pete in a first round to secure a 
spot on one of the competition’s four 
mentor-led teams. As on “The Voice,” 
the mentors select students for their 
team who they believe have the 
most potential.

During three additional rounds, 

teams and mentors work closely 
to prepare for the next challenge 
and to advance their team’s pro-
posal. Attendees at “Entrepreneur-
ship Hour,” an event held through 
the CFE every Friday, will vote to 
eliminate a team after every round. 
The final remaining team will be 
crowned “The Startup.”

Sarah Bachleda, communication 

and marketing maven for the CFE, 

said in addition to working closely 
with team mentors, students will 
also gain increased operating capi-
tal as they make it past each round. 
She added that the winning team 
will not only win the title “The 
Startup,” but also earn a grand prize 
to continue building their business.

“The rounds will take place live 

in front of our Entrepreneurship 
Hour students, giving these teams 
a ton of visibility as well,” she said. 
“It will take place semester-long, 
providing an engaging structure 
and space to truly advance the 
startups.”

Amy Cell, vice president of the 

Michigan 
Economic 
Develop-

ment Corporation, will serve as a 
team mentor for the competition. 
Cell said “The Startup” is a great 
opportunity to explore a business 

idea in a fun, accelerated way.

“I’ve been involved with CFE 

since the beginning, and I’m con-
tinually amazed with the energy, 
creativity and passion of the pro-
grams that they put together,” 
Cell said. “As an economic devel-
oper for the state of Michigan, I 
understand the critical impor-
tance of innovation and entrepre-
neurship.”

Cell said the program will not 

only serve as a learning experi-
ence for students, but also for the 
mentors involved.

“I hope to find people that I 

can follow and support for years 
to come,” she said. “I also hope to 
find startups that can start having 
a near-term impact on Michigan.”

Applications to participate in 

the program are due Friday.

of Homeless Camps in Ann 
Arbor” is intended primarily to 
allow for debate on the matter, 
as opposed to propose a specif-
ic action of the Council.

Kunselman stated he intends 

to vote against this resolution.

In the release, Kunselman 

also said various volunteers 
and city officials have ensured 
there is enough funding and 
capacity for every homeless 
person, making camps that 
pose the threat of hypothermia 
obsolete.

“My position on homeless 

camps is no different than 
that of Mayor Mike Duggan 
of Detroit, who just last week 
successfully led the effort to 
dismantle a homeless camp 
and find safe and legal shelter 
for all the homeless involved, 
all of whom were very grateful 
to have warm shelter,” Kunsel-
man said. “Homeless camps 
are 
dangerous, 
unsanitary, 

illegal and unnecessary given 
the high quality of homeless 
services available to the home-
less to live safely and legally in 
Ann Arbor.”

In an interview Wednesday 

evening, Councilmember Sabra 
Briere (D–Ward 1) said while 
she has not reviewed the reso-
lution proposed by Kunselman, 
her initial reaction was one 
of concern as to whether this 
discussion would be helpful in 
solving problems of affordable 
housing in Ann Arbor.

“While I understand that 

he is annoyed, I am sorry he 
thinks doing this is a solution 
to anything,” Briere said. “I 
don’t think it moves us toward 
finding a solution to the need 
for affordable housing, but I 
haven’t seen the resolution yet 
and I have no idea where things 
will head, I have no opinion 
right now about whether I will 
support this.”

Wednesday evening, Coun-

cilmember Julie Grand (D–
Ward 3) said she would like to 
see more constructive solu-

tions 
to 
the 
disagreement 

between Kunselman and the 
housing group.

“Councilmember 
Kun-

selman is going to be up for 
reelection in August, so if 
there’s a group that’s not sat-
isfied with his performance, 
then they have every right to 
run a candidate in the August 
primaries or in the November 
general election,” Grand said. 
“I think that’s a more effec-
tive way to address the issue 
certainly than with a recall. 
Ultimately, the most effective 
way to address the issue is to 
work for issues that address 
our housing and homelessness 
situation. There’s not a magic 
bullet, but if there was we cer-
tainly would have implement-
ed it already.”

