University 
of 
Michigan 

hockey players will suit up 
Friday evening for the first 
time on the newly coined 
Red Berenson Ice Rink. The 
University’s Board of Regents 
voted unanimously Thursday to 
name the rink at Yost Ice Arena 
after Berenson, who served as 
the team’s coach for 33 seasons 
and retired this summer.

The rink will feature his 

signature through the end of 
the calendar year, while center 
ice will change to display 
Berenson’s name next year. 
The Board and other executive 
officers 
gave 
Berenson 
a 

standing ovation at the meeting.

“Going to Michigan was 

the best four years of my life,” 
he said. “I have spent the past 
33 years trying to help others 
achieve their dreams.”

The 
Board 
met 
at 
the 

University 
of 
Michigan 
at 

Flint, and executive officers 
spent the day in briefings 
on the state of the campus. 
Aside from brief comments by 
U-M Flint Chancellor Susan 
Borrego at the beginning of the 
meeting, the lingering water 
crisis did not figure heavily into 
the agenda. Robert Barnett, 
dean of the U-M Flint School 
of 
Education, 
presented 
a 

program to launch soon that 
will train Flint high schoolers 
to be certified early childhood 
educators by their high school 

graduation.
Endowment rises by 13.8 
percent

The University’s long-term 

investment profile grew by 13.8 
percent in the 2017 fiscal year 
to total $10.9 billion, up from 
$9.7 billion last year. After a 
dip last year Vice President of 
Development Jerry May said 
positive returns on investments 
and the Victors for Michigan 
Campaign contributed to the 

push.

The 
fund’s 
performance 

this year places the University 
ninth among all universities 
and colleges in the country, 
and the third highest public 
school system — after those 
of California and Virginia, as 
confirmed in a press release. 

University Spokesman Rick 

Fitzgerald 
noted, 
however, 

the endowment lags behind 
private institutions on a per-

student basis, ranking 86th in 
the nation.

“(The 
University’s 

endowment is) much smaller 
than many private school peers, 
while supporting a much larger 
number of students,” he wrote 
in an email.

Distributions to the general 

fund grew by $21 million to 
$325 million in the fiscal year. 
May pointed to Victors for 

The 
HERCULES 
laser, 
a 

scientific instrument used to 
study 
particle 
physics 
that’s 

housed in the University of 
Michigan’s Center for Ultrafast 
Optical Science, is getting a 
power upgrade after receiving 
a $2 million donation from the 
National 
Science 
Foundation. 

HERCULES currently holds the 
Guinness World Record for being 
the highest intensity focused 
laser, but this upgrade provides 
even 
more 
opportunity 
for 

advancement.

The laser can utilize this power 

for only fractions of a second, 
but the scale of this power is 
immense. To give the power 
a frame of reference, Anatoly 
Maksimchuk, a research scientist 
in CUOS, compared the laser’s 
power to all power available in the 
United States’ grid.

“The whole grid of the United 

States is only one terawatt,” 
Maksimchuk said. “With our 
laser, in one room, you have 300 
terawatts. So compared to the 
whole grid of the U.S., it is 300 
times more just in a single room.”

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

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CROS SWO R D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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

See LASER, Page 3A

University 
laser to get 
$2 million 
upgrades

RESEARCH

The HERCULES laser 
is used to study particle 
physics in the CUOS

ELIZABETH LAWRENCE

For the Daily

DANYEL THARAKAN/Daily

The University Board of Regents shares a laugh at their meeting in Flint Thursday.

ILLUSTRATION BY ROSEANNE CHAO

Regents vote on Red Berenson Ice 
Rink, endowment increase at meeting

The meeting on UM’s Flint campus also featured a discussion on C.C. Little

RIYAH BASHA
Daily News Editor

michigandaily.com

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See REGENTS, Page 3A

On the afternoon of the 

University 
of 
Michigan 
vs. 

Michigan 
State 
University 

football 
game, 
a 
University 

student was attacked and beaten 
outside of East Quad Residence 
Hall, on the corner of Church and 
Hill Streets — next to the Alpha 
Epsilon Phi sorority house. The 
student, who wishes to remain 
anonymous, sustained serious 
injuries including a concussion 
and a broken nose after the 
attack, but has since returned to 
school.

The student’s father, who also 

asked to remain anonymous 
while the incident is under 
investigation, said his son was 
standing with a group of friends 
outside East Quad that afternoon. 
Earlier in the day, a group of men 
had allegedly harassed a certain 
member of his son’s group who 
did not attend the University. The 
men returned later and a physical 
altercation broke out between 
the two groups. According to 
the father, one of the attackers 
blindsided his son and the fight 
became focused on him.

