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WEATHER
TOMORROW
HI: 29
LO: 15
Same number of
cases investigated
despite 33-percent
increase
By CAMY METWALLY
Daily Staff Reporter
The Office for Institutional
Equity’s second annual sexual
misconduct report found the
number of reports of sexual
misconduct at the University has
increased 33 percent since 2014,
jumping from 129 incidents to 172
in 2015.
The report, released Thursday
morning, showed that though the
number of cases reported rose,
the number of investigations
remained unchanged. While 21
percent of cases received full
investigation in 2014, 17 percent
of cases were investigated this
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
President Barack Obama speaks about the Detroit auto show and the Flint water crisis during a speech at the UAW-GM center in Detroit on Wednesday.
President
highlights 2008
bailout for car
companies
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
DETROIT — In an effort to
highlight the success of the auto
industry bailout and its subsequent
recovery, President Barack Obama
visited the North American Auto
Show in Detroit and spoke at the
United Auto Workers and General
Motors Center on Wednesday.
In 2008, the auto industry was
nearing collapse as two of the three
major auto producers — General
Motors and Chrysler — faced
bankruptcy. Both companies are
headquartered in Detroit with
many manufacturing plants in and
around the city, providing many
jobs and supporting additional
industries
involved
in
auto
manufacturing and supply.
At the time of the bailout,
unemployment in Detroit had
peaked at more than 25 percent, and
a projected 1 million additional jobs
would have been lost had the auto
industry been allowed to collapse.
In
response
to
the
crisis,
Obama spearheaded a package
that provided $85 billion in loans
to the corporations to prevent
them from failing. The deal was
widely unpopular at the time, with
a March 2009 poll indicating 60
percent of Americans were opposed
to the government bailout.
On
Wednesday,
Obama
acknowledged this lack of support,
saying Obama he pushed the bailout
through regardless because he
believed it was the best decision.
“It wasn’t popular,” Obama
said. “It wasn’t even popular in
Detroit. But I said at the time I’m
not president to be popular. I’m
president to do what needs to be
done.”
Since the bailout, the auto
industry has paid back almost the
entirety of the loans and auto sales
have reached an all-time high at 17.4
million units in 2015, Obama said.
The spirit of liveliness that once
existed in Detroit is slowly coming
back, Obama said, as a result of the
auto industry’s recovery.
“Today you’ve got buses that are
running again, streets that are well
lit again,” he said. “You can feel the
difference. You can feel something
special happening in Detroit.”
The bailout agreement was tied
to several additional efficiency and
technology standards, which have
led to American auto producers
spearheading efforts into low-
SPORTS
Hackett talks
expanding
Maize Rage
Interim Athletic
Director also gives
update on search for
his successor
By LEV FACHER
Daily Sports Writer
As the shot clock reached six
seconds, the students standing
courtside at Crisler Center began
to count down — from nine. When
the buzzer sounded to signify a
shot-clock violation six seconds
later, Minnesota’s Joey King,
having
fallen
embarrassingly
for the oldest trick in the book,
flinched in surprise.
The impact of Michigan’s
courtside student section, the
Maize Rage, was readily apparent
Wednesday, and if Michigan
interim Athletic Director Jim
Hackett has his way, more
students will be seated courtside
in years to come, at least for select
high-profile games.
Hackett
discussed
the
student
seating
arrangement,
the University’s ongoing search
for a long-term athletic director
and more in an interview with
the Daily before the Michigan
men’s basketball team played
Minnesota.
Making himself comfortable
in the courtside seats that belong
to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder,
Hackett
surveyed
a
packed
student section and outlined
the basics for a plan that would
selectively
open
additional
lower-bowl sections to students
in future years.
“I think it’s the kind of thing
where some of the best fans
would be willing to trade for their
University and their students,”
Hackett said. “That’s the idea
— would you be willing to make
something special for them, get
recognition for it, and get it back?
But you give it to them for a game,
for an Ohio State or Duke.”
The idea, essentially, is for
season-ticket holders to offer
their seats in a coordinated
fashion for select high-profile
GRANT HARDY/Daily
LSA and business Senior Haider Malik speaks out regarding the recent violence in Pakistan at the Diag Wednes-
day.
Attendees discuss
ongoing violence,
cultural heritage
at Diag gathering
By RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Reporter
Students huddled around
candles
on
the
Diag
Wednesday night as a part of
a vigil in honor of 19 people
murdered by militants at
Bacha Khan University in
Pakistan Wednesday.
Organized
by
MPak,
a
student
organization
for
Pakistani students, the event
served as a space for more
than 40 attendees to reflect
on the tragedy and share their
personal connections to it.
The attack on the university,
located in the northern city of
Charsadda, occurred a little
over a year after a similar
shooting
in
Peshawar
in
which
about
150
people,
mostly schoolchildren, were
murdered by the Taliban in
an act of terrorism. Though
one Taliban commander has
claimed responsibility for the
Bacha Khan attack, according
to the BBC, Pakistani security
forces have yet to determine
definitively which militant
group carried it out.
MPak
President
Eman
Hijab,
an
LSA
senior,
compared the two assaults and
EnvoyNow brings
meals straight to
dorm rooms, library
By BECCA SOLBERG
Daily Staff Reporter
Though
Forbes
Magazine
reports that 90 percent of startups
fail overall, a startup new to the
University, EnvoyNow, is defying
the odds and flourishing in the
college market.
EnvoyNow is a student-run food
delivery service that came to Ann
Arbor this fall. The startup aims
to deliver local restaurant food
directly to the customer’s locations.
The delivery service says it is
the only service that can directly
deliver food to dorm rooms and
library study areas, and employs
students who have MCards to
deliver the food so they have access
to University buildings.
“We’ve had great reception so
far,” said LSA freshman Robin Elihu,
head of marketing for the University’s
See REPORT, Page 3A
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See HACKETT, Page 5A
See VIGIL, Page 3A
See START-UP, Page 3A
Sam Rosenberg delves into the world
of new millennial lingo to find out.
» INSIDE
Was the function lit?
Total Number of Sexual Misconduct Reports
Sexual Assault
Stalking
Sexual Harrassment
Retaliation
Other
129
172
68
97
35 43
11
15
Number of Sexual Misconduct
Reports made to the Office of
Institutional Equity
17
2014
2015
3 7
Source: University of Michigan Office of Institutional Equity
CRIME
‘U’: Reports
of sexual
misconduct
jump to 172
In Michigan visit, Obama
commends auto industry
Students hold vigil to honor
Pakistan shooting victims
Student run
start-up for
delivering
food thrives
BUSINESS
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