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A2: Race for the Cure

Chronicle Staff — Sat, 26 May 2012 15:14:40 +0000

The Detroit News published a column by Jenn McKee, entertainment writer for AnnArbor.com, about why she’s not participating in Saturday’s Race for the Cure, a fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Foundation: ”This past February, when news broke about the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to pull grants from Planned Parenthood – grants that fund breast cancer screenings for low-income women – I felt angry, betrayed and disappointed by an organization I’d supported for years. Even though Komen eventually reversed its decision, after days of heated debate and pushback, I didn’t feel elated about, or even satisfied with, the reversal. Not because I suspected that the fight wasn’t over for good but because I lost my innocence regarding an organization that has had great personal meaning for me.” [Source]

Scio: Camp Take Notice

Chronicle Staff — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:44:08 +0000

Michigan Radio reports on a rally held in support of Camp Take Notice, an encampment of about 65 homeless people located on state-owned land in Scio Township, near I-94 and Wagner Road. The Michigan Dept. of Transportation, which owns the property, has told residents they’ll need to relocate. The report quotes David Williams, who lives at the camp: “If we lose this camp it would be difficult for me to find another safe environment to live. And I hope that people understand that. Anyone can be homeless.” [Source]

Pittsfield Twp.: Plane Crash

Chronicle Staff — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:37:23 +0000

Channel 4, Detroit’s NBC affiliate, reports that an experimental plane crashed in Pittsfield Township on Friday, injuring two people. [Source] The Pittsfield Township Dept. of Public Safety has issued a press release on the crash, which occurred in the 7000 block of Warner Road: “Crews arrived to find a two seat airplane that had crashed into the ground with the two occupants trapped in the wreckage. There was moderate damage to the airplane and an active fuel leak. Fire fighters extricated the victims and they were both transported to St. Joseph’s Hospital in critical condition.” Another experimental plane had crashed in April 2012 at the Ann Arbor Airport, which is located in Pittsfield Township. One person was injured in that incident. [Source]

A2: Argo Cascades

Chronicle Staff — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:12:33 +0000

The new Argo Cascades are featured on a segment by Channel 7 Action News, Detroit’s ABC affiliate. The report mischaracterizes the drop pools of the Argo Dam bypass as whitewater rapids – the whitewater feature will be added later, on the Huron River – but Ann Arbor parks manager Colin Smith notes that the speed of the water is about 60 cubic feet per second. The city’s canoe liveries will be open daily starting Saturday, May 26. [Source]

A2: Concordia

Chronicle Staff — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:23:12 +0000

Concordia University Wisconsin will take over the “troubled” Concordia University campus in Ann Arbor, according to a report in the Business Journal of Milwaukee. The move was approved this week by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. From the report: “The two campuses will continue to operate in their current locations, but will be managed by the CUW board of regents and led by CUW president Rev. Patrick Ferry. The resolution still requires the approval of the Higher Learning Commission.” [Source]

A2: Media

Chronicle Staff — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:17:39 +0000

David Carr of the New York Times reports on changes in the works at the New Orleans Times-Picayune: “Newhouse Newspapers, which owns the Times-Picayune, will apparently be working off a blueprint the company used in Ann Arbor, Mich., where it reduced the frequency of the Ann Arbor News, emphasized the Web site as a primary distributor of news and in the process instituted wholesale layoffs to cut costs.” [Source]

UM: General Counsel

Chronicle Staff — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:44:18 +0000

The University of Michigan is paying a $50,000 stipend to Suellyn Scarnecchia, UM’s general counsel who is resigning that position, which she’s held since 2008. According to a report in the Detroit Free Press, the pay is in addition to her $312,000 salary as general counsel, which she will retain until May 2013. She will remain a special advisor to Coleman until then, when her contract as general counsel ends. She’ll return to teach in the law school in January 2013 after taking a semester off. [Source]

WCC: Larry Whitworth

Chronicle Staff — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:27:08 +0000

Larry Whitworth, former president of Washtenaw Community College, is a semi-finalist for the presidency of Edison State College in southern Florida, according to a report in the News-Press. Whitworth, 71, was WCC president for 13 years before retiring in August of 2011. He had announced plans to retire the previous year, and at the time said he planned to return to teaching. [Source]

A2: Type Rider

Chronicle Staff — Sun, 13 May 2012 00:46:03 +0000

The New York Times profiles Maya Stein, a poet who has embarked on a venture that combines cycling and typing: “She plans to ride 40 miles a day, typewriter in tow, for 40 days until she reaches Milwaukee, where the design for the first mass-produced typewriter was developed in the 1860s. Along the way, she is delivering the manual typewriter to public spaces and inviting people to take a turn at the keys.” Stein’s itinerary – posted on her Type Rider blog – brings her through Ann Arbor on June 3. [Source]

UM: State Funding

Chronicle Staff — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:39:23 +0000

The Detroit News reports that UM’s connection with the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Michigan – through a UM School of Social Work internship in community activism at the center – might be putting some of the university’s state funding at risk. Students were involved in protests organized by the center against the Andiamo restaurant in Dearborn. From the report: “Tucked in the House education budget at the request of the Michigan Restaurant Association is a provision prohibiting universities from collaborating with ‘a non-profit worker center whose documented activities include coercion through protest, demonstration or organization against a Michigan business.’” [Source]