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Museum of Art on Friday night.
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Jim Hackett, the outgoing
University of Michigan
interim athletic director, will
lead Ford Motor Company’s
new mobility services
company, according to Crain’s
Detroit Business.
The company, Ford Smart
Mobility LLC, will be a formal
subsidiary of Ford. Hackett,
a Ford board member since
2013, stepped down from the
board on March 10 to assume
his position as chairman of
the subsidiary. The subsidiary
aims to create commercially
ready mobility services and
collaborate with startups
as well as established tech
companies, Ford said.
The Smart Mobility
initiative was first announced
by Mark Fields, Ford CEO
and president, in early 2015
as the signature piece of
his plans as CEO, Crain’s
reported. Since then, Ford has
conducted experiments and
pilot programs such as a car-
sharing program, an Uber-like
shuttle service for employees
and an on-demand public bus
service.
Hackett previously served
as the CEO of furniture maker
Steelcase for 20 years, retiring
in 2014 to run Michigan’s
athletic department. Ford’s
statement credited Hackett for
having transformed Steelcase
“from a traditional office
furniture manufacturer to a
company that would change
the way people work.”
Fields also spoke highly
of Hackett and his suitability
for the job in the statement.
“Our plan is to quickly
become part of the growing
transportation services
market, which already
accounts for $5.4 trillion
in annual revenue,” the
statement said. “Jim Hackett
is the right visionary leader
— with extensive experience
in business development and
design — to take us into the
mobility services business in
the future.”
Hackett said in a
statement he looks forward to
leading Ford Smart Mobility
LLC into the frontiers of the
transportation sector.
“I am absolutely
thrilled to lead Ford’s
mobility business into the
future,” Hackett said in the
statement. “Transportation
in the world today is on the
cusp of a major revolution,
and Ford plans to lead the
way by changing the way the
world moves through Ford
Smart Mobility.”
Warde Manuel, Hackett’s
permanent replacement as
UM athletic director, began
the position on March 14.
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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
The Michigan men’s
basketball
team
snuck into the NCAA
Tournament and will
play Tulsa on Wednesday.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Meet a patent
examiner
WHAT: Victoria
Shumate, patent
examiner from the U.S.
Patent and Trademark
Office, will host a
meeting to explain how
patents get processed.
WHO: Center for
Entrepreneurship
WHEN: 11:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Duderstadt
Center, Rm. 1180
BBC News reported a
car bomb explosion in
the Turkish capital of
Ankara on Sunday. It
happened in Guven Park, a
key commercial area. Twenty
seven people were killed and
75 were wounded, according
to
the
city
government.
No
group
has
claimed
responsibility yet.
1
Study on price
formation
WHAT: Florian
Engelmaier from the
University of Munich will
present research based
on data from a German
used car market website.
WHO: Social, Behavioral,
and Experimental
Economics
WHEN: 3:30p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: North
Quad, Rm. 3100
According
to
BBC
News,
Palestinian
teacher
Hanan
Al
Hroub has won a $1
million Global Teacher
Prize. It was announced
by Pope Francis. Al Hroub
grew up in a Palestinian
refugee
camp
and
now
teaches
refugees
herself.
3
Michigan
Youth
Ensembles
WHAT: Michigan Youth
Symphony Orchestra and
Symphonic Band will have
its final concert of the
season.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: 7 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium
Lecture on
child care
policy
WHAT: University of
Windsor Prof. Cheryl N.
Collier will present on child
care advocacy in Ontario and
Michigan.
WHO: Center for Local,
State, and Urban Policy
(CLOSUP)
WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Weill Hall, Frey
Classroom, Rm. 1210
Resume review
workshop
WHAT: Bank of America
Merill Lynch will host a
resume review workshop
for all freshmen and
sophomores. Students can
register for a small group
session; space is limited.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Ross School
of Business, classroom
TBD (via email for
confirmed students)
Dining hall
3/14 Pie Day
WHAT: Michigan
Dining will serve pies
and pie-shaped dishes
in celebration of pie
day. Dishes will include
chicken pot pie, pizza pie
and dessert pizzas.
