The 
Ann 
Arbor 
Police 

Department is beginning 2018 
with a new addition to its force. 
Tuesday, Jason Forsberg began 
his tenure as Deputy Chief of 
Police of the AAPD.

Forsberg 
joins 
current 

Deputy Chief Robert Pfannes 
and 
will 
be 
in 
charge 

of 
the 
support 
services 

division, 
which 
includes 

the administrative services, 
professional 
standards 
and 

special services sections. The 
department typically has two 
deputy chiefs, however, the 
second position had been open 
since April 2016, following the 
promotion of chief Jim Baird 

and retirement of former AAPD 
deputy chief Greg Bazick — 
replaced by Pfannes. 

Most 
recently, 
Forsberg 

worked as deputy chief at 
the University of Michigan-
Dearborn campus. Prior to 
working 
in 
Dearborn, 
he 

served with the University 
of 
Michigan- 
Ann 
Arbor 

Department of Public Safety 
and Security for 20 years. 
He worked many positions 
including 
police 
officer, 

sergeant, 
lieutenant 
and 

captain.

Forsberg 
earned 
his 

bachelor’s 
degree 
from 

Skidmore College in Saratoga 
Springs, N.Y. and graduated 
from 
the 
Northwestern 

Monday 
night 
the 

University’s 
Museum 
of 

Natural 
History 
officially 

closed its space in the A.G. 
Ruthven Museums Building, 
after one last night at the 
museum. 

The museum, which will 

reopen 
in 
the 
Biological 

Sciences Building in several 
phases throughout 2019, has 
been housed in Ruthven since 
the building’s opening in 1928. 
The museum was originally 
known 
as 
the 
University 

Museum, and encompassed 
the Museums of Paleontology, 
Zoology and Anthropological 
Archaeology, as well as the 
University Herbarium. The 
Museum of Natural History 
was officially created in 1956.

The University decided to 

move the museum once the 
plans for the new Biological 
Sciences 
Building 
were 

announced in 2011. Though 
this has been planned for 
several years, Amy Harris, 
director of the Museum of 
Natural 
History, 
said 
the 

execution of the move will not 
necessarily be easy.

“The logistics of the next 

year, year and a half will be 
pretty challenging,” Harris 
said. 
“Within 
the 
public 

museum ... we’ve been hiring 
a lot of short-term staff to 
help with the project, and 
that’s been really terrific to 
have new ideas and new, fresh 

energy.”

The move has also been 

difficult 
for 
community 

members. 
Generations 
of 

people 
have 
enjoyed 
the 

current museum over the 
years and are sad to say 
goodbye. To aid with the 
transition, 
the 
museum 

created Museum Memories 
in December 2016 as a part of 
the University’s Bicentennial 
initiative and an online time 

capsule of sorts for people to 
share their favorite memories 
of the museum. 

Harris and her co-workers 

knew they close out the 
museum 
in 
a 
memorable 

way. They held a “Last Day 
at the Museum” celebration 
on Saturday— a free, all-day 
event open for the public to 
commemorate the end of an 
era. According to Harris, over 
3,000 people attended to see 

the museum one last time 
at Ruthven and share their 
memories once more.

“I 
describe 
it 
as 
a 

community hug,” Harris said. 
“I just felt the love.”

An additional ticketed New 

Year’s Eve event was held on 
Sunday evening. Over 3,000 
people were in attendance 
for a night of dinner, dancing, 
specialty lighting and New 

The Federal Communications 

Commission voted on Dec. 14 
to end net neutrality, which 
blocked 
internet 
service 

providers 
from 
charging 

different prices for different 
users or content. Though the 
Trump administration believes 
that the regulatory rollback 
will help American business, 
University 
students 
and 

faculty are concerned about its 
potential effects.

Under the new leadership 

of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai 
— 
appointed 
by 
President 

Donald Trump last January— 
the 
commission 
has 
begun 

to 
advocate 
for 
removing 

regulations 
which 
restrict 

internet companies as part of 
a broader push for regulatory 
rollback 
across 
various 

government 
bodies. 
The 

commission voted 3-2 to repeal, 
with 
Republican 
members 

voting with Pai and Democrats 
against.

The decision has attracted 

controversy and criticism from 
a wide variety of citizens and 

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SPORTS........................1B

AAPD names
Forsberg as
new Deputy
Police Chief

New interactive map shows levels
of poverty across state of Michigan

See CHIEF, Page 3A

ROSEANNE CHAO/Daily

ANN ARBOR

Most recently, Frosberg was deputy 
chief at the U-M Dearborn campus

ZOE BAXTER

Daily Staff Reporter

Initiative worked with Michigan Creative to make poverty, health data accessible

Four University researchers 

have recently developed an 
online data map displaying 
poverty statistics throughout 
the state of Michigan. The 
University’s Poverty Solutions 
Initiative in the Ford School of 

Public Policy collaborated with 
Michigan Creative in efforts 
to display poverty and health 
data in a more reader-friendly 
format.

The 
online 
interactive 

map 
displays 
statistics 
on 

median income, percent of the 
population below the poverty 
line, percent of single-parent 

households and other statistics 
by county. Data comes from the 
U.S. census, United Way, CDC 
Community Health Indicators 
and the Robert Wood Johnson 
Foundation.

Strategic Projects Manager 

Kate 
Naranjo 
felt 
public 

data was not available in an 
easily adjustable format and 

was instead more catered to 
researchers. This inspired a 
collaboration with H. Luke 
Shaefer, associate professor of 
social work and public policy, 
along with three undergraduate 
research assistants to develop 
an 
online 
map 
displaying 

poverty 
data. 
Michigan 

RACHEL CUNNINGHAM

Dailly Staff Reporter

See NEUTRALITY, Page 3A

Ban on net 
neutrality
worries ‘U’ 
community 
 
 
 

GOVERNMENT

Prospect of deregulated 
Internet providers could 
widen wealth disparities

RILEY LANGEFELD

Daily Staff Reporter

DARBY STIPE/Daily

The University’s Museum of Natural History officially closed its space in the A.G. Ruthven Museums Building after a 
weekend of celebration. 

Natural History Museum officially 
closes its doors in Ruthven building

Museum is set to reopen in 2019 in the new Biological Sciences Building

MAYA GOLDMAN

Daily News Editor

Trouble in Tampa

Michigan collapsed in the 
second half, giving up 23 

unanswered points to South 

Carolina in a 26-19 loss. » 

Page 1B

michigandaily.com

For more stories and coverage, visit

See MUSEUM, Page 3A

See POVERTY, Page 3A

On Dec. 30, Ann Arbor police 

arrested 63-year-old Michael 
Brooks on multiple counts of 
home invasion after identical 
footprints 
were 
discovered 

at two crime scenes. Brooks’ 
victims include David Goldwyn 
and his wife on Minerva Road 
and a group of four University 
of Michigan students living on 
Linden Street, close to Central 
Campus. 
However, 
police 

expect there may be more 
victims as students return to 
Ann Arbor from winter break.

According to WXYZ Detroit, 

Goldwyn and his wife heard a 
noise in their home followed 
by the sounding of their home 
security alarm. The couple 
discovered a man walking from 
their house and the suspect’s 
footprints left in the snow 
leading to their living room 
window.

Detective 
Lt. 
Matthew 

Lige of the Ann Arbor Police 
Department received a call two 
hours later reporting a similar 
home 
invasion 
downtown, 

close to Central Campus. Four 

See INVASION, Page 3A

Suspect of 
burglaries 
arrested in 
bathroom

CRIME

Footprints in snow help 
police track suspect to 
multiple home invasions

REMY FARKAS
Daily Staff Reporter

