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Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 5A
The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 5A
AWARD
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This year there were close to
twice as many nominations than
previous years, the most in the
23-year history of the award.
Business junior Jake Levey,
another member of SHOUT, said
putting together the award has
involved fundraising the $1,000
cash prize for the recipient,
selecting the winner and is now
shifting to marketing Schreier's
last lecture through social media,
booths in Mason Hall and flyers.
Levey said he is proud to be a
part of an award that is consid-
ered to be a prestigious prize by
RECYCLING
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Tabron, who is a Planet Blue stu-
dent ambassador at the Univer-
sity. "I made a conscious effort to
make sure I recycled everything
I could possibly recycle in Ann
Arbor."
The collegiate competition
started in 2001, and the Uni-
versity joined in 2006. Alison
Richardson, the recycling coordi-
nator with the University's Waste
Reduction and Recycling Office,
said the campaign not only helps
get the campus community ener-
gized about waste reduction and
recycling, it also boosts aware-
ness.
"Our goals are to increase
the campus community's waste
reduction and awareness and
to get people to stop and think a
little more about their own waste
habits and how their individual
behaviors can help our efforts,"
Richardson said.
Currently, the University's
recycling and reduction rates
INTERNSHIPS
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couraged her in improving for
the future. Hargrave-Thomas
has spent recent summers as a
full-time nanny, but said that she
wants to broaden her professional
horizons.
"I don't want to be in an
internship where I'm getting
coffee all the time, but I'll do
whatever it takes to be success-
ful," Hargrave-Thomas said. "I
want to get valuable work expe-
rience professionally and in my
field."
Hargrave-Thomas said the
University's competitive envi-
ronment has motivated her to
pursue summer job options that
she wouldn't have anticipated
doing when she was in high
school.
"So many people here are doing
big things," Hargrave-Thomas.
"That environment is inspiring
me to get on the bandwagon and
do something significant. These
are the types of people I'm going
to be competing with for jobs in
the University faculty.
"It was really important for
us this year," Levey said. "We
realized that there hasn't been a
woman who has won the award
for 11 years and that is not a
representative (statistic) of the
University of Michigan and the
professors here."
Schreier is scored an average
score of 4.7 out of five -out of 166
ratings - on RateMyProfessor.
com, a user-generated review site.
Students on the site comment-
ed on their appreciation for her
passionate, energetic and humor-
ous lectures.
LSA freshman Ariel Shoagtook
Schreier's introductory psychol-
ogy class in fall 2012. Shoag said
when she needed assistance on a
paper for the class, Schreier was
more than willing to help despite
her numerous other obligations.
"She didn't make you feel like
you were one of 300 students,"
Shoag said. "You'd go to her office
hours once and she would recog-
nize you for the rest of the semes-
ter."
LSA freshman Erica Mindel,
who also took Schreier's class last
fall, said she is a verytalented lec-
turer.
"It seemed that she cared about
all of her students and wanted
you to do the best that you could,"
Mindel said. "She was the most
engaging (lecturer)... I was never
really bored at all."
DETROIT
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effectively.
Orr - who graduated from
LSA and the Law School -
helped Chrysler through its
bankruptcy in 2009. According
to a report from The Detroit
Free Press, he spoke to both the
governor and Detroit Mayor
Dave Bing about Detroit's
finances.
Bing announced Monday
that Orr's law firm was selected
as the reconstructing counsel
for Detroit. The firm has expe-
rience in employee benefits,
municipal finance, public proj-
ects and infrastructure, public
pensions and litigation.
"The experience of the Jones
Day law firm will be a valuable
asset as we proceed with our
plan for reconstructing the City
of Detroit," Bing said in a state-
ment.
University Law Prof. John
Pottow, who specializes in
bankruptcy and commercial
law, said the law firm has a large
national presence. He added
that Orr specifically is prepared
for the emergency manager role
due to his background in corpo-
rate reorganization.
"He's used to dealing with
tough, really painful situations
that you have to do to keep a
company alive," Pottow said.
"I think that will make him,
I hope, a cool and dispassion-
ate actor in the restructuring
realm."
