Following the defeat of a 
citizen task force’s proposal for 
a police oversight commision at 
a City Council meeting on Oct. 1, 
legal questions remain regarding 
aspects of the citizens’ draft and 
changes in Ann Arbor Mayor 
Christopher 
Taylor’s 
counter-
proposal.
The citizen task force drafted 
a proposal that would create 
a citizen-led police oversight 
commission with the power to 
subpoena records and officer 
testimony, as well as the ability to 
examine “any AAPD (Ann Arbor 
Police Department) information 
and records,” according to the 
ordinance.
Calls for police oversight gained 
momentum following the 2014 
death of Aura Rosser, a mother 
of three who was fatally shot by 
Ann Arbor police officer David 
Ried. City Council appointed 
the task force in January to 
offer recommendations for the 
formation of an independent 
commission to review the practices 
of AAPD. The task force submitted 

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Over the last couple of years, 
many standardized tests have 
moved over to a digital formatting 
system. Now, the last of the 
graduate school admissions tests 

— the Law School Admission Test 
— joins them in this technological 
advancement.
The Law School Admissions 
Council declared the LSAT will 
be a tablet-based administration 
starting in July 2019. Instead of a 
test booklet, students will receive 

a Samsung tablet, a stylus and a 
white pencil with a scrap sheet 
of paper.
The stylus will not mimic 
handwriting; instead, it will 
feature testing tools including 
highlighting and underlining. 
There will also be a multitude 

of annotation tools such as 
numbering passages. A proctor 
will still be present in the room, 
but all timing will be done 
electronically on the tablet itself.
In addition, there are an array 
of accessibility options built into 

Students have mixed feelings about 
LSAT’s impending switch to digital
As students gear up for the new format, test prep professionals urge them not to worry

SAMANTHA SMALL
Daily Staff Reporter

See LSAT, Page 3A

As Election Day approaches 
in Ann Arbor, development of 
the Library Lot on Fifth Avenue 
across from the Ann Arbor 
District Library remains up for 
debate.
Many City Councilmembers 
are in favor of allowing Chicago-
based real estate firm Core Spaces 
to develop a 17-story high-rise 
called the Collective on Fifth 
Avenue, while residents have 
expressed desires for an urban 
park and commons area. The 
Collective would host 200 to 500 
units, 43 workforce housing units, 
and hotel and office space. 
City Council sold the property 
to Core Spaces in 2017.
Citizens will be asked if a 
section should be added to the 
city charter stating the Library 
Lot 
must 
remain 
in 
public 
ownership and developed as 
a “Center of the City” lot. The 
question, known as Proposal 

Mayor asks 
citizens to
vote no on
Proposal A

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Proposal would prevent 
17-story high-rise from 
being built on Library Lot

RACHEL CUNNINGHAM
Daily Staff Reporter

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Brittney Williams speaks on her experience coming out as bisexual at the LGBTQ Monologues held on National Coming Out Day in Weill Hall Thursday.

Speakers discuss identity, difficulties of being an LGBTQ student on campus at event’s second year

Oct. 11 was National Coming 
Out Day, but it was also the 5-year 
anniversary of Brittney Williams’s 
mother’s death. As a speaker for 
Out in Public’s Second Annual 
LGBTQ Monologues, Williams, a 
University of Michigan School of 
Social Work alum, shared her story 

of how she did not come out to her 
mother before she passed. Williams 
concluded her monologue on a 
hopeful note — that her mother 
would have accepted her.
Coinciding 
with 
National 
Coming Out Day, the monologues 
were held at the Ford School 
of 
Public 
Policy 
featuring 
student speakers with about 150 
attendees. The theme of this year’s 
monologues was “More Pride. 

More Color,” and the event aimed 
to create a space for intersecting 
identities to be represented and 
heard equally.
The student presenters shared 
stories and experiences in the 
form of story-telling, poetry and 
more. Students spoke of identities, 
coming out and navigating families 
and college.
“When I realized that the 
monologues fell on this day, this 

year, I was torn because I didn’t 
know if I wanted to talk or not,” 
Williams said. “But I felt like it was 
important because I’ve spoken a 
lot about my relationship with my 
mother in every single way, except 
for related to my queerness.”
Rackham student Alex Kime 
presented their story through the 
form of a poem titled “The Ongoing 
Draft of an Ars Poetica.” Kime’s 
poem covered experiences from 

their childhood to now, including 
their time with theater and poetry 
writing.
“I began to try and dim my 
shine, cried again and again at the 
name Alexander,” Kime said. “Did 
an impression at a cast party, and 
suddenly I was Edna, it was time to 
be flamboyant and loud.”

SAYALI AMIN
Daily Staff Reporter

See LIBRARY, Page 3A

Football Saturday

In the midst of 3-9 season 
in 2008, Michigan had one 
highlight — a comeback win 
over Wisconsin at home.

» Page 1B

Conflicting 
ordinances 
lead to legal 
questions

Councilmembers, city 
employees talk opposing 
police oversight proposals

LEAH GRAHAM
Daily Staff Reporter

See ORDINANCES, Page 3A

After 
Michigan’s 
voter 
registration deadline passed 
on Tuesday, campus voting 
initiatives at the University of 
Michigan, such as the Big Ten 
Voting Challenge and Buses to 
Ballots, are switching gears to 
ensure students are educated 
about 
the 
candidates 
and 
prepared to vote on Nov. 6.
According 
to 
Tufts 
University’s 
National 
Study 
of 
Learning, 
Voting, 
and 
Engagement 
2017 
Campus 
Report, 
44.7 
percent 
of 
eligible 
University 
of 
Michigan students voted in 
the 2016 presidential election, 
compared 
to 
50.4 
percent 
for all institutions. NSLVE 
also reported that only 14.3 
percent of eligible University of 
Michigan students, compared 
with 18.1 percent of students 
from all institutions, voted in 
the 2014 midterm elections.
In 
January 
2017, 
Edie 

‘U’, student 
orgs shift 
into voter 
education

Previous voter registration 
initiatives redirect efforts 
to providing candidate info

JULIA FORD
Daily Staff Reporter

See VOTER, Page 3A

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