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SUDOKU..................... 2A

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Fun in the Sun

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

RESEARCH

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