“That 
includes 
not 
causing 

major infractions like this one: 
destructing an opposing party’s 
campaign materials.”

Destruction 
of 
campaign 

materials is a violation of cam-
paign conduct as outlined by the 
UEC Election Code, which is 
part of the CSG Compiled Code. 
The code declares that, if violat-
ed, individuals or parties receive 
demerits — one or two demerits 
are given for minor infractions 
and three or four are given for 
major infractions. Destruction 
of campaign material is a major 
infraction. Individual candidates 
are disqualified if they receive 
five or more demerits, and entire 
parties are disqualified if they 
receive 10 or more.

Regardless 
of 
whether 
a 

member of The Team or a non-
candidate was responsible for 
the destruction, Make Michigan 
asked the Central Student Judi-
ciary to give The Team three or 
four demerits.

“We believe beyond a reason-

able doubt that The Team was 
responsible for this,” Jankowski 
said. “No one else would have 
the intent or the want and mal-
ice to do these kind of actions. 
There’s no reason anyone would 
come out and pour water onto 
sidewalk chalk unless it was 
an opposing party intending to 
destruct campaign materials and 
replacing them with their own.”

However, 
some 
members 

of the commission questioned 
that assertion and suggested 
other groups could have been 
responsible, including the third 
party running in CSG elections, 
the Defend Affirmative Action 
Party.

“Wouldn’t it make even more 

sense for a member of DAAP to 
remove Make Michigan’s cam-
paign materials and put some-
thing that makes it look like The 
Team might have done it over 
it?” asked Law School student 
Paige Becker, chair of the UEC.

Jankowski said in response 

that DAAP could have commit-
ted the violation, but the fact 
that The Team’s advertisements 
replaced Make Michigan’s does 
not make DAAP look guilty.

Law School student Sarah 

Brenner, legal counsel for The 
Team, said Make Michigan’s 
complaint fails to prove beyond 
a reasonable doubt that a candi-
date or volunteer of The Team 
committed the destruction.

“As we all know, this destruc-

tion occurred on the Diag,” she 
said. ”The original Make Michi-
gan chalking occurred on March 
16th, and the pictures (of the 
new “The Team” chalking) were 
taken on March 18th. That’s two 
days in between. Within two 
days, thousands of people walk 
across the Diag, any one of which 
could have destroyed Make 
Michigan’s chalking.”

For a party to be found guilty, 

the person who committed the 
act, along with the act itself, 
need to fall under CSG’s “scope 
of coordination.”

Brenner said to fall under 

that scope the person who com-
mitted the act must have been 
“a candidate or a non-candi-
date who worked with or at the 
request of the party.” An act that 
falls within the scope of coordi-
nation must be “what the can-
didate or party requested the 
non-candidate to do.”

“So if the person did not do 

what the party requested them 
to do, they would not fall under 
the 
scope 
of 
coordination,” 

Brenner added.

Overall, Brenner argued that 

there is not enough evidence for 
The Team, or anyone represent-
ing The Team, to be found guilty.

The commission also brought 

up an additional element in 
the case — the fact that Make 
Michigan’s chalk drawing was 
only partially eradicated. The 
chalking originally said, “Vote 
for Make Michigan.” After the 
destruction, while “Make Mich-
igan” had been removed , the 
“Vote for” portion remained.

“Can you think of any rea-

son why someone who is clearly 
pouring water to destroy Make 
Michigan’s chalking, why they 
wouldn’t also pour water on the 
words, ‘Vote for’?” Law school 
student Brian Koziara, member 
of the UEC, asked.

Brenner said she did not find 

this question incriminating to 
The Team.

“I mean I can think of plenty 

of reasons,” she said. “If some-
one is trying to get two parties in 
here, the two biggest parties on 
campus that are fighting for this 
election, I can see somebody put-
ting water on one place and then 
creating an issue. I mean, abso-
lutely anyone on campus can do 
that.”

