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24 PERCENT?
Students reject tuition increase

41years ago this week
(Sept.14,1973)
The University's Student Gov-
ernment Council modified the
demands of their strike against
a record 24-percent tuition
increase.
In addition to requesting that
the tuition increase be over-
turned, the SGC added demands
pertaining to all "needy" stu-
dents receiving financial aid, and
the maintenance of the Univer-
sity's 1970 promise to increase
minority enrollment to 10 per-
cent.
Student Action Committee
member Collin McCoy said the
demands stemmed from con-
cerns that if the tuition increase

were overturned, financial aid
and minority support would
receive cuts instead.
29 years ago thisweek
(Sept.20,1985)
The University's Board of
Regents unanimously decided to
divest $4.5 million from compa-
nies operating in South Africa.
The decision came in the wake
of the University's decision two
years earlier to divest $45 mil-
lion from the same group of com-
panies, which represented 90
percent of its investments in the
area at the time. The decision left
the University with $500,000 in
South Africa-related holdings,
which the regents said it planned


to use to challenge a court ruling
upholding a 1982 state law that
required public universities to
divest.
10years ago this week
(Sept. 16,2004)
A dead crow discovered a week
earlier at Observatory Street
and East Medical Center Drive
was found to be infected with
West Nile virus. The crow was
the eighth animal discovered
in Washtenaw County infected
with the virus, though it was the
first to be discovered on campus
and the second to be discovered
within Ann Arbor city limits.
- SHOHAM GEVA

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LSA sophomore Julie Katsnelson chalksfor the impron
club The Aughts Sunday outside the Dana Building.


TICKETS
From Page 1A
considerably smaller than the sta-
dium's official capacity of 109,901.
Public Policy senior Bobby
Dishell, Central Student Govern-
ment president, worked closely
with the Athletic Department to
develop the new seating policy. He
said he is optimistic that the change
in policy will continue to benefit
students, and he has observed that
the student section is already more
full before kickoff as a result.
"The feedback we've received
has been overwhelmingly posi-
tive," Dishell said. "When we sur-
veyed students, the number one
thing that students wanted was to
be able to sit with their friends, and
I think you can see in the student
attendance numbers that that's
been reflected."
Students have expressed posi-
tive opinions about the new policy,
noting that it allows them the free-
dom to sit with friends by creating
seating groups and reward those
who are dedicated to attending
games.
"I feel.like they're trying to give
more loyal fans higher priority,
so for people who came to more
games last year, I guess, it would
make sense to feel that they think
the team's more important," said
Engineering sophomore Jake
Sprintz.
Engineering sophomore Grey-
son Schultz echoed this apprecia-
tion of fairness.
"If you didn't go to really any
games last year then I don't know
how important it would be for you
to get good seats this year," he said.
This change in policy comes on

the heels of the 2013 season's policy
change, which abolished the previ-
ous seniority-based system and
enacted a first-come, first-served
system.
Many students felt last year's
policy was unfair to upperclass-
men. LSA senior Elizabeth Swaynie
bought season tickets starting her
freshman year with the hope that
she would be in front by her senior
year.
"I knew back then that if I
bought season tickets every year
and I had put in my time I'd get to
the front row," Swaynie said. "I felt
bad for the juniors who had worked
so hard in buying these tickets and
spending so much money on the
athletic program and then just
kind of getting the short end of the
deal."
Nevertheless, Swaynie said
she believes there has been too
much change and that the Athletic
Department should pick one policy
and stick to it. LSA junior Saman-
tha Tinsley agreed that policy has
been too unstable.
"I think it makes it really con-
fusing because they've changed it
every year since I've been here,"
Tinsley said. "This is my third year
here, and you kind of never know if
they're going to stick to it for next
year."
The Athletic Department and
CSG will be monitoring student
opinion of the new system's enact-
ment. Their goal is to continue to
improve the experience of attend-
ing football games.
"Looking forward, the numbers
show that this has really been posi-
tive for most students and we look
forward to surveying students to
continue to improve this and to see
where we can keep getting better,"
Dishell said.

