Panelists at the University 

of Michigan met Tuesday 
afternoon to discuss Poverty 
Solutions 
— 
an 
initiative 

introduced 
by 
University 

President Mark Schlissel in 
October 2016 — and review 
nine research projects funded 
through a new grant program 
operated by the initiative. The 
projects, totaling $200,000, 
represent 
the 
initiative’s 

first investments in research 
and model testing aiming to 
use research about poverty 
to 
better 
suit 
different 

communities.

Poverty 
Solutions 

Director Luke Shaefer, an 
associate professor of social 
work 
and 
public 
policy, 

opened 
the 
discussion 

— 
held 
over 
Facebook 

Live — by introducing the 
interdisciplinary 
initiative, 

which, 
according 
to 
its 

mission 
statement, 
is 

designed “to become a leader 
in informing, identifying and 
testing new strategies for the 
prevention 
and 
alleviation 

of poverty in Michigan, the 
nation and the world.”

Poverty 
Solutions 

researches and works with 
policymakers and community 
organizations 
to 
better 

understand the causes and 

During 
Tuesday 
night’s 

meeting, 
Central 
Student 

Government set the dates for 
the election of the 2017-2018 
academic 
year’s 
leaders 
to 

be held on March 22 and 23, 
with 31 voting in favor and one 
abstaining.

As the current administration 

nears the end of its term, CSG 
President David Schafer, an LSA 
senior, praised the assembly for 
its hard work this past semester, 
encouraging the body to pursue 
its goals until the elections in 
March.

“Day in and day out we have 

fought for progressive policies 
and we will continue to fight for 
progressive policies until our 
last day,” Schafer said during 
last week’s meeting. “This is our 
promise to you … Change is best 
realized from the bottom up.”

Additionally, 
a 
resolution 

encouraging 
the 
University 

of 
Michigan 
to 
recognize 

Indigenous Peoples’ Day was 
unanimously 
passed. 
The 

resolution was introduced last 
week and aims to celebrate 
the holiday on the second 
Monday of October, formerly 
Columbus Day which is no 
longer 
recognized 
by 
the 

University. The Ann Arbor City 
Council 
voted 
unanimously 

in November 2015 to replace 
Columbus Day with Indigenous 
Peoples’ Day as well. 

The Ann Arbor City Council 

resolution 
was 
proposed 

by 
Councilmember 
Chuck 

Warpehoski (D–Ward 5), who 
made the movement on the 
notion that Columbus did not 
actually “discover” America.

“I think we all share a hope 

that this is more than just 
a changing on the name on 
the calendar, but it becomes 
an opportunity for a deeper 
community 
conversation 

about what’s happening with 

indigenous 
communities,” 

Warpehoski said in November. 
“It is a stereotype that Indians 
are only in history books 
for many people and one of 
my goals is that through the 
education effort that groups like 
the Native American Student 
Associations are doing they will 
get a chance to say yes, they’re 
still here.”

LSA junior Stephen Smith, 

Native 
American 
Student 

Association 
co-chair, 
said 

the University should follow 
holiday 
recognition 
trends 

throughout the country. Both 
Washtenaw County and the 
city of Ann Arbor already 
recognize Indigenous Peoples’ 
Day, and Smith noted that well-
established organizations do as 
well.

“There seems to be a growing 

trend across the nation of large 

With President-elect Donald 

Trump’s 
inauguration 
date 

days 
away, 
City 
Council’s 

meeting Tuesday night was 
dominated by the discussion of 
how to protect undocumented 
individuals, a topic usually 
reserved 
for 
a 
national 

scope. Larcom City Hall was 
packed with more than 100 
residents 
supporting 
the 

council’s resolution to urge 
President Barack Obama and 
state legislators to take steps 
protecting those who applied 
to the Deferred Action for 
Childhood Arrivals program.

