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MISSING PERSON
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Friends search for missing undergrad
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Engineering junior last seen Sunday on Michigan Avenue By MATT SLOVIN Managing Editor ADAM GLANZMAN/Daily
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The Victors for Michigan development campaign aims to raise $4 billion for the University, $1 billion of which will go to student aid. The campaign kickoff event was held at Ingalls Mall and Hill Auditorium Friday night, and featured performances by student groups and speeches by University President Mary Sue Coleman (top left) and billionaire Stephen Ross (top right), the chair of the campaign.
Drive for $4 billion begins Victors for Michigan kicks off with night of speeches, events By PETER SHAHIN and SAM GRINGLAS Daily News Editor and Daily Staff Reporter
It’s not often that hundreds of students party with the Univer-
sity president. Braving chilly temperatures, students, staff, faculty and alumni turned out Friday to celebrate the formal launch of the Victors for Michigan fundraising campaign. Following an outdoor community festival, attendees crowded Hill Auditorium for a glitzy campaign kickoff featuring University President Mary Sue Coleman and campaign chair Stephen Ross.
Organized by the University’s Office of Development, the festival and launch celebration aimed to gather student and donor support for the Victors for Michigan fundraising campaign — an ambitious $4 billion drive slated to run until 2018. With the inside of Hill Auditorium bathed in blue light, campaign organizers set the mood on high as pop music blared and crowds of yellow-shirted
students, alumni and guests filled Hill’s lower bowl and then flowed up to the balcony. In a carefully choreographed lineup, discussion of the campaign’s top priorities — student support, engaged learning and bold ideas — were punctuated by professionally produced videos and featured students. For every campaign goal, one of three University representaSee DRIVE, Page 5A
Concerned friends are searching for a student who has been missing since early Sunday morning. Engineering junior Luke Stevens was last seen leaving his apartment on Michigan Avenue at 2 a.m. Sunday to go to his girlfriend’s house on East Davis Avenue. He is described as 6 feet tall with a slim build, wavy, light brown hair and green eyes. When he went missing, he was wearing olive green pants with a black Marmot jacket and black soccer sneakers with purple laces. LSA junior Alison O’Brien, Stevens’s girlfriend, said she filed a missing person report on Sunday with both University Police and the Ann Arbor Police Department. Univer-
sity Police confirmed Sunday evening that a report had been filed but said they referred MISSING: O’Brien to AAPD LUKE because Ste- STEVENS vens was last seen offcampus traveling to another off-campus location. UMPD only has jurisdiction on the University’s campus. University Police also notified officers via radio of Stevens’s description, noting that he may have been intoxicated the last time he was seen. Stevens had his phone and wallet when he left and failed to show up for work at 2 p.m. Sunday, according to his friends. Friends have been circulating messages about Stevens on social media, including a post from his own Facebook profile. See STEVENS, Page 5A
Under Coleman, ‘U’ sees uptick in study abroad With increased focus and funding, more students study outside of the United States By SHOHAM GEVA Daily Staff Reporter
Early Monday, the University announced that it now ranks tenth in a national list of universities with the most students studying abroad. The figure is significant in a way, as the University didn’t even make the list between 2002 and 2005. The 2012 to 2013 Institute of International Education Open Doors survey showed that the University enrolled 2,060 students in study-abroad programs in 2011-2012, a 6 percent increase over the previous period. One of University President Mary Sue Coleman’s presidential initiatives during her time at the helm has been an expansion of study-abroad programs — something that wasn’t a priority when she began her tenure in 2002. Between 2002 and 2005, fewer than 1,300 students enrolled in study-abroad programs. The University earned a spot on the list starting in 2006, and enroll-
ment has since fluctuated around 2,000 students. However, when it comes to assessing the quality of study-abroad programs, the raw number of enrolled students doesn’t tell the whole story. According to JamesPaul Holloway, vice provost for global and engaged education, the survey only reflects students doing study abroad for credit. “The data you don’t see there is the co-curricular that that survey has not systematically collected.” said Holloway. “The message for us, I think, is that for students it’s not about credit. It’s about educational experiences abroad, whether they’re for credit or not.” The results from the 2010 to 2011 school year placed the University’s enrollment of 1,964 squarely in the middle of the pack of peer institutions, between a high of 2,451 at the University of California, Los Angeles and a low of 1,347 at the University of Iowa. The full 2012-2013 ranking list was not available Sunday. Those co-curricular, or non creditgranting opportunities, attracted 400 University students in 2005. By 2010, co-curricular enrollment had grown to 1,500 students. The most popular destination for credit-granting programs was Spain, with 312 students, followed by See ABROAD, Page 5A
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Student veterans and other military personnel played in a basketball game at Crisler Center Sunday.
Army, Navy face off in annual game Navy beats Army 31-22 in eventful game at Crisler Arena By AMRUTHA SIVAKUMAR Daily Staff Reporter
About 500 people watched Sunday as veterans of the United States Navy and Army battled during a game of wheelchair basketball to celebrate both the service of military veterans as well as the accomplishments of those with physical disabilities. The Army vs. Navy Wheelchair Basketball Game served as the last event in the Investing in Ability Week spon-
sored by the University. The wheelchair basketball game is also a part of the Veterans Week celebrations at the University that will continue until Friday. The Navy may have overpowered with a 31-22 win over the Army, but there was more to the afternoon than just the scoreboard. Gerald Hoff, the event’s organizer and an insurance representative at the University of Michigan Health System, said the event was held to celebrate all veterans regardless of physical ability. “There may be many celebrity-type games, but when it comes to ArmyNavy, you can say it’s on,” Hoff said. “When that ball drops, these guys and ladies go at it and they are very serious
and competitive.” In its fourth year, the Wheelchair Basketball Game featured University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University student veterans, ROTC students from both universities, veterans from the Veteran Affairs Ann Arbor Health System and the Washtenaw County Sherriff’s Department, as well as one member from the U.S. Paralympics team. Paul Schulte, co-captain of the U.S. Paralympics men’s wheelchair basketball team, was originally scheduled to participate in the event but was unable to play due to a recent injury. However, he flew in from Tampa, Fla., to support the veterans. See GAME, Page 5A
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