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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan women’s
basketball team moved
on
to
the
WNIT
semifinals with a 69-60
win at Southern Mississippi
yesterday. They will play
UCLA on Wednesday.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
The lead suspect from
a
museum
attack
on
foreign
tourists
was
killed Saturday night in the
Gafsa region near Algeria,
AP reported. Khaled Chaieb
was considered an important
member of al Qaeada’s North
African operations.
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debating Obama in upcoming
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THE WIRE
Green
reviews
hip-hop
artist Action Bronson’s debut
album, Mr. Wonderful, by
discussing several songs on
the album. He writes that
Mr. Wonderful may not be
Bronson’s best album, but he
was successful in defining his
own voice and showing his
lyrical virtuosity.
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Pres. Harbaugh?
BY LEV FACHER
Michigan football coach
Jim
Harbaugh
wasn’t
on
the ballot in the recent CSG
elections, but that didn’t stop
him from finishing fourth in
overall votes for CSG president
as
a
write-in.
Harbaugh
earned 115 votes, including
four for the joint ticket of “Jim
Harbaugh and Diag Squirrel.”
Action Bronson
BY ZACK GREEN
THE FILTER
MUG Monday:
Palm reading
WHAT: All students are
welcome to stop by for
a free palm reading.
WHO: Center for Campus
Involvement, Maize Pages
Student Organizations
WHEN: Today from
5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: The
Michigan Union
Anthropologist
talks Holocaust
WHAT: Barbara Rylko-
Bauer, the daughter of a
Catholic prisoner held
in Jewish concentration
camps, will speak.
WHO: Polish Student
Association
WHEN: Today at 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
League, Michigan Room
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Beyond the
passive voice
WHAT: This presentation
will use fiction to discuss
how experts have
responded or should
respond to the politicization
of policy relevant science.
WHO: Science, Technology
& Society
WHEN: Today from 12
p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Museum of Art,
Auditorium
Conversations
on Europe
WHAT: This lecture will
cover how the European
Union behaves in adverse
situations.
WHO: Center for
European Studies
WHEN: Today from 4
p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social
Work Building, 1636
TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
15 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (MARCH 31, 2000)
‘U’ faces affirmative action case
ZACH MOORE /Daily
Repper G-Eazy performs at the Block M Party at Hill
Auditorium on Saturday.
SHIRTLESS G - E A Z Y
U.S. District Magistrate
Judge
Thomas
Carlson
ordered the University to
turn over the names and
phone
numbers
of
all
undergraduate Black and
Hispanic students as part
of numerous lawsuits chal-
lenging the use of race as
a factor in admissions to
LSA.
In
1997,
two
white
applicants
represented
by the Washington D.C.-
based Center for Individ-
ual Rights filed lawsuits
against
the
University,
claiming they were denied
admission to LSA while
less-qualified minority stu-
dents were accepted. Later
that year, a similar claim
against the Law School was
filed.
The cases were Gratz v.
Bollinger and Grutter v.
Bollinger, respectively. The
cases ultimately made their
way to the U.S. Supreme
Court, where the justices
upheld
the
University’s
narrow use of affirmative
action in Grutter vs. Bol-
linger, but struck down
LSA’s point system at issue
in Gratz v. Bollinger. Affir-
mative action was ultimate-
ly outlawed in Michigan
after voters passed Propos-
al 2 in 2006.
In response to the 1997
suits, interveners — which
are
third
parties
that
state claims in an exist-
ing lawsuit — alleged that
minority students were dis-
criminated against in the
admissions process while
the University gave unfair
advantages to white subur-
ban high schools.
Subsequently,
Godfrey
Dillard, lead counsel for
the intervening undergrad-
uate defendants, said he
would use the now-avail-
able contact list to speak
with
minority
students
firsthand and gauge their
impression of the admis-
sions process.
—NEALA BERKOWSKI
From the
ground up
WHAT: Journalists and
University alums will
discuss public health
issues in the media.
WHO: LSA Development,
Marketing &
Communications
WHEN: Today from
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
WHERE: The Michigan
League, Hussey Room
Reflections on
a life in letters
WHAT: Nicholas Delbanco,
Robert Frost Distinguished
University Professor of
English Language and
Literature at U of M, will
talk about his life and
work.
WHO: University Library
WHEN: Today from 4 p.m.
to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Harlan Hatcher
Graduate Library, Room 100
Event intends to
provide an inclusive
space for students
By SAMIHA MATIN
Daily Staff Reporter
Students gathered at the Uni-
versity’s Indoor Track and Field
Building on Saturday to raise
financial aid funds by dancing the
night away.
The
University-wide
dance
party, called INFINITY, was
designed to promote an inclusive
place for students to congregate.
An offshoot of #BBUM, a Twit-
ter campaign launched in 2013
by the University’s Black Student
Union, INFINITY aimed to use
ticket sales and donations to pro-
vide scholarships and financial
aid to students in need. The event
was co-sponsored by the Dean of
Students Office, School of Social
Work, Department of Afroameri-
can and African Studies, The Black
Student Union, Engineering Stu-
dent Government, Hillel, optiMize
and Big Ticket Productions.
The event also served as an after
party for the Block ‘M’ Party, a
concert held earlier in the evening
at Hill Auditorium.
