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

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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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