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Vol. CXXIV, No. 120 | © 2016 The Michigan Daily 
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OPINION ................................ 
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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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