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Ann Arbor Scrabble 
Club

WHAT: Word lovers of all 
abilities invited to drop in to join 
in on board game competition, 
using an updated word list. 
Players are welcome to bring 
their own sets. 

WHO: Ann Arbor Scrabble Club

WHEN: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

WHERE: Ann Arbor Brewing 
Company, 114 E. Washington St.

MSwing Open Swing 
Class

WHAT: Learn to swing dance in 
a casual and fun environment. No 
experience is necessary. 

WHO: Student Organizations: 
MSwing

WHEN: 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. 

WHERE: Michigan League, 
Henderson Room

Developing Personal 
Leadership

WHAT: Participants will define, 
and strengthen their personal 
leadership style. Attendees must 
register online. 

WHO: Learning and Professional 
Development 

WHEN: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

WHERE: Administrative 
Services Building, LPD

Comedy Jamm

WHAT: 12 local aspiring 
stand-up comics will take part 
in the comedy club’s weekly 
performance showcase. Tickets 
are $5 at the door. 

WHO: Ann Arbor Comedy 
Showcase

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: 212 S. 4th Street 

Undergraduate Concerto 
Final Competition

WHAT: The winner of this annual 
competition will feature their 
winning piece in a performance 
with one of the school’s orchestras.
WHO: School of Music, Theatre 
& Dance
WHEN: 4 p.m. 

WHERE: Hill Auditorium

Algebraic Geometry 
workshop

WHAT: Harvard math Prof. 
Akhil Mathew will provide a 
framework for polynomial factor 
operations.

WHO: Department of 
Mathematics

WHEN: 4:10 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: East Hall, Room 4096

Study Abroad First Step 
Session

WHAT: Take your first 
step toward a study abroad 
experience with this mandatory 
information session on 
scholarships, programs and 
financial aid. 

WHO: Center for Global and 
Intercultural Study

WHEN: 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Angel Hall, Room G155

Avant Garden: Weaving 
Fashion and Nature 
Together

WHAT: This display shows how 
plants and nature are weaved into 
textile for dresses and design. 

WHO: Matthaei Botanical 
Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

WHEN: 10 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

WHERE: Matthaei Botanical 
Gardens

Khalid Hill
@Thatboylid80

Ima make this PSA for all you 
media outlets stop lying say-
ing people on our team have 
talked about Pepp leaving. 
That’s his decision!!!!

Kellie
@KingKelliee

When @UMich calls me in a 
few years asking for donations 
I’m saying remember when 
you gave me a week long 
Christmas break *click*

kc baby
@kcchanel_

Issa Rae is the first 
bicentennial blessing.

cece
@CeeWorlds

Michigan football and 
academics has taught me to 
chill tf out when you think 
you have a magical chance to 
succeed. 

Former State Senator Gretchen 
Whitmer files to run for governor

The previous Democratic minority leader is the first to enter 2018 race

An unnamed University of 

Michigan anthropologist examined 

the five-year-old mummified 

remains of an unidentified body 

Tuesday evening.

The body, found in a garage 

behind a Detroit house, was in 

the backseat of a ’90s Plymouth 

Acclaim, the Detroit Free Press 

reported. The skeleton was decayed 

to the point it became necessary for 

a specialist was asked to perform 

the autopsy. Authorities said 

the remains consisted of brown, 

leathery bones fully clothed in 

pants, a shirt and a sweater.

“They don’t know the sex or 

approximate age, so that’s why they 

need an anthropologist,” said Lloyd 

Jackson, Wayne County Medical 

Examiner’s Office spokesman, in a 

statement Monday.

A prospective buyer of the 

residential property found the body 

when he looked in the detached 

garage behind the house. The 

current tenants of the house told 

police of the property owner’s ban 

on using the garage and insisted 

they never went into it.

A spokesman for 

the Detroit Police 

Department told the 

Detroit Free Press the 

remains had likely been 

there for “quite some 

time” and the body has 

been inspected, though 

no specific information 

can yet be determined 

about the cause of death 

or identity of the person.

The discovery 

emerges after two recent 

similar cases in Michigan. 

According to the Free 

Press, a 78-year old 

Hazel Park resident was 

found mummified in his home in 

2016, and a repairman in Pontiac 

discovered a mummy of a 44-year-

old woman when he was hired to 

repair her foreclosed home in 2014.

Neither the University nor the 

Wayne County Medical Examiner’s 

Office were available to comment 

on the autopsy findings at the time 

of publication.

ON THE DAILY: ‘U’ PROF AUTOPSIES FIVE-YEAR-OLD MUMMY

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DNCE performs during half time at the Orange Bowl on December 30, 2016. 

CAKE BY THE OCE AN

Gretchen Whitmer, former 

Democratic 
minority 
leader 

in the Michigan state senate 
and lecturer at the Ford School 
of Public Policy, announced 
Tuesday that she has officially 
filed the paperwork to run for 
governor of Michigan in 2018. 

Although 
a 
formal 

announcement has not yet been 
made — it is expected later this 
month — Whitmer published 
a statement on Medium and 
sent an email to her supporters 
regarding her intent to run.

“I remember when Michigan 

was bold,” Whitmer wrote in her 
email. “When we didn’t just face 
challenges — we beat them.”

Whitmer also discussed her 

desire to foster business growth, 
fight for children and families, 
and create “opportunities … to 
enjoy our land and drink pure, 
clean water.”

In the email, she also stressed 

the 
importance 
of 
actively 

working toward solutions to 
the issues the state faces. Her 
rhetoric follows themes seen in 
the 2016 presidential election 
where President-elect Donald 
Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders 
(I–Vt.) focused on messages 

of change within the political 
system.

“For too long, our leaders 

have been content to manage our 
decline. We went from leading 
the nation to lagging,” Whitmer 
wrote. “We can do better. We 
deserve better.” 

Filing the paperwork is the 

first step in Whitmer’s process 
to run, and with it she is now 
able to begin accepting financial 
contributions to her campaign.

Whitmer, 
who 
served 

in the Michigan House of 
Representatives 
from 
2000 

to 2006 and the Michigan 
Senate from 2006 to 2015, most 
recently served as the Ingham 
County prosecutor. Her term 
expired on Dec. 31, 2016. She 
is the first person to put their 
name in the 2018 gubernatorial 
race.

LSA junior Collin Kelly, the 

chair of College Democrats 

chapter at the University of 

Michigan, said while it is still 
the beginning stages of the 
race, he is optimistic about her 
strengths.

“It’s still super early; we 

don’t know who else is going to 
run,” Kelly said. “But we know 
she’s a strong candidate who 
can rally the party … We’re 
proud of all the work she’s 
done (in her past positions).”

MAYA GOLDMAN

Daily Staff Reporter

“I remember 

when Michigan 
was bold. When 
we didn’t just face 
challenges — we 

beat them” 

“For too long our 
leaders have been 
content to manage 

our decline. We 

went from leading 

the nation to 

lagging”

