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NEWS BRIEFS
HOUGHTON, Mich.
Ex-convict charged
with woman's
death, girl's injury
An ex-con has been charged
with murder and attempted mur-
der on accusations that he fatally
stabbed a 48-year-old woman and
wounded her 14-year-old daughter
at an Upper Peninsula home.
The Daily Mining Gazette says
that 42-year-old Paul Moilanen
was arraigned Monday in Hough-
ton district court. Judge Mark
Wisti set his bond at $2.5 million
and scheduled a probable cause
hearingoct. 6.
Moilanen is getting a court-
appointed lawyer. The Hubbell
resident left prison in 2012 after
serving eight years for slashing the
throat of a 92-year-old man during
a 2004 robbery.
MIDDLETOWN, Conn.
Wesleyan orders
fraternities to
become coed
Wesleyan University in Con-
necticut on Monday ordered its
fraternities with houses on cam-
pus to become coeducational
within three years, a move it says
is not just about bad behavior but
also equality.
Wesleyan follows Trinity Col-
lege in Hartford, which made the
transition starting in 2012, citing
problems with drinking and drug
use in Greek organizations. It also
comes less than a month after
Wesleyan closed the Beta Theta Pi
fraternity house following an acci-
dent in which a woman fell from a
third-story window.
But school spokeswoman Kate
Carlisle said the changes are not a
response to anyone incident.
"This has been the subject of
ongoing concern and discussion
among the people in the adminis-
tration, the school community, the
alumni community and so forth
for a number of years," she said.
WASHINGTON, D4.
Biden to Hispanics:
Obama will act on
immigration
Vice President Joe Biden told
frustrated Hispanic leaders Mon-
day President Barack Obama is
"absolutely committed to mov-
ing forward" on comprehensive
immigration reforms "and he's
going to do an awful lot."
Biden said Obama was deter-
mined to move ahead "with or
without" Congress and "if they
don't get something done by the
end of this year, the president's
going to do it."
Biden's remarks came as he and
his wife, Jill, hosted a Hispanic
Heritage Month reception Mon-
day at their Naval Observatory
residence.
He honored Hispanic educa-

tion administrators and counsel-
ors, calling them "heroes in the
classroom and community."
ALGIERS, Algeria
Islamist group
kidnaps French
citizen in Algeria
A splinter group from al-Qaida's
North African branch kidnapped
a French citizen and said Mon-
day that it would kill him unless-
France halts it airstrikes against
the Islamic State group in Iraq.
In a video that appeared on
social media, a masked member
of a group calling itself Jund
al-Khilafah, or Soldiers of the
Caliphate, addressed the threat
to French President Francois
Hollande and said the hostage
would be killed unless the air-
strikes were halted within 24
hours.
The group said it was answer-
ing a call by Islamic State spokes-
man Abu Muhammad al-Adnani
to attack Americans and Europe-
ans.
The French Foreign Ministry
confirmed the authenticity of the
video and identified the hostage as
55-year-old Herve Gourdel.
-Compiled from
Daily wire reports

SACUA
From Page 1
"What we learned from
this particular episode is
that most of what has to work
did," Schlissel said. "We have
to communicate better with
people the nature of security
risks."
Schlissel also addressed the
University's relationship with
the city of Detroit. Schlissel
said while many groups and
organizations on campus have
reached out to Detroit, the Uni-
versity has yet to reach out ina
combined interaction.
"We're doing quite a bit
in Detroit," Schlissel said.
"Like many things here at the
University, there isn't opti-
mal coherence in what we're
doing. Things are happening
all over the place, but not tak-
ing advantage of one another,

not serving a positive, uplifting
PR role. If we added togeth-
er all these educational and
research-focused investments
on Detroit, it would be quite
substantial."
In his first Presidential Advi-
sory Group meeting of donors
and advisors next month,
Schlissel hopes to further dis-
cuss the University's current
outreach to Detroit and how
it can continue to improve its
relationship with the city.
"There are plenty of ways I
can imagine where we do good
scholarship and teaching and
work on some of our diversity
issues, we do some engaged
learning that also serves
Detroit," Schlissel said.
He also voiced his thoughts
on the University's relationship
with its Flint and Dearborn
campuses. He said he hopes to
address the three campuses as
different components of a sin-
gle university.

