By AMELIA ZAK

Daily Music Editor

Vanessa Carlton was a fading 

memory in the minds of ’90s kids 
everywhere, her name merely 
standing as an indication of the 
seminal classic, “A Thousand 
Miles.” From 2002 to 2005, 
Carlton’s sugary piano ballads 
filled the radio airwaves. These 
Billboard-topping 
hits, 
like 

“A Thousand Miles,” “White 
Houses,” and “Ordinary Day,” 
were a heavy load to bear for 
one so young. The fast fame 
swallowed her name and image 
with what she was most known 
for. In the media vacuum that 
this 
early 
success 
created, 

Vanessa should have lost control 
of her image. By now, she should 
have fallen off into some island of 
once-famous musicians.

In an interview with The 

Michigan 
Daily, 
Carlton 

recounted these early successes in 
a positive light: “It’s not all being 
measured up against some pop 
culture moment I had with a song 
I wrote when I was 16. Everyone 
has allowed me to grow.”

But with natural talent, hard 

work and a heavy concentration 
on 
individualistic 
musical 

stylings, Carlton disproved the 
stigma of the one-hit wonder 
pop star. Time away from the 
limelight paired with hours 
in international studios with 
renowned producers have helped 
her regain control on the reigns 
of her popularity. 

Her 2011 album, Rabbits on 

the Run, was the beginning 
of 
these 
decisive 
changes. 

Rabbits on the Run, if nothing 
else, communicated with her 
audience and former fans that 
artistic changes were imminent. 
And in her 2015 effort, Liberman, 
Carlton 
swallows 
whatever 

former images the media has 
cast. Her reformed artistry is 
minimalist, elegant and a quieter 
kind. With Liberman, she’s not 
some pop star with three Top 
40 hits that may or may not have 
dated John Mayer. Carlton has 
regained control over what she 
always was: a fantastic pianist 
with an ethereal voice who 
possesses an lyrical penchant for 
the lovelorn.

Named 
after 
Carlton’s 

grandfather, 
one 
of 
whose 

paintings of nudes hangs in the 
eyeline from the piano, Liberman 
was 
creatively 
nurtured 
by 

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New City Council members Zachary Ackerman (D-Ward 3) , left, Sabra (D-Ward 1) Briere and Jane Lumm (I-Ward 2) recite an oath before being officially 
inducted to the Ann Arbor City Council on Monday.

Council approves 
next police chief, 
sends off outgoing 
city administrator

By ISOBEL FUTTER

Daily Staff Reporter

Monday’s Ann Arbor City 

Council meeting featured two 
new faces — newly elected 
members 
Chip 
Smith 
(D–

Ward 5) and LSA senior Zach 
Ackerman (D–Ward 3). The 
council also welcomed back 
Jane Lumm (I–Ward 2), Sabra 
Briere (D–Ward 1) and Jack 
Eaton (D–Ward 4), who all 
returned to council for another 
term.

The 
council 
appointed 

James 
White, 
an 
assistant 

police chief with the Detroit 
Police Department, as Ann 
Arbor police chief, discussed 
the allocation of funds in 
preparation for winter weather 
and discussed the rezoning of 
the Nixon Farm properties.

The council unanimously 

approved City Administrator 
Steve Powers’ recommendation 
to appoint White to the role. 
White will start the position on 
Jan. 11, 2016.

“I’m happy to be able to 

support 
this 
appointment,” 

Lumm said. “The national 
search resulted in three very 
strong 
qualifying 
finalist 

candidates, 
and 
I 
believe 

Mr. White is an exceptional 
candidate. He will serve Ann 
Arbor very well.”

Councilmember 
Sumi 

Kailasapathy (D–Ward 1) said 
she felt Ann Arbor residents 
responded 
well 
to 
White 

during the interview process.

Ann 
Arbor 
Mayor 

Christopher 
Taylor 
also 

voiced support for White’s 
appointment.

“The three candidates were 

each excellent and would have 
served as chief ably and well,” 
Taylor said. “I look forward 
to working with Mr. White as 
police chief; he will have an 
important task.”

White was one of three 

finalists in running for Ann 
Arbor police chief, alongside 
Interim Police Chief Jim Baird 
and Rob Severance, a deputy 
city manager in Texas. John 
Seto, former AAPD police chief, 
accepted a role as director 
of the University’s Housing 

Security and Safety Services 
and announced his retirement 
from AAPD in May after 25 
years with the department. 

While 
council 
welcomed 

White to the city, they also said 
goodbye to City Administrator 
Steve Powers, who announced 
plans to accept a new job as 
city manager in Salem, Ore. 
in August. Tom Crawford, 
Ann Arbor’s chief financial 
officer, will serve as interim 
city administrator while the 
administration 
committee 

searches for a replacement.

Powers thanked the council 

for giving him the opportunity 
to serve the city of Ann Arbor.

