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PAY DAY.
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Greek life philanthropy
efforts were included as a part of
MUSIC Matters’ SpringFest on
Wednesday for the first time in
the five-year history of the event.
During the day, fraternities
and sororities had the opportunity
to set up a table for one hour each
on North University Avenue to
support an organization and cause
of their choosing.
According to MUSIC Matters,
the Alpha Phi, Sigma Kappa,
Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Chi
Omega, Chi Omega, Gamma Phi
Beta, Delta Gamma and Zeta Tau
Alpha sororities all participated.
LSA sophomore Lacey
Mendelson, Alpha Phi sorority
campus affairs vice president,
said their main goal of the day
was to raise money for women’s
heart health, with proceeds going
toward the Alpha Phi Foundation.
“Women’s heart health is our
main thing and we send money
to women and their families
who have been affected by it,”
Mendelson said.
The Sigma Kappa sorority
dedicated their efforts to an
environmental organization called
Inherit the Earth. LSA sophomore
Becca Berman, Sigma Kappa
vice president of philanthropic
services, said their goal was not
to raise money, but rather to
increase environmental awareness
by encouraging people to plant
violets and take them home.
“I decided to push towards
Inherit the Earth because
it’s one of the lesser known
philanthropies, and I thought
people should know about it,”
Berman said.
— CALEB CHADWELL
‘Identity Maze’ exhibit promotes awareness
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THINGS
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SHOULD
KNOW
The
Detroit
Free
Press
reported that Ford Motor
Company unveiled a $1.2
billion plan to redevelop its
Dearborn headquarters over the
next 10 years. More than 30,000
Ford employees currently work at
the Dearborn headquarters, where
60 percent of the buildings there
have not been updated in 50 years.
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House
of
Representatives
Speaker
Paul
Ryan
(R–
Wis.)
announced
Tuesday
that he would not accept
the
Republican
presidential
nomination, reported CNN. The
announcement
comes
among
speculation that Ryan would seek
the nomination if the process is
decided by a contested convention.
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MUSIC Matters
posted video of
Michigan football
coach Jim Harbaugh
with the Migos trio.
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Minority experience
on campus
emphasized by
SpringFest display
By RHEA CHEETI
For the Daily
On
Wednesday
during
the
University of Michigan’s annual
SpringFest celebration, students
watched as large, white screens
were assembled piece by piece
into a maze on the Diag.
Known as the “Identity Maze,”
the project showcased artwork
and positive messages on 30
translucent panels. The initiative
was formed and executed by LSA
junior Misba Saleem, Engineering
senior Kyle Faulkner, LSA senior
Arnold Reed, LSA senior Areeba
Jibril and Engineering senior
Robert Greenfield as part of
collaboration between Blaclist and
the Muslim Students’ Association.
Saleem,
vice
president
of
external affairs for the MSA, said
she thinks the exhibit positively
affected students on campus by
broadening perspectives on the
experiences of minority students.
“The Identity Maze is supposed
to represent the diverted path
that minorities have to take on
campus — it’s not that they can’t
get where they’re going, but
there are obstacles,” Saleem said.
“The maze itself is supposed to
be symbolic of that path, as well
as the artwork that we’re going
to have inside, which is going to
be from Muslim students, Black
students and Latino students.”
The art included pieces created
by University students, as well
as pictures of cultural exhibits
and influential protests. Phrases
like “Muslim women are NOT
oppressed
…
Muslim
women
are empowered” and “Are you
non-racist or anti-racist?” lined
the walls, accompanying other
sentiments about race and identity
in society.
Jibril,
who
supervised
the
selection of the pieces, said the
pieces included represented a
diverse array of individuals and
events.
“Inside the maze we wanted
artwork that would reflect those
individual narratives. So we have
art pieces from protests … and also
ones showing peoples’ cultures
and different cultural shows,”
Jibril said. “I think it’s crazy that
we actually managed to pull this
off — five of us built 30 sections
of wall, and we didn’t really have
any experience with anything like
this before.”
LSA freshman Tiana Huang
said that she thought the Identity
Maze brought up complex social
issues on campus and displayed
both negative and positive effects
of free speech.
“I think it’s important to learn
about all the other aspects on
campus that you might not delve
into, just on a daily basis,” Huang
said. “We don’t really think about
these issues that are prevalent on
campus as much as we should.”
LSA freshman Victoria Thach
also said she thought the project
was highlighting issues on campus,
adding that it brought up different
perspectives on those issues.
“It’s a nice reminder that not
everyone feels the same way about
issues … people don’t realize that
these things are happening right
now,” Thach said.
