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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 
UGLi and Hatcher

Center of the City task force talks 
park planning stages at City Hall

‘Library Lot’ will become central commons after Prop. A passage

Writers 
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CAMPUS LIFE

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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.

MADELINE HINKLEY/Daily
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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& RACHEL CUNNINGHAM

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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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seeking refuge at 
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