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CITY COUNCIL ELECTION
Incumbents keep seats, Eaton wins unopposed Students made up less than five percent of vote ERIN KIRKLAND/Daily
By WILL GREENBERG
Third Ward city council candidates Stephen Kunselman and Sam DeVarti talk strategy during their joint watch party at Dominick’s Tuesday night.
Rogel couple gives $50M Namesake of Union ballroom donates to Medical School, chinese studies By JENNIFER CALFAS Daily Staff Reporter
And the gifts keep on rolling in. Early Monday, the University announced that Richard and Susan Rogel donated $50 mil-
lion to the University’s Medical School and the Center for Chinese Studies. The gift will provide $30 million for scholarships at the Medical School and $10 million to support faculty, students and programs of the Center for Chinese Studies. The remaining $10 million will benefit future initiatives. The Rogels’ gift comes just days before the launch the Victors for Michigan fundraising campaign on Nov. 8, which will focus on development of stu-
dent support. The campaign is slated to run through 2018. “Rich and his wife Susan share our commitment to making it possible for extraordinary students to immerse themselves in their studies and research, and prepare for highimpact careers, without regard to cost or future debt,” University President Mary Sue Coleman said in a statement. Richard Rogel, who graduated as valedictorian in 1970 from what is now the Ross School of Business, has served
GOVERNMENT
CSG election reform bill fails By AMRUTHA SIVAKUMAR Daily Staff Reporter
The Central Student Government assembly failed to pass a resolution on Tuesday that would potentially bar CSG campaigns from popular University study spaces. The resolution — brought forth to the assembly on its third read — sought to amend the CSG governing documents to prohibit legislative or executive candidates running for office from actively campaigning in Campus Computing Sites or University Libraries. “No candidate may campaign in any Campus Computing Site while polls on the election webSee CSG, Page 3A
The Ann Arbor City Council elections Tuesday brought few surprises, as all incumbent candidates held their seats and Democratic candidate John Eaton joined the ten-member board. Total voter turnout was 13.25-percent of registered voters with a total of 22,888 ballots cast across the 66 precincts. The closest election was in the second ward, with independent incumbent Jane Lumm holding her seat over Democratic challenger Kirk Westphal. Lumm took 55.66 percent of the vote, Westphal 41.63 percent and Mixed Use Party candidate Conrad Brown took 1.91 percent. The Ward 2 election also had the highest voter turnout at
in a number of corporate leadership roles during his career as an investor and business leader. He previously served as chairman and chief executive officer of the Preferred Provider Organization of Michigan, a health insurance firm he founded in 1982 and sold in 1997. Rogel is currently a member of the University of Michigan Health System Advisory Group and will serve as the vice chair for the Victors for Michigan campaign. He will lead the See ROGEL, Page 3A
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Proposal would have banned campaigning in computing sites and libraries
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19.83 percent. At 9:45 p.m., as Lumm led with a 54-percent majority before the absentee votes were counted, she addressed a group of more than 50 supporters. “We’re a wonderful collection of Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians all coming together because we share the same concerns,” Lumm said to the room. “We care so much about this community and that’s what this is all about. It was never about a party. Talk about something energizing, motivating, exciting.” Councilmember Sumi Kailasapathy (D–Ward 1) attended Lumm’s watch party at the Paesano Italian restaurant near Arborland to express her support. She noted that she and Lumm share similar priorities. “We really want to bring the focus back to fiscal responsibility and providing core services like fire and streets and garbage pickups,” she said. “Jane has been a See SEATS, Page 3A
Student-run campaign to raise fiscal awareness ‘U’ to participate in second annual national competition to win $10,000 By KRISTEN FEDOR For The Daily
VIRGINIA LOZANO/Daily
City councilmember Jane Lumm (Ward 2-I) celebrates with campaign supporters.
Mixed Use Party fails to win seats on city council Innovative focus on zoning didn’t convince voters By MATTHEW JACKONEN Daily Staff Reporter
After a poor turnout, the Mixed Use Party is bent but not yet broken. Ann Arbor City Council incumbents Jane Lumm (I– Ward 2) and Stephen Kunselman (D–Ward 3) defeated both Mixed Use candidates, LSA senior Conrad Brown
in Ward 2 and Sam DeVarti in Ward 3. Though DeVarti garnered nearly 30 percent of the vote in the third ward, Brown failed to surpass a two percent of the vote in the three-person race in the second ward. So, what will come of the Mixed Use Party, an effort by college students to influence the city’s zoning laws? University alum Will Leaf, co-chair of the Mixed Use Party, said he is not yet done fighting for his party’s platform, but is unsure of the party’s future.
“We believe in our ideas, and we knew it was going to be difficult,” Leaf said. “We’re going to continue advocating for those ideas, and we don’t know what form that is going to take yet.” While working the polls and attempting to coax more residents into voting for Mixed Use candidates, Leaf noted that success for him meant getting more than three students out to vote. In the last off-year city council election, only three students See MIXED, Page 3A
Throughout the fall, a group of University students will compete in the second-annual Up to Us campaign to educate their peers on the long-term debt crisis in United States. University students are competing against students from 24 other schools to make campaigns about the debt crisis and will be judged on criteria ranging from creativity to visible impact on campus. The winning campaign will win a $10,000 cash prize and recognition from former President Bill Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative University in early 2014. The group receives training through weekly webinars sponsored by Up to Us and will receive a $2,000 budget to help conceptualize and execute its campaign in early 2014. The University was chosen to participate in last year’s Up to Us campaign as well, but the team from the University of Virginia won the $10,000 top prize. The Clinton Global Initiative University was established as a nationwide effort to get students involved engaged in policy and political issues with an eye on solutions. The CGI U
partnered with the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and Net Impact to make the “Up to Us” campaign a reality last year. LSA junior Benjamin Park, campaign director for the University’s team, said it’s especially important for college-aged students to be aware of the crisis because they’re not often involved in looking for a solution. “Most of the policies that are made are not made by anyone in our age group, yet the policies of today are going to be what affects our lives in the future,” Park said. Though the core team is composed of five people, Park is optimistic about this year’s campaign, noting there is already an increase in student participation compared to last year’s effort, with more than 50 people already involved. Park said the 2012 campaign did not have a significant enough impact on the University’s campus, and this year’s organizers are looking to expand its influence. While they are still in the planning stages, participants are looking forward to creating a video for the cause with the help of other student groups, hoping to bring in a wider audience. The coordinators also plan on booking professors and bringing in local politicians to speak to students. “We also want to have fun events that all students can come to and that they’ll enjoy,” LSA freshman Courtney Kim, the event design chair, said. “While they’re having fun, they can get to know fiscal policies.”
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