Saleem noted that she sees
this installation having a positive
impact particularly in light of
recent anti-Islam chalk messages
on the Diag. The maze showcased
several images of events featuring
Muslim
students
throughout
the year, such as the Malaysian
Culture Night hosted by the
Malaysian Student Association.
Slogans promoting solidarity with
Muslim students on campus were
also featured in the maze.
“I think it’s really important for
students to be represented in such
a central part of campus,” Saleem
said. “This is just my personal
opinion, but given everything that
happened with the chalkings,
this is a great way to reclaim
the Diag, and in a sense it’s very
empowering.”
he said, asset forfeiture was
intended as a tool to combat drug
distribution. However, he said he
has seen the law being used by
law enforcement for profit, rather
than for dealing with drug use.
“The war on drugs, which
started back when my career
started,
has
not
been
very
effective,” Nelson said. “As a
matter of fact, we are spending a
lot of money in an area that is not
having the effect that we thought
it would have on drug use in this
country. It is my belief that the
war on drugs has been a failure.
The targeting of drug people
had more to do with assets
than it had to do with the drugs
themselves.”
Nelson also noted that in 2011
the Michigan legislature changed
the way asset forfeiture was
allocated — instead of the seized
funds going into a general fund
to combat narcotics, local police
forces are able to use the funds as
they wish. He charged that this
has led to the promotion of asset
forfeiture.
“I think that opened up the
floodgates for revenue,” Nelson
said. “And I think that opened
up the floodgates for policing for
profit.”
In a forfeiture report released
by the Michigan State Police, in
2014 alone $24 million in items
was seized by law enforcement
in the state of Michigan. Nelson
added that eighty-six percent of
seizures in Michigan go without
judicial review or any court
proceedings, which he said allow
police
enforcement
to
avoid
justifying why they investigated
the victim and took their assets.
Focusing
her
remarks
on
Federal policy discussing the
Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
Act enacted by Congress in
2000, which Beck said it was in
response to state abuse of civil
and criminal forfeiture seizures
that act in a system with no prior
restrictions. The act, among other
reforms,
required
government
bodies obtain a warrant based
on probable cause before seizing
property.
One particular problem, she
noted, is that nationally 80 percent
of seizures result in administrative
forfeitures and go without claims
challenging
the
forfeiture.
Claims are normally not made,
even when the person who had
their assets seized was notified.
Beck said the lack of claims stem
from a number of factors, such
as because it is too difficult to
understand the notice, since the
person often does not have money
for a lawyer or because the person
cannot claim their assets because
it could put them under criminal
investigation.
Neily echoed Beck’s sentiments,
stressing
the
complications
surrounding asset forfeiture law.
He said there are also few claims
made because lawyers do not have
enough training to take on such
cases and win.
Speaking to efforts to combat
possible corruption used with
civil asset forfeiture, panelists
emphasized the need for discretion
among those supervising cases, as
well as restriction of when it can
be used. Beck said though cases
exist where seizures go without
issue, more oversight must be used
in cases where it is not as clear
what crimes were committed by
people in roles like hers.
“These are law enforcement
tools that can seem very heavy
handed,” Beck said. “They should
be used responsibly. And if they
are not used responsibly, then the
assets should go back.”
Neily, who has worked on
asset forfeiture for five years,
called it the worst public policy
he has ever encountered because
it unjustly targets minorities
who do not always have the
means to make claims and fight
back against law enforcement
that seizes their assets.
“I don’t think you could design
a worse public policy,” Neily
said. “It routinely victimizes
innocent people who, generally
speaking, are minorities and of
lower socioeconomic status.”
Reiterating that civil asset
forfeiture is now used primarily
for profit rather than combating
drug and narcotic use, Neily said
he thinks the policy should be
ended entirely, and, until that
happens, it should continually
be restricted so that fraudulent
activity is avoided.
“Most people have no idea
what civil forfeiture is,” Neily
said. “But when it’s explained
to them, 90 percent of people
say that shouldn’t be a policy.
So I think we’re moving in that
direction.”
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Denmark, MMA & Improv,”
involved
anecdotes
about
preparing for the ambiguity in
both accounting and in life.
Ball
said
he
thinks
of
accounting as a science of
measurement, which helps those
who do not know what’s going
on around them discern their
surroundings.
“Measurement is repeatedly
like stumbling around in a dark
room until you have some idea of
where the furniture is in there,”
he said. “But the darkness is
something that never goes away
and it’s something that all of us
have to grapple with.”
