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

ANNIE KLUS/Daily

Regent candidates listen to Kevin Graves (G) during the regents forum at Palmer Commons Monday. 

After notching a 38-13 win over Wisconsin on Saturday, the No. 6 Michigan football team will travel to East Lansing this weekend for the highly-anticipated in-state rivarly game with Michigan State.

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

LIAT WEINSTEIN

For the Daily

MAX KUANG/Daily

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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