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SPORTS...................... 5A

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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
See OBAMA, Page 3A

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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