michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Tuesday, December 8, 2015 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM INDEX Vol. CXXIII, No. 42 ©2015 The Michigan Daily michigandaily.com N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 A RT S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 SPORTS ........................7 SUDOKU....................... 2 CL ASSIFIEDS.................6 NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM Podcasts from TMD Story Slam MICHIGANDAILY.COM/SECTION/MULTIMEDIA GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail news@michigandaily.com and let us know. WEATHER TOMORROW HI: 47 LO: 35 See COUNCIL, Page 2 See FUNDS, Page 3 See SUGAR, Page 3 HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan discusses safety initiatives currently being created in Detroit in Robertson Auditorium on Monday. Committee: CSG should not punish member Detroit’s mayor discusses city’s future in Ross talk Council makes organizational changes for ‘16 Students raise funds for Indian city hit by flooding Author talks history of Caribbean enslavement STUDENT GOVERNMENT ANN ARBOR CAMPUS LIFE ACADEMICS Ethics board investigated Jesse Arm for conduct at Diag demonstration By JACKIE CHARNIGA Daily Staff Reporter In a report released Monday, the Central Student Government Ethics Commission recommended that the full assembly take no action toward CSG Rep. Jesse Arm, an LSA sophomore whose conduct at a Diag demonstration last month generated criticism from members of the group Students Allied for Freedom and Democracy. The report, which will be considered by CSG on Tuesday, details the findings of what is likely the commission’s first ethics investigation. Public Policy junior Thomas Hislop, chair of the CSG Ethics Committee, said the assembly can adopt the recommendation with a majority vote. In the report, the committee said their recommendation resulted from the testimonies of all involved parties and a review of a video of the scene recorded by SAFE. Citing Article VIII of the Student Body Constitution, the report concludes each party had equal rights both in the demonstration and the display of grievances. “Representative Arm did not engage in unethical behavior or engage in conduct unbecoming of a representative,” the report stated. “Just as the SAFE had the right to peacefully assemble in the Diag, Representative Jesse Arm had the right to voice his opinion.” According to the report, such an investigation had no precedent, as no records of previous ethics investigations were identified during the process. “The Rules Committee Chairman, (Rackham student Jared Ferguson), informed me that this is the first ethics committee hearing that CSG has had that he is aware of,” Hislop said. The report said having the committee move forward with an ethics investigation initially seemed appropriate given the video evidence, though ultimately the committee questioned whether the actions called for an investigation. Arm said earlier this month that he was particularly surprised to hear the incident would result in an ethics investigation. Body also passes resolution opposing state bill affecting city speed limits By ISOBEL FUTTER Daily Staff Reporter Monday’s Ann Arbor City Council meeting largely con- cerned organizational matters for 2016, as the council amend- ed and approved the 2016 coun- cil rules and council calendar. The council also signed off on new committee assignments for the upcoming year, which included placements for the body’s two new members. Recently elected Council- member Zach Ackerman (D– Ward 3), an LSA senior, will be added to six committees. These include the Ann Arbor Sum- mer Festival Liaison, the Audit Committee, the Board of Insur- ance Administration, Housing and Human Services Advisory Committee and the Park Advi- sory Commission. Recently elected Council- member Chip Smith (D–Ward 5) was appointed to five com- mittees, including the Brown- field Plan Review Committee, Budget and Labor Committee, the Energy Commission, the Environmental Commission and the Liquor Control Com- mission. The council also approved the Rules of Council for 2016 — a set of standard operating procedures for council-relat- ed business. Councilmember Sabra Briere (D–Ward 1) said the Council Rules Committee brought forth three compo- nents: the set of rules, ethics standards and a code of conduct for interactions between city staff and council. “One of the side effects of establishing the ethics policies is how we clarify our role in this organization,” Briere said. “That’s what we’ve all been talking about for a couple of years and it’s my hope that we have come up with three pieces of the puzzle that work for us all.” The five new ethics standards included outlining appropriate communications between coun- cil members and city staff. The new standard states that coun- cil members may not directly give direction to city staff, but instead must speak to the city administrator, who will then delegate work to staff. Briere said the ethics rule was added because city staff have been compromising their responsibilities by accepting the demands of council members. “When we interrupted some- Mike Duggan applies business perspective in shaping policy By GENEVIEVE HUMMER Daily Staff Reporter Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, a University alum, returned to Ann Arbor on Monday to speak with a group of Business sophomores about ongoing revitalization efforts in Detroit. Duggan, who graduated from the University’s Law School in 1983, was not new to Detroit politics when he assumed the mayor’s office in 2014. From 1987 to 2001, he served as Wayne County’s deputy county executive, and prosecutor from 2001 until 2003. In 2004, he became the president and CEO of the Detroit Medical Center, where he remained until December 2012. Duggan said one of the pillars of his campaign was to make policymaking in the city a more inclusive process. “I finished every speech the same way,” he said. “I said if I’m the mayor, if you’re going to vote for me, the ‘us versus them’ politics is over. It’s no longer going to matter if you’re Black, brown or white. It’s not going to matter if you’re Christian, Jewish or Muslim. It’s not going to matter if you’re gay or straight. It’s not going to matter if you were born in the city of Detroit or you’re an immigrant from another country. We’re going to build a city where everyone is welcome and everyone is included.” Since becoming the city’s mayor in January 2014, the city has experienced a number of changes. Five months before he assumed office, the city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. The following November, Judge Steven Rhodes approved Detroit’s plan of adjustment. Now that the city has emerged from bankruptcy, Duggan said he is pursuing a number of initiatives to improve the city. Over the past year, the city has installed 58,000 new streetlights in Detroit to fix the city’s public lighting problem. According to Duggan, the new LED lights have been installed every 300 feet so that most blocks have a light on each corner and in the middle of the block. Business sophomore Alex Business graduate students gather $5K after heaviest rain in 114 years By ISOBEL FUTTER Daily Staff Reporter Two graduate students in the Ross School of Business, Sneha Venkatachalam and Preetha Lakshmi Narayanan, are working to raise money for Chennai, India, a city facing the highest rainfall it has seen in 114 years. After the flooding started a few days ago, Venkatachalam and Lakshmi Narayanan brainstormed ways they could help the people of Chennai. The pair both wanted to provide immediate assistance to those affected by the heavy rainfall as well as find resources to help with the aftermath and damages of the resulting flooding. Chennai is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, which is located in southeast India. Since heavy rains began in the state, the army has needed to rescue 5,000 people, and many lack food and drinking water. Cell service and electricity have also been knocked out by storms, backing rescue efforts particularly difficult. “Something needs to be done, firstly because it’s raining now and it’s getting worse,” Lakshmi Narayanan HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, director of the Chabad House of Ann Arbor, lights a giant menorah on the Diag for the second day of Hanukkah on Monday. Five-day symposium considers impact of sugar in shaping gender identities By RACHEL COHEN For the Daily On Monday, several University units kicked off a five-day symposium that will touch on concepts including tourism, commercialism and gender identities — all through the history of sugar in the Caribbean. Gaiutra Bahadur, an author and journalist whose work has been featured in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, Foreign Policy Magazine and The Nation, delivered a keynote address Monday on the experiences of indentured Indian women who immigrated to the Caribbean. The idea for the symposium originated with Anita Gonzalez, a University professor who heads the Global Theatre and Ethnic Studies minor in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. She had been working with her colleagues on a performance project designed to consider how involuntary labor by people of color could provide a mechanism for understanding the Caribbean more broadly. 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