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The Center of the City
Task Force met at Larcom
City Hall to discuss the
planning stages of a new park
in the center of Ann Arbor
Wednesday afternoon.
The 10-person municipal
committee
was
designed
to
promote
long-term
beautification
projects
in
Ann Arbor. The group first
met on Aug. 1, after local
voters approved Proposal A in
November which designated
the library lot between Fifth
Avenue and Division Street as
a space for the construction of
a new community commons.
Meghan Musolff, the chair
of the task force, explained
the group is still developing
plans
for
the
park’s
construction
and
will
be
doing so over the next several
months.
Bringing in support and
input from the community in
the next few months will help
the project’s development,
Musolff said.
“My goals for today are
to
really
start
thinking
about how we engage the
community in an inclusive,
meaningful
way,
starting
from where we are in the
conversation,” Musolff said.
“This group is really coming
together to start thinking
about the vision, and today
… we (are) going to bring the
community into the decision-
making process.”
While the Center of the
City
project
ultimately
gained approval via direct
vote
last
November,
task
force members explained the
idea has been in the works
for several years. Alan Haber,
task force member and local
political activist, says the
idea was originally shot down
by the city over ten years ago.
More than 50 students,
faculty, poets and community
organizers gathered in the
Diag
Wednesday
evening
for a protest reading and
fundraising event through the
national movement Writers
for
Migrant
Justice.
The
movement is comprised of
poets who joined together to
raise money for organizations
providing financial, legal and
medical aid to detained or
formerly-detained migrants.
The open-air event featured
16
speakers
performing
original poetry and literature,
including poets and writers
who were both students and
faculty members.
Writers for Migrant Justice
partnered with Immigrant
Families
Together,
an
organization that provides
legal and financial support for
those affected by immigrant
issues,
and
the
local
organization One Michigan
for Immigrant Rights, which
provides support to immigrant
communities
through
“organizing, education, and
empowerment.”
Sumita
Chakraborty,
Michigan
Writers
for
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The University of Michigan
has installed security cameras in
the main libraries on campus for
the start of the fall semester. The
additional safety measure is the
result of a collaboration between
the University Library and the
Division of Public Safety and
Security.
Though campus libraries are
typically safe, crimes still occur,
said Rebecca Dunkle, associate
university librarian for library
operations.
“The libraries are generally
very safe places, but we do have
occasional groups of thefts,”
Dunkle said. “Mostly when people
leave their belongings unattended,
but on rare occasions from
library offices or labs when they
are accidentally left unlocked.
We hope the cameras will help
prevent thieves from coming into
the library at all and will help
the Department of Public Safety
identify perpetrators if a theft
does occur.”
Dunkle explained the security
cameras will only be placed in the
Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library
and the Shapiro Undergraduate
Library, the two biggest library
buildings on campus and the
locations of most past thefts.
Libraries
put in new
security
cameras
CRIME
Security meausures
will be placed in stairs
and entrances at the
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Center of the City task force talks
park planning stages at City Hall
‘Library Lot’ will become central commons after Prop. A passage
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funds for
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An online petition asking
the University of Michigan to
bring back coverage of sexually
transmitted infection testing at
University Health Service began
circulating online Wednesday.
At the time of publication of
this article, the petition had over
1,400 signatures.
UHS
and
Michigan
Medicine
quietly
introduced
a new policy in July to bill a
student’s insurance plan for
laboratory
testing,
radiology
x-rays
and
ultrasounds
and
allergy injections. Previously,
a
mandatory
$199
Health
Service Fee paid by students
through tuition covered these
examinations. UHS said they
implemented
these
changes
“to keep the health service fee
unchanged this year, despite
significant increases in expenses.
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Task Force members gather at the third Center of the City Task Force meeting at City Hall Wednesday afternoon.
Petition circulates to
change UHS STI policy
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There’s
a
cloud
on
the
horizon
for
flavored
e-cigarettes
in
Michigan,
and it definitely doesn’t smell
like mangoes. Gov. Gretchen
Whitmer
hit
juuls
across
Michigan hard on Wednesday,
declaring
a
statewide
ban
on flavored nicotine vaping
products.
Whitmer
called
on
the
Michigan
Department
of
Health and Human Services
to
issue
emergency
rules,
banning the sale of flavored
e-cigarettes both in stores
and online. The mandate also
includes a ban on misleading
marketing of vaping products
that use terms like “clean” or
“safe.” The ban will expire
in six months, at which time
Whitmer can decide to extend
it.
The ban makes Michigan
the first state in the nation
to bar the sale of flavored
e-cigarettes. In a press release,
Whitmer
said
she
issued
the order after Dr. Joneigh
Khaldun,
Michigan’s
chief
medical executive and chief
deputy director for health at
MDHHS, found that youth
vaping constituted a public
health emergency. In recent
weeks, health officials have
been investigating an outbreak
of vaping-related lung illnesses
across the country.
“As governor, my number
one priority is keeping our
kids safe,” Whitmer said. “And
right now, companies selling
vaping products are using
candy flavors to hook children
on nicotine and misleading
claims to promote the belief
that these products are safe.
That ends today.”
Data from the 2018 National
Youth
Tobacco
Survey
showed a 78 percent spike in
e-cigarette use among high
school students between 2017
and 2018, with more than 3.6
million kids currently using
them in 2018.
Whitmer
also
ordered
the
Michigan
Department
of Transportation to double
down
on
enforcement
of
existing state law prohibiting
billboard advertising of such
products.
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