STARTUP
From Page 1
development.
"It's just the right size pool
that, as a startup, you're not one
of 10,000," Mayer said. "You're
one of 1,000. And youcan actually
connect with resources ... there's
all these elements available. You
get to know everyone. It's just a
more manageable, smaller com-
munity."
The reach of this movement,
Mayer said, goes beyond the Uni-
versity, though its strong ties to
the city are undeniable. He said
35'percent of the groups SPARK
works with are student compa-
nies. The rest are local entrepre-
neurs.
A2B Bikeshare, a company
co-founded by University alums
Ansgar Strother and Keith Por-
ter, is one of those success stories.
An entrepreneurship class at the
University sparked their desire to
create cheaper bike-sharing sys-
tems, CEO Strother said.
Their program was adopted
in Lansing in September 2013,
becoming the first modern bike
share system in the state of Mich-
igan. Now, it's set to roll out in
Fairbanks, Alaska.
While he was still a student,
Strother said the startup worked
with TechArb in the develop-
ment phase; in addition to the
Center for Entrepreneurship.
Since graduating, A2B has also
worked with SPARK as it grows
into what Strother calls a "real
company, not just a University
enterprise."
Another Ann Arbor venture is
TurtleCell, an iPhone case that

comes with retractable head-
phones to prevent tangling. The
company is mass-producing the
case, and it hopes to sell 130,000;
by winter.
The company was founded by
University alumni Paul Schrems
and Nick Turnbull and Michigan
State University alum Jeremy
Lindibauer. As students, they
joined TechArb, and later moved
onto AnnArbor SPARK's incuba-
tor space.
Lindlbauer said SPARK was
vital in providing the financial
help to grow their business in
their growth stage. Through
SPARK's business accelera-
tor grant, TurtleCell received
$50,000. The company used this
money to conduct design test-
ing, undergo product verification,
buy equipment and even make an
e-commerce website.
"We originally thought that
we were going to do it all our-
selves," Schrems said. "We were
engineers. We didn't really know
how to sell hundreds of thou-
sands of products, and the distri-
bution deal really allowed us to
do that."
As companies continue to
grow in Ann Arbor, the excite-
ment is propagating. The Uni-
versity is sending students on
entrepreneurial "treks" to expe-
rience other hubs of innovation
and spread the wealth of ideas.
Through a program called
MEngage, the Center for Entre-
preneurship has sent students to
visit companies in the San Fran-
cisco area, where they tour com-
panies like Yahoo! and Google,
talk to executives and even pitch
business ideas in front of local
entrepreneurs and University
alumni.

This year, the Center has cre-
ated a similar, more localized trip
to Grand Rapids. In addition, it
is in the process of formalizing a
"D Trek," or an organized entre-
preneurship connection event in
Detroit, which will likely happen
in summer 2015.
While the Center for Entre-
preneurship is sending students
to discover the realm of entre-
preneurship outside Ann Arbor,
other outside groups are target-
ing University students in their
search for capable employees.
Another is the story of Tivvi,
a mobile application that serves
as a collaborative media platform
for users to easily share photo and
video content. The app aggre-
gates that content with "tiles"
(i.e. the "foodie tile") and sub-
sequently allows users to scroll
through hundreds of submissions
with the same label.
The startup was co-founded by
two Wayne State University stu-
dents, Ishpinder Sahni and Mar-
tin Hermez.
Hermez, now a junior, said he
was exposed to the University as
a high school student - his sister
went to Michigan.
"I sat in on lots of lectures, I
talked to alot of professors ... and
I just knew that was kind of the
hub for engineers," Hermez said.
Each of the application's four
developers is or was a Univer-
sity student. Alumni include Gur-
minder Randhawa and Jackson
Jessup; current students include
Engineering senior Roy Chou
and Engineering junior Jesus
Morales.
"When I started this project, I
thought, 'Hey, I need motivated
programmers.' The best place to
go was Ann Arbor."


