each particular song for the
past two to three weeks.”
Indian classical music has
developed
over
thousands
of years. However today, it
can be classified into two
main
styles—
Hindustani,
which originated in northern
India and Carnatic, from
southern
India.
Though
these types of music use
different instruments, they
share a similar reliance on
improvisation.
LSA
senior
and
Sahana
member
Shruthi
Subramaniam
said
the
welcoming atmosphere of the
group translates into how she
and others perform.
“I’m a part of one of the
group performances, so we
have two vocalists and two
flautists,” she said. “The
organization as a whole is
very open to all members
so
there’s
no
specific
qualifications. But to perform
on this kind of stage you have
to audition with either the
music or dance chair.”
Indian
classical
dance
forms are rooted in the Natya
Shastra, a treaty on Indian
classical theatre which was
authored by the Hindu Sage
Bharatha around the first
or third century C.E. The
classical dance forms that
were performed at Swaranjali
included Kathak from the
North and Bharathantyam
from the South.
Though
there
are
commonalities
between
the dances, the structures
and the costumes worn by
performers have evolved due
to the differences in regions.
Along
with
seven
performances, the concert
also included a slide show
dedicated to the graduating
seniors to thank them and
wish them luck for the future.
The Sahana board said they
were very appreciative for
the strong audience turnout.
“We transitioned into a
new board about a month
back, so at the beginning of
January we started working
on
preparations
for
the
show,” Business sophomore
Dhara Gosalia, the public
relations chair for Sahana,
said.
“Along
with
social
media and flyering around
campus,
we
reached
out
to
professors
who
teach
something related to the
South Asian performing arts.
There are also local dance
and classical music teachers
who work with us and do
workshops with us as well.”
Engineering
senior
Angelica Okorom said she
enjoyed all of the different
aspects of the performance.
“I think the show has
been really good. I liked
the performance with the
dancers doing complimentary
movements,” she said. “I also
really enjoy listening to the
unique instrumental pieces.”
assistant police chief of the
Detroit Police Department,
to be Seto’s successor in
November 2015. However, in
asurprise move, White turned
down
his
appointment
in
December, citing a desire to
remain in Detroit.
The
leadership
shake-up
has occurred amid greater
scrutiny and efforts to reform
the oversight of the AAPD
following the fatal shooting
of Ann Arbor resident Aura
Rosser in 2014.
In
a
public
forum
on
police-community
relations
in
October
2015,
Baird
emphasizedthat
improving
these
relationships
was
a
priority for his tenure as
interim chief.
Baird joined AAPD in 1993,
holding a number of positions
within
the
department
—
including
professional
standards
lieutenant
and
crisis response unit sergeant
— before becoming deputy
police chief in 2013.
Interim City Administrator
Tom Crawford cited these
experiences in a memo to
City Council recommending
Baird’s
confirmation.
City
Council will need to approve
the
resolution
confirming
Baird’s appointment by simple
majority.
In a Facebook post Friday,
Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher
Taylor said he looked forward
to working with Baird in his
new capacity.
“I’ve very much enjoyed
my work with Chief Baird
over the past months and
look forward to working with
him to make Ann Arbor’s
disciplined and professional
police
department
even
better,” Taylor wrote.
Neither Taylor nor Baird
responded to requests for
comment.
also to the leadership of the
school.”
Co-President
of
the
Marketing
Club
Kristin
Horvath, a Business graduate
student said using Nielsen
data and these types of
tools is something that most
marketers learn once they’ve
started working.
“We’re trying to bring that
learning here so that Ross
students have an advantage
going into the workplace,” she
said.
Business student Joseph
Chaves, an active member of
the Marketing Club, has had
hands-on
experience
with
Nielsen in a previous post at
General Mills.
“I remember spending a
significant amount of time
over the first three or four
weeks just walking interns
through how the tool works
— mostly the mechanics of it,”
he said.
