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UM faculty discuss new initiatives to fight poverty CAROLYN GEARIG/Daily
Governor Rick Snyder speaks at the State of the State address at the State Capital on Tuesday.
Snyder touts economic recovery, talks Flint at State of the State
University-related topics such as sexual assualt, autonomous vehicles also outlined CALEB CHADWELL Daily Staff Reporter
LANSING — The tone of Gov. Rick Snyder’s State of the State address was uplifting as he recognized the Michigan’s economic prosperity and pushed for accelerated improvements
to infrastructure Tuesday night in Lansing. Though not all state legislators were pleased as many expressed disappointment in the governor for not devoting enough of the speech to the Flint water crisis. “We’ve made Michigan a place where if you work hard and play by the rules, you can truly get
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City urges POTUS to stand by DACA laws The council passes a resolution in advance of Trump’s inauguration ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
With President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration date days away, City Council’s meeting Tuesday night was dominated by the discussion of how to protect undocumented individuals, a topic usually reserved for a national scope. Larcom City Hall was packed with more than 100 residents supporting the council’s resolution to urge President Barack Obama and state legislators to take steps protecting those who applied to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA is an immigration policy put in place by Obama in 2012 that allows undocumented immigrant youth who meet certain criteria to receive a two-year deferral from deportation and a work permit. Trump, who ran on a platform against immigration and refugrees, has proposed policies which would threaten it. The Presidentelect has previously referred to undocumented Mexican See CITY, Page 3A
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ahead,” Snyder said. “Not just survive, but thrive.” Job growth was a focus of the speech, with Snyder stating since taking office in 2010, Michigan has created almost 500,000 private-sector jobs, while unemployment is down to a 15-year low of 4.9 percent. Snyder recognized
manufacturing and investment from the automotive industry as the chief job-creator in Michigan and said residents no longer have to leave the state to find quality jobs. “We’ve created over 116,000 manufacturing jobs since 2010; we lead the nation,” Snyder See SNYDER, Page 3A
Grant program continues progress since initiated by President Schlissel in Oct. KEVIN BIGLIN
Daily Staff Reporter
Panelists at the University of Michigan met Tuesday afternoon to discuss Poverty Solutions — an initiative introduced by University President Mark Schlissel in October 2016 — and review nine research projects funded through a new grant program operated by the initiative. The projects, totaling $200,000, represent the initiative’s first investments in research and model testing aiming to use research about poverty to better suit different communities. Poverty Solutions
Director Luke Shaefer, an associate professor of social work and public policy, opened the discussion — held over Facebook Live — by introducing the interdisciplinary initiative, which, according to its mission statement, is designed “to become a leader in informing, identifying and testing new strategies for the prevention and alleviation of poverty in Michigan, the nation and the world.” Poverty Solutions researches and works with policymakers and community organizations to better understand the causes and See POVERTY, Page 3A
CSG confirms Indigenous People’s Day Students and upcoming election dates for fall pitch start BUSINESS
The holiday is slated for Oct. 10, election dates to be held March 22 and 23 HEATHER COLLEY Daily Staff Reporter
During Tuesday night’s meeting, Central Student Government set the dates for the election of the 2017-2018 academic year’s leaders to be held on March 22 and 23, with 31 voting in favor and one abstaining. As the current administration nears the end of its term, CSG President David Schafer, an LSA senior, praised the assembly for its hard work this past semester, encouraging the body to pursue its goals until the elections in March. “Day in and day out we have fought for progressive policies and we will continue to fight for progressive policies until our last day,” Schafer said during last week’s meeting. “This is our promise to you … Change is best realized from the bottom up.” Additionally, a resolution encouraging the University of Michigan to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day was unanimously passed. The resolution was introduced last week and aims to celebrate the holiday on the second Monday of October, formerly Columbus Day which is no longer recognized by the University. The Ann Arbor City Council voted unanimously in November 2015 to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day as well. The Ann Arbor City Council
resolution was proposed by Councilmember Chuck Warpehoski (D–Ward 5), who made the movement on the notion that Columbus did not actually “discover” America. “I think we all share a hope that this is more than just a changing on the name on the calendar, but it becomes an opportunity for a deeper community conversation about what’s happening with
indigenous communities,” Warpehoski said in November. “It is a stereotype that Indians are only in history books for many people and one of my goals is that through the education effort that groups like the Native American Student Associations are doing they will get a chance to say yes, they’re still here.” LSA junior Stephen Smith, Native American Student
Association co-chair, said the University should follow holiday recognition trends throughout the country. Both Washtenaw County and the city of Ann Arbor already recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day, and Smith noted that wellestablished organizations do as well. “There seems to be a growing trend across the nation of large See CSG, Page 3A
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Ayah Issa, Diversity and Inclusion Chair, celebrates the passing of her proposal at the Central Student Government meeting in the Union on Tuesday.
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ups at CFE challenge
Ideas for websites, new companies pitched to panel of four judges TYLER COADY
Daily Staff Reporter
A panel of four judges entertained pitches for nearly four hours in the middle of the TechArb office as entrepreneurial teams took part in the initial phase of the University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship’s premier contest, the Startup Competition. Adorned with foosball tables, bookshelves lined with Wall Street and Silicon Valley memoirs and posters encouraging visitors to never give up, TechArb is a joint initiative between the Center for Entrepreneurship and the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies that aims to provide students startups with funding, advice and networking opportunities in the form of consulting, workshops and competitions. The teams, which were at varying stages of product development but largely male in makeup, presented their ideas Tuesday for innovative improvements of products and services to the Student StartUp Accelerator panel — located in a basement office on East Liberty Street. See CONTEST, Page 2A
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