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Lawyer for bin Laden driver talks about case Schnieder saved driver from major terrorism charges By ARIANA ASSAF Daily Staff Reporter ALLISON FARRAND/Daily
Sam Daley-Harris, founder of RESULTS and the Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation, spoke to students and faculty about his book, Reclaiming Our Democracy, and how to empower average citizens to take action towards ending world poverty and hunger.
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CFE director’s role expanded Engineering prof. will advise entrepreneurship education By STEPHANIE SHENOUDA Daily Staff Reporter
In an attempt to integrate formal entrepreneurial education into every student’s major, Martha Pollack, University provost and vice president of student affairs, has appointed Engineer-
ing Prof. Thomas Zurbuchen as senior advisor for entrepreneurial education to begin immediately, the University announced Monday. Zurbuchen, who joined the University in 1996, launched the Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering in 2008 and has helped the center expand its influence and scope over the past five years. CFE programs are currently available to 90 percent of undergraduate students, but Zurbuchen said in a statement that he believes those efforts can be
expanded and improved. “Our goal is to create the best creativity toolset in the world for students who want to learn how to ‘be the difference’ anywhere in the world,” Zurbuchen said. “A lot of this, we won’t have to build. We just need to bundle. Entrepreneurial activities have grown tremendously here over the past decade. This isn’t a topdown effort. This energy is coming mostly from the bottom up, and that’s how revolutions happen.” Pollack also noted that entrepreneurial education is not as
much about creating something new as it is facilitating the collaboration of available resources. “We see this role as one that not only knits together the University’s existing resources in entrepreneurship education, but also expands them, to offer as many students as possible a chance to develop entrepreneurial skills,” Pollack said in a statement. “This is a step we’re taking for the education of our students, but I see tremendous potential for its effects to ripple See DIRECTOR, Page 3
Harry Schneider, a lawyer at Seattle-based Perkins Coie, spoke to a group of over 100 people Monday afternoon as part of The International Law Workshop. Schneider talked about his involvement in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who was a driver for Osama bin Laden, and as a result was accused of engaging in acts of terrorism against the United States. Hamad was detained by the United States for nearly eight years before he won his case. Though he faced serious charges of assisting one of the most wanted criminals in American history, Hammad was only found guilty of materially supporting bin Ladin, after arguments from a legal team that included Schneider, courtappointed lawyer Lt. Commander Charles Swift, Georgetown University Law Prof. Neal Katyal and others from Perkins Coie. Hamdan was first apprehend-
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Eaton to focus on police, fire, basic services University alum faces elections as only official candidate By ANASTASSIOS ADAMOPOULOS Daily Staff Reporter
Democrat Jack Eaton says budget management and security are his main priorities in the run up to the election for city Ann Arbor in the fourth ward. The University alum beat incumbent Marcia Higgins in the August primary. Eaton graduated from the University in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and earned a law degree at Wayne State University in 1991. He represents public sector unions, consisting mostly of transit employees. Originally from Saginaw, he has lived in Ann Arbor for the past 27 years with his family. Eaton was unsuccessful the past two times he ran for office in 2010 and 2012. The only opposition Eaton faces this year are write-in candidates. William Lockwood is the only official write-in candidate, but a “20pound carp” has unofficially challenged Eaton via Twitter.
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“What neighborhood activists find is that when they go to their council members is they don’t feel they are being represented.” Eaton said. “Often you feel like you are the adversary when you seek to have your representative act on your behalf.” He has served as president of Friends of Dickens Woods Nature Area, and co-founded the Neighborhood Alliance, a coalition of Ann Arbor neighborhood groups, five years ago. The group is still active today. Eaton stressed that his main concern as a candidate is managing the city’s budget priorities. “The fundamental responsibility of the local government is to provide basic services like police, fire, trash pickup and to maintain the infrastructure: roads, storm sewers and waste water systems” he said. He says funding for the city’s safety services has been particularly lacking while developers get tax breaks and money was spent on underground parking. “I believe, and people similarly situated believe, that over the last ten years our local government has neglected our safety services,” Eaton said. Eaton said he’s especially concerned about how these cuts could affect University students. See SERVICES, Page 3
ed on Nov. 24, 2001 after dropping his daughter and pregnant wife off at the Pakistan boarder. His second daughter was born while he was detained, and he didn’t meet her until he was released years later. During his time as a detainee, he was subject to harsh interrogation, including sexual humiliation and sleep deprivation. He was imprisoned in several facilities, including the notorious Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Hamdan was born in Yemen and orphaned at an early age. He was not extensively educated. Schneider said Hamdan’s job offer from bin Laden offered a drastically different standard of living than he could have expected otherwise. “He was told that if he stayed in Afghanistan, he could work and earn ten times the money he could ever hope to earn in Yemen,” Schneider said. Hamdan was first employed by bin Laden in 1996 to transport agricultural workers who worked on bin Laden’s farm. Eventually, Hamdan became the al-Qaida leader’s personal driver. Although Hamdan was not unaware of bin Laden’s activities, he wasn’t a central figure to his See DRIVER, Page 3
Palm oil company protested by students Campaign urges cereal maker to divest from Wilmar By AMIA DAVIS For the Daily
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East Quad Residence Hall underwent a year-long, $116-million renovation and a radical resdesign.
Post renovations, ‘old’ East Quad remembered fondly Residential College members mourn loss of ‘Half Ass’ By EMMA KERR For the Daily
Since the reopening of East Quad Residence Hall this fall, students have begun to wonder what exactly the renovation’s $116-million price tag has bought them. The transition to the “new” East Quad has not been without significant adjustment and frustration.
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Students in the Residential College have called East Quad home since 1969. Some complain that the RC has taken a large loss as a community due to the renovation. However, most RC students who experienced East Quad before it was closed for renovations unanimously agree that, even if just for safety reasons and general deterioration after years of use, the building was in need of a makeover. LSA senior Rosie Levine, who recently completed an independent study project aimed at compiling memories
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and stories from East Quad prior to its renovation, said she feels it is important to acknowledge not only what was lost in East Quad’s renovation, but also the necessity of the improvements. “East Quad has been a really important place for a lot of people over the years,” Levine said. “Before East Quad closed, a lot of people came back and talked about how much the building really meant to them and how much their college life was really formed around East Quad and how that was See RENOVATIONS, Page 3
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University students and the Ann Arbor residents are teaming up with the Forest Heroes campaign, a group protesting the deforestation and displacement of endangered species in Indonesia, to urge the Kellogg Company to break its partnership with Wilmar International, a Singapore-based palm oil corporation. In 2011 and 2012, Newsweek ranked Wilmar, the world’s largest palm oil trader, as the least sustainable corporation in the world. Opponents say the company has deforested parts of Indonesia in order to produce its product. The company is said to be responsible for the endangerment of many species in Indonesia, including the orangutan and the Sumatran tiger, a rare subspecies found only on the Indonesian island. Forest Heroes has organized protest efforts and coalitions in the Ann Arbor area for some time. In October, the campaign recently held a statewide call-in See PROTESTED, Page 3
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