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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:
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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-

GREG GOSS/Daily

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

