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. michigandaily.com Ann Arbor, Michigan Thursday, April 14, 2016 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM Then and now: your complete guide to shopping and dining in style » INSIDE Best of Ann Arbor 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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