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Survival Flight helicopter pilot Kim Pacsai inspects one of the team's three Eurocopter EC-155 used to transport patients.
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In Livingston, team Among fields and scattered Eurocopter EC-155 helicopters Down the hall from the main
houses, the. airport primarily operating as part of the Sur- hanger, Kim Pacsai, a Survival
plays vital role for attracts small, privately-owned vival Flight program, providing Flight helicopter pilot, monitors
aircraft. Late on a Friday after- medical transport of critically weather patterns across most
UMHS's critically- noon, ultra-light sport planes ill patients around Michigan and of the state. At 5:30 on a Friday
, illalternate landings with single- neighboring states - many of the afternoon, he is 10.5 hours into
ill patients engine Cessnas under the com- patients ending their journey at his 12-hour shift - the second
mand of pilots-in-training. the University Hospital where day of his 7-day rotation.
By IAN DILLINGHAM The airport also plays a criti- they are able to receive specialty Looking at his computer, Pac-
Daily NewsEditor cal role for the University of care not generally available in saipointsto aseriesofgreenindi-
Michigan Health System. At a other health care facilities. cators overlaid on a map of the
HOWELL, Mich. - Forty remote corner of the facility lies At the Survival Flight head- state. Each one represents an air-
minutes from the bustling streets the Livingston County Emer- quarters, there is a self-described port or hospital helipad - green
of Ann Arbor - two miles north gency Medical Services building, "firehouse mentality." The only means the weather is favorable
of I-96 - the Livingston County where a maize and blue helicop- difference is that this "firehouse" to fly. Except for a couple isolated
Airport is encased with stillness, ter can be seen on the tarmac. is responsible for more than spots in the northwest corner of
soothed with the faint hum of Livingston is home to one of 200,000 square miles of popu- the lower peninsula, the weather
propellers. the University's three leased lated areas. See FLIGHT, Page 3A
After speaking at
13 commencement,
Costolo offers
advice to students
By HILLARY CRAWFORD
DailyStaffReporter
He's back.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo,
a University alum and speaker
at the 2013 Spring Commence-
ment, spoke Friday at the Ross
School of Business in an event
sponsored by Business frater-
nity Phi Chi Theta.
In Blau Auditorium, Busi-
ness senior Max Yoas, the vice
president of Phi Chi Theta, and
Costolo sat across from each
other in armchairs on stage,
creating an interview-esque
setting. Yoas asked questions
for the first half hour, followed
by a question and answer ses-
sion with the audience.
Costolo discussed the grow-
ing potential of e-commerce
and ad units, his management
style and his previous career
in improvisation comedy and
run-ins with actor Steve Carell.
Although scattered, each topic
drew from ideas related to risk-
takingand pursuingpassions.
After graduating from the
University inl1985 with adegree
in Computer Science end Com-
munications, Costolo said he
moved to Chicago to pursue
a career in improvisational
comedy. Looking back at his
days spent in the classroom, he
recalled being the "last person
in my computer science classes
to become CEO one day."
Costolo, originally from
Royal Oak, Mich., said he used
to worry that people would
judge him for not entering a
traditional career following
graduation.
"If you live your life trying
to do what is expected of you
you'll be frozen on the stage of
your own life," Costolo said. "If
See TWITTER, Page 2A
CAREERS
Internships in
Detroit attract
many students
CLOWNiN' AROL
Quicken Loans
draws 17 percent
of interns from the
University
By THERESE BREUCH
For theDaily
As students begin filling out
applications for summer intern-
ships, or attending one of the
University's career fairs, one
Detroit-based company presents a
range of options for them.
Over the past three summers,
Quicken Loans, the nation's sec-
ond largest mortgage lender, head-
quartered in Detroit, has taken
approximately 17 percent of their
interns from the University, mak-
ing it one of the highest repre-
sented colleges in last summer's
internship program.
Quicken College Recruiter Ali-
sha Roberts interned for the com-
pany in the summer of 2011. When
she started, the program was com-
prised of 200 students; it has now
grown to over 1,000 interns each
summer, with 173 of them coming
from the University
Interns have been placed in
wide variety of settingsowithin the
company, including accounting,
information technologyand mort-
gage operations.
Quicken Loans and its chair-
man and founder, Dan Gilbert,
have gained attention as har-
binger of Detroit's revitalization
efforts. In August 2010, the com-
pany moved its headquarters and
12,000 employees from a Detroit
suburb to downtown, accounting
for a major portion of the 85,000
people working in the central
business district.
Costing about $1.3 billion, Gil-
bert has updated more than 60
properties in the city.
"Thegoalhereistomakedown-
town Detroit nothing less than
an attraction and destination for
both residents and visitors alike,"
wrote DanGilbertin aMarch2013
e-mail, Detroit Free Press report-
ed.
"I think the coolest thing is
being apart of the comeback
story," Roberts said.
When Roberts first moved to
Detroit, she said there weren't
See QUICKEN, Page 2A
ROBERT DUNNE/Daily
Interarts junior Daniel Ghastin performs at the "Queens and Clowns" show, a free performance of a self-
described circus, at the Duderstadt Video Studio on Saturday.
CAMPUS LIFE
alaeeconomic
outlook topic of confernce
NATIONAL AWARD
Engineering
grad student
wins Rhodes
scholarship
Among 877 U.S.
nominations, David
Moore one of 32
selected for honor
By SHOHAM GEVA
Daily StaffReporter
Engineering graduate stu-
dent David Moore was named a
2015 Rhodes Scholar, the Rhodes
Scholar program announced Sat-
urday.
He was nominated in Septem-
ber by University Provost Mar-
tha Pollack. Out of 877 American
nominees by universities and col-
leges nationwide, 32 were chosen
to be scholars, according to the
program's website.
Moore's efforts in improv-
ing the lives of people with dis-
abilities and advancing medical
research were spotlighted by the
program, which funds studies for
scholars at Oxford University in
England across a variety of disci-
plines.
As a part of his coursework,
See RHODES SCHOLAR, Page 3A
3
Potential job Friday.
Sponsored by the Univer-
growth, GDP sity's Research Seminar in
Quantitative Economics, the
urge debated event featured 13 presenta-
tions focusing on the U.S.
By LEA GIOTTO economy on the first day and
Daily StaffReporter Michigan's economy on the
second.
e University hosted its Daniil Manaenkov, RSQE
Annual Economic Out- assistant research scientist,
Conference in Rackham and Rackham student Mat-
hitheater Thursday and thew G. Hall, RSQE forecast-
ing team member, gave the
conference's first speech,
which covered the country's
economic outlook for 2015 and
2016.
"We expect that 2015 will
be the year when U.S. econom-
ic growth will finally acceler-
ate meaningfully," Manaenkov
said.
He said he expects the
overall economic growth,
See CONFERENCE, Page 3A
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