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Michigan took two of three
games in its weekend series
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Best two out of three
Make Michigan
wins CSG executive
seats by closest
margin in a decade
By EMILIE PLESSET
Daily News Editor
According to unofficial results
released Friday evening, Make
Michigan’s Cooper Charlton, an
LSA junior, and Steven Halperin,
an LSA sophomore, narrowly
secured the Central Student Gov-
ernment presidential and vice
presidential seats by five votes,
making this year’s race the clos-
est student government election
in the past decade.
Prior to this year’s election,
the 2012 presidential and vice
presidential elections had been
the closest victory, according to
election returns data from 2004
to 2015. In 2012, independent
candidates Manish Parikh and
Omar Hashwi beat youMICH’s
Shreya Singh and Ethan Hahn by
146 votes.
This is also the first year that
both major parties received more
than 4,000 votes each, though
Make Michigan came close last
year when it secured the top two
executive seats with 3,937 votes.
In that year, Make Michigan beat
forUM by 1,087 votes. During the
See CLOSE RACE, Page 3A
Final outcome of
ongoing lawsuits
could flip the race
By TANAZ AHMED
and EMILIE PLESSET
Daily Staff Reporter and
Daily News Editor
The results are in, and Make
Michigan has done it again.
LSA junior Cooper Charlton
and LSA sophomore Steven Hal-
perin will be the Central Student
Government president and vice
president, respectively, accord-
ing to unofficial election results
released early Saturday morning.
The vote tallies were released
24 hours after polls closed for
the CSG elections. Charlton and
Halperin won with 4,041 votes,
beating The Team’s presidential
and vice presidential competitors,
LSA junior Will Royster and LSA
sophomore Matt Fidel, by five
votes.
Charlton is the current presi-
dent of the University’s Student-
Athlete Advisory Committee and
Halperin currently serves as an
LSA representative. This is the
second year the Make Michigan
party has secured the two CSG
executive positions.
Litigation against both parties
is still pending. Make Michigan
has filed a suit against The Team
CAMPUS LIFE
Diag gathering,
keynote lecture
celebrate legacy of
the first teach-in
By LINDSEY SCULLEN
Daily Staff Reporter
In the spirit of Vietnam War
teach-in protests on campus 50
years ago, University students,
speakers, local community mem-
bers and parents of students encir-
cled the Block ‘M’ on the Diag on
Friday afternoon to rally for better
treatment of the environment and
divestment from fossil fuels, and to
continue campus dialogue on the
issue.
Later in the day, participants
gathered in an Angell Hall Audito-
rium — the same location in which
the first Vietnam War teach-in was
held in 1965 — to listen to investiga-
tive reporter Amy Goodman.
Both events were part of “Teach-
in + 50: End the War Against the
Planet,” a two-day-long demon-
stration focused on giving climate
change the political and social
attention necessary to counteract
future consequences.
On the Diag, protesters chanted
pro-divestment slogans, including:
“Be the leaders and the best, from
fossil fuels we must divest.” Some
carried recycled cardboard signs
with calls to action such as, “End
This Climate War NOW!” and
“Save our ONLY home! Divest from
Fossil Fuels #ClimateTeachIn50.”
At one point, the participants
also assembled to form the number
350 in honor of 350.org’s goal to
keep the amount of carbon diox-
ide in the atmosphere below 350
parts-per-million. Many scientists
say this decrease in carbon dioxide
levels is necessary to maintain a
habitable planet.
Goodman — host and producer
of independent public news pro-
gram, “Democracy Now!” — gave
the keynote address. She is a
renowned investigative reporter
who has covered the East Timor
independence movement and the
impact of oil rigs in Nigeria. She
was detained outside of the 2008
Republican National Convention
See RESULTS, Page 3A
See TEACH-IN, Page 3A
LUNA ARCHEY/Daily
LSA senior Jayla Johnson, LSA sophomore Meredith Gillies and Social Work student Kylee Smith react to their
fellow performers during the Vagina Monologues at the Trotter Multicultural Center on Friday.
Students perform
acclaimed play
on feminism,
sexuality
By SAMIHA MATIN
Daily Staff Reporter
The annual production of
“The
Vagina
Monologues”
returned to campus Thursday
and Friday to explore feminism
and female sexuality.
Held in Rackham Auditorium
on Thursday and at the Trotter
Multicultural Center on Fri-
day, the University’s chapter of
Students for Choice put on the
critically acclaimed show for
the third time. Sponsored by
LSA Student Government, Cen-
tral Student Government and
Student Life, the event featured
18 performances by University
students.
Created by playwright Eve
Ensler in 1996, “The Vagina
Monologues” is a play based on
interviews with real women
talking about their experiences
and views on their sexuality. It is
composed of short scenes deal-
ing with an array of topics such
as masturbation, orgasms, birth,
sex, love and rape.
LSA junior Kayla Smith
directed the event and said she
made an effort to include top-
ics about diversity in the show,
which the original monologues
lacked.
SCIENCE
‘U’ collaboration
uses stem cells to
better understand
lung disease
By SANJAY REDDY
Daily Staff Reporter
Stem cell research has long
been seen as a new frontier for
disease therapeutics. By coax-
ing stem cells to form 3D minia-
ture lung structures, University
researchers are helping explain
why.
In a collaborative study, Uni-
versity researchers devised a
system to generate self-orga-
nizing human lung organoids,
or artificially-grown organisms.
These organoids are 3D models
that can be used to better under-
stand lung diseases.
Jason Spence, the assistant
professor of internal medicine
and cell and developmental biol-
ogy, who was a senior author of
the study, said one of the key
implications of these lungs is
See LUNGS, Page 3A
See MONOLOGUES, Page 3A
FIVE VOTES DOWN
C S G E L E C T I O N S
4,036
4,041
24
21
14
1
Make Michigan
Independent
The Team
SEATS WON BY PARTY
10 WERE WON BY THE TEAM
11 WERE WON BY MAKE MICHIGAN
GRAPHIC BY CAROLYN GEARIG
9,129 PEOPLE, 20.9% OF THE STUDENT
BODY*, VOTED FOR PRESIDENT AND VP...
Make Michigan
The Team
310 Write-in
742 DAAP
OF THE 21 CSG SEATS REPRESENTING LSA...
Defend
Affirmative
Action Party
*According to the
Office of the Registrar
RUBY WALLAU/Daily
LEFT: LSA junior Will Royster and LSA sophomore Matt Fidel. RIGHT: LSA sophomore Steven Halperin and LSA junior Cooper Charlton.
WITH LITIGATION PENDING, ELECTION REMAINS UNDECIDED
Students rally
to support fossil
fuel divestment
Vagina Monologues add
new emphasis on diversity
Research
develops
mini-lung
structures
INDEX
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