(11E £xdpgan.0i~ Tuesday, November 4, 2014 michigandailycom Ann Arbor, Michigan MICHIGAN VOTES In governor race, Snyder holds small leadinpolls Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer speaks at the College Democrats Election Eve Rally in Weill Hall Monday, Co ege Dems. hold pre- *election rally for students Pet tren in t Afte events and a s tion DE Michig didate- of Goi Attorn of Stat In add to U.S ate sea spots a some l the sta Rep locked ers looks to buck tion with Democratic challenger Mark Schauer, a former congress- d for Democrats man. RealClearPolitics aggregate polling, which averages several U.. Senate race top polls, has Snyder leading by 2.5-points, though Schauer has By BEN ATLAS made significant progress in clos- .Daily Staff Reporter log a margin that was as large as eight points earlier in the year. r months of campaign Snyder has touted economic , a flurry of television ads progress across the state and in teady stream of polls, Elec- Detroit specifically as grounds ay is finally upon us.Today, for his reelection, while Schauer tan voters will elect can- has tried to position himself as to the statewide offices a candidate who would work for vernor and Lt. Governor, the middle class and invest more ey General, and Secretary heavily in education. Both candi- e, as well as for U.S. Senate. dates had full campaign schedules lition, each of the 14 seats Monday and each ended the day at Congress, 38 state sen- events in Ann Arbor. its and 110 state legislature U.S. Senate re alsoontheballot. Hereis The race to replace retiring ast minute information on Sen. Carl Levin (D) looked like it tus of some of these races. might have been one of the most Governor hotly contested in the country ublican Gov. Rick Snyder is with Senate control hanging in in a tight race for reelec- See PREVIEW, Page 3 Candidates call for strong turnout to bolster performance By EMILIE PLESSET Daily StaffReporter Cheers and applause resonat- ed throughout the Ford School of Public Policy building Monday evening as Democratic candi- dates pumped up about 130 Uni- versity students and members of the Ann Arbor community for the University College Demo-, crats' Election Eve Rally. Among the list of speakers were many candidates at the top of the Michigan Democratic tick- et, including gubernatorial can- didate Mark Schauer, Lieutenant Gubernatorial candidate Lisa Brown, Attorney General can- didate Mark Totten, U.S. Senate candidate Gary Peters, Congres- sional candidates Debbie Dingell and Pam Byrnes, State Senator Rebekah Warren and Secretary of State candidate Godfrey Dil- lard. Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje and Democratic mayoral candidate Christopher Taylor also spoke. "The idea is to give candidates and elected officials a chance to speak about why this election is going to be a really impor- tant one for the state, why it's important for students and why it's important as a whole," said LSA junior Stephen Culbertson, communications director for the University's chapter of College Democrats. The rally aimed to encour- See DEMOCRATS, Page 3 ENTREPRENEURSHIP Program helps . high schoolers fund innovation TRADITION Detroit network focuses on business acumen, diversity By MICHAEL SUGERMAN Daily StaffReporter For the student-run Detroit Entrepreneurship Network, the city of Detroit is ahub of potential - not just for growing businesses, but also for creating relationships that span geographic and socio- economic boundaries. The network, known more casually as d[en], holds an annual entrepreneurship program for high school students both from the heart of Detroit and the city's suburbs. It recruits students from 18 schools and boasted 50 partici- pants in 2013. Established in 2012, the program has run from mid- November through April - with two-hour student- and profes- sionally-taught business work- shops held in a Detroit workspace on a bi-weekly basis. This year's program will start in January, later than it has in the past, in order to align with the start of the Winter 2015semester. To compensate for the lost time, workshops will last three hours instead of two and the students involved may consider meeting on a weekly basis for the first month. Business junior Nick Resn- ick, d[en] co-president, said the program's mission is two- pronged. The first part, he said, is giving students the entrepre- neurial toolkit to improve their communities. The second part goes beyond business acumen to addressing diversity awareness. "We want to promote dia- logue and collaboration between people of different backgrounds, different races, socioeconomic situations, everything like that," Resnick said. "We don't want to just focus on kids from Detroit. We want to get high school students from Detroit, along with across the suburbs, and bring them to these workshops and have them work with people that they would otherwise never talk to and never get the pleasure of meeting," he said. Aside from the workshops, Resnick said students also split . See DETROIT, Page 3 Kristin Surak, an associate professor of Japanese politics, and the Center for Japanese Studies guides students through an authentic Japanese tea ceremony at the School of Social Work Building Monday. ELECTION FINANCE State races see sharp rise in campaign ad spending TECHNOLOGY UHS faces adjustment as records go digital After rough start, new system offers benefits to patients By AMABEL KAROUB Daily StaffReporter After a shaky start, the Uni- versity of Michigan Health Sys- tem is settling into its new and improved filingsystem. In summer 2012, UMHS made anenormousshift-moving from paper medical charts to Epic, an electronic health records sys- tem. The UMHS version of Epic is called MiChart. Two and a half years later, University Health Service, the primary source of health care services for the cam- pus community, is beginning to take advantage of Epic and its many features. Epic currently holds the medi- cal records of nearly half the patients in the United States. A version of Epic comparable to UHS' MiChart has been adopted by every medical center in the health system. However, in an interview in September 2013 - See UHS, Page 3 Sr hav Cal parad candi nyder, Schauer are increasingly advocating the need for greater fiscal respon- e spent $28.8M sibility in government, there is one area where hopeful politi- on TV spots cians are not shy about spend- ing: their own campaigns. By BEN ATLAS Due in part to a series of Daily StaffReporter Supreme Court decisions, beginning with the Citizens 11 it the great political United case in 2010, more cam- ox of our time. While paign spending nationwide dates for higher office is from outside groups rather than candidates themselves, Political Science Prof. Michael Traugott said. In the Citizens United case, the court held that campaign contributions constitute a form of speech, and money coming from organizations indepen- dent of campaigns could not be regulated. In Michigan, the races for See FINANCES, Page 3 I WEATHER HI: 56 TOMORROW I-LO: 40 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM Professor Profile: Michael Zochowski MICHIGANDAILY.COM/BLOGS INDEX Vol. CXXIV, No,.22 02014The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com NEWS...........................2 ARTS ..........................5 SUDOK U........................2 CLASSIFIEDS................6 OPINION .....................4 SPORTS................7 i