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OPTIMISM
Pokemon Go captures A2
and University community
Leeser hopes
to shake up
City Council
in Ward 3 bid
CAMPUS LIFE
ANN ARBOR
Game benefits
players and
businesses but has
safety concerns
By
IRENE
PARK
and
MADELEINE GERSON
Summer Daily News Editor and Daily
Staff Reporter
University of Michigan students
and Ann Arbor residents, like the
rest of the world, are working hard
to catch ’em all.
Pokemon
Go,
a
game
app
developed
by
software
development company Niantic,
has captivated millions of players.
The game has already broken
several records, including the
number of downloads on the Apple
App Store during the first week of
release — 7.2 million downloads,
towering 2.2 million
downloads
for
Angry
Birds
2.
The
game
has
been downloaded
more than 40 million times on
the App Store and Google Play,
bringing in more than $45 million
in net revenue.
During the game, players walk
around the real world to catch
Pokemon — the game uses a
smartphone camera to detect the
Pokemon and the phone screen
to prompt the player to throw a
Pokeball to catch it. In addition,
players can walk to designated
locations called “PokeStops” to
collect items like Pokeballs, which
are required to catch Pokemon.
Recent LSA alum Roxanne
Ilagan said that she was first
attracted to the game because she
has been a fan of the franchise, but
she grew to like the game because
it encourages her to be more
physically active.
“I was a huge Pokemon fan
growing
up,
so
I
naturally
downloaded
the
app,”
Ilagan
said. “I really love the concept
of walking to new places for
Pokestops and Pokemon. The
other day, I walked all the way to
Gallup Park from Central Campus
… I walked 30 more miles last week
than what I usually do.”
Ilagan is one of the moderators
for a Facebook group called
Pokemon Go: Ann Arbor — a
group for Pokemon Go players
in Ann Arbor to share tips with
other players about where to find a
certain Pokemon, organize group-
playing events and establish a
“sense of community” among the
players. As of Wednesday, the
group had 463 members.
Not all students are Pokemon
Go fans, however. LSA sophomore
Davon Smith said there are too
many risks associated with the
game, so she did not download the
app.
“Playing Pokemon Go, you are
wandering into unknown places;
given that people know where
PokeStops are when they find
them themselves, anyone can have
access to your location and you can
become a target,” Smith said.
While Smith said the social
aspect of the game exposes players
to potential threats, Ilagan said
it actually encouraged her to
play. According to a Wall Street
Journalarticle, the game requires
that players show up in person at
PokeStops, so it catalyzes social
interaction among players.
“Without
the
game,
I
wouldn’t have had any reason
to talk to (the other players)
… I think it has definitely
influenced my decision to play
since I do think it’s significantly
more fun to meet people or walk
to new places with friends,”
Ilagan said.
While
Pokemon
Go
has
garnered
attention
for
its
social and health benefits, the
therapeutic uses of the game
may not be as well known. The
University
Health
System’s
C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
is utilizing the game as a
part of a therapy that enables
children with serious illnesses
to cope with treatment. USA
Today featured a video of
patients at Mott, many of whom
have not left their beds for
weeks, laughing while playing
Pokemon
Go
with
nurses,
doctors and other children.
Incumbent Warpehoski
hopes to maintain
pragmatic leadership
By BRIAN KUANG
Daily News Editor
Kevin Leeser, a nurse at the
University of Michigan Health
System, hopes his bid to unseat
incumbent City Councilmember
Chuck Warpehoski (D–Ward 3)
can shift the state of affairs in city
government to be more receptive
to the needs of constituents.
As a new father, Leeser says
he saw the traffic layout around
his neighborhood to be a hazard
to his children, as did many of
his neighbors. However, when he
pushed to lower the speed limit of
his residential streets to 25 mph
several years ago — among other
improvements to pedestrian safety
— Leeser said city government
was too slow to address the issue.
“Being a nurse, I see the actual
ramifications of these accidents
that were happening,” Leeser said,
noting there were three deaths
in Ann Arbor from pedestrian
accidents in 2015. “If (the public)
could see how serious some of
these accidents are … it’s head
injuries, lifelong injuries. To me,
it’s a public health issue.”
Leeser says this is a broader
reflection of citizen disengagement
from City Council, which drove
him
to
unsuccessfully
mount
a
write-in
challenge
against
Warpehoski’s Ward 3 colleague
Chip Smith (D) in 2015.
“You can sit there and go to
City Council meetings and pour
your heart out, and City Council
can just go, ‘yup, thank you,’ and
then vote against you,” Leeser
said, referring specifically to how
the council brushed aside vocal
opposition to the Ann Arbor
deer cull from residents, though
city surveys have indicated the
majority of the city continues to
support lethal culls.
See WARD, Page 9
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