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University to demolish North Hall Home of ROTC will be razed to make way for new building By ARIANA ASSAF Daily Staff Reporter
South Quad Residence Hall might look a bit rough right now, but another building on campus will have it worse. North Hall, the building that currently is home to the University’s ROTC programming, is set for demolition, pending approval by the Board of Regents. Operations Officer Wayne Doyle said the building is being torn down because repairs to the current building would be too costly. University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said the building, located on North University Avenue near the C.C. Little Building and the Museum of Natural History, is “more than a little old,” University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said. North Hall was built between 1899 and 1900 as the Homeopathic Hospital Building, according to records from the Bentley Historical Library. It has housed ROTC programs since 1940. Fitzgerald said plans for demolition and reconstruction of North
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Students pack into the Beyster Building to speak with recruiters for the Engineering Career Fair Monday.
FACULTY GOVERNANCE
Assembly upset by search Senate Assembly upset about lack of own members on search committee By YARDAIN AMRON For the Daily
At their meeting at Palmer Commons Monday, members of the Senate Assembly expressed concern that the University’s Board of Regents didn’t appoint any assembly members to the
Presidential Search Advisory Committee. The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs — a nine-member faculty executive committee elected by the Senate Assembly — passed a resolution in February 2012 urging the regents to include representatives from the assembly on the committee. When members were announced in July 2013, no assembly members were among the names Over the summer, SACUA responded with another resolution expressing their “disap-
pointment” with the regents’ decision. Assembly members expressed a similar sentiment Monday. “It doesn’t start off in very good light, given the fact that there’s no representation of central governance on the Search Advisory Committee,” said Prof. John Lehman, the SACUA secretary. “It sends a sort of message as to what the conversations are going to be about in the interviews.” SACUA member Prof. Scott Masten said the regents gave no explanation as to why the
assembly was not included in the committee. Monday, University spokesman Rick Fitzgerald declined to comment about why no Senate Assembly members were included. In lieu of representation on the committee, members proposed that the assembly establish a strong channel of communication with the new University president from the onset. But the window of influence is apparently small. Lehman, See ASSEMBLY, Page 3
Hall will be up for approval by the University’s Board of Regents next month. Therefore, he could provide only limited information at the time. “It’s been in development for a long time,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s a project that will try to solve multiple problems on campus.” Lt. Col. Allana Bryant, a professor of military science, said ROTC programs will be relocated in May, and the building will be torn down in June. It’s not clear where the ROTC program will be held during construction. Fitzgerald declined to comment on the timeline of construction, but said more information will become available once the project is approved. Nursing junior Meghan Conger, an Army ROTC cadet, said she spends several hours a week at North Hall because it’s the meeting place for almost all of her ROTC activities. She added that she’s disappointed the building will be taken down, as she thinks of it as a campus landmark. “It’s a very unique building with a lot of purpose, and it’s a building that’s special to cadets and midshipmen because it’s solely for ROTC operations,” Conger said. “Not a lot of other students know about it or can use it.”
