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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City, University 
officials hold two 
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.
>> SEE SPORTS on 7

2

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. 

