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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Residents of 
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SMTD event raises awareness about 
sexual misconduct in performing arts

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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 
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Panel discussion comes in light of allegations against various professors

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LSA course 
pilots new 
technology 
called Reef

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App offfers improvements 
to original iClicker remote, 
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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

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City first on list of hubs for 
startups founded by women 
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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

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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 

