More than 150 students and
faculty gathered at the University
of Michigan Museum of Art on
Thursday evening to attend “The
Art of Fashion,” a bicentennial
birthday
bash
event,
which
featured an exposition displaying
fashion
throughout
recent
decades, with a focus on vintage
clothing.
This event was co-hosted by
campus organizations MUSIC
Matters,
EnspiRED,
NOiR
Runway Fashion, Bronze Elegance
and SHEI Magazine. This is the
third annual SpringFest fashion
show and the first collective event
between these prominent fashion
organizations on campus.
Ross sophomore Ayla Ahmed,
a co-organizer of the event
and SpingFest senior producer,
introduced the exhibition and
spoke about the origins of the
show.
“It was originally devised by
MUSIC Matters as a means to
unite the fashion community on
campus,” she said.
The show featured twenty
models half from Bronze Elegance
and half from NOiR Runway
Fashion. Each of the four themes
featured five models. The first
part of the show launched into
an upbeat Renaissance-inspired
theme.
Following,
an
Asian-fusion
theme was introduced. This
theme inspired by Asian-inspired
tradition.
The
third
theme
was
represented by exclusively male
models, displaying themes of the
present, taking on a more modern
and simplistic approach.
Concluding the exhibition was
the finale, “Visions of the Future.”
Aaron
Pelo,
editor-in-chief
of SHEI Magazine, expressed
his
enthusiasm
for
working
collaboratively
with
the
UMMA and the other fashion
organizations.
“The
other
fashion
organizations are the best of the
best,” he said. “It’s absolutely
inspiring to be in their company
because they all run such good
shows. Working with the UMMA
was such a real pleasure for me,
and I think for everybody, just
because they’re such visionaries
here. I think the final show was
really a knockout.”
Ahmed was also impressed by
the final product.
“The SpringFest fashion show
in the past has always been held
in the Diag,” she said. “But this
year UMMA approached us
about partnering with them, and
I think this has been immensely
successful, having it in this artistic
space, and being able to have the
clothes influenced by the artwork
around us.”
LSA junior Yiwen Lin said this
was her second year attending
the fashion show, and she was
impressed by the change in
scenery.
“In the museum, we have
a different context,” she said.
“It’s really cool. It works very
well.”
A pair of bills creating new
tax incentives for businesses
employing Michigan residents
is moving to the Michigan
House of Representatives after
the state Senate passed it by a
32-5 vote Wednesday.
Under the bills, nicknamed
the “Good Jobs for Michigan”
program,
businesses
with
at least 250 new employees
making at least 125 percent of
the annual average wage for
their region would be able to
keep up to 100 percent of the
income taxes taken out of their
employees’ paychecks for 10
years. Businesses with at least
500 new employees making at
least 100 percent of the average
wage would receive up to a 50
percent abatement lasting five
years. The state is divided
into 10 prosperity regions,
for which the average wage is
calculated independently, but
the average salary for the state
as a whole is about $45,000.
Specifically,
the
bills
authorize
the
payment
of
withholding
tax
capture
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See TAX, Page 3
State house
set to vote
on business
tax relief
GOVERNMENT
“Good jobs for Michigan”
bill passes state senate by
32 - 5 vote on Wednesday
ANDREW HIYAMA
Daily Staff Reporter
KEVIN ZHENG/Daily
LSA student Yara Gayar walks down the runway in a fashion show hosted by EnspiRED, NOiR Runway Fashion,
Bronze Elegance and SHEI Magazine at the UMMA on Thursday.
SpringFest fashion show celebrates
history of art for bicentennial year
The event featured clothing styles from recent decades, centered on vintage
KATHERINA SOURINE
Daily Staff Reporter
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Deir Yassin Remembered,
a
local
group
famous
for
its weekly protests outside
Temple Beth Israel in Ann
Arbor, has been placed on a list
of hate groups compiled by the
Southern Poverty Law Center
under
the
subcategory
of
Holocaust denial. According to
the Washtenaw Jewish News,
Deir Yassin Remembered is
“the only sustained action
targeting a Jewish house of
worship
anywhere
in
the
United States.”
