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TOMORROW
HI: 34
LO: 17
Members of group
arrested for drug,
gun possesion at
Georgia Southern ‘U’
By RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Reporter
MUSIC Matters’ SpringFest
headliner Migos is no stranger
to the spotlight — both from
public acclaim and criminal
acts.
Returning to campus after
a February appearance, the
rappers have released singles
like
“Versace”
and
“Fight
Night,”
which
defined
the
modern Atlanta hip-hop scene,
and started a worldwide dance
phenomenon with “Look at
My Dab.” The rappers rappers
have a reputation for being the
kind of high-energy performers
SpringFest
has
selected
to
positive response in the past.
However, Migos has another
college-based
reputation
as
well: The last time the group
performed on a college campus,
police officers had to cut the
show short.
Almost exactly a year ago,
at Georgia State University’s
Spring Bling — a banner concert
similar to SpringFest — local law
enforcement arrested two Migos
group members and several
individuals travelling as their
entourage. Rappers Quavo and
Offset were also charged with
felony possession of cocaine,
Oxycontin
and
codeine
in
addition to charges of carrying a
loaded weapon in a school zone,
Rolling Stone reported. Offset
was briefly jailed and then
released last December.
MUSIC
Matters
President
Jibran
Ahmed,
a
Business
senior, said the organization
has been very clear with Migos’
management
about
limiting
personal issues.
“We’ve gotten the OK and
approval
from
all
relevant
University partners,” he said.
“We are being as careful and
proactive as possible.”
He noted that a major factor in
Columnist Ben
Shapiro discusses
impact of
microaggressions
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
Ben
Shapiro,
a
noted
conservative
columnist
and
author, discussed freedom of
speech Thursday evening in
the Rackham Graduate School
Amphitheatre,
drawing
a
crowd of approximately 300.
The event — hosted by
the
Young
Americans
for
Freedom with funding from
Central Student Government
— highlighted issues Shapiro
described as attacks on freedom
of speech and a free society,
such as microaggressions and
the concept of privilege.
The event follows a week
in which freedom of speech
has been a prominent issue
on campus, following anti-
Islam
chalkings
on
the
Diag
alongside
pro-Trump
messages,
which
garnered
national media attention and
prompted discussions about
hate speech and the safety of
Muslim students.
CSG discussed the issue at
length in their final meeting of
the semester on Tuesday and
ultimately passed a resolution
making
the
University
a
sanctuary
campus
for
immigrants.
Shapiro began his talk by
addressing
the
chalkings,
saying he wouldn’t normally
support
Trump
except
in
instances people are offended
by messages of support for
Trump, proceeding to write
“Trump 2016” on a chalkboard.
“There is only one thing that
I can do to support Trump,” he
See SHAPIRO, Page 3
See MIGOS, Page 2
Law professor
criticizes
international laws
on displaced peoples
By GRACE CANFIELD
For the Daily
Law Prof. James Hathaway
gave a talk Thursday evening in
the Hatcher Graduate Library
Gallery titled “Policies on the
Refugee
Crisis”,
discussing
flaws in the refugee system
worldwide.
Hathaway is the founding
director of the Law School’s
Program
in
Refugee
and
Asylum Law, and his work is
regularly cited by international
courts.
Thursday’s lecture centered
on
Hathaway’s
hope
that
there will be an international
effort to revamp the model
most countries use in dealing
with refugees. Hathaway said
current models do not require
more funding, but rather the
funds
individual
countries
have appropriated to hosting
refugees need to be more
efficiently allocated.
“We have more than enough
money in the system to provide
an
immediate
international
response — to provide the
dignified protection for the
duration of risk, to move people
to new homes — without
spending one dollar more,”
Hathaway said.
The talk was facilitated by
the University of Michigan’s
Global Scholars Program in
coordination
with
Amnesty
International, a global human
rights organization.
The current refugee crisis
encompasses
19.5
million
people seeking sanctuary in
countries outside of their own,
who often very few options in
developed first world countries.
