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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

Michigan’s season ended in the 
regional final vs. North Dakota

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

NEWS......................... 2A

OPINION.....................4A

CL A SSIFIEDS .............. 5A

SUDOKU..................... 2A

A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A

SPORTSMONDAY. . . . . . . . .1B

