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NEWSBio-artography The 54th annual Ann Arbor Art Fair shows off unique photo style.

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NEWSMINTS Program ‘U’ will invest $1 million toward faculty startup programs over 10 years.

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OPINIONFrom the Daily:Regents should approve new in-state tuition guidelines.

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ARTSAmericanaramaBob Dylan, Wilco and My Morning Jacket take on DTE for summer festival.

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SPORTSBeilein Extension‘M’ Basketball coach John Beilein signs contract through 2018-19.

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MARLENE LACASSE/DailyOn a hot Wednesday afternoon, the first day of the Art Fair, attendees peruse a jewelry booth on South University Avenue.

Regents to vote on tuition guidelines

Wards vied for in Dem. primary

Undocumented students could have

access to in-state rateBy AARON GUGGENHEIM

Managing News Editor

Eight students were arrested in front of the Michigan Union this past April for blocking traffic. Fifty crowded the April meeting of the University’s Board of Regents wearing bright maize shirts. These students — organized by the Coalition for Tuition Equality — gathered time and again to advocate for in-state tuition for undocumented students.

After almost a year of activity, and the convening of a joint task force of administrators and students, University President Mary Sue Coleman’s promise of a “positive recommendation” for

tuition equality will be presented before the Regents at their meeting Thursday.

University Provost Martha Pollack, in communication with the regents, has proposed simplified residency guidelines that will specify three pathways for attaining in-state residency status: being a Michigan resident, service in the U.S. military or attending Michigan middle or high schools.

“Students who are not legal residents of the state of Michigan or of the United States may qualify for in-state tuition under this school-attendance-based approach,” Pollack said.

Students who qualify for the attendance-based approach would be those who attended Michigan middle school for two years followed by three years of attendance at and graduation from a Michigan high school.

These students would also need to start their University education within 28 months of graduation from high school.

These changes to determining residency, the first review of this policy since 2005, will be imple-mented by January 2014. How-ever, this will still not change the ability for undocumented students to receive federal financial aid.

University spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald said the University decided to implement the policy in January, rather than in September for fall semester, because it gives University staff enough time to make sure “all of the details have been adequately worked through.”

Pollack said in a University press release that the changes provided a simpler path for those seeking to qualify for in-state tuition.

Grand, Eaton look to unseat City

Council incumbentsBy TUI RADEMAKER

Daily News Editor

In a 90 percent Democratic Ann Arbor City Council, two of the five represented wards will be contested in the August 6th primary.

Julie Grand, who currently serves as the chair of the city’s Parks Advisory Commission, is challenging incumbent Ste-phen Kunselman (D–Ward 3). Jack Eaton, a longtime neigh-borhood activist and labor attorney, is seeking to unseat Marcia Higgins (D–Ward 4).

While Grand said she has been focusing her efforts on personally connecting with voters by knocking on doors, Kunselman said he is relying on the strength of his record on City Council to carry him through the primary.

Kunselman was first elected to the council in 2006 and has held his seat since, apart from one year in 2008. He said his defeat resulted from distancing himself from Mayor John Hieftje and his supporters.

“(Wanting to be a better com-municator is) how I distinguish myself from my opponent,” Grand said. “I know that my opponent hasn’t made really thoughtful decisions on council — he’s just been very divisive … If you’re really listening to your constituents then you have a bet-ter idea of what the real issues are in the ward.”

See TUITION, Page 7 See PRIMARY, Page 6

A2 ART FAIR

Scientific images reworked as artistic

pieces up for saleBy WILL GREENBERG

Daily Staff Reporter

A crowd descended upon Ann Arbor on a sizzling Wednesday afternoon for the first day of the city’s 54th annual Art Fair, which features hundreds of booths exhibiting art, selling food and hawking products and promotions, as well as displaying work from University researchers.

The fair itself is a combination of four separate fairs: the Ann Arbor Art Fair, Ann Arbor’s South University Art Fair, the State Street Area Art Fair and the Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair. The fair runs until Saturday.

In total, it covers over 30 city blocks with 1,100 artists and an estimated half million people in attendance. The artists hail from all over, coming from 38 different states and four countries along with local Ann Arbor artists.

Art Fair spokesperson Daniel Cherrin said the event is a kind of two-way street: Ann Arbor hosts the artists so they can be included in one of the nation’s largest art fairs, while in return the event brings business to the city.

“The city itself is raw, the Art Fair itself is another way to bring people into the city and to enjoy what it has to offer,” he said. “It’s a Michigan tradition.”

Cherrin said this year the fair has expanded walking space to better accommodate foot traffic, added shuttle services and increased parking options.

To address the projected 90-degree weather, Cherrin said there will be misting stations along South University Avenue and State Street as well as an air-conditioned trolley which will tour the fair. Cherrin said staff will remind attendees to stay hydrated and safe but he doesn’t expect the heat to deter anyone.

“It’s summer in Michigan, it’s July in Michigan, rain or shine

people know that the Art Fair is coming up and it’s something that we all plan for,” he said.

Though the fair does not include work from the School of Art and Design, it does feature some pieces from University faculty. Among these includes “bio-artography”, a science-meets-art creation by University researchers.

Bio-artography is composed of pictures taken during lab work through microscopes and features the naturally occurring art within living cells.

Deborah Gumucio, professor of cell and developmental biology and head of the bio-artography project, said she and her colleagues started selling these pictures at the Art Fair in 2005 as a way to raise money for young student-scientists to attend meetings across the country.

Gumucio said the process involves faculty from five University schools and 27 different departments with

researchers submitting images they have taken during the course of their work. Light and color is then added in to the received pictures. Gumucio and five faculty members in the School of Art and Design then vote the pieces that will be displayed.

The images portray anything from cancer to stem cells, Gumucio said. She added that on top of being visually pleasing, the pictures have the appeal of being from actual work done at the University.

