Creative assisted in putting the 
data into map form.

“Poverty is really widespread 

across 
the 
state,” 
Naranjo 

said. 
“It’s 
not 
necessarily 

concentrated in just Detroit 
like I think the narrative goes. 
There’s a lot of rural poverty in 
this state and a rising amount 
of suburban poverty.”

LSA 
junior 
Zachary 

Tingley, a research assistant 
for the project, said he noticed 
his own attitude shift about 
poverty as a result.

“I 
realized 
that 
we 

talk about poverty ... as a 
(very) urban issue but it’s 
important to know there’s 
a 
lot 
impoverished 
rural 

neighborhoods as well and a 
lot of action that can be taken 
in those areas,” Tingley said.

According to the database, 

Washtenaw 
County 
has 
a 

median income of $66,040, 
14.6 percent of the population 
is under the poverty line and 

8.5 percent of the population 
receives food stamps/SNAP 
benefits. The state’s averages 
were a median income of 
$47,944, 
15.1 
percent 
of 

the 
population 
below 
the 

poverty, and 14.7 percent of 
the population receiving food 
stamps/SNAP benefits.

Public Policy junior Lauren 

Schandevel has worked with 
LSA to develop a new major 
on the study of socioeconomic 
status, 
which 
should 
be 

implemented in 2018 or 2019.

In an email to The Daily, she 

said she thinks the map could 
use some adjustments, but 
believes it will help Congress 
and 
other 
communities 

understand county needs.

“It would help to have 

data from individual cities as 
well to better interpret the 
information,” 
Schandevel 

said. “I think, especially in the 
coming year as Congress moves 
to slash benefits for low income 
individuals, this map will help 
us determine which counties 
will be most affected.”

In 
a 
statement 
to 
The 

Daily, Shaefer said he hopes 

to show University students 
they can assist communities 
in improving their residents’ 
lives.

“Any one statistic really only 

shows a piece of the puzzle,” 
Shaefer said. “We hope that 
this map streamlines things for 
Michigan communities so they 
can look at a range of things 
and learn more about the 
strengths and opportunities 
for improving the lives of 
residents. This is the type 
of service that great U-M 
students can offer.” 

Naranjo said he also hopes 

this 
project 
betters 
the 

University’s relations with the 
general public. The team aims 
to add more, as well as updated, 
statistics to the map.

“I think it’s just really 

important to think about how 
we as a research institution 
can better communicate to the 
general public,” Naranjo said. 
“I think this is an example of 
one way to do that, to translate 
really 
wonky 
stuff 
into 

something the average person 
could look at and understand.”

University School of Police Staff 
and Command in 2014. In 2016, 
he earned a criminal justice 
certificate from the University of 
Virginia and graduated from the 
FBI National Academy. Forsberg 
is currently pursuing a Master’s 
of Public Administration at U-M 
Dearborn.

While he enjoyed his 14 

months in Dearborn, Forsberg is 
excited to be back in Ann Arbor.

“I’ve worked 21 years as a 

cop and this was the first year 
I didn’t work at the football 
games,” 
Forsberg 
said. 
“It 

wasn’t that I actually missed 
working the football games 
because my family appreciates 
having me home, taking my kids 
to soccer games, but it didn’t 
really feel like fall because I 
wasn’t spending all of football 
Saturdays in Ann Arbor. I miss 
the community but also the law 
enforcement community that’s 
in Washtenaw County.”

Although in the past Forsberg 

has worked for a university as 

opposed to a city, he said his 
prior experience lends itself to 
the new position.

“I can take some of the 

experiences I’ve had both in 
Dearborn and my career in 
U-M Ann Arbor and apply them 
to the city policing,” Forsberg 
said. “It’ll be similar, but it’s 
a 
bigger 
department. 
The 

main difference is different 
jurisdictional boundaries and 
the size of the department.”

DPSS works very closely with 

the AAPD in matters of mutual 
concern, such as football games 
and crimes that occur on or near 
campus.

