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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.
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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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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