Ann
Arbor
residents
gathered in Forsythe Middle
School’s cafeteria to discuss
plans for a tunnel connection
between Bandemer Park and
Huron River Drive, as well as
the non-motorized Border-to-
Border Trail, Tuesday night.
The meeting was held by
Peter Sanderson, senior park
planner for the Washtenaw
County Parks and Recreation
Commission,
and
Hillary
Hanzel, park planner and
landscape architect for the
city of Ann Arbor.
The purpose of the meeting
was
to
raise
community
awareness and collect general
feedback and input at early
stages of project development.
The meeting began with a
PowerPoint
presentation
detailing the plans of the
tunnel and the Border-to-
Border Trail.
Sanderson
shared
the
intention
of
the
trail,
emphasizing the importance
of community connection.
“The real goal is connecting
our communities, connecting
people to parks and places
together,”
Sanderson
said.
We’re really connecting some
of our large facilities together
— we have almost 50 parks in
the region. The goal of our
project is to create a safe and
legal connection.”
On Tuesday night, more than
50 undergraduate and graduate
students gathered in the Ross
School
of
Business’s
Blau
Colloquium for an event titled
“Poverty Simulation: Making
Sense of Making it in America,”
gaining a perspective on the
daily decisions and dilemmas
of people facing poverty in the
U.S.
During
the
three-
hour
simulation,
student
participants were organized
into
families,
assigned
demographic roles and were
subsequently faced with a series
of
socioeconomic
obstacles,
ranging
from
mortgage
payments to childcare and
daily transportation costs.
The
simulation
was
organized and facilitated by
Poverty Solutions, a research
center at the University of
Michigan launched in 2016,
which aims to illuminate the
causes
and
consequences
of
American
poverty
in
search of viable solutions to
socioeconomic concerns felt by
millions across the country.
Trevor Bechtel, the student
engagement coordinator for
Poverty Solutions, elaborated
on
the
mission
of
the
University’s center, which is
based in the Ford School of
Public Policy.
“Our goal is to find projects
where we can understand what
makes a material difference in
people’s lives,” Bechtel said.
“We have a partnership with
the city of Detroit. It’s the
only partnership that exists
between
a
major
research
university
and
a
mayor’s
office.”
According
to
Bechtel,
Poverty Solutions put a great
deal of work into creating a
realistic experience for student
participants.
“We partnered with the
Interfaith Council for Peace
and Justice to do the event,”
Bechtel said. “They’ve been
doing these for about 25 years.
They’re a group down in
Missouri, but this simulation
is customized to Washtenaw
County. They collect volunteers
from
a
whole
variety
of
demographic groups.”
Chuck
Warpehoski,
the
current director of the ICPJ
and
a
former
Ann
Arbor
city
councilman,
explained
ensuring the reality of the
situations posed to participants
was a key factor in crafting
the
simulation.
Warpehoski
said many of the simulation’s
volunteers provided a real-life
perspective to participants.
Since
the
beginning
of
the academic year, several
LSA
classes
have
been
participating
in
a
pilot
program of iClicker Reef, a
new student response system
from
Macmillan
Learning,
to ask a wider variety of
questions
than
traditional
iClicker remotes. This pilot
program is being used to help
the LSA Instructional Support
Services weigh in on what
advantages the system brings,
as well as any problems that
may arise.
Students in the pilot classes
can access Reef through an
app to answer an instructor’s
prompted
questions.
In
addition to handling multiple
choice questions, Reef allows
students
to
write
short
responses and use a target
picture to drop points on a
chart — something the iClicker
remotes cannot do. The app
also confirms if the instructor
has received the response and
records the response feedback
for later access.
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SMTD event raises awareness about
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Kaaren williamsen, director of the u-m sexual assault prevention & awareness center, moderates the Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct Awareness and Preven-
tion in the Performing Arts event at the Moore Building Tuesday.
ANN ARBOR
Underpass would connect Huron
River Drive and Bandemer Park
Panel discussion comes in light of allegations against various professors
EMMA STEIN
Daily Staff Reporter
See REEF, Page 3A
LSA course
pilots new
technology
called Reef
ACADEMICS
App offfers improvements
to original iClicker remote,
allows for more questions
ARJUN THAKKAR
For The Daily
Poverty Solutions simulates experiences
of Americans living below poverty line
Research center aims to highlight causes, consequences of financial hardship in US
BEN ROSENFELD
Daily Staff Reporter
See SMTD, Page 3A
Often hailed as Michigan’s
Silicon Valley, Ann Arbor is home
to a variety of entrepreneurs
and up-and-coming tech firms.
Recently published research now
indicates the city is a major hub for
women-led startups.
A study published by the Center
for American Entrepreneurship
found Ann Arbor was one of the
top cities in the U.S. for female-
founded startups. The study is
based on the number of these
startups — with a criteria of at
least one female founder — raising
initial venture investments over
the past 20 years.
In recent years, there has been
an increase in women-founded
venture-backed startups in the
U.S, according to the study. It
looked at the number of startups
in the U.S. that raised their first
round of venture capital financing
between 2005 and 2017. From
this information, the researchers
concluded the share of women-led
startups that were able to raise a
first round has improved from 7
percent to 21 percent of the total
share.
See STARTUPS, Page 3A
Ann Arbor
top spot for
female-led
businesses
BUSINESS
City first on list of hubs for
startups founded by women
that receive capital funding
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See POVERTY, Page 3A
The University of Michigan
School of Music, Theatre &
Dance hosted an event on
Tuesday to raise awareness
about sexual and gender-based
misconduct in the performing
arts, and to explore potential
solutions to the problem. The
event brought in a crowd of
approximately 90 community
members and featured a panel,
audience Q&A session and a
variety of musical performances.
This event comes in light of
allegations of sexual misconduct
this year against Music, Theatre
&
Dance
School
professors
Stephen
Shipps
and
David
Daniels.
Panelist Kaaren Williamsen,
director of the U-M Sexual
Assault
Prevention
and
Awareness Center, began the
event by discussing how sexual
misconduct is both a personal
and community matter. She
said
she
understands
how
challenging it can be to address
these issues, but she advocated
for creating a culture resistant
to
sexual
assault
through
prevention and intervention.
the
KELSEY PEASE/Daily
Participants of the Poverty Simulation in the Blau Colloquium gain a sense of barriers and injustices that people of lower socioeconomic status face Tuesday
evening.
ALYSSA MCMURTRY
Daily Staff Reporter
Picturing the Border