LSA freshman Haley Gritz 

hopes Forsberg will help make 
Ann Arbor a safer place for 
students. She pointed to the 
recent home invasions around 
campus including the home 
invasion 
in 
the 
Northwood 

Community Apartments and the 
West Quad incidents as signs a 
new addition to the force might 
curb crime.

“Obviously you don’t want 

crime but there’s been a few 
home invasions and robberies,” 
Gritz said. “Having a new police 
chief might be a nice change 

and it could cut down on crime 
more.”

According to a press release, 

Ann Arbor Police Chief James 
Baird is excited to welcome 
Forsberg to the force.

“We are fortunate to bring 

in someone like Jason who has 
extensive experience, but also a 
local connection and familiarity 
with the culture in Ann Arbor,” 
Baird wrote.

Forsberg said he does not 

intend to make major changes to 
the department upon his arrival. 
Some of his minor plans include 
ways to make the department 
more efficient and, if needed, 
to maximize the opportunities 
for citizens to engage with the 
community.

“I’m a new guy coming in, it’s 

a top-notch police department,” 
he said. “They are renowned 
worldwide for being a good 
police department.”

Overall, Forsberg is looking 

forward to beginning his new 
position in Ann Arbor.

“There are a lot of really 

talented men and women that 
work at the department in Ann 
Arbor,” 
Forsberg 
said. 
“I’m 

excited to learn from them.”

Year’s festivities.

“It seemed like a natural 

watershed 
moment 
in 
the 

calendar to close the museum 
on New Year’s Eve, so we’ve 
been planning this weekend 
for many, many months,” she 
said. “It was amazing.”

Now 
that 
the 
space 
is 

officially closed, the museum 
staff will focus on moving 
to 
the 
Biological 
Science 

Building. Harris said the new 
museum will open in three 
stages. The first opening will 
occur in the fall of 2018 when 
the main atrium will open with 
the museum’s mastodons in 
the front hall and the ancient 
whales hanging overhead. The 
bulk of the museum will open 
in two additional stages — one 
in the spring of 2019 and one 
the following fall.

Staff will be doing many 

different 
things 
in 
the 

interim. Planetarium manager 
Matthew Linke said he will 
be spending the next year or 
so learning about the new 
planetarium 
software. 
The 

museum’s planetarium will be 
getting a major upgrade in the 
move, going from its current 
18-foot diameter dome to a 
30-foot one.

Sixty-four 
seats 
will 
be 

included, in addition to at 
least eight handicap-accessible 
spots, making it easier for 
visitors 
in 
wheelchairs 
to 

experience the planetarium. A 
lecture-hall style arrangement 
of seats and a stage-quality 
lighting system will allow the 
space to be used for a variety 
of events, and new state-of-
the-art software will allow 
for an expansion of the kind of 
images projected on the dome.

“It’s 
the 
highest-end 

planetarium software you can 
get,” Linke said. “We will have 
the ability of doing a lot more 
than the current system does.”

Other museum staff will 

focuse on making sure the 
museum stays active in the 
community via outreach to 
local 
schools. 
LSA 
senior 

Sara Lebow has worked at the 
museum since her sophomore 

year, and while in the past her 
job has frequently involved 
taking school groups around 
the museum for field trips, she 
thinks her role going forward 
will be mostly to bring the 
museum to these schools.

“I have a shift on Friday at 

the museum where I’m just 
answering questions there,” 
Lebow said. “But I’m pretty 
sure in the coming months it’ll 
be a lot of outreach, which is a 
huge part of what the museum 
does too. We go to schools, 
and then we go to different 

festivals for events.”

Lebow, like many others, is 

sad to see the Ruthven space 
go but looks at the move as 
a positive change for the 
museum.

