The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Friday, April 12, 2013 - 3 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Friday, April 12, 2013 - 3 NEWS BRIEFS DETROIT Bing seeking steep cuts from City Council budget Mayor Dave Bing is proposing to cut the Detroit City Council's budget by $4 million and reduce the board's staff, allowing only one personal aide per member. The recommendations are part of the city's 2013-14 budget that Bing will present Friday morning to the nine-member Council. The Council currently has an $11 million budget. A city consul- tant's report has suggested that the council be made part-time and that its staff be cut by 78 positions. DETROIT Automakers hit with air bag recall Six automakers, including Toyota, Honda and Nissan, are recalling nearly 3.4 million older- modelvehiclesworldwidebecause of defective air bags that can send shrapnel flying into the passenger compartment. The recall mainly affects cars sold by Japanese automakers in North America, Europe and Japan. A small number of cars made by Germany's BMW AG and General Motors Co. and also involved. The front passenger air bags all were made by the same parts sup- plier, Japan's Takata Corp. They have faulty inflator mechanisms that don't route gas into the air bags. Instead, the high-pressure gas can launch plastic and metal parts from the air bags into the cars' passenger areas. Takata says no one has been hurt, but there have been six incidents of the air bags deploying improperly on roadways. SACRAMENTO, Calif. Judges deny Calif. bid to end prison oversight A federal judicial panel on Thursday denied Gov. Jerry Brown's request to lift a court- ordered prison population cap and threatened him and other state officials with contempt of court if they fail to comply. In its ruling, the three-judge panel singled out the Democratic governor for ignoring its earlier orders to reduce the state's inmate population to the level ordered by the federal courts. In January, the governor sought to end the long-running court oversightofCalifornia'sprisonsys- tem and promised to take his fight again to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. At the time, he decried the billions of dollars California is spending to improve inmate medi- cal and mental health care, saying the court had ordered the state to create "gold plate" prisons that were siphoning money from public schools, colleges, social services and other programs. CAIRO Egypt's legislature approves revised election law Egypt's Islamist-dominated legislature approved a revised version of the law organizing the country's parliamentary elections on Thursday, after a court ruled an earlier version was invalid and delayed the vote. The parliamentary elections had been scheduled to start this month, but the ruling said the law must be reviewed by the Supreme Constitutional Court before elec- tions can be called. That body had asked for amendments to the ear- lier draft. Thursday's approval was made by Egypt's Shura Council, the upper house of parliament now fully entrusted with legislation until new elections are held. It also referred the text to the Supreme Constitutional Court for review, Egypt's state news agency report- ed. -Compiled from Daily wire reports ACTIVIST From Page 1 United States. Andiola added that it's important for University stu- dents to fight for the cause and do whatever they can to compel the University to pursue in- state tuition equality for undoc- umented students. Before Andiola spoke, LSA senior Resilda Karafili shared her experience as an undocu- mented student at the Uni- versity. Having lived in the United States since she was young, Karafili considers it her home and remains scared that she will be deported one day. "There are millions like me; this is my country," Karafili said. "Despite all of the contributions I've made to this country, I don't have a green card or passport to prove it." Public Policy senior Kevin Mersol-Barg, founder of CTE and a former Daily columnist, said the event served to inspire students to fight for the cause since the University's Board of Regents received CTE's report RAPE CULTURE From Page 1 Dusenbery said in an interview after the lecture. "The way that they were doing it was in this way that was completely ignoring the fact that the rea- son they were convicted was because they committed this crime." Dusenbery also expressed her specific concerns about the case, noting her surprise about the accused's clear mis- understanding of consent. She said the current concep- tion of rape conveys a "no- means-no" culture, allowing the accused to claim lack of a denial as valid sexual con- sent. She said that this needs to be changed. "When we're talking about rape culture, we're talking about the culture that we live in every day," Dusenbery said. "To completely reach the goal would be to completely trans- form the culture." Holly Rider-Milkovich, director of SAPAC, said she has been a long-time fan of Femi- nisting and that both SAPAC and Feministing share similar strategies and goals in dealing with sexual assault. She added that SAPAC uses posts from Feministing to help achieve their mutual goals. "Definitely, I want to broaden the audience," Rider- Milkovich said. "On issues of weighing the pros and cons of tuition equality last month. CTE will make an appear- ance at the University's