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Five additional 
school districts 

could offer tuition 

scholarships

By EMMA KINERY

Daily Staff Reporter

Michigan state legislators are 

pushing to expand a program that 
currently provides free under-

graduate college tuition to certain 
students in 10 of the state’s school 
districts.

Senate Bill 0539, which passed 

the state Senate last week, would 
allow for the establishment of 
more “promise zones” in the 
state of Michigan. The zones are 
modeled after the Kalamazoo 
Promise, which guarantees schol-
arships at in-state public colleges 
to students in Kalamazoo who 
have been enrolled in the school 
district for a set number of years.

Established in 2005, the pro-

gram was the first of its kind in 
the United States. Current legis-
lation only allows for 10 promise 
zones in the state of Michigan. 
The bill proposes increasing the 
maximum number to 15. There 
are 10 current promise zone dis-
tricts in the state, which include 
Baldwin 
Community 
Schools, 

Battle Creek Public Schools, 
Detroit Public Schools, Jack-
son Public Schools, the Lansing 
School District, the School Dis-

trict of the City of Pontiac and the 
Saginaw School District.

Promise scholarships cover 

tuition 
costs 
beyond 
federal 

financial 
aid 
awards. 
Those 

scholarships are funded through 
private contributions and a mech-
anism called tax capture — in 
which the promise zone captures 
some of the growth in the State 
Education Tax.

The amount of tuition cover-

age students receive through 
the Kalamazoo Promise var-

ies based on how long they have 
been enrolled in school in the dis-
trict. For example, students who 
attended kindergarten through 
senior year in Kalamazoo Pub-
lic Schools receive 100 percent 
tuition coverage, while students 
who attended from only sopho-
more year on are not eligible 
for any coverage. On top of the 
enrollment requirements, stu-
dents must maintain a 2.0 average 
GPA while in college.

State allocates 
funding for off-
campus sexual 

assault prevention

By ALLANA AKHTAR

Daily Staff Reporter

Gov. Rick Snyder’s admin-

istration awarded $500,000 
on Thursday to fund sexual 
assault prevention initiatives 
at universities across the state. 
The University will receive 
$20,000 to fund “Raise the 
Bar,” a new program to train 
staff at Ann Arbor bars to 
intervene in situations that 
may result in sexual assault.

The University is working 

alongside Wolverine Wellness 
and the Ann Arbor Campus 
Community Coalition, a local 
group dedicated to reducing 
alcohol-related harm, to train 
local business owners to rec-
ognize and successfully inter-
vene in harmful situations.

“We are really excited about 

this project because we are 
taking our bystander inter-
vention efforts off of cam-
pus and into the community 
where often the trajectory of 
harm begins,” said Holly Rid-
er-Milkovich, director of the 
University’s Sexual Assault 
Prevention 
and 
Awareness 

Thursday’s session 

will also focus 

on deer cull plan, 

sustainability

By LEA GIOTTO

Daily Staff Reporter

The Ann Arbor City Council 

will meet Thursday to consider 
resolutions on several topics, 
including a complaint related to 
the University fraternity Alpha 
Sigma Phi, a deer cull, the city’s 
energy and sustainability and the 
purchase of vehicles for the Ann 
Arbor Fire Department.

Possible investigation of fra-

ternity nuisance complaints

Council will vote on wheth-

er to approve a resolution that 
would permit City Attorney Ste-
phen Postema to investigate nui-
sance complaints at Alpha Sigma 
Phi’s fraternity house on 920 
Baldwin Ave.

The resolution is sponsored by 

Councilmember Stephen Kunsel-
man (D–Ward 3). On Wednesday, 
Kunselman told the Daily he 
wouldn’t comment on the issue 
until Thursday’s meeting.

Resolution to allow the posses-

sion and discharge of weapons in 
public places for deer cull

The council will also address 

the city’s deer management pro-
gram Thursday night, as the 
representatives will vote on a 
resolution to allow a temporary 
moratorium on Chapter 115 of the 
city code. The chapter prohibits 
the possession and discharge of 
weapons in public places, and a 
temporary moratorium would 
allow a deer cull in Wards 1 and 2 
of Ann Arbor this winter.

The cull would be carried out 

“at night with noise-suppressed 
firearms using trained person-
nel with experience in conduct-
ing a cull in an urban setting,” 
according to Thursday’s meeting 
agenda.

On Aug. 17, the City Council 

adopted a deer management pro-

At 20th annual 

Waggoner lecture, 

president talks 

campus misconduct

By NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT

Daily Staff Reporter

University President Mark 

Schlissel delivered the 20th 

Annual Raymond W. Waggoner 
Lectureship on Ethics and Val-
ues in Medicine on Thursday. 
The topic he chose to discuss: 
sexual misconduct.

An audience of medical pro-

fessionals and a handful of stu-
dents crowded the University 
Hospital’s Ford Auditorium for 
the lecture, named for the late 
Raymond Waggoner, professor 
emeritus and chairman of the 
Department of Psychiatry.

Schlissel’s 
lecture, 
titled 

“Making U-M Safer for Stu-
dents: Confronting the Chal-
lenge of Sexual Misconduct,” 
mainly focused on the obstacles 
facing the investigation of sexual 
assault on campus.

“Although there are ethics in 

all aspects of science, I’ve decid-
ed to speak about a topic that I’ve 
been dealing with a lot as a Uni-
versity president,” he said. “It 

Research could pave 
way for developing 
immunotherapy 

treatments

By ALEXA ST. JOHN

Daily Staff Reporter

When 
cancer 
cells 
and 

immune T-cells compete for 
glucose, more commonly known 
as sugar, cancer cells will win, 
according to new University 
research. According to the study, 
which was released Tuesday, the 
competition results in unhealthy 
immune system T-cells that are 
unable to fight the cancer.

Conducted 
by 
researchers 

from the University’s Medical 
School, the study focused on 
the human cancer microenvi-
ronment, which holds the key 
to understanding the immune 
system’s response to cancer-
ous tumors and the patient’s 
response to therapy.

See MICHIGAN, Page 7A

See GRANTS, Page 3A

See COUNCIL, Page 3A
See ETHICS, Page 2A
See CANCER, Page 2A

GOVERNMENT

MEETING PREVIEW
MEDICINE

DAVID SONG/Daily

At Ford Auditorium on Wednesday, University President Mark Schlissel discussed University actions and policies on 
sexual assault and outlined plans to decrease overall incidences. 

MARINA ROSS/Daily

LEFT: Michigan alum Dani Vignos, the owner of University Flower Shop, arranges a bouquet on Wednesday. CENTER: Ali A. Amiri carries on daily tasks at the Persian House of Imports, which he owns. 
RIGHT: Washtenaw Community College student Miles Larson browses through vinyl at Encore Records. 

BUSINESS A S USUAL

See PROMISE, Page 3A

Grant to 
offer bars 
bystander 
training

Bill to expand Mich. promise zones

A2 Council to 
consider frat 
investigation

Schlissel highlights sexual
assault in lecture on ethics 

Study finds 
cancer cells 
beat T-cells
for glucose

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