About 60 people convened
Monday at Palmer Commons for a
Senate Assembly forum to discuss
University of Michigan Board of
Regents candidate platforms for
the upcoming Nov. 6 election.
Incumbents
and
first-time
candidates covered topics such as
financial aid, academic freedom,
the recent reprimanding of Prof.
John Cheney-Lippold for his
refusal of a recommendation
letter and more throughout the
event.
The forum was designed to
On Oct. 3, the Michigan
state
government
and
Enbridge, a Canadian energy
transportation
company,
announced a plan to replace
the twin Line 5 oil pipelines
that run through the Straits of
Mackinac, a major waterway
that connects Lakes Michigan
and Huron. The agreement calls
for the decommissioning of the
existing pipeline after a new
one is built in a tunnel below
the Straits.
The Line 5 pipelines are 645
miles long, transporting up to
540,000 barrels of crude oil and
natural gas per day. The new
tunnel would not change the
volume of oil transported daily.
The project is set to take
seven to 10 years to complete
and
cost
$350
million
to
$500 million. Enbridge will
provide all of the funding and
will continue to pay for the
operation and maintenance of
the tunnel for up to 99 years.
“This common-sense solution
In a meeting that lasted
past 3 a.m., Ann Arbor City
Council unanimously passed
Mayor
Christopher
Taylor’s
proposal
to
establish
the
Independent
Community
Police Oversight Commission
at
Monday
night’s
Council
meeting.
The proposal comes after the
council voted down a citizen-
led oversight board proposal on
Oct. 1, citing legal concerns in
the city charter and Ann Arbor
Police Department’s collective
bargaining agreement regarding
complaints. The citizen task
force met several times over the
summer after its establishment
was finalized in March. Their
proposal would have granted the
oversight commission subpoena
power for records and officer
testimony as well as the ability to
investigate complaints against
the AAPD independently of the
department.
The
Independent
Community Police Oversight
Commission,
proposed
by
Taylor, gives the mayor the
power to appoint 11 commission
members and would be a part of
city government. The rejected
citizen-led task force wanted
to create an 11-member body
with members appointed by the
Human
Rights
Commission,
subject to approval by the
council.
Community
concerns
about police oversight have
increased following issues of
police brutality across the city,
including the murder of Aura
Rosser in 2014 and arrest of
high schooler Ciaeem Slaton at
the Blake Transit Center in 2017.
Ann Arbor resident Renee
Roederer asked the council to
consider adding a youth member
to the commission.
“It is so rare for us, their
elders,
to
actually
hand
over power, leadership and
decision-making
ability,”
Roederer said. “That seems
to be magnified when young
people come from marginalized
identities and experiences of
disenfranchisement … our city
and our nation need to learn
from our youth and ultimately
be formed by their leadership.”
City
Council
later
amended
the
proposal
to
allow
councilmembers
to
appoint a youth liaison to the
commission. The liaison must
be an appointed member of the
“Youth Council,” which the
Adults with attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder exhibit
higher levels of creativity than
their non-ADHD counterparts
and rely less on prior knowledge
when thinking of innovative
solutions to problems, a University
of Michigan study says.
The study, conducted by U-M
Assistant
Research
Scientist
Holly White, asked participants
with and without ADHD to think
of and draw fruits that could
exist in an “alien” society, but
do not actually grow on earth.
White found participants with
ADHD were more likely than
those without ADHD to invent
fruits that differed greatly from
common ones, such as apples and
bananas.
White said the ability to offer
inventive answers in response
to complex problems is an asset
in many fields, especially in
areas where students will often
rely upon previous examples of
solutions rather than create their
own. She noted that, for example,
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Enbridge to
update Line
5 pipelines in
Great Lakes
Candidates for regent discuss
academic freedom in public forum
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Regent candidates listen to Kevin Graves (G) during the regents forum at Palmer Commons Monday.
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GOVERNMENT
$500 million tunnels expected to
protect Great Lakes from oil leaks
MAEVE O’BRIEN
Daily Staff Reporter
Tensions ignite in audience during debate over recission of letters of recommendation
ATTICUS RAASCH
Daily Staff Reporter
See ADHD, Page 3A
Attention
disorders
linked to
creativity
RESEARCH
University study shows
adults with ADHD are
better able to innovate
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Mayor Christopher Taylor listens to discussion of his proposal to establish the Independent Community Police
Oversight Commission during the City Council meeting at Larcom City Hall Monday evening.
After hours of debate, council passes
police oversight commission proposal
Concerns arise over commission’s lack of independence from police department
RACHEL CUNNINGHAM
Daily Staff Reporter
See COUNCIL, Page 3A
Base10 Partners, a venture
capital firm co-founded by
Thomas
James
Nahigian,
a
University
of
Michigan
Ross
School
of
Business
alum, and Adeyemi Ajao, has
recently raised $137 million
for investment in the name
of “automation for the real
economy.” This marks what is
believed to be the largest debut
for a venture capital firm led by
a Black man. The firm focuses
on
investing
in
early-stage
startups
utilizing
artificial
intelligence, automation and
data to empower low-wage
workers in large industries
like waste management and
mobility.
Base10 looks to startups
using
automation
to
make
workers’ jobs easier instead of
eliminating these jobs entirely.
Nahigian, who graduated from
Ross in 2009, said he and Ajao
founded Base10 after noticing
a lack of investment from
Silicon Valley in companies
See STARTUP, Page 3A
Ross alum
raises $137
million for
startups
BUSINESS
Amount is largest debut
for venture capital
fund led by a Black man
SONIA LEE
Daily Staff Reporter
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