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 

See SUSTAINABILITY, Page 3A

ENVIRONMENT

See HEIDELBERG, Page 3A

ROBERT DUNNE/Daily

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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See TICKETS, Page 3A

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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