Mayor 
Christopher 
Tay-

lor (D) declined to comment 
Wednesday evening.

Daily Staff Reporter Emma 

Kinery 
contributed 
to 
this 

report.

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Thursday, January 15, 2015 — 3A

NEWS BRIEFS

WINDSOR TOWNSHIP, Mich.
State police move 
headquarters from 
Lansing to suburb

Michigan State Police head-

quarters is leaving Lansing for the 
suburbs and taking 400 jobs with 
it.

State police director Col. Kriste 

Kibbey Etue said Wednesday that 
the move will start in September 
and take two years.

She says the new headquar-

ters will be in the State Second-
ary Complex in Eaton County’s 
Windsor Township, southwest of 
Lansing.

Caleb Buhs is a spokesman 

for the Michigan Department of 
Technology, Management & Bud-
get and says the move is part of 
a shuffling of state agencies that 
is expected to save the state $30 
million over 10 years.

Buhs tells the Lansing State 

Journal 
that 
the 
Michigan 

Department 
of 
Community 

Health will move into the current 
state police headquarters.

CORONADO, Calif.
Michigan RNC 
representative 
censured by panel

The 
Republican 
National 

Committee’s executive commit-
tee voted to censure Michigan 
Republican David Agema for 
what it calls “harmful rhetoric” 
about gays and Muslims.

At the outset of the RNC’s win-

ter meeting near San Diego, the 
panel said Michigan Republican 
National Committeeman Dave 
Agema’s history of “harmful and 
offensive rhetoric” has no place in 
the party.

Last March, Agema posted 

on Facebook an unsubstantiated 
claim that gays account for half 
the murders in large cities. Last 
month, he told a Michigan county 
GOP committee that gay Ameri-
cans tried to obtain health insur-
ance because they risk contracting 
AIDS.

Agema also came under fire 

from the Council on American-
Islamic Relations for a Facebook 
posting this month questioning 
Muslims’ commitment to char-
ity.

BUCYRUS, Ohio
Man pleads guilty 
to killing four 
while on cocaine

A man on a cocaine binge 

fatally beat or strangled four 
others at their homes — in one 
case, using his own shoestrings 
— then walked into the police 
station to confess after recog-
nizing one victim’s relatives in 
a newspaper photo, a prosecutor 
said Wednesday after the defen-
dant was sentenced to life in 
prison without parole.

Donald Hoffman apparently 

was high and looking to steal 
money for more drugs when he 
killed the men last fall in the 
small, north-central Ohio city of 
Bucyrus, Crawford County Pros-
ecutor Matthew Crall said. Hoff-
man used whatever means were 
available, stomping on one man’s 
throat and striking another with 
a bottle, Crall said.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone
Hopeful president 
predicts no new 
cases of Ebola

Even as his country regis-

tered 19 new Ebola cases over a 
24-hour period, Sierra Leone’s 
president is predicting there will 
be zero new confirmed cases by 
the end of March.

President Ernest Bai Koroma 

also predicted that his West Afri-
can country — one of three hard-
est hit by the outbreak — would 
be Ebola-free by World Health 
Organization standards by May. 
Koroma made this pronounce-
ment during town hall meetings 
this week in the northern Dis-
tricts of Port Loko, Tonkolili, and 
Bombali.

—Compiled from 
 Daily wire reports

the expansion of services for 
the homeless who frequent the 
Ann Arbor District Library.

During his campaign, Taylor 

said one of his priorities was 
to expand public transporta-
tion such as the Ann Arbor 
Area Transportation Author-
ity. He said the city is currently 
examining potential sites for a 
new train station, which could 
include the renovation of a 
pre-existing Amtrak station at 

Depot Street.

However, the project would 

likely involve the purchase of 
adjacent property from DTE 
Energy. The city is waiting on 
environmental impact reports 
for other potential sites before 
moving forward.

Another initiative in the 

works is fixing Ann Arbor’s 
roads. In September, Washt-
enaw County voters approved 
a 0.5-mill tax to provide for 
improvements to existing roads 
and infrastructure. Taylor said 
he expects the next year to 
include several construction 
projects to fix roads in the area. 

