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ADMINISTRATION
Major ‘U’
supporter
A. Alfred
Taubman
dead at 91
Detroit area developer
donated millions to
architecture school,
biomedical research
By SHOHAM GEVA
Daily News Editor
A. Alfred Taubman, one of the top
donors in the University’s history,
passed away Friday night at age 91.
His death was confirmed in a
statement released by his son, Robert
S. Taubman, to employees of Taubman
Centers, Inc, according to the Detroit
News. Robert S. Taubman is the
current CEO of the company.
“Tonight, after dinner in his home, a
heart attack took him from us, ending
what was a full, extraordinary life that
touched so many people in so many
wonderful ways around the world,”
the statement read. “Right now it is
difficult for me to express our sadness.
One thing that will never be taken from
us is Alfred Taubman’s vision that will
continue to guide and inspire us.”
Taubman,
a
Michigan
native,
built his career in the retail industry
developing high-end shopping malls.
He attended both the University of
ZACH MOORE/Daily
Common performs at the MUSIC Matters concert during Spring Fest at Hill
Auditorium on Friday.
Common headlines SpringFest
Day-long events
showcase student
groups, encourage
collaboration
By MICHAEL SUGERMAN
Daily News Editor
Throughout
Friday
night’s
capstone concert on the tail
end
of
SpringFest,
rapper
Common
reminded
students
the importance of diversity and
inclusion.
“Music matters. We matter. All
lives matter,” he told the crowd.
This was a theme constant
during
the
day’s
SpringFest
events,
which
included
a
fashion show “One,” student
organizations’ largely interactive
booths, live music performances
and more.
Business senior Darren Appel,
president of MUSIC Matters
—
the
student
organization
that put on the fourth annual
SpringFest — said campus-wide
collaboration was an essential
facet of the event.
“I thought that this year, one
of the cool things was the student
orgs seemed to really get the idea
a lot more of actually creating an
engaging event,” Appel said.
LSA
senior
Marli
Siegel,
MUSIC Matters communications
manager, added that the “perfect”
weather, which was sunny and in
the 70s, was conducive to student
participation.
“I think the level of student
engagement was the highest it
has ever been, and I think that
made SpringFest the best it has
ever been,” she said. “There were
people that set up shop to play
guitar just because they wanted
to. Something like that is so
awesome.”
One
of
these
impromptu
performances was the group
Stankface, composed of LSA
junior
Cody
Fayolle,
Music,
Theatre & Dance junior Alex
Greenzeig
and
Engineering
junior Brent Ritter. Greenzeig
and
Ritter
played
electric
guitar harmonies, while Fayolle
provided percussion.
Organizers
have
already
approached the group, which was
not affiliated with SpringFest,
about performing at next year’s
event
during
the
day.
The
members of Stankface said their
ACADEMICS
Transfer students
account for 16
percent of new
undergraduates
By SAMANTHA WINTNER
Daily Staff Reporter
Last
fall,
7,546
new
undergraduates
enrolled
at
the University. Apart from an
incoming freshmen class of
6,505 students, 1,041 of these
new enrollees were transfer
students, according to data
provided by the University’s
Office of Public Affairs.
These
transfer
students
represent roughly 16 percent of
incoming undergraduates.
LSA junior Reid Klootwyk,
LSA
Student
Government
vice president for upcoming
academic year, transferred to
the University last fall from
Muskegon Community College.
He said the contrast between
entering college as a freshmen
and entering a new university as
an experienced college student
adds additional challenges.
“We’ve been through some
small tidbit of college, but we’re
also so fresh to the University
and so new to things,” he said.
“We’re a little bit like the
upperclassmen in that we have
(taken
college-level
classes)
and think we know how to
succeed, but, at the same time,
it’s all so new and it’s not easy to
transition.”
LSA senior Marissa Miars,
chair of the Central Student
Government Commission on
Transfer
Student
Resources,
said the college experience can
also be difficult for transfer
students because administrative
policies do not entirely know
how to address their unique
needs. She transferred from
Grand Valley State University
in 2013.
Bush-era official
discusses response
to tobacco, AIDS
By NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT
Daily Staff Reporter
Richard
Carmona,
former
surgeon general of the United
States, spoke to a full auditorium
Friday morning in the School of
Public Health.
Carmona’s
lecture
focused
on the intersection of public
health,
politics
and
his
experience serving in the Bush
Administration from 2002 to
2006. One of the main themes he
discussed was the obstruction of
important pieces of public health
policy by special interests in
Congress.
“The greatest plague I ever
faced as surgeon general was
not infections or terrorists, but
politics,” Carmona said. “The
plague of politics has its own
morbidity and its own mortality.”
As surgeon general, Carmona
issued a prominent report on the
negative effects of secondhand
smoke, and served in the federal
government’s command center
Former surgeon general
talks politics, public health
HEALTH
Third breast
cancer panel
draws 500
to campus
Doctors emphasize
early detection,
treatment options
at annual summit
By ALEX JUNTTI
For the Daily
University
researchers
and doctors, as well as cancer
survivors,
emphasized
the
importance of early diagnosis on
Saturday as nearly 500 people
gathered for the third annual
Breast Cancer Summit.
Held at the North Campus
Research Complex, the event was
sponsored by the University of
Michigan Comprehensive Cancer
Center’s Breast Oncology and
Community Outreach programs.
Martha Laatsch, the event’s
organizer
and
community
outreach
program
director
at the center, said the event
allows both women and men
GRANT HARDY/Daily
The University of Michigan Synchronized Swimming Team performs at the Spring Water Show in Chanham Natato-
rium on Saturday.
M AKING WAVES
See SPRINGEST, Page 3A
See TAUBMAN, Page 3A
See TRANSFER, Page 2A
See SURGEON, Page 3A
See BREAST CANCER, Page 3A
ROBERT DUNNE/Daily
TOP: LSA sophomore Mira Hart models during the Spring Fest fashion show on North University St. on Friday.
BOTTOM: Participants compete in the Buffalo Wild Wings wing eating contest during Spring Fest.
By the numbers:
Transferring to
the University
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