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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan men’s
basketball team domi-
nated Illinois in the
second round of the Big Ten
Tournament on Thursday,
winning 73-55. It takes on
Wisconsin today at the Unit-
ed Center in Chicago (12 p.m.
Eastern, ESPN).
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Two police officers were
attacked at a protest
in Ferguson, Mo. on
Wednesday night. St. Louis
County Police Chief Jon
Belmar said the shots did
not come from among the
protesters, but from across
the street, Reuters reported.
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TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
LEFT LSA senior Anna Baumgarten performs in the play “The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? by Edward Albee presented by RC Players at the Keene
Theater in East Quad Thursday. (San Pham/Daily) RIGHT LSA junior Rachel Berkowitz poses for a photograph with her white board during
the This is What a Feminist Looks Like event hosted by Lean In at Mason Hall Wednesday. (Ruby Wallau/Daily)
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The
Hubble
Space
Telescope has provided
evidence
of
aurorae
confirming the theory that
Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s
moons and the largest in our
solar system, contains an
ocean under its surface, The
Verge reported.
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“Making the
Dead Modern”
WHAT: Discuss the
Chinese tradition of relating
the dead to the living in
ancient poetic language and
literature.
WHO: Department of
Anthropology
WHEN: Today at 3 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham
Graduate School
Holy War
lecture
WHAT: James Siegel
of Cornell University
will speak about the
history of Holy War
and jihad in Sumatra
WHO: Center for
Southeast Asian Studies
WHEN: Today at 12 p.m.
WHERE: School of
Social Work Building
Masters recital
WHAT: Francisco Bedoy
on the tenor will perform
a set featuring pieces from
Handel, Lalo, Brahms,
Guastavino and Soutullo.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Walgreen Drama
Center, Stamps Auditorium
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“Vain Labor”
WHAT: Associate Prof.
Achim Timmermann will
explore the relationship
between Christian and
Jewish tradition in medieval
art, the role of public images
and monuments, as well as
his research in moralizing in
public imagery and ancient
civic rituals.
WHO: History of Art
WHEN: Today from 4 p.m.
to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Tappan Hall
“Infra-tecture”
lecture
WHAT: Jeanne Gang,
MacArthur Fellow and
architect, will give a lecture
focusing on the changing
economic and development
landscape of cities, as well
as sustainability and capital-
markets.
WHO: Taubman College
of Architecture and Urban
Planning
WHEN: Today at 6 p.m.
WHERE: Museum of Art
“Rome in
Cinema”
WHAT: This edition of the
Thomas Spencer Jerome
Lecture Series will examine
the role of Roman history in
silent cinema.
WHO: LSA Development,
Marketing &
Communications
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall
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THE WIRE
Former employee
faces charges
BY IRENE PARK
Steven
Germinder,
a
former hospital employee, is
facing charges for the receipt,
distribution and possession of
child pornography.
THE WIRE
University in top
20 in the world
BY NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT
The University has been
ranked the 19th best univer-
sity in the world, according to
the Times Higher Education
World Reputation rankings
released on Thursday.
Monday meeting to
also include report
on homelessness
By ANASTASSIOS
ADAMOPOULUS
Daily Staff Reporter
The Ann Arbor City Council
will meet Monday to discuss a
number of topics, including a reso-
lution to support a state ballot pro-
posal for allocation of funds by the
Michigan Department of Trans-
portation, the annexation of the
Nixon Farm and a report from the
Delonis Center.
Ballot Proposal 15-1
City Council will hear a resolution
to support of State Ballot Proposal
15-1, a part of a proposal to improve
Michigan’s roads passed earlier this
year by the state legislature.
Because the proposal includes
amending the state sales tax from 6
percent to 7 percent, which chang-
es the state constitution, it requires
a statewide vote that will occur
May 5. If passed, among other
changes it will allow funds to be
allocated to the counties of Michi-
gan for a variety of infrastructure-
related improvements.
According to the Transportation
Revenue Sales Tax Ballot Proposal,
Washtenaw County will receive an
estimated $21,402,244 for the 2016
fiscal year, $25,339,238 for the 2017
fiscal year and $29,276,232 for the
2018 fiscal year and beyond.
Of these funds, Ann Arbor
would receive $9,193,546 for the
fiscal year of 2016, $10,851,563 for
the 2017 fiscal year and $12,509,579
for the 2018 fiscal year and beyond.
Along
with
the
sales
tax
increase, the ballot proposal would
increase the fuel tax and modify
tax credits and school funding,
among other changes.
