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THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

The Daily Arts Section’s 
B-Side takes a look at 
the Michigan Gospel 

Chorale in this week’s issue. 
The group started in 1972, and 
is still thriving on campus.
>>FOR MORE, SEE 1B.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Anthropology 
lecture

WHAT: Nimmi 
Rangaswamy will 
discuss her research on 
technologies in low-income 
Indian communities.
WHO: Information 
Alliance for Community 
Development
WHEN: Today at 4 p.m.
WHERE: North Quad

Lecture on
sustainability

WHAT: Learn about if 
sustainability is achiev-
able in a capitalist sys-
tem. The lecture will be 
given by Paul Robbins.
WHO: Rackham Inter-
disciplinary Workshop
WHEN: Today from 4 p.m.
WHERE: Room 1040, Dana 
Natural Resources Building

Kim Davis, the county 
clerk 
who 
refused 
to 

issue marriage licenses to 

same-sex couples, reportedly 
met with the Pope last week, 
her lawyer reported. The 
alleged meeting occurred in 
Washington D.C. during the 
Pope’s visit, CNN reported.

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Banned books
pop-up library

WHAT: The annual 
Banned Books Week event 
raises awareness about 
the issues of censorship. 
Attendees are encouraged 
to also bring a banned 
book to read at the event. 
WHO: University Library
WHEN: Today from 12 
p.m. to 1:30 p.m. 
WHERE: Front steps of 
Hatcher Graduate library

Tesla 
unveiled 
what 

is being billed as “the 
world’s quickest SUV.” 
The Model X sport-

utility vehicle can go from 0 
to 60 mph in 3.2. seconds. The 
electric car also has a range 
of 250 miles per charge and 
is designed to compete with 
brands like Mercedes, USA 
Today reported.

3

Business 
through LSA 

WHAT: Advisors from 
LSA and the Career Center 
will join LSA students to 
discuss developing skills 
for the business field.
WHO: Career Center
WHEN: Today from 2:30 
p.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Room 100, 
Hatcher Graduate Library 

Journalism 
lecture

WHAT: Richard Besser 
from ABC News will talk 
about his role as a medical 
journalist. The event 
will also have a panel 
moderated by Jonathan 
Cohn from The Huffington 
Post.
WHO: U-M Health System
WHEN: Today from 3 
p.m. to 6 p.m. 
WHERE: Assembly Hall, 
Rackham Graduate School

TUESDAY:

Campus Voices

THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

MONDAY:

This Week in History

Cathy Hong 
reading

WHAT: Cathy Hong, an 
award-winning poet and 
writer, will be reading 
from her works and also 
sign copies of her books. 
WHO: Helen Zell 
Visiting Writers Series
WHEN: Today at 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: University of 
Michigan Museum of Art

Consulting info
session

WHAT: Learn about 
career opportunities for 
individuals with disabilities. 
Bender Consulting Services 
has placed individuals 
with disabilities in major 
organizations.
WHO: Career Center
WHEN: Today from 1 p.m. 
to 2 p.m.
WHERE: Career Center 
Program Room, Student 
Activities Building 

University professor Goncalo 
Abecasis helped complete a survey 
of genetic information worldwide 

“We have dramatically improved 
our knowledge of variation in the 
human genome.”
 — @UMich 
 

“Joan Larsen will be a valuable 
addition to the Michigan Supreme Court 
@MISupremeCourt.”
 —@onetoughnerd

Gov. Rick Snyder appointed 
University professor Joan Larsen to 
the Michigan Supreme cOURT.

Each week, “Twitter Talk” 
is a forum to print tweets 
that are fun, informative, 
breaking or newsworthy, 
with an angle on the 
University, Ann Arbor and 
the state. All tweets have 
been edited for accurate 
spelling and grammar. 

University president Mark Schlissel 
tweeted his support for University’s 
Mott’s Children’s Hospital.

“Together, we can help @
MottChildren in the fight to 
#BlockOutCancer.”
 - @DrMarkSchlissel

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2A — Thursday, October 1, 2015
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day on October 1st organized by the Chinese Students and 
Scholars Assocation on the Diag on Wednesday.

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Architecture 
conference

WHAT: The second 
presentation of four, The 
Architectural Imagination 
roundtable discussions 
will be on Detroit’s 
architectural imagination 
and Mexicantown. 
WHO: College of 
Architecture
WHEN: Today at 6 p.m.
WHERE: Room 2104, Art 
and Architecture Building

Nixon Road development plan 
postponed for further debate

Navanethem Pillay 
discusses women’s 

rights, refugees

BY CAMY METWALLY

For the Daily

In a lecture hall thousands of 

miles away from South Africa, 
Judge Navanethem Pillay, for-
mer United Nations High Com-
missioner for Human Rights, 
addressed the University com-
munity in a public lecture titled 
“From South Africa to Rwanda 
and Syria.”

Though far from the sugar 

plantations 
her 
grandfather 

worked on as an indentured 
laborer in South Africa, Pillay 
spent the last few days on cam-
pus, engaging with several stu-
dent groups for the University 
of Michigan Law School’s 2015 
William W. Bishop Jr. Lecture 
in International Law.