Because of this, Gumucio said the pictures both raise money and help to educate and engage the public on science. Through her work, she has spoken at high schools, forums and meetings to discuss the way that science and art can be used to promote each other.

“We’ll start talking about something — let’s say the induced pluripotent stem cells,” Gumucio said. “And now you have an

opportunity to tell them what the differences are between whole-organ stem cells in an adult versus pluripotent stem cells that you make from an adult versus embryonic stem cells.”

Gumucio said the project typically puts forth about 100 pictures, which usually generate about $9,000 to $10,000 — half of which goes to preparing the images and the other half to the students. Gumucio said since 2005, the project has sent over 60 students to meetings nationwide.

Theresa Reid, executive director of Arts Engine and one of the five artists that vote on the images used in the project, said the images are “fantastic” and that she really supports the bio-artography project.

“(Gumucio and her colleagues have) been encouraged to see the beauty of their scientific work in ways that I don’t think they otherwise would have,” Reid said.

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Bio-artography displayed by University researchers at fair

MARLENE LACASSE/DailyUniversity researcher Jennifer Freeman describes a photograph to visitors at a booth of bio-artography, microscopic images originally captured during scientific research.

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‘U’ startup investments to bring returns

Website to receive design upgrades

Program has given up to $500,000 to seven medical and science companies

By RACHEL PREMACKDaily Staff Reporter

Innovative faculty are not the only ones who stand to benefit from Michigan Investment in New Technology Startups, a University program which invests in faculty startups. By investing in these companies, MINTs could bolster the University’s endowment.

Seven faculty startups that have met the requirements already received funds, of up to $500,000, from the 18-month-old MINTS program. Five of these are in the healthcare sector and the others are related to development in the field of physical sciences.

The University will also invest $1 million of endowment funds in an individual startup over a 10-year span.

University President Mary Sue Coleman, when announcing the program nearly two years ago, said past faculty startups have returned impressive profits. The Michigan Daily previously reported that if the University invested funds in future startups, it could strengthen University coffers as well as the state’s economy.

Rafael Castilla, the University’s investment risk management director, said one startup could be sold within the next two years, but it’s more likely that the University will have to hold on to the investments for a decade or more.

“We have generally a very long-term horizon,” he said. “We hope there’s going to be a return, but we’re in no rush to sell as soon as possible.”

Associate Engineering Prof.

Wei Lu, co-founder of the computer hardware startup Crossbar Inc., said hardware industry generally had returns in the long term. Crossbar’s products, which consist of new architecture for computer memory, will not reach the market for years and the profit margin for these types of products are typically slimmer than software and social media startups. Funding such startups prove more difficult.

Though risky, Lu said hardware innovation revolutionizes computer technology, and Crossbar’s breed of memristor chips could do just that.

“It can be potentially very important and change the semiconductor landscape, but it has not been fully proven yet,” Lu said.

While faculty startup investment programs are uncommon, they are gaining interest. Investments Manager Felicia David-Visser said she’s fielded questions from other colleges for information on how MINTS works.

“There are numerous other institutions that are looking at it or considering it or going to watch it and see how it works out for us,” Castilla said.

Castilla added that implementing an investment program assumes a university is producing significant amounts of research that may be patented and commercialized. In the case of MINTS, all funded startups must be based in technology patented through the University, a Board of Regents document stated.

Ann Arbor-based biotechnology firm Atterocor has close ties with the University beyond its MINTS funding, Atterocor President and CEO Julia Owens said. Its clinical trials for adrenal cancer treatment will take place at the University’s center for the rare but aggressive disease, Owens said.

“We felt we had a compelling

Michigan Creative works to create

iPhone adjustments By KAITLIN ZURDOSKY

Daily Staff Reporter

The University’s website, which has over half a million visitors a year, is getting a facelift.

After over two years of research toward the redesign, a team at Michigan Creative, a division of the Communications department, has developed a “responsive” system that easily

adjusts the website to any device.“If you’re accessing from a

desktop or an iPhone, it will recognize the device and rescale accordingly,” University spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald said. “There’s no longer a need for a separate iPhone app or different interface. The website simply recalibrates so it fits on your cell phone.”

Fitzgerald said the goal of the redesign is to make the website as clear and accessible as possible in all formats. With the gradual change in technology over time, the Michigan Creative team developed this platform in order to keep pace with how customers

access the information.“The website is the front door

of the University of Michigan on the Internet,” Fitzgerald said. “We refer to it as the gateway because it’s how we envision it: the gateway to learning about the University of Michigan on the web. It’s through that website that you can unlock the door to a world of knowledge about the University of Michigan.”

To improve website functioning, primary research began in 2011 when the University teamed up with marketing and communications firm Lipman Hearne in order to analyze how people were navigating the website.

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A call for tuition equality Regents should approve revisions amid Congress’s inaction

At their meeting Thursday, the University’s Board of Regents will consider proposed revisions to the University’s in-state tuition guidelines that would make it possible for undocumented

students from Michigan — who currently pay out-of-state tuition rates — to qualify for in-state tuition. If approved, these revisions would be a major victory for the student-led Coalition for Tuition Equality and affiliated student organizations, as they have sought an opportunity for undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition since October 2011. By approving these revisions, the regents can greatly aid undocumented students in the state and do their part in what has become a nationwide movement towards revamping immigration policy.

Under the revised policy, undocumented students would be eligible for in-state tuition if they attended at least two years of middle school and three years of high school in the state, gradu-ated from a Michigan high school or earned a Michigan high school equivalency certificate and start classes at the University within 28 months of graduation. This would be one of three ways students could claim eligibility for in-state tuition — the other two are Michi-gan residency and being either a member of the military or having a family member in the military.

Many undocumented students’ status as non-residents is a result of their parents bringing them to Michigan and the U.S. at a young age — a condition outside of their control. For the 29,000 undocu-mented students currently living in Michigan, a college education, let alone a University education — charging out-of-state tuition

— on the average undocumented household’s income of $36,000 per year is virtually impossible to afford. However, being able to claim in-state residency and the corresponding in-state tuition rate would make attending the University far more feasible.

