I e £iclpgan &i3alIj Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday, March 1, 2013 michigandaily.com CRIME Suspect in three sex crimes to be evicted TERRA MOLENGRAFF/Daily " Senior forward Rachel Sheffer (44) retrieves the ball during the game against Northwestern Thursday night. Michigan won 55-50. ACADEMICS .as LSA syllabi archived Student gov't leaders work with University By GIACOMO BOLOGNA Daily StaffReporter After two years of work by the LSA Student Government, LSA students can finally design a course schedule with no exams through a new website that archives past class syllabi. LSA senior Pallavi Abraham, LSA-SG's Academic Relations Officer, said the website, which has been a collaborative effort between LSA-SG and the col- lege's administration, has been a long time coming, but time well spent. "It's done,"Abraham said. "It's up and running - the website's live." Many syllabi are already avail- able on the site currently and departments are still uploading more. "Obviously, professors aren't required to upload their syllabi in any way. Yet we hope that, as more and more departments start doing it, professors will start to see the usefulness of it and ideally it'll eventually be an all-inclusive syllabi archive," LSA junior Jason van den Boogaart, a member of LSA-SG, said. LSA Associate Dean Philip Deloria sent out an e-mail to LSA department heads about the web- site, noting that it was "simple, streamlined, and easy to use." "We view this tool as provid- ing real value to departments, students, and faculty alike, and encourage you to begin the pro- cess of establishing a syllabus archive for your department or program," he wrote. Abraham said faculty mem- bers were intially concerned about the intellectual property rights of their syllabi and that students would expect faculty to adhere to a past semesters' sylla- bi. However, the system address- es both of these problems, she said. Using the system requires a University account to login, and a disclaimer on the top of the page tells students these syllabi are not necessarily in use. Abraham -said -she realized providing the syllabi for the cur- rent semester before registration wouldn't be possible after speak- ing with outgoing LSA Dean Ter- rence McDonald last year. He said McDonald told him due to the autonomy faculty have in the college, requiring syllabi up so early would not be feasible. Nonetheless,vanden Boogaart said this will be a tool available for years to come as the LSA administration is heavily invest- ed in the project. "It's something that together we worked on and created," he said. "It's more than just what the students wanted, it's actually a really good balance of what the professors wanted, the curriculum wanted and the students wanted." Making syllabi available before students registered was a campaign promise of Manish Parikh, current president of the Central Student Government. "I think there has been some confusion as whether or not this has been an (LSA-SG) or CSG project and I think that this is really a great example of some- thing that LSA student govern- ment has been working on slowly and created a beautiful product," she said. Parikh said he was proud of the work of LSA-SG, and hopes a See SYLLABI, Page 3 Zaragon Place resident seen moving out of apt. By MATTHEW JACKONEN Daily StaffReporter After three students report- ed that they were sexually assaulted at the same seventh- floor Zaragon Place apartment, building administrators are evicting the assault suspect and taking preventative mea- sures to ensure similar inci- dents don't occur and police are investigating the connection between the two cases. Jim Adams, the property manager at the East University apartment building, said upon hearing news of the sexual assaults, building employees immediately began the process of evicting the suspect. While building employees have seen him moving out, Adams said management will continue the formal eviction process. "We have already started eviction proceedings, but we also have reason to believe he has already moved out," Adams said. "As a precautionary, regardless, we're going to go through with an eviction pro- ceeding." According to the crime alert released by University Police on Wednesday night, the suspect is a younger-looking 31-year- old Asian male with short black hair and brown eyes. He is between 5'6" and 57" tall and weighs 140 pounds. Adams expressed concern that Zaragon officials were only notified of the incidents last night when the crime alert was sent out. He said the building's security has been briefed on the incident and are doing their best to promote asafe environment. "It's the first episode of this nature that has happened here, and we certainly don't hope to have any more," Adams said. "It's important people become educated on the dangers of drinking alcohol, minors drinking alcohol and