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Rackham student Niklas Tamm prefaces the U-M Choirs and 
Symphony Orchestra performance of Brahms, Mahler and 
Vaughan Williams with a a description of the story of the piece.

CL A SSIC CHOIR

Twenty-nine 

University of Michigan 
students received 
Fulbright grants this 
year — more Fulbright 
scholars than any other 
public university in the 
United States — for the 
third consecutive year, 
according to a press 
release.

Among both public 

and private universities, 
the University was 
ranked only below 
Harvard University, 
which received 31 
Fulbright grants.

The Fulbright 

program provides 
recipients the 

opportunity to conduct 
research, study or 
teach English in over 
140 countries for six to 
12 months. Selection 
is made based on the 
applicant’s’ academic and 
professional records as 
well as on their academic 
project proposals’ 
potential.

Proposed research 

topics and travels for the 
UM recipients vary. One 
recipient, John Doering-
White, a social work 
and anthropology Ph.D. 
candidate, is researching 
undocumented migrants 
in Mexico. Another, 
University alum Layne 

Vandenberg is in Rio 
de Janeiro, Brazil 
researching how 
2016 Olympic Games 
preparations affect low-
income communities.

The U.S. Department 

of State has sponsored 
the Fulbright program 
since 1946, with the aim 
of increasing mutual 
understanding and 
appreciation between 
different cultures. The 
University was the 
top public producer 
of Fulbright scholars 
nationwide in 2005, 2007, 
2008 and 2010-2012.

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THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

This 
week, 
the 

Statement 
magazine 

celebrates the literary 

arts on campus, with a 
selection of student poetry 
and prose.

>> SEE STATEMENT on 1B

2

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Cooking 101 

WHAT: The Center for 
Campus Involvement 
will host a class on 
how to make healthy 
smoothies on the go. 
Following the demos 
prizes will be raffled off.
WHO: Center for 
Campus Involvement
WHEN: 7 p.m. 
to 8:30 p.m. 
WHERE: The Union, 
Pendleton Room

A 
federal 
judge 

determined that Hillary 
Clinton 
aides 
will 

be 
questioned 
under 

oath, the Washington Post 
reported. 
They 
will 
be 

questioned about using a 
private e-mail server during 
Clinton’s tenure as Secretary 
of State. 

1

CREES 
lecture 

WHAT: Guest lecturer 
Zlatko Jovanovic will give 
a lecture titled “Sarajevo, 
My Dearest City, We Fixed 
You for the Olympics,” on 
representations of Sarajevo 
from 1979-1987. 
WHO: Center for East 
European Studies 
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. 
WHERE: School of Social 
Work Building, room 1636

Kurdish 
special 

forces 
announced 

that they rescued a 
Swedish 
teenager 

from ISIL, The New 
York 
Times 
reported. 

The 
16-year-old 
girl 

from Boras was allegedly 
mislead 
by 
an 
ISIL 

member to come to Iraq. 

3

Love Your 
Genes drive

WHAT: As part of Eating 
Disorder Awareness 
Week, the Body Peace 
Corps will collect old 
clothes to celebrate “all 
bodies” by hanging up 
the clothes on a line.
WHO: Body Peace Corps
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: West 
Quadrangle, the Connector

Off-campus 
housing fair

WHAT: The Off-Campus 
Housing Fair will occur 
in the Union. Come meet 
property managers and 
financial aid advisers.
WHO: Beyond the Diag
WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
WHERE: The Union, 
Pendleton Room

Film and 
lunch

WHAT: The Confucius 
Institute will host a 
film and lunch event. 
They will be showing a 
documentary created by 
a University professor 
titled “Chinese Minzu 
Music and Dance.”
WHO: Confucius 
Institute 
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 
p.m. 
WHERE: The League

Architecture 
lecture

WHAT: Taubman will 
host guest lecturer 
Esra Akcan to present 
a lecture on “Open 
Architecture.” 
WHO: Taubman College 
of Architecture and 
Urban Planning
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. 
WHERE: Art and 
Architecture Building

Brown Bag 
recital 

WHAT: There will be a 
30-minute organ solo.
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance 
WHEN: 12:15 p.m. 
WHERE: School of Public 
Health Building
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error in the Daily 
to corrections@
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Broadcasted 
theatre

WHAT: “Les Liaisons 
Dangereuses” will 
be broadcasted live 
from the National 
Theatre in London. 
WHO: University 
Musical Society
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. 
WHERE: Michigan 
Theater

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Panel of experts on U.S. justice system discuss solutions 
to long sentences, high incarceration rates for minorities 

GREG GOSS /Dailly

Angie Martell, Washtenaw County public defender, facilitates a group discussion on national race issues and mass 
incarceration at Hatcher Library’s Gallery Room. 

