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ANNUAL LEADERSHIP BREAKFAST
Coleman
announces
Great Lakes
partnership
Great Lakes
Restoration
Initiative to study
ecological health
ByPETER SHAHIN
Daily Staff Reporter
At her yearly leadership
breakfast, University President
Mary Sue Coleman announced
the formal creation of a center
that will be dedicated to study-
ing the ecological health of the
Great Lakes.
The project is closely tied
with the Great Lakes Resto-
ration Initiative, an- endeav-
or established by the Obama
administration to strengthen
preservation efforts in the Great
Lakes region. Since its inception
in 2009, the GLRI has evolved
into a partnership of 11 fed-
See GREAT LAKES, Page 7A
Volunteers at the Republican campaign office in Royal Oak, Mich. call voters Tuesday night.
'-P tresi dential race tightens
McCain the latest
Romney surrogate to
visit Michigan
College GOP
prepares for final
push before Nov. 6
Wallenberg
honored with
fellowship
By CASSANDRA BALFOUR
Daily StaffReporter
ROYAL OAK, Mich. - Sen.
John McCain (R-Ariz.) made a
visit to a Republican campaign
office here Tuesday to recog-
nize Michigan residents' hur-
ricane relief efforts and thank
volunteers for their efforts in
support of Republican presi-
dential nominee Mitt Romney's
campaign.
With recent polls projecting
a narrowing margin between
the two presidential candidates
in the state, both campaigns
have worked to rev up last-
minute efforts in Michigan.
McCain's impromptu Michigan
visit comes on the heels of a
slew of campaign stops by for-
mer first lady Laura Bush and
Ann Romney, the wife of the
GOP nominee, throughout the
state earlier this week.
The Obama campaign also
confirmed Tuesday that it
would buy its first television
ads in Michigan. The ads will
begin airing Thursday and run
through Election Day for the
first time this campaign.
Romney campaign spokes-
woman Kelsey Knight said
McCain stopped visited Bloom-
field Hills and Royal Oak Vic-
tory Centers in Michigan to
stress the efforts of GOP cam-
paign headquarters throughout
the state to assist the victims of
Superstorm Sandy, which rav-
aged the East Coast this week.
See MCCAIN, Page 3A
By TUI RADEMAKER
Daily StaffReporter
Members of the University's
chapter of College Republicans
crowded into a Mason Hall
classroom on Tuesday night
to discuss plans for the final
week of campaigning leading
into Election Day, as recent
polls show a constantly nar-
rowing margin between the
two presidential candidates.
About 30 members of the
group attended the meeting,
which featured visits from
Michigan Supreme Court can-
didate Colleen O'Brien and
Republican University regent
candidates Dan Horning and
Robert Steele. Attendees also
discussed way to advocate for
the Republican ticket both
nationally and locally.
In an Oct. 24 Fox 2 News
Detroit poll of likely Michigan
voters, President Obama led
Romney by only 46.92 percent
to 46.56 percent, a difference
well within the 2.93 percent
margin of error.
Horning, who previously
served as a regent from 1995 to
2002, told the College Repub-
licans that this election has
the potential to influence the
political reasoning of the Uni-
versity's Board of Regents,
which he said has been liber-
ally slanted for too long.
"The liberal agenda (on the
board) ... is not looking out for
you," Horning said. "We can't
See GOP, Page 7A
Earl V. Moore
Building to receive
$23 million in
upgrades
By PETER SHAHIN
Daily StaffReporter
At her annual leadership
breakfast Tuesday morning,
University President Mary Sue
Coleman announced a host of
new initiatives, ranging from
renovations of the Earl V. Moore
building on North Campus to a
new fellowship for undergradu-
ate students in honor of Univer-
sity alum Raoul Wallenberg.
During the 45-minute speech
before a gathering of University
executives, senior faculty and
select students in the Collo-
quium Room of the Ross School
of Business, Coleman contin-
ued to refer back to the spirit of
Wallenberg, a 1935 University
graduate. During the Holocaust,
the Swedish-born Wallenberg
worked in his capacity as a
diplomat to save 100,000 Jews
See WALLENBERG, Page 7A
ELECTION 2012
Candidates face
off for contested.
City Council seat
Republican
Berry, Democrat
Warpehoski vie for
Ward 5 seat
By TAYLOR WIZNER
Daily StaffReporter
Student residents of Ann
Arbor's Ward 5 will be deciding
a contested election when they
head to the polls on Nov. 6.
Two Ann Arbor residents are
battling to represent Ward 5 - an
area populated by students resid-
ing in both on and off-campus
student housing. Betsy Barbour
Residence Hall, Helen New-
berry Residence Hall and West
Quad Residence Hall all fall in
the modular region of Ward 5,
which extendsfrom East Madi-
son Street to East Liberty Street
and includes a small section near
West Huron Street.
Republican Stuart Berry and
Democrat Chuck Warpehoski
are running for the seat vacated
by Carsten Hohnke (D-Ward 5),
who is stepping down this term.
The race for Ward 5 is the only
contested spot on the Ann Arbor
City Council, barring the mayoral
race between Democratic Mayor
John Heiftje and independent
candidate Albert Howard.
Neither of the Ward 5 candi-
dates has previously served on
the Council. Berry is asenior haz-
ardous materials specialist at the
See CITY COUNCIL, Page 7A
PHILANTHROPY
Lurie talks
innovative
efforts for
assisting
the poor
Daniel Lurie
promotes "new
philanthropy" in
campus talk
By MICHAEL MAAS
Daily StaffReporter
For Daniel Lurie - the CEO
and founder of Tipping Point
Community, an organization
that works to fight poverty in
the San Francisco Bay Area -
considering innovative ways of
See LURIE, Page 7A
Michigan Radio political commentator Jack Lessenberry (left), Rich Robinson, the executive director of the Michi-
gan campaign Finance Network (center) and former Democratic state Senator Deborah Cherry (right) speak at a
panel about the upcoming election at the University's Alumni Center Tuesday evening. Visit ww.michigandaily.
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