“They were able to decipher
the findings but the actual
mechanism by which you pull
the data can be a little tricky.
So I think the overall goal in
what we see in the Marketing
Lab really having a lot of
benefits for students is the
opportunity to — on day one
of your internship — already
have exposure to the tool,
know how it works, know
what the metrics mean, know
how to pull things. So I think
for Ross, the Marketing Lab
having access to Nielsen can
be a really big differentiator
when it comes to preparing
students to go into a career
right in management.
As of now, Horvath said,
Marketing
Club
members
are planning a curriculum
through which MBA students
can
attend
a
four-night
learning series to learn more
about the Nielsen system.
“They are going through all
of the different metrics, how
to pull them, and then giving
students a business taste that
will be very similar to what
they would make them do on
the job,” she said.
Horvath
also
said
the
long-term goal is to expand
the program. This expansion
could include undergraduate
Business students as well.
“Right now it’s set up to be
a little extracurricular,” she
said. “That being said, we’re
very open to the idea in the
future of trying to incorporate
it more into the curriculum.
Once we’re through this pilot
phase — working out all the
bugs, making sure everything
works well with the system —
the goal is to open it up to the
broader Ross community.”
Horvath added that access
to the Nielsen data would give
Business School students an
opportunity different from
any other MBA program.
“This
development
enhances the action-based
learning
opportunities
for
our students and also gives
them more opportunities to
develop
analytical
skills,”
Horvath said. “It helps set
us apart from other top-tier
MBA programs because we
are the only school to have
access to the Nielsen Answers
on Demand system.”
3-News
‘U’ researchers
part of team
to observe
gravitational
waves
Scientists observed
gravitational waves for the first
time last September, but have
just recently made sense of what
their equipment detected.
Astronomists concluded the
waves were caused by two black
holes merging in the distant
universe long ago to create a
larger, spinning black hole.
Both gravitational wave
observatories, located in
Lousianna and Washington
state, were concieved and built
by Caltech and MIT.
The discoverey also lends
support to Albert Einstein’s
general theory of relativity,
which claims the curvature of
spacetime is directly affected by
the momentum and energy of
whatever matter and radiation is
present.
Astonomists claim the
discoverey will open the door
to an entirely new field of
astronomy wherein researchers
will be able to hear the universe.
University reseachers have
been involved with the project
since 1997.
Candidates claim
Obama should not
appoint new court
justice
Following the death of
Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia, Republican presidential
candidates are claiming
President Obama ought to
refrain from appointing a new
justice, according to The New
York Times.
Scalia was found dead at a
west-Texas resort Saturday
morning, having suffered a heart
attack.
Republican presidential
candidates Donald Trump and
Sen. Ted Cruz have each stated
Obama should withhold his
presidential power to seek a
replacement, instead arguing the
newly elected president should
make that choice.
These candidates are
concerned about how Obama’s
choice could affect future court
decisions.
Democratic presidential
candidate Hilary Clinton said it
was outrageous how Republicans
were treating the situation.
Clinton also said the
Republican Party’s behavior
was out of step with the nation’s
history and constitutional
principles.
—BRANDON
SUMMERS-MILLER
‘U’ suspends drone
activity over Ann
Arbor campus
The University announced
Friday that it has temporarily
banned the use of drones on or
above campus property until
a University regulatory policy
for the devices is finalized.
This ban prohibits drone use
in all outdoor campus spaces
and public indoor spaces on
campus, but does not apply to
drone testing and research areas,
according to a press release.
In the release, University
spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said
the ban is an attempt to curb
future issues with the drones.
“As these types of devices
continue to gain popularity and
proliferate, and there is more
and more of them out, we want
to make sure that we have a safe
environment for the University
community,” Fitzgerald said.
“Erring on the side of caution to
give us some time to continue
the work of developing a more
comprehensive policy as well
as a safe place to continue the
research related to drones, we
have put this temporary ban in
place until we can continue that
work.”
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much and even hospital visits.