even more importantly, for people that are not minors providing for and drinking with students that are minors." Adams added that Zara- gon Place will be reviewing its apartment guest policies to determine whether changes need to be made to prevent par- ties from getting out of hand. "Obviously students are going to get together, but we just want to make sure it's going to be in a controlled envi- -ronment - which it always has been here," he said. "I don't consider this to be an issue with guests, but one person can ruin that. We're very disappointed, obviously." The suspect's description does not match the suspect currently being investigated for the West Quad sexual assault in January. University police are still See EVICTED, Page 3 ANN ARBOR Kunselman sees problems with A2 taxi policies HANDS-ON ART City council member at odds with limo services By MATTHEW JACKONEN Daily StaffReporter After taxi drivers were implicated in three different crimes since January, the Ann Arbor City Council has been at odds with taxicab and limo companies in defining what type of licensing is right for the tree town. After a student reported she was raped by a taxi driver, Councilmember Stephen Kun- selman (D-Ward 3) spoke out at the Feb. 4 Ann Arbor City Council meeting. He said the city has a serious problem with unlicensed taxicabs and "rogue limos." On Feb. 10, almost a week later, a 23-year-old woman said she was touched in a sex- ual manner by a Blue Cab taxi driver. Blue Cab said the driver denies this report and reas- sured customers that the driver & would not be allowed to drive taxis in the future. Police then acknowledged that a similar incident occurred on Jan.23. The city has been unable to regulate certain companies since they operate throughout the state of Michigan rather than just Ann Arbor. A 1990 law states that cities do not have the authority to regulate com- panies that operate both inside and outside of specific munici- pal boundaries. Kunselman said he believes the problem lies in the issue of rogue limousines operating with state - not city - licenses. "The general public doesn't really understand what's hap- pening, and so they assume everybody's a taxi," Kunselman said. Kunselman said the under- lying issue is the city doesn't know who the drivers in these cases. Thus, companies are allowed to operate within the city's boundaries without the city's knowledge of the driver's identity. "As a parent, we tell our kids not to get in cars with strang- ers,"Kunselman said. "We have See TAXI, Page 3 TERRA MOLENGRAFF/Daily Law student Shainee Shah hennas a tattoo on the hand of law student Lora MacDonald at an event by the South Asian Law Student Association in Htchins Hall Thursday. GOVERNMENT * *" e uestration problem atic for students in work study ACADEMICS Is a college degree worth it? Expert, student say University educaiton offers unique experiences By CONNOR ZARKOWSKI For the Daily Many college students' par- ents could have started a career with just a high school diploma and a positive attitude. Today, however, University students and employees are becoming more aware of how a college experi- ence can lead to a much more fruitful professional life. With 68.3 percent of 2011 high-school graduates enroll- ing in colleges or universities, its becoming harder and harder to deny the significance of an undergraduate degree. A recent article in The New York Times reported that a degree is becom- ing the norm for jobs such as file clerks, which did not require the degree a decade ago. Lynne Sebille-White, senior assistant director of employer relations at the University's Career Center, said a bachelor's degree from the University dem- See DEGREE, Page 3 Federal cuts to severely decrease allotted funding By STEPHANIE SHENOUDA Daily StaffReporter The inaction of Washing- ton D.C. to prevent massive automatic spending cuts that are triggered on Friday should perk the interest of the 3,363 University students utilizing work study as part of their financial aid packages. The threat of federal seques- tration - over a billion dollars in across-the-board cuts that roll out over 10 years - was intended to force lawmakers into a compromise to address government spending. The White House released a state- by-state breakdown of what the the cuts would affect that indicated about 2,490 fewer low-income students in Michi- gan would receive financial aid and about 1,300 fewer students will get work-study jobs. Kurt Weiss, public informa- tion officer for the state's bud- get office, said the becoming a reality is a concern of the state legislature. "Obviously we're concerned with any kinds of cuts," Weiss said. "We understand that these are real cuts happening See SEQUESTRATION, Page 3 WEATHER HI: 29 TOMORROW LO: 17 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. 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