The UEC also considered two 

other lawsuits Wednesday.

Multiple 
candidates 
were 

accused of missing the manda-
tory candidates’ meeting at the 
beginning of the campaign sea-
son. According to Becker, candi-
dates who were thought to have 
had legitimate reasons for miss-
ing the meeting such as time 
conflicts with classes were given 
warnings.

Candidates who did not have 

a legitimate reason were each 
given a demerit.

A lawsuit between two Uni-

versity Law students was dis-
cussed as well. One student 
alleged there was an e-mail vio-
lation where the candidate used 
a listserv which did not belong to 
the student.

An additional lawsuit was 

filed Thursday by Make Michi-
gan against The Team. Make 
Michigan claims The Team 
committed a campaign funding 
violation by not reporting all of 
the party’s campaign expendi-
tures. The date and time for the 
hearing of this lawsuit has not 
yet been decided.

Another lawsuit on e-mail 

violations was also filed Thurs-
day by Make Michigan against a 
candidate for The Team running 
for the Art & Design representa-
tive position. UEC will hear the 
lawsuit on Friday.

the experience of students in LSA.”

Klootwyk said his experience 

as a non-traditional student has 
helped him understand the needs 
of transfer students better.

“Freshman students are allowed 

to enroll in the University and take a 
gap year,” Klootwyk said. “Transfer 
students can’t do that. A gap year is 
something that enhances their out-
look on life and education as well as 
they come back to campus.”

Colella added that the most 

important part of their election 
platform is connecting with LSA 
students.

“The biggest improvement is 

to better represent the students,” 
he said. “To really hear from all 
18,000 students as best we can.”

LSA senior Natasha Dabrowski, 

the current LSA SG president, said 
she was excited to see what Colella 
and Klootwyk would do in their 
positions and added that both are 
“knowledgeable, 
qualified 
and 

compassionate individuals.”

“Jason has served on too many 

LSA SG and administrative com-
mittees to name, and Reid is a fast 
learner who already, as a transfer 
student, has shown his leadership 
potential within LSA SG,” Dab-
rowski said. “I have no doubts that 
this team will continue to grow as 
leaders within LSA SG and serve as 
diligent advocates for all LSA stu-
dents.”

Dabrowski said she has appreci-

ated her experience serving as LSA 
SG president.

“I have felt a responsibility, 

having served on LSA SG for four 
years, to continue my commitment 
to LSA students and the University 
and to push myself in everything 
that I do as president,” she said.

Along with president and vice 

president, 10 students were elected 
LSA SG representatives.

LSA sophomore Aishawarya 

Singh said she decided to run for 
reelection because she thinks the 
work of LSA SG will not only bet-
ter the college experience of cur-
rent students, but also future ones. 
Singh said she has worked with 
the Residence Hall Association to 
improve toilet paper quality in the 

dorms. She also said she plans to 
create projects that would improve 
student access to Counseling 
and Psychological Services and 
the University Health Service.

LSA freshman Anna Giacomini 

said she chose to run for a position 
because she noticed her friends 
complaining about issues with the 
campus, but they showed little 
intention of attempting to improve 
them.

“The points on my platform 

include putting more lighting near 
the CCRB as well as the streets by 
the IM building, bettering SafeR-
ide by advertising through social 
media and hiring more drivers, and 
creating an app specifically for Uni-
versity of Michigan students that 
can contact the police and inform 
them of the individual’s location on 
campus,” GIacomini said. “When 
students feel safe, they are more 
likely to thrive and accomplish 
their goals.”

LSA 
sophomore 
Charlotte 

Shreve said the encouragement of 
fellow student government mem-
bers influenced her decision to run 
for LSA representative.

“This year I hope to take on 

more projects individually, espe-
cially some ideas I’ve been thinking 
up that are in the very early stages,” 
she said. “In addition, last semester 
I had the privilege of working with 
our Diversity Affairs Committee 
more than I had in previous semes-
ters, and I am really looking for-
ward to continuing my work with 
them and growing that committee 
and their outreach.”

