will make them the perfect act
to headline SpringFest,” Ahmed
said.
Past performers for the annual
charity concert have included
Common,
Two
Chainz
and
Common.
According to Music Matters,
ticket prices will start at $10 for
students and $20 for the public
with all proceeds going toward
the
organization’s
summer
leadership camp for Detroit
youth, which is set to launch in
summer 2017. Tickets can be
purchased on the MUSIC matters
website beginning Thursday at 10
a.m.
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Two months after the murder
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Constitution reported. Burch was
shot to death in January after
three or more people broke into his
home. All seven suspects have been
charged with assault.
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Daily News Editor Allana
Akhtar explores how at Mcity,
the University and private
industry have worked together to
change the industry of automated
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In its first tie since Antonin
Scalia’s death, SCOTUS upheld
a law Tuesday mandating half
of public employees to pay a “fair
share fee”—a tax paid by non-union
members that contributes to union
activities, the Los Angeles Times
reported. No confirmation hearing
has been scheduled for nominee
Merrick Garland.
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Consuming data
lecture
WHAT: John H. Johnson,
CEO of Edgeworth
Economics, will discuss
how to understand everyday
data acquired from news
reports and media.
WHO: University of
Michigan Law School
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: South Hall,
room 1225
Women in
astronomy
WHAT: Dame Jocelyn
Bell Burnell, a professor
of astrophysics at the
University of Oxford,
will commemorate the
successes of female
astromers.
WHO: Department of
Astronomy
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham
Amphitheater
LGBT citizens in
USSR politics
WHAT: Alex Kondakov
will discuss why LGBT
community members
rarely participate in
Russian political rallies,
petitions and parades.
WHO: Instute for Resarch
on Women and Gender
WHEN: 4:10 p.m.
WHERE: Lane Hall,
room 2239
Future of music
industry panel
WHAT: Visiting
orchestra administrators
and School of Music,
Theatre & Dance Dean
Aaron Dworkin will
discuss challenges facing
the music industry today.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. Moore
Building, Watkins Lecture
Hall
Mochas and
Masterpieces
WHAT: Students will
learn to make pop art
prints resembling those
of Andy Warhol from
Ann Arbor Art Center
instrutors.
WHO: Maize Pages
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
Union
Chinese text
performances
WHAT: Scholar-
performer Zhang Weidong
will discuss chanting
classical Chinese poetry
and prose as literary-
musical training.
WHO: Confucius
Institute
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
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emergency
alert system
By RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Reporter
The
University
of
Michigan’s
Division
of
Public Security and Safety
announced
Tuesday
afternoon that it will run a
test of its emergency alert
system Thursday at noon.
The test will be broadcast
to the Michigan App, U-M
Gateway
and
Division
of
Public
Safety
and
Security websites, interior
building
digital
signs,
Twitter and web feeds. In
announcement, DPSS said
they have been working on
the emergency alert feature
on the Michigan mobile
phone app, and hope to gain
more feedback about the
app’s effectiveness through
Thursday’s test.
“It will be an additional
method
for
the
campus
community to receive alerts,
as well as a method for
individuals
not
affiliated
with the University, such
as contractors working on
campus and parents,” the
University’s statement read.
In
a
February
e-mail
interview
with
The
Michigan
Daily,
DPSS
spokeswoman Diane Brown
stressed the importance of
the emergency alert system
to notify students of threats
and emergency reductions
in staff.
“We strongly encourage
all students, faculty and
staff to register to receive
the text and voice messages
in
order
to
quickly
be
informed of an imminent
threat,” she wrote.
MIGOS
From Page 1A
Couch has been the city
manager of Bulloch County,
Georgia for the past 12 years.
The county has a population of
more than 69,000 residents and
is home to Georgia Southern
University. Under his leadership,
the county has expanded their
local airport, improved public
transportation and increased
recycling and energy efficiency
efforts, according to the city’s
website. Couch holds a master’s
degree in public administration
from Georgia State University
and an undergraduate degree
from
Eastern
Michigan
University.
Couch,
along
with
other
candidates, could not be reached
for immediate comment.
Fetherston is the assistant
city
manager
of
Asheville,
North
Carolina
and
former
deputy city manager of Boulder,
Colorado. The city of Asheville,
where
Fetherston
currently
works, prioritizes continuous
improvement through integrity
and diversity. According to the
press release, Fetherston holds
a law degree from Western
New England University School
of Law and an undergraduate
degree from Trinity College in
Hartford, Connecticut.
Lazarus has been the public
works director as well as the
interim assistant city manager of
Austin, Texas, as well as director
of
engineering
for
Newark,
New Jersey. Currently, Lazarus
supervises 730 full-time and
part-time/seasonal
employees
as the public works director
of Austin, Texas, overseeing a
department that has an annual
operating budget of $80 million.
