2A - Monday, April 14, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 420 Maynard at. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETER SHAHIN KIRBY VOIGTMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-as-4115e. 1201 734-418-4115 ens. 1241 pjshahin@michigandaily.com kvoigtman@michigandaily.caos r- STICK IT 'U' institutes lottery for housing 39 years ago this week (April 15th, 1975) Members of the University's Board qf Regents said they did not have previous knowledge of a housing shortage for the next year. The University expected a 5 to 6 percent increase in freshmen for the upcoming year, which combined with higher re-application rates from current students, meant that not everyone who wanted housing would receive it, necessitating a lottery for housing. Regent Paul Brown (D) said before the lottery occurred, he was not aware of the problem - a sentiment echoed by several other regents. 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WHO: Department of Astronomy WHEN: Today at 8 p.m. WHERE: Detroit Observatory " Please report any error in the Dailyto correc- tions@michigandaily.com. U.S. looking into reports of toxic gas in Syrian village Both sides of civil war blame each other for poisonous gas attack some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus, remain murky. Online videos posted by rebel activists showed pale- faced men, women and children gasping for breath at what appeared to be a field hospital. They suggested an affliction by DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - some kind of poison - and yet The U.S. ambassador to the another clouded incident where United Nations said Sunday both sides blame each other in that reports of a poison gas a conflict that activists say has attack in a rural village north killed more than 150,000 people of Damascus were so far with no end in sight. "unsubstantiated," adding that "We are trying to run this the United States was trying to down," said Samantha Power, establish what really happened the U.S. ambassador to the before it considers a response. United Nations, during an Both sides in Syria's civil appearance Sunday on ABC's war blamed each other for the "This Week." alleged attack that reportedly "So far it's unsubstantiated, injured scores of people Friday but we've shown, I think, in the amid an ongoing international past that we will do everything effort to rid the country of in our power to establish what chemical weapons. has happened and then consider The details of what happened possible steps in response," she in Kfar Zeita, an opposition- said. held village in Hama.province In the Syrian capital, Syrian -aO-U President Bashar Assad said the conflict in Syria was shifting in the government's favor. "This is a turning point in the crisis, both militarily in terms of the army's continuous achievements in the war against terror or socially in terms of national reconciliation and growing awareness of the true aims of the attack on the country," state-run Syrian television quoted Assad as saying. He spoke to a group of students and teachers from Damascus University. His comments follow a string of government triumphs against rebels, particularly around the Syrian capital. Assad's forces also have struck local cease-fire agreements with the opposition in a number of neighborhoods, where weary rebels have turned over their weapons in exchange for an easing of suffocating blockades. Opposition groups, including the main Western-backed Syr- ian National Coalition, said the poison gas attack at Kfar Zeita hurt dozens of people, thought it did not identify the gas used. State-run Syrian television blamed members of the al- Qaida-linked Nusra Front rebel group for the attack, saying they used chlorine gas to kill two people and injured more than 100. It did not say how it con- firmed chlorine was used. Chlorine, one of the most commonly manufactured chemicals in the U.S., is used to purify drinking water. But as a gas, it can be deadly. Adham Raadoun, an opposition activist on the edge of Kfar Zeita, said government helicopters dropped a number of barrel bombs on the village that appeared to carry the toxic gas, killing one person and choking about 100 people, many of them in their homes. Quoting eyewitnesses, Raadoun said the gas had a thick, yellowish color that smelled of chlorine. AMANDA ALLEN/Da Shaka Senghor speaks about youth violence at the Socially Just Neighborhoods: Urban Communities Addressing Violence and Incarceration event hosted at the School of Social Work Friday. Former prisoner tls inner- city violence, his experiences Shaka Senghor stops at School of Social Work as part of national tour By CAROLINE BARON Daily StaffReporter Shaka Senghor, an author, motivational speaker and social activist, discussed the perpetuated cycle of inner-city violence and how his experience in prison led him to speak and write at the School of Social Work Friday. After he shot and killed a man at age 19 and spent nearly two decades in prison, Senghor is now an author of six books, youth mentor and recently spoke at a regional TEDx Conference. At the event, Senghor discussed his life growing up on the west side of Detroit in an abusive home and running away at age 13. "One of the things that often happen in inner cities and tougher environments where kids might run away is that there are other people looking to exploit them and so, after a couple of weeks on the street, I was seduced into the crack trade," Senghor said. Senghor said the violence in his neighborhood was part of everyday life. At 18, he was shot working as a drug dealer in Detroit's Brightmoor neigh- borhood, an area afflicted with crime, poverty and .abandoned buildings. From then on, he car- ried a gun wherever he went. "I made up in my mind that if I was ever in a conflict again, I would shoot first," Senghor said. In response to one Social Work professor's question concerning how Senghor could have benefited from a social worker after he was shot, he said a way to deal with the trauma of violence would have been crucial. He added that counseling in underprivileged areas is still lacking. "I just knew he'd get treatment or counseling; but just like when I got shot, they passed him up, sent him right back to the hood, and nobody ever intervened in that way," Senghor said of his shooter. On a separate occasion, an argument with a man to whom Senghor was selling drugs escalated into violence: Senghor shot him to death. He was sentenced to up to 40 years in prison. Then, he said he learned the power writing gave him to atone and reflect on his life. "I sat back and started journ- aling," he said. "I was disgusted with what my life turned out to be, and more importantly I was tired of hurting myself and hurting others." He spoke about solitary confinement during his 19-year tenure in prison. He was on 23-hour lockdown five days a week and 24-hour lockdown the other two days. During this period, he became depressed. "I'm not sure if we think crit- ically in American society about what solitary confinement does to human beings," . Senghor said. "You get three five-minute showers, and you're allowed to go to recreation cages on breaks, which is really a little dog ken- nel, and when they bring you out of your cell you're in handcuffs with a leash attached to them. We don't consider the high level See PRISONER, Page 3A ok