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POTUS’s national
tour aims to
emphasize U.S.
economic recovery
By EMMA KINERY
Daily Staff Reporter
WAYNE, Mich. — President
Barack Obama visited a Ford
Motor manufacturing plant
Wednesday
to
speak
with
plant employees as part of a
three-stop tour to promote his
upcoming State of the Union
address.
During his remarks, Obama
previewed his address to the
nation, noting that he intends
to emphasize policies designed
to build on his administration’s
achievements over the last few
years. He also used his venue
to highlight Detroit and the
auto industry’s improvements
as one example of the coun-
try’s progress during his time
in office.
In addition to a stop in
Michigan, President Obama
will visit Arizona on Thurs-
day to talk about housing and
Tennessee on Friday to discuss
education. The State of the
Union address is Jan. 20.
On Wednesday, Obama said
he saw the auto recovery’s
industry resulted not only from
his administration’s policies,
but also the resilience of the
state’s workers.
“That’s how things work
best, when everybody’s in it,
when workers and businesses
work together,” Obama said.
“Shared
sacrifice
leads
to
shared prosperity.”
The president also detailed
Remarks focus on
impact of industry
ahead of State of the
Union address
By WILL GREENBERG
Daily News Editor
WAYNE, Mich. — Ahead of
his State of the Union address on
Jan. 20, President Barack Obama
paired Detroit Lions references
with words of optimism for the
future in a speech at the Ford
Michigan Assembly Plant on
Wednesday.
The president used the town’s
support for the football team,
which was eliminated from the
NFL playoffs this past weekend,
as a metaphor for the country’s
support of Detroit and the auto-
mobile industry.
“If there’s one thing that you
can take to the bank when talk-
ing about Detroit, it’s that Detroit
always comes back,” Obama said.
The president focused his
attention
Wednesday
on
the
auto industry and Detroit’s inte-
gral role in it. He split his time
between revisiting the decision
to bail out General Motors and
Chrysler — now Fiat Chrysler
Automobiles — and discussing the
recent growth in U.S. automobile
sales.
Obama spoke of the initially
unpopular decision to provide
bailout money to GM and Chrys-
ler, two of Detroit’s “Big Three”
automotive companies in 2009.
He said many feared that if those
two went under, the third, Ford —
which was not bailed out — could
have suffered as well. He noted
the importance of providing fed-
eral aid along with a strategic
plan for recovery while trying
to sustain the U.S. auto industry.
He said the auto industry needed
to “change with the times” and
Hand-drawn logo
leads to succesful
business venture
for LSA senior
By LINDSEY SCULLEN
Daily Staff Reporter
On
campus,
LSA
senior
Cyrus Tetteh is known as “the
Cool Club guy.”
It all started in 2011 — his
freshman year — when he was
doing math homework in his
West Quad Residence Hall dorm
room. He was trying to figure
out a way to have an impact in
college immediately and wasn’t
sure that merely taking classes
was enough.
“I wanted to feel like I was
progressing, or climbing a lad-
der in life,” Tetteh said.
The idea and subsequent
logo he created that day in West
Quad was for a clothing com-
pany now known as Cool Club
Clothing, LLC. Today, the com-
pany designs and sells clothing
items sporting the same “Cool
Club” logo Tetteh drew on the
back of his math homework
three years ago.
The company’s goal this year
is to put some of Cool Club’s
proceeds into a startup fund,
which the company would then
allocate to people who want to
“start up their dreams.”
“Cool Club Clothing is based
on the idea that with an open
mind you can reach limitless
heights,” he said. “I never want
anyone to be restricted or feel
like they’re restricted in this
world, because there’s great-
ness in everyone and I just want
everyone to be able to tap into
that.”
Tetteh said he was able to tap
into his own ability to start Cool
Club Clothing with the help
of friends like Business senior
David Carlson. The two met
during their freshman year as
roommates in West Quad.
Carlson helped lift Cool Club
Clothing off the ground by con-
verting Tetteh’s hand-drawn
logo to a digital form that could
be sent to a printer.
“He drew the design, the
Crew to partner
with students
from Abu Dhabi
University
By CARLY NOAH
Daily Staff Reporter
The Michigan solar car team
will keep its international repu-
tation alive.
The team heads to the Unit-
ed Arab Emirates on Jan 15 for
the inaugural Abu Dhabi Solar
Challenge. Teams from six con-
tinents will race for 745 miles
in solar-powered cars they
designed and built themselves.
The University’s team members
will partner with students from
Abu Dhabi University for the
race.
The race coincides with the
Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week,
an effort to raise awareness
about ways renewable energies
can play a role in the develop-
ment of the oil-rich region.
After the race concludes, the
teams will take part in the
Influenza strain
presents risk for
Washtenaw County
By AMABEL KAROUB
Daily News Editor
The University of Michigan
Health System is taking action
to protect patients from the flu.
Since the start of this year’s
flu season, UMHS has reported
four influenza-related deaths.
To combat the virus, hospital
officials are enacting new pro-
tocols to keep other patients
from falling ill.
At the center of the plan is
a revised visitor policy, which
asks people who exhibit flu-
like symptoms to avoid visiting
patients at the hospital, as the
sick patients are more suscep-
tible to illness than the general
population.
While the policy recom-
mends anyone exhibiting flu
symptoms — which can include
fever,
body
aches,
chills,
coughing, headache, tiredness,
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Art & Design senior Linea Bast designs a product to help those with Celiac disease and gluten intolerance at the Art &
Architecture building Wednesday.
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