michigandaily.com
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Wednesday, January 21, 2015

CELEBRATING OUR ONE-HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM

INDEX
Vol. CXXIV, No. 51
©2015 The Michigan Daily
michigandaily.com

NEWS......................... 2A

OPINION.....................4A

SPORTS ......................7A

SUDOKU..................... 2A

CL ASSIFIEDS...............6A

THE STATEMENT..........1B

NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM
Fraternities damage Northern Michigan resorts 
MICHIGANDAILY.COM/BLOGS

GOT A NEWS TIP?
Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail 
news@michigandaily.com and let us know.

WEATHER 
TOMORROW

HI: 30

LO: 17

Walking in Glue: Mental health 
among college women

» INSIDE

the statement

Governor also 

urges voters to pass 
ballot proposal to 
fix roads in May

By EMMA KINERY

Daily Staff Reporter

Staying true to his nickname, 

Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, the 
“tough nerd,” emphasized edu-

cation as one of several means to 
create opportunity in his State of 
the State address Tuesday.

Using a “river of opportunity” 

as a metaphor for improving edu-
cation and job prospects in the 
state, among other issues, Snyder 
said he will shift the state’s focus 
from creating new programs to 
addressing problems.

“Quite often we’re addressing 

symptoms. We’re not addressing 
root causes. In some cases, we’re 
actually facilitating dependency 

on government,” Snyder said. 
“That’s not right.”

Snyder said his plan would 

focus on five principles: people, 
causes, increasing results without 
increasing cost, community and 
measuring outcomes.

Though several other gover-

nors who may be potential 2016 
presidential candidates discussed 
national policies in their address-
es, Snyder primarily emphasized 
Michigan-centric policies. Snyder 
has not discussed any potential 

2016 candidacy despite specula-
tion.

On education, Snyder intro-

duced several key initiatives that, 
if passed, would impact Michigan 
students from preschool to higher 
education, including calling for 
legislative support for a statewide 
evaluation system for K-12 teach-
ers and a commission to study 
third-grade reading scores.

He also announced he will ask 

the legislature to include an addi-

Snyder talks education 
in State of State address

AMANDA ALLEN /Daily

Republican Gov. Rick Snyder gives the 2015 State of the State address at the State Capitol in Lansing on Tuesday. 

City will engage 

in efforts to 

displace temporary 
camps humanely 

By LARA MOEHLMAN

Daily Staff Reporter

The heaviest topic of discus-

sion of Tuesday’s Ann Arbor 
City Council meeting centered 
on the city’s homeless camps. 
The dialogue came in the wake 
of numerous demonstrations by 
public commenters supporting 
these camps.

In recent months, Council-

member Stephen Kunselman 
(D-Ward 3) has been targeted 
by members and allies of Ann 
Arbor’s 
homeless 
commu-

nity following statements last 
November that some considered 
offensive. These claims resulted 
in a petition to recall Kunsel-
man, which was approved in the 
first week of January.

Subsequently, the council dis-

cussed and approved a revised 

This year’s 
event open to 
undergraduates 

By EMILY MIILLER

For the Daily

Over 40 employers and hun-

dreds 
of 
students 
gathered 

Tuesday in the Dana Build-
ing’s Ford Commons for the 
University’s first campus-wide 
Green Career Fair. Open to all 
University students, the fair 
showcased internships and jobs 
centered around environmental 
and sustainability issues.

Though the School of Natu-

ral Resources and Environment 
has organized similar fairs for 
graduate students in the past, 
this year’s event was open to all 
students.

The fair was co-hosted by 

the student organizations Stu-
dents for Clean Energy and Net 
Impact Undergrad, and spon-
sored by the environmental 
consulting firm Antea Group.

LSA 
senior 
Jesse 
Selvin, 

president of Students for Clean 

Energy, co-organized the event 
and said many students are 
concerned about sustainability, 
but do not know how to become 
involved.

