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GRAND RAPIDS
Resort shows strong
outlook for tourism
A new report says that Michi-
gan’s tourism industry grew in
2014 despite the cold, wet year,
and the tourism outlook is sunny
going forward.
The Michigan State Univer-
sity report says that 2014 was 6
percent cooler and 11 percent
wetter than normal. Even so, it
says hotel occupancy was up 2
percent and car traffic increased
1 percent.
Michigan State researchers
released the report Monday at
the Pure Michigan Governor’s
Conference on Tourism in Grand
Rapids.
The
researchers
say
2015
should be another year of growth
for tourism in the state. The
number of people traveling to
and around the state is expected
to increase 1.5 percent this year.
MADISON
SCOTUS rejects
voter ID challenge
The U.S. Supreme Court on
Monday turned away a chal-
lenge to Wisconsin’s voter iden-
tification law, allowing the law
to stand and handing a victory
to Gov. Scott Walker following
a long fight by opponents who
say it’s a thinly veiled attempt to
make it more difficult for Demo-
cratic backers to vote.
The law won’t be enforced for
an April 7 election because it’s
only two weeks away, but it will
be in subsequent elections, the
state attorney general said.
Walker, a likely 2016 Repub-
lican presidential candidate, is a
longtime proponent of voter ID
requirements and signed Wis-
consin’s into law in 2011. But it
was only in effect for one low-
turnout primary in 2012 before
legal challenges kept it on hold.
DES MOINES
Bush family to
attend fundraiser
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) —
Former President George W. Bush
is scheduled to attend a Lone
Star-studded fundraiser in Dal-
las Wednesday for his brother Jeb
Bush.
The former president and for-
mer first lady Laura Bush are the
special guests named to appear
with the former Florida governor,
who is expected to announce in
the coming months his candidacy
for the 2016 Republican presiden-
tial nomination, Texas Republi-
cans said Monday.
It would be the first time former
President Bush — a former Texas
governor and current resident
of Dallas — has attended a fun-
draiser for his brother, who has
been aggressively raising money
for his political action committee
from some of the GOP’s top donors
for three months. It also comes as
Jeb Bush nears the end of what is
expected to be a successful fund-
raising quarter for the PAC.
LONDON
WHO says politics
didn’t sway Ebola
emergency call
The World Health Organiza-
tion denied Monday that politics
swayed the decision to declare
an international emergency over
the spread of the Ebola virus
last year, despite evidence senior
staffers repeatedly discussed the
diplomatic and economic fallout
of such a move.
A year after WHO declared
that Ebola had been found in
Guinea, the agency is on the
defensive over reports that it
dragged its feet when raising
the international alarm over the
disease.
Internal
communica-
tions published by The Associ-
ated Press last week documented
senior agency staff discourag-
ing the move about two months
before the international alert was
finally raised, citing diplomatic
relations, mining interests and
the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
—Compiled from
Daily wire reports
Dance Team.
Halfway through the rally,
each candidate shared the first
action they would take after
being elected. Both members of
The Team said they planned to
throw a party. Second, Royster
said the plan is to implement the
goals the party is promoting.
Fidel said he would also work
toward carryout out his plan to
allow students to donate their
leftover Blue Bucks at the end of
the semester to a local food pan-
try.
Throughout
the
duration
of the event, students were
encouraged to tweet The Team
questions using the hashtag
#RallyTheTeam.
Royster said he chose to run
for Central Student Government
to bring change, specifically to
increase diversity on the Uni-
versity’s campus. Fidel said he
decided to run to represent the
students, pointing to members
in the crowd and students walk-
ing by in the Diag to emphasize
the point that he was running for
everyone.
Make
Michigan
and
the
Defend Affirmative Action par-
ties are also running candidates
in this week’s election.
CSG election polls are open
Wednesday and Thursday. Stu-
dents can vote at vote.umich.edu.
laboratory-based
Ph.D.
are
thinking
about
problems
through a public health lens
and students who would have
otherwise trained in tradi-
tional public health approach-
es are exposed to the power of
asking questions at the molec-
ular or organismal level,” he
said.
Schmidt said he hopes the
program grows each year, as
well as potentially gain more
sources of funding.
“We hope that we will con-
tinue it and build on the suc-
cess of this program,” Schmidt
said. “That could be through
funding of Burroughs Well-
come but through elsewhere
also. We are looking at the
National Institute of Health for
training programs. This is just
a start for what we think will
be a much bigger program.”
Foxman said the program
is currently in the process of
recruiting students. The appli-
cation deadline is April 7 and
decisions will be reached by
May 1. She noted that admitted
and current doctoral students
anywhere at the University
are eligible to apply and that
the website for the program is
slated to launch next week.
increased number of bike sta-
tions in downtown Ann Arbor.
The Clean Energy Coalition is
a nonprofit, nonpartisan organi-
zation that aims to promote the
expansion of clean energy tech-
nology in Michigan communi-
ties.
In an e-mail interview, Heath-
er Croteau, a project associate
at the Clean Energy Coalition
and program manager of Arbor-
Bike, said she predicts the bike
share program will have a posi-
tive impact on the city based on
results in other communities
that have bike shares.
“It’s an excellent addition to
the community and the first sys-
tem of its kind in Michigan,” Cro-
teau said. “The impact is yet to
be seen/determined but in other
communities with bike share
programs, the systems have
become a major asset that users
come to rely on to get around.”
Croteau also noted that Arbor-
Bike provides a healthy alterna-
tive to driving.