“The museum as it is — 

which I love, I really love it 
— it’s really a time capsule of 
how museums used to be,” 
she said. “It’s not set up for 
field trips very well. It’s just 
not the best space for kids and 
school groups to be in … I think 
it’s really great that the new 
museum is going to be more kid 
and school group-focused.”

LSA 
senior 
Alexandra 

Contis, 
a 
museum 
staff 

member since her freshman 
year, 
echoed 
Lebow’s 

sentiments. She thinks the 
updates the museum will get 
as a result of the move, like air 
conditioning and a cafeteria for 
school groups, will be major 
improvements.

Contis 
also 
works 
in 

the gift shop, and during one 
of her recent shifts, a little 
kid walked up to her with a 
handful of dinosaur figurines. 
He told her he was going to 
use these dinosaurs to start 
his own museum, now that the 
Natural History Museum was 
closing.

“The fact that this has that 

sort of impact (is amazing),” 
she said. “And now this little 
kid is like, ‘I’m going to start 
my own museum with these 
stuffed animals!’ He was so 
confident.” 

The closing of Ruthven is part 

of a shuffle in buildling space 
set to play out over the next few 
years. The Fleming bulidng, 
which houses the University’s 
administrative 
affairs, 
will 

be demolished in the near 
future. Those operations will 
move to a renovated version 
of the Ruthven building after 
the museum’s shift to the 
Biological Science Buildilng. 

activist 
groups. 
According 

to a survey conducted by 
the University of Maryland, 
83 
percent 
of 
Americans 

disapprove 
of 
the 
FCC’s 

plans to scrap net neutrality, 
including 
75 
percent 
of 

Republicans. Sixteen percent 
approve. The survey briefed 
respondents on arguments for 
both sides of the issue.

Many believe the internet 

should be regulated as a 
public utility and worry that 
the repeal of net neutrality 
will lead to internet service 
providers 
charging 
higher 

prices for faster internet, 
a practice that was illegal 
before the repeal. Politicians 
on both sides of the aisle have 
voiced their opposition to the 
FCC’s vote, including state 
Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann 
Arbor.

“I think it’s one of the 

worst things that’s happened 
this year,” Rabhi said. “The 
biggest issue that needs to be 
resolved is who’s leading our 
country, and whether that’s 
a Republican or a Democrat, 
that person needs to have these 
core values that are shared by 
a vast majority of Americans. 
And that’s just not the case 
right now. And obviously, we 
have an FCC chairman and 
an FCC majority that is not 
respectful of the wishes of a 
majority of Americans.”

According to Rabhi, the 

FCC vote is indicative of an 
administration that places the 
interests of large companies 
before those of the people. 
He 
cited 
the 
widespread 

opposition to the repeal as 
evidence.

Rabhi worried the prospect 

of price discrimination for 
faster internet would greatly 
advantage wealthy consumers 
at the expense of poorer ones.

Michael 
Traugott, 
an 

adjunct professor of political 
science 
at 
the 
University, 

said he shared this worry, 
one he denoted as a very 

real 
possibility. 
Though 

internet providers are under 
much scrutiny as a result of 
the repeal and are unlikely 
to act quickly, he said, a 
gradual change would be 
consequential.

“My own view is that it is 

a negative change because 
the internet is so central to 
people’s daily lives in terms of 
gaining information about the 
world or about a business or 
about a research topic that we 
should be trying to get more 
people access and maintain 
a reasonable cost,” Traugott 
said.

The full extent of the impact 

on college students nationwide 
remains 
to 
be 
seen, 
but 

Traugott said the University 
has the power to protect 
students from high prices by 
paying for internet service for 
on campus resisdents, which 
would at least forestall some 
potential negative effects of 
the repeal. Depending on how 
the situation and markets 
evolve with the new changes, 
these students would require 
specific action to keep their 
access to high-speed internet.

Rabhi 
also 
expressed 

concern over other changes 
being implemented by the FCC 
under Pai, though these issues 
don’t attract the attention of 
net neutrality.

