2A - Thursday, January 16, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com (The fldiian Dailm 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETER SHAHIN KIRBY VOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ert. 1251 734-418-45 ext. 1241 pjshahin@michigandaiy.rom kroigtman@mirhigandaiy.com Alumni Profile: Drew Philp Drew Philp grew up in Adri- an, Mich. and graduated from the University in 2008. He then moved to Detroit, where he bought an abandoned house on the city's east side for $500 and completely renovated it. He is a freelance journalist, and his experience in Detroit was recounted in a BuzzFeed story, Why I Bought A House In Detroit For $500, published Jan. 9 and garnered over 1.3 million views. What were some of your favorite college memories? Certainly, The Michigan Daily. Working at the Daily was the start of my writing career. I also liked living in the Luther Co-op. I participated in the Prison Creative Arts project as well. 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She was arrested and taken to jail. Not-so magic school bus WHERE: Wilmot Street WHEN: Monday at about 10:05 a.m. WHAT: A vehicle was reported to have been struck by a University bus at around 8:50 a.m., University Police reported. Both vehi- cles suffered minor damage. WHERE: Shapiro Library WHEN: Tuesday at about 12:50 a.m. WHAT: A student's bicycle was stolen from a bike rack around 12:45 a.m. during a late-night study session, University Police reported. No suspect has been identi- fied. Let it snow WHERE: Lot NC-92,2800 Plymouth WHEN: Wednesday at about 6:25 a.m. WHAT: A subject reported a collision with a light pole while removing snow from a University parking lot, University Police reported. No injuries, but minor dam- age, were reported. WHAT: Stop by The Ark and enjoy the music of New York indie harpist Mikaela Davis. General admission is $12.50. WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHEN: Tonight at 8 p.m. WHERE: The Ark Immersion in Thailand WHAT: Nursing students share their experience on a 5-week clinical immersion in Thailand. The students spent their trip working in local clinics and providing healthcare to villagers in Thailand. Don't forget to bring a bag lunch. WHO: School of Nursing WHEN: Starting today from 12 p.m. to 1p.m. WHERE: School of Nursing WHAT: The workshop is designed to give you the tools needed to make a good first-impression at the Winter Expo. WHO: The Career Center WHEN: Starting today from 7 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. WHERE: Student Activities Building CORRECTIONS A previous version of the article "Synagogue and Mosque: uniting communi- ties on campus and beyond" from the Jan.15 Statement Magazine misidentified two members of MuJew. Saara Mohammed ist he groups 2014 co-chair, and Laura Katsnelson was the 2013 co- chair. Katsnelson, a senior, was also misidentified as a junior. * Please report any error in the Daily to correc- tions@michigandaily.com. A Indiana minivan was jamined with 62 dogs whensit broke downin cen- tral Ohio, ABC News reported. The driver was hired by a breeder to take them to an ani- mal shelter in New Jersey. The dogs are now residing in ani- mal shelters in Ohio. The Taubman School of Architecture fea- tures an amalgamation of disciplines. In this week's B-Side, Daily Arts takes a look at what makes the school a valuable part of the University. >> FOR MORE, SEE THE B-SIDE CNN reported 12 dead in a five-hour rampage iin Brazil. The victims were gunned down by "exe- cution-style killings" in sepa- rate incidents. Authorities said the incident may be gang related and provoked by the death of a police officer. 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University affliates ie iubjeo to a a edi 0 .-b_5 , rate On-campus subscriptions for tail ter r 0ae $35 Subsorptons must State fiscal leaders estimate uptick in revenue by $971M Senate panel deems attack in Benghazi preventable Michigan gov. plans to use funds for neglected areas By ALLANA AKHTAR Daily Staff Reporter Potential tax breaks and addi- tional funding for needed ser- vices may be in the future for Michigan in the upcoming fiscal year, as lawmakers project a $971 million surplus in state revenue. Fiscal leaders fromthe Senate, House and executive branch, as well as economists from across the state, met at the January Rev- enue Estimating Conference on Friday to predict the amount of available revenue for the next fis- cal year. Of the projected figure, $325 million will be put toward the long-term budget and $646 mil- lion will be used for one-time appropriations, the Detroit Free Press reported. Daniil Manaenkov an Fulton, both professor, nomics, cited a rise it sales and a rebound oft ing market as possible the surplus. Fulton pr( increase in Michigan's ing power and a gain 64,000 jobs a year over three years. Gov. Rick Snyder is to use funds to resto neglected services wahilo ing financial stability wi finances. Snyder's administrati ited a $1.5 billion defic start of his term in 201 time, the governor cal plan to "reinvent" ther economy and end its d cuttingback spendingat eningtax bases. Since the start of term, Michigan jobs, inc revenue and overall p have all increased sign H,-, However, critics of his policies, id George most notably State Senate Minor- s of eco- ity Leader Gretchen Whitmer, n vehicle blame the governor for unfairly the hous- putting the tax burden on the causes of working class, the elderly and edicts an students. Snyder also came under purchas- fire for his decision to slash fund- of about ing to state colleges and universi- the next ties by 15 petcent in the past year. Dave Murray, deputy press projected secretary to the governor, said ore long- though the process of budget e pronot allocation was still in its early thin state st ages, the governor plans to act strategically to make sure 0on inher- he uses the surplus in a fiscally cit at the responsible way to p.e ust fur 11. At the ther deficit. led for a "We don't want to find our- Michigan selves in a situation where we eficits by were a couple years ago when nd broad- we were looking at deficits - sub- stantial deficits," said Murray. Snyder's "You need to be fiscally respon- come, tax sible with the money too." opulation Senate Appropriations Chair aificantly. Roger Kahn said, in