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THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

 The last time the 
Michigan mens’s bas-
ketball team traveled to 

Champaign, it returned home 
with a Big Ten championship 
trophy. Last night, the Wol-
verines couldn’t close out a 
vitory in an overtime loss. >> 
FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS PAGE 8

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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

More 
than 
$200,000 

have been raised for the 
charity campaign ran by 

Deah Shaddy Barakat, one of 
the three UNC students slain 
at Chapel Hill. The charity 
aims to provide dental care to 
Syrian refugees in Turkey, the 
New York Times reported.

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TUESDAY:

Campus Voices

THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

MONDAY:

This Week in History

LEFT Indiana fans wait around with their cardboard cutouts at the Michigan men’s basketball game at Indiana on Sunday. Michigan lost 
70-67 to Indiana in the last minutes. (Allison Farrand/Daily) RIGHT Students gather in memory of the three victims of the Chapel Hill 
shooting during a vigil hosted by the Muslim Students’ Association at the Diag Wednesday. (Ruby Wallau/Daily)

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Actress 
and 
model 

Jamie Brewer was the 
first model with Down 

syndrome to walk during 
New 
York 
Fashion 
Week 

this Thursday as part of the 
‘Role Models Not Runway 
Models’ campaign, USA Today 
reported.

3
Monday evening, Ken-

drick Lamar released his 
newest track, “The Black-
er 
the 
Berry.” 
Bajgoric 

explores the lyrics of the 
new song and the message. 

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More Photos of the 
Week online

THE WIRE

An installation of DTE 

Energy solar panels at the 
Ann 
Arbor 
municipal-

ity airport is facing its first 
obstacle. Pittsfield Board of 
Trustees blocked the plans.

Critical review of 
Lamar’s new song

BY LEJLA BAJGORIC

THE FILTER

Religion in 
public

WHAT: New York Times 
columnist Ross Douthat will 
explore the challenges that 
arise as a religious person in 
public places.
WHO: Campus Chapel
WHEN: Today at 10 a.m. 
WHERE: Rackham 
Graduate School —
Amphitheater

Musical 
lecture

WHAT: This symposium 
will feature a number of 
scholars examining the 
connections between 
Chinese music and its 
Indian influences.
WHO: Confucius Institute
WHEN: Today from 
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan League

Film screening

WHAT: Participate in a free 
screening of the new movie 
“The Theory of Everything,” 
portraying the life of 
physicist Stephen Hawking 
and his marriage to Jane 
Wilde Hawking.
WHO: M-Flicks
WHEN: Today at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Natural Science 
Auditorium
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‘Love the 
Police?’

WHAT: This discussion 
panel will feature the U-M 
Detroit Center speaking 
about the relationship 
between African-
American males and law 
enforcement in light of recent 
controversial events.
WHO: Detroit Center
WHEN: Today from 7 p.m. 
to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Detroit Center 
—

Ann Arbor Room

Architecture 
discussion

WHAT: Artist Ines Schaber 
and UC-Davis professor 
Michael Rios will discuss 
the relationship between 
designs of buildings and the 
politicis associated with 
certain representations.
WHO: Taubman College 
of Architecture and Urban 
Planning
WHEN: Today at 6 p.m.
WHERE: Art and 
Architecture Building

Hong Kong 
democracy

WHAT: Director of the 
film “Lessons in Dissent” 
Matthew Torne will lead a 
screening and discussion of 
the Hong Kong democracy 
protests.
WHO: Lieberthal-Rogel 
Center for Chinese Studies
WHEN: Today at 6 p.m.
WHERE: UMMA

Council to consider affordable 
housing funds, street closures

Solar installation
stalled at airport

BY ANASTASSIOS 

ADAMOPOULOS

‘U’ students launch series of 
events to answer 36 questions 

DELANEY RYAN/Daily

Participants spent 45 minutes in the Michigan League Wednesday evening asking each other a series of 36 personal 
questions to see what kind of bond they could form. 

Agenda includes 
health care plan 
renewals, possible 
dam gate contract

By ANASTASSIOS 
ADAMOPOULOS
Daily Staff Reporter

The Ann Arbor City Council 

is set to discuss a number of top-
ics during Tuesday’s meeting. 
The body will address a number 
of potential street closings, the 
renewal of its health care pro-
vider contract, the signing of a 
new contract to replace a dam 
floodgate at the Geddes Dam and 
the relocation of sewage system 
resources to affordable housing.

Street closings

The council will discuss the 

approval of more than seven dif-

ferent street closings to accom-
modate a variety of events.

The resolutions include three 

street closings in April for the 
Take Back the Night rally and 
march on April 2, the Fool Moon 
Festival on April 10 and the Fes-
tiFools Parade on April 12.