But even if the regents approve these revisions — and they should — the fundamental issues of an antiquated federal immigration policy behind many of the prob-lems undocumented students face will remain in place. Currently, undocumented students can’t apply for federal financial aid. This is largely because they don’t meet the requirements for acquir-ing permanent residence visas or “green cards”. Moreover, under current law there is a backlog of over four million applications for these visas. A Senate immigra-tion reform bill passed in late June goes a long way towards fix-ing this problem by providing an

alternative pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. But the bill wouldn’t permit stu-dents who have set out on this path to apply for financial aid, and House Republicans have stated they don’t intend to introduce a similarly sweeping package any-time soon.

With widespread support for tuition equality evidenced by CTE’s nearly two-year campaign as well as a Congress that has proven its capacity for inaction on important issues such as immi-gration reform time and time again, the regents should approve the proposed in-state tuition guidelines. Doing so would both reaffirm the University’s commit-ment to Michigan’s residents and serve as an important gesture of solidarity to undocumented peo-ple who — though not American citizens — desire a world-class education and a chance to make their mark in the U.S.

This Friday, the first session of the camp I’m working at this summer will come to

a close. Nearly 600 campers will be leaving the woods and the new friends they have made and return home.

At the end of many school years, it’s easy to question wheth-er or not I’ve actually learned anything. I know I’ve spent countless hours studying and working on class assignments, but it’s not unreasonable to wonder if I’ve truly advanced academically.

The same question can be asked for camp, just in a very different context — have I grown as a person? The week before camp — known as “precamp” — the staff is essentially preached two core values: keep the kids safe and let them have the summer of their lives.

But I think there’s a third unwritten value that is perhaps more important than having fun — find a way to get kids to break out of their comfort zones.

The comfort zone is defined as a state of mind in which anxiety and the feeling of risk are minimized. Mental boundaries are set and it takes immense courage for anyone to step outside of the “zone,” myself included.

But I recognize there are many reasons why it’s important to break out of the comfort zone. To name a few, it maintains a sense of drive and ambition. If we’re too unwill-ing to leave the comfort zone, then it’s likely we’ll never get around to accomplishing the things that could lead to a meaningful life. From per-sonal experience, each and every time I’ve stepped outside my com-fort zone — and that can be as sim-ple as making a phone call to a total stranger — the added experience makes the next challenge easier to deal with. And lastly, it can help us live with a more open mind. Any idea I’ve pursued that at first seemed risky or scary but ended up work-ing out provides confidence that a similar idea could result similarly. Essentially, there should be no fear of being bold. We’re at our best at a level called “optimal anxiety” and in order to reach it, risk-taking must be a part of our daily agenda.

As a counselor, the campers I’ve watched overall have a different willingness to step outside the

comfort zone. Some will attempt a Recreation, Observation, Problem Solving, Experiential Education and Self-Esteem course head-on with no thought whatsoever and others will overthink an activity to the point of mental paralysis. There’s absolutely nothing that can be said to make these campers participate in activities they’re afraid of.

Dealing with this range of emo-tions is challenging. Trying too hard and ultimately forcing the camper to do something they fear could be traumatizing and diminish the con-fidence they have. But if we — the counselors — don’t try hard enough, then these campers will remain within the comfort zone and will never know what they’re missing if they don’t expand their horizons.

After spending nearly every moment with these campers for three weeks, the camper-counselor relationship becomes very close, almost parent-like. We want — more than anything — to see these teenagers reach their potential, whatever that may be. Like I said in my last column, there is no great-er feeling than watching a child accomplish something for the first time. And there’s also no greater frustration than watching a child not accomplish something they are capable of doing.

Last year, my friend joked that instead of writing camp counselor on his resume, he would write that he was a “child development special-ist.” And that’s a quite accurate job description. Each session, the goal is to leave each camper with a greater sense of self-worth and confidence. Ultimately, we want to make them better people.

Stepping out of the comfort zone — no matter how small the step — is where that change begins. There’s no debate about whether it’s easy to do that or not because it’s hard, no doubt. But being able to dig deep for a split second and find the courage to do something out of the ordinary routine has long-lasting positive effects down the road.

—Derek Wolfe can be reached at [email protected].

The comfort zone

We want to make them better

people.

DEREK WOLFE

Press play. It’s Friday night. Your friends are over, donning their

tightest skirts or lowest-cut dresses, armed with a bottle of alcohol. In an hour you’ll take to the streets, covered in a liquid blanket that seems to render even the harshest Michigan winters inconse-quential. Your friends urge you to drink more — and more importantly to hurry — and the music thumps in your ears.

Pause. You’re faced with an option — get as drunk as everyone else in order to enjoy the night, or walk into a party with a certain kind of anxiety that comes along with knowing everyone around you is on another planet. You brace yourself for the slow burn as you lift the bottle to your lips and drink until you cough, eyes watering.

Fast forward. Your coat has been tossed in a corner — remind yourself not to forget it, you always forget it — and you are jumping up and down, swinging limbs manically in a crowd full of people. Your friends have mysteriously disappeared, but that doesn’t matter because a cute boy has decided to be your dance part-ner. You don’t know his name, nor does he know yours. You dance in a way you know you’ll cringe at when you look back in the morning — all pel-vic thrusting and pursed duck lips — but at the time you’re feeling quite good about your-self. His mouth finds yours and his sweat mixes with yours like a chemical concoc-tion of salt water.

Stop. The screen goes black. Play. You’re upstairs and

no-named cute boy has you against a wall, entrapping your wrists between his hands. You think, ouch, that doesn’t feel too good. “I should go,” you say between his probing lips, but the noise is drowned out by the bass rattling the chandelier.

