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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

