2A - Thursday, January 30, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Thursday, January 30, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom f e SO pgan qtly 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETERSHAHIN KIRBY VOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115ueat..1251 734-41e-4115exn. 1241 pjshahin@michigandaily.com kvoigtman@michigandaily.com Sitch: A philanthropic leader Denise Ilitch, a Democratic member of the University's Board of Regents, earned her bachelor's degree from the University and received her law degree from the University of Detroit. She current- ly serves as the President of Ilitch Enterprises, Inc., and is the owner of Ilitch Designs, owner and pub- lisher of Ambassador Magazine and Of Counsel at Clark Hill PLC. She has earned several honors including "Marketing Innovator of the Year" from the Marketing and Sales Executives of Detroit and "Best & Brightest Marketer" from AdvertisingAge magazine. How do the organizations you were involved with in college relate to your work in the Detroit community today? I was not as involved in organi- zations while at the University of Michigan, although I was a mem- ber of Kappa Kappa Gamma and lived in the sorority house in Ann Arbor. That experience taught me the importance of being able to coexist with lots of different types of people and personali- ties and to appreciate the value of our similarities and differences. It was great preparation for my work in the Detroit community. Why did you decide tobecome a member of the Board of Regents for the University? I decided to become a member of the Board of Regents because of my love and passion for the University of Michigan. After all these years, my heart still skips a beat when I step on to campus. I also wanted to give back and con- tribute to my alma mater. Do you have any advice for current students? My advice to current students is to take advantage of every resource at the University of Michigan. Make sure your expe- riences are rich and live every moment of your college life to the fullest because it flies by all too quick. - THERESE BREUCH Newsroom 734-418-415 opt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section' sports@michigandaily.com Display Sales dailydisplay@gmail.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips news@michigandaily.com Letters to the Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classified@michigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.com VJt51515 LOZANO/Daily Chef Peter Julian gives a recipe themed 'Sassy work- shop' in the Union Wednesday, teaching students household tasks they wouldn't learn from classes. CRIME NOTES Liar, pants not on fire WHERE: Wall St. WHEN: Monday around 5:45 p.m. WHAT: A heating unit was reported to be on fire in the parking lot of a construction site. The unit was not on fire and functioning properly. Without a trace WHERE: Bursley Hall WHEN: Monday around 4:25 p.m. WHAT: Less than $100 was reported to have been miss- ing from the retail store safe with no signs of forced entry. No suspects were identified. The date of the incident is unclear, but may have occured between Dec. 15 and Jan 14. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Charge! WHERE: 1500 Block E Hospital WHEN: Monday around 10:15 a.m. WHAT: A vehicle was reported to have driven into a cement pillar. While there were no injuries, the vehicle suffered from significant damage. Left means right? WHERE: Northwood Apartments WHEN: Monday at 8:55 p.m. WHAT: A University bus was reported to have been struck by another vehicle driving in the wrong direc- tion on a one-way street. There are no injuries, but damages are unknown. Beginning meditation WHAT: A workshop for stu- dents interesting in learning beginners' meditation tech- niques for stress, anxiety and focusing purposes. WHO: CAPS WHEN: Today from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. WHERE: CAPS office in the Union Fred lersch Trio WHAT: Hailed as one of the most innovative jazz pianists of the 21st century by Vanity Fair and The New York Times, Fred Hersch will perform. WHO: University Musical Society WHEN: Today at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. WHERE: The Michigan League Black History Month lecture WHAT: In the Black Histo- ry Month Keynote Lecture, Melissa Harris-Perry will discuss race talk and leader- ship on campus. WHO: Office of Multi-Eth- nic Student Affairs & Trot- ter Multicultural Center WHEN: Today at 5:30. WHERE: Rackham Audi- torium CORRECTIONS A Jan.29 article "Obama emphasizes domestic policy in State of the Union" misattributed a quote from Public Policy senior Adam Watkins, vice president of College Democrats. The original story attributed the quote to LSA junior Mary Bridget Lee. " Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@michi- gandaily.com. T H REE T HINGS YOU SH ULDKNOWITOAY CNN reported a letter by former U.S. Senate aide Jesse Ryan Loskarn, who recently commited suicide, explained why he watched child porn. Loskarn said he felt connected with the films because he was sex- ually abused as a child. Daily Arts takes an in- depth look at the Uni- versity's unique co-op food culture by visiting local kitchens. A new per- formance arts minor is also examined. >> FOR MORE, SEE B-SIDE, PAGE lB After about 3 inches of snowfall, massive sec- tions of Atlanta have been shut down as driv- ers attempt to adapt to icy driving conditions. Gridlock has shut down businesses and caused people to stay the night in their cars. 