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Friday, March 27, 2015
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LSA juniors Jason
Collela and Reid
Klootwyk win
executive seats
By CARLY NOAH
Daily Staff Reporter
Following an uncontested elec-
tion, LSA juniors Jason Colella and
Reid Klootwyk were elected the next
president and vice president of LSA
student government, respectively.
Eight of the 10 vacant spots for
LSA representatives were also filled
in uncontested elections. The two
remaining positions will be filled
by write-in candidates, who had not
been announced at press time.
At a candidate forum on Monday
in the Michigan Union, the candi-
dates stressed student engagement,
as well as the implementation of
an international student mentor-
ship program and a project to allow
transfer students to defer their
enrollment like admitted freshmen
currently can.
At the event, Colella and Kloot-
wyk both emphasized the impor-
tance of interacting with students.
Klootwyk works as the vice chair
for the LSA SG Communications
Committee. He has served on LSA
SG for one year since transferring
from a community college.
Colella, an East Quad resident
advisor, also serves as chair for the
LSA SG Budget Allocation Commit-
tee. He has served on LSA SG for
three years.
In an interview, Colella said he
and his running mate are hoping to
change students’ opinions on the
role of LSA SG.
“People are really cynical about
student government,” he said. “It’s
not because we don’t do anything,
which is what a lot of people would
say. It’s because people don’t realize
all of the things that we have done
to help improve the LSA experience.
It’s a matter of working to let people
know what we’re doing.”
Colella added that involving inter-
national students in campus affairs
will help increase on-campus diver-
sity.
“International students is a big
project we’ve been working on for
the past year in student government;
we’re creating this big internation-
al student mentorship program,”
Colella said. “We’ve been meeting
with administrators and trying to
figure out what our vision is to better
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Commission likely
won’t announce
winners until
Friday night
By LEA GIOTTO and
TANAZ AHMED
Daily Staff Reporters
The results of this week’s Cen-
tral Student Government elec-
tions remained undecided early
Friday morning. Voting closed
online at midnight Friday.
According to the CSG Com-
piled Code, unofficial results
are to be released to candidates
24 hours after polls close. Offi-
cial results are to be released on
the CSG website within 24 of
confirmation by the University
Elections Commission and after
all pending litigation concludes.
Election complaints can be deliv-
ered to the election director up
until 24 hours after the polls
close.
The UEC convened Wednes-
day and Thursday for hearings
after Make Michigan filed a
complaint against The Team for
destruction of campaign materi-
als.
Make Michigan claimed that
representatives
or
volunteers
from The Team threw buckets of
water on advertisements written
in chalk that read “Vote for Make
Michigan,”
and
subsequently
replaced them with chalk adver-
tisements that read “The Team.”
Make Michigan members and
volunteers said they had drawn
these promotions near the block
‘M’ on the Diag the night of
March 16. The destruction alleg-
edly occurred the night of March
18.
“It’s under (UEC) code that
they are responsible for educat-
ing all of their members and can-
didates and ensuring they follow
the rules that are prescribed for
the election,” said Law School
student
Rachel
Jankowski,
counsel for Make Michigan.
EVENT PREVIEW
MUSKET
performs ‘Into
the Woods’ like
never before
Talented cast of
student performers
brings a fresh spin to
modern classic
By ALEX BERNARD
Daily Community Culture Editor
Adam Quinn was excited. He
couldn’t get the words out fast
enough.
“I can guarantee that in seven
months of research, there is some-
thing we are doing with this show
that we have revealed to no one,
that no production of Into the
Woods has done before. And I can
guarantee that.”
That’s what director Adam
Quinn told me in a Starbucks on
the corner of State St. and Lib-
erty St., where dozens of students
tapped away at their laptops. It
was easy to imagine what they
were typing about: an economics
paper, a sociology thesis, a tweet
about how the barista got their
name wrong on the cup – “It’s
Alex, not ‘All Hecks!’” It was easy
to imagine. It always is.
After
all,
it’s
an
ancient,
respected
practice
–
people-
watching. Observing that old man
walk his Dachshund to impress
the pretty woman on the bench
and guessing that the wiener dog
isn’t company enough anymore.
Seeing that child trip over a tree
root and distantly wondering if
she’ll fall in the shower when she’s
82, and will she break her hip?
And who will help her?
It’s old. Old practice. Old stories.
“Into the Woods” – a musical
about old tales – has become just
that: Old. Fascinating, thought-
provoking and important, but
familiar. Like a Lifetime Achieve-
ment Award or Robert De Niro. Or
gravity.
And yet, MUSKET – Michigan’s
only student-run musical theater
group – promises a divergence, an
unprecedented approach to one of
our most celebrated, most widely
performed musicals.
