s The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 5 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 5 SACUA From Page 1 the diversity statement would be a goal of the faculty and the admin- istration. SACUA members did not approve the drafted diversity statement, and the body sent the draft back to the Committee on University Values and the Com- mittee for an Inclusive Univer- sity. The draft stressed the need for diversity at the University and called for the administration to dedicate significant resources and measures to improve diver- sity. VIGIL From Page 1 "I was detained twice for peaceful protesting," she said. Dlewati read the names of the students who were killed during COUNCIL From Page 1 plete a thorough review. "The proposed resolution simply provides additional guid- ance to the planning commission and sets a clear deadline," Briere said. "I believe the scope of work is accomplishable in six months and should be something Council members can support." Councilmember Mike Anglin (D-Ward 5) said he was concerned that the public would not be able to comment on the issue as it went to the planning commission, but Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje said the residents will be able to write in and give feedback at more informal meetings. Councilmember Stephen Kun- selman (D-Ward 3) said he was worried about what Hieftje called a "concrete deadline." Both he and the mayor said they want to make sure the review would return to City Council by the deadline. MENTORSHIP From Page 1 tions are not where they should be; we are really happy that about 40 percent (of optiMize partici- pants) are women." optiMize aims to "connect stu- dents who want to do things with people who know how," Sorensen explained. Business sophomore Sripriya Navalpakam, who founded a micro-financing start-up, turned to optiMize with a business pitch and an aspiration to expand it into the greater community. "One thing that they've created right now is a community of excit- ed students who are really pas- sionate about creating change," Navalpakam said. "We weren't really a part of this before we joined optiMize." Navalpakam explained that working with low-income com- munity members on her venture has led to a number of typical challenges. While accepting that social entrepreneurship entailed a fair degree of stress, she said optiMize has connected her with lasting mentors. While many SACUA members said they agreed with the senti- ment of the measure, they had disagreements over the language used and initiatives it proposed. Engineering Prof. Rachel Gold- man said the statement should take into account the diversity initiatives that are already ongo- ing at the University, as well as make suggestions on how the fac- ulty can contribute to making a more diverse community. "We can come at this with supporting what the University is already doing," Goldman said. "Anything we suggestbeyond that should be in that same flavor." Physics Prof. Finn Larsen said the committees should also work on an addendum that encourages supporting students from dif- ferent socioeconomic and racial backgrounds. Other members of SACUA agreed with his com- ments and discussed options to support students from disparate backgrounds. Engineering Prof. Kimberlee Kearfott, the chair of SACUA, added that the main purpose of the statement should be about providing a diverse community where student could learn from the differences they have from other students. After a redraft of the statement that will factor in the comments from SACUA members, the state- ment will again be considered. CARTS From Page 1 "is a good incubator" for entre- preneurs seeking to enter the food industry without the risk of opening a permanent restaurant. Former Mark's Carts contribu- tors Eat and The Lunchroom have since evolved from cart to full restaurant. Mark's Carts also provides an opportunity for restaurants to broaden their customer base beyond the confines of their restaurant locations. Though Hut-K and Satchel's BBQ have permanent locations a few miles from downtown, the food cart atmosphere allows them to attract new customers who may return to the full location in the future. "Washington Street was really kind of quiet," Hosed said. "But when the carts came, it activated the street and started to build community. People would just come by to visit and participate in the social aspect of it." Mark's Cart's will also be a part of the FestiFools activities on Sunday. Festifools is a giant puppet parade put on by the University's Lloyd Hall Scholars Program. Ji Hye Kim, a chef and man- ager at San Street, has partici- pated in Mark's Carts since its inception three years ago. She said vendors will be creating special dishes and decorat- ing their carts for FoolMoon, a night festival before Festifools on Friday. "We're putting up lights and handmade signs and trying to have more fun than we