The Atlanta rap trio
dabs their way to a
seminal Ann Arbor
hip-hop moment
By MATT GALLATIN and
SHAYAN SHAFII
Daily Arts Writers
It’s Wednesday night at Hill
Auditorium,
and
Michigan
football coach Jim Harbaugh is
dabbing onstage.
As the ultimate event of Music
Matters’ SpringFest, the Atlanta
rap group Migos took the stage
around 9:30. After a few hours
of prep by their hype-man, the
audience was clearly ready. The
group, consisting of Quavo, Offset,
and Takeoff, immediately began
rolling adlib-rap and tossing verbal
alley-oops to each other. Migos are
pioneers of that type of repetitive,
consistent rap style, now pervasive
among Atlanta’s freshman class.
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Golden Apple
recipient Ryan Ball
links accounting,
improv and Denmark
By RACHEL COHEN
Daily Staff Reporter
On
Wednesday
night
in
Rackham
Auditorium,
nearly
200 students and faculty heard
Ryan Ball, assistant professor of
accounting at the Ross School of
Business, talk Denmark, mixed
martial arts and improv comedy
in his ideal “last lecture” as the
26th Recipient of the Golden
Apple
Award.
Many
in
the
audience were former students,
some of whom nominated him for
the award.
The Golden Apple Award is the
only teaching award on campus
chosen by students honoring
excellent professors whom they
believe have left an impact.
In the event’s introduction,
Golden Apple Co-Chair Erica
Mindel, an LSA senior, said the
award honors teachers who treat
each lecture with the event’s idea
in mind.
“The Golden Apple Award
honors
those
teachers
who
consistently treat each lecture as if
it were their last chance to impart
knowledge on their students,
who engage each student to think
critically and inspire discourse
outside of the classroom, and who
do so enthusiastically,” Mindel
said.
She added that the Golden
Apple Award was inspired by the
teachings of Rabbi Eliezer ben
Hyrcanous, who instructed his
students to “get your lives in order
one day before you die.”
Ball discovered he was the 2016
recipient last month after some of
his students asked him to lunch
and instead escorted him to a
courtyard in the Business School
filled with his colleagues and
students. He received a record-
breaking 150 nominations from
the graduate students he has
taught.
His lecture, titled “Accounting
for Ambiguity: Lessons from
See APPLE, Page 2
“Fight Night”
and “Freak No
More” excite Hill
Auditorium
By ALYSSA BRANDON
Daily News Editor
Hip-hop rap trio Migos
finished off SpringFest to an
enthusiastic student response
at the University of Michigan
in Hill Auditorium Wednesday
night. The Atlanta-based rap
trio — which is composed of
Quavo, Offset and Takeoff —
entertained the large crowd
with some of their chart-
topping hits including “Freak
No More” and “Fight Night.”
Donned
in
Michigan
jerseys, Migos delivered a
high-energy performance, at
times jumping into the main
floor to dance with audience
members and throwing water
See MIGOS, Page 5
Experts charge
that seizure policy
largely used by
police for profit
By KEVIN BIGLIN
Daily Staff Reporter
Panelists
discussed
civil
asset
forfeiture
in
a
talk
Wednesday afternoon at the
Law School citing multiple
shortfalls and concerns with
the policy.
The talk was presented by
The Federalist Society and
Law Students for Sensible Drug
Policy, and moderated by Law
Prof. Adam Pritchard.
Civil
asset
forfeiture
is
a legal tool that allows law
enforcement officials to seize
property they believe has been
involved in certain types of
criminal activity.
The panelists included Ted
Nelson, a retired Michigan
state police officer; Julie Beck,
an
assistant
U.S.
attorney
who also serves as chief of
the Federal Forfeiture and
Financial Litigation Unit in
Detroit and Clark Neily, senior
attorney at the Institute for
Justice.
The panelists outlined how
civil asset forfeiture happens,
from the initial forfeiture by
police to the process through
the court system to relief
available after the forfeiture
has been consummated.
Neily said civil forfeiture
is currently a system of zero
accountability, noting that in
civil cases, unlike criminal
cases, there is no investigation
to accuse someone of engaging
in illegal activity. Rather, law
enforcement can use probable
cause to seize property on sight.
Because of this, Neil said police
often abuse civil forfeiture by
taking more from their suspect
than necessary.
That topic of abuse of
forfeiture — and more broadly,
whether
law
enforcement
values profits over innocence,
Nelson said civil forfeiture
cases are tied to the war on
drugs.
In
the
beginning,
Biodegradable
products and zero-
waste push featured
at SpringFest
By ALEXA ST. JOHN and
DESIREE CHEW
Daily Staff Reporters
Students gathered on the Diag
and around campus Wednesday to
celebrate a year’s worth of efforts
in community service, discuss
entrepreneurship initiatives and
encourage one another through
art and music at SpringFest. The
annual event, sponsored by the
organization
MUSIC
Matters,
took place on the Diag as well as
North University Avenue between
Thayer and Fletcher streets.
Along with innovation and
philanthropic efforts, the festival
also focused on new sustainability
initiatives in an effort to introduce
environmentally
friendly
programs to the event and campus
as a whole.
LSA junior Matt Fisher, vice
president of MUSIC Matters, said
the group organizes the event to
encourage a unified student body.
“We try to bring together
different student organizations,
get them to work together, to
collaborate with each other, and
to give students an opportunity
to meet one another and extend
beyond the communities that they
typically interact with,” Fisher
said.
Affordable housing
and cleanup of
dioxane plume top
issues at event
By BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
In a debate hosted by students
at the Ford School of Public Policy
Wednesday, eight candidates for
August’s Ann Arbor City Council
primary
elections
discussed
their positions on city issues such
as affordable housing and the
cleanup of a contaminated plume
of groundwater in Ann Arbor.
Four
incumbents
seeking
re-election — Kirk Westphal (D–
Ward 2), Julie Grand (D–Ward 3),
Graydon Krapohl (D–Ward 4) and
Chuck Warpehoski (D–Ward 5) —
participated in the debate, held in
the Annenberg Auditorium. Sumi
Kailasapathy (D–Ward 1) — the
fifth also seeking re-election —
was absent.
Only
Kailasapathy
and
Krapohl are currently contested
in
the
Democratic
primary
See PANEL, Page 2
See SUSTAINABILITY, Page 3
See COUNCIL, Page 3
SINDUJA KILARU/Daily
Engineering lecturer Debra Levantrosser, chief executive of Shimmy Shack, serves customers at SpringFest Wednesday.
MARINA ROSS/Daily
Quavo, part of the rap trio Migos, performs at Hill Auditorum Wednesday night.
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lecture, prof.
emphasizes
ambiguities
CAMPUS LIFE
Migos closes out SpringFest
with high-energy concert
‘U’ festival increases focus
on sustainability practices
ANN ARBOR
GOVERNMENT
Panelists talk
misuse of civil
forfeiture laws
Ford School
holds debate
for Council
candidates