Board of Regents meeting next week with hopes of hearing the regents' thoughts on the report. LSA junior John D'Adamo, a spokesman for CTE, said in an interview after the event that Andiola and Karafili's speeches inspired students to get involved in the issue. "It's really a movement that's going all throughout the country and that really trans- lates to the University's Coali- tion for Tuition Equality," D'Adamo said. "We are really excited for next week to show the administration that we're here, have been moved by these stories and we'll be doing our best to create tuition equality throughout the campus." D'Adamo said CTE hopes the regents will discuss the report at the meeting due to Regent Mark Bernstein's (D-Ann Arbor) com- ment last month that said the regents should treat the issue with "urgency." "We're really encouraged to hopefully see some action hap- pen." sexual violence prevention, issues of power and control, and also to be talking in real roles with each other about these issues." Rider-Milkovich said that Dusenbery echoed many of SAPAC's hopes to deal with the issue of social power as it relates to sexual assault and its role within different social groups. "When we make it not OK to commit violence against anyone, then that social power becomes vacated. It doesn't have the same resonance," Rider-Milkovich said "So one of the things that we can do to identify and erode the power and control that happens when one commits violence against another is to not give people props, not reward them by talking about the behav- ior..." LSA freshman Celina Roma- no, who attended the event, said she was happy to hear an open discussion about rape in soci- ety and how it's handled. Still, Romano said that as a woman and a freshman at a large uni- versity, she needs to be cau- tious. "While I think that the Uni- versity does a lot to try and keep women safe, there are a lot of things that, obviously, things happen, and they aren't brought to light," Romano said, "And there are plenty of situations on this campus that create unsafe environments for women." SURVEY From Page 1 ing advisers started to consid- er ways to improve their own advising program. "We really do look at this data and try to make changes and create conversations," Holloway said. "We really appreciate students taking the time to fill it out." Additionally, the consor- tium of other schools admin- istering the survey allows the University to compare its results to the collective responses at the other univer- sities. Zaruba said the nationwide comparison factor is also cru- cial in effectively using the data, allowing the University to indicate whether problems or successes are specifically relevant at the University or nationwide. "It is a little bit like going out and talking to a lot of stu- dents," Greenland said. "You start to get a feel what issues are on people's minds or this is an issue students face in their daily lives." DETROIT From Page 1 young people. "In Detroit, you're a big fish in a big pond ... it's a huge city, but no matter what, you're making an impact by just being there," Klein said. Klein said he estimated that 40 HEY YOU YEAH, YOU WITH THE *COLD* 'CAUSE YOU THOUGHT APRIL MEANT IT WOULD BE "SPRING WEATHER" OR SOMETHING CRAZY LIKE THAT ...it's warm inside the daily. #420MAYNARD @MICHIGANDAILY to 45 students willbe participating in the inaugural night and hopes the event would grow with time. "I expect this to just be the start of something bigger," Klein said. "I expect this to raise some curiosity, to openup their minds." Friday Nights in the D is one of three initiatives taken by Crowd 313 to change students' perception of Detroit. Other projects include a website detailing internship opportunities in Detroit called DetroitWolverine.com, and a fall festival onthe Diag. "Our goal is to just get students down to Detroit to de-stigmatize the unsafe and un-happening idea of Detroit, and it's to kind of to encourage an entrepreneur- ship culture from the students in Ann Arbor," Rosner said. A North Korean soldier, center, looks at South Korean soldiers at the border village of Panmunjom. The prospect of a North Korean missile launch is "considerably high," South Korea's foreign minister said. North Korea hints It Will soo lanc a misil Gun control bill clears first hurdle Sandy Hook victims' families watched from gallery above the senate floor WASHINGTON (AP) - Con- gress' most serious gun-control effort in years cleared its first hurdle Thursday as the Sen- ate pushed past conservatives' attempted blockade under the teary gaze of families of victims of December's Connecticut school shootings. The bipartisan 68-31 vote rebuffed an effort to keep debate from even starting, giv- ing an early victory - and per- haps political momentum - to President Barack Obama and his gun control allies. Four months after 20 first-graders and six staffers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown were killed, relatives watching the vote from a gallery over- looking the Senate floor dabbed at tears and clasped hands, some seeming to pray. Even so, few supporters of the legislation are confident of victory. Several weeks of emo- tional, unpredictable Senate debate lie ahead, and a mix of gun-rights amendments, oppo- sition from the National Rifle Association and skepticism from House Republican lead- ers