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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.

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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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