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TOMORROW
HI: 65
LO: 38
Proceeds from
benefit festival to
help fund Detroit
summer youth camp
By ALYSSA BRANDON
Daily News Edtior
Campus saw them hit the dab
with University of Michigan
football head coach Jim Harbaugh
on National Signing Day, and
now they’re coming back to the
University to give an even bigger
show.
Migos, an Atlanta based hip-
hop trio, will perform at Hill
Auditorium April 13 for Music
Matters’ annual charity concert,
according to a statement from
Music Matters. The group is best
known for their chart-topping
hits “Versace” and “Hannah
Montana” and their viral single
“Look at My Dab.”
Comprised of rappers Quavo,
Takeoff and Offset, Migos are
self-proclaimed
University
of
Michigan football fans, having
released videos on their Twitter
account proclaiming their support
for the Wolverines. Quavo and
Takeoff were also at the University
in February for the “Signing of the
Stars” event, during which the
two dabbed with Harbaugh and
former Detroit Tigers manager
Jim Leyland.
The concert will serve as a part
of Springfest, a daylong festival
featuring
food,
performance
and activities for the community
during the day.
In a statement, Music Matters
President
Jibran
Ahmed,
a
Business
senior,
said
Migos’
popular acclaim made them the
perfect fit for this year’s charity
concert.
“With Migos becoming an
international rap icon, we felt
that their energy and popularity
See STRESS, Page 3A
Resolution brought
to assembly
Tuesday amends
election code
By JENNIFER MEER
Daily Staff Reporter
A new resolution proposed
at Tuesday’s Central Student
Government
meeting
could
make write-in candidates during
elections a thing of the past.
Partially in response to a
trend in recent years of writing
in Jim Harbaugh as a candidate
for various CSG positions, the
litigation would amend the CSG
election code so that write-in
candidates can be screened for
their prospective positions before
receiving votes. It would also
emphasize that disqualified or
ineligible candidates cannot be
elected.
Rackham
student
Jared
Ferguson, chair of the CSG rules
committee and co-author of the
resolution, said the litigation was
crafted in response to the recent
election results. During this year’s
election, Harbaugh received 215
votes, and a slate of other write-in
candidates — like U.S. Sen. Bernie
Sanders (D-Vt.) and Darth Vader
The code currently says any
write-in candidates who receive
votes from at least three separate
and eligible students and are
enrolled in the University and
reside in the college in which
they are voting will be considered
viable to fill a vacant position.
As well, under the proposed
See MIGOS, Page 2A
Junior D-man
forgoes senior
season, inks three-
year pro deal
By JASON RUBINSTEIN
Daily Sports Writer
The
Michigan
defensive
corps just got even thinner.
With
sophomore
defenseman
Zach Werenski already out
the door to the Columbus Blue
Jackets organization, junior
defenseman Michael Downing
is also leaving, forgoing his
senior
season.
Downing
has agreed with the Florida
Panthers on a three-year entry
level contract, he confirmed
to The Daily on Tuesday
afternoon.
“I thought it was the best
decision for me and my hockey
career,”
Downing
said.
“I
talked to Red this morning and
he said he thinks I’m ready to
go. And I guess we’ll have to see
what happens.
“Red told me this morning
that I’m leaving as a man.”
The
team
has
not
yet
announced whether Downing
will be assigned directly to the
Panthers or to the club’s AHL
affiliate Portland Pirates.
Downing has been a top
defenseman
for
Michigan
since his freshman year. In his
first year, he played with Mac
Bennett and they formed the
team’s top pairing.
In his sophomore season,
he grew a reputation for laying
down punishing hits and he
became the team’s spark plug.
“It helps in a lot of facets,”
said
junior
forward
JT
Compher
about
Downing’s
hits last season. “You have to
know when he’s on the ice as a
forward on the other team. He
makes them more and more
hesitant coming through the
ice. When he throws a big hit,
it gets the bench going, and
we rally behind it. They’re
questionable calls at times, but
we’re not going to tell him not
to be physical, because that is
the way he helps our team.”
Added
sophomore
University scientists
find link between
mental health and
gender
By ALEXA ST. JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter
Recent
University
of
Michigan
research
suggests
men are more vulnerable to
long-term
depression
than
women,
citing
a
decreased
willingness in men to talk about
mental health issues.
Using data collected by the
Institute of Social Research
on
nearly
4,000
nationally
representative
participants
from 1986 to 2011, Dr. Shervin
Assari,
psychiatric
research
investigator and lead author
of the recent study, found
differences
between
long-
term stress and subsequent
depression
in
males
and
females. This research, Assari
said, could have implications
regarding
the
way
mental
health is stigmatized between
the two genders.
Assari said his interest in
studying how groups differ
in
vulnerability
and
their
resilience to stress led him to
pursue the research. He said he
believes exposure to stress helps
build resilience to it, but this
build-up occurs differently in
people of different backgrounds,
genders and social groups.
“Historically, most of the
research looked at or has tried
to explain group differences
in health through differential
exposures,
meaning
that
if
women are more depressed, it’s
because they get more stress,”
Assari said. “If you get a lot of
exposure, you build resilience.
It’s not women who might be
more susceptible to the effect
of stress on depression; it might
be men who have high levels of
stress and be most vulnerable to
the effect of it.”
Daphne Watkins, associate
professor of Social Work, said
oftentimes gendered differences
based on “gendered stressors”
Pool for
administrator
position down to four
individuals
By BRIAN KUANG and LYDIA
BARRY
Daily Staff Reporters
The
City
of
Ann
Arbor
announced its four final city
administrator
candidates
Tuesday:
Thomas
Couch
of
Georgia,
Paul
Fetherston
of
North
Carolina,
Howard
Lazarus of Texas and Christian
Sigman of Ohio.
The announcement comes five
months after the previous city
administrator,
Steve
Powers,
left his position to become the
city manager of Salem, Oregon.
Tom Crawford, Ann Arbor chief
financial officer, has been acting
as interim administrator during
the search process.
City
Communications
Manager
Lisa
Wondrash
declined to comment beyond the
city’s press release.
See NHL, Page 3A
See CSG, Page 2A
See CITY, Page 2A
ANDREW COHEN/Daily
Bailey Oland, administrative assistant at the University of Michigan’s Bicentennial Office, discusses involvement
opportunities in the University’s upcoming bicentennial celebration at the Central Student Government meeting at
Pierpont Commons Tuesday.
Mcity: How the University is
changing automated transportation
» INSIDE
the statement
ALLISON FARRAND/Daily
Migos presented together with former Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland at Signing of the Stars at Hill Auditorium February 3, 2016.
Men more
susceptible
to impact of
daily stress
RESEARCH
Migos slated to perform at
annual SpringFest concert
Central Student Government
may eliminate joke write-ins
ANN ARBOR
A2 narrows
candidates
for city exec.
replacement
SPORTS
Downing signs
NHL contract
with Panthers