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NEWS
Policing the police
AAPD Chief questions city
council recommendations
for civilian oversight
>> SEE PAGE 2
OPINION
Ending the cycle
All talk no action doesn’t
cut it in the wake of the
Orlando shooting
>> SEE PAGE 4
ARTS
Tonys bring joy
amid tragedy
“Hamilton” dominates at
celebration of theatre
>> SEE PAGE 5
SPORTS
Mason Ferlic wins
NCAA championship
He placed first in the
3,000-meter steeplechase
>> SEE PAGE 11
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Students chalk Diag in
remembrance of lives lost
Requiem Mass calls for
tolerance and resilience
Mayor speaks out against
guns at Sunday vigil held
by Ann Arbor residents
By LYDIA MURRAY
Summer Managing News Editor
In response to the mass shooting in Orlan-
do early Sunday morning, students chalked a
vigil on the Diag in remembrance of the vic-
tims.
Omar Mateen — who has claimed alle-
giance to ISIS — killed 50 and wounded
53 after opening fire on a crowd at the gay
nightclub Pulse at about 2 a.m. Sunday.
Mateen was killed three hours later when
police raided the club after he held dozens of
people hostage.
This shooting resulted in the most deaths
from a mass shooting in U.S. history. The
previous largest shooting in the United
States was the 2007 shooting at Virginia
Tech, which ended in the killing of 32 people.
In his remarks to the nation, President
Barack Obama noted the relatively relaxed
gun control laws in the United States.
“This massacre is therefore a further
reminder of how easy it is for someone to get
their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot
people in a school, or in a house of worship,
or a movie theater, or in a nightclub,” he said.
“And we have to decide if that’s the kind of
country we want to be. And to actively do
nothing is a decision as well.”
In an email to students, vice-president of
student life E. Royster Harper issued her
condolences to the familes of the victims and
called for students to lean on one another in
their own individual communities.
Community rallies to
put together memorial
performance in 48 hours
By KEVIN LINDER
Daily Staff Reporter
In remembrance of the victims of the
nation’s largest mass shooting last Sun-
day in Orlando, several hundred students,
alumni, faculty and Ann Arbor commu-
nity members packed Hill Auditorium for
a performance of Mozart’sRequiem. The
event, titled “Requiem for Orlando,” drew
a somber crowd to mourn the victims of
the attack and their families and to stand
in solidarity against the hatred behind the
tragedy.
In a span of just 48 hours, Austin Stew-
art, a musicology graduate student at the
University of Michigan, and Colin Knapp,
a University alum who received his bach-
elor’s in music in 2014, enlisted nearly
200 volunteer singers and musicians to
perform Mozart’s Requiem for the event.
Prior to the beginning of the perfor-
mance, several guest speakers took the
stage to pay their respects to the lives lost
and to voice words of strength against
social injustice and violence fueled by
hate. Guest speakers included Univer-
sity President Mark Schlissel, Ann Arbor
Mayor Christopher Taylor, School of
Music, Theatre & Dance Dean Aaron
Dworkin and LGTBQ community icon
Jim Toy.
Schlissel offered sympathy to all those
hurt, directly and indirectly, by the tragic
events that occurred last Sunday. He also
SINDUJA KILARU/Daily
Students chalk the Diag to honor the victims of last Sunday’s mass shooting in Orlando and demonstrate solidarity with the LGBTQ community.
See ORLANDO, Page 9
See REQUIEM, Page 9
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