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NCAA basketball ban lifted The NCAA’s postseason ban on Michigan’s basketball program was lifted. The ban, along with four years of probation and the loss of one scholarship per year, was put into place after the NCAA learned four players accepted more than $600,000 from Ed Martin during the 1990s. The organization also demanded those four players be dissociated from the University for 10 years. Thomas Yeager, former chair of the NCAA Committee on Infractions, said the infraction was “one of the three or
four most egregious violations of the NCAA bylaws in the history of the association.” However, the NCAA Infractions Appeals Committee decided the postseason ban was excessive.
ing to Dean Bodley, former vice president of the Ann Arbor Education Association.
Thirty years ago this week (Sept. 23, 1983):
The University’s Board of Regents approved a $2.7-million expenditure to provide additional student housing over two years. The approval allowed the University to file preliminary applications with a federal agency for loans to cover the cost of construction. The other $1 million went toward the construction of 100 married-student housing units.
Ann Arbor Public Schools teachers ended a 16-day strike and returned to classrooms, reluctantly accepting a 2.5-percent wage increase. Ann Arbor teachers’ salaries ranked 75th among the 500 Michigan school districts, though most felt the 2.5-percent pay raise was “grossly inadequate,” accord-
CRIME NOTES
Sixty years ago this week (Sept. 26, 1953):
-JUSTIN DAWES
Bike back
Signs of theft
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WHERE: 100 Block State Street WHEN: Thursday at about 1:00 p.m. WHAT: A bike that was stolen from North Quad earlier last week was recovered when police arrested two suspects on Thursday, University Police reported. The case remains open.
WHERE: Alice Lloyd Hall WHEN: Thursday at about 1:15 p.m. WHAT: Sometime on Thursday multiple interior facility signs were reported missing to University Police. There is no time frame and there are no suspects, University Police reported.
Wallet-jacked
Enough already
WHAT: “The War of Graffiti”: Contested Spaces in Beirut. Melanie Schulze Tanielian discusses graffiti in Beirut and its social and political influences. WHO: Center for Middle Eastern and Northern African Studies WHEN: Today at 12:10 p.m. WHERE: School of Social Work Building
WHERE: 500 Jefferson WHEN: Thursday at about 10:00 p.m. WHAT: On September 11 between 6 and 9:30 p.m. a wallet was reportedly stolen from an unlocked car along Jefferson, University Police reported.
WHERE: Krause Natural Science Building WHEN: Thursday at about 4:50 p.m. WHAT: A bicycle was stolen from outside the Natural Science Building between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, University Police reported. There are currently no suspects in the alleged theft.
Religion in U.S. history WHAT: This class explores the influence of religion on the nation and its role in everything from the Declaration of Independece to the Bill of Rights. The class starts today and costs $40. WHO: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute WHEN: Today at 1:00 p.m. WHERE: First Presbyterian Church, 1432 Washtenaw Ave.
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Obama calls for gun reform in UMPD chief promoted wake of Navy Yard shooting to security and safety job President says fight for gun laws ‘ought to obsess us’
Piersante will take role as DPSS COO and director of Security Services
to mourn at the Marine Barracks. about innocent men and women “Our words and our prayers are being gunned down where they not enough. If we really want to work.” honor these 12 men and women, He said no other advanced if we really want to be a country nation endures the kind of gun where we can go to work and go to violence seen in the United States, WASHINGTON (AP) — school and walk our streets free and blamed mass shootings in President Barack Obama on from senseless violence without America on laws that fail “to keep Sunday memorialized the victims so many lives being stolen by a guns out of the hands of criminals By JENNIFER CALFAS of the Washington Navy Yard bullet from a gun, then we’re and dangerous people.” Daily Staff Reporter shooting by urging Americans going to have to change.” “What’s different in America not to give up on a transformation Obama said when such is it’s easy to get your hands on a In another step in the conin gun laws that he argued are to senseless deaths strike in America, gun,” he said. He acknowledged tinuing reorganization of the blame for an epidemic of violence. “it ought to be a shock to all of us, it “the politics are difficult,” a University’s security agencies, “There is nothing inevitable ought to obsess us. It ought to lead lesson he learned after failing to University Police Chief Joe about it — it comes about because to some sort of transformation.” get expanded background checks Piersante has been named chief of decisions we make or fail to But, Obama said, “nothing for gun buyers through the operations officer of the Divimake,” Obama said. happens. Alongside the anguish Democratic-controlled Senate sion of Public Safety and SecuReprising his role of the nation’s of these American families, this spring. Obama had proposed rity and director of University consoler in chief after yet another alongside the accumulated the measure after the shooting Security Services. mass shooting, Obama issued a call outrage so many of us feel, at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Piersante will continue in to action on gun control measures sometimes I fear there is a Elementary School killed 20 firsthis position until a new chief that failed to pass earlier this year