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"Mchig cp'a i 'r rg de' r d e ia'lopiesmay bepickedupnatntheDaiysoici 2 uscrsfaetmstartingin September SaU.S.mai e$1O. Winter term ( panuarythrough Aprl is ,ye a g Se r m through Apri) si s u niversity affiliates e uce pe.O-mpusbiptions frfal term are 3s Sbscriptionsm est be prepad The Michigan Daly is a memberof The Assoiated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press. Research shows ACA will boost lower-class incomes New healthcare laws will result in minor wealth redistribution WASHINGTON (AP) - Maybe the health care law was about wealth transfer, after all. New research shows that the Affordable Care Act will sig- nificantly boost the economic fortunes of those in the bottom one-fifth of the income ladder while slightly reducing average incomes on the rungs above. Economists at the nonpar- tisan Brookings Institution, a Washington public policy cen- ter, found an average increase of about 6 percent in the incomes of the poorest 20 percent of the United States, meaning those making below approximately $20,600 a year. The study used a broad defi- nition of income that counts the value of health insurance, WHAT IS YOURfavorite. OOO O ICE CREAM LANDLORD BREAKFAST VOTE TODAY! BEST OF ANN ARBOR 2014 S]EU2KlU which is not normally measured by Census Bureau income statis- tics. Changing the distribution of incomes was not a stated objec- tive of the health care law, co- authors Henry Aaron and Gary Burtless wrote. "Nonetheless, the ACA may do more to change the income distribution than any other recently enacted law." "This is certainly a very big deal for the income distribu- tion of the United States," Burt- less said. "If you are raising the incomes of the people in the bot- tom fifth by 6 percent, then we are talking about a big change." A leading economic adviser to Republicans said he agrees with the broad findings. "This was always portrayed as a health reform, not a big redis- tribution policy, but it turns out they are the same thing," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum, a center-right public policy institute. That could mean the health care law may one day be seen as President Barack Obama's big- gest legacy to the poor, not just the uninsured. The two groups often overlap, but not always. Major programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid redistribute income in various ways: from workers to retirees and disabled people; from wealthier people to those of more modest means; and from younger people to older ones. Americans describe such pro- grams as "social insurance," or the "safety net." Burtless said the Brookings researchers used a large gov- ernment survey of more than 60,000 people. They developed a measure of income that includ- ed not only categories such as wages, rents and investments, but also the value of health insurance benefits, whether provided by an employer or obtained through a government program. NICK UT/AP A python is is prepared for transport Wednesday Jan. 29 in Santa Ana, Calif., at the home of William Buchman. Buch- man has been arrested for investigation of neglect in the care of animals. California teacher's stench- i1led home tips off police Teacher's snake- filled home part of an 'enterprise' SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A California schoolteacher was arrested Wednesday after hundreds of living and dead pythons in plastic bins were found stacked floor to ceiling inside his stench-filled home in suburban Orange County. As investigators wearing respirator masks carried the reptiles out of the house and stacked them in the driveway, reporters and passers-by gagged at the smell. Some held their noses or walked away from the five-bedroom home to get a breath of air. "The smell alone - I feel like I need to take a shower for a week," said police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna. "They're pretty much in all the bedrooms - every- where." Officers found as many as 400 snakes, as well as numerous mice and rats, in the Santa Ana home of William Buchman after neighbors complained about the smell. He was arrested for investigation of neglect in the care of animals, Bertagna said. Buchman, 53, was still incus- todyWednesdayafternoon, Ber- tagna said. The Newport-Mesa Unified School District, where he works, declined comment, saying it was a police matter. Buchman has not yet had a court appearance or been for- mally charged and it wasn't clear if he had an attorney. Authorities said he lived alone, and neighbors said his mother, who had lived with him, had passed away within the past few years. Sondra Berg, the supervi- sor for the Santa Ana Police Department's Animal Services Division, said four bedrooms in the home were stacked from floor to ceiling and wall to wall with plastic bins on wooden and metal racks. The bins were packed so tightly, Berg said, that they didn't require lids because there was no room for the snakes to slither out. Each snake was catalogued by name and type, and Berg said Buchman told authorities he was involved in a snake-breed- ing enterprise. "House of Horrors: That's the best way to describe it," Berg said of the house. "I mean there's so many dead snakes ... ranging from dead for months to just dead. There's an infes- tation of rats and mice all over the house. There are rats and mice in plastic storage tubs that are actually cannibalizing each other." Some of the snakes were little more than skeletons. Others, only recently dead, were cov- ered with flies and maggots. Next-door neighbor For- est Long Sr. said he has known Buchman for years, adding the men had once been friendly, get- ting together to watch sports on television. But he noticed a change in his neighbor about a year ago, he said, adding Buchman stopped coming around and, when he did, he appeared to have gained a good deal of weight. "Something changed in Bill, yes it did," he said. "Something triggered it because I couldn't even think that that was going on." The odor from the house, meanwhile, became unbearable about five months ago. "It got so bad as to where my wife would throw up," Long said. "She'd get out of the car and run into the house."