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Students express
concerns over
functionality, name
of planned building
By CAMY METWALLY
Daily Staff Reporter
A planned relocation of the
Trotter Multicultural Center
to Central Campus has gar-
nered mixed reactions from
the
University
community
ranging from excitement to
apprehension.
On Dec. 17, The University’s
Board of Regents approved a
proposal to relocatethe Trot-
ter Multicultural Center, cur-
rently located on Washtenaw
Avenue, to State Street in an
area behind Betsy Barbour and
Helen
Newberry
Residence
Halls on Central Campus.
In Winter 2014, the Black
Student Union called for the
relocation of Trotter as part
of the #BBUM movement — a
student-driven campaign shar-
ing the experiences of Black
students on campus.
After the years of public
discourse on the issue, many
students lauded the approval,
including Rackham student
Austin McCoy.
McCoy, a leader of Ann Arbor
to Ferguson, a protest group
advocating against police bru-
tality, said he welcomed the
accessibility and visibility of
the new location. He noted that
replacing the current multicul-
tural center with a facility on
Central Campus illustrates the
importance of issues of inclu-
sion and equity.
“I think students of color
and some various underrep-
resented backgrounds need to
have a space that’s more acces-
sible than on the margins of
campus,” McCoy said. “I think
Trotter’s
current
location
actually symbolizes how stu-
dents feel marginalized within
the University.”
While McCoy added that he
University
community
reacts to
new Trotter
See TROTTER, Page 2A
DIVERSITY
Engineering panel stresses
faculty-student mentorship
Workshop features
remarks from current
graduate students,
professor
By ISOBEL FUTTER
Daily Staff Reporter
A handful of engineering fac-
ulty members spent Tuesday
morning in the Lurie Engineer-
ing Center the day before Winter
Semester classes began participat-
ing in a program called “Working
with Graduate Students”.
The event, held by the Center
for Research on Learning and
Teaching, aimed to give newly
hired faculty a chance to learn
how to interact with the Engineer-
ing graduate students they may be
doing research with and mentor-
ing.
Though the event catered to
new faculty, some of the attendees
had been worked at the Univer-
sity for a few years. The program
included a series of speakers, pan-
els and activities for the event’s
participants.
Tershia Pinder-Grover, one of
the event’s coordinators and Inter-
im Director at CRLT in Engineer-
ing, said the event was a great way
for faculty to gain an appreciation
for the complexities of being a
mentor to students.
“Many of the faculty have come
from a background where they’ve
been the mentee, they’ve been the
student, but they haven’t had as
many opportunities to really think
carefully and intentionally about
how to mentor,” Pinder-Grover
said.
Pinder-Grover said CRLT runs
a series of events during the year
to help acclimate faculty to their
new roles.
“Our goals are to provide them
with resources that are very rel-
evant for their first few years in
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Engineering Prof. Steve Skerlos speaks about mentorship strategies to faculty participants at the New Faculty Fellows Program run by the College of Engineering in
the Johnson rooms of the Lurie Engineering Center on Tuesday.
See PANEL, Page 3A
CSG reflects
on first term,
prepares for
new initiatives
In sit-down with
the Daily, assembly
members discuss
goals for winter term
By JACKIE CHARNIGA
Daily News Editor
As Central Student Govern-
ment moves into the winter
semester, its work in the fall
includes both achievements and
several campaign goals left short.
CSG President Cooper Charl-
ton, an LSA senior, began the fall
semester focusing on the goals
outlined on his Make Michigan
campaign platform, the same
ticketupon which former CSG
President Bobby Dishell cam-
paigned last year.
Charlton and Vice President
Steven Halperin, an LSA junior,
campaigned on promises to make
the University safe for students
on and off campus, diversify the
student population and create
more cultural awareness. Make
Michigan, as a party, promised
to make headway on increasing
convenience in campus transpor-
tation and increasing student-led
participation initiatives.
Among the plans put into
motion
last
semester,
CSG
amended the Statement of Stu-
dent Rights and Responsibilities,
fought for the release of course
evaluations,
restructured
the
Student Organization Funding
Commission and planned a cam-
paign to bring awareness of pre-
scription drug misuse on campus.
Statement of Student Rights
and Responsibilities
In the first meeting of the fall
semester, Charlton said increas-
ing awareness of the Statement of
Student Rights and Responsibili-
ties was his main priority.
“The Statement Amendment
process and sexual misconduct
policy review are the things
that go unnoticed and seek no
applause, however are para-
mount in the protection of our
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
See CSG, Page 3A
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Councilmember Sabra Briere (D-Ward 1) reads the details of the deer cull ordinance at an Ann Arbor City Council
meeting at 220 N. Main St. on Monday.
Residents opposing deer
cull pack Council meeting
A2 residents say
resolution ignores
safety regulations
By BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
Emotions ran high at Monday
night’s City Council meeting
in response to a planned deer
cull in Ann Arbor, scheduled to
begin this week.
The meeting was housed tem-
porarily in the chamber of the
Washtenaw County Adminis-
tration Building due to renova-
tions in City Hall. Members of
the public packed the room and
spilled into the outlying hall-
way, many brandishing signs
expressing their opposition to
the city’s plan to kill a portion
of Ann Arbor’s deer population.
In September, City Council
approved a cull of up to 100 deer
in response to concerns about
the city’s growing deer popula-
tion. The move has prompted
controversy over the past sever-
al months, culminating in legal
action and several protests.
During the period for public
comments at the meeting, some
speakers accused Councilmem-
bers of irresponsibility, arguing
that public opinion and safety
regulations have been ignored
on this issue.
Ann Arbor resident Sabra
Three-year long
project sheds
light on macular
degeneration
By DESIREE CHEW
Daily Staff Reporter
A
team
of
University
researchers was instrumen-
tal in the discovery of 16 new
genetic variations for Age-
related Macular Degenera-
tion.
The
discovery
came
during one of that largest
experiments of its kind, con-
ducted over the course of a
three-year experiment of the
exome chip, or small portion
of the genome that if mutates
causes disease, through the
International AMD Genom-
ics Consortium.
AMD, also known as old-
age blindness, is one of the
leading
causes
of
vision
See CULL, Page 3A
See BLINDNESS, Page 3A
‘U’ part of
new study
on genetic
causes of
blindness
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