it
is estimated that more than 4
million Americans have taken
part in Relay events since its
inception in 1986. According to
the Relay website, more than
$3 billion has been raised for
the ACS since that time.
After the event, LSA senior
Laura Flusty, co-executive
director of Relay for Life,
wrote in a statement to The
Michigan Daily that despite
the disruption in fundraising
collection, the organizers still
considered the event a success.
"Though the weather was
not ideal towards the end, we
still were able to make the most
out of the event with a large
attendance, and even larger
fundraising total," Flusty
See RELAY FOR LIFE, Page 3A
STUDENT START-UPS
* TechArb honors work
at end-of-year event
Showcase
highlights student
entrepreneurship
By AUSTEN HUFFORD
Daily StaffReporter
In a cavernous room with
dusty floors and exposed light
fixtures on East Liberty Street,
members of Ann Arbor's start-
up community gathered on
Friday to celebrate their busi-
ness successes.
At the TechArb spring
showcase, about 150 people
came together for a variety of
startup and entrepreneurship
related affairs in honor of the
University's startup incubator.
Some came to showcase their
companies and ideas to inves-
tors, fans and peers, and grad-
uating seniors were applauded
for receiving the Program of
Entrepreneurship certificate
on their diplomas. TechArb
also announced its next round
of members for the second half
of 2012.
Engineering Dean David
Munson said the University
and Ann Arbor are becom-
ing entrepreneurial hubs that
might one day rival those of the
Silicon Valley and New York.
He referred to Ann Arbor as
"this nation's next great entre-
preneurial ecosystem and cre-
ative community."
Munson also reiterated the
need for entrepreneurial Uni-
versity graduates to stay con-
nected with the campus even
after leaving Ann Arbor. He
said alumni should keep in
touch with their classmates
and remain aware of startup
news.
Doug Neal, executive direc-
tor of the Center for Entrepre-
neurship, praised graduating
seniors who have completed
the Program in Entrepreneur-
ship - a nine-credit program
that teaches entrepreneurial
skills. Neal said the program
is available to 90 percent of
undergraduates at the Univer-
sity.
See TECHARB, Page 7A
CAMPUS EVENTS
Charity, Michigan athletes draw fans
to Braylon Edwards' basketball game
CoURTESY OF BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY
Martin Luther King Jr. at Hill Auditorium on his 1962to the University.
MLK's 1962 visit highlighted
in long-forgotten photographs
Proceeds to benefit
Lou Gehrig's
disease research
By ALICIA ADAMCZYK
Daily StaffReporter
Though the college basket-
ball season is over, Michigan
basketball player Zach Novak
had a crowd on its feet Friday
with a game-endingslam-dunk
at the annual Braylon Edwards
Foundation Celebrity Basket-
ball game.
The event, which was orga-
nized by the Braylon Edwards
Foundation and the A. Alfred
Taubman Medical Research
Institute and attended by
more than 500 people, raised
money for Lou Gehrig's disease
research and featured a silent
auction of University memora-
bilia and meet-and-greets with
Michigan football, basketball
and hockey players and alumni.
Last year, the event raised more
than $30,000 and proceeds
from this year's game will ben-
efit the Taubman Institute.
The Braylon Edwards
Foundation organizes chari-
See BASKETBALL, Page 7A
King spoke at
Hill Auditorium,
Michigan Union on
Nov. 5,1962
By HALEY GOLDBERG
Daily NewsEditor
While the University has a
long, visible history of honor-
ing late civil rights activist and
Nobel Peace Prize recipient
Martin Luther King Jr., one of
his visits to the University dur-
ing the height of the civil rights
movement has been overlooked
- until now.
David Erdody, a digital cura-
tor at the Bentley Historical
Library, discovered a series
of 20 photo negatives in early
January that feature King giv-
ing a speech and hosting a dis-
cussion at the University. These
photographs, which have never
been printed or published,
depict King speaking and greet-
ing a crowd at Hill Auditorium,
attending a small discussion in
the Michigan Union and having
dinner at the University on Nov.
5, 1962.
In explaining the discovery of
the photo negatives, Erdody said
he's known since his childhood
that King often made trips to
Detroit, but he always wondered
ifKingever made an appearance
See MLK, Page 7A
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