normally do, whichis abiggoalbecause we do have a lot of fun anyway." LSA senior Alex Perlman, co-owner of The Beet Box, said FestiFools complements the environment of Mark's Carts, and was optimistic about his business during this year's sea- son. "We feel that we are intimate- ly connected with the FestiFools parade, and we're just one stop throughout the whole event, so we're trying to emulate the same energy they have going on in their festivities," Perlman said. Hosed said events allow the carts to interact with the com- munity while the sponsors ben- efit from the "built-in audience." "We are definitely feeding off the community, and the com- munity is feeding off us," Hosed said. Kim said she hopes to grow herbusiness withinthe nextyear into a "full-service, casual Asian Eatery," just as Eat and The Lunchroom have grown beyond their carts. "I see Mark's Carts as a com- munity of entrepreneurs and a hotbed for venturing out to strike on your own forbigger and better things," Kim said. Kim added that guests view Mark's Carts as a cohesive com- munity ratherthan eight individ- ual businesses competing with each other. The carts have a sym- biotic relationship and engage in "friendly competition." "We kind of sink and swim as a team." the bombing of Damascus Univer- sity and shared a story of a young boy from an impoverished family who was also killed in the attack. He said the boy was known for selling gum around the university to earn extra money. LSA junior Zeinab Khalil has Resolution to approve 413 East Huron site plans delayed City Council moved to delay a vote on the resolution to approve the plans for the site at 413 East Huron Street that would create a 14-story apartment building with an underground parking garage. A moratorium was placed on the development, whichis settobe built in the D1 zoning area, twice before. At the March 18 City Coun- cil meeting, members engaged in a lengthy discussion that lasted well past midnight - most ended up agreeing that they should re-eval- uate the project. Many of the previous issues raised have been mitigated, and the current resolution address- es alternative tree mitigation, a contribution to city parks, drain requirements and energy speci- ficities, among others. Suspension of public artfunds City Council approved a reso- "Moving forward it's going to give us a really strong ecosystem," Navalpakam said. '"Being entre- preneurs, it gets really stressful and I just find myself reachingout to everyone for advice." Grace Hsiao, co-founder and CEO of Warmilu - a social start- up created to help infants who are at a high risk of death from hypothermia - worked with the optiMize teams and members and provided "realistic, grounded cri- tiques." "For social ventures, the people who (need the help) may not be able to afford the product or the service," Hsiao said. On April 4, the 19 teams of students who have been working with the optiMize team will gath- er to present their business pitch- es. Four to five teams will then take their developedbusinesses to compete for a stipend and show- case their products on April 18 at 7 p.m. at the University of Michigan Museum of Modern Art. While Sorensen hoped the start-ups developed through opti- Mize would be able to continue to grow after the challenge, educa- tion is the real goal. "Most start-ups aren't going to been to countless vigils for Syria over the last two years. She said the rights being demanded by the Syrian people are basic and merely an attempt to live a digni- fied life. "It's not as complicated as peo- ple want to make it seem." lution to extend the Percent for Art Program's funding suspen- sion until May 31. The suspension, set to expire the night of the May meeting, was first extended on Dec. 3, 2012. City Council's intent in sus- pending the funding is to allow their committee - the Public Art Task Force - to reconsider city code with regard to public art and to allow City Council members time to review these considerations. The committee is currently still in the course of reviewing city code. They have asked for more time to finish their work. Briere said she believes the extension should be granted due to unforeseen delays. "I think that the task force has been quite effective in working through its concerns about pub- lir art and public art funding, but in the last month we have run into inevitable delays," Briere said. be the ones to change the world," Sorensen said. "But at the same time, in order to get to that point you need to try and fail." He said optiMize's next step would be to develop an educa- tional curriculum that could inte- grate with course plans of LSA students. Currently in talks with administrators, Sorensen said he hoped optiMize would be able to provide to students several one- credit courses on social problems and solutions to inspire pitches amongstudents. "I think something that's not as obvious is that people who