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LSA junior Erin Dunne campaigns for her student organization,
Students for Sensible Drug Policy, at the Winterfest club fair
sponsored by the Center for Campus Involvement at the Union
on Tuesday.
The Powerball lottery
jackpot is now at $1.5
billion for Wednesday’s
drawing, CNBC reported.
No winners were announced
Saturday and more than $159
million was distributed to 18
million players.
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
De-Stress
on the Diag
WHAT: Free hot chocolate
and cookies will be
handed out in the Diag
to celebrate the start
of the new semester.
WHO: Center for
Campus Involvement
WHEN: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: The Diag
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
University bans hoverboards
Oklahoma State University
recently joined dozens of schools
in banning hoverboards — self-
balancing motor devices — in OSU
housing.
The O’Colly reported on a
school-wide e-mail Friday detail-
ing the prohibition of hoverboards
and the reasons behind this deci-
sion.
The e-mail cited a December
2015 Consumer Product Safety
Commission statement that
warned consumers of safety
defects to the hoverboard. Many
hoverboards have caught fire
while in use, causing serious inju-
ries.
Leon McClinton, the director
of housing and residential life at
Oklahoma State University, vowed
to be as risk-averse as possible
in regard to student safety. He
said OSU could not afford to take
chances with these potentially
dangerous items.
Stanford researchers invent
new battery
The Stanford Daily reported
Monday researchers at Stanford
University have invented the first
lithium-ion battery immune to
overheating.Current models of
lithium-ion batteries are often
prone to overheating, thus causing
fires in items such as cargo planes
and hoverboards.
Zhenan Bao, Stanford professor
of engineering, Stanford engineer
Yi Cui and postdoctoral scholar
Zheng Chen developed a system
with a polyethylene film embed-
ded with nickel particles to com-
bat the safety hazard, according to
the Stanford Daily.
When the polyethylene film
expands due to heat, the nickel
particles spread apart and stop
the electric current from flow-
ing, avoiding overheating and the
subsequent problems associated
with it.
Many colleges that have
banned hoverboards exclusively
in residential halls are waiting for
more information before banning
them campuswide. If implement-
ed, Stanford’s explosion-proof
battery may convince consumers
and academics nationwide of the
hoverboard’s safety, and may reig-
nite the hoverboard revolution on
college campuses.
—EMILY DAVIES
ROCK ON!
THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
This week Daily staff
reporter explored the
options for HIV testing
at the University and in
the Ann Arbor community.
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On Tuesday a terrorist
attack in Istanbul killed
at least nine German
visitors, and wounded
15 other tourists, CNN
reported. Ahmet Davutoglu,
the Turkish Prime Minister,
blamed ISIS for the attack.
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Rising from
the Rubble talk
WHAT: The chief curator
of the core exhibit at POLIN
in Warsaw will talk about
her work in creating a
museum for the history
of the Polish Jews.
WHO: Judaic Sudies
WHEN: 5:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
WHERE: UMMA
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THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
MONDAY:
This Week in History
TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
Free swing
dance lesson
WHAT: There will be a
free drop in lesson for those
new to swing dance, with
a social dance starting at 9
p.m. to follow the lesson.
WHO: Swing Ann Arbor
WHEN: 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
League, Vandenberg Room
“Documented”
screening
WHAT: The CNN
documentary
“Documented” will
kick off the Solidarity
in Action campaign.
WHO: Latina/o Studies
WHEN: 5:45 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: School of
Social Work building
Nourish
YourSELF
WHAT: The first of four
discussions in the Nourish
YourSELF lunch series
is designed to empower
women of color.
WHO: Multi-Ethnic
Student Affairs
WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: West
Quadrangle, the Connector
Resume
review night
WHAT: The Career
Center will host
extended hours during
which undergraduate
students can bring their
resumes for review.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: The Career
Center Office
Using Women
lecture
WHAT: Guest Lecturer
Nancy Campbell discusses
what has changed in
gender, drug policy and
social justice since writing
her book 15 years ago.
WHO: Department of
Women’s Studies
WHEN: Today from
2:10 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.
WHERE: Lane Hall
Black Lives
Matter talk
WHAT: Alicia Garza,
the co-creator of the
movement and hashtag
#BlackLivesMatter,
will lecture as part
of the Martin Luther
King Jr. Symposium.
WHO: University Housing
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre
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Federal judge rejects injunction
to suspend Ann Arbor deer cull
CSG outlines budget, talks
progress for second term
Plaintiffs requested
temporary injunction
due to public safety
concerns
By BRIAN KUANG and CAMY
METWALLY
Daily Staff Reporters
A legal motion aiming to halt
the city’s deer cull was shot down
by a federal judge after a court
hearing Monday afternoon.
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,several protests and
now, legal action.
The Detroit Federal District
Court ruled against the plaintiffs
of Sanzotta et al vs. City of Ann
Arbor et al’s motion for a prelimi-
nary injunction — a legally bind-
ing court order granted before
the resolution of a lawsuit — that
would have compelled the city
to stop its planned cull until the
lawsuit is resolved. To receive
such an order, the plaintiffs
would have had to prove both
that they were likely to win the
suit and that irreversible damage
would occur if it was not granted.