“Chairman Pai and the FCC 

— this is the most controversial 
of the changes they’ve made, 
but there is a lot of other stuff 
that has also been bad,” Rabhi 
said. 
“They’ve 
weakened 

the antitrust laws, which is 
damaging for competition in 
a free market economy. This 
stuff is also alarming.”

According to Traugott, the 

repeal could be reversed either 
through an act of Congress or 
a challenge in federal court. 
However, 
congressional 

action on the issue is unlikely, 
so a court case is the most 
likely eventuality.

However, 
the 
path 
of 

legal action is ambiguous 
and potentially difficult to 
navigate. 
The 
repeal 
was 

certainly in the FCC’s power as 
a government regulator. Legal 

challenges would thus have to 
focus on the inequalities that 
may be created as a result of 
the repeal, and the success of 
the challenge would largely 
depend on the strength of 
petitioners’ arguments.

In advice to concerned 

citizens, 
Rabhi 
said 
the 

best way to organize action 
around this national issue 
is through voting. Although 
municipalities can take some 
small 
actions 
to 
mitigate 

the 
effects, 
changes 
in 

representation are the most 
effective way to combat the 
repeal.

Traugott emphasized the 

full impact of the repeal is 
entirely unknown, and Rabhi 
agreed government response 
will depend on the outcomes 
of the repeal. Much depends 
on the behavior of telecom 
companies and voter activity 
in coming elections.

“We don’t know exactly 

what’s 
going 
to 
happen 

with the abolition of net 
neutrality,” 
Traugott 
said. 

“Since we’ve never functioned 
in this environment before, we 
won’t know about that until it 
happens.”

Engineering junior Daniel 

Chandross, 
who 
studies 

computer science, said he 
worries about the potential 
for finding jobs in smaller 
startups and corporations due 
to the end of net neutrality.

“These corporations have 

not done anything yet. So I 
think it would be unfair of me 
to say we have experienced 
hardship,” he said. “But I think 
the fact of the matter is, as 
someone who will be looking 
for a job soon, it makes it a 
possibility for it to be harder 
for small startups or smaller 
corporations to fight against 
the 
larger 
(corporations) 

like HBO, Netflix, Google, 
Facebook or whatever. So 
as someone who wants to 
go into the startup field, or 
another developing field, this 
funnels 
students 
towards 

larger and more established 
conglomerates and makes it 
difficult for smaller ones to 
attract talent.”

University students lived in 
the bottom half of the invaded 
duplexed home. The students, 
away on winter break, learned 
of the invasion when police 
recovered a laptop of one of the 
housemates in Brook’s vehicle.

“The day we found out about 

the break-in my housemate and 
I went to Ann Arbor to check 
what the police had found,” 
Kinesiology sophomore Max 
Miley said. “The robber had 
cut the screen off one of our 
windows and made his way in 
through there.”

The housemates assume the 

window remained unlocked 
as no other items in the home 
were damaged.

“He 
took 
some 
small 

electronics 
but 
left 
more 

expensive ones which was 
strange,” Miley said. “He also 
took my housemate’s gluten-
free pretzels and oatmeal — 
super odd looting.”

According to WXYZ Detroit, 

Lige sent the same group of 
officers 
to 
both 
invasions 

where they discovered similar 
distinctive shoe wear in the 
snow. The footprints matched 
and 
investigators 
located 

Brooks in a vacant apartment. 
After 
negotiations, 
police 

entered the apartment and 

found Brooks hidden in a 
bathtub.

“I think it is just crazy that 

(police) were able to take such 
a small piece of evidence and 
track down this guy,” David 
Goldwyn told WXYZ Detroit. 
“Odds were slim but there was 
fresh snow on the ground. They 
figured if they were going to 
find him footprints were going 
to be the way.”

Brooks had been on parole 

for similar crimes. Brooks has 
been charged in connection to 
five home invasions, though 
more charges are expected to 
be filed. He is currently held 
on $100,000 bond.

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