1b E 1IWEidNTY F?lAS OFEDITga&iL FEIg Ann Arbor, Michigan Monday, November 4, 2013 PAINT IT YELLOW michigandailycom DEVELOPMENT Students to fund $50K scholarship RYAN REISS/Daily Music, Theater & Dance junior Ji Hoon Kang and Engineering freshman Mac Porter work on Gypsy Pond 15: Organism, an interactive multimedia installa- tion that explores the concepts of breathing, interconnectedness, and organisms. BUSINESS India focus of Ross event MUSIC Matters unveils 'Big Thinkers' fund, raised from sales at annual concert By MICHAEL SUGERMAN Daily Staff Reporter MUSIC Matters began with 10, freshmen and $100 in the summer of 2011. The idea was to introduce a capstone event at the end of the year consisting of daylong festivi- ties finished off by a concert that raised money for charity. Each year, the charity would change. "At the time, I was hoping that we would scale up," LSA senior Phillip Schermer, the president of the organization, said. "I was hop- ing that there would be a day when we could give big gifts." Monday, that day came as MUSIC Matters unveiled its $50,000 endowed "Big Think- ers" scholarship. The need-based scholarship is entirely student- funded - the first of its kind at the University - and is the club's second gift to the school following its inaugural donation of $10,000 to C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in 2012. The initial endowment funds were raised from ticket sales at the group's Ben Folds concert in April. Materials for the scholarship are likely be released either at the beginning of the 2014 academic year or the following year. The idea behind the scholarship is that, every year, MUSIC Matters students will work with Univer- sity administrators to determine a theme for the "Big Thinkers" applications materials. The first ,year's topic will tackle social sus- tainability. "It will force applicants to think about big problems and what they can do or what we can do as a com- munity to help solve those prob- lems," Schermer said. Schermer said UC 270, a course taught last year by Martha Pollack, University provost and execu- See SCHOLARSHIP, Page SA Ford Motor COO, Miss America speak at conference ByAMRUTHASIVAKUMAR Daily StaffReporter with more than 1.2-billion residents and a continuously growing middle class, India has proven to be a focus of interna- tional business. The Ross India Business Conference hosted a series of speakers Friday and created dialogue concerning how busi- nesses can work with the intri- cacies of the Indian culture and economy with ventures in the country to about 200 attendees. With the theme of "Dream. Lead. Inspire.," the aim of the fifth-annual IBC was to bring speakers involved with the ongoing economic and cultural transformation in India to the forefront and give attendees the opportunity to engage in dialogue on how to best har- ness the transformation. "I certainly believe that stu- dents cannot graduate from business school today without a clear understanding of the role and importance of India," Busi- ness Dean Alison Davis-Blake said. "And that's why we have this conference." She stressed the importance of India as a global "emerging market" with a "growing mid- dle class," and highlighted the large cohort of Ross students that'were of Indian origin. This year, Indian students See INDIA, Page 5A TALK IT OUT CAMPUS LIFE IHA event at Crisler brings spirit, prizes Watch party for MSU game draws 400 attendees By BRANDON SHAW Daily Staff Reporter Michigan football may have lost Saturday in East Lansing, but that didn't stop a group of several hundred Wolverines from , cheering until the very last minute of the game at Crisler Center. About 400 students arrived to a watch party event hosted by the Residence Hall Asso- ciation - the student-run government of dorm residents - at Crisler Arena, the home of the University's basketball teams. At 3:37 p.m. the lights went down to simulate the opening of a basketball game, and the scoreboard monitors transi- tioned from football highlight reels to live television cover- age of the Michigan football game against Michigan State University. Public Policy junior Gar- rett Kessler, president of RHA, and LSA sophomore Christianna Pedley, RHA's vice president for finance, introduced the game by not- ing that Michigan's record against Michigan State stands at 68-32-5. Most guests at the event were maize-and-blue-outfit- ted underclassmen. Several attendees said they were more likely to come to the event at Crisler and others like it because they have less access to televisions in the residence halls. However, event orga- nizers expected a much larger audience at Crisler. Both the media release and the offi- cial event announcement said RHA expected 10,000 stu- dents to attend. LSA sophomore Kyle Crane, RHA's vice president for internal relations, said he and other members of the association had big hopes in launching Saturday's initia- See RHA, Page 5A PATR ICK BARRON/Daily LSA senior Alex Lee talks to LSA junior Harleen Kaur at the first Community Dinner, a monthly event that aims to hring together different organizations.The theme of this month's event is family - participants were encouraged to talk about the importance of family relationships. CR IM E COMMUNITY Arts outreach event teaches Detroit youth Student performers headline event promoting creativity By EMILIE PLESSET For TheDaily Instead of their usual classroom routine, about 150 fifth- and sixth- grade students from Detroit spent Friday at the Michigan League sing- ing and dancing withUniversity stu- dents at the Michigan Performance Outreach Workshop. MPOW is an art-outreach stu- dent organization that hosts Detroit elementary- and middle-school stu- dents to expose them to multiple platforms of artistic expression through performances and interac- tive workshops. The organization has been running for three years and holds an event once per semes- ter. In addition to promoting artistic expression, Music, Theatre & Dance senior Mary Naoum said MPOW aims to build community among University students in different schools as well as attendingstudents through creative collaboration. "We're' trying to inspire a See OUTREACH, Page SA Student employee abandoned idling bus off campus By MATTHEW JACKONEN Daily StaffReporter A 22-year old male student bus driver was arrested after he left a Blue Bus unattended for over two hours near the intersection of Arch and White Streets early Saturday morning. The bus was left alone and running between roughly mid- night and 2 a.m. University Police arrived to check on the status of the bus shortly after 2 a.m. After search- ing the vehicle they found a backpack and a wallet that may have led to the missing driver. The bus's driver arrived shortly thereafter and police proceeded to question him. The driver promptly took responsibility for the vehicle, and after a series of questions, he admitted he had left the bus and walked to his place of residence. He responded in the affirmative when police officers asked if he had been preoccupied at home. Police on scene also said the University's bus dispatch had mentioned that a driver had See BUS, Page SA WEATHER HI: 58 GOTANEWSTIP? 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