Lazarus holds a master’s degree
from Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore, Maryland and an
undergraduate degree from the
U.S. Military Academy in West
Point, New York.
Sigman
is
the
city
administrator
of
Hamilton
County,
Ohio
and
former
budgeting director in Cincinnati
and the District of Columbia.
During
his
time
as
city
administrator
of
Hamilton
County, he prepared balanced
budgets in economic troubles
that resulted in the loss of
one-third
of
the
county’s
workforce. He holds a master’s
degree in public administration
from Indiana University and
undergraduate degree also from
Indiana University.
The final four candidates were
identified by a headhunting firm
contracted by the city. A series
of hiring interviews will now be
carried out by city staff through
mid-April, and the City Council
will publicly interview them
on April 16 using procedures
agreed upon by the council’s
administration committee.
The search process began in
October 2015 when the council
voted to raise the position’s
salary from $160,000 per year
to $175,000 after a professional
search
firm
concluded
the
average
annual
salary
for
administrators of similarly sized
cities is $167,000.
During his exit in 2015, Powers
told the council he wishes for his
successor to continue to uphold
the values of the city.
“An administrator needs to
view the city as more than just
police and fire,” Powers said. “It
is a community that has values
that are very important to a
council and the administrator
is expected to believe in an
organization that is consistent
with those values.”
CITY
From Page 1A
change, when a write-in candidate
wins a position but is deemed
ineligible, everyone else running
would be shifted up a spot.
“The second thing we do,
which I’m now going to call the
Jim Harbaugh rule, since it’s what
happened, when the candidate
is disqualified the seat is not left
vacant,” Ferguson said. “Instead, it
would shift everyone else up.”
He explained that in the past this
procedure was done regarding the
executive ticket; when the leaders
were disqualified, the runners up
would take the position.
“In Rackham, Jim Harbaugh
placed seventh — he gets a seat,
but
he
doesn’t
because
he’s
disqualified, which would make
that person who’s in eighth place
become seventh and so on and so
forth down the line,” Ferguson
said.
Resolutions
Also at Tuesday’s meeting,
the body passed three pieces
of legislation including one to
financially support the University’s
first Mental Health Day, one
removing party affiliation from
candidates for the University of
Michigan
Police
Department
Oversight Committee and another
to mandate identity training for all
CSG members. CSG also heard a
presentation about the University
of
Michigan’s
Bicentennial.
Additionally, three new resolutions
regarding the CSG election code
and its operating procedures were
brought to the floor.
After some debate, the assembly
passed
legislation
stipulating
that candidates for the UMPD
Oversight Commission are not to
run with political parties. Students
hold two spots on the commission,
one elected each CSG election.
LSA
sophomore
Jacob
Pearlman, one of the co-authors
of the resolution, responded to
opposition by saying that though
political parties provide a necessary
platform for the representatives to
show their own qualifications and
alignments, the UMPD position is
not political in nature.
“This is not a political position,”
he said. “There is really nothing
that you would advocate for to
obtain this position besides being a
competent, well-versed individual
with the community. The person
that
is
running
for
UMPD
Oversight board member should
be removed from discussion about
funding, doing this with Maize
Rage, or whatever the platforms
are. They have nothing to do with
any of that.”
One of the two other resolutions
to
pass
unanimously
was
a
resolution approving the financial
sponsoring by CSG for the first
Mental Health Day. CSG will now
partner with student organizations
and the LSA Student Government,
among others, to host the event on
Oct. 10.
LSA
sophomore
Nicholas
Meier, LSA-SG representative and
co-author of the resolution, said
his goal in partnering with CSG is
to raise awareness about mental
health resources on campus.
“CAPS is great, but there are a
bunch of other things on campus
that not enough students know
about,” he said “Through this, we
hope to advocate for their resources
that they have here.”
The event will consist of tables
set up both in the Diag and on
North Campus to promote those
resources.
Guest Speaker
The meeting’s guest speaker
Bailey
Oland,
administrative
assistant senior of the University’s
Bicentennial Office, gave a brief
presentation
regarding
the
importance of student awareness
and involvement in Bicentennial
festivities.
The
Bicentennial
Office
coordinates
and
encourages
Bicentennial-related events across
campus, particularly by student
organizations.
Oland
said
student
voice
should factor into the decisions
surrounding the event because
they are the most important part of
the University’s 200-year history.
“Without students we don’t
have a University. It’s a plain and
simple fact,” Oland said. “You are
our biggest constituent for the
Bicentennial. We talk a lot about
the future impact of the University.
If we don’t know what students
want and what students are
interested in... then future students
may not be interested and we can’t
move forward.”
CSG
From Page 1A
ELIZABETH XIONG/Daily
Drummer and composer Kendrick Scott teaches a student
at a masterclass at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance
on Tuesday.
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