expected to cross their legs and
take up as little space as possible.
Rackham student Jessica Chen
said she was intrigued by the
topic and decided to attend the
seminar particularly to discuss
issues like the gender gap among
minority groups.
“I’ve always been interested
and
involved
in
women’s
rights,” Chen said. “I do a lot of
volunteering and the organization
I’m involved with, we’re very
interested in promoting a way
to lessen the gender gap and
for underrepresented minority
groups.”
In addition to discussion of
personal experiences and ways
to
resolve
workplace
issues
resulting from microaggressions,
the seminar also focused on
progress made in recent years
in gender equality. Many of the
statistics in the presentation
pertained to those in STEM
fields — science, technology,
engineering
and
math
—
including that women make up 20
percent of engineering graduates,
but only make up 11 percent of the
engineering workforce.
Rackham
student
Jamie
Do,
who
also
attended
the
seminar, said she wanted to
better understand how these
microagressions and stereotypes
play out in everyday life.
“I thought the title sounded
interesting, and it would be neat
to recognize how people view
others and find out how to take
away what I learn here to break
down those barriers for my own
sake,” Do said.
Ashleigh
Bell,
a
student
administration assistant for the
Center
for
Entrepreneurship,
said the center decided to start
the seminar series in the College
of Engineering because of the
significant gender disparity in
those fields.
“I really believe in the power
of entrepreneurship as a means
of empowering everyone, but
especially women and individuals
who are underrepresented in
STEM,” Bell said. “I want them
to really pursue their goals,
whether that be starting your
own company someday, working
for a startup or innovating within
an existing industry.”
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meetings to address
potential issues
By BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
At an open house held to discuss
theproposed plan for the Ann
Arbor Connector Thursday night,
local residents raised concerns
about the University of Michigan’s
financial role in the joint project
and how much city residents stand
to benefit.
The proposed Connector would
either take the form of a light rail,
a type of public transport similar
to a tramway, or a high-capacity
bus service. The rail would link
the southern end of Ann Arbor
from Briarwood Mall, through
the University’s Central, Medical
and North Campuses, to the city’s
northern extreme at US-23 and
Plymouth Road.
Thursday night’s meeting was
the second held regarding the
connector — another was held
earlyier in the day. During both,
city and University officials met
with community members and
students to discuss the project.
According to representatives
of AECOM, the consulting firm
hired to manage the project, the
preliminary study on the light rail
is complete, and public input will
be collected before the next phase
will proceed. The entire process of
design finalization, procurement
and construction is estimated to
take between six and 12 years.
Jeremy
Winsor,
one
of
the
AECOM
representatives,
described the Briarwood Mall-
Plymouth Road corridor as the
busiest transportation corridor in
the entire state of Michigan — with
28 percent of the city’s residents
and 51 percent of the city’s jobs
within walking distance of the
proposed path — and the place
where most of the city’s future
growth would take place.
He also noted that current bus
traffic between downtown Ann
Arbor and North Campus — at one
bus every 90 seconds per stop and
50,000 daily trips — has exhausted
existing road capacity.
Winsor said the project is
expected to reduce travel times
along the corridor by 43 percent
and
increase
rider
capacity
by 52 percent, at an estimated
cost of $500 to $700 million for
construction and an 8 percent
increase in annual transportation
operations expenditures by the
city and University.
“If you were to go online to
the
(Federal
Transportation
Administration) and look at all
the new projects they have around
the country in major metropolitan
areas, this project, for the amount
of ridership, ends up looking like a
bargain,” Winsor said, adding that
a combination of state and federal
grants would also likely pay a large
portion of the cost.
However, many of the residents
in attendance expressed concerns
about whether the University
would be the primary beneficiary
of the connector at the expense of
city taxpayers.
Ann
Arbor
resident
Vince
Caruso pointed out the majority
of traffic along the proposed
connector route is University
students, saying the University
should therefore pay a larger
share of the costs, drawing nods of
approval from the crowd.
“This is really a U of M corridor;
this is not an Ann Arbor corridor
…and that’s fine,” Caruso said.
