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 Concert funds 
to be donated to 
initiatives in the 

city

By JENNIFER MEER

Daily Staff Reporter

This 
Wednesday, 
MUSIC 

Matters 
will 
team 
up 
with 

Consider Magazine to incorporate 
the Detroit Village in their fifth 
annual SpringFest.

SpringFest 
is 
a 
day-long 

festival located on the University 
of Michigan Diag and North 
University Avenue that aims to 
bring together a wide array of 
student organizations, musicians 
and entrepreneurs. Detroit Village 
will be a display at Springfest 
featuring Detroit businesses.

MUSIC Matters said their goal 

is to improve the University’s 
relationship 
with 
the 
city. 

Proceeds from the SpringFest hip 
hop trio Migos concert, beginning 
at 8 p.m. at Hill Auditorium, will go 
to MUSIC Matters’ summer camp 

for children in Detroit, which is set 
to begin in 2017.

“Our goal for the event is 

to address the student body’s 
weakened 
relationship 
with 

Detroit,” a press release reads. “In 
the past, the University has held 
close ties with the city through 
which the nation’s best and 
brightest have been funneled to 
jobs in Detroit.”

Connection with Detroit has 

been a focus for multiple student 
organizations in recent weeks. LSA 
sophomore Dylan Bennett, the 
co-chair of the CSG Commision 
on Detroit Engagement, presented 
a 
resolution, 
which 
recently 

passed in the Central Student 
Government, 
to 
extend 
the 

University’s current contract with 
the MDetroit Connector — a bus 
that travels from Ann Arbor to 
Detroit. The resolution was passed 
last Tuesday. 

Bennett said in an interview, 

the University has a weakened 
relationship with the city to an 
extent.

“I think the fact that the 

University actually shut down 

See SPRINGFEST, Page 3A

University sees 3 
percent increase 
in greenhouse gas 

emissions

By ANDREW HIYAMA

Daily Staff Reporter

The University of Michigan’s 

2015 
Sustainability 
Progress 

Report, 
released 
last 
week, 

identified 
several 
key 
areas 

that 
require 
improvement 

for the University to meet its 
sustainability goals.

One large category was the 

amount of waste sent to landfills, 
a sign of effective food waste 
composting. 
The 
University’s 

stated goal for 2025 is to reduce 
it by 40 percent. According to the 
report, by the end of 2015, it had 
been reduced 1.7 percent.

Energy 
conservation 
and 

greenhouse gas emissions saw 
similar trends. For these areas, 
the report drew on numbers from 

Energy Management — a division 
within Plant Operations at the 
University — which monitors 
the energy use of buildings on 
campus, tracking their heating 
and air conditioning systems 
and 
implementing 
energy 

conservation 
measures 
in 

academic buildings.

For the past six years, the 

program 
has 
recorded 
an 

8-percent 
annual 
reduction 

in energy consumption in the 
buildings 
it 
was 
responsible 

for. However, the report said it 

remains unclear whether or not 
this reduction will continue at 
the same rate once the University 
of 
Michigan 
Health 
System, 

University Housing and athletics 
are 
incorporated 
into 
the 

program. As well, according to the 
report, the University is currently 
progressing negatively toward its 
goal of reducing greenhouse gas 
emissions by 25 percent by 2025, 
instead increasing emissions by 3 
percent as of this year.

A 
third 
major 
category, 

See REPORT, Page 3A

Governing body 

pushes to continue 

Detroit to Ann 
Arbor service

By JENNIFER MEER

Daily Staff Reporter

Among 
other 
agenda 

items, before they ended the 
year 
on 
Tuesday 
Central 

Student Government passed 
a resolution to encourage the 
Office of the President and the 
Office of the Provost to extend 
the contract for the MDetroit 
Center Connector — the bus 
that runs between Ann Arbor 
and Detroit — for spring 2016.