want to do this, want it to be rigorous," he said "It needs to be an experience where by the time you go through it you are actually prepared to start doing something." Through potential collabora- tion with the Flipped Semester, Sorensen said the program would be able to attract a larger mem- bership. "In terms of the future of education at U-M, I think this kind of action-based, immersive learning experiences are what's going to keep Michigan a Leader and Best." Help shrinks as poverty spikes in the across the United States Charities dwindling in number nationwide BALTIMORE (AP) - Anto- nio Hammond is the $18,000 man. He's a success story for Catholic Charities of Balti- more, one of a multitude of organizations trying to haul people out of poverty in this Maryland port city where one of four residents is considered poor by U.S. government stan- dards. Hammond says he ended up in Baltimore three years ago, addicted to crack cocaine and snorting heroin, living in aban- doned buildings where "the rats were fierce," and financing his addiction by breaking into cars and stealing copper pipes out of crumbing structures. Eighteen months after find- ing his way to Catholic Chari- ties via a rehabilitation center, the 49-year-old Philadelphia native is back in the work force, clean of drugs, earning $13 an hour cleaning laborato- ries for the Biotech Institute of Maryland and payingtaxes. Catholic Charities, which runs a number of feder- ally funded programs, spent $18,000 from privately donat- ed funds to turn around Hammond's life through the organization's Christopher's Place program which provides housing and support services to recovering addicts and former prisoners. Such success stories are in danger as $85 billion in fed- eral government spending cuts begin squeezing services for the poor nationwide. The cuts started kicking in automati- cally on March 1 after feuding Democrats and Republicans failed to agree on a better plan for addressingthe national def- icit. They are hitting at a time. of spiking poverty as the U.S. slowly climbs out of the deep- est economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. "All I wanted to do was get high," Hammond said. "I didn't even know any more how to eat or clean myself" Now he lives with two other men in housing subsidized by, the charity, got his driver's license and bought a car. What he marvels at the most is that he has been accepted after a 20-year absence by some of his nine children. That's the best part, he said. "At least I know now they might not hate me." The U.S. Census Bureau puts the number of Ameri- cans in poverty at levels not seen since the mid-1960s when President Lyndon B. Johnson launched the fed- eral government's so-called War on Poverty. As President Barack Obama began his sec- ond term in January, nearly 50 million Americans - one in six - were living below the income line that defines pov- erty, according to the bureau. A family of four that earns less than $23,021 a year is listed as living in poverty. The bureau said 20 percent of the country's children are poor. Although it is far from the country's poorest city, Balti- more's poverty rate far outstrips the national average of one in six. Catholic Charities of Balti- more is a conduit for state and federal money for programs designed to help the poor. The charity plays a major role in administering Head Start, a federal program that provides educational services for low- income pre-school children and frees single mothers to find work without the huge expense of childcare. The spending cuts, known as the sequester, are going to hit Head Start especially hard. "Before the sequester only half of the need was being met. Now, after the cuts fully take effect, there will be 900 chil- dren already in the program who won't be able to take part," said William McCarthy, execu- tive director of Catholic Chari- ties. Apple apologizes in China after service criticism over repairs Afghan teenager fatally stabs U.S. soldier playing with children U.S. death toll rises due to fighting in warmer weather KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An Afghan teenager fatally stabbed an American soldier in the neck as he played with chil- dren in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Monday, as the U.S. death toll rose sharply last month with an uptick in fighting due to warmer weather. Last week's calculated attack shows that international troops still face a myriad of dangers even though they are increas- ingly taking a back seat in opera- tions with Afghan forces ahead r of a full withdrawal by the end of 2014. Just one U.S. service mem- ber was killed in February - a five-year monthly low - but the American death toll climbed to at least 14 last month. Overall, the number of Ameri- cans and other foreign forces killed in Afghanistan has fallen as their role shifts more toward trainingand advisinggovernment troops instead of fighting. But a series of so-called insid- er attacks on foreign troops by Afghan forces of insurgents dis- guised as them has threatened to undermine the trust needed to help President Hamid Kar- zai's government take the lead in securing the country after more than 11 years at war. The attack that killed Sgt. Michael Cable, 26, of Philpot, Ky., last Wednesday occurred after the soldiers had secured an area for a meeting of U.S. and Afghan officials in a province near the volatile border with Pakistan. But one of two senior U.S. offi- cials who confirmed that Cable had been stabbed by a young man said the assailant was not believed to have been in uniform so it was not being classified as an insider attack. