“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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