“Maybe they should be asked to
step up and provide a lot more
funding than they previously
stated they would.”
Jim
Kosteva,
community
relations director for the University,
acknowledged residents’ concerns.
In an interview, he said the
University intends to pay for
75 percent ofthe next phase of
environmental reviews, and to
continue to financially contribute
in subsequent phases. However,
he said the exact amount the
University would contribute for
the entire project is still to be
determined.
“It’s
unquestionable
that
University
ridership
will
be
a primary beneficiary of this
project,” Kosteva said. “We’ve paid
for that system today, and we’re
prepared to pay a proportional cost
for any future system.”
Caruso — who said he has many
family members who work or study
at the University — added after the
meeting that most of the proposed
stops along the connector route
are only at University locations,
further limiting how much it could
benefit city residents.
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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan baseball
team plays its first
home game Friday at
4 p.m. at Ray Fisher Stadium.
The Wolverines will host
Illinois-Chicago four times
this weekend.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Katie Hill
talk
WHAT: Katie Hill will
share her experiences
as the first openly
transgender person to
graduate high school in the
state of Oklahoma. Today
Hill is an author, activist,
model and student.
WHO: LGBT Michigan
WHEN:6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Chemistry
Building, room 1800
Belgian
officials
have
arrested
six
people
involved with the suicide
bombings in Brussels
on Tuesday, according to
Reuters. ISIS has claimed
responsibility for the airport
bombings
that
killed
31
individuals
and
wounded
around 270.
1
MFA open
house
WHAT: Three first-year
Masters of Fine Arts
candidates will display
their work.
WHO: Penny W. Stamps
School
WHEN: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Stamps Graduate
Studios
Poor
Yoric
is
not
the
only
ancient
skull above ground.
Shakespeare’s
skull
is missing from his grave,
Reuters
reported.
Kevin
Colls, an archaeologist at
Staffordshire
University,
said the head was likely stolen
at some point in history.
3
Etiquette
Luncheon
WHAT: The Center for
Campus Involvement
will host an instructional
business etiquette
luncheon.
WHO: The Center for
Campus Involvement
WHEN: 11 a.m.
to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
League, Koessler Room
Birds of
Chicago
WHAT: A folk music
performance by the band
Birds of Chicago. Their
music is a modern take on
traditional gospel music.
The band was formed in
2012 and features Allison
Russell and JT Nero.
WHO: Michigan Union
Ticket Office
WHEN: 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark, 316 S.
Main St.
Bill Baxter
linguistics
Lecture
WHAT: Professor of
Chinese Linguistics at
the University will give
a talk titled “Bayesian
Approahes to Indo-
European Phylogeny.”
WHO: Department
of Linguistics
WHEN: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: Lorch
Hall, room 403
Discussion
on Castilian
Spanish
WHAT: University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign prof.
Jose Ignacio Hualde will
give a talk on the language.
WHO: Romance Languages
and Literatures
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Hutchins
Hall, room 250
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Economic
theory talk
WHAT: Jay Lu from the
University of California
Los Angeles will present a
Bayesian theory of state-
dependent utilities.
WHO: Economic Theory
WHEN: 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Lorch Hall, room
301
EIHS
symposium
WHAT: The History
Department will host
a panel discussion on
past challenges and new
initiatives with history
graduates.
WHO: Eisenberg
Institute for Historical
Studies
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
WHERE: Tisch Hall,
room 1014
News
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Ann Arbor resident Tim Rexin speaks with Hank Kelley, an AECOM transportation planner, about handicap accessibility concerns at an information session on
plans for a light rail train system in Ann Arbor at the Ann Arbor District Library Thursday afternoon.
PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
RYAN MCLOUGHLIN /Daily
LSA sophomore Madeline McCabe speaks with passerbys about the Red Cross
International Humanitarian Law Action Campaign on the Diag Thursday.
AVA RANDA/Daily
Dance 2XS performs at the NewMICH Speak Out on the Diag Monday.