Appointing an out-of-state
lawyer would ensure the posi-
tion was not motivated by polit-
ical aspirations that could be
attractive to a politician seek-
ing political affluence, Pottow
said.
Although he works at a large,
national firm, he isn't a com-
plete stranger to Michigan life.
He added that since Orr has
University degrees, he holds
some "cultural affiliation" with
the state.
After Snyder signed the emer-
gency financial manager bill on
Dec. 27, a team of six members,
including Andy Dillon, the state
treasurer, has been meeting
with city officials to determine
whether Detroit is in a state of
financial emergency.
Accepting the report the
team produced, Snyder declared
financial emergency on March1.
The report revealed that Detroit
has $24 billion in long-term
liabilities and a $327-million
deficit.
The city has lost 200,000 res-
idents between 2000 and 2010,
and the population decreased
from 1.5 million to fewer than
700,000 between 1970 and 2012.
State Rep. Jeff Irwin (D-
Ann Arbor) .said earlier this
month that he believes the
emergency manager appoint-
ment will not be a an effective
solution for the city. He added
that most emergency manager
position holders have driven
their respective environments
further into debt.
"Obviously, it's a bad thing
for the city of Detroit," Irwin
said. "It's a great city with a
really proud history, and I think
everyone's hoping that Detroit
is able to come back and have
resurgence and be a part of the
state's future."
He added that the state
should support Detroit, rather
than punish the city for "the
effects of globalism and urban
decay."
LSA senior Rachel Jankows-
ki, chair of the University's
chapter of College Republi-
cans, said she believes an emer-
gency manager is necessary to
get Detroit "back on its feet
again."
"We need someone who is
willing to actually face the
problems that the city is actual-
ly having," Jankowski said. "We
need someone who is definitely
serious about it, is responsible
and is willing to make difficult
decisions."
are in the top half of the results
for each of the four separate cat-
egories. The University currently
holds ninth place in total pounds
of recyclables with a total of
408,355 pounds.
Richardson said in the last
eight years the University has
participated in the competition,
it generally performs similarly
to other participating Big 10
schools.
"We are always striving to
reduce our waste and recycle
more, so hopefully that will
be reflected in this year's final
results," Richardson said.
As a Planet Blue student
ambassador, part of Tabron's
responsibilities are to inform stu-
dents about RecycleMania and
other environmentally friendly
practices among students in resi-
dent halls.
"Normally, people feel like they
don't get anything out of recy-
cling," Tabron said. "(Planet Blue
is) trying to promote recycling as
it's fun to do, it's easy and not only
are (students) helping the envi-
ronment, but (they) are helping
the community by making it more
clean and safe."
Tabron believes that recycling
will become second nature for
students eventually. Until then,
however, the contest puts the
environmental responsibility into
students' conscious thoughts.
"Since it's a competition, peo-
ple want to recycle more, but usu-
ally they don't do that during the
school year," Tabron said.
Nicole Berg, a Plant Blue
ambassador coordinator with the
Graham Sustainability Institute,
said the Planet Blue ambassadors
in the residence halls throughout
campus have been handing out
information, posting flyers and
hosting events to promote the
competition.
"(RecycleMania) is a way to
show that we are the Leaders and
Best in every category, including
sustainability," Berg said.
Both Berg and Tabron believe
that there is room for improve-
ment among students on
campus, and they hope to see con-
tinued interest in the competition
through until the end.
the future."
While the University offers
resources to the entire student
population, specific schools
such as the Ross School of Busi-
ness offer alternative student
career services to help increase
student professional prepara-
tion.
Damian Zikakis, director of
career services for the Business
school, said both workforce com-
petition and industry preference
for business students have main-
tained steadiness in the last few
years.
"Students continue to be inter-
ested in finance-related roles,
investment banks and corporate
finance positions as well as con-
sulting firm opportunities," Zika-
kis said.
While Ross offers similar pro-
grams as the University's Career
Center or Alumni Association,
like networking workshops, Zika-
kis said students are being proac-
tive in making their professional
goals a reality.