creeping resignation that these graders and six staff. has been selected. The Speland show no new momentum in tragedies are just somehow the “And that’s sometimes where man and Johnson Group, a the wake of last week’s rampage at way it is, that this is somehow the the resignation comes from: the search firm that specializes a military installation just blocks new normal. We cannot accept sense that our politics are frozen in higher education, has been from the Capitol. this. As Americans bound in grief and that nothing will change. hired to assist in the search for Sudoku Syndication http://www.sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ “Our tears are not enough,” and love, we must insist here Well, I cannot accept that,” a replacement. Obama told thousands gathered today there is nothing normal Obama said. “By now, though, it When Piersante first took should be clear that the change the top post, the University’s we need will not come from Police force was known as the Washington, even when tragedy Department of Public Safety. strikes Washington. Change He first served as interim execwill come the only way it ever utive director of public safety HARD has come, and that’s from the in February 2011, when former American people.” director Ken Magee went on Obama joined military leaders sick leave. in eulogizing the dozen victims Later that year, he again killed in last Monday’s shooting, assumed the role of executive speaking from the parade director on an interim basis grounds at the Marine Barracks, after former chief Greg O’Dell a site personally selected by returned to his previous job as Thomas Jefferson because of director of public safety and its close marching distance to chief of police at Eastern Michithe Navy Yard. The memorial gan University. O’Dell commitservice came on the first day ted suicide just a month later. of fall, which shone brightly in For most of the last two Washington, with sun sparkling years, Piersante has prevailed off the instruments being played over a law enforcement orgaby the Navy Band and the gold nization that has been partly dress uniform buttons worn by so blamed for serious communimany in the crowd. cation issues, and as a result, The invitation-only crowd the agency has gone through included around 4,000 mourners, immense change, including the with the victims’ tearful, blackformation of the Division of clad family members directly in Public Safety and Security to front of the speakers’ stage. The president and first lady Michelle For personal use only. sudokusyndication.com LIKE NAILING JELLO TO A TREE. puzzle©bysudokusolver.com. Obama met privately with the families before the service, White House officials said.
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unite Housing Security, Hospital Security, and Police under one umbrella organization. As DPSS COO and USS director, Piersante will oversee several different major security initiatives, including infrastructure management, museums security, coordination of safety and security efforts for major events, contract security and administration of the University’s 911 Communications Center. In a statement released Friday, DPSS executive director Eddie Washington, Jr. praised Piersante’s work both as chief and as interim director of DPSS. “I’m very appreciative of the many years of successful service that Joe has made to the university and to the police department,” Washington said. “When the new division was formed last fall, Joe willingly took on the additional role to lead the transition. I’m grateful that his leadership will continue to benefit our community through our campus security efforts.” Washington said DPSS has now chosen to appoint a new chief because Piersante’s expertise is needed at a strategic level. “As the new Division has continued to evolve, we recognized a greater need at the Division level for Joe’s expertise,” Washington said. “To meet the strategic plans and goals of the Division and the Police Department, we needed to expand Joe’s role.” The job posting notes that a successful candidate for UMPD chief must have a bachelor’s degree, leadership experience in law enforcement and, among other things, an understanding of student life. The posting does not detail exactly how much experience a qualified candidate should have. Spelman and Johnson Group
will be compensated onethird of the first year salary of the new UMPD chief, which could range from $150,000 to $160,000, according to officials. Andy Burchfield, the University’s director of emergency management, will serve as chair of the search committee. In addition, the following people will serve on the committee: • AAPD Deputy Chief Greg Bazick • DPSS executive assistant Lori Blough • Jeffery Frumkin, associate vice provost in academic affairs • Sabrina Garrett-Owens, associate director of labor relations in U-M Human Resources • Bob Heighes, Eastern Michigan University chief of police • UMPD Lt.Crystal James • Dean of Students Laura Blake Jones • LSA junior Emily Lustig, U-M student, chair of the Central Student Government’s Commission of Campus Safety and Security and a neighborhood ambassador in the Beyond the Diag program • Tim Lynch, vice president and general counsel • Jeff McDole, IT planning manager for DPSS • Jeff Moelich, executive director of University Audits • David Moran, clinical law professor and member of the University Police Oversight Committee • Teresa Oesterle, chief administrative officer of DPSS • Tom Peterson, associate director for operations and support services in U-M Hospitals and Health Centers • Kate Rychlinski, assistant director of risk management Applications for the position of University Police Chief will be reviewed beginning Oct. 16, 2013.
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