2 — Tuesday, November 24, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 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 2 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. 1 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. 3 ON THE WEB... michigandaily.com 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. 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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 l Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com. HANGING OUT CLAIRE ABDO/Daily 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 DELANEY RYAN/Daily 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. FOLLOW @michigan daily