leave big questions about what will emerge from Con- gress. Foes of the proposed new restrictions say they would penalize law-abiding citizens and do nothing to curb gun vio- lence. "The hard work starts now," said Senate Majority Lead- er Harry Reid, D-Nev., who brought the legislation to the floor for debate. Still, in a Congress marked by a notable lack of coopera- tion between Democrats and Republicans, Thursday's vote was one of several displays of unusual rapport across party lines. In other examples not connected to the issue of guns: Negotiators for the two par- ties said they had reached agreement on the major ele- ments of a Senate immigration bill they're expected to unveil next week. The top Republican in gov- ernment, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, publicly dis- agreed with his party cam- paign chairman's criticism of Obama's budget proposal to trim future Social Security and Medicare benefits. Wednes- day night, GOP senators left a White House dinner praising Obama for reaching out to them on his budget. Senators of both parties had a rare joint luncheon to honor Arizona Sen. John McCain, the GOP's 2008 presidential nomi- nee, on the 40th anniversary of his release from a North Viet- namese prison. N. Korea may have ballistic missile with nuclear warhead, though unreliable PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - Hinting at a missile launch, North Korea delivered a fresh round of war rhetoric Thursday with claims it has "powerful striking means" on standby. Seoul and Washington speculated that it is preparing to test-fire a missile designed to be capable of reaching the U.S. territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean. The latest rhetoric came as new U.S. intelligence was revealed showing North Korea is now probably capable of arm- ing a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead. On the streets of Pyongyang, North Koreans shifted into party mode as they celebrated the anniversary of leader Kim Jong Un's appointment to the country's top party post - one in a slew of titles collected a year ago in the months after his father Kim Jong Il's death. But while there was calm in Pyongyang, there was condem- nation in London, where for- eign ministers from the Group of Eight nations slammed North Korea for "aggressive rhetoric" that they warned would only further isolate the impover- ished, tightly controlled nation. North Korea's provocations, including a long-range rocket launch in December and an underground nuclear test in February, "seriously undermine regional stability, jeopardize the prospects for lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula and threaten international peace and security," the ministers said in a statement. In the capital of neighbor- ing South Korea, the country's point person on relations with the North, Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae, urged Pyong- yang to engage in dialogue and' reverse its decision to pull work- ers from a joint industrial park just north of their shared bor- der, a move that has brought fac- tories there to a standstill. "We strongly urge North Korea not to exacerbate the cri- sis on the Korean Peninsula," Ryoo said. North Korea probably has advanced its nuclear know- how to the point where it could arm a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, but the weap- on wouldn't be very reliable, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded. The DIA assessment was revealed Thurs- day at a public hearing in Wash- ington. President Barack Obama warned the unpredictable communist regime that his administration would "take all necessary steps" to protect American citizens. In his first public comments since North Korea escalated its rhetoric, Obama urged the north to end its nuclear threats, saying it was time for the isolat- ed nation "to end the belligerent approach they have taken and to try to lower temperatures." "Nobody wants to see a con- flict on the Korean Peninsula," Obama added, speaking from the oval Office alongside United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was headed to Seoul on Friday for talks with South Korean officials before heading on to China. "If anyone has real leverage over the North Koreans, it is China," U.S. Director of Nation- al Intelligence James Clapper told Congress on Thursday. "And the indications that we have are that China is itself rath- er frustrated with the behavior and the belligerent rhetoric of... Kim Jong Un." In the latest threat from Pyongyang, the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, a nonmilitary agency that deals with relations with South Korea, said "strik- ing means" have been "put on standby for a launch and the coordinates of targets put into the warheads." It didn't clarify, but the language suggested a missile. The statement was the latest in a torrent of warlike threats seen outside Pyongyang as an effort to raise fears and- pres- sure Seoul and Washington into changing their North Korea policies, and to show the North Korean people that their young leader is strong enough to stand up to powerful foes. Referring to Kim Jong Un, Clapper told Congress that "I don't think ... he has much of an endgame other than to somehow elicit recogni- tion," and to turn the nuclear threat into "negotiation and to accommodation and presum- ably for aid."