DETROIT
Detroit house fire 
kills woman and 
her adult daughter

Authorities say an electrical 

problem may have caused a fire 
at a home on Detroit’s east side 
that killed a 57-year-old woman 
and her 32-year-old daughter.

Fire officials are investigating 

Monday morning’s blaze on 
Wilfred 
Street. 
The 
Detroit 

News 
identifies 
the 
victims 

as Hattie Simmons and her 
daughter, Tonquinia Simmons.

Charles Harris tells WJBK-

TV that he yelled for his family 
to follow him out of the burning 
house after his daughter ran 
down the stairs yelling “There’s 
a fire! There’s a fire!”

Harris says he tried to go 

back into the house when he 
saw no one behind him, but the 
intense smoke stopped him at 
the kitchen door.

WXYZ-TV says an electrical 

problem may have caused the 
fire.

NEW YORK
U.S. stocks decline 
with energy sector 
as oil prices fall

Energy companies are leading 

a decline on the stock market as 
crude oil continues to tumble.

The price of oil dropped 

another 5 percent Monday to 
$46 a barrel. That’s far below its 
recent peak of more than $100 
a barrel last June. The slump 
means much lower profits for 
energy companies, even though 
consumers benefit by paying less 
for gas.

The Dow Jones industrial 

average fell 96 points, or 0.5 
percent, to 17,640. Exxon Mobil 
and Chevron lost the most in the 
30-stock index.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 

index fell 16 points, 0.8 percent, 
to 2,028. The Nasdaq composite 
fell 39 points, or 0.8 percent, to 
4,664.

JACKSON, Miss.
Congressman 
takes oath during 
hospital stay

A Mississippi congressman 

who’s recovering from a series 
of health problems has taken his 
oath of office while hospitalized 
in his hometown.

Republican Rep. Alan Nun-

nelee was sworn in Monday 
by U.S. District Judge Michael 
Mills at North Mississippi Medi-
cal Center in Tupelo.

Nunnelee had a stroke while 

surgeons were removing a tumor 
from his brain in June. The 
56-year-old was admitted to the 
Tupelo hospital Dec. 28 for treat-
ment of a hematoma, a bleeding 
problem in his left leg. 

KAMPALA, Uganda 
Uganda says it 
wants to try rebel 
leader who surren-
dered 

Uganda’s 
government 
said 

Monday it wants to try the 
Lord’s Resistance Army rebel 
commander who recently sur-
rendered to U.S. forces for 
war crimes and crimes against 
humanity.

Dominic Ongwen is in U.S. 

custody 
in 
Central 
African 

Republic 
after 
surrendering 

there on Jan. 6. He is wanted 
by the International Criminal 
Court in The Hague, Nether-
lands.

“Some of our partners want 

him tried by the ICC but we want 
him tried in Uganda because we 
have the capacity to try him,” 
said Uganda State Minister for 
Regional Cooperation Asuman 
Kiyingi.

Kiyingi 
said 
a 
decision 

would be made during consul-
tations between the African 
Union, Uganda, U.S. and United 
Nations.

—Compiled from 
Daily wire reports 

NEWS BRIEFS

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tasked with choosing faculty 
fellowship recipients.

SACUA 
member 
Silke-

Maria Weineck said the gen-
eral consensus was to have a 
uniform policy and encour-
aged SACUA members to take 
part in the election process.

“The biggest problem is 

that LSA faculty are under the 
power of the dean,” Weineck 
said. “The dean is most like-
ly to respond to grievances. 
The process of electing board 
members is unclean. There 
was a general agreement to 
have untenured people on the 
board.”

University Provost Martha 

Pollack will attend the next 
SACUA meeting on Feb. 2.

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their 
website, 
ann-arbaugh.

com, including three different 
short-sleeved T-shirts, three 
long-sleeved T-shirts and three 
sweatshirts. The short-sleeved 
shirts go for $15 each; the long-
sleeved shirts cost $22; the 
sweatshirts are $30.

In addition to the “Ann 

Arbaugh” prints, they also have 
variations that read “The Kha-
kis, The Khakis, The Khakis” 
in honor of storied coach Bo 
Schembechler’s mantra, “The 
team, the team, the team,” and 
Harbaugh’s well-known prefer-
ence for khaki pants.

LSA freshman Rachel Steir 

was the first “Ann Arbaugh” 
customer. She discovered the 
product in Bruch and Luck’s 
post in the Facebook group 
“University of Michigan Class 
of 2018”.

“I was really impressed; I 

thought it was really creative,” 
she said. “My whole family 
has ordered the shirts; we love 
them.”

The orders, however, are not 

only coming from Michigan 
students, Luck said. They’re 
coming from Kentucky, Texas, 
Kansas, California and all over 
the United States.

As their business grows, 

Bruch and Luck say they are 
unsure what to expect next, 
especially as the process hap-
pened very quickly and their 
trademark application has yet 
to be approved.

Stephanie Wydick, an assis-

tant of social media for the 
Detroit Red Wings, also filed 
to trademark “Ann Arbaugh” 
on Dec. 30 — the same day as 
Bruch and Luck.

Her 
request 
appears 
to 

have arrived hours after the 
one made by Bruch and Luck, 

according to the United States 
Patent and Trademark Office 
website.

Wydick’s 
application 
was 

filed on an intent-to-use basis, 
meaning she would plan to use 
the slogan if approved; whereas 
Bruch and Luck’s filing was on 
an actual-use basis, meaning 
they had already begun selling 
their product before applying 
for trademark.

According to Chris Falkows-

ki, an intellectual property 
attorney 
based 
in 
Detroit, 

actual use applications are in a 
stronger position than intent-
to-use applications.

