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WEATHER
TOMORROW
HI: 51
LO: 28
Speakers highlight
importance of
international
relationship
By TIMOTHY COHN
Daily Staff Reporter
Over the past weekend, the
Ross School of Business hosted
the seventh annual India Business
Conference. The event featured
panels of speakers from both
the United States and India to
talk about the changing business
relationship between the two
countries.
The
speakers
at
the
event
included
Natarajan
Chandrasekaran, CEO of Tata
Consultancy
Services;
Niren
Chaudhary, the global president
of KFC; and Yashwant Sinha, the
former Minister of External Affairs
and former Minister of Finance to
India. Each event was moderated
by a Ross faculty member who
also oversaw question and answer
sessions.
Business Prof. Guatam Ahuja,
the conference organizer, said the
conference was designed to cover
a wide range of topics to inform
current
and
future
business
leaders. It attracted a crowd of
largely business students and local
businesspeople.
MBA student Anand Markande,
who was in attendance at the
event, said this importance of
emerging economies is reflected
in the graduate curriculum at the
Business School.
“Here, we have a lot of courses
that have an emerging market
theme,” Markande said. “This is
especially true of India and China.”
On
Friday,
Chandrasekaran
provided opening remarks to
an audience of about 100 people
at the Robertson Auditorium at
the Ross School of Business. He
spoke about executive leadership
and the role of software, data, and
communication in business.
“There
are
distinct
characteristics
of
the
recent
economic development in India,
which are making a revolution in
business,” Chandrasekaran said.
See ROSS, Page 3A
Performances
include various styles
of classical Indian,
Indofusion dance
By CHETALI JAIN
Daily Staff Reporter
Michigan
Sahana
hosted
That
Brown
Show
Saturday
night at the Michigan Theater,
featuring
student
performing
groups focused on South Asian
styles
including
Michigan
Manzil, Maize Mirchi, Maya,
the Michigan Bhangra Team,
the Michigan Raas Team, TAAL,
Izzat and Michigan Sahana.
The
performances,
which
drew about 700 people, included
classical Indian dances, singing
and Indofusion, a mix of American
and Indian styles.
Engineering
senior
Kavinmozhi Caldwell, a member
of both Maya and Sahana, said
Maya strives to combine other
cultures into their routines. In
past shows, Maya has performed
Indochinese numbers and danced
to African beats with drums, as
well as incorporating their native
dancing techniques.
“We try to connect with
Hispanic, African-American and
Chinese culture,” said Caldwell.
“(Maya) takes Bharatanatyam,
Kathak or other Indian classical
dances and fuses it with ballet,
jazz or salsa, for example.”
Engineering
junior
Shreya
Raman attended the show to
support her friends who were
performing in various groups.
“My favorite was Izzat. There
was a lot of energy overall, and
it was great to experience the
different styles of dance and
music,” Raman said. “TBS brings
together the different teams and
provides a sense of belonging in
the entire community.”
Many of the groups begin
choreographing and rehearsing
for
the
show
months
in
advance. LSA sophomore Liam
See DANCE, Page 3A
National, regional
and campus
groups featured in
first annual event
By NEIL SCHWARTZ
For the Daily
University
of
Michigan
student comedy groups Funny
or Die University of Michigan,
ComCo and Midnight Book
Club hosted the first annual
University
Improv
Festival
Saturday
at
Rackham
Auditorium.
Featuring a variety of improv
comedy groups from Chicago,
New York, University of Iowa,
George Washington University
and the University, organizers
said the festival aimed to bring
improv comedy to a wider
audience.
LSA sophomore Kelsey Fox,
a member of ComCo, said she
hoped the event reached a
large and diverse portion of the
student body.
“We
had
multiple
demographics that we were
reaching out to,” Fox said. “I
hope that the average Michigan
student had a crazy fun time.”
The festival was divided
into two parts — one show at 7
p.m. and one at 9 p.m. Student
group Funny or Die opened the
first part with a sketch about
the president of the United
States debating with his staff
about pre-emptively bombing
countries while mispronouncing
simple terms such as ‘tank’ and
‘bulletproof,’ drawing a strong
response from the crowd to kick
off the show.
receSs,
a
student
group
from
George
Washington
University,
performed
next,
acting out several sketches
including a reenactment of the
Last Supper featuring a “Jersey
Shore”-styled Jesus, a seminar
on sexual misconduct in the
workplace and a group of friends
debating plans for high school
graduation.
GWU senior Kevin Palermo, a
member of receSs, said he enjoys
improv comedy because of the
excitement from performing it.
newMICH wins
executive spots,
but not majority of
representative seats
By JENNIFER MEER and
TIMOTHY COHN
Daily Staff Reporters
LSA juniors David Schafer and
Micah Griggs will be the 2016
Central
Student
Government
president and vice president,
according to unofficial election
results released early Saturday
morning.
The results will not be made
official until pending litigation
is resolved. As of Friday night,
four lawsuits were still pending,
including several filed minutes
before unofficial results were
released.
The
newMICH
ticket
of
Schafer and Griggs defeated
Public Policy junior Thomas
Hislop, and LSA junior Cameron
Dotson from the Your Michigan
party by a margin of 59 votes,
3,811
votes
to
3,752.
LSA
senior Keysha Wall and LSA
sophomore
Chalse
Okorom,
the Defend Affirmative Action
Party
presidential
candidate
and vice presidential candidates,
garnered 390 votes for third
place.
Overall turnout was at roughly
20 percent of the student body,
a 2 percent decrease from last
year’s record turnout. This is the
second-closest vote margin over
the past decade in CSG history,
following last year’s five vote
victory for Make Michigan.
newMICH ran on a platform of
expanding student opportunities
through mentorship programs,
amplifying
student
voice
in
CSG, improving connection by
instituting scholarships for low
income students, and ensuring
student well-being and safety
School of Nursing
uses mannequins
that can bleed, sweat
and give birth
By ALEXA ST. JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter
At the University of Michigan
School of Nursing, along with
students, you’ll also find Donnie
Philips — who appears to be a
child with pneumonia. However,
Philips is actually one of many
robotic mannequins used to teach
nursing students.
The current Nursing School
building, opened last semester
houses six simulation rooms —
including two pediatrics rooms,
two medical surgical rooms and
two obstetrical rooms — in which
mannequins like Philips are used
for classroom exercises.
High-fidelity mannequins are
operated through a sophisticated
software
program
and
have
been in use at the University of
Michigan since 2008, while low
and
mid-fidelity
mannequins
have been in use for much longer.
See IMPROV, Page 3A
See CSG, Page 2A
See SIMULATOR, Page 3A
AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily
Maya, a South Asian fusion dance team, performs at That Brown Show at the Michigan Theater Saturday.
» INSIDE
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Stopped Short
Conference
emphasizes
U.S., India
businesses
CAMPUS LIFE
‘That Brown Show’ features
South Asian dance groups
David Schafer, Micah Griggs
elected CSG president and VP
RESEARCH
CAMPUS LIFE
Improv festival
aims to reach
diverse crowd
Simulators
offer realistic
experience
for students
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