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2 — Friday, March 27, 2015
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan wom-
en’s basketball team
advanced to the WNIT
quartfinals with its 65-55 win
over Missouri on Thursday.
The Wolverines will play at
Southern Mississipi on Sun-
day at 3 p.m.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
New
data
form
the
French investigation of
the Germanwings flight
that killed 159 people suggests
that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz
did
not
respond
to
his
co-pilot’s demands to return
to the cockpit, the New York
Times reported.
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TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
LEFT LSA sophomore Cierra Jackson dances with The Movement at The Team Rally, an event that supports Will Royster running for CSG
president and Matt Fidel running for CSG vice president on the Diag on Monday . (Virginia Lozano/Daily) RIGHT Ann Arbor resident Joel
Reinstein raises his hands in support of divestment during the Central Student Government meeting in Rogal Ballroom in the Michigan Union
on Tuesday. (Ruby Wallau/Daily)
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The
Saudi
Arabian
military
began
operations
against
Houthi rebels that have taken
over Yemen’s capital. The
White house confirmed that
President Obama authorized
logistical
support,
the
Associated Press reported.
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More Photos of the
Week online
Mental health
discussion
WHAT: University
professors will speak about
mental health and suicide,
with a specific focus on
suicide in Japan.
WHO: Counseling and
Psychological Services
WHEN: Today at 1o:30 a.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union—
Anderson Room D
Epidemiology
presentation
WHAT: Speakers from
around the world will
present about nutrition
in this symposium.
WHO: Center for Molecular
and Clinical Epidemiology
of Infectious Diseases
WHEN: Today from
8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan League
Orchestra
recital
WHAT: The University
Symphony Orchestra and
Philarmonia Orchestra will
perform Mahler’s Symphony
No. 6.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 3 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium
Please report any
error in the Daily
to corrections@
michigandaily.com.
MFA Dance
concert
WHAT: Patty Solorzano’s
“Footprints” will explore
the relationship between
humans behavior and the
environment, and Eryn
Rosenthal’s “Figure/Ground”
examines anti-Apartheid
movements.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre, & Dance
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Dance Building—
Betty Pease Studio
Wallenberg
lecture
WHAT: World-renowned
Polish-American architect
Daniel Libeskind will
speak about his history in
designing world-famous
projects.
WHO: Taubman College
of Architecture and Urban
Planning
WHEN: Today from 6 p.m.
to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
Union—Rogel Ballroom
California
prison lecture
WHAT: Alumnus Emily
Harris will explore the
California prison system and
the challenges it poses for
authorities.
WHO: The Prison Creative
Arts Project
WHEN: Today at 5 p.m.
WHERE: Duderstadt
Center
“Lyric Revolution”
effort stems from
entrepreneurship
class project
By LINDSEY SCULLEN
Daily Staff Reporter
Prompted by a shared distaste
for current popular music, a
group of students is using a class
project to start a “Lyric Revolu-
tion.”
Music, Theatre & Dance soph-
omore Hannah Baiardi, a co-
founder of “Lyric Revolution”,
said she often finds the majority
of popular music today is both
“derogatory” and “offensive.”
“I find it, personally, really
discouraging,” Baiardi said. “A
lot of times it’s not sophisticated.
It can tend to be shallow, repeti-
tive and not really very deep. As
a musician, I find that really irk-
some.”
To
combat
that
problem,
Baiardi and a group of class-
mates from the class, “Entrepre-
neurial Creativity”, have built
and launched a website titled
“Lyric Revolution.” The site fea-
tures local artists and forums
for viewers to engage with other
musicians and music lovers.
The website was first con-
ceived in the class, which is
taught by Education Lecturer
Eric Fretz and is one of the
core classes for the University‘s
entrepreneurship minor. At the
beginning of the class, Fretz has
his students create a PowerPoint
slide about themselves, their
passions and projects they are
interested in. It was that process
that brought the group together
and allowed them to realize
their common passions.
“We all kind of came together
on this idea that meaningful lyr-
ics and positive changes through
music can be really powerful,”
said LSA sophomore Jacqueline
Shandler, a co-founder of Lyric
Revolution. “I can see it going
well beyond this class because
we’re all passionate about it.
We’re all driven. We want to see
it go somewhere.”
Currently in its second week,
the website is built around a
“featured artists” page, which
spotlights local artists and their
original compositions posted on
SoundCloud.
The founders said the fea-
tured artists are meant to repre-
sent a clear distinction from the
sounds of today’s Top 40 hits.