WHO: Michigan Dining
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: All Dining
halls
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Near Eastern
Studies lecture
WHAT: Prof. Samer Ali will
present on humanism in the
Arabo-Islamic Middle Ages.
WHO: Department of Near
Eastern Studies
WHEN: 4:10 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social
Work Building, room 1636
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Lecture on
race and
gender
WHAT: Dr. Katherine W.
Phillips will host a lecture
on the value of intellectual
diversity in society.
WHO: Latina/o Studies
WHEN: 3:30 p.m.
to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham
Graduate School,
Rackham Amphitheatre
from the University’s Ann Arbor,
Dearborn and Flint campuses, last
month. He said the event brought
to light issues on the Flint campus
he previously was unaware of.
“We haven’t really collaborated
in the past, so I think this is one
event that goes to show that
we really do want to be more
interactive — campus to campus
— and unfortunately we felt really
isolated in the past,” Charlton
said during the summit. “I think
just the gesture that we are
collaborating is super special.”
In
addition
to
the
rally,
UM-Flint’s Student Government
is working on planning a benefit
concert to raise money in support
of initiatives to provide needed
resources to the city.
“There’s
a
lot
of
higher,
recognizable artists who are
donating money or water bottles
to the city. If you’re willing to
donate that much money, you’re
willing to come play a few songs,”
Haskins said.
Though
UM-Flint’s
administration
has
assured
students that all water on campus
is filtered and safe for drinking,
Haskins said he notices a decent
amount of hesitation from his
peers.
“I think they have a right to be
skeptical, whether they’re filtered
or not,” Haskins said.
For him, he said, in recent
months he’s felt comfortable
drinking the water on campus
until he recently left a metal water
bottle over break and returned to
find it had been discolored and
stained from the water inside it.
“Now I’m definitely kind of
wary of the water,” he said.
Haskins also noted that with
students’ uncertainty over the
safety of the water has come an
additional influx of disposable
plastic bottles, which he said he
finds littered around campus and
which, as a result, has increased
awareness and push for recycling.
“It’s not water that the city
needs. It’s a new infrastructure.
It’s a new governor for the state.
It’s things that aren’t fixed with
writing a check and it’s things
that are going to take years if not
decades to solve,” he said.
Haskins
said
UM-Flint’s
Student
Government
has
identified a need within the
Flint
community
to
support
undocumented
citizens.
Many water, filter and testing
kit
distribution
sites
require
those
receiving
donations
to
present an ID. As a result, many
undocumented
citizens
avoid
these sites and continue to drink
poisonous water.
UM-Flint’s
Student
Government is working on setting
up a water giveaway specifically
designated
for
undocumented
citizens. In addition, they plan to
provide undocumented citizens
with foods that research shows to
help absorb lead in the body.
UM-Flint senior Abud Jondy,
psychology major and director of
foreign outreach on UM-Flint’s
Student Government, said he
is currently working with the
Student Association of Michigan,
an organization made up of student
representatives
from
nearly
every public college in the state
of Michigan, to plan a statewide
water distribution day. Jondy said
he sees this collaboration as an
important signal to the people of
Flint that students across the state
are working to help them.
On campus, Jondy said an
optional class for students offered
every couple of weeks focuses
on keeping students up-to-date
on local news surrounding the
water crisis as well as providing
them
with
important
safety
information.
Jondy said though the Flint
community
has
been
under
significant stress in this regard
for the past two years, it is
nonetheless hopeful they will see
improvements.
“People haven’t given up on life.
People are still moving forward …
they won’t stop fighting until they
see something happen,” Jondy
said.
special bar nights around Ann
Arbor.
To help keep dancers motivated,
Dance
Marathon
incorporated
random line dances throughout the
night, taught from the main stage
by event organizers. With each
announcement of a line dance,
instructors would add three more
songs to the lineup; what started
as a minute-long line dance in
the beginning quickly piled into a
10-minute performance set to clips
of more than 20 songs.
Also new this year was a
designated area called the FTK
Lounge. FTK is an acronym
commonly
used
and
chanted
during the marathon that stands
for “For The Kids” — reminding
dancers throughout the 24-hour
stretch of the children they are
helping by staying on their feet. The
lounge was outfitted with lounge
chairs that marathon participants
could sit in for a dollar per minute.