Stop. Fast forward. It’s morning

— the sun blinds your eyes and you find yourself, by some miracle, at home in your own bed, wearing the clothes you wore the night before. You look around the room — you’re coatless but alone, thankfully. With a sigh of relief, you rise, woozy, close your curtains against the light of day and climb back in bed.

Roll credits.The screenplay seems as

though it could be filed under thriller, but easily turned slasher film or horror movie had the night taken a different turn. However, for college students in what seems to be the Drinking Age, the movie is entitled Friday Night and is replayed every weekend.

Personally, when I see people stumbling around Ann Arbor on the weekends I can’t help but think of “Brave New World,” by Aldous Huxley. The characters in the book avoid living organically, trading in their pain and worry for soma, an intoxicating substance that eases all of the dystopic world’s ills.

“The warm, the richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday. How kind, how good-looking, how delightfully amusing every one was!”

– Brave New WorldLike soma, alcohol does seem

to make the world of Friday night ragers more appealing — the music pulses through you, the lights are brighter, your

inhibitions are dashed and somehow you’re a way better dancer. Who wouldn’t want to be a better dancer? Plus, you’ve had a rough week. You deserve to go out and let loose a little bit, right?

Sometimes, when you’re sucked up into the world of college parties it’s hard to take a step back and remember the things you used to enjoy doing when you were having a rough week — if not getting obliterated with a bottle of vod and your mini skirt. A cup of warm tea, a hot date with your bed, your best friend and your favorite black-and-white movie, perhaps? Or a bottle of wine, good company, conversation and maybe some Sinatra? Relaxation. Pajamas. An early bedtime to catch up on all of that sleep you missed cramming for exams.

But I’ll have time for sleep when I’m dead, you cry in dismay at what sounds like a night of PG-13 fun. I’ll answer you with a question, you party animal.

When did a night full of dubstep, sweaty frat bros and seizure-inducing lights become the normative standard of a “fun night out”? Why is it that you need to be drunk in order to let loose and enjoy yourself? There is an entire world out there, ripe and ready to be explored if you weren’t so busy seeking out avoidance at the bottom of a bottle.

—Paige Pfleger can be reached at [email protected].

The Drinking Age5Thursday, July 18, 2013

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Remember what you used

to enjoy?

The University has a long and proud history of promoting social justice. Thursday, the University’s Board of Regents can pen the next chapter in this storied history by passing tuition equality.

Moreover, the University has a compelling opportunity to establish a policy that will benefit the lives of undocumented youth. Access to in-state tuition for undocumented students is more than sensible education policy — it’s a good first step toward fulfilling one of the most pressing needs of today: equitable access to higher education.

We commend the University for considering a new residency policy that would broaden access to higher education for undocumented students — however, to ensure an equitable experience for these students, the University must commit itself to advancing a comprehensive approach to meeting the needs of this population.

Our work at the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good — a policy and research institute based in the University’s School of Education — has demonstrated that increasing opportunities to higher education for all capable students fosters greater civic engagement and more diverse demo-cratic participation. Of the estimated two million undocumented youth in the country, 29,000 reside in Michigan. An estimated five to ten percent of them pursue higher education. To address the persistent college enrollment gap between documented and undocument-ed students, nearly 20 states have enact-ed inclusive in-state tuition and financial aid policies. However, research indicates that undocumented students continue to face additional barriers to completing college because they lack access to aca-demic and support services and struggle to cover the cost of attendance.

In short, the University must com-mit itself to supporting undocumented students for the long haul. This commit-ment will require the University to take three more important steps — provide further support to undocumented stu-dents that ensures their successful com-pletion of a college degree, encourage other institutions of higher education to follow the University’s lead and reach out to communities that are most affect-ed by undocumented student issues.

First, the University must create an equitable college experience for undoc-umented students, which will require much greater support than it currently provides. In terms of financial access, the University can complement the strides made by tuition equality with institutional aid. In its upcoming capi-

tal campaign, the University intends to raise billions of dollars, with a focus on financial aid. This provides a timely opportunity to establish an undocu-mented student-specific scholarship fund through the campaign. In the absence of federal financial aid, institu-tional aid will likely make the difference in the ability of many undocumented students to afford a University educa-tion. The University must also provide holistic academic support services for undocumented students. The University of California-Berkeley’s Undocumented Student Program provides a promising example for our University to emulate.

Second, the University must recognize the rights of residency for undocumented students from this state and thereby set a standard for its peer institutions. In doing so, the University may encourage institutions nationally to align their own policies and practices more closely with the values of inclusion and educational opportunity that are essential in promoting the broader values of a democratic society.

Third, the University must sustain a public commitment to access for undoc-umented students. This commitment will further encourage Michigan’s top students to attend the University. In Michigan communities — particularly ones with substantial undocumented populations — the University stands to tap into potential that would otherwise go to waste. Too often, undocumented students realize their status and decide against pursuing a University education because of the steep cost of attendance. Inclusive policies would give hope to stu-dents who would otherwise give up on pursuing a higher education — let alone a University degree — during or before high school. If the University wants to admit increasingly larger cohorts of undocumented students, it needs to ensure these students — who would oth-erwise excel at the University if prepared — know that the University is a realistic option earlier in their K-12 schooling.

We encourage the University’s Board of Regents to uphold equal opportunity for all students from Michigan by passing tuition equality. We call on those who share our view to express their support for tuition equality and other inclusive policies to the University administration and Board of Regents. Thursday’s vote represents a historic opportunity to affirm this University’s commitment to access and inclusion for the residents of this state. It is also simply the right thing to do.

Kevin Mersol-Barg and Marisol Ramos are graduates of the Class of 2013.

Access and inclusionKEVIN MERSOL-BARG AND MARISOL RAMOS | VIEWPOINT

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Grand said her focus on availability to constituents — she plans to hold weekly office hours if elected — stems from the fact that she said it’s hard to predict the exact issues that will come up within the next two years.

