()NE-UNiE\f) )1 TWENT111 YA \F IIAL1 FREED1M Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, March 25,2013 SPORTSMONDAY COLUMN michigandaily.com STUDENT GOVERNMENT VP hopefuls talk reform of inactive CSG council Candidates aim to bring more relevance to under-utilized University Council 0 By STEPHEN YAROS Daily Staff Reporter This week's Central Student Gov- ernment elections will give students the opportunity to elect the next leader of the University Council, a body made up of student delegates from each indi- vidual school at the University. The council constitutes half of CSG's legislative branch, complemented by the main assembly. Over the past year UC has met with key administrators, such as University President Mary Sue Coleman, to discuss University issues. Because the UC is currently only in its second year of operation, it has yet to exercise its full power. For example, although the UC appointed the elec- tion director for this year, they have yet to collaborate with student leaders from the various schools on-campus to pass any meaningful resolutions. Like the U.S. Senate, The vice president of CSG heads the UC. With the potential to effectively shape the responsibilities of the UC, the vice presidential candidates said they are eager and excited to take on the chal- lenge. LSA sophomore Bobby Dishell, youMICH's vice presidential candidate and current assembly representative, put the council's reputation rather sim- ply. "It's verysimilar, asI'vebeentold, to dealing with a two-year-old," Dishell said, adding that the UC needs to be more transparent so students and lead- ers from across campus can better col- laborate. Despite the challenges the UC has faced in the past two years, the can- didates seem optimistic that there are ways to better utilize the body. LSA freshman Ethan Michaeli, the independent vice presidential candi- date, says he believes he understands the UC's problem and hopes to make some changes if elected. "Right now it's more of a coun- cil that advises the vice president," Michaeli said. "I'd like to change that role to make them more active." See UC, Page SA PAULSHERMAN/Daily The Michigan hockey team lost on Sunday, marking the first time since 1990 the team hasn't made the NCAA Tournament, a span of 22 seasons. The end DETROIT - Far too often, clouds hover low over the sports world. Injury and scandal and defeat cast heavy shadows across our immaculately con- structed tapestry. Then, finally, if even for just a day or two, the sun breaks through and splashes its rays across the blue backdrop. A week ago, I wrote that Saturday deserved to be circled and then circled again in red ink. That it could be the day when the break finally came. And it was the most wondrous week- end, wasn't it? The men's basketball team, after mak- ing quick work of South Dakota State at the Palace of Auburn Hills two days ear- lier, inexplicably torched Virginia Com- monwealth on Saturday. The win put Michigan in the Sweet Sixteen for the first time since 1993-94, and it cemented of a 'hllof arun' the Wolverines once again as a major *** player in the remaining NCAA Tourna- ment field. "Hell of a run, boys," a voice called The hockey team was fighting for its down from the second deck. "Hell of a life on Saturday. Riding an eight-game run." winning streak into It was all that and more. But it was a the CCHA semifinals run that ended with the ice at Joe Louis at Joe Louis Arena, Arena littered with sticks and gloves and Michigan was look- golden helmets: Notre Dame 3, Michi- ing for just two wins. gan 1. They needed those For the first time since 1989-90, there two wins. First up: will be no NCAA Tournament for the No. 2 Miami (Ohio). Michigan hockey team. And for the first The RedHawks STEPHEN J. time since 1986-87, Michigan (18-19-3) never had a chance NESBITT didn't break .500 to finish the season. - the boys kept right Jon Merrill, a junior, had the puck as on rolling, 6-2. the final seconds ticked off the clock. He But there was sent it flying down the ice and then he always that ominous, dark cloud loom- slipped into the boards. He stayed down ing in the distance. That cloud finally on the ice for a few moments. There was and painfully arrived on Sunday. See SUNDAY, Page SA EDUCATION Speaker argues " college degree s losing value UnCollege founder talks self-directed education system By ASHWINI NATARAJAN Daily Staff Reporter If you see members of EDU- preneurship - an education reform project created by the University's entrepreneurial student organization MPowered - wearing shirts saying "I think you look like Salman Khan," don't flatter yourself into think- ing that you look like the Bolly- wood actor with the same name. This is a reference to Khan * Academy, an online educational reform start-up that provides free educationalvideos and interactive modules for students. Initiatives such as this have become increas- ingly popular in the current edu- cational reform movement that moves toward self-innovated education. As the value of the tra- ditional education system is being calledintoquestion. On Friday, about 50 people - including EDUpreneurship members sporting the "Salman Khan" shirts - gathered in the School of Education to hear Dale Stephens, one of the first Thiel Fellows and founder of the educational reform pro- gram UnCollege. He talked about the growing need of a self-directed education system and how going to college is not the only key to success. His pre- sentation was part of the EDU- preneurship three-day boot camp that took place over the weekend and during Stephens' own book tour for his new book Hacking Your Education. Stephens began his presen- tation by discussing the roots of his experience in alterna- tive education; he dropped out of the fifth grade at age 12 and has been designing his educa- tion ever since. But, he doesn't use the term homeschooling when referring to his educa- tion outside the classroom; he uses the term "unschooling," a self-directed form of education originating in the 1970s. Stephens and his parents ini- tially thought of unschooling See UNCOLLEGE, Page 5A RUBY WALLAU/Daily LSA junior Jon McHenry and sophomore Marianna Yamamoto volunteer with Michigan Urban Farming Initiative at Detroit Partnership Day Saturday. DP Dataikes 1,400 vo lunteers to Detroit PHILANTHROPY Disability awareness focus of fraternity's benefit dinner Brothers, disabled disabilities would be more meaningful than simulation. students and He worked with Carole Dubritsky, assistant director advocates join for of the Office of Institutional Equity, to understand how special meal to best educate participants about disabilities. Dubritsky By ARIANA ASSAF also serves as the University's Daily Staff Reporter American with Disabilities Act coordinator and advises Events involving Pizza Allies for Disability Aware- House are always enticing, ness, a student group on cam- but speakers at Pi Kappa pus. Phi's philanthropy event also Social Workstudent Rebec- offered food for thought. ca Parten said she was excited On Saturday, the Univer- to attend the event. Parten sity's chapter of Pi Kappa Phi was born with a rare form of hosted a dinner event that arthrogryposis called escobar featured University students syndrome. It is a congenital affected by a variety of dis- disease that only allows parts abilities. of messages from the brain to Disability awareness is reach muscles, causing limit- the fraternity's main philan- ed joint contractions, scoliosis thropic focus. In past years, and some breathing issues. members have participated in Over dinner, Parten shared disability simulations, using with her table that she wants blindfolds and earplugs to get to find a job in macro social an idea of what having a dis- work, engaging in commu- ability is like. nity organizing rather than But LSA sophomore Nicho- just with individuals. When las Guys, who was elected as she's not busy with classes, the fraternity's philanthropy she helps out at MStars, an chairman last November, organization on campus that decided that dialogue with raises money for the Make-A- other students living with See PHILANTHROPY, Page 5A Annual event aims to serve, not save, the Motor City By PAIGE PEARCY Deputy Magazine Editor From 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., parts of Detroit looked like Ann Arbor with the amount of students wearing maize and blue. No, they weren't at the basket- ball game, or the hockey game. They were volunteering as part of the 14th annual Detroit Parnter- ship Day. DP Day is an annual day of service-based learning for Univer- sity students put on by the Detroit Partnership, a student organiza- tion committed to uniting the University and the Motor City through community service proj- See DETROIT, Page SA WEATHER 1H:41 GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail TOMOR ROW LO: 28 news@michigandaily.com and let us know. 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