According to a working
paper released by the National
Bureau of Economic Research
in December, another trend
might also now be a part of the
latter list: it shows research
that links higher reports of
rape on university campuses
to Division I football game
days across the country. Game
days and tailgates, the report
suggests, are an opportunity
for increased partying and
alcohol consumption, and that
opportunity can be correlated
to a rise in “daily reports of
rape (to law enforcement)
with 17-24 year old victims by
28 percent.”
Study
co-author
Isaac
Swensen,
a
professor
at
Montana
State
University,
said in an interview that the
results
corresponded
with
data he and other co-authors
previously collected.
“We’re
certainly
aware of all the evidence
characterizing the partying
on
college
campuses,”
he
said.
“(Division
I
football
games) provide an interesting
opportunity to learn about the
underlying causal effects of
such activities.”
It’s no secret that partying,
even heavy partying, occurs
on game days nationwide, but
the study goes a step further
in estimating that “football
games, both home and away,
cause 253 to 770 additional
rapes per year across the 128
schools competing in Division
1A football.” It also notes a
spike in other alcohol-related
crimes in addition to sexual
assault, like DUIs, MIPs and
public
order
offenses
like
disorderly conduct, when the
home team wins an upset or
has an exciting game.
Swensen noted that the
official reports of rape the
study is based on are often
lower than the actual number
of
sexual
assaults
—
the
Department of Justice found
in 2014 that only 20 percent
of rapes are reported to the
police. At the University of
Michigan, only 3.6 percent
of students who experience
a
nonconsensual
sexual
experience told an official.
Discrepancies
also
exist
between the official statistics
on rape the Department of
Public Safety and Security,
for example, reports in its
annual security report, and
the 172 incidents of sexual
misconduct fielded this year
by the Office of Institutional
Equity. This is due to the fact
that some instances classified
as sexual misconduct in the
OIE report fall outside the
specific federal guidelines for
sexual assault outlined by the
Clery Act.
“(A) main interpretational
challenge stems from the fact
that we only observe reports
of rape, and reports severely
understate
true
incident
rates,” the NBER report notes
in discussing its results.
No hard data exists proving
the study’s findings are true
at the University. And because
many game day activities take
place off campus, it would be
difficult for the University to
strictly monitor spaces outside
of the Big House. Research
cited by SAPAC coordinator
Kendal
Rosalik
does
note
that consumption raises the
vulnerability of a victim — an
intoxicated individual is more
likely to perceive a potential
partner as sexually available.
“From our campus climate
survey, we know alcohol is one
of the primary contributors
to
incidents
of
sexual
misconduct,”
University
spokesman Rick Fitzgerald
wrote in an e-mail to The
Michigan Daily. “We also
know that alcohol is an issue
at most collegiate football
games, including Michigan,
and we have many efforts in
place to address this including
a comprehensive, evidence-
based approach on any high-
risk day.”
In response to the results,
LSA senior Kendal Rosalik,
a Sexual Assault Prevention
and
Awareness
Center
co-coordinator,
said
he
thought increased rates of
alcohol consumption aren’t
necessarily unique to game
days.
“There are a lot of high-
risk
events,
communities
and
behaviors
that
aren’t
necessarily specific to college
game day,” she said. “I think
you
would
see
the
same
thing around Halloween, St.
Patrick’s Day (and) Welcome
Week.”
Several
other
students
agreed with Rosalik and said
they questioned the study’s
validity in the context of
game day on the University’s
campus.
LSA
freshman
Aishu
Chandrakanthan
said
she
actually feels safer partying
before or after games, as
drinking often takes place
in more open and well-lit
settings. She views the day as
more of a family affair, and
one that often revolves around
the actual football game.
“I’ve
experienced
discomfort, but more at bars
compared to game days,” she
said. “At game days, there’s
parents there, and I feel like
police and security is always
around. And during nighttime
parties, a guy can end up
taking a girl home, but on
game days, they’ll most likely
end up going to the game.”
