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WEATHER
TOMORROW
Starting 2016
off right with
the stars at
SnowGlobe
State NAACP
stresses diversity’s
importance in
politcal landscape
By EMILY DAVIES
For the Daily
Two hours before the sixth
Republican
primary
debate
Wednesday, about 60 students
gathered in Hatcher Graduate
Library to explore the role of
race in elections.
The panel came as part of the
annual U-M Reverend Dr. Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. Symposium
— a platform for students to cel-
ebrate Martin Luther King Jr.,
and through his legacy converse
about the state of racial justice
on campus and nationwide.
A panel of five, including Ann
Arbor mayor Christopher Tay-
lor and Matthew Countryman,
associate professor of history
and American culture, led a con-
versation on increasing minor-
ity influence in the political
arena. The panelists identified
systematic aspects of America’s
political system that disadvan-
tage people of color, including
voter suppression tactics and
current political rhetoric.
Panelist Wendy Cortes, a
social work student, touched on
low voting rates in response to
a question surrounding a study
that revealed 75 million mem-
bers of the American electorate
did not vote in 2014.
“I think the reason that some
of these peoples are not voting
is because of voting suppression
tactics that have historically
silenced the minority commu-
nity,” Cortes said. “Too many
candidates are out there speak-
ing to garner votes, to get their
quotas, to get their numbers
from minority communities or
State Street
location is
currently under
construction
By EMILY ROBERTS
Daily Staff Reporter
Amer’s, a Mediterranean
deli located on State Street, is
currently under construction,
and though the store owner
assures students the deli’s
quality will stay the same,
students might have to get
cozy to enjoy it.
The deli’s downtown loca-
tion is undergoing construc-
tion which will cut the seating
area in half. This, according
to owner Amer Bathish is due
to “outrageous” rises in rent.
The restaurant will now only
occupy half of its former space
to save on rental costs.
“I have been in this area for
28 years and the rent has gone
up every year … from 4,000
dollars a month to 18,000 dol-
lars a month,” Bathish said.
“Imagine rent that is 600 dol-
lars a day; that’s why you see
businesses coming and going
all the time.”
Amer’s Mediterranean Deli
is described as “the marriage
of a coffee house and a qual-
ity delicatessen,” according to
their website. It was founded
near the University of Michi-
gan-Flint campus, but moved
to the University of Michigan-
Ann Arbor campus in 1989.
LSA senior Leslie Schuman,
who was studying in Amer’s
Wednesday, said she didn’t
feel impacted by the change.
“I used to sit in booths. It’s
a bit more crowded here than
it used to be but I don’t really
mind it.”
Schuman said she usually
just stops in to get food and as
long the food stays good the
renovation won’t affect her
future visits to Amer’s.
“The people here are cool;
it sucks that they’ve been here
MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
Social work student Maria Cortes discusses race and its impact on political elections at Hatcher Graduate Library on Thursday.
They drop the ball
in Times Square,
but in Tahoe they
drop the bass
By ARIANA ASSAF
Daily Arts Writer
During the week leading up
to winter break, a crazy thing
happened: it was warmer in Ann
Arbor than in my hometown
of Los Angeles. Angelinos and
Michiganders alike were awed by
this odd pattern, eliciting reac-
tions that only something as mun-
dane yet influential as weather
can. Students wore shorts and
flip-flops to class while my mom
pulled out her down jacket — it
was madness. By the time I got
back home, things had leveled
out again. Ann Arbor’s weather
returned to a standard December
chill and LA’s weather started to
feel like itself again. So why did I
choose to sacrifice part of my sun-
filled winter break for three days
braving the single digit tempera-
tures of Lake Tahoe?
Because music.
