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the statement

Former SAM 

president, treasurer 
could face jail time

By ALLANA AKHTAR

Daily Staff Repoter

The case against two former 

fraternity 
members 
involved 

in the January destruction of a 
Northern Michigan ski resort will 
appear before a jury next month, 
according to Otsego County Pros-
ecutor Michael Rola.

Business juniors Joshua Kaplan 

and Zachary Levin, the former 
Sigma Alpha Mu president and 
treasurer, are scheduled to appear 
in front of a jury in the 87A district 
court of Gaylord, Mich. on Nov. 18. 
They each are charged with two 
counts of furnishing a place for 
the consumption of alcohol and/
or controlled substances on the 
premises by minors. It was previ-
ously undeterminedwhether they 
would reach a plea agreement or 
stand trial.

If found guilty, Rola said the 

two could face penalties of up 
to 30 days in jail and $1,000 per 
offense. The court can also order 
them to help pay restitution to 
Treetops ski resort.

Kaplan and Levin join two 

other former SAM members, Uni-
versity alums Jesse Krumholz 
and Matthew Vlasic, who all were 
charged following the ski trip 
destruction. Krumholz received 
two years of probation for a mis-
demeanor charge in October, and 
Vlasic received two years proba-
tion for malicious destruction of 
property totaling more than $200 
but less than $1,000.

The vandalism took place dur-

ing a ski trip with Sigma Delta Tau 
sorority. Treetops alleges Univer-
sity students caused $200,000 
worth of damages to the property, 
on top of lost revenue.

Following the incident, the 

University decided it would no 
longer recognize the fraternity, 
and the national SAM organiza-
tion later opted to disband the 
chapter.

CRIME

Error on punt gives 
Michigan State the 

victory

By ZACH SHAW

Daily Sports Editor

One-hundred 
and 
eleven 

thousand stunned sets of eyes 

stared at the field below. A sea of 
green and white flooded into the 
northwest corner of the field.

For five whole minutes, no one 

else in Michigan Stadium moved.

None of those eyes had ever 

seen a game end like that before, 
and likely never will again.

Michigan State 27, Michigan 

23.

In a game that featured eight 

official reviews — including four 
on scoring plays — plenty of calls 
and non-calls that drew boos 
from the crowd and referees 
even admitting they messed up 
with their microphones on, the 
Michigan football team’s game 
against No. 7 Michigan State 
added an odd and awkward twist 
to the historic rivalry.

So it was only fitting that the 

game ended in never-before-
seen fashion when fifth-year 
senior punter Blake O’Neill — a 
hero earlier in the game for an 
80-yard punt — couldn’t turn 
a low snap into what should 
have been a game-sealing punt, 
instead giving Michigan State 
the ball for a 38-yard touchdown 
return as time expired.

Council also floats 

plan to relocate 
historic Arthur 
Miller house

By LYDIA MURRAY

Daily Staff Reporter

The Ann Arbor City Council 

met Monday to discuss the city’s 
deer population, the future of 
the Arthur Miller house and a 
proposed zoning change to make 
way for a new housing develop-
ment.

Council to convene public 

meeting on deer cull

Multiple 
individuals 
con-

cerned about the city’s plan to 
control deer population in the 
city through a cull attended Mon-
day’s meeting, prompting the 
council to set an open hearing on 
the subject for Nov. 5.

Members of the council men-

tioned the volume of e-mails they 
received regarding the issue, and 
noted the lack of understanding 
of the issue apparent in many of 
them.

“It’s 
really 
difficult 
when 

e-mails keep coming with total 
misinformation,” said Council-
member Sumi Kailasapathy (D–
Ward 1). “It’s like they believe 
that someone is going to run 
around the park just shooting. It’s 
ridiculous.”

Several members agreed on 

the importance of having an 
informed public on the matter at 
hand.

Councilmember Jane Lumm 

(I–Ward 2) said the problem 
might be that the public is learn-
ing about the issue from outside 
sources that spread false infor-
mation.

“It’s unfortunate because a lot 

of what’s contained in those ini-
tial messages to people is not cor-
rect,” she said.

Relocation of the Arthur 

Miller house

The council passed a resolu-

tion to investigate the possibil-
ity of moving the Arthur Miller 
House from its current location 
on South Division Street to Lib-
erty Plaza.

The University, which cur-

rently owns the house, aims 

See MICHIGAN, Page 8A

ANN ARBOR

See COUNCIL, Page 3A

Team Michigan, 
Team MSU collect 
more than $30,000 
during competition

By IRENE PARK

Daily Staff Reporter

Though the Michigan foot-

ball team lost to Michigan State 

University on the field Satur-
day, Team Michigan defeated 
Team MSU in a face-off raising 
money to test untested rape kits 
in Detroit.

Five years ago, more than 

11,000 untested rape kits were 
found in a police warehouse in 
Detroit. Though most of these 
kits have now been sent out for 
testing, a campaign called the 
African American 490 Chal-
lenge has begun to raise money 

for the roughly 1,000 remaining 
untested kits. For Oct. 12 to Oct. 
17, teams of professionals who 
support the University and MSU 
competed to fundraise for the 
AA490 Challenge.

By Sunday, Team Michi-

gan raised $14,931, topping 
Team MSU’s $11,181. Added to 
$4,465.50 that came in from 
neutral donors, the face-off 
raised a total of $30,577.50 from 

See RAPE KITS, Page 3A

Teams identify 
factors that could 

predict course 
performance

By LYDIA MURRAY

Daily Staff Reporter

MHacks is not the only 

hackathon in town.

Twelve 
students 
spent 

hours at the University’s Digi-
tal Innovation Greenhouse’s 
inaugural hackathon on Tues-
day, working with massive 
amounts of synthetic student 
data to create grade prediction 
software.

Students 
split 
into 
two 

teams — referred to as Team 
Collab and Team Bunker — 
and each team was given the 
same data sets to work with. 
The data was not real student 
data, since Physics Prof. Timo-
thy McKay said using real data 
would infringe on student pri-

CAMPUS LIFE

See HACKATHON, Page 3A

EMILIE FARRUGIA/Daily

Ann Arbor resident Jay Kincaid-Beal, 11, reads his poem titled “The In Bed Thoughts of an 11-Year-Old Atheist” at the 
Skazat! Poetry Series, a monthly open mic and poetry reading event, at Sweetwaters Cafe on Tuesday.

MUSINGS OF A YOU NG POET

DETROIT

ALLISON FARRAND AND RUBY WALLAU/Daily

LEFT: Frank Turchan, University executive chef, and Kurt Kwlatkowski, executive chef at Michigan State, compete in the Culinary Throwndown at 
the Michigan Union on Saturday. TOP RIGHT: Matt Cloutier, Michigan Marching Band drum major, preforms a backbend. BOTTOM RIGHT: A fan’s 
sign at ESPN’s College Game Day on the Diag.

GAME DAY FESTIVITIES

Trial set for 
 

two charged 
in ski resort 
vandalism

Last-second play dooms 
Michigan against MSU

City schedules 
public hearing 
about deer cull

‘U’ supporters raise money 
to test backlogged rape kits

Hackathon 
challenges 
students to 
work with 
class data

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