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said the attacker was thought to be about 16 years old. He escaped so his age couldn't be verified. Cable's brother Raymond Johnston, a 42-year-old waiter in Owensboro, Ky., said the Army told the family the basics of what happened and that his brother was stabbed in the neck from behind. Johnston said his brother, who also did a tour of dutyin Iraq, was "prepared before he left for any- thing that happened" in Afghani- stan. Cable met individually with Johnston and three other fam- ily members before leaving for Afghanistan and had similar con- versations with each - that the deployment was extremely haz- ardous and that his family and friends should "continue to enjoy life" if he was killed. Company vows to increase communication with consumers BEIJING (AP) - Apple apologized to Chinese consum- ers after government media attacked its repair policies for two weeks in a campaign that reeked of economic nationalism. A statement Apple posted in Chinese on its website Mon- day said the complaints had prompted "deep reflection" and persuaded the company of the need to revamp its repair policies, boost communication with Chinese consumers and strengthen oversight of autho- rized resellers. State broadcaster CCTV and the ruling Communist Party's flagship newspaper, People's Daily, had led the charge against the American compa- ny. They accused Apple Inc. of arrogance, greed and "throw- ing its weight around" and portrayed it as just the latest Western company to exploit the Chinese consumer. The attacks quickly back- fired, though, and were mocked by the increasingly sophisti- cated Chinese consumers who revere Apple and its products. State-run media also inadver- tently revived complaints over shoddy service by Chinese companies. Nonetheless, Apple respond- ed with an apology from CEO Tim Cook. "We've come to understand through this process that because of our poor communi- cation, some have come to feel that Apple's attitude is arro- gant and that we don't care about or value feedback from the consumer," Cook's Chinese statement said, as translated by The Associated Press. "For the concerns and misunder- standings passed on to the con- sumer, we express our sincere apologies." Although Apple enjoys strong support from Chinese consumers, the vehemence of the attacks and the impor- tance of the Chinese market appeared to have persuaded the company to appear con- trite. The People's Daily news- paper ran an editorial last Wednesday headlined "Strike down Apple's incomparable arrogance." "Here we have the Western person's sense of superiority making mischief," the news- paper wrote. "If there's no risk in offending the Chinese consumer, and it also makes for lower overheads, then why not?" Chinese observers accused People's Daily of gross hypoc- risy and pointed out that the newspaper had maintained a stony silence when Chinese companies were implicated over food safety, pollution and other scandals. Meanwhile, CCTV was shamed when it emerged that celebrities had been recruited to blast Apple on Weibo, China's version of Twitter, in what had been billed as a grassroots cam- paign. "The public responded in two ways to this incident," popular commentator Shi Shusi wrote on his Weibo account. "One group supports this criticism but quite a num- ber of people felt that there are state monopolies which have severely violated customer's rights, but which are not being exposed." Popular business magazine Caijing said its readers iden- tified a long list of abusers, including state banks that lend to those with political connec- tions while stiffing ordinary savers with low rates on depos- its; a government oil company that sets gas prices and other rates as it sees fit; and state telecom providers notorious for their lack of customer ser- vice. "If media is going to go after Apple, let's hope they spare some thought for those big Chinese communications com- panies and other monopolies, the ones that enrich special interests in the name of being publicly owned," Cai Tongqi, a lawyer from the eastern province of Jiangsu, wrote on Weibo. Consumers seem unfazed by the state media's attacks on Apple.