a press release despite the surplus, the budget should still be approached responsibly. State House Republicans are pressing for tax reliefs for the citizens who made the surplus possible in the first place. John Nixon, Director of the Depart- ment of Technology, Manage- ment and Budget, has argued that offering taxpayers a rebate makes the most sense when discussing how to allocate funds. Anna Heaton, spokeswoman for House Appropriations Com- mittee Chair Joe Haveman, said the House feels equally as cau- tious as the Senate when acting 9 with the surplus. She said Have- man believes that the allocation process is still in its early stages and lawmakers are still deciding their next steps. "Once there is a surplus, everyone starts saying we should 6 spend, spend, spend," Heaton said. "He is just saying, 'Yes we 7 should but let's move slowly and think about this and think about where we can invest it and will get Insc rturn :to Michigan citi zens."' Report implicates ambassador and poor communication with security forces WASHINGTON (AP) --Both highly critical and bipatosan, a Senate report declared Wednes day that the deadly assault on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, could have been prevented. The account spreads blame among the State Department, the military and U.S. intelligence for missing what now seem like obvious warning signs. For the first time in the much- politicized aftermath, the report also points at Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in the attack. It says that the State Department ended a deal with the military to have a special operations team provide extra security in Libya, and that Ste- vens twice refused an offer to reinstate the team in the weeks before the Sept. 11, 2012, attack. The military also takes criti- cism in the report for failing to respond more quickly on the night of the assault. On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks in the U.S., armed militants stormed the dip- lomatic outpost in Benghazi, set- ting the building on fire. Stevens, information technology special- ist Sean Smith, and CIA security contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, both former Navy SEALs, were killed over the course of two battles that night. Stevens died of smoke inha- lation after he was taken to a "safe room" in the besieged com- pound. The Obama administra- tion, reluctant to deal publicly with a terror attack weeks before the presidential election, first described the assault as a spon- taneous mob protest of an anti- Islamic, American-made video. Such a protest did occur at the U.S Embassy in Caire arlicr that day. Officials corrected their description days after the attack, but by then it had become a hot political issue that has continued to dog the administration. On that issue, the report dives into the contentious initial talk- ing points issued by the intelli- gence community, which helped fuel Republican allegations of an Obama administration cover up of militant links to the violence. 'Intelligence analysts inac- curately referred to the presence of a protest at the U S. mission facility before the attack based on open source information and limited intelligence but without sufficient intelligence or eyewit- ness statements to corroborate that assertion," the report said, addingthat U.S. intelligence then took too long to correct the error. The senators also take the administration to task for failing to bring the attackers to justice more than a year later. They say the U.S. has identified several individuals responsible but can't capture them because of limited intelligence capabilities in the region and limited cooperation by local governments. Intelligence Committee Chairman Diasie Feinstein, a Democrat, said she hoped the report would put to rest conspir- acy theories about the attacks. Republican Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss said the report showed that despite a deteriorat- ing security situation in Beng- hazi, the U.S. government did not do enough to prevent the attacks or to protect the diplomatic facil- ity. And Republican committee member Susan Collins of Maine called on the administration to punish those responsible. "A broken system overseen by senior leadership contributed to the vulnerability of U.S. diplo- mats ... in one of the most danger- ous cities in the world," she said in the report. "And yet the secre- tary of state has not held anyone responsible for the system's fail- ings." U.S. intelligence ultimately blamed the violence on militants who overran the temporary U.S. mission and, hours later, fired mortars at the nearby CIA annex where the Americans had taken shelter. The report says the subse- quent investigation showed individuals from many militant groups took part in the "oppor tunistic" attacks, including al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb the Libyan militia group Ansar al-Sharia, and members of the Yemeni-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. The report does rsot name Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time and now is a potential 2016 presi- dential candidate. The State Department said the report largely reaffirms the findings reached a year ago by the Benghazi Accountability Review Board, headed by a for- mer ambassador and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf noted that the Senate report recommended improve- ments to security that the State Department has already taken, including upgrading security cameras improving fire equip amesot and increasing the pre. ence of Nlarine security guards. The Senate report notes that the State Department has also created a new assistant secretary position for high-threat posts, but it says the department still needs institutional change to help it react more quickly to security threats. It says State should not rely on local security alone in countries where the host govern- ment cannot provide adequate protection and should avoid using diplomatic facilities it knows are inadequately protected. The report says that the department in 2012 had ignored its own "tripwires" set to deter- mine when it had become too dangerous to operate in Beng- hazi, and continued to operate the facility there despite a grow- ing number of U.S. intelligence reports showing the danger was rising. f