Detroit native
discusses evolving
nature of community
art installation
By NEALA BERKOWSKI
Daily Staff Reporter
Inside Rackham Auditorium
on Thursday, Heidelberg Proj-
ect creator Tyree Guyton pub-
lically discussed the loss of six
of the project’s art installations
for the first time since a series
of arsons hit the project over an
eleven-month span.
During the talk, Guyton com-
pared the post-arson Heidelberg
Project to a phoenix rising from
the ashes. He said the destruc-
tion has allowed organizers and
collaborators to reimagine the
project, which he noted is not
ending in any way.
“Looking at it from a philo-
sophical point of view, life is
getting me ready for something
greater,” he said.
Friday’s program featured
Guyton and his wife, Jenenne
Whitfield, executive director of
the Heidelberg Project. Social
Work Prof. Larry Gant, who also
teaches in the School of Art &
Design, moderated the discus-
sion, which was sponsored by
the University’s Museum Stud-
ies Program
The Heidelberg Project is
a community art project that
features
recycled
materials
and objects on and around Hei-
delberg Street in Detroit. The
29-year-old installment is a
popular Detroit cultural attrac-
tion that attracts people from
around the world.
What
began
as
Guyton’s
response to neighborhood blight
has since expanded to include a
vision encompassing education,
conversation and social change.
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Three faculty
committees will
consider efforts to
curb emissions
By GENEVIEVE HUMMER
Daily Staff Reporter
In 2011, President Emerita
Mary Sue Coleman introduced a
new set of sustainability goals to
be completed by 2025 and Uni-
versity President Mark Schlissel
aims to keep it moving.
According to the University’s
Office of Campus Sustainability,
the goals include reducing green-
house gas emissions by 25 per-
cent, transportation emissions by
30 percent and waste tonnage by
40 percent, all measured against
a baseline from 2006.
Additionally, according to the
initiative, the University is com-
mitted to ensuring 20 percent of
dining hall food is “sustainable”
— purchased from local produc-
ers within a 250-mile radius of
Ann Arbor or certified by third
parties, among other criteria.
Last semester, University Pres-
ident Mark Schlissel announced
the University would review the
sustainability goals in 2015 — a
year earlier than initially sched-
uled.
In an interview with The
Michigan
Daily
earlier
this
month, Schlissel said he wanted
to address campus sustainability
as early as possible.
“I figured if I was going to take
a serious look and try to either
re-energize or alter some of what
we’re doing, it would make sense
to do that serious review before I
made changes in our program,”
Schlissel said.
Three committees of faculty,
staff and students are conducting
the review. One team is review-
ing greenhouse gas emissions,
another waste reduction and the
final group is focusing on the cul-
ture of sustainability on campus.
Nicole Berg, coordinator for
the Planet Blue Ambassador pro-
gram at the University’s Graham
Sustainability Institute, said the
review is expected to generate
discussions on existing initia-
tives and the challenges they
have faced.
“We’re doing a good job, but I
think these committees are open-
ing up that conversation between
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ENVIRONMENT
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Heidelberg Project creator Tyree Guyton discusses the destruction of six of his Detroit art installations at Rackham Auditorium on Friday.
SPORTS
Students with
financial need will
be offered reduced-
price tickets
By MAX COHEN
and JAKE LOURIM
Managing Sports Editors
The
Michigan
Athletic
Department will announce a
new policy Monday regarding
the prices of student tickets, in
which students demonstrating
financial need are eligible for
pricing discounts.
Students who meet the eli-
gibility criteria for the Federal
Pell Grant will be able to pur-
chase season tickets for football,
men’s basketball and hockey at
a discounted rate. The standard
prices for football, men’s basket-
ball and hockey tickets in 2015-
16 will be $175, $200 and $150,
respectively, while the discount-
ed prices are $100, $120 and $90.
The
University
Office
of
Financial Aid’s website states
that the need-based grants are
awarded “only to the lowest-
income families,” and a student
cannot receive the award “for
more than 12 full-time semes-
ters.”
The
Athletic
Department
announced
in
October
the
changes to football ticket pric-
es, which dropped from $295
in 2014. The price is now lower
than that of men’s basketball
season tickets, which remained
the same, though Dave Ablauf,
the Associate Athletic Director
for Public and Media Relations,
noted that the per-game prices
are still higher for football than
for basketball.
Students can renew tickets
beginning on March 11, and the
renewal period lasts until March
27 at 5 p.m. The seating policies
will remain unchanged — for
the 2015 football season, seat
locations will be decided solely
based on attendance and not on
class level.
The
idea
for
need-based
pricing for tickets came from
Central Student Government
President Bobby Dishell. When
Dishell worked with the Ath-
RUBY WALLAU/Daily
Dale Long, a survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, discusses Spke Lee’s documentary “Four Little Girls”
with students at Rackham Amphitheater on Friday.
Survivor emphasizes
continued relevance
of the Civil Rights
Movement today
By SARAH KHAN
For the Daily
Members of the Univer-
sity community gathered in
the Rackham Amphitheatre
on Friday for a screening of
“Four Little Girls,” a documen-
tary that follows the four girls
killed in the bombing of a Bir-
mingham, Ala. church in 1963.
Dale Long, who witnessed
the bombing as an 11 year-old,
facilitated a discussion fol-
lowing the event. Rackham
Graduate School, the School
of Information and the Under-
graduate Research Opportu-
nity Program sponsored the
program.
Presented
through
inter-
views and historical footage,
the Spike Lee film “Four Little
Girls” tells the story the 16th
Street Baptist Church bomb-
ing by members of the Ku Klux
Klan, an incident that marked
a turning point in the Civil
Rights Movement and the fight
to pass the Civil Rights Act of
1964.
Long framed the bomb-
ing not only as an important
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Make Michigan
taps LSA junior,
sophomore to head
party ticket
By TANAZ AHMED
Daily Staff Reporter
The campus party Make
Michigan announced candi-
dates Sunday night for the
upcoming
Central
Student
Government elections.
Cooper Charlton, an LSA
junior and the president of the
University’s
Student-Athlete
Advisory Committee, will run
for CSG president. LSA sopho-
more Steven Halperin, a cur-
rent LSA representative, is the
party’s vice presidential candi-
date.
Last year, the party secured
the CSG presidency and sev-
eral legislative seats.
LSA
senior
Annie
Pid-
geon, Make Michigan’s cam-
paign manager, said the party
intends to involve students
across a variety of campus
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
See ELECTION, Page 3A
‘U’ reviews
sustainable
initiatives
Heidelberg founder talks
arson, rising from ashes
Athletic Dept.
to announce
new ticket plan
‘Four Little Girls’ retells the
story of Ala. church bombing
CSG party
reveals its
executive
candidates
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