“We
really
want
to
push
in-event fundraising this year
because we do so much fundraising
throughout the year, but in-event
there’s so much more opportunity
to fundraise,” Allen said.
Dance
Marathon
founder
Inder Singh spoke during the
opening ceremony about how far
the program has come since the
first marathon in 1998, noting the
difficulties in initiating the now
annual program.
“I remember one week before
the very first marathon, the
Athletic Department called us and
said, ‘you guys can’t do this,’ ” Singh
said. “ ‘You guys don’t have the
insurance, we don’t know if your
EMTs are certified — you can’t do
this.’ We were panic-stricken.”
Singh
said
the
inaugural
marathon went ahead as scheduled
only after the marathon’s first team
of event organizers and founders
dropped all their commitments
and called notable community
members including former football
coaches Bo Schembechler and
Lloyd Carr.
“It wouldn’t have happened if it
wasn’t for the efforts of hundreds
and hundreds of people,” Singh
said.
LSA freshman Harrison Angoff
said he participated in VictorThon
because he felt it was his duty to
aid those who have difficulties
performing everyday tasks.
“As college students I think
we’re really privileged to be able
to attend the University and to live
our daily lives unhindered,” Angoff
said. “I think it’s really important
to fundraise for assistance and
therapy to allow these children to
live as normal a life as possible.”
Angoff said he thought the
greatest
challenge
during
the
marathon
is
for
students
to
remember why they’re choosing to
undergo the physically trying event.
“We complained about our legs
hurting or being tired, but really
all it comes down to is who you’re
helping and why you’re helping
them,” he said. “Once you think
about that the little issues that you
come across go away immediately.”
During
VictorThon,
teams
were paired up with children
undergoing
therapies,
which
benefit from the organization’s
fundraiser
and
aims
to
personalize the experience.
Conor Waterman, one of the
children who benefits from the
marathon’s
fundraising,
said
he greatly appreciates what the
Dance Marathon organization
has done for his treatments, and
added he enjoys meeting new
people every year and having a
fun time.
“My
experience
at
Dance
Marathon has always been just
being around awesome people,”
Waterman said. “This is just a
great organization you guys have
formed, and you’re just making
money for great, great things.”
another.”
Music,
theatre
&
dance
sophomore Diego Zimmerman,
the
BSU’s
Political
Action
Chair,
built
on
Haviland-
Eduah’s comments, presenting
a survey conducted by the BSU
which found that 34 percent of
respondents — the majority of
whom were African-American —
are uncomfortable approaching
police officers in uniform.
“We are here, though, to
alleviate that fear,” he said.
DPSS
Police
Chief
Robert
Neumann
acknowledged
discussions involving race and
policing might be sensitive ones,
but highlighted their utility as
well.
“We’ll leave here today with
the information you need to be
educated customers,” he said.
“For law enforcement, to be better
capable of providing the best
experience we can.”
The
workshops
and
presentations took three months
for the various organizations
to coordinate, but SCOR liaison
and Rackham student Courtney
McCluney said she appreciated
the planning process and officers
making themselves available to
students.
“And
our
student
leaders
stepping up and being able to
put
aside
potential
common
perceptions that they have about
each other, I think we were all just
really courageous in putting this
together,” she said.
McCluney
also
noted
the
dialogue’s
importance
in
providing a space for proactive
conversation
over
continued
mistrust
between
the
police
department and the community.
“We have to be able to work
together with all moving parts,
including staff and students,” she
said. “As student leaders on this
campus, we wanted to be able to
facilitate conversations about this
rift, and be able to hopefully come
up with some solutions that are
viable to not just students, but also
to law enforcement as well, so we
can make everyone’s job better.”
DPSS
spokeswoman
Diane
Brown agreed and said University
police rely heavily on students’
comments to learn how to police
more effectively.
“This kind of dialogue helps
forge partnerships and will help
inform our future policies and
practices,” she wrote in an e-mail
after the event. “We also hear
from community members that
they appreciate getting to know
us in an environment not related
to an investigation or emergency.”
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VICTORTHON
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FLINT
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Hackett to be leader of new mobility services company