I - Tuesday, April 16, 2013 MONDAY: TUSDY WEDNESDAY: This Week in History " In Other Ivory Tower Engineering with a heart The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com ANDREW WEINER RACHEL GREINETZ Editor in Chief easiness Manager 734-418-4115 exe. 1252 734-48-4115 ext. 1241 anweiner@michigandaily.com rmgrein@michigandaily.com BREAKING UP Ann Jeffers is an assistant pro- fessor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College ofEngi- neering. Jeffers joined the Univer- sity faculty in 2009 after receivng her Ph.D. from Virginia Polytech- nic Institute and State University. Why did you decide to get into civil engineering? I got into engineering in gener- al because I was good at math and science in high school, and the job prospects were good for engi- neers. I decided to major in civil engineering because civil engi- neering has a clear link to society. So everything that civil engineers do is helping people, and that was something that really inte me. I found that, beinga str al engineer, I have an oppor to do research that leads to ing that might be safer fo ards and so forth. So, I thin that's the main driving thin that I wanted to do someth which I'd be helping people future. How did you end up at University? I found that the Univer Michigan has exceptiona grams in just about every pline, including civil engine They're leaders in researc education. The communit' rested is a very vibrant community. The uctur- students here are very passionate tunity about the University. The fac- build- ulty in my department are just r haz- really great people to work with. ik that They're experts and leaders in ig - is their field. ing in in the What do you do in your free time? the I like to do some outdoorsy things. 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Get more online at michigandaily.com/blogs/The Wire Council debates plans for high-rise, TDX construction Due to long talk on DDA funding, issues still not debated as of 2 a.m. Tuesday By MATTHEW JACKONEN Daily StaffReporter A vote on the hotly debated 413 E. Huron St. plan was still being decided as of 2:20 a.m. Tuesday at Monday night's Ann Arbor City Council meeting. The plan would allow for the construction of a 14-story high- rise apartment building with an underground parking structure in the Dl zone. The building would provide housing mainly for University students. Law Prof. Don Duquette told councilmembers the high rise would further the concept of Ann Arbor as a "student ghetto" and would damage the city's aesthetic appeal. "Your grandchildren dren will say, 'Why d this large, out-of-chara ster building loft in our Ann Arbor,' " Duquette Shouts of betrayal demnation of the plan zens filled the air of tI chambers duringthe pt ing. Ann Arbor resides Pollack voiced conc many other citizens ec ing the public hearingc E. Huron St. plan. "For the record, i in-town development don't support this pro lack said. "We shouldn tonight. The city, long a have taken appropriat support community val Ann Arbor resident J ett told council mem worried about the re historic trees at the 413 St. site. He specificall) developers want to tak and chil- id you let cter, mon- r beautiful said. and con- large, historic walnut tree and replace it with two three-inch trees. THETA DELTA CHI PLANS CONSIDERED 0 S U ,- from citi- Monday night's city council he council meeting also included a vote on ublic hear- the University's chapter of Theta nt Eleanor Delta Chi fraternity's plans to add erns that an addition to its existing house. hoed dur- Council had not debated the issue on the 413 as of 2:20 a.m. The approval sanctions the I support fraternity to erect a roughly , I just 2,400-square-foot addition on a ject," Pol- 0.4-acre site adjacent to the cur- 't be here rent house that would provide go, should more common space and expand- e steps to ed restroom and shower areas. It ues." also includes new bike storage, eff Crock- a dumpster area and an outdoor bers he's patio. However, the current occu- moval of pancy of 33 people will not be E. Huron increased. y said the The plan was revised from an ke down a earlier draft in which the site's driveway interfered with parking meters on Monroe Street. How- ever, Theta Delta Chi worked out a compromise with the Down- town Development Authority on the placement of the driveway. JUST LIKE DATING PROFILES, WE LOOK BETTER ONLINE. 4 5 CHECK US OUT: MICHIGANDAILY.COM Ramon Espinosa/AP A demonstrator sits in front of riot police as opposition supporters and students block a highway in the Altamira neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela on Monday. Maduro certified as election. winner amid massive protests President-elect's narrowvictory margin causes streetriots CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's government-friend- ly electoral council quickly certified the razor-thin presi- dential victory of Hugo Chavez' hand-picked successor Monday, apparently ignoring opposition demands for a recount as anti- government protests broke out in the bitterly polarized nation. People stood on their balconies in Caracas apartment buildings banging pots and pans in protest as the electoral council's presi- dent proclaimed Nicolas Maduro president for the next sixyears. Across town, thousands of students clashed with National Guard troops in riot gear who fired tear gas and plastic bul- lets to turn the protesters back from marching on the cIty cen- ter. Students threw stones and pieces of concrete. The city was otherwise peaceful, although protests were reported in provincial cit- ies. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Maduro was elected Sunday by a margin of 50.8 percent to .49 percent over challenger Henrique Capriles - a differ- ence of just 262,000 votes out of 14.9 million cast, according to an updated official count released Monday. Sworn in as acting president after Chavez's March 5 death from cancer, Maduro squan- dered a double-digit advantage in opinion polls in two weeks as Capriles highlighted what he called the ruling Chavistas' abysmal management of the oil-rich country's economy and infrastructure, citing myriad woes including food and medi- cine shortages, worsening power outages and rampant crime. By' contrast, Chavez had defeated Capriles by a nearly 11-point margin in October. Until every vote is counted, Venezuela has an "illegitimate president and we denounce that to the world," Capriles tweeted Monday. One of the five members of the National Electoral Council, independent Vicente Diaz, also backed a full recount, as did the United States and the Organi- zation of American States. But the' electoral council president, Tibisay Lucena, said in announcingthe outcome Sun- day that it was "irreversible." At the proclamation ceremony Monday, she called Venezuela "a champion of democracy" and defended its electronic vote sys- tem as bullet-proof. Capriles, a 40-year-old state governor, had demanded the proclamation be suspended. He convoked the pot-banging protest and asked supporters to gather outside the electoral council Tuesday. Capriles claimed that mem- bers of the military, "an impor- tant group in various cities," had been detained for trying to guarantee a free and fair elec- tion. He said they had been ordered to ignore abuses they witnessed. Capriles did not offer further details, such as how many were involved. He said a vote count by his campaign produced "a differ- 0 ent result" and it received more than 3,200 complaints of irregu- larities - all by pro-government forces. He demanded every sin- gle ballot be recounted. 0 A