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

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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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