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THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

Every 
year, 
more 

than 2,200 people in 
the United States die 

from alcohol poisoning, the 
Centers for Disease Control 
and 
Prevention 
reported 

Tuesday. Most deaths occur 
among men, and one in four 
affect adults ages 35-64. 

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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Enough SAID is work-
ing with the Detroit 
Crime Commision and 

the Wayne County Prosecu-
tor’s Office to increase pub-
lic and private funding to 
test thousands of rape kits, 
The Detroit News reported 
Tuesday. 

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TUESDAY:

Professor Profiles

THURSDAY:
Alumni Profiles

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

MONDAY:

This Week in History

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

SEXUAL ASSAULT

Michigan State University 

administrators update sexual 

misconduct policy

Michigan State University 

has finalized an update to its 
sexual misconduct policy, The 
State News reported. The new 
Relationship Violence & Sex-
ual Misconduct Policy prohib-
its dating violence, domestic 
violence and provides a more 
detailed definition of consent.

The updated policy gives 

amnesty for drug and alcohol 
use to students reporting cases 
of sexual violence. In addition, 
MSU’s website now presents 
clearer descriptions of proce-
dures for investigations and dis-
ciplinary processes in cases of 

sexual misconduct.

Last February, The State 

News reported that the U.S. 
Department of Education was 
investigating MSU’s response to 
allegations of sexual assault.

UCLA announces new 

entrepreneurship minor

The College of Letters and 

Science 
and 
the 
Anderson 

School of Management at the 
University of California, Los 
Angeles, are jointly offering a 
new undergraduate minor in 
entrepreneurship beginning the 
Winter 2015 quarter.

Anderson spokesperson Elise 

Anderson told The Daily Bruin 
that staff from both schools 

began working on the proposal 
18 months prior to submitting 
the minor for approval.

UCLA created the minor in 

response to increasing demand 
from students interested in pur-
suing a career in business.

“There are no undergraduate 

business programs in UCLA,” 
said Linton Wang, a sophomore 
studying business economics. 
“Many (students) who are in the 
major of business economics can 
only take classes on economics 
and accounting, and I think it 
will be a good learning experi-
ence for them.”

 
— GEN HUMMER

MSU updates misconduct policy

SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily

Renaud Garcia-Fons demonstrates his technique on 
the double bass for the Sally Fleming Masterclass 
Series Tuesday at Stamps Auditorium.

Listening 
workshop 

WHAT: This workshop 
focuses on improving 
listening skills and 
interpersonal relations. 
WHO: Human Resources 
Development
WHEN: Today from 1 p.m. 
to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Administration 
Services Building

Helen & Edgar 

WHAT: Acclaimed 
storyteller Edgar Oliver 
and The Moth creative 
team present the world 
premiere of Helen & 
Edgar, a performance 
about Oliver’s childhood 
in Savannah.
WHO: University Musical 
Society
WHEN: Tonight at 7:30 
p.m.
WHERE: Walgreen 
Drama Center

Ballroom 
dance lessons

WHAT: The ballroom 
dance team’s best couples 
will teach two dances to any 
students interested. They 
will also showcase dances in 
between the lessons. 
WHO: Ballroom Dance 
Team
WHEN: Tonight from 8 
p.m. to 10 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union, 
Rogel Ballroom

i>clicker 
workshop

WHAT: Faculty, staff and 
GSIs will learn how and 
why to use i>clicker, LSA’s 
Audience Response System. 
WHO: Teaching and 
Technology Collaborative
WHEN: Today from 1 p.m. 
to 2 p.m.
WHERE: Mason Hall-
G333

Concerto 
competition

WHAT: Students in the 
School of Music, Theater 
& Dance will participate 
in the final round of the 
Concerto Competition. 
WHO: School of Music, 
Theater & Dance
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. 
WHERE: Hill Auditorium

Fitness classes

WHAT: U-Move Fitness is 
offering free sample classes 
including Zumba, Vinyasa 
Yoga and Hip Hop. 
WHO: U-Move Fitness
WHEN: hour-long classes 
will run throughout today
WHERE: Central Campus 
Recreational Building 

CORRECTIONS
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DON’T DROP THE BASS

Top of the Park 
location chosen

By Emma Kerr

The annual Top of the Park 
outdoor summer festival in 
Ann Arbor has been relocat-
ed for the summer of 2015 to 
the area near North Univer-
sity Avenue and the southern 
part of Ingalls Mall. 

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THE WIRE

Holidays at home

By Dani Vignos

Dani Vignos discusses the 
emotions associated with 
going home for break and 
the memories elicited by the 
return. She reflects on the 
experience of considering 
her past as she looks 
forward to the future in the 
new year. 

OPINION

Four 
recent 
LSA 

graduates are currently 
traveling 
the 
globe 

through grants from the 
new Bonderman Fellowship, 
which 
provides 
students 

$20,000 
to 
spend 
eight 

months abroad.
>> FOR MORE, SEE THE STATEMENT 

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AP

In this Jan. 5, 2015 photo, Tan Chin Hin, center, father of a stampede victim, Tan Wei, cries, holding her portrait, as he 
arrives back from Shanghai, with the body of his late daughter, at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Kuala Lumpur.

Arrest statistics point 
to police slowdown 

Arrests decline in 
New York after two 
police officers killed

NEW YORK (AP) — Despite 

efforts by New York City 
officials to tout a dip in seri-
ous crime, another statistic 
is getting more attention — a 
steep decline in the number 
of arrests across all five bor-
oughs in the two weeks since 
two police officers were shot 
dead in their patrol car.

