Reinventing
Urban
Transportation and Mobility
aims to revolutionize public
transit through an online app
that turns transportation into
an on-demand service. The
app, which serves travelers on
the University of Michigan’s
North Campus, first launched
this month on January 16.
While no timeline is set in
place yet, the developers hope
to
eventually
expand
the
service to the University as a
whole.
RITMO,
partnering
with the Ford School of
Public
Policy,
will
allow
students, faculty and staff
to use on-demand shuttle
transportation linked with
the University bus system.
Riders only need to book one
ticket to their destination and
wait up to five minutes for
their shuttle to arrive.
Pascal
Van
Hentenryck,
the Seth Bonder Collegiate
professor at the College of
Engineering, is leading the
RITMO project. He explained
how the new system hopes to
resolve inefficiencies within
our current transportation
system by solving the so-called
first and last mile problem,
when individuals have to walk
more than a “comfortable
distance,” typically 1/4 miles.
Second-year
Law
student
Megan Brown has spent the past
seven years at the University,
first
for
her
undergraduate
education and now for Law
School.
Now, she has been selected as
the editor in chief of the Michigan
Law Review – a University of
Michigan publication written by
legal scholars, practitioners and
students. She also discovered
she would be the first Black
person to hold this position at
the Law Review, which issued
its first publication in 1902.
She initially held the position
of an associate editor of the Law
Review, which she achieved
after
a
rigorous
process
involving
writing
a
paper,
various
publication-related
exercises and interviews.
Brown said she felt honored to
be chosen as editor in chief and
attributed her success to those
around her.
“Any
success
that
I’ve
achieved in Law School is really
a credit to my classmates and my
professors,” Brown said. “And
then once some of these people
gave me a little more confidence,
it just felt good to work hard and
make them happy and proud and
make myself proud.”
Regarding her role as the first
Black editor in chief, Brown said
she had no knowledge of it when
she applied. The Law Review
board told her after she had
been selected. Brown said her
selection reflects the progress
the Law School community has
made.
“I will admit that it did take
a while,” Brown said. “It should
have happened sooner. But I like
to think of this as mostly good
news. There’s a lot of crazy stuff
happening on campus and in the
world racism-wise, and it feels
good to know that at least my
community has faith (in me).”
Brown said her classmate
Johannah Walker, a third-year
Law student, is someone who has
encouraged her to be her best.
Brown met Walker through the
Black Law Students Association,
of which they are both members.
Walker said seeing Brown go
through the early stages of the
process and then achieving her
goals was amazing.
“Megan is what everyone
says
she
is,”
Walker
said.
“She’s intelligent, she’s driven,
she’s kind and thoughtful and
generous, but even more than
that she just works so incredibly
hard. I think that’s just been
reflected through everything
I’ve always seen her do.”
Walker said having Brown
specifically be the first Black
editor in chief is significant.
Two days after Michigan
State University president Lou
Anna Simon resigned from her
post, the university’s Athletic
Director Mark Hollis followed
suit, according to a statement
released
on
the
University
website Friday afternoon.
The resignations come in
the wake of the sentencing of
Larry Nassar, the once-world-
renowned physician for the
USA Gymnastics team and the
MSU athletic department who,
over the course of at least three
decades,
molested
hundreds
of women and girls whose
treatment he was responsible for.
A Detroit News investigation
published January 18 revealed
multiple employees in MSU’s
athletic department were told
of Nassar’s abuse in the decades
leading up to his firing in 2016.
Simon herself was informed
of a police report and Title
IX complaint against Nassar
in 2014, but said they were
reported to her as being against
an “unnamed physician.”
In his statement Friday, Hollis
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A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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App aims to
supplement
University
bus system
University agrees to push Richard
Spencer event to after semester
See RITMO, Page 3A
CHUN SO/Daily
Students walk out of classes and gather in the Diag to protest the University’s consideration of hosting Richard Spencer as part of the #StopSpencer events in
November.
RESEARCH
Partnering with Ford School, RITMO
provides on-demand shuttles for users
KATE JENKINS
Daily Staff Reporter
Administration will offer Spencer spring, summer dates once semester is over
White supremacist Richard
Spencer will not be speaking
at the University of Michigan
this semester, according to
a statement released Friday
afternoon.
The University will offer
Spencer dates after the end of
the winter semester.
University President Mark
Schlissel
announced
in
November his administration
will
move
forward
with
Spencer’s
request,
provided
they
can
ensure
a
safe
environment for the speech.
“Consistent with earlier U-M
communications, the university
will continue its ongoing safety
and security assessments and
will offer possible dates based
on
these
assessments,”
the
November statement reads.
After a lawsuit regarding
Spencer’s request to speak on
Michigan
State
University’s
campus, MSU has agreed to
allow Spencer to speak on their
East Lansing campus on March
5.
MAYA GOLDMAN &
AMARA SHAIKH
Daily News Editor &
Daily Staff Reporter
See MSU, Page 3A
Following
president,
MSU AD
steps down
GOVERNMENT
Students set up talk
to help marginalized
students professionally
ANDREW HIYAMA
Daily News Editor
JOSHUA HAN/Daily
Second-year Law student Megan Brown has spent the past seven years at the University, first for her undergraduate
education and now for Law School.
After 116 years, Michigan Law Review
names first Black Editor-in-Chief
Classmates describe 2L Megan Brown as “intelligent” and “thoughtful”
SAYALI AMIN
Daily Staff Reporter
Hockey swept
Michigan hockey team has
season-long weaknesses
exposed, gets swept against
Ohio State
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After
discovering
she
had
three herniated disks at age 27,
University of Michigan 2008 alum
Helaine Knapp was determined
to find an effective, low-impact
workout. Her doctor suggested
rowing, but she said she initially
associated
rowing
with
the
untouched machine at the gym
or in her grandfather’s basement.
Knapp decided to challenge this
stigma.
Now, following the success of
its first two studios in Manhattan,
CITYROW – a rowing fitness
boutique founded by Knapp – will
open its third location in Ann
Arbor at 401 E. Liberty this spring.
“I was really frustrated and
kind of kept going back to the
rowing thing like, ‘Is there any
way to make this sexy and cool and
chic and available for everyone?’”
Knapp said. “And so that was sort
of the impetus behind CITYROW,
because I knew there had to be a
better and smarter way to work
out.”
Knapp
and
John
Rotche,
another
University
alum,
partnered together to franchise
See FITNESS, Page 2A
University
alums open
Ann Arbor
rowing gym
BUSINESS
After success at New
York locations, rowing
“available for everyone”
JULIA FORD
Daily Staff Reporter
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