2A - Thursday, March 13, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 9he *idiianf ajil 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETER SHAHIN KIRBY VOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 eat. 1251 734-418-4115 eat. 1241 pjahahin@michigandaily.com kvoigtman@michigandailycom -- OH SNOW! Alum thrives on connections Gaal Karp graduatedfrom the University in 1987 with a Bach- elor of General Studies degree. After graduating, he entered into the development and building business. He currently works as an independent development con- sultant and is the development director for Outdoor Ventures, a zip line company, and Arbor Lofts, a student housing com- pany for Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Mich. What is the most important lesson you learned as a student at the University? How does it apply to your life now? The most important thing about University, especially Michigan is connections - peo- ple! Every person you meet, every person's friends you know, at some point in your life you may bump into them again for one rea- son or another. Maybe that person will introduce you to your future mate or helps you with further- ing your business career. Once you're older if they know you or are friends with someone you know, they might introduce you for some business thing. Probably the most important thing period from college is that you learn how to socialize and meet people. Those people you meet you will hopefully come into contact with some way or another in the future and that will help you with what- everyoudo in your life. How did your time at the University help lead to your success in the development business? It certainly helped me decide what I didn't want to do. I took certain classes that I realized the subjects were not very inter- esting. For example, I took psy- chology and I thought it was certainly interesting, but not really for me. 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Katz lecture, Kristi Anseth, professor of chemical and biological engineering at the Univer- sity of Colorado, will deliver her research, "Body Build- ings Designer Gels to Pro- mote Tissue Regeneration." WHO: School of Education WHEN: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. WHERE: Gerald Ford Library Auditorium Universityisemploying social networking strategies to reach a wider audience base online. We also examine the Digital Media Club. a" FOR MORE, SEE B-SIDE, PG.1B Turkish riot police fired tear gas into crowds that were mourning the death of a 15-year-old boy, Headnine reported. The boy, Berkin Elvan, died after being put into a coma last June by what is believed to have been a police tear gas canister. Investigators seek cause of San Francisco worksite fire Blaze deemed'one of igation. Fire officials were look- ing into preliminary reports that the largest of recent workers at the block-long site were doing torch work shortly years' threatened before the fire was reported around 5 pan. Tuesday, Fire Chief whole neighborhood Joanne Hayes-White said. "It's too early to determine a SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Fire cause at this point," Fire Depart- investigators on Wednesday were snent Battalion Chief Kirk looking into whether welding Richardson said. "Our arson work was to blame for a massive investigators still have a lot of blaze that barreled through an material they have to look at." apartment building construction Two firefighters suffered site, threatening nearby struc- minor injuries. One of them, Tom tures and prompting evacuations Murphy, suffered burns while as firefighters worked to prevent battling the fire from above but its spread through a San Francis- didn't realize he was injured for co neighborhood. hours, said firefighter Stephen City officials said a catastro- Maguire,swhose crew wasanong phe was narrowly avoided in an the first to arrive. up-and-coming area near AT&T The five-alarm fire created a Park, home of the Giants. plume of black smoke that was "I think we're very lucky that visible for miles and led to the the fire didn't jump anymore," evacuation of nearby buildings as Mayor Ed Lee said. about 150 firefighters were called The exact cause of the blaze to contain it. A wall of the burn- - one of the largest in the city in ing building collapsed about ass recent years - was under inves- hour after the fire began. DM5055 Firefighters had to take a defensive stance because the building was leaning in some areas, Maguire said. The blaze cracked windows at Strata at Mission Bay, an apart- ment building across the street, and sent an ember onto the roof of a University of California, San Francisco building. Flames briefly spread to scaf- folding at another building under construction, Maguire said. The fire was fueled by wooden frames and other materials at the site, Hayes-White said. Because