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THREE THINGS YOU

SHOULD KNOW TODAY

The
Michigan

women’s
basketball

team cruised to a

119-61 blowout of South
Carolina Upstate at Crisler
Center on Monday night,
moving to 4-0 on the year.

>>FOR MORE, SEE PG. 7

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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

French
police

reportedly found an
explosive vest in a

suburb in southern Paris
on Monday, The New York
Times reported. The vest
contains the same type of
bolts and explosives used in
the Paris attacks nearly two
weeks ago.

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Researchers
in

California
claim

to
have
genetically

engineered mosquitoes

that cannot be infected with
malaria, according to NBC
News. Scientists have been
working to reduce malaria
through the gene editing
that led to this discovery.

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Chad Carr

By JEN CALFAS

The
University

community
on
Monday

mourned the passing of
Chad Carr, the grandson of
former Michigan Football
Coach
Lloyd
Carr.
The

5-year-old was diagnosed
with
brain
cancer
in

September 2014 and since
then fans across the country
rallied behind him.

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TUESDAY:

Campus Voices

THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

MONDAY:

This Week in History

Beethoven
recital

WHAT: The masters
recital will perform
Beethoven’s Violin
Sonata and Cello Sonata.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: 8 p.m.
WHERE: Stamps
Auditorium

Earthquakes
and tsunamis

WHAT: University of
California, Berkley Prof.
Diego Melgar will discuss
how large earthquakes
and tsunamis can be
observed and modeled.
WHO: Earth and
Environmental Sciences
WHEN: 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Clarence Cook
Little Building, R2548

Psychology
lecture

WHAT: David
Shoemaker, Tulane
University prof.,
will be discussing
Empathy, Psychopathy
and Responsibility.
WHO: Department
of Philosophy
WHEN: 6:30 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Tanner
Library in Angell Hall

Chinese tax
lecture

WHAT: Wen Cui, Allard
School of Law professor,
will be giving a speech on
the Chinese government’s
initiatives to reform its tax
administration.
WHO: Liberthal-Rogel
Center for Chinese Studies
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social
Work, R1636

Choir and band
performance

WHAT: The Symphony
Band, alongside the
Chamber Choir, Orpheus
Singers and the University
Choir, will perform Anton
Bruckner’s Mass in E
Minor.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: 8 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium

Arabic movie
night

WHAT: The Arabic
Language Club will
host its first ever movie
night. The movie will
be Hassan wa Marcos.
WHO: Arabic Club
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union

CSG election results released,
LSA and Rackham face delays

Professor allegedly subject
to extortion plot, report says

An issue with online

polling forced

re-voting for LSA,
Rackham candidates

By JACKIE CHARNIGA

Daily Staff Reporter

Results of the Central Stu-

dent Government’s fall 2015
elections are in, with voters
selecting representatives from
the Ford School of Public Poli-
cy, Medical School and School
of Education — in addition to
the student who will head the
Department of Public Safety
and Security Oversight Com-
mittee. Due to a tie of one vote
each, no candidate from the
School of Natural Resources
and Environment was deemed
eligible to serve on the CSG
Assembly.

While those elections have

concluded, voting is now under-

way for representative posi-
tions from LSA and Rackham
Graduate School due to an error
in the online voting system.

According to CSG elections

director Benjamin Reese, a
third-year law student, voting
for each of these two schools
will run through Tuesday. All
votes cast during last week’s
originally scheduled election
must be recast.

The error stemmed from the

voting system’s ranking mecha-
nism, a setting that Reese said
wasn’t enabled when elections
went live online. Subsequently,
he said, it was not clear which
candidate was being voted for
in the cases of LSA and Rack-
ham. Elections for DPS Over-
sight, as well as those for all
schools besides LSA and Rack-
ham, were not affected.

LSA sophomore Lisa Pomer-

anz won the DPSS Oversight
elections with 568 votes over
Engineering sophomore John
Houghton who had 318. Public

Policy senior Sloane Forbush
won the representative seat
with 37 votes over Public Policy
junior Sara Dagher, who had 27.

With 51 votes, second-year

Medical student Alia Ahmed
won the Medical School rep-
resentative position by a mar-
gin of 11 votes over a write-in
candidate, second-year Medi-
cal student Benjamin D. Long.
Education
graduate
student

Michael Chrzan, a write-in can-
didate, won with a total of five
votes to be a School of Educa-
tion representative.

All of the eligible voters from

each school are compiled in
a list, though votes can come
from anyone who visits the
voting website. Reese said the
administration checks through
the voters and compares them
to the master list to make sure
those capable of voting are vali-
dated.