van said. "What I take away from it is
INNOVATION that it's a great company, you're a great
From Page 1A person and everyone there is great, but
you're part of one machine.Is that what
you want to do? And that's not what I
said networking was also central to the want to do. I wanted to have control. I
event. wanted to make my own thing. I like
"We want to get people networking making stuff."
with different skillsets of the Michi- The other entrepreneurs said they
gan community," Nwankwo said. "We did not feel at ease with corporate life-
want them to meet these people who style.
have already done it, get their experi- Engineering alum Danny Ellis
ences and really absorb their knowl- founded Ann Arbor-based SkySpecs,
edge." a company that builds "flying robots."
The Business School, EVC and Sam- He said he even rejected two coveted
uel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for job positions, including one at SpaceX,
Entrepreneurial Studies sponsored the to found his company.
event. It follows the organizations' and "I still don't regret that decision one
the University's push to widen their bit," Ellis said. "Working in something
entrepreneurial footprint. that you are this passionate about is a
University alum Rob Pelinka deliv- much better experience than sitting
ered the keynote address. A former in a cubicle being told what to do, and
basketball player, Pelinka was a mem- waiting three months to make a deci-
ber of three NCAA Final Four teams sion because you've got to wait for the
as a Business undergraduate. He went hierarchy to make a decision."
on to earn a J.D. from the Law School He added: "My recommendation
and founded Landmark Sports Agency, is to try it. You've got nothing to lose.
based in Los Angeles. So you have to live in student housing
Pelinka emphasized hard work and for another couple years? You'll get
connections, invoking anecdotes from the high paycheck someday; you don't
working with a certain very famous need it right away."
client of his - Kobe Bryant. After his Across the hall, more-seasoned
speech, he spoke to interested stu- entrepreneurs discussed their careers
dents. as innovators. Their advice was con-
One panel topic explored business trye tthe norm.
creation as a young adult. Four busi- "The customer is highly overrat-
ness founders - late-20-something ed," said Vinay Gupta, founder of two
men in business casual clothes - dis- companies and CEO of outsourcing
cussed their experiences as budding relationship management company
entrepreneurs. Janeeva, amid laughter. "Steve Jobs,
The impetus for founding their the foremost entrepreneur of our gen-
companies often came from everyday eration, consistently believed he knew
instances. Business alum Tyler Pax- more than the customer did."
ton founded Are You a Human, which Nancy Gilby, director of entrepre-
validates that a user is not a robot by, neurship at the School of Information,
for instance, telling a user to drop an countered that Jobs didn't write off the
iPhone or Android into a shopping bag customer's needs, but rather gathered
rather than presenting CAPTCHA. A them through non-traditional means.
co-worker of Paxton, then a consultant, "He was an incredible introvert but
came into their cubicle one day, com- a keen observer of watching people
plaining of his failure to buy Hannah use technology," Gilby said. "There's a
Montana tickets. Ticket scalpers using right way to learn about the world of
robots bought up all the tickets, and your customers. You need to under-
Paxton thought there must be a better stand how they perceive the world,
wayto ensurethatrobotsweren'tusing how they use tools and then you'll
services made for humans. really understand and see their prob-
One facet of Are You a Human sur- lems."
veys the user's mouse movements. Another non-traditional perspec-
"We found out that we could build tive came from Doug Cass, co-found-
this cool system of monitoring the way er of toy companies Kahootz Toys
people interact with a website and and Giddy Up. He said the light bulb
could decide whether it was a person moment of getting a new idea is unim-
or an automated bot," Paxton said. portant; one must instead deliberate
The panelists also discussed what about the execution.
it was like in the early years of their "The key is buildinga foundation of
startups, making little money as their people, a vision," Cass said. "You gotta
former classmates earned six-figure look at finding the right people and
salaries in office jobs. While Business building your team."
alum Cavan Canavan was founding One of the tenderfoot innovators
Focus, a fitness wearable company, he echoed this notion.
turned off Facebook to ignore photo "At the end of the day, you can have a
albums of his friends' European adven- great idea, but that idea is worth noth-
tures. Canavan also had to forget about ing until you've been at it for a few
his internship experiences at Apple to years," Paxton said. "It just takes a long
get his company off the ground. time until you have something that's of
"It was a great internship," Cana- value."