Falkowski added that there 

could be a few hurdles as far as 
attaining a trademark for “Ann 
Arbaugh.”

The first is that Ann Arbor 

is a geographic location — one 
that cannot be trademarked. 
While “Ann Arbaugh” is not 
directly a geographic location, 
it could potentially raise some 
issues. The second is that Har-
baugh himself has the right of 
publicity to his name and he 
could potentially claim that 
right.

Bruch and Luck, however, 

are not concerned.

“We’ve been talking about 

this idea forever,” Bruch said. 
“We’ve known that this is our 
idea, our content, our intellec-
tual property.”

The pair expects to hear 

about 
the 
trademark 
rul-

ing within the next couple 
of weeks. In the meantime, 
they’re enjoying the process.

“It’s been great, it’s a great 

opportunity — and Harbaugh, 
Harbaugh’s going to be here 
for a while,” Luck said. “It’s 
going to be the Harbaugh era 
… there’s this whole new buzz 
and excitement at the school. 
We’re really glad to be a part 
of it.”

water or be turned around by 
officials along the way. Mogelson 
noted that almost all of the refu-
gees he encountered, including a 
pregnant woman, were diverted 
to detention centers in Papua 
New Guinea and the Republic of 
Nauru.

“The most common word they 

used to describe their lives back 
home was ‘na-aomid’ – hopeless,” 
Mogelson wrote.

Most refugees were either 

unaware or indifferent to Aus-
tralian laws that instruct officials 
to move refugees away from the 
country. Mogelson’s boat carried 
57 mostly Iranian refugees for 
three days before being divert-
ed to one of the smaller island 
nations.

According to Mogelson, the 

refugees he traveled with prob-
ably will not reach Australia, or 
any other developed country.

“They manage to convince 

themselves that there’s hope, 
when there’s not,” Mogelson said.

After recounting the story, 

Mogelson and the panel dis-
cussed 
the 
current 
refugee 

problem. Ciorciari, a professor 
of public policy, explained that 
while people fleeing war and nat-
ural disaster are popularly called 
refugees, legally, one can only be 
considered a refugee if they are 
specifically targeted.

Ciorciari said this presents 

problems for people displaced 
by calamity, but are not legally 
protected in the same way as 
political opponents and victims 
of genocide.

Waltz said people are either 

displaced 
within 
their 
own 

country, forced to travel to a 
neighboring country or interna-
tionally to avoid danger.

Waltz said each state is largely 

free to set up its own protocols 
for dealing with refugees and 
displaced people.

“Because the world commu-

nity was not ready to set up a 
central mechanism, it left to indi-
vidual states ways to grant people 
political asylum to whoever they 
wanted to grant it to,” she said.

While each state scrambles to 

deal with asylum seekers, there 
are more displaced people now 
than there have been in recent 
history. According to the Unit-
ed Nations, there are now 51.2 
million people who are forcibly 
displaced, more than there have 
been since the end of World War 
II. Internationally, states have 
pledged to resettle about 1 per-
cent of these people.

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Monday, David Murray, Sny-
der’s deputy press secretary, 
said the governor has been 
a 
proponent 
of 
prioritiz-

ing “P-20” education, which 
includes elementary through 
higher education.

“We know that a rock-solid 

education is essential to build 
a talented workforce in Michi-
gan that will attract and retain 
businesses and grow more and 
better jobs for the state’s resi-
dents,” Murray said.

Murray also noted Snyder is 

a supporter of increasing dual 

enrollment 
opportunities 
for 

high school students and the cost 
of higher education, which he 
outlined in the fiscal 2015 budget.

“The fiscal 2015 budget, 

which went into effect in 
October, includes a 3-percent 
increase in operations funding 
for community colleges and a 
5.9-percent increase for state 
universities,” he said. “Univer-
sities were required to limit 
tuition increases to 3.2 percent 
or less in order to receive their 
funding increase.”

Murray added that Snyder’s 

State of the State address, 
which is next week, will pre-
view additional recommenda-
tions for the upcoming fiscal 
year.

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available, perhaps give us better 
data on the incidence of sexual 
misconduct,” he said. “All of 
that would be the kinds of addi-
tional feedback that’s unique 
to our campus and would help 
inform any further changes in 
additional resources.”

Fitzgerald said he expects 

an analysis of survey results be 
released this summer.

The University will also 

participate in another student-
wide survey on sexual mis-
conduct administered by the 
Association of American Uni-
versities, a non-profit organiza-
tion comprised of 62 research 
universities, according to a 
news release.

In November, the University 

released its first report soley 
focused on sexual misconduct. 
The report listed the Univer-
sity’s response to 129 reported 
instances of assault. The alle-
gations increased by 46 reports 
in 2014 compared to 2013.

Following the release of the 

report, Schlissel said campus 
climate 
surrounding 
sexual 

misconduct is a top priority as 
administrators are working on 
ways to study and reduce the 
number of reported and occur-
rences of sexual misconduct.

“This is an issue we’re going 

to have to keep working on 
until the number is zero,” 
Schlissel said in an interview 
with The Michigan Daily in 
December.

Many students have voiced 

their concerns on how the Uni-
versity handles sexual miscon-
duct on campus last semester.

Survivors and allies of sex-

ual assault and misconduct 
protested across the Univer-
sity in October in part of a 
national “Carry That Weight” 
campaign. 
The 
organizers 

also announced a list of seven 
demands for University offi-
cials to address sexual assault 
on campus.

In Septmeber, the Office of 

Student Conflict Resolution 
also hired a sexual misconduct 
program manager to further 
address the issue.

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