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Pi Kappa Phi
charity event
benefits local
organization
By BRANDON
SUMMERS-MILLER
For the Daily
Members of the University’s
Pi Kappa Phi fraternity chapter
took to wheelchairs and faced
off against the Michigan Rollin’
Pistons — a youth wheelchair bas-
ketball team — Wednesday night
to raise funds as part of the frater-
nity’s philanthropic activities.
The event in the University’s
Sports Coliseum featured two
games: one pitting the fraternity
against the Pistons, and the
other mixing members of each
organization together to form
new teams.
The Rollin’ Pistons are mem-
bers of the National Wheelchair
Basketball Association and travel
and compete throughout the Mid-
west. The team is made up of kids
with physical disabilities ages six
to 18 from across the state.
John McSween, a sophomore
at Father Gabriel Richard Catho-
lic High School in Ann Arbor, said
he enjoyed the event because it
was a way for him to display his
athleticism despite his disability.
“I couldn’t really play any
school sports,” he said. “This was a
way to show my competitiveness.”
A portion of the event’s pro-
ceeds will go to the Rollin’ Pistons
to cover travel costs and help the
team buy new jerseys. The wheel-
chair basketball game is part of a
series of fundraising events put
on by the fraternity this week,
called “War of the Roses.”
LSA junior Zachary Robinson,
Pi Kappa Phi philanthropy chair,
said it was important that his fra-
ternity host the basketball game
The Team,
Make Michigan,
DAAP parties
talk campus issues
By LEA GIOTTO
Daily Staff Reporter
Though the questions asked
at Wednesday night’s Central
Student
Government
presi-
dential and vice presidential
debates covered a wide range of
areas, the candidates’ answers
tended to return to a central
theme: diversity.
Executive candidates from
The Team, Make Michigan and
the Defend Affirmative Action
Party were given one hour to
respond to 10 questions, as were
the vice presidential candidates
from each party.
Aaron
Kall,
director
of
debate for the University, mod-
erated the responses. For each
round of debates, the candidates
provided two-minute opening
statements.
The
topic
of
diversity
appeared in conversation about
the
University’s
low
Black
enrollment,
and
considered
how CSG could play a role in
approaching this issue. Cur-
rently, the University’s Black
student enrollment sits at 4.63
percent.
Engineering
junior
Will
Royster, The Team’s presiden-
tial candidate, said he hopes to
increase
Black representation at the
University to 10 percent — a
demand that has also been
raised by the University’s Black
Student Union. Further, he
believes the University’s efforts
to broaden the admission pro-
cess to attract more minority
students has not been enough.
“The next step moving for-
ward is empowering students
on campus,” Royster said.
LSA junior Keysha Wall,
DAAP’s presidential candidate,
opened the debate by express-
ing that she is “disgusted with
DELANEY RYAN/Daily
LSA junior Jacob Barshaw and Alcides Postma participate in Pi Kappa Phi’s wheelchair basketball event at the Sports Coliseum on Wednesday.
Wolverines take
early lead, rout
Cleveland State at
Crisler Center
By BRAD WHIPPLE
Daily Sports Writer
It had been nearly a month
since the Michigan women’s
basketball team had tasted vic-
tory. Separated by a loss to Illi-
nois and a Big Ten Tournament
letdown, the Wolverines’ season
was salvaged for at least one
more game.
Wednesday night at Crisler
Center, Michigan (8-10 Big Ten,
17-14 overall) finally got back on
track in the first round of the
WNIT. Behind an impeccable
2-3 zone defense and a well bal-
anced offense, the Wolverines
breezed past Cleveland State
with a 72-50 rout in the teams’
first meeting since 1986.
Goree,
‘M’ win
WNIT
opener
ELBEL
YOST
Yost
Ice
Arena
Ray
Fisher
Stadium
Crisler
Arena
Michigan
STATE ST.
PACKARD ST.
HILL ST.
Stadium
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
By JING JING MA
Daily Staff Reporter
The Michigan Daily will be
exploring Ann Arbor’s most quirky,
lively, and student populated neigh-
borhoods during the next month to
see what makes this city tick. Read
the first installment about the Old
Fourth Ward here.
Walk southwest of Central
Campus and you’ll find yourself
in the neighborhoods of Elbel
Field and Yost Ice Arena, homes
to student-athletes, the marching
band
and
cost-conscious
undergraduates,
alike.
These
student-populated
enclaves
represent two of Ann Arbor’s 11
distinct neighborhoods.
Elbel
Situated around Elbel Field
and within walking distance of
both Central and South Campus,
the Elbel neighborhood is a con-
venient, affordable location for
students, with undergraduates
making up the majority of the
neighborhood.
Elbel Field is named after
Michigan alum Louis Elbel, com-
poser of “The Victors.” Appro-
priately, the Michigan Marching
Band holds its practices at the
eponymously field at the heart of
the neighborhood. For this rea-
son, many of the marching band’s
members choose to live in the
neighborhood.
See WNIT, Page 3A
See ELBEL, Page 3A
See GAME, Page 3A
See DEBATE, Page 3A
A look at how the city of
Detroit’s redevelopment
» INSIDE
the b-side
Benjamin St. and Sybil St.
Mckinley Ave and Unite St.
White St. and Mckinley Ave
Map by Emily Schumer, Photos by Allison Farrand
Candidates
discuss ‘U’
diversity in
CSG debate
Fraternity sponsors game
of wheelchair basketball
Elbel and Yost neighborhoods: Lower cost
housing near athletic centers and eateries
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