LSA freshman Alexandra Contis 

said she was inspired to run for LSA 
representative because of her expe-
rience living on North Campus.

“I think often times we treat 

North Campus as another satellite 
location far away when, in reality, 
it is one university,” Contis said. “I 
am also interested in more … light-
ing, especially on North Campus by 
Northwood and the NCRB because 
safety and student well-being is my 
main concern, and should be the 
University’s as well.”

The other LSA representatives 

are LSA freshman John Petrie, 
LSA junior Zelin Wang, LSA senior 
Yong-Joon Kim and LSA freshman 
Briana Karcho.

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would still give the book a 
chance.

“I think I’ll borrow it from the 

library first,” she said.

LSA senior Jenny Zhang said 

she attended because of her love 
for Ishiguro’s books and her own 
desire to write in the future.

Unlike Park, Zhang said, 

while she hadn’t read the book, 
she was interested in reading 
more of it in the future.

“As he was reading it, I kind 

of started imagining it in my 
head,” Zhang said. “So it was 
pretty vivid and evocative in 
letting the audience or who-
ever was listening imagine 
these scenes unfolding in their 
heads.”

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Shannon Smith played sensational 
in the second half. (She’s a) differ-
ence maker, and (senior forward 
Cyesha Goree) just had a great 
game overall.”

In the first round of the tour-

nament, the Michigan favored 
an unconventional offense that 
included starting freshman for-
ward Emoni Jackson for the first 
time.

But against the Tigers (19-14), 

the Wolverines chose to go with a 
battle-tested lineup featuring their 
four regular starters and sopho-
more guard Danielle Williams, 
which — at least at first — didn’t 
work.

When Missouri jumped out to a 

12-3 lead, instead of implementing 
a stronger defense, Barnes Arico 
decided to focus on offense, leaving 
junior guard Madison Ristovski, 
freshman guard Katelynn Flaherty 
and Smith, a senior guard, all out 
on the court.

“I think one of the strengths of 

our team is that we can put mul-
tiple scorers in at any one time, so 
when we brought in Madison and 
Katelynn and then you have them 
in with (sophomore guard Siera 
Thompson) and Shannon, we have 
four really great threats from the 
outside,” Barnes Arico said. “When 
we haven’t scored in a while, we 
always go to that lineup.”

Barnes Arico’s plan worked. 

Michigan fought back with an 8-0 
run in just over a minute, forcing 
the Tigers to call a timeout. But it 
didn’t help much. Directly after, 
the Wolverines pulled ahead for 
the first time when Smith fed a 
breakaway pass to Goree for a fast-
break layup to make it 15-14.

The first half ended with a lot to 

be desired by the Wolverines. After 
going shot for shot with Missouri 
for a majority of the first half, a 

buzzer-beating open triple left the 
Wolverines trailing, 33-28.

Michigan went back and forth 

with Missouri for the first four 
minutes of the second frame, but 
by the 16:11 mark, it regained the 
lead off of a Goree jumper. Directly 
thereafter, Goree drained another.

“I think at halftime, coach got 

on us about our assists,” Goree 
said. “We usually have 20 assists 
per game, and we only had four at 
(halftime). She told us we weren’t 
moving the ball as much as we 
should, so I think the second half, 
we came out, made extra passes, 
knocked down some shots and 
that’s what got us going.”

Goree wasn’t held back by foul 

trouble, and it made the difference 
— she recorded a double-double 
and didn’t commit any fouls.

The lead was cemented into 

place after her layups, and the Wol-
verines worked up to a 14-point 
advantage with 1:50 left in the 
game off of 59-percent shooting in 
the second half.

But Michigan is priding itself 

more on its defense that grabbed 36 
boards.