Grand said she has been able to gain support from numerous Republican residents who agree with her local policy stances regardless of her personal opinions of national-level politics.

“I feel there are very fundamental differences between the two of us (Kunselman and myself),” Grand said. “You don’t pick on an incumbent unless you think you’re presenting a very different approach and vision for the city … he flat-out just said he doesn’t think it’s his job to proactively communicate with his constituents.”

Throughout the race, Kunselman has said Grand’s focus on communication is a sign that she is weaker on the issues.

“I run on issues — I’m a very strong candidate when it comes to a record because I have a record of achievement on City Council,” Kunselman said.

Kunselman said criticisms illustrating him as divisive are counterproductive and unfounded, citing his strong base of supporters who have consistently re-elected him.

In addition, he said Grand’s decision to run was based more on requital than a commitment to the issues, given that her husband has previously worked with Leigh Greden, whom Kunselman unseated in 2009.

“She was basically recruited by them,” Kunselman said. “It’s not about running on issues, it’s about running revenge.”

In addition to “running on issues,” which he says has been central to both his races and service on the council, Kunselman said he wants city government to be more transparent to instill trust in his constituents.

One issue over which Grand and Kunselman appear to see more eye-to-eye on is in their hesitation in encouraging University student candidates to run for City Council.

“(Students are) a vital part of the community but at the same time … are here for the short term and much of what the council

does in terms of decisions doesn’t always have the greatest impact on students,” Grand said.

Though Grand added that she wanted the council to be accessible to students.

Kunselman said the fact that students don’t consistently vote is a telling sign that it would be difficult for him to see a student being a representative of the entire city.

“The problem with that whole (issue) is that why do students think they have a right as a special interest group any more so than any other special interest group?” he said. “Do students really interact with the city at large? From my experience, not really.”

Hieftje said he is not willing to endorse either candidate in the Ward 3 race and has a general policy of not endorsing candidates

who are challenging incumbents.Regent Mark Bernstein (D–Ann

Arbor) has endorsed Grand.For the Ward 4 race, Eaton

said, like Grand, he decided to run in order to provide better representation for constituents. Last year, he lost in a close race to Margie Teall (D–Ward 4) who is not up for re-election.

“I’ve run both these times because I’m concerned about the

direction that our city council is taken over the last five or six years and in recent elections I think we’re beginning to turn the tide ... to be more responsive to voters,” Eaton said.

Eaton said if elected, his main priorities will be to work on public safety by bolstering the police and fire departments, which he said have had to cutback due to lack of funding. He said he wants the

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“We believe these changes create a clearer path to in-state tuition for several groups of future students, including military veterans and undocumented students who have made Michigan their home,” she said.

But with the passage of these changes, despite the constitutional autonomy of the University and the ability of the Regents to set tuition independent of the state, the University could face injunctive lawsuits to reverse the policy.

University administrators, including former University Pro-vost Phil Hanlon and President Coleman, both articulated con-cerns in interviews in January with The Michigan Daily with the legal hurdles faced in imple-menting tuition equality.

On social media platforms, including Twitter, many have expressed excitement with this development, including the Coalition for Tuition Equality.

“The time is NOW for the Regents to give in-state tuition to the undocumented students who have worked hard and braved many obstacles to achieve it,” CTE tweeted.

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Police Department to return to staff levels where police officers can provide proactive policing.

Another issue Eaton is passionate about is having students serve on City Council. He said he is willing to help student candidates as they attempt to have their voices heard in the local government, but said they must focus on a larger set of issues other than just campus interests in order to appeal to a

broader pool of constituents.“I’m a 60-year-old guy — I’m not

going to say that I understand the agenda of University of Michigan students,” Eaton said. “They need to organize and come to me, or organize and run a candidate or do something to have an impact on the politics.”

Hieftje said he is endorsing Higgins, citing the councilwoman as “someone who I’ve worked with

for a very long time” and who’s done a “very good job” in her present position.

Incumbent Marcia Higgins (D–Ward 4) did not return requests for comment.

Other seats up for re-election in November are those currently held by City Council members Sabra Briere (D–Ward 1), Jane Lumm (D–Ward 2) and Mike Anglin (D–Ward 5).

“We felt we had a compelling story pursuing a rare cancer for which there are very limited treatment options,” Owens said.

She said venture capital firms typically profit from biotech startups like Atterocor when they’re acquired by large

pharmaceutical companies, though Atterocor’s drug may not reach the market until 2023.

Castilla said University investment in its faculty’s startups is not new. But prior to MINTS, the University provided venture capitalists with money and those venture capital firms would invest the funds as they wished.

That said, current investment through MINTS is still linked with venture capital firms. Castilla said when startups seek funding from multiple investors at once, a firm leads the round, deciding how much each investor will give to fund the startup.

But MINTS allows the University to choose which startups to invest in.

“We are able to learn about at least certain innovations at the University in greater depth and detail than we would without MINTS,” Castilla said. “Of course, the University is large and even what we learn represents only a small fraction of the research and innovation happening.”

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Managing Arts Editor

At 4:30 p.m. on the day of the show, I printed out the tickets for my first Bob Dylan concert and lament-ed that I was seeing him at a point in

time when tickets could be printed at home. Though modern science had miraculously allowed me to purchase the tickets five minutes earlier on a whim, I decided that I could not be satisfied with technol-ogy until the day that some machine

could transport me through space and time and spit me out in the late ’60s, landing cleanly on my feet like a gymnast in the front row of a Blonde on Blonde-era show.

Having no such device, I’d decid-ed to “settle” for seeing My Morn-

ing Jacket and Wilco — two of my favorite bands — open for Dylan on this summer’s AmericanaramA tour. And then, with our printed-out tickets, my sister and my friends and I made the the trek out to DTE and found ourselves in a crowd of baby

boomers, many of whom had seen Bob in the days before Ticketmaster.

