TAKING BACK THE STREETS
NEWS
U renews contract
with Traverse
City Film Festival
Six-day festival allows
Michigan residents to learn
about filmmaking.
>> SEE PAGE 2
OPIN ION
Who to vote for in
tomorrow's primary
Ann Arbor needs a balance
of old and new on City
Council.
S SEE PAGE 4
ARTS
'Entourage': The
bros are back
Season 8 returns with the
characters we love, but the
unwanted cliches linger.
>> SEE PAGE 9
SPORTS
'M' gears up for
defense-first play
Mike Martin has been
ringing doorbells to wake up
teammates for workouts.
>> SEE PAGE 10
INDEX
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NEWS ........... .....2
OPINION......................4
CLASSIFIEDS ................. 6
CROSSW ORD.......................6
A RT S .....................................8
SPORTS ................................10
A public demonstration took place on Thursday July 28 in response to a series of sexual assaults that recently occurred in
Ann Arbor. The attendees promoted safety in the city and waved composite sketches of the suspects.
CITY CRIME
FBI aids in ongoing search
for suspects in six assaults
ANN ARBOR CITY COUNCIL
A2 City
Council
primaries
Candidates say they
want to work more
closely with students
By ADAM RUBENFIRE
Daily StaffReporter
With students' opinions in
mind, the Ann Arbor City Coun-
cil candidates discussed with The
Michigan Daily
the important NOTEBOOK
issues surround-
ing tomorrow's City Council pri-
mary election.
CANDIDATES EMPHASIZE
STUDENT OUTREACH
While both Ward 2 candidates
said the need for increasing dia-
logue between the council and the
student body is crucial to improving
the community, City Council mem-
ber Stephen Rapundalo (D-Ward 2)
said he has a record of facilitating
such discourse, particularly due to
his past work in student govern-
ment.
"I have quite a record of sup-
porting students and student issues,
part of that goes back' to when I
was student government presi-
dent," Rapundalo said. "I'm a little
bit more sensitive to student issues
than most of my colleagues."
He added the city needs to
improve the quality of its services,
but he defended public safety offi-
cials in their handling of recent sex-
ual assaults near campus. He added
See ELECTIONS, Page 3
AAPD says they
suspect one or
two attackers
By BRIENNE PRUSAK and
ANDREW SCHULMAN
Managing News Editor and
Daily StajfjReporter
As part of the Ann Arbor
Police Department's continued
efforts in searching for suspects
involved in the recent series of
assaults against women in the
community, they are enlisting all
resources available, including the
Federal Bureau of Investigations.
Ann Arbor Police Chief Bar-
nett Jones announced at a press
conference on July27 that the city
is currently in the process of find-
ing one or two suspects as part of
its investigation into six assaults
against women since July 15. Four
of the assaults have been catego-
rized as sexual assaults - two of
which were rapes.
Jones - whose announce-
ment followed a July 26 sexual
assault where a woman was
grabbed from behind and fondled
on the 700 block of South State
Street at about 11:30 p.m. while
walking to her car - confirmed
on July 27 the correlations in
descriptions of the attackers led
AAPD to conclude the assaults
were carried out by either one or
two suspects.
He also said AAPD pledges to
use all available resources to bring
the offender or offenders into cus-
tody. Among those resources is
the FBI, which announced July
28 it will aid in the investigations.
AAPD requested the FBI's
assistance on these cases, accord-
ing to FBI Special Agent Sandra
See ASSAULTS, Page 7