“I think our defense was the key 

to our game tonight,” Elmblad said. 
“I thought (Goree) was huge 
down low, and she did a really 
good job of helping. When 
other people were coming 
off of screens or finding open 
looks, she was there to get a 
block or steal, and she was just 
coming through huge with the 
help defense.”

Though Michigan usually 

relies heavily on its 3-point-
ers, it only made one Thursday 
and was still able to dominate 
when it needed to.

The Wolverines bought into 

Barnes Arico’s halftime speech 
about the importance of mov-
ing the ball, and as a result, they 
will travel to Southern Missis-
sippi for a WNIT quarterfinal 
matchup at 2 p.m. Sunday.

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Senior Nicole Elmblad fights for a loose ball in Michigan’s 65-55 win over Missouri.vv

FOREST TOWNSHIP, MICH.

Body of student found 

in Genesee County 

State police say a body found 

floating in a pond in Genesee 
County is that of a Wayne State 
University student who disap-
peared from a bar in Otisville 
three months ago.

The Flint Journal and The 

Detroit News say that the body 
found Thursday morning is that 
of 27-year-old Ken Gruno. The 
pond is in Forest Township, just 
outside Otisville and about 12 
miles northeast of Flint.

State police Lt. Ryan Pennel 

says Gruno was carrying iden-
tification. He says there are no 
signs of foul play.

Pennel says a neighbor spot-

ted the body in the pond, which 
remains mostly frozen over.

Gruno left his coat behind 

when he left Otisville Hotel Bar 
in the early hours of Dec. 27. He 
was visiting with high school 
friends at the bar.

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
Obama commends 
payday lender rules

Embracing 
proposed 
new 

rules aimed at payday lend-
ers, President Barack Obama 
on 
Thursday 
said 
working 

families need protections from 
heavy debt burdens and warned 
Republicans that he would veto 
attempts to unravel regulations 
that govern the financial indus-
try.

Obama praised the Consumer 

Financial Protection Bureau for 
its proposal to set standards on a 
multibillion-dollar industry that 
has historically been regulated 
only at the state level.

“One of the main ways to 

make sure paychecks go farther 
is to make sure working families 
don’t get ripped off,” Obama told 
about 1,800 people at Lawson 
State Community College.

Obama’s remarks come on the 

same day the consumer agency 
was announcing the proposed 
payday lending rules in a hearing 
in Richmond, Virginia. 

NEWS BRIEFS

we really influence the music 
industry five years from now, 10 
years from now?” Baiardi said.

In addition to being one of 

the founders, Baiardi is also fea-
tured on the page as an artist. 
The first song listed on the page 
is hers.

One song, titled “We! are Stu-

dents for Clean Energy Rap,” 
mixes beats and Spanish and 
English lyrics. The song dis-
tills the mission of Students for 
Clean Energy, a campus group 
that promotes the University’s 
use of clean energy.

“Hey listen up ya’ll Wolver-

ines,” the lyrics read. “The sun 
goes down, the sun goes up, time 
to pass that heat around.”

Baiardi said the team hopes 

the 
project 
will 
eventually 

become integrated into student 
organizations on campus. They 
hope to have a cappella groups 
sing their parodies or to work 
with MUSIC Matters, for exam-
ple. They would also like to see 
other University classes engage 
with the project in some form.

While the website’s intended 

audience is students on college 
campuses, Baiardi emphasized 
that anyone can be involved.

“Maybe 
somebody 
doesn’t 

have the capacity to write lyrics, 
but they can write a song or they 
can post a song here and then 
someone else on the other end 
can write lyrics for that piece 
and then upload it and here you 
have this thing that’s produced,” 
she said.

In this way, Fretz said, “Lyric 

Revolution” embodies the idea 
of creativity that lies at the core 
of the class.

“It’s a relatively new course, 

but I would say that this is the 
most fun that I have had teach-
ing in my entire life, because you 
just sort of turn Michigan stu-
dents loose and when you refuse 
to give them a specific guideline 
and they have to come up with 
stuff, the things they come with 
are really amazing,” he said.

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