University alum Tyrell Col-
lier, event organizer and a for-
mer speaker of the Black Student
Union, said the movement is meant
to create a space where minority
students can share their experi-
ences with a wider audience.
“We challenge ourselves to
think creatively about how we, as
a student community, can contrib-
ute to increasing minority enroll-
ment while also building a better
and more inclusive University
community,” he said.
Collier said the funds will make
it easier for underrepresented stu-
dents to enroll at the University,
and in turn help bolster the Uni-
versity’s Black student enrollment
rate, which has hovered around
4 percent. As part of a list of
demands provided to the Univer-
sity in 2014, the BSU has called on
the University to achieve 10 per-
cent Black enrollment.
Kinesiology junior Capri’Nara
Kendall, BSU secretary, planned
the event. She said not all #BBUM
events raise revenue solely intend-
ed to benefit Black students.
“We want students from all
walks of life, religion and race to
collaborate and learn from each
other,” Kendall said. “We want to
generate revenue for all students,
not just Black students.”
The event featured two DJs — a
University alum as well as a stu-
dent in the School of Music, The-
ater and Dance. LSA senior Arnold
Reed, the BSU speaker, shared his
enthusiasm about enjoying the
dance event as well as contributing
to a great cause.
“It’s very important for the Uni-
versity community to understand
how much diversity can affect a
student’s life,” Reed said. “INFIN-
ITY is a great event to raise money
while having a good time with
your friends.”
Though the event involves rais-
ing money intended for under-
represented students, LSA senior
Darrartu Ali, an event organizer,
noted that INFINITY does not
directly challenge the problem of
low enrollment of minority stu-
dents at the University. Rather, he
said, it is designed to create a fun
and inclusive environment for all
students to help others in need.
“INFINITY should not be seen
as the outcome of everything
we hope to accomplish under
#BBUM,” Ali said. “Instead, it is
annexed to #BBUM as we wait for
the University to implement policy
that actually works.”
The organizers said they hope
this event will begin to take place
annually during Welcome Week to
attract more students.
“We need to create spaces for
Black students, and students of
color more broadly, to socialize
and have fun,” Collier said. “The
lack of available safe spaces on
campus for Black students to flour-
ish socially has negatively affected
the perception and reality of Black
student life at Michigan.”
University-wide dance party
raises money for financial aid
Mr. Michigan competition
fundraises for child health
FIMRC attracts
increased number of
students for annual
charity event
By EMILY MIILLER
Daily Staff Reporter
In the annual Mr. Michigan
contest
Sunday,
eight
contestants walked a red carpet
in the Michigan Union and
showed off a variety of talents —
from playing instruments to lip
syncing to cooking.
LSA senior Mario Cale, a
member of the Pre-Medical
Club, won the pageant, which
is
produced
annually
as
a
fundraiser by the University’s
chapter of the Foundation for
International Medical Relief of
Children.
FIMRC is a national nonprofit
organization
that
works
to
improve health in developing
nations worldwide, particularly
in the fields of child and
maternal health.
LSA senior Elizabeth Bruno,
FIMRC
president,
said
the
organization
most
recently
collaborated
with
Michigan
Health Engineered for All Lives
to fund and build a gynecological
examination table for a FIMRC
clinic in Nicaragua.
This year, the money raised by
the Mr. Michigan contest will go
toward building latrines in the
Dominican Republic to improve
sanitary conditions.
“It’s definitely helping those
areas by bringing the latrines,
which have a zinc top that’s going
to keep up through the rainy
season,” Bruno said. “That’s just
one of the ways that not only our
chapter but FIMRC in general
works with communities to
spread knowledge about those
kinds of things.”
LSA sophomore Jason Millen,
FIMRC fundraising co-chair,
was one of the main coordinators
of the event. He said this year’s
event had the biggest turnout in
recent memory.
“Last year we only sold
about 80 tickets, which isn’t
bad,” Millen said. “But we’re
expecting over a hundred this
year.”
LSA
sophomore
Sheema
Rehman, FIMRC treasurer, said
the heightened attendance was
due
to
an
increase
in
participating
student organizations. Seven
organizations,
in
particular,
collaborated with FIMRC: Circle
K, Red Cross, Phi Delta Epsilon,
Alpha Phi Omega, Seventh Mile
Music, Pre-Medical Club and
MRelay.
“It’s the diversity of the
groups that we got,” Rehman
said. “Normally we target the
pre-med and pre-health clubs on
campus, but this year we were
able to get MRelay and Seventh
Mile Music and these are some
awesome additions to have.”
Bruno said the organization
tries to revamp its event every
year by adding new elements
— this year, they auctioned off
gift baskets donated by local
businesses.
“The way that we’re doing the
baskets is completely new, as well
as the setup and everything,”
Bruno said. “They’re fresh ideas
in this fundraiser that we know
works really well.”
Overall,
Rehman
said,
Mr.
Michigan
is
a
fun
way
to
fundraise
through
entertainment and collaboration
with others.
MADELINE BATH /Daily
LSA junior Noah Newman, member of PhiDE, lip-syncs in the talent portion of Mr. Michigan in the Michigan Union on Sunday.