The 
totals 
suggest 
that 

a rumored work slowdown 
has taken hold amid discord 
between the rank and file and 
Mayor Bill de Blasio, and raise 
questions about what impact it 
could have on the city’s crime 
rate.

Patrick Lynch, head of the 

powerful Patrolmen’s Benev-
olent 
Association, 
insisted 

Tuesday that the union was 

not sanctioning a labor action. 
He pointed to a shootout dur-
ing an armed holdup late Mon-
day that left two plainclothes 
officers wounded as proof that 
it was business as usual at the 
nation’s largest police depart-
ment.

Officers, who are working 

without a contract, are “put-
ting themselves in danger to 
keep this city safe just as they 
always do,” Lynch said.

But the enforcement statis-

tics strongly indicate that the 
slowdown is real, even if it 
was initiated at the grassroots 
level.

Last week, the number of 

summonses for minor crimi-
nal offenses and traffic and 
parking violations decreased 
by more than 90 percent com-
pared with the same week a 
year earlier, statistics show. 
For example, summonses for 
urinating in public were down 
to 347 from more than 4,077 

last year.

Arrests citywide last week 

for more serious offenses were 
down 55 percent. In midtown 
Manhattan alone, they fell to 
112 from 348.

Thomas Reppetto, a police 

expert and author who has 
written extensively about the 
New York Police Department, 
called the results too “over-
whelming” to be coincidental 
and said there could be real-
life consequences for the pub-
lic if left to fester for too long.

“If the law is not being 

enforced in the street, we’re 
all in danger,” Reppetto said. 
“The criminals take their cue 
and run wild.”

The figures first plummeted 

in the week after the two offi-
cers were killed on Dec. 20 in 
a brazen daytime ambush by 
a fugitive who had ranted on 
social media that he wanted 
to avenge the police killings of 
Michael Brown and Eric Gar-
ner. 

The 
patrolmen’s 
deaths 

exacerbated tensions between 
de Blasio and police officers 
already upset by the mayor’s 
remark 
sympathizing 
with 

protesters who claim a pattern 
of excessive force in minority 
communities.

The potential for a slow-

down was evident the day after 
the killings, when word began 
circulating among officers that 
they should wait to respond to 
every radio call with two cars 
and not make arrests “unless 
absolutely necessary.” A recent 
online posting on a site popular 
with police officers referred 
to the stance as “Operation 
Stand-down, Protect Yourself, 
Do Nothing.”

Sgt. Ed Mullins, head of the 

Sergeants Benevolent Asso-
ciation, argued that in the 
current climate, it would only 
make sense that police offi-
cers would take extra precau-
tions that could result in fewer 
arrests.

Chinese goverment 

manages family 
members’ visits to 

site of disaster

SHANGHAI (AP) — Some 

wailed and some staggered with 
grief as relatives of the 36 people 
killed in Shanghai’s New Year’s 
Eve stampede visited the disas-
ter site Tuesday for seventh-
day commemorations that are a 
revered ritual in China.

But each family was allowed 

to stay only about five minutes in 
the tightly managed visits, and 
government workers roughly 
dragged away one middle-aged 
woman when she began crying 
out emotionally.

The 
government’s 
strict 

arrangements 
reflect 
efforts 

to keep tight controls over the 
disaster’s aftermath and pre-
vent distraught relatives from 
coalescing into a critical group 
that would draw sympathy and 
galvanize public calls for greater 
accountability.

“Such a major public safety 

incident can tug the heartstrings 
of the public, and the acts and 
words by victims’ relatives can 

make the public sentiments 
swing, making it a key task for 
authorities to control the fami-
lies, limiting their contacts with 
each other or with the media,” 
said Zhao Chu, a Shanghai-
based independent commenta-
tor.

“Struck by the same trag-

edy, the relatives can easily 
resonate with each other, and 
it’s only natural they want to 
band together to take collec-
tive actions and make collective 
appeals to the public, and that 
could mean the authorities los-
ing control over the social senti-
ments.”

The authorities’ grip over 

such sentiments comes at the 
expense of the victims’ fami-
lies, Zhao said. “The method is 
brusque toward the families, 
preventing them from resorting 
to law and to the media, but — 
in a positive way — it can indeed 
alleviate the shock to the pub-
lic.”

The victims’ relatives laid 

bouquets of white and yellow 
chrysanthemums and bowed 
deeply to the statue of the city’s 
first Communist mayor that 
overlooks the 17 concrete steps 
on Shanghai’s famed riverfront 
known as the Bund where the 

stampede took place.

Three dozen people, includ-

ing a 12-year-old boy, were 
trampled and asphyxiated amid 
a crowd of hundreds of thou-
sands of New Year’s revelers.

Late Tuesday night, Chi-

nese state media reported that 
national authorities as well 
as governments in Shanghai 
and Beijing planned to tighten 
crowd controls during holiday 
events and other mass gather-
ings. The reports in the official 
Xinhua News Agency didn’t 
specify what additional mea-
sures would be taken other than 
canceling events if they violated 
safety rules and enforcing exist-
ing regulations on sales and 
promotions.

Accompanied by government 

workers, the families Tuesday 
were kept in vans waiting for 
their turns to mourn on the 
seventh day after death, when 
the deceased person’s soul is 
believed to return to the earthly 
world after disappearing. Some 
relatives brought photos and 
offered fruits and burned some 
fake money.

Journalists were corralled 

several 
feet 
away 
only 
to 

observe the occasional wails 
from the grieving.

After stampede, China 
aims to prevent outcry

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