it was under construction, the building had no fire-suppression systems. "Our objective last night, which we were able to achieve, was to contain (the fire) to the building of origin," she said. Fire officials did not yet have a damage estimate but said the entire six-story building was a loss. By late afternoon Wednesday, construction crews were using an excavator to tear down the structure on one end while fire- fighters on the other end doused hotspots. Firefighters will likely remain on the scene throughout the night to make sure the fire doesn't rekindle, Richardson said. Meanwhile, residents of the Strata apartment building were allowed back into their homes Wednesday evening. Exterior sprinklers on the building had to be replaced and the fire protection system restored before residents could be allowed back in, fire Deputy Chief of Operations Mark Gon- zales said. About 30 units suf- fered damage, fire officials said. Earlier Wednesday, Eli Brill and his wife Justyn Bellsey, both 31, temporarily returned to their apartment at Strata to retrieve belongings. Firefighters had helped them retrieve their dog the previous night. "It was really scary," Bellsey said. "I'm just relieved that we were able to get in." Firefighters respond to a fire on 116th Street in Harlem after a building exploded in huge flames. NYC explosion flattens two buildings, kills three people Residents complained at 116th Street, not far from the Fire officials said some people edge of Central Park, erupted were unaccounted for but cau- for weeks about gas about 9:30 a.m., around 15 min- tioned they may not have been in utes after a neighboring resident the buildings. smell in area reported smelling gas, authori- Atenant in one of the destroyed ties said. The Con Edison utility buildings, Ruben Borrero, said NEW YORK (AP) - A gas leak said it immediately sent workers residents had complained to the triggered an earthshaking explo- to check out the report, but they landlord about smelling gas as sion that flattened two apartment didn't arrive until it was too late. recently as Tuesday. buildings on Wednesday, killing The explosion shattered win- A few weeks ago, Borrero said, at least three people, injuring dows a block away, rained debris city fire officialswere called about more than 60 and leaving nine onto elevated commuter railroad the odor, which he said was so missing. A tenant said residents tracks close by, cast a plume of bad that a tenant on the top floor had complained repeatedly in smoke over the skyline and sent broke openthe door to the roof for recent weeks about "unbearable" people running into the streets. ventilation. gas smells. "It felt like an earthquake "It was unbearable," said Bor- By evening, rescue work- had rattled my whole building," rero, who lived in a second-floor ers finally began the search said Waldemar Infante, a porter apartment with his mother and for victims amid the broken who was working in a basement sister, who were away at the bricks, splintered wood and nearby. "There were glass shards time of the explosion. "You walk mangled metal after firefighters everywhere on the ground, and inthe front door and you want to spent most of the day dousing all the stores had their windows turn around and walk directly the flames. Heavy equipment, blown out." out." including back hoes and a bull- Police said twowomen believed The fire department said a dozer, arrived to clear the moun- to be in their 40s were among the check of its records found no tain of debris where the two dead. instances in the past month in five-story East Harlem build- Hunter College identified one which tenants of the two build- ings stood. Flood lights were in as Griselde Camacho, a security ings reported gas odors or leaks. place. Thermal imaging cameras officer who worked at the Silber- Jennifer Salas lived in one of were at the ready to identify heat man School of Social Work build- the buildings. She told The New spots - bodies or pockets of fire. ing. Hunter, in a statement on its York Times her husband, Jordy The recovery was facing hard- website, said she had worked for Salas, and her dog were in the ship in the form of the weather, the college since 2008. building at the time of the col- which was expected to drop into At least three of the injured lapse and were missing. the 20s with rain. Some parts of were children; one, a 15-year-old "There's six floors in the build- the debris pile were inaccessible boy, was reported in critical con- ing; each floor has one apart- because of a sinkhole caused by dition with burns, broken bones ment," she said. "Last night it a subsurface water main break, and internal injuries. Most of the smelled like gas, but then the officials said. other victims'injuries were minor smell vanished and we all went to The fiery blast, on Park Avenue and included cuts and scrapes. sleep." 4