a gunman killed 49 people and
injured 53 other victims at a gay
nightclub.
“Not so long ago, Equality
Michigan probably wouldn’t have
been at this table,” he said. “LGBT
individuals are most likely to be
victims of hate crimes.”
Daniel Edinger, a gun owner
who attended the panel, said he
the discussion did not allow for
alternative ideas and only repeated
the same senitments.
“I
disagree
that
anything
presented here was a solution
to gun violence,” Edinger said.
“Terrorism, No-Fly List, none of
these things are going to keep guns
out of the hands that people who
shouldn’t have them. This was an
echo chamber. It wasn’t designed
to provide a forum about safety.
They didn’t invite any of the other
side, and this is nothing but anti-
gun. It seems a little disingenous to
me. The laws that are on the books
aren’t being enforced effectively.
That’s a good place to start.”
Despite
disagreements
on
processes, the panelists and most
audience members agreed on more
stringent regulations and continued
conversations surrounding guns.
“Even you guys here, coming
out, we need this,” Elahi said,
motioning to NRA members in the
audience. “We need to have honest
conversations.”
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strategy to help with limb motion in
people with diseases, like multiple
sclerosis.
Tou said the allotted time was
adequate since a portion of the
work was done beforehand.
“I think the scope is pretty
reasonable,” she said. “They had the
basic coding beforehand already, so
we are trying to use the wall data to
calculate the angle, which should
be doable in two days.”
Once the hacking ended, the
teams pitched their ideas to six
judges
from
healthcare-related
fields. The teams competed for
first, second and third place for
cash prizes.
First place was awarded to a
team that created child-friendly
mobile apps allowing children
to
get
involved
in
research
studies. The team in second-place
developed an app prototype for
patients
suffering
from
post-
traumatic stress disorder. Third
place went to Tou’s team for their
physical therapy program. The
winning teams were also awarded
Ann Arbor SPARK’s competitive
boot camp and The SearchLite’s
Customer
Discovery
Program,
which
offers
support
through
research consulting.
The
Frankel
Cardiovascular
Center at the University, one of
the event’s sponsors, gave out the
award
of
Best
Cardiovascular
Disease
Prevention
Solution
to the team that developed the
disease-diagnostic
strip.
The
People’s Choice award, which
went to the crowd favorite, was
awarded to a team that connected
transportation to grocery stores to
improve healthy food accessibility.
HACKATHON
From Page 2
stereotypes — such as that Black
men are disproportionately likely
to have criminal records — may be
true, but they’re not applicable to
one individual.
“In our case, when the law
removed
criminal
history
information from the application,
the employers appear to use the
race of the applicant to infer
whether they had a criminal
history — that is, they looked at
a Black applicant and assumed
they had a very high probability of
having a record but looked at white
applicants and assumed they had
a very low, if any, probability of
having a record,” Agan wrote.
“Due to this perception, they were
more likely to call back white
applicants than Black applicants
when there was no Box.”
Starr said making those race-
based assumptions is illegal, but
it’sdifficult to enforce hiring-
discrimination laws.
“Essentially, by taking away
the ability to discriminate on
criminal records, you are going to
get something maybe even worse,
which is to discriminate on the
basis of race because they are using
it as a proxy for criminal records,”
Starr said. “It may be an irrational
proxy that isn’t fair, gauging it on
exaggerated assumptions on the
rates at which Black males have
criminal records.”
White people with records
benefit from Ban the Box, but they
benefit at the expense of people
of color without records, Starr
explained.
Both Starr and Agan were
surprised by the increase in
the employed racial gap since
employers
were
eventually
allowed
to
run
background
checks.
“Although
we
suspected
this would happen due to some
past research and the theory
of statistical discrimination, it
wasn’t clear that employers would
change their behavior since they
could eventually do a background
check,” Agan wrote. “So our
results imply that at least some
employers perceive a very high
cost to interviewing people that
may potentially have records.”
Starr
said
some
potential
solutions to address this issue
were
to
erase
questions
on
applications that could indicate
race or to provide an incentive
for employers to hire those with
records; however, Starr said these
were just ideas and were not part
of the larger study.
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From Page 3
GUN CONTROL
From Page 3
accepted,
while
24.5
percent
of the 44,541 out-of-state and
international applicants to the
University were admitted.
University
spokesman
Rick
Fitzgerald said the increase to
6,600
freshman
enrolled
this
upcoming year was intentional,
and University provost Martha
Pollack
coordinated
with
University schools and divisions to
ensure adequate instructional and
housing capacity. With the hiring of
new faculty, creation of additional
intro-level course sections and
the completion of maintenance on
housing facilities, the University
will be able to accommodate more
than 6,000 students, unlike in
2014.
Fitzgerald said the decision
to increase class size was driven
by the continued growth of the
University’s
applicant
pool.
After switching to the Common
Application
—
an
application
students can use to apply to
hundreds of schools — in 2010,
the number of applicants to the
University immediately jumped
by 25 percent, and the number
of applicants has increased with
each consecutive year. In the
past six years, the annual number
of freshman applicants to the
University has increased by almost
24,000.
“The number of applications
continue to go up … and the
University wanted to legitimately
look at things carefully and say,
‘could
we
accommodate
more of these
students
showing
this
great
interest
in
coming
to
Michigan?’
” Fitzgerald said. “Could we
accommodate
them
without
stretching ourselves too thin or
at great additional expense? And
what the University has decided is
there is room for some growth as
long as we can manage it properly
and know what to expect.”
To
exercise
greater
control
over class size, the University’s
admissions office has reduced
the number of early admission
offers it grants
in
December,
placing
greater
emphasis
on
the
regular
decision
cycle
and the waitlist.
Fitzgerald
said
that doing so would grant the
admissions office greater flexibility
later in the admissions cycle, as
students who are accepted early
are more likely to matriculate.
“Doing fewer students who we
know will come ... helps to increase
the overall diversity of the class
as well and leaves some more
flexibility in the normal admissions
process,” he said.
In addition, Fitzgerald said the
University has reduced the lag time
between the release of admissions
decisions
and
financial
aid
information to further streamline
the admissions and matriculation
process,
allowing
prospective
students to have the necessary
information to commit to enrolling
at the University sooner.
“That really helps students make
a better-informed decision earlier
in the process,” Fitzgerald said.
“Reducing that gap of time really
helps students make their decisions
about coming to Michigan or not.”
ENROLLMENT
From Page 1
“The University has
decided there is room
for some growth”