“Thank you for taking a 

chance on a small county, 
community guy, and letting 
me work with you,” Powers 

ACADEMICS

Faculty body calls on 
regents to consider 
investments in oil 

and gasoline

By GENEVIEVE HUMMER

Daily Staff Reporter

Divest 
and 
Invest, 
the 

student-led campaign calling 
on the University to divest from 
oil and coal, scored a small step 
forward at Monday’s Senate 
Assembly meeting.

The 
Senate 
Assembly 

voted to support a resolution 
advocating the formation of 
a committee to review the 
University’s investments in oil 
and coal. During the meeting, 
the assembly also heard an 
annual report on the academic 
performance of the University’s 
student athletes.

The 
assembly 
discussed 

fossil 
fuel 
divestment 
last 

spring, but lost quorum before 
the 
motion 
to 
vote. 
Even 

with support of SACUA, the 
University’s Board of Regents 
must endorse the committee 
before it can form.

Divest and Invest president 

Nicholas Jansen, an LSA senior, 
noted divestment is just one 
approach to addressing climate 
change.

“We realize climate change 

is 
a 
huge 
problem; 
we’re 

not saying that this is the 

solution that is going to save 
everything,” 
Jansen 
said. 

“Being students, being at a 
University with political power 
and an image that people look 
up to, this is where we can take 
a stance and contribute to the 
problem. It’s a big problem, it’s 
going to take a lot of solutions.”

The 
University’s 
Divest 

and Invest campaign, formed 
in 2013, has spent the past 
two years encouraging the 
University’s administration to 
divest from fossil fuels, though 
the 
objective 
was 
recently 

amended to include only coal 
and oil, not natural gas.

Comprised 
of 
faculty, 

students, staff and alumni, the 
organization has urged the 
regents to form a committee 
that 
would 
review 
the 

University’s 
$1.04 
billion 

invested in fossil fuels.

Jansen 
has 
previously 

expressed frustration with the 
regents’ refusal to develop an 
ad hoc committee to investigate 
the University’s investments in 
fossil fuels.

“We have overwhelmingly 

demonstrated time and time 
again that we meet the three 
prong requirement needed for 
the Regents to form an ad hoc 
committee to look at divesting 
(from coal and oil) with the most 
recent being a nearly unanimous 
vote 
by 
CSG 
to 
support 

our resolution that ask the 
Regents to form the mentioned 

See CITY COUNCIL, Page 3
See SENATE ASSEMBLY, Page 3

MUSIC INTERVIEW

RYAN MCLOUGHLIN/Daily

Engineering senior Erin Moore speaks of her personal experience regarding the University’s race and ethnicity 
requirement at the Central Student Government Diversity Forum in the CSG chambers on Monday.

Singer Vanessa
Carlton takes 
artistic control

See CARLTON, Page 6

Students consider 
class size, need for 
changes across the 
schools, colleges

By BRIAN KUANG

Daily Staff Reporter

During 
an 
open 
forum 

Monday 
afternoon, 
around 

20 
students 
expressed 

dissatisfaction with the LSA 
Race and Ethnicity requirement 

amid an ongoing review by the 
LSA Office of the Dean.

The 
current 
requirement 

mandates that LSA students 
take a course focusing on 
racial and ethnic inequality, as 
defined by LSA administrators, 
in order to graduate.

A leading concern at the forum 

was that many of the classes 
that satisfy this requirement 
are too large and therefore 
don’t 
meaningfully 
engage 

students 
in 
discussion. 
The 

three largest courses that fulfill 
this requirement are Cultural 

Anthropology 
101, 
Women’s 

Studies 220 and Public Health 
200, which enrolled 693, 366 
and 351 students in the fall 2014 
semester, respectively.

“When I took my Race and 

Ethnicity requirement it was in 
a class of over 300 people, and 
it was one of my favorite classes 
I’ve taken at the University,” said 
Public Policy junior Alexandra 
George, CSG communications 
director. 
“But 
because 
the 

class was so large people felt 
uncomfortable speaking up and 
See RACE & ETHNICITY, Page 3

ADMINISTRATION

Committee to 
review changes 
to student code 
proposed by CSG

By JACKIE CHARNIGA

Daily Staff Reporter

Now that the University 

has concluded the process of 
gathering community input on 
its Statement of Student Rights 
and Responsibilities, proposed 
revisions 
to 
the 
document 

will work their way through 
a multi-step vetting process 
before eventually landing on 
the desk of University President 
Mark Schlissel.

Every 
three 
years, 
the 

University’s faculty and student 
governing bodies provide the 
University 
president 
with 

potential 
revisions 
to 
the 

student 
statement, 
which 

outlines conduct expectations 
and disciplinary measures for 
students.

The next step in the process 

falls on the Student Relations 

See STUDENT CODE, Page 3

New members sworn in at 
first session of council term

Assembly 
endorses 
‘U’ divest 
committee

LSA forum critiques Race 
and Ethnicity requirement

Proposed 
statement 
revisions 
move ahead

