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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

