gram to “reduce human health 
and safety risks and property 
damage” caused by deer within 
city limits.

If the moratorium is approved, 

the cull will be carried out largely 
by Wildlife Services, a program 
within the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture’s Animal and Plant 
Health Inspection Service.

A resolution authorizing the 

city’s involvement with Wildlife 
Services will also be presented at 
Thursday’s meeting.

Amendment to Clean Energy 

Coalition contract

City Council will also consider 

an amendment to the city’s con-
tract with the Clean Energy Coali-
tion to plan for the city’s approach 

to sustainability.

The amendment would further 

many of the goals set forth in the 
council’s sustainability frame-
work — which was adopted as part 
of the city’s master plan in Febru-
ary 2013. Out of the 16 goals the 
framework presents, the amend-
ment seeks to further six of them: 
energy conservation, sustainable 
buildings, diverse housing, eco-
nomic vitality, sustainable energy 
and engaged community.

Implementing the provisions 

of the amendment would cost the 
city $85,000, a sum that was allo-
cated to the operations and main-
tenance budget when the city’s 
budget for 2016 was approved.

Resolution for purchase of 

vehicles for Fire Department

The council will also a resolu-

tion to approve the purchase of 
three sport utility vehicles.

The city would by the cars from 

the Grand Rapids Berger Chevro-
let for a total of $63,129.

All three of the vehicles would 

be assigned to the Ann Arbor Fire 
Department. More specifically, 
two of the cars will be assigned 
to the assistant fire chiefs so they 
can “respond to emergency scenes 
when necessary,” and “travel to 
and from business meetings and 
work related events,” according to 
the agenda item.

The third car will be used by 

the department’s field opera-
tions unit for “transportation of 
administrative staff … to inves-
tigate and respond to issues that 
arise in the field.”

The city would gift the vehicles 

to their fire department recipients 
in lieu of automobile stipends. For 
that reason, the fire department’s 
budget will fund the purchases.

NEWS BRIEFS

Bentley Historical 
Library acquires 
papers of former 
Sen. Carl Levin

The 
University’s 
Bentley 

Historical Library announced 
Wednesday that papers from 
the 36-year career of former 
U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D–
Mich.) will be permanently 
housed in its archives.

Levin, who has served six 

terms in the Senate, donated the 
materials, which will include 
legislation, letters, photos and 
memos dating to 1952, the year 
he graduated from Detroit Cen-
tral High School. Levin did 
not seek reelection in 2014 and 
was succeeded by Gary Peters, 
a Democrat from Bloomfield 
Twp.

The historical library cur-

rently preserves records and 
documents from the terms of 
more than a dozen U.S. sena-
tors, 17 members of the U.S. 
House and 31 Michigan gover-
nors. Earlier this year, former 
U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D–
Mich.) donated his papers to the 
University. Dingell, whose wife 
Debbie Dingell (D–Mich.) now 
represents his former district, 
was the longest serving House 
Representative until his retire-
ment in 2015.

University receives 
$5 million in funds 
for brain research

The University will receive 

$5 million from the Nation-
al 
Science 
Foundation 
for 

brain research, the University 
announced Tuesday. Experts 
in 
sensor 
technology, 
data 

analysis, electronics and neu-
roscience will use the funds 
to research discoveries about 
brain activity at a the single-
neuron level and train inter-
national 
neuroscientists 
and 

engineers.

The grant was awarded under 

the Partnerships for Interna-
tional Research and Education 
program, and will support the 
participation of 55 students and 
researchers in an international 
exchange program.

After completing neurosci-

ence 
and 
neurotechnology 

“boot camps” hosted at the Uni-
versitorty, 40 undergraduate 
students will attend collaborat-
ing institutions to participate 
in summer research projects. 
The grant also allows 15 gradu-
ate students or postdoctoral 
researchers from U.S. labs to 
work in a collaborating lab.

Questions about brain func-

tion will be answered by opto-
electrodes, technology capable 
of 
measuring 
signals 
from 

nerves that influence brain 
activity.

Collaborators in the five-year 

project will include scientists 
and researchers from Singa-
pore, South Korea, New York, 
Puerto Rico, the United King-
dom and Germany.

The project aims to stimu-

late and measure neurons with 
new technology purchased by the 
funding with the hope of improv-
ing the quality of data.

Munger Residence 
Hall achieves gold

The 
newly-opened 
Munger 

Graduate Residence Hall has 
earned a LEED gold certifica-
tion from the U.S. Green Build-
ing Council. The program honors 
buildings for achievements in 
sustainability building construc-
tion and stands for Leadership 
in Environmental and Energy 
Design. 

Several 
campus 
buildings 

are already certified gold LEED 
structures, including the Dana 
Building and the Law School 
South Academic Building.

The residence hall opened in 

the fall. 

—JACKIE CHARNIGA

The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
News
Thursday, November 5, 2015 — 3A

COUNCIL
From Page 1A

Students’ eligibility and the 

amount of tuition they receive 
varies depending on the prom-
ise zone. Like in Kalamazoo, the 
number of years a student has 
attended school in the district, 
as well as whether or not they 
have achieved a certain GPA, are 
among the factors employed as 
determinants.

Michigan communities with 

a poverty level for families with 
children under the age of 18 that 
meets or exceeds the state aver-
age, can hold a public hearing 
and submit a request to the state 
government for promise zone 
consideration.