Two street closings in May 

will also be considered. If 
passed, they will accommodate 
the Burns Park Run on May 3 
and Ann Arbor Goddess 5K for 
the Michigan Ovarian Cancer 
Alliance on May 10.

East Washington Street and 

West Washington Street will 
also be closed, pending approval, 
for the annual Oktoberfest cele-
bration Sept. 11 through Sept. 13.

Blue Cross Blue Shield

Up for discussion is the 

approval of a contract renewal 
with Blue Cross Blue Shield, a 
Michigan-based health care pro-
vider.

Blue Cross Blue Shield pro-

vides health care coverage to 
city employees and retirees. 
Monthly costs of the plan are 
subject to changes in the num-
ber of employees and retirees as 
well as the number of submitted 
claims.

The estimated annual insur-

ance cost is $12,889,507.

Geddes Dam

The agenda also includes the 

proposal of awarding a contract 
to replace a tainter gate at Ged-
des Dam, which crosses the 
Huron River in southeast Ann 
Arbor.

According to the proposal, 

Gerace 
Construction 
Com-

pany was one of three compa-
nies considered for the project. 
They offered the lowest bid of 
$299,990.

The total cost of the projects 

amounts to $395,000, which 
provides for city staff inspection 
services and fees to hire a con-
sulting firm.

The contract proposal comes 

after the tainter gate suffered 
damage in January. The gate 
was damaged after the extreme 
cold caused the control respon-
sible for operating the gate to 
malfunction. Officials decided 
to replace, rather than repair the 
gate.

Sewage Funding allocations
Council will also discuss allo-

cating additional resources to 
affordable housing initiatives.

Specifically, it will hear a 

resolution to decommit fund-
ing from the Sewage Disposal 
System Fund Balance of the 
Near North Apartments and use 
this money to set up a budget 
for sanitary sewer expenses of 
the North Maple Estates, a low-
income family housing develop-
ment maintained by the Arbor 
Housing Commission. The funds 
total $153,611.

The North Maple Estates will 

have 42 new affordable rental 
apartments and four more that 
will be renovated.

New York Times 
column inspires 
new way to meet 
people, fall in love

By TANYA MADHANI

Daily Staff Reporter

Wednesday night, while more 

than 70 people asked complete 
strangers 
personal 
questions 

hoping to fall in love or make a 
new friend, two University stu-
dents sat together in a corner of 
the room, furiously coding a new 
website to set their movement in 
motion.

Inspired by a column in The 

New York Times, these two 
students are hoping to launch a 
nationwide movement to help 
students form relationships.

On Jan. 9, writer Mandy Len 

Catron posted a narrative called 
“To Fall in Love With Anyone, 
Do This,” for Modern Love, a 
rotating column in The New 
York Times. In the column, she 
describes how she fell in love 
with her current partner by 
mimicking a study conducted by 
psychologist Arthur Aron, who 

teaches at Stony Brook Univer-
sity.

In the study, Aron describes 

gathering two strangers in a lab 
setting to ask them 36 questions 
designed to accelerate intimacy. 
He reported he had successfully 
managed to make his subjects 
fall in love, and they married 
six months after the experiment 
was conducted.

Engineering 
junior 
Randa 

Sakallah and Engineering senior 
Natasja Nielsen hosted a “36 
Questions” session at the Michi-
gan League on Wednesday night 
with more than 70 participants.

After reading Catron’s Mod-

ern Love column, Sakallah’s first 
thought was to host an event at 
the University similar to Aron 
and Catron’s experiments.

“Going into this semester I 

had just kind of been thinking 
about what kinds of social events 
I can do with my friends that 
are different from just a normal 
party,” she said.

After posting an event on 

Facebook, they said it had com-
pletely sold out within three 
hours and more than 100 people 
had joined the waitlist.

“It happened really organi-

cally,” Nielsen said. “We just 

started inviting all of our friends 
and they started RSVP-ing and 
inviting their friends.”

Participants 
were 
sent 
a 

three-part survey three days 
before the event. The first part 
asked for the participant’s name, 
gender, sexual orientation and 
age, and the second was a series 
of questions asking them to rank 
their interest in topics concern-
ing organization, religion and 
theoretical physics. Nielsen and 
Sakallah said they enjoyed read-
ing the third segment of the 
questionnaire most, which asked 
what the participants were look-
ing to get out of the event.

“We were worried that some 

people would be going in with 
an expectation like ‘I’m going to 
find a date for Valentine’s Day,’ ” 
Sakallah said. “But most people 
had similar responses of ‘I’m 
coming in with an open mind. I 
don’t have any expectations.’ It’s 
really cool to see that perspec-
tive from students because … it’s 
kind of a vulnerable position to 
put yourself in.”

The depth of the event’s ques-

tions varied. Some were more 
benign such as how famous 
someone would like to be, and 

See 36 QUESTIONS, Page 3