The connector has had 

problems with maintaining 
funding in the past. Initially, 
in 2013, the project received 
$153,000 from the University 
to 
run 
on 
a 
four-day 

schedule. In June 2015, the 
University planned to end the 
connector’s 
services 
when 

grant funding had expired 

and ridership was found to be 
insufficient. However, prior to 
the resolution, the connector’s 
current contract, which began 
in spring 2015, would expire 
at the end of the 2016 winter 
term.

Public Policy sophomore 

Dylan Bennett, co-author of 
the resolution and co-chair 
of the CSG Detroit Congress, 
said 
after 
successful 
but 

small 
outreach 
events 
in 

previous years, such as a 
panel of speakers to discuss 
job opportunities in Detroit 
that 
brought 
in 
only 
50 

people, the commission really 
wanted to redefine its role 
through projects like these. 
The CSG Detroit Congress 
aims to bring together student 
organizations that are working 
to discuss and improve Ann 
Arbor’s 
relationship 
with 

Detroit.

“This year we said, ‘We’re 

a student government body. 
Let’s 
facilitate 
discussion. 

Let’s be the leading body on 
bettering 
the 
University’s 

relationship with Detroit,’ ” 

Organizers cite 
positive portrayal 
of culture as motive 

for event 

By NISA KHAN

Daily Staff Reporter

A video highlighting issues 

students have had with the 
University of Michigan’s Arabic 
language 
classes 
kicked 
off 

Friday’s annual Arab Xpression 
show, which celebrates Arabic 
culture through dances, skits and 
songs.

In explaining the event to the 

audience in the Rogel Ballroom, 
Arab Student Association hosts 
and LSA seniors Lana Abdole 
and Devin Jones emphasized the 
uniqueness of Arab Xpression — 
as the only Arab culture show of 
its kind at the University — and 
the importance of combating 
negative stereotypes in light of 
recent events on campus. 

In an interview, Abdole echoed 

these sentiments.

“We wanted the opportunity to 

use the culture show to show you 
other side of things as opposed 
to the stereotypes in the public,” 
she said. “Arabesque, the dance 
group that performs, is the only 
traditional Arab dance group on 
campus. Specifically, this year we 
really wanted the show to provide 
a platform for people of Arab 
heritage to reclaim what it means 
to be Arab.” 

Disease’s prognosis 

in women is 

focus of lectures, 

discussions 

By IRENE PARK

Daily Staff Reporter

Saturday at the North Campus 

Research Complex, the University 
of 
Michigan 
Comprehensive 

Cancer Center Breast Oncology 
and 
Community 
Outreach 

Programs 
hosted 
the 
fourth 

annual Breast Cancer Summit. The 
summit was aimed at individuals 
currently being treated for breast 
cancer, those who survived breast 
cancer, those at high risk and those 
interested in prevention.

For women in the United States, 

breast cancer is the second most 
deadly type of cancer, according 
to nonprofit breastcancer.org. In 
2016, it is estimated there will be 
more than 40,000 deaths from 
breast cancer. It is also the second 
most commonly diagnosed cancer, 
with approximately 307,000 new 

See BUS, Page 2A
See DANCE, Page 3A
See CANCER, Page 3A

EVAN AARON/Daily

Students perform Dabke, a traditional Arabic dance, at Arab Xpressions 2016 hosted by the Arab Student Association 
in the Michigan Union Friday.

AMANDA ALLEN/Daily

Rackham student Alex McConnell walks through the rain down State Street Sunday evening. McConnell, a native Californian, said Californians would “kill to have 
this kind of (rainy) weather,” which caused many events this weekend to be postponed.

APRIL SHOWE R S
SpringFest 
emphasizes 
relationship 
with Detroit

CAMPUS LIFE

Annual sustainability report 
shows slow-moving progress

Arab Xpressions highlights 
traditional song and dance

HOSPITAL
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
CSG works to 
extend center 
connector bus 

Summit on 
cancer aims 
to improve 
patient care

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