SnowGlobe Music Festival has
been ringing in Tahoe’s new year
since 2011 with consistent suc-
cess. Though electronic-heavy —
think Dillon Francis, Shiba San,
Alison Wonderland — the lineup
also included hip hop artists like
Lil Dicky and SuperDuperKyle;
organizers
even
threw
Chet
Faker on the main stage, giving
day two attendees the chance to
snuggle their friends and sway to
his down-tempo tunes. I think it’s
safe to say both the snuggles and
the variety were much appreciat-
ed by all. But of course, before day
two came day one, and before day
one came an eight-hour car ride
I was so graciously included in
thanks to some lovely folks I met
when The Chainsmokers played
The Shrine over Thanksgiv-
ing break. Seriously guys, make
friends with your fellow ravers —
they are very, very cool.
We arrived in South Lake
Tahoe a few hours after the gates
had opened. Apparently, every-
one else was on the same sched-
ule, because the box office line
to pick up wristbands looked
long enough to reach the top
of the nearest ski slope. I even-
tually passed the last secu-
rity checkpoint just as Galantis
announced the beginning of their
set with an echoing “I wanna run
awaaaaaay,” just in case everyone
still waiting outside didn’t know
what they were missing. It was
almost as if SnowGlobe was say-
ing, “Hello Ariana, welcome to
your best New Year’s ever.”
Stage lights danced along the
façade of pine trees that created
a natural boundary for the main
area, the sight as iconic to this
environment as Coachella’s ferris
FESTIVAL REPORT
Dr. Alexander
Alexis advocates
for individualized
dermatological care
By CHETALI JAIN
Daily Staff Reporter
As part of the U-M Rev-
erend
Dr.
Martin
Luther
King
Jr.
Symposium,
the
Dermatology
Department
at the University of Michi-
gan Health System hosted
Dr. Alexander Alexis, who
discussed the importance of
recognizing how dermatolog-
ical conditions affect various
skin colors in different ways,
Thursday.
Alexis, director of the Skin
of Color Center at Mount
Sinai Health Center, spoke to
doctors and students about
the United States’ diverse
population and each patient’s
unique dermatological needs.
In his lecture, Alexis dis-
cussed the need to develop
treatment
for
individual
patients rather than general-
izing the techniques used to
treat certain skin conditions.
The lecture enumerated
the various terms that are
used to differentiate between
skin colors, including words
often used like ethnic skin,
skin of color, melano compe-
tent vs. melano compromised.
However, Alexis said there
isn’t one good term for differ-
entiations.
“We don’t have a good
name because skin of color
is a misnomer — all skin has
color,” he said.
Dr. Charles Boyd, a facial
plastic surgeon who attended
the event, said because of the
growing numbers of people
Developers submit
two competing
proposals for city’s
consideration
By MARLEE BREAKSTONE
Daily Staff Reporter
After
several
months
of
reviewing proposals and debat-
ing the topic, Ann Arbor city
staff are urging City Council
members to vote to begin nego-
tiations for one of two propos-
als over the development of the
site above the Library Lane
Parking Structure at their next
meeting.
The lot in question is rough-
ly 0.8 acres and is located on
Fifth Avenue in downtown
Ann Arbor, above the Library
Lane parking garage. The land,
which formerly served as a
parking lot for library visitors,
currently houses both green-
scaping and 52 parking spaces.
This property has been an
ongoing question for the city of
Ann Arbor for several years. In
2010, the idea of converting the
empty lot to a hotel was debated
but ultimately discarded.
Stephen Rapundalo, a former
Ann Arbor city councilmember
who served as the chairman of
the committee pushing for hotel
construction six years ago, said
at the time the primary focus
for their group would be build-
ing proposals that wouldn’t pull
from city funds.
“We don’t want to see a city
See PANEL, Page 3
See AMER’S, Page 3
See LIBRARY, Page 2
See SKIN, Page 3
See SNOWGLOBE, Page 6
ROBERT DUNNE/Daily
Engineering junior Dupeng Xu talks with University alum Eric Krawczyk of CampDoc at the MPowered Start Up
Career Fair at the Duderstadt Center on Thursday.
ON THE LOOKOUT FOR A CARE E R
Increase in
rent forces
Amer’s deli
to downsize
Panelists highlight minority
voice at #WhoWillBeNext
Event discusses how skin
color impacts treatment
Council to
debate plans
for library
lot project
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