He added that the millage will 
yield repairs on 6.4 miles of 
roads.

So far, Taylor said his larg-

est challenge has been deal-
ing with the repercussions of a 
November 2014 police shooting, 
in which a 40-year-old woman 
was fatally shot by an Ann 
Arbor police officer.

“The shooting obviously took 

place in the context of an impor-
tant and justifiable national con-
versation and so dealing with 
that in the city has been probably 
my most challenging area,” he 
said.

Taylor noted that the Michi-

gan State Police have been con-
ducting an investigation in the 
case. Ultimately, findings from 
the investigation will be given to 
the Washtenaw County Prosecu-
tor’s Office, who will then decide 
whether or not to indict the offi-
cer in question.

“It’s very important for us to 

reflect from what happened 
once we have the full and final 
facts and to make sure we can 
do everything we can to protect 
public safety,” he said. “Our 
officers … I think do a great job 
at that. They are a professional 
and dedicated police depart-
ment.”

In response to the pending 

case, and other similar inci-
dents nationwide, City Council 
passed a resolution in Decem-
ber to implement the use of 
body and in-car cameras for the 
Ann Arbor police officers.

Taylor said outfitting offi-

cers with body cameras had 
been in the works for months 
prior to the shooting.

He also said he is now focused 

on 
preparing 
Ann 
Arbor’s 

upcoming budget proposal, set 
for release in April, which will 
play a significant role in shap-
ing the city’s agenda.

many of you here seek to engage 
in public policy for the public 
good,” Napolitano told the audi-
ence.

She attributed this problem 

to political partisanship, the 
media’s focus on negativity, 
potential candidates’ concerns 
about intrusions into their pri-
vate lives and lack of commu-
nication about the importance 
of politics. She added, however, 
that this should not mean that 
people exclude themselves from 
political life.

In an interview with The 

Michigan Daily after the event, 
Napolitano expanded on that 
idea adding if individuals want 
to affect change, running for 
office is the direct way.

“Don’t get me wrong, it’s great 

to be a civil servant, a policy 
adviser,” she said. “Those are all 
wonderful things. But the way 
our government is organized, it’s 
the elected official who makes 

the decision. So if you want that, 
then at some point you need to 
do it yourself.”

She also touched specifically 

on female leadership, telling the 
attendees that though women 
have proven that they can suc-
cessfully run for office without 
help from men and party boss-
es, they often still choose not 
to run for elected office.

More generally, she said 

politics must become a more 
attractive engagement for citi-
zens.

“We 
need 
to 
reset 
and 

reboot how we view political 
leadership in this country and 
enlarge the pool of talented 
individuals who are willing to 
engage in elected politics,” she 
said.

Napolitano 
also 
fielded 

several questions after the 
speech about her time in 
office, including her knowl-
edge of the National Security 
Agency wiretapping programs. 
Though she declined to discuss 
the level of intelligence she to 
which she had access, she did 
say both the president and the 

Senate, who have oversight 
responsibility of the NSA, need 
to have greater oversight of the 
intelligence gathering process.

However, she acknowledged 

that she does not know if the 
situation has changed since 
her departure from the Obama 
Administration.

In the interview, Napoli-

tano also discussed what pub-
lic universities can do to cope 
with reduced state funding, a 
prevalent issue in both Michi-
gan and California. The UC 
system recently proposed rais-
ing tuition by 5 percent yearly 
to cope with reduced funding.

She noted that universities 

can reduce costs internally 
and discussed UC’s Working 
Smarter initiative that aimed 
to reduce costs within univer-
sities.

“We have identified $660 

million in costs,” Napolitano 
said. “We didn’t replace certain 
people who were in manage-
ment or administration when 
they retired. So we actually 
have fewer senior managers 
now than we did in 2007, 2008. 

And we really worked to bring 
down administrative overhead 
on students, so all those things 
go together.”