“He’ll usually play a couple of hours worth with a few hits thrown in here and there,” said the beard-ed man behind me in the line for T-shirts. “His voice is worse than you’d imagine.”

My Morning Jacket and its lead singer Jim James — shaped like an enigma with a striped native blan-ket wrapped around his shoulders — played a set that ran through the band’s variety of styles and remind-ed me of their haphazard greatness. The folky “Golden” felt as fresh as the obtuse power of “Holdin’ On To Black Metal,” and memories were certainly made when one old shirt-less man stood before the sea of blankets on the lawn and belted out every “aahhhh ahhhhh” of “Word-less Chorus.”

Wilco played Yankee Hotel Fox-trot favorites and more obscure material, and everything was right on point. “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” made mine palpitate and the odd beauty of “Impossible Germany” translated perfectly to the live setting.

Each opening act then joined each other for a cover of The Bea-tles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows,” and after a short break, Bob Dylan appeared looking like the skeletal embodiment of former greatness.

Dylan, his never-great voice now reduced to heavy and largely inco-herent grumblings, didn’t move an inch on stage as he and his band ran through a perplexing setlist. Clas-sics such as “Tangled Up In Blue,” “Simple Twist of Fate” and “All Along the Watchtower” stuck out even if their lyrics were barely rec-ognizable in Dylan’s 2013 voice, and the only true reminder of his heyday was the harmonica solos, which still pierced through the instrumenta-tion and the night sky with vigor.

Laying down on the lawn and staring up at the expansive sky, I honestly felt a galaxy away from the stage. Perfection is sitting under the stars and listening to Bob Dylan, I convinced myself and ignored his imperfections. And when my writer friend turned and showed me a pic-ture of a young Dylan with Allen Ginsberg at Jack Kerouac’s grave, I remembered the power of Dylan’s poetic works and was completely satisfied with everything about that night — even if I couldn’t recognize that he closed with “Blowin’ In The Wind.”

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‘Orange’ is the new show to beatNetflix’s lastest

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By KAYLA UPADHYAYAManaging Arts Editor

I had a few concerns about Netf-lix’s latest original series, “Orange is the New Black.” I worried it would expect us to sympathize exclusively with its main char-acter — the very white and very privileged Piper Chapman — as she navigates the Litchfield wom-en’s federal pris-on. I worried it would succumb to white saviorism, presenting Piper as the prison angel among a cast of anonymous criminals. I wor-ried it would romanticize prison life in the same way creator Jenji Kohan’s previous work “Weeds” romanticized the drug trade.

“Orange” does none of these things.

Piper Chapman (Taylor Schil-ling, “The Lucky One”), with her attractive fiancé Larry (Jason Biggs, “American Pie”) and suc-cessful artisanal soap company, basically lives one of those posh New York lifestyles that only seems to exist in Nora Ephron movies and the New York Times style section. But none of that mat-ters anymore as she finds herself

facing a 15-month stint in federal prison for a crime she committed 10 years prior with her then-girl-friend Alex (Laura Prepon, “That 70s Show”), a cool, sexy inter-national drug trafficker (pro tip: don’t fall for cool, sexy interna-tional drug traffickers, no matter how cool and sexy they are).

Piper arrives at Litchfield, determined to make her time in prison count, maybe learn a craft or two, and then return to her fiancé Larry as a new, enlightened woman. She’s met quickly with the harsh, metallic clamor of pris-on reality. It’s a place where say-ing the wrong thing at the wrong time can leave you without food for days, a place where money is replaced with a barter system that includes everything from cans of Pepsi to duct tape to sex. The only new crafts she learns are how to fix broken lamps, how to fashion shower slippers out of Maxi pads and how to live locked up with the ex-girlfriend who landed her in this shit hole in the first place.

“This isn’t ‘Oz,’ ” a correctional officer remarks during Piper’s Litchfield check-in. With its sharp humor and female-centric sto-rytelling, the series isn’t exactly of the same brand as “Oz,” but to call it too watered down to be compared to the harrowing HBO series — or worse, “Oz” for women — is insulting and untrue. “Orange” uses graphic violence sparingly, but when it does, it’s powerful. There’s darkness with-in the walls of Litchfield. The tone weaves expertly between sweet

and poisonous. A jubilant celebra-tion — set to Kelis’s “Milkshake,” obviously — for an inmate who’s finally getting out takes a nasty turn that lands Piper in solitary for an isolating Thanksgiving marked by nonsensical echoes and moldy bologna.

In Piper’s first few weeks behind bars, “Orange” starts to unfurl a series of wonderful sur-prises. Though we stay close to Piper throughout the 13-episode first season, the story isn’t just hers. She shares it with a whole crew of intricate characters who are far from anonymous. There’s Morello (Yael Stone, “Spirited”), who spends her days planning her wedding with a boyfriend who never visits and screwing the lesbian ex-heroin-junkie Nich-ols (Natasha Lyonne, “Weeds”). There’s Daya (newcomer Dascha Polanco), who tries so desperate-ly to not end up like her mother (Elizabeth Rodriguez, “Prime Suspect”), a fellow inmate who welcomes her to Litchfield with a motherly slap across the face. The Russian head chef with a bad temper, Red (Kate Mulgrew, “Warehouse 13”), acts as a moth-er figure to many of the girls, including Tricia (newcomer Mad-eline Brewer), a lovesick junkie who keeps a handwritten ledger of everything she’s ever stolen so she can one day pay her debts. Piper’s roommate Miss Claudette (Michelle Hurst, “Blue Bloods”) is fiercely tidy, and whispered rumors that she killed a man fol-low her everywhere. When it’s

time for a new 'do, the girls know to go to resident stylist Sophia (Laverne Cox, “Transform Me”), a trans woman who befriends a hilariously liberal nun (Beth Fowler, “Gossip Girl”).