Ball said his job is to help
students
prepare
for
this
darkness
of
ambiguity
and
uncertainty
that
accounting
cannot measure. In turn, he
said his lecture would tell
three stories that show how he
approaches ambiguity today.
His first story featured a
Danish
friend
and
former
colleague at the University of
Chicago,
Hans
Christensen,
who would constantly complain
about Denmark.
Ball said one day another
former
colleague,
Eugene
Fama, who won the Nobel Prize
of Economics in 2013, asked
Christensen how he could be so
pessimistic about Denmark when
it was rated the happiest country
on earth by the World Health
Organization.
Christensen
replied that because Danes have
zero
expectations,
they
are
always pleasantly surprised.
Ball said, in the face of
ambiguity, it is better to set
expectations
appropriately
instead of having none.
“Oftentimes our happiness is
tied to how surprised pleasantly
or not pleasantly we are, and
how surprised we are by things
depends on two different things,”
Ball said. “One is the actual
outcome, the future outcome
that oftentimes is way out of our
control. But the other thing that
it depends on is our expectations,
how we set those expectations,
and that is something that’s
within your control.”
His second story centered
around expecting change in
the face of ambiguity. He cited
the
first
Ultimate
Fighting
Championship in 1993 when
Royce Gracie, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu
practitioner, unexpectedly won
against all of his opponents, who
all fought with different styles.
He said Gracie took advantage
of his opponents’ inability to
adapt, meaning they were too
bound by the conventions of their
particular styles. He used this
metaphor as an example of how
to cope with the different arenas
in which audience members find
themselves.
“You are going to find yourself
in ambiguous arenas that you’ve
never been in,” Ball said. “This
is a metaphor for globalizing
economy. What works well in the
U.S. may not necessarily work
as well as a strategy when you
find yourself competing against
a Chinese competitor … how are
you going to adapt?”
He finished the story with
an anecdote about when Matt
Hughes
unexpectedly
beat
the now-Hall of Famer Gracie
in the UFC 60 match. He said
Gracie had only used his jiu-jitsu
skills while Hughes used mixed
martial arts, a combination of
various fighting styles. As the
standards of fighting changed,
Gracie forgot to adapt.
Ball said he hoped Gracie’s
story reminds the audience to
constantly adapt to the changing
world.
“When you get out of school
and
leave
this
university,
make sure that you make the
investment back in the most
important asset of all: yourself,”
he said. “Don’t stop learning even
though your formal education
may be done; strive to invest by
continuously learning.”
In
his
final
story,
Ball
discussed his first performance
for an improv comedy class
he took in 2006. In improv,
the performers do not know
what they will be performing,
which Ball said is the ultimate
ambiguous situation. Originally
terrified of public speaking, Ball
said he stumbled upon an improv
comedy class and decided to sign
up, unaware of the mandatory
performances at the end of the
class.
He said he worried about what
he would be asked to do during
his first performance, but once
he started he realized there was
nothing he could do about it but
try to enjoy himself.
Now, he said he suggests
students take an improv class
because it is the best tool for
getting used to ambiguity.
At the end of his lecture, Ball
thanked all of his teachers who
have impacted him to teach so
passionately.
Patrick Craves, a second-year
MBA student at the Business
School,
said
he
nominated
Ball because he was the most
energetic professor he has had
at the University of Michigan,
adding that Wednesday’s lecture
attested to his teaching styles.
“His presentation today was
very Ryan Ball,” Craves said.
“I mean, he related Denmark,
UFC fighting and improv back
to what he always teaches us,
and that’s the ambiguity of
accounting and how that makes
it frustrating and beautiful at
the same time.”
Another former student of
Ball’s, Rafael Frankel, a first-year
MBA student, said he was also
impressed with how Ball related
seemingly random topics back to
accounting.
“(Ball)
was
giving
some
real examples of some things
that are not related at all with
accounting, but by the end he
kind of showed some of the
relations with accounting and
the business world and how you
should take those examples and
take some practical things for
your life,” Frankel said. “I was
really impressed on the example
he gave about MMA, which I am
really passionate about, being
Brazilian and knowing Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu … but I never related it
to accounting.”
In an interview after his
lecture, Ball said he was thankful
for his students who came to the
event and put in the effort to
nominate him.
“The fact that all of those
students who normally don’t
leave the Ross Business School
would come over here to help
honor me this way and to come
out of the woodwork and vote
like that, even reading the
comments that they published
in the fliers were absolutely
amazing,” Ball said. “And I
am just so appreciative of the
feedback I get.”
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