CLOSE- KNIT COMMUNITY
CAMPUS LIFE
Entreprenuer co-op formed off-campus Former Michigan linebacker finances Oxford Rd. house By ROBERT ARANELLA Daily Staff Reporter
The Creators is a new co-op in town — and it has a celebrity benefactor. The co-op was founded after Business and LSA senior Nancy Xiao, a member of MPowered, spoke at an alumni event in Cincinnati to generate support for entrepreneurial projects on campus. Former Michigan linebacker Dhani Jones, who currently plays for the Cincinnati Bengals, was intrigued by her speech and approached her afterward to talk about creating a student group to foster such endeavors. “On this panel, I remember talking about this problem we had on campus, that we’re trying to solve, there was just no one place to go to meet like-minded people who were building great things,” Xiao, the co-op’s general manager, said. Since the event, Jones and Xiao have worked together to form a group that encourages young entrepreneurs to follow through with their dream projects. Xiao has attracted six other students to the cause and they continue to have weekly discussions with Jones to continue growing
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the outfit. The co-op is named for its mission to create a collaborative environment for students. The co-op is not a part of the Inter-Cooperative Council and is not registered as a student group. Xiao said they decided not to affiliate to avoid narrowing the project’s scope. “It’s not a student organization. We thought it would be better if we weren’t so Ann Arbor focused … we wanted people to be focused on our people, not the place,” Xiao said. This fall, Jones bought the group a house located at 631 Oxford Road, a property that used to be owned by the University’s Board of Regents. The four-story house has two floors of workstations and communal areas to foster the exchange of ideas, and a residential floor for leadership. Due to zoning laws, only four members are able to live inhouse currently as they finish converting the building. The organization will be accepting their first group of new members this fall. While other clubs accept students with varying levels of experience, The Creators will require more businessfocused qualifications when considering applicants. “We’re looking for … people that have kind of already hit that epiphany and have already started building an app or selling their first product,” Xiao said.
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New group combines networking with fitness Run This Campus spins off events in Detroit, Chicago By CHRISTY SONG Daily Staff Reporter
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LSA sophomore Heather Williams and LSA freshman Ili Anuar knit for the homeless at a meeting for Scarves With a Purpose Monday.
ANN ARBOR
South U. to get burger joint BurgerFi to open in space under University Towers By MAX RADWIN For the Daily
Ann Arbor, prepare to be Burgerfied. BurgerFi — short for “Burgerfication” — will open on South University Avenue near South Forest Avenue on Oct. 1. The restaurant’s belief in a ‘green’ business model and food-preparation habits has garnered rapid success. But they say their participation in the “better burger movement” isn’t just an attempt to serve good, healthy food: It’s also an attempt to set an example for an entire industry.
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“The food service industry in general is a very wasteful industry,” Heather Stein, the store’s manager, said. “It leaves a pretty big carbon footprint. It’s important that we keep that in mind because … we can change that. If more people were more conscientious of sustainability, the results would be immeasurable.” Stein said that everything on BurgerFi’s menu will be made from scratch. All of the store’s beef is a proprietary blend of Montana, free-range Black Angus cattle, and the resulting patties will be formed in-house and never frozen, she said. Hand-cut fries and onion rings will also be made fresh throughout the day. “We even tilt our grills so a lot of that grease runs down, so you’re not just getting a burger
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that’s sitting in its own fat,” Stein said. Even the restaurant’s interior — which evokes the fastcasual concept of hamburger stands from the 1950s and 60s — will be made from recycled materials: the Coke-themed chairs are made out of 111 Coke bottles and the restaurant’s picnic tables are made out of 960 milk cartons. LSA junior Elaine Han, who admitted she isn’t a huge fan of burgers, said she plans to try the new restaurant for its greenconsciousness, fresh food and its proximity to campus. Stein believes that the restaurant will be a strong fit with Ann Arbor not only because the city is very “green-conscious,” but also because BurgerFi’s menu provides a lot of food See BURGER, Page 3
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Is your workout routine getting stale? Give networking out a chance. Run This Campus is a new organization focused on promoting fitness through networking, or “networking out.” Unlike many athletic and wellness groups, RTC is focused on collaboration rather than competition. It also provides the opportunity for participants to engage with community leaders, peers and potential employers. RTC is based off of an organization with operations Detroit and Chicago called Run This Town, which was founded in 2012. Usually 400 to 1,000 people participate in two sessions a week in those cities, according to the group’s organizers. LSA senior Omar Hashwi, former vice president of the Central Student Government, helped start RTC. The group held its first meeting on Sept. 17 and will soon announce inaugural events. Hashwi hopes the University’s numbers will reach or surpass the attendance rate of Run This Town. “My goal is to create a healthier campus by creating one of the largest collaborative fitness sessions in the U.S. here at our University,” Hashwi said. Run This Town founder Shawn See FITNESS, Page 3
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