Well-placed flashbacks reveal how some of these characters ended up in Litchfield, and it quickly becomes clear that no one woman belongs here more than any other. They’re full of f laws and unconventional talents. They’re vastly distinct from one another, yet their stories overlap in compelling ways, as relation-ships — maternal, sexual, amia-ble, hostile — form and transform from episode to episode.

The characters are backed by a superb cast. Schilling gives a career-making performance, and Prepon similarly delivers at an emotional level we haven’t gotten from her in past work. This cast — which bursts with talented new-comers — also strikingly looks like no other ensemble you’ll see on television, starring women of varying ages, sizes, races and sex-ual orientations. With its diverse representation of women, race and sexuality play huge roles in the show’s narratives. It explores trans issues with a candor rarely found on television and delves into lesbian love as complexly as “The L Word” once did (though it’s worth noting that “Orange” manages, so far, to be more coher-ent and substantive than “The L Word” ever was).

When Larry becomes con-cerned that Piper is getting

too swept up in prison life (her world suddenly revolves around the sighting of a fabled chicken, because fowl folklore is appar-ently quite powerful in prison), he points out it’s like living in a fishbowl. As I barreled through the first season of “Orange” (thanks to the release-it-all-at-once delivery method of Netflix original programming), I found myself completely swept up in the super-detailed world Kohan has created. With its specificity and colorful characters, “Orange” is like a fishbowl you can’t help but love being thrown into.

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Building upon this research, secondary analysis used test drives of the design ideas and responsive platform technology. Fitzgerald said scores were given to assess navigation aspects within computers and mobile devices. After receiving high scores on user compatibility, the team is now in its final stages of development.

In addition to the website itself, Michigan Creative has recently redesigned the block “M” and University logos. Fitzgerald said elements will refresh the visual brand of the University and create consis-tency across all parts of the Uni-versity.

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Ten-year study shows improvement,

despite need for further observation

By WILL GREENBERGDaily Staff Reporter

New research from the University indicates that old-age may not be as depressing as demonstrated in the past.

Kara Zivin, assistant professor of psychiatry, and her team used a Health and Retirement Survey of subjects age 55 and older and found depressive symptoms to be in a general decline.

Results, which were collected over a 10-year period between 1998 and 2008 with 16,184 sub-jects, were determined using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, which includes eight symptoms of depression. Subjects answered the survey

based on the number of symp-toms they experienced in the week before taking the survey.

Zivin said the number of subjects with four or more symptoms, the minimum number to indicate significant depression, decreased over the course of the study. The results also indicated that the number of people with zero symptoms increased from 40.9 percent to 47.4 percent and there were no significant changes in severe symptoms for those 60 or older.

However, within the 55- to 59-year-old age group, the number showing severe symptoms — six or more — increased from 5.8 percent to 6.8 percent. Zivin said while not enough research has been done to explain the variances between age groups, it is important to understand that not all older adults are treated the same way.

“Things that may be affect-ing mental health in a 50-year-old may be very different than mental

health in an 80- year-old,” she said.The study came in the context

of a larger “program project grant” that primarily included faculty from the University and Harvard University. Within the project are five studies in various areas of the healthcare field with the overall goal of assessing the cost and quality of health care treatment in the U.S.

Sandeep Vijan, associate professor of internal medicine and a co-author of the study, said while it’s too early to give any definitive statements the results’ impact on mental health care, there are signs that care could be improving.

“The fact that these changes hold up in the face of all those other things at least suggest that it could be due to better diagnosis and treatment,” Vijan said.

While the researchers consid-ered factors such as race, gender and net worth, Vijan said there are many external factors that were not included in the study, such as the Great Recession, that will need

to be assessed in future studies.Zivin said she plans to use

Medicare data for the next study so depression symptom analysis can be compared with standard treatment and hopes to further analyze why some subjects remain depressed while some improve with time.

“The analysis that we did was just looking at basic population prevalence, what proportion of people have depression,” Zivin said. “Which is a different question than, ‘Does an individual person stay depressed for a long period of time or do they get better?’ ”

Vijan said the full process of locating specific benefits and weaknesses of mental health care in America will take a while and called it an “interim process.”

“We should still try to make sure those people are getting what they need in terms of treat-ment or in terms of other sup-port,” Zivin said. “So, there’s good news but we can’t just say, ‘Okay, everything is fine.’ ”

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Recruiting, Europe trip highlight summer work By ALEXA DETTELBACH

Daily Sports Writer

Michigan coach Kim Barnes Arico does a lot of traveling by plane these days.

For starters, there’s the never-ending cycle of recruiting visits all over the country, followed by the visits back home to Ann Arbor to preside over her players and check in on practices. Then there’s the upcoming trip to Europe with the Michigan women’s basketball team. And in between all of it, is a vaca-tion — a trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. with her family.

“I got an opportunity to take my girls to Disney World,” Barnes Arico said. “I’ve been trying to do it for years and last year getting hired in the spring I didn’t really have the opportunity, so I had a chance to do that and (also) to visit with my fam-ily in the offseason.”

But after the success of last sea-son, in which the Wolverines fin-ished 22-11 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tour-

nament, expectations are high for both Barnes Arico and her team. They know there’s no time to rest.

“The young ladies had an oppor-tunity to go home after they fin-ished the winter semester, but for the most part I think actually 100 percent of them chose to stay,” Barnes Arico said. “They got about a week break where they had a chance to go home and see their family and kind of unwind after our season, and our season lasted longer than it typically does. Then they all came back and started to

work out on their own with our strength coach doing some lifting and conditioning.”

And for all the successes last season, Barnes Arico and Michigan will have have a lot of holes to fill this season. The Wolverines lose five seniors to graduation, all of whom were an integral part of the team, as they accounted for over 80 percent of the offense. Their grad-uation turned the Wolverines into an inexperienced squad overnight.

Highlighting the inexperience are Michigan’s three freshmen as well as the addition of junior trans-fer guard Shannon Smith from North Carolina. In addition, four players who tore their ACL last summer are back with the team after not playing all of last season.