“People can’t really control
which music, what they’re going
to hear,” Shandler said. “You
could be going anywhere and
hear music that isn’t appropri-
ate.”
It’s that lack of control that
drives the group toward attempt-
ing a “revolution,” a transforma-
tion in the way today’s music is
written.
Another part of the initiative
is found in the “our parodies” tab
on the website. Currently, a par-
ody of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred
Lines” is displayed. In place of
the opening line of Thicke’s cho-
rus, “And that’s why I’m gon’
take a good girl. I know you want
it,” are the following lines: “And
that’s why I stand for justice. You
know I’ve earned it.”
A third tab on the website asks
users to “join the conversation,”
and provides space for users to
post comments.
One post made by the found-
ers is titled “Be the Change.” It
poses two scenarios; the first one
describes a situation in which
Pitbull’s “Time of Our Lives”
comes on the radio while a bab-
ysitter is driving a child to an
activity. The second scenario is
the same, but in place of Pitbull,
the radio plays a song that’s both
catchy and helps raise awareness
about social issues.
“It’s simply a platform for con-
versation, to kind of pick people’s
brains about, you know, how
do you feel about lyrics? What
can we do to change that? Can
Student-created website works
to make music more positive
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THE WIRE
Schlissel speaks
in D.C.
BY NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT
University President Mark
Schlissel spoke Thursday morn-
ing in Washington D.C. at the
annual University of Michigan
Congressional
Breakfast.
He
spoke specifically about the
University’s upcoming research
projects, including M City.
THE WIRE
BAMN presents
platform
BY EMMA KINERY
Student
group
By
Any
Means Necessary presented
the Defend Affirmative Action
Party’s candidates for CSG
elections, focusing on minor-
ity enrollment and sexual
assault.
News
19 injured in New York fire,
building gas blast blamed
Smoke spread for
miles after the
Manhattan structure
collapsed
NEW
YORK
(AP)
—
An
apparent gas explosion leveled
an apartment building, largely
destroyed another and launched
rubble
and
shards
of
glass
across streets in the heart of
Manhattan’s trendy East Village
on Thursday, injuring 19 people.
Smoke could be seen and smelled
for miles.
Restaurant diners ran out
of their shoes and bystanders
helped one another to escape
the midafternoon blast, which
damaged four buildings as flames
shot into the air, witnesses said.
Passers-by were hit by debris
and flying glass, and bloodied
victims were aided as they sat on
sidewalks and lay on the ground,
they said.
“It was terrifying — absolutely
terrifying,” said Bruce Finley, a
visitor from San Antonio, Texas,
who had just taken a photo of
his food at a restaurant known
for its French fries when he felt
the explosion next door. “It just
happened out of the blue. ... We
were shaking even an hour, hour
and a half later.”
Mayor Bill de Blasio said
preliminary evidence suggested a
gas explosion amid plumbing and
gas work inside the building that
collapsed was to blame.
A plumber was doing work
connected
to
a
gas
service
upgrade, and inspectors from
utility Con Edison had been there
to check on a planned meter
installation an hour before the
fire, company President Craig
Ivey said. But the work failed the
inspection, partly because a space
for the new meters wasn’t big
enough, and the inspectors said
gas couldn’t be introduced to that
part of the building, Con Ed said.
The state Department of Public
Service was monitoring Con Ed’s
response.
The fire happened a little over
a year after a gas explosion in a
building in East Harlem killed
eight people and injured about
50. A National Transportation
Safety Board report released last
week said a leak reported just
before the deadly blast may have
come from a 3-year-old section
of plastic pipe rather than a
127-year-old cast-iron segment
that came under scrutiny in the
immediate aftermath.
De Blasio noted no one had
reported
a
gas
leak
before
Thursday’s blast. Con Edison said
it had surveyed the gas mains on
the block Wednesday and found
no leaks.
Bystander Blake Farber, who
lives around the corner, said he’d
been walking by the building and
smelled gas seconds before the big
blast.
Firefighters continued pouring
water
on
the
buildings
for
hours after the explosion, in an
area of old tenement buildings
that are home to students and
longtime residents near New
York University and Washington
Square Park.
Firefighters said at least 19
people were hurt, four critically,
some with burns to their airways.
De Blasio said it didn’t appear that
anyone was missing.
New York City firefighters work the scene of a large fire and a partial building collapse in the East Village neighborhood of
New York on Thursday, March 26, 2015. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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