In
celebration
of
the
University
of
Michigan’s
bicentennial,
the
2017
graduating class will be sent
off in style with a graduation
ceremony at Michigan Stadium
featuring
University
figures
from the past and present,
musical
performances
and
alumni award presentations.
The ceremony will be on
April 29 and will break a long-
standing tradition of seating
the graduates on the stands and
instead, seat them on the field,
so more tickets can be given
to families and friends of the
graduates.
In a University press release,
University
President
Mark
Schlissel said the event will
contribute to the year-long
bicentennial
festivities
and
will highlight the extensive
history of graduates from the
University.
“Our
bicentennial
commencement
gives
our
community
the
opportunity
to honor the graduates of the
Class of 2017, along with the
amazing 200-year-old legacy of
excellence and impact that they
are joining,” Schlissel said.
The
opening
bicentennial
fanfare,
written
by
Music,
Theatre & Dance Prof. Roshanne
Etezady, will be followed by Vice
Admiral Walter E. Carter Jr.,
A variety of panelists from
Chinese businesses, government
and media who aimed to share
their insights on the future of
economic relations between the
United States and China spoke at
the 2017 Michigan China Forum,
which was held at the Ross School
of Business over the weekend as
part of the bicentennial of the
University of Michigan.
The event, which more than 500
people attended, was organized by
the Chinese Students & Scholars
Association,
the
University’s
chapter of China Entrepreneur
Network and the University of
Michigan-Shanghai
Jiao
Tong
University Joint Institute.
Engineering senior Ziqi Guo,
president of the SJTU Student
and Alumni Association and one
of the organizers of the forum,
said he wanted to build a stronger
relationship between China and
the University by inviting leading
thinkers.
“(An) area that we really
emphasize
is
the
younger
generation,” Guo said. “We really
want to make this a platform for
students from China, the U.S. and
all countries to come together and
learn with each other and hope to
understand each other better.”
Sunday, the second day of the
event, opened with a keynote
address by Hong Lei, the Chinese
Consul General in Chicago, who
addressed the need to forge a
new and stronger Sino-American
relationship by overcoming the
two countries’ differences and
identifying shared interests.
“China’s greatest desire is to
focus our development of our
own, and improve and ensure
people’s livelihoods,” Hong said.
“To achieve this goal, China needs
to stay in harmony with the rest of
the world, including the U.S., and
achieve win-win results through
cooperation.”
Hong was joined by Brian
Connors, executive director of
the Michigan-China Innovation
Center,
who
chronicled
the
enormous strides the state of
Michigan has made in developing
strong economic ties with China,
especially in the automotive sector.
“I hope the Consul-General
would agree that … Michigan is
among the most welcoming and
the most friendly and certainly
the most active in this region
among the Midwestern states in
attracting
Chinese
investment
and building relationships with
China,” Connors said.
The keynote was followed
by a series of panels discussing
topics like U.S.-China relations,
development
of
new
media,
entrepreneurship and autonomous
vehicle technology.
One of the issues widely
discussed among the panelists
was bilateral relations under the
LSA junior Anushka Sarkar and
Public Policy junior Nadine Jawad
will serve as the 2017-18 Central
Student
Government
president
and vice president, respectively,
according
to
election
results
released early Saturday morning.
Sarkar and Jawad ran with the
eMerge party, and defeated the
second-place
Movement
Party
executive candidates Evan Rosen
and Dan Sweeney, LSA juniors, by
a margin of 4,179 votes — or more
than three times Movement’s 1,677
votes. Art & Design senior Keysha
Wall and LSA senior Lauren Kay
of the Defend Affirmative Action
Party came in third with 243 votes,
and Better Than the Rest finished
fourth with 157 votes. Student
turnout measured at 17.9 percent,
marking the lowest participation
rate since 2014.
As no complaints were filed
with
the
University
Election
Commission, Saturday’s results
were deemed official.
After
a
campaign
season
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Bicentennial
graduation
to celebrate
‘U’ alumni
Hundreds gather in Ann Arbor
to march for immigrants’ rights
See COMMENCEMENT, Page 3A
CAROLYN GEARIG/Daily
Hundreds marched from the Federal Building to the Diag in the Immigrant’s March in Ann Arbor on Saturday.
ADMINISTRATION
2017 Spring Commencement will present
awards to pertinent former, current figures
MATT HARMON
Daily Staff Reporter
The protest came in light of President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Muslim countries
Hundreds
of
protesters
braved the rain on Saturday
to gather outside the Federal
Building in Ann Arbor and
march for immigrants’ rights
in light of President Donald
Trump’s
latest
travel
ban,
which was blocked by federal
judges in Hawaii and Maryland
last week.
The
mission
of
the
Immigrants’
March
in
Ann Arbor — organized by
independent Ann Arbor resident
Brad Adam and a direct-action
organization
called
Stop
Trump Ann Arbor— included
promoting the message shared
on the event page: “No human
being is illegal.” The march also
aimed to remove Immigration
and
Customs
Enforcement
from
nearby
communities
and
challenge
the
Trump
administration’s
immigration
policies, and was a sister march
for a similar one being held in
Washington, D.C. in the near
future.
March volunteer Alexandria
Schulz, a University of Michigan
alum, joined the efforts partly
because of her own cultural
background. Schulz’s father is
an immigrant from Trinidad
CHETALI JAIN
Daily Staff Reporter
See EMERGE, Page 3A
eMerge
wins CSG
executive
positions
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
The party defeated their
main rival, Movement,
by a margin of 4,179 votes
RIYAH BASHA
& JORDYN BAKER
Daily News Editor
and Daily Staff Reporter
ROBERT BUECHLER/Daily
Hong Lei, the Consul General of China in Chicago, speaks about US-China relations at the Michigan China Forum at
the Ross School of Business on Sunday.
Michigan China forum discusses the
future of relations between the nations
Over 500 people attended the forum with prominent panel of speakers at Ross
ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
michigandaily.com
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See FORUM, Page 3A
See MARCH, Page 3A
Last week, as U.S. Senate
confirmation hearings ended for
Judge Neil Gorsuch, students
on both ends of the University
of Michigan’s campus political
spectrum expressed degrees of
satisfaction, but also disapproval
of President Donald Trump’s U.S.
Supreme Court nominee.
LSA Dean Andrew Martin
said in an interview on the LSA
website he predicts Gorsuch
would be the second most-
conservative member of the
court, according to a model
he helped develop with Kevin
Quinn from the University of
California at Berkeley’s School of
Law to measure the ideologies of
Supreme Court justices.
“Our models suggest that
he will be the second most-
conservative
justice
on
the
court, in between Samuel Alito
and Clarence Thomas, which is
exactly the same position that
Scalia took on the court,” Martin
said.
LSA junior Enrique Zalamea,
president of the University’s
chapter of College Republicans,
See SCOTUS, Page 3A
Trump’s
SCOTUS
pick draws
discontent
POLITICS
Students expressed varying
degrees of dissatisfaction
with Gorsuch selection
CALEB CHADWELL
Daily Staff Reporter
Yet another chance
The Michigan women’s
basketball team has returned
to the semifinal of the
Women’s National Invitation
Tournament for the third
consecutive year.
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