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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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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 
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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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