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to take part
in study on
misconduct
ADMINISTRATION
Twenty-eight
institutions plan
survey to analyze
sexual assault
By MICHAEL SUGERMAN
Daily News Editor
In addition to developing a
University-centric sexual assault
survey, which will be randomly
distributed to a pool of 3,000 stu-
dents, the University is teaming up
with the Association of American
Universities to conduct a uniform
sexual assault survey across 28 col-
lege campuses.
The AAU is comprised of 62 top
research universities in the United
States and Canada. Twenty-seven
of the participating schools, includ-
ing the University, are members of
the AAU; Dartmouth College will
also distribute the survey.
University
President
Mark
Schlissel said the AAU survey,
which is set to launch this April,
will be campus-wide, and added
that it will supplement the Univer-
sity’s data.
“I figured that it would be valu-
able to have us be able to compare
our data to that at a lot of differ-
ent schools that are similar, big
research universities, but different
than us, to see how we’re doing,”
he said in a January interview with
The Michigan Daily.
On each campus, the AAU sur-
vey will be identical, apart from
five school-specific questions per-
taining to resources for reporting
and addressing sexual assault.
Westat, a global research firm,
has been contracted to facilitate
and assess the survey results,
which the AAU plans to publically
report upon completion. Experts
from both Westat and participat-
ing universities are still putting the
survey together based on standards
set forth by the White House Task
Force to Protect Students from
Sexual Assault.
“Our primary purpose in con-
ducting this survey is to help our
institutions gain a better under-
standing of this complex problem
EnspiRED fashion show
represents global trends
ROBERT DUNNE/Daily
EMU student Jamisha Kearney (left) and LSA sophomore Miranda Li model at the EnspiRED fashion show at the Biomedical Science and Research building
Saturday.
“The Red Express”
features styles
from cities in seven
countries
By MAYA SHANKAR
Daily Staff Reporter
Models sporting clothing from
around the world hit the runway
Saturday night for EnspiRED’s
charity fashion show.
EnspiRED, a student orga-
nization that aims to promote
artistic expression at the Univer-
sity, brought fashions from seven
cities to the Biomedical Science
Research Building for their ninth
annual showcase.
Featuring clothing designed
by students and donated from
local and Detroit-based bou-
tiques, the show displayed styles
from the cities Moscow, Tokyo,
Rio de Janeiro, London, Mum-
bai and Detroit, as well as Accra,
Ghana.
EnspiRED President Cyrus
Tetteh, an LSA senior, said the
event’s schedule was designed to
simulate a train on a track, refer-
enced by this year’s theme, “The
Red Express.” The train symbol
is meant to represent travel-
ing to the seven different cities
throughout the fashion show, he
said.
Tetteh said EnspiRED is an
advocate of the arts on campus
and in the community. This year,
the organization plans to donate
20 percent of the event’s profits to
Arts & Scraps, a nonprofit organi-
zation that repurposes recycled
material to create arts and crafts
projects for elementary school
students in Detroit.
University alum Chukwudi
Nwamba, who graduated in
December, volunteered to model
in the annual show for her second
time.
Conductor
honored at Hill
amid protest
ARTS
Valery Gergiev
draws criticism
from Ukrainians
for support of Putin
By AMRUTHA SIVAKUMAR
Daily Arts Writer
As
the
University
Musi-
cal Society prepared to award
Mariinsky Orchestra Conductor
Valery Gergiev with the presti-
gious University Musical Soci-
ety Distinguished Artist Award
on Saturday at Hill Auditorium,
Ukrainian protesters and anti-
Russia advocates collected on
the steps outside in a die-in pro-
test.
Standing in solidarity with
those
affected
by
Russian
aggressions,
the
protesters
aimed to raise awareness among
the concert’s attendees about
Gergiev’s support of Russia’s
annexation of Crimea earlier this
year. Ann Arbor resident Eugene
Bondarenko, one of the leading
organizers of the demonstration,
said the group was also protest-
ing UMS for granting Gergiev
the award.
Returning to Ann Arbor for
his 12th and 13th concert con-
ducting the Russian Mariinsky
Orchestra with UMS, Gergiev
is most well known for direct-
ing the Mariinsky Theatre for
over 30 years. Recently, how-
ever, Gergiev has been criticized
internationally for his outspoken
support of Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s anti-LGBTQ
policies and antagonism against
Ukraine.
“We think it’s quite hypo-
critical that he would say that
at home and then come here
and make money. You can’t have
both,” Bondarenko said. “We
also like to let people know that
next time they buy tickets for
something like this, UMS does
not have the best discretion for
who it invites.
“UMS has a great responsibil-
ity to have an ethical litmus test,”
he added. “When you have an
odious figure, you should really
think about if you’re really inter-
ested in inviting them.”
While some passersby yelled
SAAN conference focuses
on social justice, activism
CHANMEE CHUNG/Daily
Engineering senior David Hiskens performs during the Engineering Games benefit show for the Detroit Area Pre-
College Engineering Program at Stamps Auditorium on Saturday.
Guest speakers
share narratives,
discuss South
Asian community
By TANYA MADHANI
Daily Staff Reporter
Fighting
stigma
through
personal narrative was one of
the main themes at the South
Asian Awareness Network con-
ference held over the weekend.
Parents,
alumni,
college
and high school students from
around the country gathered in
both Rackham Auditorium and
the Michigan League to partic-
ipate in the two-day event.
Titled “Threads: Connect-
ing Our Voice, Our Truths, Our
Selves,” the conference attract-
ed over 300 attendees during
its run from Friday night to
Saturday afternoon. SAAN first
launched the conference 13
years ago to foster discussion
on social justice issues relevant
to the South Asian community,
such as Islamaphobia after
9/11. Since then, the event has
evolved to address a broader
spectrum of issues, such as
mental health.
LSA senior Shaina Shetty,
SAAN director and co-director
of the conference, said it was a
forum for productive discus-
TECHNOLOGY
Laboratory
begins testing
self-driving
automobiles
‘U’ researchers work
on Next Generation
Vehicle project for
driverless cars
By KRISTEN ANDERSON
For the Daily
Self-driving cars may no longer be
confined to the scenes of science fic-
tion movies.
The Next Generation Vehicle
project at the University’s Perceptual
Robotics Laboratory is envisioning a
21st century where car-related inju-
ries and deaths are preventable using
software tested on the streets of Ann
Arbor.
The project is working on a vari-
ety of vehicle components that could
enable autonomous driving. The
Perceptual
Robotics
Laboratory
supports projects that develop algo-
rithms for research and development
in image processing and systems
engineering, among other fields.
Though the vehicle remained
under the control of a manual driver
during initial tests in Ann Arbor, the
navigational system delivered cor-
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See CARS, Page 3A
See CONFERENCE, Page 3A
See PROTEST, Page 3A
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team fell just short of a massive
upset over Wisconsin Saturday.
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