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 
of Georgia Lottery winner 
Craigory Burch Jr., seven 

people have been charaged with 
his murder, the Atlantic Journal-
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. 

3

Daily News Editor Allana 
Akhtar explores how at Mcity, 
the University and private 

industry have worked together to 
change the industry of automated 
transportation 
in 
this 
weeks’ 

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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.

1

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

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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. 
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University 
to test out 
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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