In addition, Justice Arthur
Tarnow also declined to issue
a temporary restraining order.
Legal representatives from the
city, Michigan state govern-
ment and the U.S. Department of
Agriculture — the department’s
Wildlife Services is conducting
the cull — were all present at
the hearing to argue against the
motion. Representatives from
the plaintiffs were also present.
The judge gave the plaintiffs
another week to submit a revi-
sion, to which the defendants
would then be allotted 21 days
to reply. However, the plaintiffs
rejected the offer, and said they
intended to withdraw their com-
plaints from federal jurisdiction
and refile the case at the state
level.
All three defendant parties
claimed the plaintiffs met none of
the criteria needed to be granted
an injunction, and lacked stand-
ing to sue both the federal and
Michigan governments.
Assistant U.S. Attorney The-
resa Urbanic, who represented
the federal government, said the
plaintiffs lacked legal foundation
to win the suit in the response
she filed with the court.
“(The) plaintiffs’ complaint
runs nearly one hundred pages,
asserts eleven different claims
against a host of defendants, and
includes a laundry list of con-
stitutional
theories,”
Urbanic
wrote, referring to the lawsuit
filed by the plaintiffs. “Mere rep-
etition of constitutional labels …
cannot suffice to show a strong
likelihood of success on the mer-
its.”
In an interview, Barry Powers,
the attorney representing the
plaintiffs, reiterated the position
of his plaintiffs in response: that
the cull carries active hazards for
public safety and bypasses state
laws, and that there had been no
environmental assessment of the
cull though such an assessment
is federally mandated.
“Under what principle of law
do they justify their activities?,”
Powers said. “We’ve assumed
that somebody would eventually
step up and answer that ques-
tion. But so far all we’ve been met
with are legal technicalities and
assurances.”
Stephen
Postema,
Ann
Arbor City Attorney, wrote in a
response filed with the court that
issuing an injunction to halt the
cull would harm public interest
and that no state laws were being
bypassed.
“Allowing the cull to proceed
does not damage, but actually
furthers, the State policy permit-
ting municipalities to exercise
their valid police powers to man-
age and control wildlife nuisanc-
es,” Postema wrote. “The City
adopted the Deer Management
Plan to alleviate these nuisances
as a matter of public health, safe-
ty, and welfare.”
Plaintiff Sabra Sanzotta said
in an interview the judge was pri-
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CSG President Cooper Charlton, an LSA senior, speaks at a CSG meeting in the Michigan Union on Tuesday.
Executives urge
representatives to
accomplish their
campaign objectives
By ANNA HARITOS
Daily Staff Reporter
In their first session of the
semester, Central Student Gov-
ernment reflected their perfor-
mance last semester and made
plans for their budget Tuesday
night.
CSG president Cooper Charl-
ton, an LSA senior, asked the
body’s representatives to look
inward when gauging the effec-
tiveness of the previous semes-
ter.
“I said three things at the
beginning of the (fall) semester,”
Charlton said. “That was confi-
dence, respect and execution.”
Cooper said to accomplish
their objectives this semester,
the assembly must trust and
respect itself as a body. He said
making goals a reality was some-
thing he had hoped to see more
of in the fall semester.
“Execution looks like reflec-
tion: looking at yourself in the
mirror and asking ‘What did I
run on, have I done it,’ and actu-
ally answering that question
honestly,” Charlton said. “We
have one more semester to make
it happen and I hope we can do it
together.”
Speaking to accomplishments,
Charlton highlighted the launch
of u-clubs, a website he co-creat-
ed with LSA junior Aaron Jones
designed to simplify communica-
tions between students and the
student organizations on campus.
“It’s like a Craigslist for stu-
dent unions,” he said. “What it
does is it takes Festifall and Win-
terfest and puts it online — some-
thing I’m very excited about.”
Budget plans
Business senior Kevin Ziegler,
CSG treasurer, announced the
budget for the winter semester.
He highlighted the Student Orga-
nization Funding Commission’s
successes in particular in allocat-
ing almost all of their funds in the
previous semester.
“Their total from the semester,
their absolute final was 99.85% of
their $200,000 budget,” he said.
“They came within $300 of their
allotted amount.”
Speaking to the proposed bud-
get for the semester, Ziegler said
he looked at where there had
been leftover money and pro-
posed a shift in the distribution
slightly, due to mandatory alloca-
tions and SOFC’s success.
“My personal goal is to extend
as much money as possible that
the students are paying us as long
as they’re here at the University,”
he said. “I’m proposing a 5 per-
cent increase to SOFC; this is, one,
as a result to their tremendous
result in the fall, in addition to a
predicted increase in requests
from student organization in the
winter semester.”
CSG brought a resolution to
the floor to enact their budget for
the winter semester Tuesday, and
a resolution to amend the com-
piled code’s budget allocation to
the assembly floor.
Guest Speakers
Guest speaker Brittney Wil-
liams, chair of the Student
Engagement
Commission,
addressed the assembly on the
progress of the commission.
“We are trying to increase
administration and University
support for each of these demo-
graphics: international, transfer
and non-traditional,” she said.
See CSG, Page 3A
See CULL, Page 3A