“Everyone’s allowed to vote,

if they’re not on that list we
have to see whether they’re
enrolled or not,” Reese said.

Reese said a member of the

University
administration

supervises the elections. The
elections director is not privy to
the actual lists, because of laws
under the Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act that
protect students’ information
from being released to other
students.

Write-ins to fill the vacan-

cies for all available schools
included a write-in nomination
for Michigan Football coach
Jim Harbaugh, and voters for
the School of Education pro-
vided a double ticket of Bernie
Sanders and Ben Carson for the
representative position.

“It
happens
every
year,”

Reese said of the joke write-ins.

Unnamed faculty
member says man

attempted to
gain $10,000

By ISOBEL FUTTER

Daily Staff Reporter

A 52-year-old University

professor says he was the
victim of an extortion plot,
according to a report by the
Ann Arbor News.

The professor, who has not

been named, accused 24-year-
old Mark Anthony Mitchell
of attempting to extort more
than $10,000 from the profes-
sor, based on a police report
obtained by The Ann Arbor
News. Mitchell did not deny
or admit to one count of stalk-
ing and one count of using a
computer to stalk and commit
a crime.

Mitchell posted a Craig-

slist ad for a “massage escort,”
and the professor respond-
ed. According to The Ann

Arbor News, the professor
told the police there was no
sexual activity between the
two. However, according to
the records, the young man
received about $6,000 to keep
their relationship a secret.

The professor and Mitchell

have two conflicting stories.
While the professor denied
a sexual relationship ever
occurred, Mitchell said their
relationship included sex.

The
professor
reported

the blackmail allegations to
police on Oct. 23 and drafted
a lengthy and specific account
of the two men’s interactions
between Sept. 12 and Oct. 22.
Mitchell was then arraigned
on Oct. 28.

The account claims that

the professor first contacted
Mitchell online about sched-
uling a massage during a
planned trip to Lansing, Mich.

According to the statement,

though
there
were
“some

friendly exchanges,” no mas-
sage appointment took place.
In one event, Mitchell told
the 52-year-old that it was his

birthday, but he had no money
to celebrate. According to the
statement, the professor felt
sorry for Mitchell and sent
him money.

After the professor report-

edly scheduled a massage
appointment with Mitchell at
an Ann Arbor motel, but then
left when Mitchell allegedly
tried to touch the professor’s
genitals, the professor began
receiving
numerous
phone

calls and texts from Mitchell
demanding more money. In
total, the professor claimed that
Mitchell demanded $10,000.
According to the report, Mitch-
ell began threatening to ruin the
professor’s career.

Diane Brown, spokeswoman

for the University’s Department
of Public Safety and Security,
said she could not comment on
the case because it did not hap-
pen on campus.

University spokesman Rick

Fitzgerald told The Ann Arbor
News that the professor is still
employed with the University.
He did not have any further
comment on Monday.

JACK SCHULTE

Campus Inn closes for renovation

LSA senior Jack Schul-

te discussed the end of his
experience working as a
bellhop at the Dahlmann
Campus Inn on Thayer
Street and North Univer-
sity Avenue. Employees
will be out of work as the
hotel closes temporarily
for renovations.

What is happening at

the Campus Inn?

So a firm came in —

AJ Capital. They own a
chain of hotels around
different
college
cam-

puses, so they bought the
hotel, and they are going
to renovate it.

How long will they be
closed for renovations?

I’ve been hearing four

to
five
months.
They

should be open before
graduation, or that’s what
they’re planning on.

How many students
work at the Campus

Inn?

There’s a lot. I wouldn’t

say
there’s
that
many

Michigan students. I don’t
think I work with any Uni-
versity of Michigan stu-
dents, but there’s a lot of
Eastern (University) stu-
dents and a lot of Washt-
enaw Community College

students who work there.
I’d say at least 50 percent
of the employees I work
with are at least part-time
or full-time students.

How will this affect you?

I will be out of a job, but

they’ve been really nice
to their employees. They
will be paying me for all
of December and the first
week of January as if I
was working. I was actu-
ally planning on leaving
for winter semester and
trying to find something
else more applicable to my
career goals so it’s worked
out really well for me.

—LYDIA MURRAY

Seminar with
Michigan Fellow

WHAT: Michigan Fellow and
Doctor Ben Winger will host
an ecology and evolutionary
biology lunch seminar.
WHO: Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Chemistry Building
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Art & Design freshman Paul Kubicek hangs his pieces of art from his
class in the hall of the Art and Architecture Building on Monday.

#CHADTOUGH

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The women’s basketball team wore #CHADTOUGH shirts in honor of Chad Carr, the 5-year-old grandson of
former Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr. Chad passed away Monday after a year-long battle with a brain tumor.

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