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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:
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the University

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