According
to
Amnesty
International, 86 percent of
refugees end up settling in
developing countries that often
don’t have the resources or
infrastructure to provide for an
influx of this scale. As conflict
in Syria and other areas of the
world has unfolded over past
months, causing a surge in
refugees, international groups
havecalled on more developed
countries like the U.S. to accept
more refugees.
Speaking specifically to the
procedures to revamp refugee
laws, Hathaway said the only
viable approach is through
international coalitions such as
the United Nations.
“We see scenes like this
of refugees in tiny boats,
surrendering their well-being
to smugglers in very dangerous
conditions,”
Hathaway
said.
“We see horrid images of
refugees
surviving
massive
difficult overnight treks only
to be confronted by barbed-
wire barriers when they get to
a place they thought was safe.”
Kenneth
Grunow,
a
representative of the Detroit
chapter Amnesty International
who also spoke during the
event, called for more increased
See REFUGEE, Page 2
More than
400,000 gallons of
contaminated waste
spilled into water
By CAITLIN REEDY
Daily Staff Reporter
The
city
of
Ann
Arbor
has contacted the Michigan
Department of Environmental
Quality for the second time
this year with concerns about
contaminated
city
water
sources. At the heels of an
investigation regarding a plume
of dioxane — a carcinogenic
chemical that has made its
way into the Huron River — an
Ann Arbor Public Works crew
member discovered a sewage
overflow into Malletts Creek
Wednesday morning.
Though Public Works had
already
restored
the
pipe,
it is estimated that close to
400,000 gallons of sewage
have overflowed into the creek
over the past two weeks. The
overflow was discovered in a
sanitary sewer manhole near
the intersection of Washtenaw
Avenue and Huron Parkway
and is believed to have been
caused by roots that had grown
through the sewer pipes and
thus blocked the sewage flow.
Water
Quality
Manager
Jennifer Lawson said despite
the volume of sewage added
to the creek, the city does not
forsee any health concerns due
to the relatively slow flow from
See SEWAGE, Page 2
Almost 200 students
attend second annual
event
By JENNIFER MEER
Daily Staff Reporter
Nearly 200 students walked the
red carpet on campus Thursday
night at the 2016 Entrepreneurial
Oscars, held at the University of
Michigan Museum of Art.
The evening was hosted by
MPowered
Entrepreneurship,
a student organization whose
mission is to introduce students to
entrepreneurship opportunities,
with the aim of honoring the
year’s most innovative students,
student organizations, startups
and creations.
Prior to the event, students
nominated student groups or
individuals
in
21
categories,
including Most Impact in Health/
Philanthropy, Best New Idea,
Best Business Model and Most
Educational Impact.
LSA junior Sydney Bigelow,
president
of
MPowered
Entrepreneurship,
said
the
event was held to highlight
organizations
and
individuals
who have made an impact on
campus.
“The
purpose
of
the
Entrepreneurial Oscars is to bring
together all of these amazing
student organizations, student
leaders, student startups and
individuals within the University
of Michigan community that
are just doing amazing things
on campus,” she said. “That are
changing the landscape, that are
changing the world — and we
want to recognize them for that.”
Bigelow
noted
that
the
awards were not limited to
entrepreneurial
endeavors,
but
offered
to
any
student
organization that has made an
impact within the last year.
She said the event gives
students
the
opportunity
to get to know others in the
University community who have
MAZIE HYAMS/Daily
Engineering sophomore Shihaab Punia accepts an award at the MPowered Entrepreneurship Oscars at the UMMA
Thursday.
See MPOWERED, Page 3
MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
Ben Shapiro, a conservative radio host and author, speaks to acrowd on the current political atmosphere at universities at Rackham Amphitheater Thursday.
CAMPUS LIFE
Conservative author talks
free speech, white privilege
Migos has
history of
illegal acts
at colleges
Refugee crisis
lecture calls for
global reform
GOVERNMENT
A2 discovers
sewage pipe
leaked into
local creek
CITY
MPowered Oscars highlight
student entrepreneurship