DACA is an immigration 

policy 
put 
in 
place 
by 

Obama in 2012 that allows 
undocumented 
immigrant 

youth 
who 
meet 
certain 

criteria to receive a two-year 
deferral 
from 
deportation 

and a work permit. Trump, 
who ran on a platform against 
immigration and refugrees, has 
proposed policies which would 
threaten it. The President-
elect has previously referred 
to 
undocumented 
Mexican 

michigandaily.com
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM

GOT A NEWS TIP?
Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail 
news@michigandaily.com and let us know.

INDEX
Vol. CXXVII, No. 10
©2016 The Michigan Daily

N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

UM faculty 
discuss new
initiatives to 
fight poverty

Snyder touts economic recovery,
talks Flint at State of the State

See POVERTY, Page 3A

CAROLYN GEARIG/Daily

Governor Rick Snyder speaks at the State of the State address at the State Capital on Tuesday.

ADMINISTRATION

Grant program continues progress since 
initiated by President Schlissel in Oct.

KEVIN BIGLIN
Daily Staff Reporter

University-related topics such as sexual assualt, autonomous vehicles also outlined 

LANSING — The tone of 

Gov. Rick Snyder’s State of the 
State address was uplifting as 
he recognized the Michigan’s 
economic prosperity and pushed 
for accelerated improvements 

to infrastructure Tuesday night 
in Lansing. Though not all state 
legislators were pleased as many 
expressed 
disappointment 
in 

the governor for not devoting 
enough of the speech to the Flint 
water crisis. 

“We’ve made Michigan a place 

where if you work hard and play 
by the rules, you can truly get 

ahead,” Snyder said. “Not just 
survive, but thrive.”

Job growth was a focus of 

the speech, with Snyder stating 
since taking office in 2010, 
Michigan has created almost 
500,000 
private-sector 
jobs, 

while unemployment is down to 
a 15-year low of 4.9 percent.

Snyder 
recognized 

manufacturing and investment 
from the automotive industry as 
the chief job-creator in Michigan 
and said residents no longer have 
to leave the state to find quality 
jobs.

“We’ve created over 116,000 

manufacturing jobs since 2010; 
we lead the nation,” Snyder 

CALEB CHADWELL

Daily Staff Reporter

See CITY, Page 3A

City urges 
POTUS to 
stand by 
DACA laws

ANN ARBOR

The council passes a 
resolution in advance of 
Trump’s inauguration

ISHI MORI

Daily Staff Reporter

HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily

Ayah Issa, Diversity and Inclusion Chair, celebrates the passing of her proposal at the Central Student Government 
meeting in the Union on Tuesday.

CSG confirms Indigenous People’s Day 
and upcoming election dates for fall

The holiday is slated for Oct. 10, election dates to be held March 22 and 23

HEATHER COLLEY

Daily Staff Reporter

michigandaily.com

For more stories and coverage, visit

See CSG, Page 3A

See SNYDER, Page 3A

A 
panel 
of 
four 
judges 

entertained pitches for nearly four 
hours in the middle of the TechArb 
office as entrepreneurial teams 
took part in the initial phase of 
the University of Michigan Center 
for Entrepreneurship’s premier 
contest, the Startup Competition.

Adorned with foosball tables, 

bookshelves 
lined 
with 
Wall 

Street and Silicon Valley memoirs 
and posters encouraging visitors 
to never give up, TechArb is 
a joint initiative between the 
Center 
for 
Entrepreneurship 

and the Zell Lurie Institute for 
Entrepreneurial Studies that aims 
to provide students startups with 
funding, advice and networking 
opportunities in the form of 
consulting, 
workshops 
and 

competitions.

The teams, which were at varying 

stages of product development but 
largely male in makeup, presented 
their ideas Tuesday for innovative 
improvements of products and 
services to the Student StartUp 
Accelerator panel — located in a 
basement office on East Liberty 
Street.

See CONTEST, Page 2A

Students 
pitch start 
ups at CFE 
 

challenge

BUSINESS

Ideas for websites, new 
companies pitched to 
panel of four judges

TYLER COADY
Daily Staff Reporter

statement