Event features 

presentations from 
local activists, Ann 

Arbor attorneys

By WILL FEUER

Daily Staff Reporter

“Nobody 
cares 
about 

prisoners, that’s how it is,” 
Jalal Haidar, a sophomore in 

the School of Nursing, said 
Tuesday night to a packed 
room in the Hatcher Gallery. 

Haidar was one of dozens 

of students who participated 
in 
a 
dialogue 
titled 

#WhoWillBeNext: A Dialogue 
on “The New Jim Crow Laws: 
Mass Incarceration in the Age 
of Colorblindness.” Hosted by 
Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, 
the dialogue focused on the 
treatment 
of 
incarcerated 

individuals and the effect it 

has on society. 

Participants 
sat 
around 

six tables, which were filled 
with University of Michigan 
students, 
community 

organizers, lawyers and clergy 
members, who each debated 
issues 
regarding 
race 
and 

criminal justice. 

The Michigan Daily was 

asked 
not 
to 
include 
any 

remarks made during table 
discussions 
at 
the 
event, 

but did record speakers and 
presenters. 

During the event, Diane 

Smalley, a local community 
activist for female inmates, 
shared stories of young Black 
men and women being handed 
half-life sentences for crimes 
that she said they had clearly 
atoned for before the end of 
their sentences.

Smalley asked participants 

to think about benefits from 
mass incarceration.

“High incarceration means 

high economic activity,” she 
said.

She noted that contracts 

given out by prisons to private 
companies 
for 
prisoner 

necessities 
like 
food 
and 

clothes can be huge sources 
of income and employment for 
those who benefit from the 
process.

Iglesia Martell, an Ann Arbor 

attorney, 
echoed 
Smalley’s 

remarks and said individuals 
who are incarcerated tend to 
be from lower socioeconomic 
backgrounds.

“Judges who have a different 

life experience don’t really 
understand poverty or what 
really drives someone to be in 
the wrong place at the wrong 
time,” Martell said. “People 
who are incarcerated tend 
to be people who are more 
disenfranchised, especially if 

they can’t afford an attorney 
and this tends to be people of 
color.”

During 
table 
discussions 

at the dialogue, participants 
came to the consensus that 
economic 
incentives 
to 

perpetuate the system of mass 
incarceration, 
along 
with 

judges who do not empathize 
with people of color, create a 
system in which individuals 
of color are assigned longer 
prison terms.

Another participant raised 

the point that some people 
believe the U.S. is currently a 
post-racial society, which in 
turn contributes to racism in 
the judicial system.

Maya Finoh, a professor 

at 
Brown 
University, 
said 

though that view of the U.S. 
was inaccurate, several recent 
historical events — namely, the 
election of President Barack 

Obama as the first Black 
president — could explain why 
it exists.

“Just because Barack Obama 

was elected does not mean we 
are living in a post-racialized 
society,” she said. “…I think 
you could make the argument 
that in 2015, we are living in 
a more racist America than in 
1955.”

After 
discussing 
the 

perceived 
issues, 
the 

conversation 
turned 

toward 
potential 
solutions. 

Participants cited education 
for the young and investment 
in poorer areas in particular as 
ways to reduce crime.

Smalley 
pointed 
to 

restorative justice as a way to 
improve the judicial system, 
which is a method by which 
prisoners contact the families 
who were afflicted by their 
crimes and apologize, showing 

genuine remorse.

“It 
forces 
rehabilitating 

criminals to reach out to the 
family in such a way that the 
family recognizes it,” she said.

After the event, Nursing 

junior John Shaver said despite 
the United States having the 
highest 
incarceration 
rate 

in the world, he hopes the 
University will take a stronger 
stand in helping to create a 
judicial system that is not 
critical of people of color.

“The incarceration system in 

the U.S. has been unnecessarily 
racialized and has seeked to 
limit the opportunities of Black 
and brown people,” he said. 
“And I hope that the University 
responds by making some sort 
of an official stance against the 
ways that the judicial system 
has been prejudiced against 
people of color.”

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