The earned income tax credit
will rise from 6 percent to 20 per-
cent of the federal credit amount
and eligibility for these credits will
increase. Additionally there would
be a $300 million annual increase
for the School Aid Fund, $100 mil-
lion more for revenue sharing and
more funding for community col-
leges. Universities will no longer
receive funding from School Aid
monies.
In Ann Arbor, the funds for the
proposal are slated for used on a
variety of projects in the city like
fixing roads. The state gas taxes will
also be used for transportation.
The legislation text notes that
24 percent of the City of Ann
Arbor’s streets are classified as in
poor condition.
Nixon Farm Annexation
Council will hear two resolu-
tions: one resolution calls for the
annexation of the Nixon Farm
North, a 69-acre area and the
other for the Nixon Farm South, a
41-acre area.
Should City Council adopt the
resolutions, the city of Ann Arbor
would take on the designated areas
of the Nixon Farms from the Ann
Arbor Township. Each resolution
requires eight votes to pass.
The resolutions note that the
City Planning Commission pro-
posed the annexation at a meeting
held Oct. 21, 2014.
Delonis Center
City Council will also hear an
interim report on the winter expan-
sion of the Shelter Association of
Washtenaw County at the Delo-
nis Center. The Warming Center
expanded its operations to full-time
hours from November to March.
According to the report that
will be presented to Council, the
shelter required that all occupants
register through the Housing
Access of Washtenaw County and
go through a screening test.
The report notes that through
Feb. 27, 2015, 488 unique individuals
were screened at the Delonis Center
and referred to the Warming Center.
Subsequently, 367 people used
the Warming Center 1, Warming
Center 2 or the Rotating Shelter.
Council will also hear about
the challenges the Delonis Center
faced that included reluctance of
some people to go to the Warm-
ing Center and the refusal by
some to go through the screening
process.
City Council to discuss state
ballot proposal on road funding
in Sderot featured a bomb
shelter that was painted to
appear like a caterpillar.
“For me the sum of this entire
presentation in one photograph
… this is it… when you picture
a playground and a bomb shel-
ter in one photograph. What
other country in the world has a
bomb shelter right next to a play-
ground?” Bedein asked.
In a video clip he showed the
audience, kindergarten students
were seen playing outside when
sirens went off. The students
immediately ran inside to the
nearest bomb shelter and began
counting down. At the end of
the countdown they sang a song.
Bedein explained that the chil-
dren are taught to sing the song
to distract them from the sound
of explosions hitting Sderot.
Bedein, who dedicates much
of his time to interviewing and
photographing those affected by
the threat of rocket attacks, told
the audience that virtually every-
one living in the western Negev
region of Israel has his or her
own unique story about an expe-
rience with a rocket explosion.
Bedein also discussed the
effect of media bias on the issue
of coverage in Israel. He said
many people know about the
humanitarian issues in Gaza but
not of those in Sderot or neigh-
boring Israeli communities.
Due to Israel’s missile defense
system, Bedein said recent con-
flict has produced unbalanced
fatalities — 72 Israeli deaths com-
pared to the over 2,000 deaths of
civilians in the Gaza strip.
Since last summer, members
of the University student group
Students Allied for Freedom and
Equality held candlelight vigils
in response to the violence. The
University’s chapter of J Street,
a national organization advocat-
ing for a two-state solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, also
held a vigil in September.
Siren systems implemented
in Israeli cities warn residents
of approaching rockets roughly
15 seconds before they hit the
ground. Israel has also provid-
ed extensive funding to at-risk
communities for bomb shelters,
minimizing rocket fatalities as
a result.
At the end of his presentation,
Bedein shared with the audience
several drawings from elementa-
ry school students in Israel who
are under the threat of rockets.
Many of them were addressed to
children living in Gaza, asking
for peace and showing support
for children their own age who
are under the threat of violence
as a result of the conflict as well.
LSA freshman Rachel Byrd
said she had knew about the situ-
ation in Sderot, but found the pre-
sentation was still eye opening.
“Those videos were pretty
powerful, to see how normalized
rocket fire has become in Israel
and how little I knew,” Byrd said.
“(The presentation) definitely
made me want to look into differ-
ent resources or different news
outlets because I’ve definitely
been getting different informa-
tion than what I heard today.”
LSA sophomore Ben Siegel
was especially affected by the
drawings Israeli children had
made for Palestinian children.
“What stood out to me the
most would probably be that
even through all these kids are
going through, they still have
this good sentiment towards Pal-
estinians and they want peace
even though they’re constantly
under pressure,” he said.
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