"Students are doing more
preparation, more research and
more practice to earn the intern-
ships that they want," Zikakis
said.
The University's Career Center
still remains the primary resource
students can use to begin explor-
ing their professional options.
Genevieve Harclerode, the assis-
tant director at the Career Center,
said the number of unique client
users for workshops and appoint-
ments is around 18,000 per aca-
demic year, not including those
students who use online resourc-
es such as the Career Center Con-
nector.
"All employers are going to
be interested in the question of
'why are you applying to this
job' or 'what about our company
interests you' and prior experi-
ence in their field makes that a
lot more clarified for students,"
Harclerode said. "I think you
can also find ways through vol-
unteer positions, shadowing
and informational interviewing
to start to get a feel for whether
a particular field is the right
'fit.'"
HOUSING
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groups of people."
Olumba pointed to Daniel
Gilbert, chairman of Quicken
Loans, who moved the compa-
ny's employees to Detroit, as one
of the perpetrators of injustice in
the city, claiming the company
used confusing loan offers to
drive individuals into bankrupt-
cy. Olumba alleged that Gilbert
facilitated the purchase of large
numbers of foreclosed homes in
Detroit after the occupants were
forced out.
"Companies like Quicken
Loans came into these areas
- where people were ignorant
about mortgage practices - and
they kept mailing them over and
over and calling them," Olumba
said. "They're harassing these
people, getting them to put their
houses up for collateral - houses
that are paid off."
Margaret Dewar, a professor
of urban and regional planning,
agreed that predatory lending
practices by financial corpora-
tions led to many of the current
housing issues. These foreclo-
sures are "extremely disruptive
to the city" because they tend to
cause a cascading effect within
communities.
"You introduce plight into a
neighborhood," Dewar said inthe
panel. "Neighbors begin to lose
confidence and stop investing in
their homes, quite understand-
ably, and people begin to leave."
However, Dewar said, gen-
trification is usually indicated
by spikes in rent for low-income
communities, which has not yet
been observed in Detroit. She
pointed out that Gilbert has pri-
marily been purchasing property
downtown, not in low-income
communities.
Meagan Elliott, an Architec-
ture and Urban Planningstudent
on the panel, said the nature of
gentrification makes it hard to
define in many situations. In
complex urban environments,
many different factors can affect
population movement.
"Gentrification can mean any-
thing from pushing residents out
to segregation of populations
in the city to ... redevelopment
work," she said.
Elliott said when people move
to the city the political dis-
cussions often take on a racial'
basis, regardless of other factors
involved.
"(Gentrification) is often a
coded way of talking about race
politics and racism," Elliott said.
"Detroitisthefourth mostsegre-
gated city in the nation."
During the open discussion,
Michael Canter, an Architec-
ture and Urban Planning stu-
dent, suggested some of the
potential benefits of gentrifica-
tion for Detroit.
"Detroit can use a little bit of
gentrification ... the population
has hollowed out so much," Can-
ter said. "They need some higher
income people to move in to pay
taxes so those city services can
better be displayed through the
rest of the city."
Canter added that gentrifica-
tion and race are often analyzed
together, which can be mislead-
ing in some cases. Although race
is often seen as a factor in gentri-
fication, the process can occur in
any area, no matter the popula-
tion demographics.
"Gentrification is not black ver-
sus white - it's not meant to be
a racial term," Canter said. "It's
sometimes takenthat way because
of the processthatgoes on."
The city of Indianapolis,
which faced similar population
issues in the 1970s, alleviated
many of its issues through mas-
sive government consolidation.
Though Canter said this pro-
cess would not work in Detroit,
he suggested that other similar
solutions should be explored.
LSA junior Samantha
Edwards, education director of
the Detroit Partnership, said
the organization holds similar
campus education events each
semester to promote multicul-
turalism and social justice.
"We came up with the topic
of gentrification because ...
I don't feel much is known
about it within the University,"
Edwards said. "We had a nice
diverse panel that offered very
different views of gentrification,
and I think people were able to
learn and gain new perspec-
tive."
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