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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The No. 15 Michigan
football team travels
to Minnesota to take
on the Golden Gophers on
Saturday. The Wolverines
come in at 5-2, 2-1 in the Big
Ten. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. on
ESPN.
>>SEE SPORTS, PAGE 7
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Horror Film
Festival
WHAT: The film festival
will feature four foreign
language horror movies
from around the world.
WHO: University
Libraries
WHEN: 11 a.m. to 6:30
p.m.
WHERE: Hatcher
Graduate Library Gallery
LRCCS
symposium
WHAT: A symopo-
sium to honor Robert
Dernberger’s career in
Chinese economics.
WHO: Asian Lan-
guages and Cultures
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Ross School of
Business, Room R2220
Rep.
Paul
Ryan
was
officially elected Speaker
of the House Thursday
morning, the Washington Post
reported. Winning 263 votes,
Ryan beat Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s
(D-CA) 184 votes, and Rep.
Daniel Webster’s (R-FL) nine
votes.
1
Drug discovery
lecture
WHAT: Michael Holinstat,
an associate prof. of
Pharmacology and Internal
Medicine, will present
on the “eevelopment of
novel therapeutics in the
platelet.”
WHO: Center for the
Discovery of New
Medicines
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.
WHERE: Palmer
Commons, Forum Hall
Officials
in
China
annouced
Thursday
the country will lift its
one-child policy, CNN
reported. While the policy
was intitially created as a
means of population control,
officials are now worried
labor forces are dwindling.
3
Greek lecture
WHAT: Professor
Pavlos Kavouras from
the University of Athens
discusses the importance of
xenitia in Greek culture.
WHO: Modern Greek
Program
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: 2175 Angell Hall
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Dia de los
Muertos Ball
WHAT: Event will
feature music and food
to celebrate the ending
of LatinX Heritage
Month and the culuture
of Dia De los Muertos.
WHO: Office ofMulti-
Ethnic Student Affairs
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Alumni
Center, Founders Room
Scholars
symposium
WHAT: The 2015 Commu-
nity of Scholars, which com-
prises students from various
departments at the Uni-
versity, will present their
recent research findings.
WHO: Department of
Women’s Studies
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: 2239 Lane Hall
Advances in
casual inference
WHAT: The event will
be a celebration of the
birthday of Richard
Remington, a professor
of biostastics at the
University.
WHO: School of Public
Health
WHEN: 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.
WHERE: Palmer
Commons, 4th Floor
Symphony
Band
WHAT: The concert,
titled“From the Heart,”
will feature dance, folk
and spoken word per-
foremances. Timothy
McAllister will perform
on alto saxaphone.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: 8 p.m.
WHERE: Hill
Auditorium
TUESDAY:
Campus Voices
THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk
FRIDAY:
Photos of the Week
WEDNESDAY:
In Other Ivory Towers
MONDAY:
This Week in History
LEFT: Leon Bridges performs at
The Majestic Theatre in Detroit on
Saturday. (VIRGINIA LOZANO/Daily)
RIGHT:
Zedd performs at the
Masonic Temple in Detroit on Friday
as a part of his “True Colors” tour.
(ZACH MOORE/Daily)
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League of Women Voters hosts
forum on redistricting process
DELANEY RYAN/Daily
Susan Smith of the League of Women Voters spoke on the legislative effects of district lines and the potential
of redistricting in Michigan at the Ann Arbor Public Library on Thursday.
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SCOTUS case
prompts push
for independent
commissions
BY CAITLIN REEDY
For the Daily
The League of Women Vot-
ers of the Ann Arbor Area
hosted a redistricting town
hall forum Thursday night
in the Ann Arbor District
Library.
The event, which drew
about 40 people, was mod-
erated by Susan Smith, vice
president of program plan-
ning for the League of Women
Voters of Michigan.
The League of Women Vot-
ers is a national nonpartisan
organization aimed at citizen
empowering voters through
education about various pol-
icy areas. Thursday’s forum
was one of a slate of events
statewide focusing on redis-
tricting, which refers to the
process of redrawing elector-
al districts. Electoral districts
demarcate the geographical
areas Michigan’s legislators
represent in Congress.
Currently, Michigan’s leg-
islature draws the district
lines for the state. States also
have the option of redrawing
district lines through inde-
pendent, nonpartisan com-
missions.
Smith said the events were
prompted by a Supreme Court
case handed down in June,
in which the court ruled an
independent
redistricting
commission in Arizona was
a constitutional method of
redistricting.
Following the ruling, she
said, it was clear that state
residents
were
passionate
about the issue, with many
reaching out to the League of
Women Voters to discuss the
possibility of an independent
commission in Michigan.