DIVERSITY
From Page 1
The report also calls for the
launch of a public campaign
headed by the provost and Uni-
versity president to affirm the
University's commitment to
diversity; as well as renewed
efforts to publicize University
resources tailored to support-
ing minority students and the
creation of taskforces to evalu-
ate admissions criteria and hir-
ing processes.
In addition, the report con-
sidered several challenges asso-
ciated with previous University
attempts to promote diversity
on campus. The report found
there is no criteria used to
evaluate the success or failure
of existing University diversity
programs. There is also wide-
spread confusion about what
strategies the University can
employ to increase minority
enrollment while still adhering
to Proposal 2, the 2006 initia-
tive that banned the use of race
- among other factors - as a
consideration in public higher
education admissions.

The ban was upheld last
spring by the U.S. Supreme
Court. .
The committee also cited a
lack of coordination between
the University's schools and
colleges, as well as the institu-
tion's decentralized nature, as
key reasons minority students
find it difficult to access sup-
port services or groups.
Psychology Prof. Robert
Sellers, the committee's chair,
said the report outlines sev-
eral ideas to help the Univer-
sity achieve a diverse student
body and an inclusive campus
climate.
Though Sellers noted the
University's previous efforts
to combat discrimination and
ensure diversity, he said the
institution could do more.
"We can be better, and we
need to do better," he said. "I
believe that we will do better."
Sellers said some goals may
have an impact sooner than
others and noted that striving
for a more diverse campus is
still a long-term initiative.
"Issues of inequity don't hap-
pen overnight, and don't get
broken down overnight," he
said.

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CSG
From Page 1
Karin Arizala, a CAPS staff
psychologist who previously
worked with students on mental
health training at the University
California, Santa Barbara, said
she plans to work with WCN
student leaders during their
training.
"I think that's one of the real-
ly profound parts of this style of
service is that it's driven by stu-
dents and students know stu-
dents best," Arizala said.
Leaders from approximate-
ly 17 student organizations
attended the launch, includ-
ing the South Asian Awareness
Network, LSA Student Govern-
ment, MHacks and TedXUofM.
"This is something that
affects a large student popula-
tion on campus and as a govern-
ing body of one of the largest
student organizations, I hope

to raise awareness about mental
health," LSA SG President Nata-
sha Dabrowski, a LSA senior,
said during the launch event.
LSA junior Hannah Lee, a
communityassistantaatAlice
Lloyd Residence Hall, said
WCN will be beneficial for stu-
dents.
"Students will get a lot out of
it," she said. "They're not going
to want to talk to an adult about
issues that they are facing cur-
rently. It would be less like a
therapy session and more like a
peer-on-peer discussion."
However, some students are
slightly more wary of the pro-
gram.
"I would be skeptical about
sending my residents to a pilot
program over CAPS," said
Rackham student Akshay Kini,
a resident adviser. "I think
members of Res Staff have the
training and the experience to
offer the first level of support
that this network seems to pro-
vide."


OBIT
From Page 1
another institution. Inman also
interacted with Kabamba after
coming to the University three
years ago. He described Kabam-
ba as a dedicated teacher and
respected scholar.
"He was a very kind and gen-
erous person," Inman said. "His
students were always at the cen-
ter of his attention, and he was a
very graceful human being."
He said one of his fondest
memories of Kabamba was from
when he challenged a student
to an arm wrestling contest and
posted the video on Youtube.
Engineering junior Sam Reed
took Kabamba's Introduction to
Aerospace class during his soph-
omore year, and said Kabamba's
passion for teaching was appar-
ent in his lectures.
"He was always really ener-
getic and excited about what he
was doing and made sure that

we understood how everything
worked," Reed said. "He did a
good job covering the building
blocks of aero (space engineer-
ing) and you could tell he was
really passionate about teach-
ing."
Though he had already set
his sights on an aerospace major,
Reed said Kabamba's class gave
him his first glimpse at what his
life as an aerospace engineer
would look like.
"With just a few equations you
can plot an entire journey of an
aircraft, and I've always thought
that was really cool," he said.
"His class kind of showed me the
first steps of what I want to do
with my life."
Kabamba is survived by his
wife and three children.
There will be a visitation
today at the Nie Funeral Home
at 3767 W. Liberty Road in Ann
Arbor. Friends, colleagues and
students are invited to come and
share their memories of Kabam-
ba, with a sharing starting at 6
p.m.

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