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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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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.
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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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