Napolitano 
addedthat 

decreased state funding and 
efforts to persuade the state 
to reinvest in higher education 
has been her biggest challenge 
since becoming UC president. 
She said she intends to use her 
bully pulpit both in California 
and Washington D.C. to sup-
port the role of public higher 
education as means for creat-
ing opportunity for students.

In 
Michigan, 
Republican 

Gov. Rick Snyder enacted cuts 
to higher education in the 
first years of his term. Though 
recent budgets have included 
funding increases for higher 
education, the funding has not 
been restored to its former lev-
els. In June, the University’s 
Board of Regents enacted a 1.6 
percent tuition increase for in-
state students and 3.4 percent 
for out-of-state students.

State investment, she said, 

is key for schools especially 
for increasing a student body’s 

socioeconomic diversity. She 
said universities both need 
build pipelines between high 
schools in poor areas and pub-
lic universities and establish 
robust financial aid policies, 
adding that schools need to be 
conscious of the burden that 
tuition increases cause for 
middle-class students.

She cited the UC system as 

an example — where students 
with 
families 
making 
less 

than $80,000 annually receive 
free tuition — though she said 
tuition increases remain a con-
cern, particularly for middle-
class students who just miss 
the threshold.

“(The policies) are an engine 

of social mobility,” she said. 
“We want to keep that up. But 
we can’t provide (students) 
with the quality of education 
that their predecessors got, 
and do that, without some more 
money getting into the system. 
And the more money either has 
to come from the state or needs 
to come from tuition, from 
those who are paying tuition.”

even want to reproduce and bear 
children,” she said. “I don’t want 
my children to feel the terrible 
feelings I feel being Black every 
day.”

Participants also discussed 

the relevance of the incidents 
in Staten Island and Ferguson, 
where grand juries chose not to 
indict officers who had killed 
unarmed Black men.

University faculty and staff 

were also present to share their 
experiences and thoughts on 
police brutality. One faculty 
member shared a story of how 
her Black colleague, a doctor-

al student, was often stopped 
by police when riding his bike 
around campus.

A portion of the discussion 

was also dedicated to brain-
storming ways in which stu-
dents, faculty and University 
police can work to create a posi-
tive and safe environment on 
campus. Ideas discussed includ-
ed ensuring University crime 
reports are more specific and 
encouraging University Police 
becoming involved with the 
#BlackLivesMatter 
campaign 

and other events on campus.

In recent months, members 

of the University and Ann Arbor 
community organized several 
events to call attention to police 
brutality, including “die-ins” 

on the Diag and in front of the 
Crisler Center following Winter 
Commencement.

University Police Chief Rob-

ert Neumann was also present 
at the event. Though he did not 
participate in the discussion, he 
took notes as students offered 
ideas to improve the quality of 
policing on campus. In an inter-
view with The Michigan Daily, 
Neumann said having the dis-
cussion was essential in devel-
oping a positive relationship 
between the police and commu-
nity.

“It’s critical that the com-

munity and the police have an 
open and trusting and trans-
parent relationship,” he said. 
“The police are here for the 

community, we have to always 
to remember that. Good police 
administration seeks out input 
from the community.”

Neumann also said working 

to improve public safety on cam-
pus is a process that will require 
continued support and coopera-
tion from the campus commu-
nity.

“We will never rest on what 

we’ve done in the past, in terms 
of community outreach,” he 
said. “We are always looking for 
news way to engage our com-
munity, because our community 
is evolving and we must evolve 
with it.”

LSA senior Geralyn Gaines, 

BSU vice speaker and a CSG 
representative, helped plan the 

event. She said hosting the dis-
cussion was vital to sparking 
more of a reaction from the Uni-
versity community to nationally 
recognized instances of police 
brutality and bringing attention 
to the issue as a whole.

“As a student body, I don’t 

feel we have had enough of a 
response in regards to what’s 
going around in the U.S. where 
there are victims of police bru-
tality,” Gaines said. “I think that 
it’s really important to address 
these issues and continue to 
have these dialogues where peo-
ple can express themselves.”

The BSU will host a follow-up 

event Wednesday evening titled 
“Know Your Rights” at the Trot-
ter Multicultural Center.

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