“What we do now creates
a problem in Michigan,” she
said. “The process that we are
using now is one where the
politicians are choosing the
voters instead of the voters
choosing their elected offi-
cials. “This is not democracy;
this is the reverse of the way
it is supposed to be in a demo-
cratic country.”
Nancy Schewe, president
of the League of Women Vot-
ers for the Ann Arbor Area,
echoed Smith’s sentiment and
said the issue was important
for Ann Arbor residents.
“We are concerned about
the way our legislative dis-
tricts are drawn in Michi-
gan,” Smith said. “We are in
a statewide education cam-
paign about the consequences
of redistricting, and possible
solutions.”
During the forum, present-
ers discussed whether there
was gerrymandering in Mich-
igan — the practice of redraw-
ing lines to get a particular
partisan outcome during the
election.
Smith noted that in the
most recent election for the
Michigan House of Represen-
tatives, Republicans won 46
percent of the vote, yet man-
aged to obtain 59 percent of
the seats in the House.
Republicans currently con-
trol both the state House and
Senate, and were the majority
party the last time redistrict-
ing occurred after the 2010
census.
“Partisan
politicians
manipulate elections to keep
themselves and their party
in power. The Republicans
do it, the Democrats do it,”
Smith said. “(Gerrymander-
College Republicans talk public
perception of GOP energy policy
Michigan
Conservative Energy
Forum stresses need
for bipartisanhip
BY CAMY METWALLY
Daily Staff Reporter
The Michigan Conservative Ener-
gy Forum spoke to the University’s
chapter of College Republicans on
Thursday about energy policy and its
relationship with bipartisanship.
The event, held in the Michigan
Union, focused on the activities of the
MCEF, which was formed in 2013 in
response to the impending expiration
of a number of energy bills.
MCEF Program Director Katie
O’Connell said the goal was to give
conservatives a voice at a time when
the discussion on energy policy was
led by Democrats, and to remove ste-
reotypes that Republicans don’t pri-
oritize taking care of the environment.
In particular, she said a lack of
education led to inefficient political
and legislative efforts in energy pol-
icy, especially when it came to new
technology developments.
“You get a lot of loud characters
that just say whatever they think is
true at the highest decibel possible,”
O’Connell said. “One of the big things
we run into are people who know the
technology from 2005. Well, in the
past 10 years, solar, wind, biomass
and hydro have all take off because
we’ve given them a great opportu-
nity.”
The
organization
encourages
the adoption of an “all of the above”
approach to energy policy, aiming to
diversify Michigan’s energy portfo-
lio by including multiple sources of
renewable energy.
O’Connell said the organization
believes expanding renewable energy
resources and increasing energy effi-
ciency will result in improvements
in several areas, including jobs and
the economy, national security and
health.
The College Republicans estab-
lished a partnership with MCEF last
year.
Information
senior
Madeline
Jursek, chair of the College Repub-
licans, said she plans to continue to
foster this discussion and take part
in sustainability and environmental
groups across campus.
She added that she also hopes to
collaborate with the University’s
chapter of College Democrats on this
issue.
“I think it’s really important, espe-
cially as young republicans, to show
that we do care about the environ-
ment and are looking for clean energy
opportunities and sources,” Jursek
said. “I think it’s really strong that we
show the community on campus that
we can be Republicans and still care
about the environment.”
LSA senior Gabriel Leaf, who
serves on the MCEF Leadership
Council, said misinformation and
misunderstanding from both par-
ties are the cause of many barriers in
energy policy.
“Most hurdles come from people’s
misunderstanding of what we’re
doing, energy policy as a whole and
conservative energy and how that
can work towards more of a workable
future for everyone,” Leaf said.
In addition, several members of
the College Republicans noted they
believe the public’s view of Republi-
can energy policy is not representa-
tive of the majority’s sentiment.
LSA freshman Jake Roodvoets
stressed the importance of the MCEF
in promoting the issue, which he said
was vital to the state and national
economies.
“Most of the time, Republicans
focus more on money or the military,
tax cuts and less spending regulation,
but there are more priorities we have
to look at,” Roodvoets said. “I think
it’s a good thing this group is looking
at that and promoting a solution many
people like myself can agree with.”
O’Connell said she thought young
people in particular had an impor-
tant voice on the issue, expressing
the importance of younger citizens
in instigating change in policy priori-
ties.
“Young people are the power-
house that makes things happen,”
O’Connell said. “We need people who
are passionate, and that starts at the
grassroots level.”
See REDISTRICTING, Page 3