The new legislation would not 

change the way promise zones 
are chosen in the state of Michi-
gan, but simply increase their 
number.

State Sen. Goeff Hansen (R–

Hart), who sponsored the leg-
islation, hopes it will increase 

college enrollment in the state of 
Michigan.

“Passage of this legislation 

will increase access to higher 
education opportunities for eli-
gible students across the state,” 
Hansen said in an e-mail to The 
Michigan Daily. “This will be 
another tool for our students to 
be part of a more educated work-
force and be able to compete in a 
global economy.”

For 
context, 
Washtenaw 

County had a poverty rate of 15.4 
percent in 2013 — slightlybelow 
the state average of 16.8 percent, 
meaning it’s likely districts in 
the county would likely qualify 
for promise zone consideration.

When the state program was 

created in 2009, they received 
14 requests to fill 10 slots. Many 
of the promise zones created 
through the state bill after the 
Kalamazoo Promise — such 
as the Baldwin Promise Zone 
— focus on funding two-year 
degrees versus four-year pro-
grams.

Studies on the effects of prom-

ise zones show the program had 
positive impacts on communities 
in regard to the economy and 
district enrollment. A 2007 Cen-
ter for Local, State and Urban 
Policy study through the Univer-
sity was performed too early to 
say definitively that the Kalama-
zoo Promise has had a positive 
impact on the local and state 
economy, but positive indicators 
— such as the likelihood for stu-
dents who go to college in-state 
to remain there post-graduation 
— are noted in the report.

The study found an overall 

increase in enrollment in Kalam-
azoo Public Schools. Further, 
minority enrollment increased 
at a greater rate. The CLOSUP 
study also indicated students 
who participated in the Kalama-
zoo Promise were more likely to 
have college aspirations.

“The researchers concluded 

that the Promise (a) increased 
the likelihood of students apply-
ing to college, (b) increased the 
likelihood of students applying 
to Michigan colleges and uni-

versities, (c) permitted students 
to choose higher-quality post-
secondary institutions and (d) 
increased the likelihood of low-
income students applying to a 
4-year college and decreased 
the likelihood of these students 
applying to a 2-year college,” the 
study says.

Meredith Billings, a doctoral 

candidate in the Center for the 
Study of Higher and Postsec-
ondary Education, is working 
to evaluate promise zones for 
her dissertation. She said her 
research so far coincides with 
many of the findings in the CLO-
SUP study.

“I think the idea of the MI 

promise zones are definitely 
innovative given that they are 
targeted at communities that 
have a higher percentage of 
families living in poverty and 
tend to have lower college-going 
rates than other communities in 
Michigan,” Billings wrote in an 
e-mail to the Daily. “The hope is 
these promise zones will be able 
to foster a college-going culture 

within the local schools and be 
able to revitalize the community 
through increasing the educa-
tion levels of its residents and 
attracting new businesses to the 
area.”

After Michigan voters banned 

the use of affirmative action, 
colleges 
like 
the 
University 

have struggled to enroll under-
represented minority students. 
According to Fall 2015 data from 
the Office of the Registrar, Black 
enrollment at the University is 
4.1 percent. The University has 
recently launched several new 
scholarship programsof their 
own with the aim of enrolling a 
more diverse class of students.

“Passage of this legislation 

will increase access to higher 
education opportunities for eli-
gible students across the state,” 
Hansen wrote. “This will be 
another tool for our students to 
be part of a more educated work-
force and be able to compete in a 
global economy.”

PROMISE
From Page 1A

Center.

The grant stems from the gov-

ernor’s Campus Sexual Assault 
Grant Program, an initiative 
designed to help Michigan col-
leges and universities fund addi-
tional sexual assault prevention 
resources. Of the 33 colleges and 
universities that applied for fund-
ing in October, 23 received a por-
tion of the $500,000.

According to a press release, 

the grant aims to change the cul-
ture of sexual assault among col-
lege students. Universities and 
colleges submitted proposals for 
specific projects which fostered 
collaboration, innovative ideas 
and encouraged student involve-
ment.

“In Michigan we have a proven 

track record of working together 
to tackle the tough issues and 
solve problems,” Snyder said in 
the press release. “This funding 
is an important step in working to 
ensure the long-term safety and 
success of our state’s students.”

The University is the second 

school to employ a bar bystander 
intervention program, after the 
University of Iowa. 

“It’s a promising new approach 

and it represents significant new 
efforts in the area,” Rider-Milkov-
ich said. “We are extremely excit-
ed that the selection committee 
chose this project to be funded.”

The University’s satellite cam-

puses in Flint and Dearborn also 
received funding through the 
program — the Dearborn cam-
pus received $38,016 and the Flint 
campus received $29,363.

GRANTS
From Page 1A

 STORY
SLAM

The Daily aims to tell the story of campus, 
Ann Arbor, the state, and our society at large. 
But the Daily also wants to hear from you. 
What do you want to tell?

Friday, November 20 
7:00 to 9:00 p.m. 
420 Maynard St.

The Michigan Daily invites 
storytellers of all kinds to join 
us for a our first community story slam. 

Send entries to Sam Gringlas at gringlas@umich.edu by Nov. 13. 
Pieces should be limited to three minutes in length. 

We want to hear your 
poetry, short stories, essays -- 
anything you can read or perform aloud. 