Mark
Potok,
editor-in-
chief of the SPLC’s quarterly
journal, explained the addition
in
a
recent
interview
on
Michigan Radio, stating the
group defended Nazism.
“We list them because over
the years they have come
to more and more explicitly
embrace real-life Holocaust
denial,” he said. “The kind of
Holocaust denial that these
people practice is essentially
a defense of Germany and
National Socialism.”
The group’s name references
See GROUP, Page 3
City group
designated
by SPLC as
hate group
ANN ARBOR
Deir Yassin Remembered
cited for Holocaust denial,
weekly synogogue protests
ANDREW HIYAMA
Daily Staff Reporter
Public
Health
student
Vikrant Garg, co-organizer of
activist group Students4Justice,
said he never really felt safe in
the Michigan Union until the
activist group posed its sit-in
there in February.
“It really allowed me to
imagine what an activist center
that centered people of color and
marginalized
students
could
look like,” he said.
In a different sphere of
activism,
LSA
sophomore
Amanda Delekta, the author
of
the
#NotMyCampus
petition that received over 300
signatures, penned the letter to
alert the University of Michigan
that many conservative students
didn’t feel at home or included in
the political conversation.
“I
think
#NotMyCampus
accomplished its main purpose
in first identifying there is
a
significant
conservative
population
on
campus
and
then creating a platform for
conservative students to speak
out on following the election,”
she said.
Though Delekta and Garg
differ in their methods of
activism, both are examples
of
students
involved
with
the multiple protests, sit-ins
and
petitions
that
cropped
up following the incendiary
presidential election. Though
months have passed since the
election, in terms of activism,
neither student feels like their
job is done.
“I think since the election,
the University has tried to
create forums for students to
participate in,” Delekta said.
“However, I still think there is
a long way to go before we reach
a place where students of all
ideologies are able to respect one
another.”
Students4Justice
aims
to
combat oppression and injustice
on campus. After the election,
the club hosted multiple sit-ins
and outlined a list of demands
calling for the University to
respond to bias incidents on
Activists aim
to promote
unity despite
differences
Bentley Historical Library unveils
digital Michigan Daily archive
See ACTIVISTS, Page 3
EMMA RICHTER/Daily
Bentley Historical Library Director Terrence J. McDonald speaks on the importance of University history at the unveiling of the Michigan Daily archive in the Gerald
R. Ford Presidential Library on Thursday.
GOVERNMENT
Students across the political sphere
hope to create a more inclusive campus
CARLY RYAN
Daily Staff Reporter
New collection compiles over 200,000 pages, 316 volumes spanning 125 years
Twelve decades of student
reporting,
316
volumes
of
breaking coverage and 200,000
pages of University of Michigan
news were revealed Thursday
night as the Bentley Historical
Library unveiled 125 years’
worth of digitized archives of
The Michigan Daily.
The Daily has been a facet
on campus since 1890 and has
covered both national and local
issues such as politics, social
movements, higher education
and changing demographics of
the University.
The event was attended by
student journalists, alumni and
prominent University leaders —
including University President
Mark
Schlissel
and
James
and Anne Duderstadt, former
University president and vice
president, respectively. Prior
to the digitization, previous
issues of the Daily could only be
viewed in person at the Bentley
or at the Student Publications
Building, where only bound
paper copies are available.
Now,
however,
the
new
database, consisting of digital
preservation
and
online
infrastructure of the Daily from
1890 to 2014, eliminates the
need to view physical copies and
makes all the Daily’s content
searchable
and
browsable
for alumni, researchers and
historians alike.
The
financial
support
of
the Kemp Family Foundation
is largely responsible for the
digitization.
John B. Kemp, who attended
the University as both an
undergraduate and law student
in the ’60s, has vast familial
roots at the University and
wanted to be able to view his
time at the University through
digital records of the Daily.
The Bentley has archived
similarly pertinent materials,
particularly
historical
documents,
student
records,
maps
and
University
intercollegiate
athletics
documentation.
ALEXA ST. JOHN
Managing News Editor
See BENTLEY, Page 3