On Sept. 29, she spoke to 

undergraduates in the Human 
Rights Initiative as well as a 
number of law students in vari-
ous organizations. Wednesday 
morning she met with the Law 

School’s human trafficking clin-
ic before delivering a speech in 
the afternoon.

“I love the fact that students 

from other disciplines, like engi-
neering and economics, also 
attend this, not just law stu-
dents. That’s very good because 
human rights concerns every-
one,” Pillay said.

As a minority in both race 

and gender, Pillay said she faced 
many obstacles. However, her 
real journey began when her 
father, a bus driver, and her 
seven siblings struggled to sat-
isfy their hunger — both for food 
and education.

With schoolteachers walk-

ing door to door, the poor com-
munity in which Pillay grew up 
raised funds to send “the girl 
with potential” to a university.

“We were all victims of dis-

crimination and deprivation,” 
Pillay said. “So when I became 
a lawyer against all odds, it was 
not a singular achievement.”

When she began practic-

ing as an attorney, gender, race 
and economic class proved to 
be growing challenges for Pil-
lay, especially in the climate 
of apartheid. According to Pil-

lay, after law school, law firms 
refused to hire her because 
white secretaries could not work 
for a black woman. These adver-
sities led to Pillay starting her 
own law firm in 1967, the first 
woman to do so in South Africa’s 
Natal Province.

She has also served as a judge 

on the International Criminal 
Court, judge president of the 
International Criminal Tribunal 
for Rwanda and acting judge of 
the High Court in South Africa, 
appointed by Nelson Mandela.

“It’s an honor to come hear 

her speak,” third-year Law stu-
dent Daniela Tagtachian said. 
“It’s always good to hear the 
story of a woman who led such 
a distinguished life. It’s par-
ticularly inspiring hearing a 
woman speak about such great 
things.”

In addition to protecting 

women’s rights and promoting 
the cause as a respected female 
role model and co-founder of 
Equality Now, an international 
women’s rights organization, 
Pillay also spoke of growing 
unrest in the world. 

Read more online at 
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Former UN human rights 
commissioner speaks at ‘U’

Wetland protection, 
water runoff, traffic 
present concerns for 

nearby residents

BY ISOBEL FUTTER

Daily Staff Reporter

After the Ann Arbor City 

Council postponed discussion 
last week on a proposed hous-
ing development on Nixon Road, 
the conversation is now set to 
occur in November.The site plan 
for the proposed 282-unit Wood-
bury Club Apartments has been 
discussed at the last two coun-
cil meetings, but at the Sept. 21 
meeting, the conversation was 
postponed to the Nov. 16 meeting. 
The Council is requested more 
research and planning before the 
next hearing on the subject. Con-
cerns with traffic, natural land-
scape, wetlands and stormwater 
runoff were among the reasons 

for postponement. The plan also 
requires a zoning change to move 
forward.

The apartment complex would 

be located on the corner of Nixon 
Road and M-14. They would be 
situated across the street from 
another proposed development 
on the site of the two Nixon Farm 
properties.

Councilmember Sumi Kailasa-

pathy (D–Ward 1) said she would 
have a resolution drafted by the 
next meeting, though it will not 
be discussed at that time.

Several community and Coun-

cil members were concerned that 
adding new housing in the area 
would increase existing traffic 
congestion.

The area’s natural environ-

ment was another concern to the 
development plan — specifically, 
issues of stormwater runoff and 
flooding. According to Kailasa-
pathy, the burden of stormwater 
runoffs on neighboring commu-
nities is increasing.

“We know that significant rain 

events are growing in intensity 
and volume, which causes sig-
nificant expenses to the city and 
property owners,” she said.

If the apartments are approved, 

the water runoff could be pushed 
to nearby apartment complexes. 
This could cause extensive flood-
ing and water drainage issues, 
resulting in additional costs to the 
city and neighboring residents.

William 
Quinn, 
president 

of the board of directors for 
Barclay Park Condominiums, 
located 
near 
the 
proposed 

development,said the board is 
against the project.

“We are very concerned about 

the wetlands which border Bar-
clay Park and which are within 
the park,” Quinn said. 

Collin Ross, president of the 

board of directors for the Arbor 
Hills Condominium Association 
also attended the meeting. Ross 
said the association has filed a 
petition of protest against the 
approval of the site plan.

“I should point out that the 

system in Arbor Hills is a private 
system that is paid for and main-
tained by our association,” Ross 
said. “Therefore, any additional 
stormwater loads on the system 
could cause problems and result 
in significant expenses to our 
association.”

The Woodbury Club Apart-

ments site plan is split into two 
parcels, an eastern and a west-
ern side. Though apartments 
have been allocated for the 
western parcel, plans for the 
eastern parcel are still unclear. 
It is possible that the city may 
buy the approximately 25 acres 
for parkland.

Some members of Council 

expressed their concern about 
this undetermined sector of the 
plan at the most recent Council 
meeting on Sept. 21. Council-
member Jack Eaton (D–Ward 4) 
said he would like to see those 
plans resolved before a vote to 
rezone the property and pave 
way for the development occurs.

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DAVID SONG/Daily

Judge Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008-2014 and co-founder 
of Equality Now, recalls her experiences with apartheid and its influence on her development as both a law student 
and a human at South Hall on Wednesday. 