With music by the incompara-
ble Stephen Sondheim and a book
by James Lapine, Into the Woods
debuted on Broadway in 1987
to critical acclaim and 10 Tony
nominations. Last December, the
Disney adaptation starring Meryl
Streep, Anna Kendrick and Emily
Blunt, among others, opened in
theaters, capturing three Oscar
nominations and a handful of
other accolades.
The musical follows some of our
favorite fairytale characters – Lit-
tle Red Riding Hood, Cinderella,
Rapunzel, Jack and his Beanstalk
Kazuo Ishiguro
speaks as part
of Helen Zell
Writer’s Series
By TANYA MADHANI
Daily Staff Reporter
Students and Ann Arbor
residents packed the Apse
Room in the University’s
Museum of Art on Thursday,
awaiting the entrance of Brit-
ish author Kazuo Ishiguro.
Ishiguro was invited to
participate in a University
reading as part of the Helen
Zell Visiting Writers Series,
which has hosted writers
such as fiction writer Sergio
Troncoso and graphic novel-
ist Alison Bechdel.
Ishiguro read for 40 min-
utes from an excerpt of his
most recent work, “The Bur-
ied Giant,” a fantasy-histor-
ical fiction novel set during
the Anglo-Saxon settlement
of Britain, and fielded ques-
tions from the audience.
When asked to name
authors and works that have
been most influential to him,
Ishiguro
noted
Charlotte
Brontë and Marcel Proust.
Brontë’s narration style in
particular, Ishiguro said, has
influenced his own writing to
the point when he mimicked
a scene from her novel, “Jane
Eyre,” in one of his works.
“I do love (her) and I
hadn’t realized how much
she had influenced me in my
writing,” Ishiguro said. “I
read ‘Jane Eyre’ a few years
ago and there are all these
things I’ve ripped off from it.
There’s a particular way her
narrator appears to con-
fide in the reader.”
Ann Arbor resident Karen
Park said she attended the
event after reading Ishigu-
ro’s novel, “Remains of the
Day,” and said, while she
loved the setting, she wished
there was more opportunity
for questions from the audi-
ence rather than a lengthy
reading of his novel.
“It was still great to have
him be here and be able to
talk to us,” Park said. “I had
a hard time getting into (the
chapter) as he was reading it.
I heard that sometimes it’s
not best, like when you do
a book on tape, to have the
actual author reading the
book. Perhaps that’s the case
in this case, that it’d be better
read than spoken out loud by
the author.”
Park said, however, she
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
#UMICHVOTES
Michigan tops
Missouri at Crisler
Center, 65-55
By KELLY HALL
Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan women’s basketball
team always records hype videos for the
fans, but Thursday, it didn’t need them.
Wolverines coach Kim Barnes Arico
said the home-court advantage at
Crisler Center would make the differ-
ence, and it did. The fans exploded after
foul calls on Michigan and became
louder with every bucket that expanded
its game-defining lead late in the second
half.
“The energy is huge in a basketball
game, especially when you’re trying to
withstand a run that the other team is
making, or when we’re trying to run
and put it away,” said senior forward
Nicole Elmblad. “To have the crowd we
had tonight was special.”
After a rough start, the Wolverines
(8-10 Big Ten, 19-14 overall) beat Mis-
souri 65-55 with a well balanced offense
that included five players scoring in
double digits, led by senior guard Shan-
non Smith, who recorded 13 points.
“A lot of times, we’ve got a couple
people that are leading us in scoring,”
Elmblad said. “When we’re able to dis-
tribute that scoring and we’re able to
get everyone on the court as a threat, it
makes teams struggle to guard you.”
Added Barnes Arico: “Nicole Elm-
blad knocked down some shots for us,
See LSA, Page 3
See ELECTIONS, Page 3
See INTO THE WOODS, Page 5
See AUTHOR, Page 3
See WNIT, Page 3
SAN PHAM/Daily
Author Kazuo Ishiguro signs copies of his novels during a fiction reading event from the Zell Visiting
Writers Series in the University of Michigan Museum of Art on Thursday.
ANDREW COHEN/Daily
Dr. Marschall S. Runge, the new vice president for medical affairs and University Health System’s chief executive officer, holds a meet and greet in the
Rotunda Gallery at the North Campus Research Complex on Thursday,
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WEATHER
TOMORROW
HI: 35
LO: 15
Unopposed
elections for
LSA Student
Gov. conclude
With litigation pending,
CSG elections undecided
UMMA hosts British
author for Q&A session
Wolverines
earn WNIT
quarterfinal
berth in win