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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM

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Vol. CXXV, No. 24
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NEWS......................... 2A

OPINION.....................4A

ARTS.......................... 5A

SPORTS ......................7A

CL ASSIFIEDS...............6A

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THE STATEMENT

Student wins
Ward 3 seat

LSA senior is first

‘U’ student to

secure council seat

in two decades

By EMMA KERR and
CAMY METWALLY

Daily News Editor and

Daily Staff Reporter

LSA senior Zachary Ackerman

secured a seat on Ann Arbor’s City

Council in an uncontested race
Tuesday night, with 90.68 percent
of the vote. With all precincts
reporting, Ackerman garnered 730
votes from the 3rd Ward.

It has been more than two

decades
since
someone
in

Ackerman’s age range has been
elected to City Council. Ackerman
is 22 and spending an extra
semester at the University as a
fifth-year senior due to taking time
off to work on campaigns.

The low frequency of students

See STUDENT, Page 3A

Incumbent Jane Lumm
retains post on A2 Council

Democratic

challenger Sally

Hart Petersen loses
by 29-point margin

By BRIAN KUANG

Daily Staff Reporter

In Ann Arbor’s only contested

City Council race, incumbent Jane
Lumm (I) defeated Sally Petersen
(D) for the open seat in Ward 2,

garnering 64.46 percent of the
vote over Petersen’s 35.34 percent,
with 100 percent of precincts
reporting.

The turnout rate in Ward 2 was

7.7 percent. On Tuesday, 1,283
votes were cast. The ward has
16,650 registered voters.

The result will prevent Petersen

from returning to elected office in
Ann Arbor, after serving on the
council from 2012 to 2014 until she
forgoed her re-election campaign
to
conduct
an
unsuccessful

mayoral run. Petersen and Lumm

were not available for comment by
telephone Tuesday evening.

Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher

Taylor and Councilmember Kirk
Westphal (D–Ward 2) endorsed
Petersen. Councilmembers Mike
Anglin (D–Ward 5), Jack Eaton
(D–Ward 4), Sumi Kailasapathy
(D–Ward
1)
and
Stephen

Kunselman (D–Ward 3) endorsed
Lumm.

The endorsements illustrates

a split between members of the
council
aligned
with
Taylor

and those who more frequently

disagreed with his policy agenda.

The city’s forthcoming deer

cull featured prominently in the
Ward 2 race, and has generated
debate in council over the last few
months. The City Council voted
in August to move forward with
plans to manage the city’s deer
population with a cull.

Lumm
campaigned
as
a

proponent for a deer cull while
Petersen has voiced opposition to
the plans.

Other
key
issues
included

CAMPUS LIFE
Writer, activist
talks Russian
totalitarianism

Masha Gessen
presented with

24th annual

Wallenberg Medal

By LYDIA MURRAY

Daily Staff Reporter

Russian
journalist
and

activist Masha Gessen was
awarded the 24th Wallenberg
Medal
on
Tuesday
night

before a 250-person crowd in
Rackham Auditorium.

Gessen has written 11 books

and is known for taking a strong
stance on the deteriorating
human rights condition in Syria
as well as her open criticism
of Russian president Vladimir
Putin. She is also an activist for
gay rights in Russia. According
to a press release, Gessen
received the award for “her
willingness to write and speak
truth to power whatever the
personal cost.”

The Wallenberg Medal is

given annually to an outstanding
humanitarian. The award was
named for University alum
Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish
diplomat who saved tens of
thousands of Jews in Nazi-
occupied
Hungary
during

World War II. After accepting
the medal, Gessen presented a
lecture on the current state of
affairs in Russia.

Gessen focused on the ways

totalitarian systems are formed
and how she sees this playing
out in Russia. She said it’s
difficult for Western countries
to accept the existence of
totalitarian societies.

“It was very difficult for the

West to talk about totalitarian
regimes because they seem
preposterous,”
Gessen
said.

“Who could really believe that
you could use these simple ideas
like the idea that certain races
were fated to do better would
lead to the extermination of
millions of people.”

See GESSEN, Page 2A

Vigil focuses on impacts of
violence in Palestine, Israel

Students gather
to discuss recent
conflict in region

By ALYSSA BRANDON

Daily Staff Reporter

Lights illuminated the Diag

on Tuesday evening as students
gathered at the steps of Hatcher
Graduate
Library
to
honor

victims of violence in Israel and
Palestine.

The vigil was organized by

LSA junior Nicole Khamis and
LSA senior Devin Jones, who are
both Palestinian-Americans with
extended family members who
have been affected by the area’s
history of conflict.

Most recently, tensions have

been high in the area following
a spate of terrorist attacks in the
region largely aimed at Israelis,

with four attacks occurring Oct.
13.

Khamis began the event by

sharing statistics on the number
of Palestinians killed and injured
due to violence in either Palestine
or Israel from live gun fire — 921
in the past 30 days, according to
the Palestinian Health Ministry.

She said it’s important to

recognize statistics on the recent
attacks in context of those deaths,

ANDREW COHEN/Daily

LSA freshman Alina Haque registers to vote during the CSG Voice Your Vote commission’s campaign on the Diag on Tuesday.

ZOEY HOLMSTROM/Daily

LSA senior Zachary Ackerman at the Ann Arbor Brewing Company on Tuesday after
he was elected to Ward 3 City Council.

See LUMM, Page 3A

RUBY WALLAU/Daily

LSA juniors Nicole Khamis and Gabrielle Borg honor lives lost during the Vigil for the Victims of Recent Violence in
Palestine and Israel on the Diag on Tuesday.

See VIGIL, Page 3A

CSG plans
student
statement
additions

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Assembly also

approves inclusion
of mental health

resources in syllabi

By JACKIE CHARNIGA

Daily Staff Reporter

Central Student Government on

Tuesday discussed seven proposed
changes to the Statement of Stu-
dent Rights and Responsibilities
and passed a resolution to include
mental health services in course
syllabi.

The statement governs non-

academic behavioral conduct at
the University. Amended every
three years, the statement features
expectations for student conduct,
and suggests sanctions and disci-
plinary procedures for violations
such as illegal drug and alcohol use,
hazing and sexual misconduct.

CSG proposed seven amend-

ments this cycle: establish formal

See CSG, Page 3A

ELECTION DAY 2015

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