“Obviously we have four new kids and four returners coming off of ACL surgery, so really that’s eight kids that haven’t played last year and a total of 11 on our roster,” Barnes Arico said. “So, we’re going to be very inexperienced and very young.”

New NCAA rules stipulate that teams can work out together in the summer for two hours per week. The Wolverines have practice twice a week at the end of May and throughout all of June.

“This is the first summer where coaches are allowed to work out their teams,” Barnes Arico said. “(It) has been great for us because it really gives us an opportunity to help work on their game and really develop our relationships especial-ly with our new kids as long as with the returning kids in the program.”

While the freshmen new faces arrived to campus during the last week of June, Smith has been in Ann Arbor since the spring semes-ter. During her freshmen season in 2010-2011 at UNC, Smith was a dynamic scorer but only played in eight games before taking a medical redshirt due to a lingering illness.

In Smith’s sophomore cam-paign, she played in 25 games and averaged 3 points per game and 13 minutes per game. Smith, who still has two more years of eligibility, sat out the 2012-2013 season before transferring to Michigan

“We’re fortunate Shannon has been here for both (the) spring ses-sion and summer session and she’s just been an absolute pleasure to have around,” Barnes Arico said. “She really made a commitment to doing well in the classroom in her first semester here and did a great job. She’s just such a competitive kid and really truly loves the game of basketball and has been a winner every place that she’s been.

“She is in the gym nonstop when she’s not in study hall or in class. She spends her free time in the gym really working on her game, and I’m excited to have her because she really wants to win. She’s very competitive and she wants to bring her winning spirit to our program.”

The rest of the new faces — freshmen guards Siera Thompson, Paige Rakers and Danielle Wil-liams — have been on campus for a couple of weeks and have been hard at work both on and off the court.

“They’ve had a wonderful tran-sition,” Barnes Arico said. “The three of them are outstanding young ladies from great fami-lies and they’re doing really well. Academically, they’ve all gotten off to a really great start (and) socially, they’re adjusting to life in Michigan, life as a college stu-dent. They’re great kids and we’re expecting big things from them.”

The Wolverines are taking a for-eign trip to France and Spain to play three games. The trip will allow Michigan to have ten practices in the summer and begin full practice before many other teams. It won’t just be all fun, though, as the Wol-verines are expected to make stops to Lake Como, the Pantheon, Col-osseum and Eiffel Tower.

“We’re excited about (the opportunity) to get a jump start on things,” Barnes Arico said. “We’re really fortunate to have this time in

the summer to get some workouts under our belt.”

Amid the transitioning players and continuous workouts, Barnes Arico has also been in and out of Ann Arbor traveling to recruit players. Soon, formal practices will be back in session and will be added to the running list on Barnes Arico’s plate.

If the plane rides are what it takes to get ahead of the game and continue winning, then Barnes Arico wouldn’t have it any other way.

Trip DetailsAfter announcing its plans ear-

lier to take a trip to France and Italy from August 19-29, the Michi-gan women’s basketball team has released further details of the trip.

The 10-day long trip will begin

on the 19th when the Wolver-ines depart Ann Arbor, heading through the night to Paris — the location of their first game, which will take place on Aug. 23. Two more games in Europe will follow for Michigan, as it stops in Lake Como on the 24th and Rome on the 27th to complete its ménage a trois.

In between the three games, the Wolverines will makes stops in the south of France and Florence before heading back to Ann Arbor on the 29th.

Of course, Michigan wouldn’t be ready for its series of games if not for practice. The Wolverines will commence their preparation on Thursday, July 18th for four days before completing the rest of their ten allowed summer practices in August.

TODD NEEDLE/DailyCoach Kim Barnes Arico will have to replace 80% of her offense this coming season.

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Beilein receives extension through 2018-19By DANIEL FELDMAN

Daily Sports Writer

After leading the Michigan men’s basketball team to the national championship game for the first time since 1993, Michi-gan Athletic Director Dave Bran-don announced on Wednesday a contract extension for coach John Beilein through the 2018-2019 season.

Beilein led the Wolverines to 31 wins last season, tying the pro-gram record, and bringing his all-time winning percentage to .599 (673-403). He also produced two first-round picks in this year’s NBA draft.

“I am very excited to have this opportunity to coach at the Uni-versity of Michigan for at least five more years,” said Beilein. “I am grateful that President Coleman and Dave Brandon are pleased with the direction of our program and have extended this offer of agreement. My staff and I will continue to work every day with

our student-athletes to ensure they grow from this incredible educa-tional opportunity.

“At the same time, competing for Big Ten championship will be the goal each and every year.”

Beilein began in 2007, replac-ing former coach Tommy Amaker, after he led West Virginia to the NIT tournament. The extension is his second since the 2010-11 sea-son when the Wolverines made it to their first NCAA Tournament since 1998.

Coming off a season that came within a put-back of consecu-tive Big Ten regular season titles, Michigan will return a youth-filled roster led by sophomore forwards Glenn Robinson III and Mitch McGary. With only one senior on the team in forward Jordan Mor-gan, it will be a responsibility once again for Beilein to mold and shape the young squad.

The Wolverines maintained a top-10 ranking in the Associated Press poll for the entire 2012-13 season - highlighted by holding the

No. 1 ranking on Jan. 28 – expec-tations will be high for Michigan next season and going forward.

“John is a tremendous ambas-sador of the University of Michi-gan and one of the most highly respected coaches in the country,”

said Brandon. “He recruits out-standing young men to represent the men’s basketball program and develops them as players, students and future leaders. John has built a program that will compete for Big Ten championships on a regu-

lar basis and make exciting NCAA Tournament runs.”

“We look forward to John, Kathleen and the entire Beilein family representing the University of Michigan for the foreseeable future.”

ERIN KIRKLAND/DailyMichigan coach John Beilein will be 66 when his contract expires, after signing an extension through 2018-19 on Wednesday.

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