“We really want to make sure 

students know sustainability is 
something that’s vital both on 
campus and afterwards,” Sel-
vin said. “And not only that it’s 
vital, but that it’s available, it’s 
accessible.”

Selvin added that he was 

pleased with the diversity of 
participating companies.

“I would say it runs the gam-

bit from environmental consult-
ing companies to engineering 
companies to nongovernmental 
organizations and research,” he 
said.

Han Zhang, a representative 

from Dow Chemical, said it is 
important for students to rec-
ognize that they can apply their 
interest and skills in sustain-
ability beyond college.

LSA senior Michelle Dimuzio 

said she liked the fair’s con-
centration on environmental 
careers in contrast to larger 
career fairs. She attended the 

Assembly plans 
to transfer nearly 
$9,000 to library

By TANAZ AHMED

Daily Staff Reporter

The Central Student Gov-

ernment’s main focus Tuesday 
night was funding additional 
power stations in the Shap-

iro Undergraduate Library to 
address 
students’ 
mounting 

needs to charge up.

The new electricity expan-

sion proposal would place an 
additional 67 table-mounted 
power stations in the UGLi. 
These would include three 
power outlets and one USB port 
each.

Because there were ques-

tions about the project’s total 
cost and the need for charging 

stations to include USB ports, 
the resolution was ultimately 
referred to CSG’s finance com-
mittee and will come to a vote at 
next week’s meeting.

Installation 
costs 
would 

amount to $8,772 — the resolu-
tion in place proposes that CSG 
cover the costs with money 
from its Legislative Discretion-
ary Fund by transferring it to 
the UGLi’s facilities coordina-

In address, 
Obama calls 
for reduced 
college costs

Foreign policy, 
middle class also 
prominent in State 

of the Union

By JACK TURMAN,
 ALLANA AKHTAR 

AND SHOHAM GEVA

Daily Staff Reporters and Daily 

News Editor

President Barack Obama gave 

his seventh State of the Union 
address Tuesday evening before 
a Senate and House controlled 
by the Republicans for the first 
time during his presidency.

The 
president’s 
speech 

touched on several key issues 
from his years in office, includ-
ing conflict in the Middle East 
and the economic recession. He 
expanded on proposed reforms 
in several areas announced by 
the White House in the weeks 
leading up to the address as 
well.

Chief among his reforms 

were proposals to impact the 
price of paying for college as 
part of an overarching theme 

addressing “middle-class eco-
nomics.”

“Middle-class 
economics 

means helping working fami-
lies feel more secure in a world 
of constant change,” Obama 
said. “That means helping folks 
afford childcare, college, health 
care, a home, retirement — and 
my budget will address each of 
these issues, lowering the taxes 
of working families and putting 
thousands of dollars back into 
their pockets each year.”

In the address, Obama specif-

ically stressed a plan announced 
earlier in the week to simplify 
and consolidate the American 
Opportunity Tax Credit, an 
2009 initiative that gives low 
and middle class families tax 
benefits on higher education 
costs. Though the AOTC is set 
to expire by 2017 under the cur-
rent tax plan, Obama said he 
hopes to make it a permanent 
feature of the tax code, with 
the amount of credit adjusted to 
keep up with inflation.

The president also proposed 

making it easier to apply for tax 
credits, as well as require col-
leges and universities to pro-

GOVERNMENT

Green Career 
Fair focuses on 
sustainability

CSG considers resolution 
to invest in UGLi outlets

Complaints 
lead to new 
homeless 
legislation

CAMPUS LIFE
ANN ARBOR

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

See POTUS, Page 3A

See OUTLETS, Page 3A

See SNYDER, Page 3A

See GREEN, Page 3A
See HOMELESS, Page 3A

SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily

LSA freshmen Anna Bauer and Maddie Rabe, members of the University’s chapter of the College Democrats, view 
the State of the Union at the College Democrats watch party in the Weill Building on Tuesday. 

DEM VIEWING PART Y