See CRIME, Page 3A

‘U’ student 
attacked on
Hill before 
State game 

CRIME

The family is offering a 
$10,000 reward for any
info on, video of attackers

MATT HARMON
Daily Staff Reporter

Though any game day in Ann 

Arbor is bound to witness its 
fair share of police activity, the 
game against Michigan State 
University on Oct. 7 — the first 
night game since 2014, and 
against one of the University 
of Michigan’s biggest rivals — 
was certain to see more. Still, 
several arrests and citations 
made at tailgates hosted by Black 
and Latino fraternities have 
members objecting to the lack 
of communication they have 
with police — and aggressive 
tactics therein — as compared 
to older, predominantly white 
fraternities.

There 
were 
at 
least 
six 

citations given out at the houses 
associated with Kappa Alpha Psi, 
a historically Black fraternity, 
and Latino fraternity Lambda 
Theta Phi house. At least two of 
the citations involved arrests, 
according to Ann Arbor Police 
Department 
reports 
of 
the 

incident retrieved by a Freedom 

of Information Act request. The 
citations were for disturbing 
public 
peace, 
creating 
a 

nuisance, obstructing police and 
contributing to noise.

All 10 predominantly white 

fraternities surveyed by the Daily 
reported no police presence 
or citations at house tailgates 
hosted Oct. 7.

According to the police report, 

officers were alerted to the party 
by a text from a student.

“(Reporting party) GOT A 

TEXT FROM A STUDENT 
REF A LARGE CROWD IFO 
(in front of) THIS HOUSE. RP 
IS NOT ON SCENE; STUDENT 
SHE GOT A TEXT FROM IS A 
PASSERBY,” the report read.

Police reported there were 

approximately 
1,000 
people 

blocking the street in front of 
the Lambda Theta Phi house 
when they arrived. They then 
encountered one of the hosts 
of the party, who told them his 
party had gotten out of hand and 
he couldn’t clear people out, and 
he was subsequently cited with 
disturbance of public peace.

Certain frats 
see increase
in policing
at tailgates 

Amid search 
for housing, 

students want

See POLICING, Page 3A

CRIME
CAMPUS LIFE

Minority frats given several citations, 
white fraternies report no police presence

RIYAH BASHA
Daily News Editor

Management companies evade Ann Arbor ordinance 
with leasing reservations, early deposits and signings

Upon arriving an hour and a half 

before the Prime Student Housing 
office opened Monday, Engineering 
junior Henry Burns was greeted by 
a sprawling line of almost 40 people 
who had beat him in his efforts to 
reserve an apartment.

The long line so far in advance 

of the office’s opening was the first 

indication of some off-campus 
properties attempting to navigate 
city ordinances to beat out their 
competitors.

“This is the first day that you 

could reserve a spot for signing a 
lease because leases aren’t allowed 
to be signed until November 10,” 
Burns said at the leasing office. “A 
lot of places get around it by having 
you sign a reservation earlier than 
that actual sign date, and this is the 
first day you’re allowed to sign a 
reservation and their office opened 
at 9 so people started getting 
here several hours beforehand. 
I heard people camped out and 

everything.”

Students who were already 

residents of Prime Student Housing 
were allowed to place new deposits 
as early as Oct. 13 and have the 
opportunity to renew a current 
lease up until 5 p.m. on Friday — 
afterward the market will open for 
anyone to sign for the apartment.

However, the office opened 

to the general public for deposits 
four days early on Monday. Only 
after deposits were placed would 
students be allowed to view 
their prospective apartments or 
residences, unless they had the 
chance to see the apartment of their 
own accord.

Some currently-leasing students 

received an email regarding the 
deposit opportunity with Prime 
on Monday, while others did not. 
Those who did not receive the 
email were informed of this date 
because they called the office 
prior to Monday, also of their own 
volition.

According to Business freshman 

Adya Pandey, Prime residences are 
in high demand due to their many 
different locations and relatively 
inexpensive pricing.

“I know that they have 20 other 

properties so it’s really popular and 
it’s really competitive because it’s 
cheap,” Pandey said.

A majority of students who 

planned to lease through Prime 
began waiting in line as early as 
2 a.m., though many cited a few 
students who were waiting since 10 
p.m. the night before.

During her three hour wait in 

line at the Prime Student Housing 
office, 
LSA 
freshman 
Rachel 

Westrick 
expressed 
confusion 

about Prime’s policies and the dates 
that students could place deposits.

“We called a while ago and they 

told us that the 23rd was the day 
that all the renewals were due, 
so that was the day that everyone 
would come,” Westrick said. “But 
then my mom checked a while back 
and they said you could just drop 
off a deposit whenever you wanted, 
to reserve a spot. So we came today 
and so I guess there was a line today. 
I don’t really understand that.”

Those who waited overnight at 

Prime to place a deposit were not 
all guaranteed housing; many — 
when finally through the door — 

MORGAN SHOWEN & 

ALEXA ST. JOHN
 Daily Staff Reporter & 
Managing News Editor

See HOUSING, Page 3A

transparency