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METERING
From Page 1A
residential, commercial and
office zone - to the Downtown
Interface Base District, which
would limit usage to medium
density residential and mixed-
used buildings. The proposed
rezoning is an. effort to expand
the downtown district in Ann
Arbor. The ordinance originated
in June but has been pushed
to every subsequent Council

meeting.
The City Planning Commission
believes that this rezoning will
align with adjacent zones and
the surrounding land uses, plac-
ing restriction on building height
and size to better conform with
nearby structures.
The architect and owner of 425
S. Main St., a property that will
be affected by this decision, are
both in opposition to this ordi-
nance. Councilmembers Sabra
Briere (D-Ward 1) and Chuck
Warpehoski (D-Ward 5) support
the ordinance.

EPIDEMIOLOGY
From Page 1A
fornia Tribal Epidemiol-
ogy Center, discussed the
role of such centers in the
United States from her
own perspective - one
that doesn't necessarily
represent that of the orga-
nization. Most centers are
.part of the Indian Health
Service and assist Ameri-
can Indian and Alaska
Native tribes by advocat-
ing for tribalhealth, work-
ing to prevent diseases
and buildingpublic health
initiatives within their
respective communities.
"The idea is actually to
give tribal people control
of their health care servic-
es ... it was really meant to
be in the direction of more
sovereignty," Joseph said.
of TECs.
She also discussed sev-
eral problems that TECs
and the IHS face, which
range from underfunding
to issues with data gath-
ering and interpretation.
Surveys often underrep-
resent populations and
race misclassification is
an often occurrence. TECs
use linkage studies to try
to correct for this error.
"Thinking about the

day in the life of the TEC
epidemiologists, it's all
really about data access,
availability and interpre-
tation," shesaid.
When she spoke to the
students about their post-
University plans, she gave
them suggestions as to
how to best ensure that
those planshbecomereality.
She said it is impor-
tant to lay out a long-term
plan based on a student's
individual interests and
to then structure class
schedules that allow them
to develop skills for suc-
cess in that particular
occupation.
"The reality is, from
the perspective of a hiring
committee, what they are
looking for is somebody
who can hit the ground
running, needs minimal
training," Joseph said.
Twelve Public Health
students attended the lec-
ture, consisting of both
first- and second-year
master's students.
"I came for the career
advice,"said Public Health
student Karin Dove. "I
thought it was inter-
esting to hear how she
approached taking classes
here or what classes she
thought were important
or what skills were impor-
tant to learn."

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PHARMACY
From Page lA
challenges in working with
large corporations and
regulators.
For more than 10years, Dalton
worked to put Enobosarm on
the market, a drug that helps
patients build back muscle lost
from cancer treatments and
other muscle wasting diseases.
He said 50 to 80 percent of
cancer patients have a degree of
muscle wasting and because of
age-related sarcopenia, muscle
loss due to old age.
Another critical part of
the process of creating new
medicines is financing. Dalton's
company, GTx was taken

public and partnered with two
larger corporations, Johnson
& Johnson and Merck. Dalton
said that a University can help
a scientist getting an initial
patent, but financial support
from an institution can run out
quickly.
GTx raised $70 million on the
stock market and received close
to $1 million from its corporate
partnerships. However, it had
a massive research budget that
was often over $40 million a
year. Bringing a new drug to
the market usually costs near $1
billion and Dalton stressed that
outgoing Pharmacy students
should look at the stability of
any company they are may work
for.
Dalton explained the
regulatory challenges that

he faced while developing
Enobosarm. The drug initially
failed two FDA trials and one by
a European regulatory agency.
Eventually, Dalton and his
company discovered that the
failed trials were not due to a
lack of efficacy of the drug, but
due to the fact that some patients
in the trial were on harsher
regimens of chemotherapy and
were weaker because of it.
The talk was not only a case
study in drug development,
but also offered career. advice
session for young pharmacists.
Dalton told students to keep
their training broad early in
their careers and to be ready
to work for many companies.
He added that it's important
for young pharmacists to take
chances.

"It's a high risk, high reward
enterprise," Dalton said.
Dalton was the inaugural
speaker at the lecture, which
the College of Pharmacy
Graduate Student Organization
plans on holding annually. The
College of Pharmacy houses
several departments which have
been criticized for not always
working together cohesively.
One goal of the lecture is to
unite the research focuses
of the school with the more
commercially-focused units.
"Some of the students in
the research world don't
really understand pharmacy
and drug development and
the downstream patient
population," said Daniel Hertz,
a faculty member at the College
of Pharmacy.

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