“ArborBike
adds
a
non-
motorized option and additional
diversity to Ann Arbor’s trans-
portation systems,” she said.
Riders may set up member-
ships for day, month and year
passes at ArborBike.org, with
fees starting at $6 per bike rent-
al. Additional fees apply for those
who use bikes for more than 60
minutes at a time.
On campus, ArborBike kiosks
are located at the North Campus
Recreation Building, at Murfin
Avenue and Bonisteel Boulevard
across from Pierpont Commons,
Zina Pitcher Place and Catherine
Street, by the Central Campus
Recreation Building and near
South Quad.
Councilmember Julie Grand
(D–Ward 3) said ArborBike is a
positive addition to Ann Arbor.
“I think it can really help
encourage folks who maybe are
a little hesitant about biking, and
think that they would like to try
it,” said Grand. “It gives them the
opportunity to get out on a bike
in a more high traffic area and
see if it will work for them.”
Grand said she hopes Arbor-
Bike will encourage residents to
consider using bikes as a method
of transportation to work or
to school. Grand also said she
thinks ArborBike will benefit
people visiting the city, provid-
ing them with an alternative to
renting a car.
“They’ll have another option
other than having to rent a car…
and get around on a bike, which
is exciting, and go out and see not
just campus but some of the great
amenities, things like our parks
and other recreational amenities
that the city has to offer.”
as chair for the LSA SG Budget
Allocations
Committee
said
interacting with students will
paly a vital part in fulfilling
their platform.
“My main focus this year
is definitely on talking to stu-
dents, student engagement and
hearing student voices,” Colella
said. “More than anything else
we are here to represent the
18,000 students in LSA and
what they want.”
Colella added that his experi-
ences as a residential adviser at
East Quad inspired some of the
goals of their platform.
“Being an RA, you see so
many different things and hear
about so many different student
concerns,” he said. “Working
through all the student issues
that I have encountered has
been really enlightening.”
Colella and Klootwyk both
said the LSA community should
prepare to hear new ideas and
plans, upon their election.
“The LSA community can
really look forward to us hitting
the ground running with proj-
ects, ideas and a strong push
for student engagement and
involvement,” Colella said.
Klootwyk said they want the
LSA community to know they
are passionate about being stu-
dent leaders.
“We really do care about the
needs of the students,” Kloot-
wyk said. “We will do whatever
is in our power to make changes
for them and see that any issues
they have, Jason and I will make
it apparent to get those fixed.”
A list of the remaining LSA
Student
Government
repre-
sentative candidates as well as
their platforms is available at
vote.umich.edu.
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know about upcoming projects.
“There will be notices to
traffic control as the projects
approach,” he said. “(With)
some of the major projects on
more major streets with higher
traffic volumes, we will do what
we can to get actual signs out in
advance of the construction to
let people know what’s coming
so that it doesn’t just surprise
them one day...”
A significant portion of the
budget is dedicated to fleet and
facilities expenditures, which
amount to more than $1.2 million
and $272,500 for the 2016 and
2017 fiscal year, respectively.
These expenditures include
fire station renovations, program
rehabilitations
and
elevator
replacements as well as repair
and remediation of city-owned
property at 415. W. Washington,
estimated to cost $300,000.
The staff proposes a sec-
ond renovation the City Coun-
cil Chambers in the 2016 fiscal
year at an estimated to cost of
$140,000.
City Council will vote to
adopt the budget for the 2016
and 2017 fiscal years on May 18.
COUNCIL
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VIRGINIA LOZANO/Daily
LSA senior Canon Thomas hosts The Team rally supporting Will Royster for CSG President on the Diag Monday.
TEAM
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LSA SG
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GRANT HARDY/Daily
ArborBike offers a new environemtally-friendly transportation option to Ann Arbor residents.
madness — has certainly
colored the Israeli experience
in Africa,” Bar-Yosef said.
Deborah Starr, associate
professor of modern Arabic
and Hebrew literature and
film at Cornell University,
examined
the
movies
of
Egyptian
filmmaker
Togo
Mizrahi,
whose
Jewish
heritage played both implicit
and
explicit
roles
in
his
narratives, which were filmed
mostly during the 1930s and
1940s. Starr’s analysis focused
on two of Mizrahi’s films, “On
a Rainy Night” (1939) and “The
Straight Path” (1943), and the
interplay between Egyptian
and Jewish representations in
both.
“Togo Mizrahi’s films …
explore the ambivalences of
Egyptian-Jewish
identity
within and through colonial
institutions,” Starr wrote in
her research paper. “Although
these films lack explicitly
Jewish content, I aim to tease
out how they reflect distinctly
Jewish anxieties of belonging
in Egypt under the British
sphere of influence.”
In discussing the research,
Bar-Yosef — following similar
sentiments
expressed
by
several
members
of
the
audience — pointed to the
complexity of the impact of
colonialism on Jewish and
Arab communities.
“Zionism,
the
Zionist
project and its relationship
to colonialism, are complex,”
Bar-Yosef said. “Just to see
one of these angles would be
to miss the larger picture …
That’s what we’re trying to do
here, point to complexity of
these different images.”
Krutikov
said
the
University is one of only three
in the world with a program
in advanced Judaic Studies —
similar programs exist at the
University of Pennsylvania
and the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. Currently, the
University
also
offers
an
undergraduate
major
and
minor
in
Judaic
Studies.
Krutikov said the minor is a
great opportunity for students
who may not get a similar
opportunity after graduation.
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