LSA
senior
Marlee
Beckering, former president
of the Delta Gamma sorority,
agreed, pointing out the extra
precaution her sorority sisters
take on game days.
“People travel in packs,
it’s daylight, they watch out
for each other and they’re
really accountable for where
their
friends
and
other
students are,” she said. “In
my experience, game days are
a time people are watching
out for each other a lot more.
Although Greek tailgates are
a lot busier, they’re also very
monitored. The police will
show up, or fraternities will
hire private security.”
Much
of
the
scrutiny
concerning game days does
fall on Greek life, Beckering
said, as fraternity houses are
typically the traditional and
well-known hosts of larger
tailgates and parties. The
University’s campus climate
survey
found
members
of
Greek life were 2.5 times
more likely than their non-
Greek peers to experience
nonconsensual penetration.
Partially in response to
these
statistics,
University
President
Mark
Schlissel
rolled out an initiative to
reform
the
party
culture
associated with Greek life
earlier this academic year,
mandating
educational
programs
and
increased
dialogue with administration.
All affiliated organizations
were also required to send a
member to SAPAC’s bystander
intervention
training
program.
However, Beckering also
noted
the
importance
of
recognizing Greek life as only
a portion of the solution.
“Greek life is the epicenter
of drinking and a lot of
socializing and stereotypes,
which I think we’re slowly
breaking down,” she said.
“When those things happen,
it’s
hard
because
they’re
immediately attributed back
to a certain culture or group.”
What many students and
researchers alike do seem to
agree on is the centrality of
alcohol to sporting events
in general, and the risks
associated with it.
Katherine Redmond Brown,
the president of the National
Coalition
Against
Violent
Athletes, said she thought the
relationship between alcohol
and sports was at the heart
of the fight to prevent sexual
assault.
“Football and alcohol and
partying are all intertwined
together,”
she
said.
“You
look
anywhere,
at
the
advertisements or to college
coaches on radio talk shows,
and it’s sponsored by alcohol.”
On the University’s campus,
administrators and students
alike are making efforts to
turn the tide, though. With the
“I Will” campaign — aimed at
increasing awareness of sexual
assault on campus — and
two campus climate surveys
seeking data on sexual assault,
the University has pushed
for increased awareness on
campus in past years. It’s also
begun a process to revise its
sexual
misconduct
policy.
SAPAC has been a major part
of the initiative as well, as it
continues to lead Relationship
Remix
workshops
for
all
freshman in residence halls,
which include facts on safe
sex and definitions of consent.
This has all occurred amid
an investigation started in
2014
by
the
Department
of Education into how the
University
handles
sexual
assault,
one
of
multiple
investigations
occurring
nationwide.
In their annual report, OIE
cited increased awareness of
the sexual misconduct policy
and educational efforts on
campus as an explanation for
a 33 percent spike in sexual
misconduct reports this year.
Rosalik said she would place
the University at the national
forefront of college campuses
improving
awareness,
but
there is still more work to be
done. She recounted positive
encouragement from students
while
tabling
a
SAPAC
informational booth on what
happened to also be a game
day.
“People were yelling like,
‘Oh my gosh I love consent!’
and they were excited, and
it was a game day,” she said.
“There’s definitely awareness
that this is an important issue.
At the same time, 89 percent
of first-year students went
through Relationship Remix
this year which is super cool,
but there’s no next step to
that, or a way to build off of
that. Our University is one of
the schools doing the most in
this work … but that doesn’t
mean we don’t have more to
do.”
Football games may not be an
isolable, or easily controllable,
contributor to sexual assault,
but Chandrakanthan agreed
that she was still surprised by
the party culture, both on and
off game days.
“I didn’t expect it to be so
intense, or that guys would
be so handsy,” she said. “I’ve
seen guys get very aggressive
or try and use their influence
from other organizations on
campus. I wasn’t prepared for
that.”
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