The Wall Street Journal and 

Times Higher Education released 

their annual college rankings on 

Tuesday, naming the University 

of Michigan being ranked the 

number one public university in 

the country. 

This ranking is different from 

many traditional college rankings 

in that it places emphasis on 

factors other than the average 

test scores of incoming freshmen 

and how many students were 

rejected upon application. 

Instead, it’s based on four 

categories: student outcomes 

such as salary and job placement 

after graduation, school 

resources, how well the school 

engages with students and finally 

the learning environment, or 

diversity on campus. The ranking 

found the highly ranked schools 

were those that performed well 

in multiple categories.

The ranking also took into 

account more than 100,000 

student responses to a survey 

sent out by the Wall Street 

Journal and Times Higher 

Education, asking questions 

on students’ interactions with 

professors, if they thought they 

were pushed to think critically 

and if they would recommend 

their school to prospective 

students. In a press release, The 

Wall Street Journal and Times 

Higher Education said they also 

consider their ranking unique 

because it focuses on how much 

a college spends on classroom 

instruction, awarding a higher 

ranking to those schools that 

place an emphasis on teaching 

and research excellence.

The University, while the 

top-ranked public university, 

came in at number 24 in the 

overall ranking. The other 

public institutions that ranked 

among the top 100 included 

University of California, Los 

Angeles and University of 

California, Berkeley.

The University was also 

ranked as the best public 

university earlier this month by 

QS World University Rankings 

and number 23 overall. The 

only other public university 

to make the top 50 in the 

QS rankings was University 

of California, Los Angeles at 

number 31.

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For many, keeping a car in 

Ann Arbor as a student can be 
difficult, because parking is in 
such high demand. Maven, a new 
car sharing company, is hoping to 
remedy this problem by making 
it easier for students to get to 
where they need to go and back 
affordably and quickly. 

The company, launched in 

January as a subsidiary of General 
Motors, joins other car services 
such as ZipCar which allows 
people to rent cars. Like ZipCar, 
users use an app on their phone 
to locate, reserve and unlock 
vehicles and then pay based on the 
half hour. Ann Arbor, along with 
New York City, Boston, Chicago 
and Washington D.C., is one of 
five offices opened within their 

first nine months of operation. 
GM spokesman Stefan Cross said 
the move to go into car-sharing 
was all about expanding into 
different forms of transportation.

“The goal from a GM standpoint 

is to expand into alternate modes 
of transportation,” Cross said. 
“So we figured, to stay relevant, 
we have to get into different types 
of transportation.”

Speaking to why Maven chose 

the University as one of its first 
locations, Cross said with such 
a large campus there is a need 
for ways to get places not so 
conveniently located, and noted 
how keeping a car as a student 
in Ann Arbor can sometimes be 
a challenge due to limited space 
and cost. He also said Maven 
was drawn to the city because 
of its openness to new ideas and 
services, both as a community 
and University.

“Ann Arbor — the community 

and the University — has really 
shown a willingness to adapt to 
new modes of transportation,” 
Cross said. “We thought Ann 
Arbor is a very progressive market 
that could use and would adapt to 
a car sharing service.”

Engineering 
sophomore 

Nicholas 
Martin 
said 
he 

downloaded Maven last year after 
reading about their program in 
January. He said it’s beneficial for 
going out for food late at night and 
going to the grocery store.

“I have used it five times on 

campus,” Martin said. “I used it to 
drive to late night food off campus 
and once to Meijer.”

Ann Arbor has 20 locations 

to pick-up and drop-off cars for 
Maven, spanning from downtown 
Ann Arbor to the University’s 
North Campus, as well as out to 
I-94 and M-14.

General Motors launches Maven, 
car sharing app, in Ann Arbor

Company allows users to locate, rent vehicles from their phone

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I do think that since it wasn’t 
done then it has been part 
of the growing mistrust in 
government.”

Public 
transparency 
has 

been a significant, ongoing 
issue in Michigan for several 
years. In a 2015 study done 
by the nonprofit organization 
Center for Public Integrity, the 
state ranked last in the country 
for executive, legislative and 
judicial accountability.

According to the Center 

for 
Public 
Integrity, 
this 

was partially because of the 
numerous 
protections 
that 

the state FOIA laws currently 
provide to the judicial branch, 
as well as the protections 
provided 
to 
the 
executive 

branch.

The 10 bill package passed 

Wednesday contains two bills 
— HB 5469 and HB 5470 — 
which specifically amend the 
current FOIA law to address 
the issue of transparency for 
the executive branch, and eight 
bills that establish and define 
LORA. 

“The last two bills remove 

the 
exemptions 
that 
the 

governor has had under the 
Freedom of Information Act,” 
McBroom said. “While it still 
provides for a few exemptions, 
this is a big change for the 
governor’s office, and brings 
Michigan in line with most 
other states.”

Currently, 
the 
governor’s 

office is exempt from FOIA, 
which means that they do 
not have to release records 
to 
the 
public. 
Under 
the 

bills, the exemptions would 

remain in place only for 

documents that are for judicial 
appointments, 
prepared 

remarks to the state House of 
Representatives, pardons and 
state budgets.

McBroom said in addition 

to providing great protection 
to the governor, Michigan’s 
FOIA law was also ineffective 
at making documents from 
the legislature available to the 
public, which is why LORA 
is also a part of the package. 
Currently, the legislature is 
also exempt from FOIA.

“The other eight bills in 

the package create a new 
act — called the Legislative 
Open Records Act,” McBroom 
said. “LORA closely follows 
FOIA; however, it is specific 
only to the legislature, which 
is something that we think 
is very important. We need 
transparency and more open 

records in this branch of our 
government.”

LORA, like FOIA, would be 

managed by coordinators that 
would oversee records requests 
at the same cost as FOIA 
requests, and will only apply to 
records after Jan. 1, 2017.

McBroom 
said 
the 
bill 

package has received much 
bipartisan 
support 
in 
the 

House, and is expected to be 
reviewed by the state senate by 
November.

“In the past, it was usually 

the minority party that talked 
about reforming FOIA, but it 
never got done,” McBroom said. 
“About a year ago, we decided 
that it was time to get serious 
about this bipartisan issue, and 
after much hard work we are 
confident that these bills will 
accomplish the reform we have 
long wanted to see.”

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