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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Art Opening
WHAT: The Residential
College will be hosting a
reception to commemorate
the unveiling of an art exhibit
featuring the work of RC
seniors, which will be open
through April 29.
WHO: Residential College
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: East Quad, RC Art
Gallery
Music Recital
WHAT: Zachary David Crowle, a
Music, Theatre & Dance student,
will be performing selected pieces
from composers such as Schubert,
Bizet, Ives, Mendelssohn and
Schumer on the baritone horn.
WHO: School of Music, Theater
& Dance
WHEN: 8 p.m.
WHERE: McIntosh Theater
Social Psychology
Lecture
WHAT: Spike Lee, a professor
at the Rotman School of
Management, will be giving a
talk about the psychology of
mind-body relationships.
WHO: Deptartment of
Psychology
WHEN: 11 a.m. to noon
WHERE: East Hall, Room 4448
Pirates of Penzance
WHAT: The University of
Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan
Society is hosting a showing of
the 1879 classic play “Pirates of
Penzance.” This is the first night
of the performance series.
WHO: University of Michigan
Gilbert and Sullivan Society
WHEN: 8 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.
WHERE: Lydia Mendelssohn
Theater
Clements Library: A
Century of Collecting,
1903 - 2016
WHAT: An open house at the
Clements Library to display the
maps, manuscripts, books and
prints in the collections.
WHO: William L. Clements
Library
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: William Clements
Library, Avenir Foundation Room
6th Annual Sankofa Film
Series
WHAT: The UM Detroit
Center will be hosting a film
viewing featuring five films
highlighting life in the inner city,
mass incarceration and Black
nationalism.
WHO: UM Detroit Center
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Detroit Center
Board Games at Markley
WHAT: The residents of
Markley Residence Hall will have
the opportunity to gather for a
bonding event featuring a wide
selection of board games and
WiiU games.
WHO: Casual Gaming Club
WHEN: 9 p.m. to midnight
WHERE: Mary Markley
Residence Hall
Santa Fe Institute
Symposium
WHAT: A daylong symposium
about contemporary and ancient
topics in ecology and evolutionary
biology.
WHO: The Center for the Study
of Complex Systems
WHEN: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham Graduate
School, fourth floor
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The Cube on the University
of Michigan’s campus, located
next to the Michigan Union, is
a staple for prospective student
tours, Instagram picture and club
meetings. Now, thanks to a group of
Michigan Engineering students, a
new cube has come to campus — this
time, in the form of a Rubik’s Cube
on North Campus.
The project, which was unveiled
on Thursday in the southwest
corner on the second floor of the
G.G. Brown Building, was created
and designed by two teams of
mechanical engineering students.
The first group of students —
Kelsey Hockstad, Dan Hiemstra,
Martin Harris and Samuelina
Wright — worked on the cube for
two years, but graduated in 2016. A
new group of students took over the
project this year, with the original
team advising them.
The idea for the cube came on
Pi Day in 2014, when two students
were hanging out in the College of
Engineering honors office, playing
with a Rubik’s Cube. Suddenly, one
of the students in the office, Harris,
had a groundbreaking idea: He
wanted to make a massive version, as
a competitor to the cube on Central
Campus.
Harris, who now works as an
engineer for Herman Miller in
Holland, has always liked playing
with Rubik’s Cubes, according to a
Detroit Free Press article.
“The Rubik’s Cube has been a
consistent source of relaxation and
mystery for me over the years, which
is what I love most about it,” he said.
“Since high school, I have thought
of it as a physical representation of
entropy. By inputting enough work,
it’s possible to make the cube more
organized, but its natural tendency is
toward chaos.”
The idea got approved as a
capstone senior design project,
and so, a group of mechanical
engineering students were tasked
with creating a cube that people
would be able to spin from all sides.
“This is a truly amazing and
unique kinematic mechanism that
functions as a Rubik’s Cube,” Noel
Perkins, a professor of mechanical
engineering and adviser to the
students, said in the same article.
Perkins noted the production
of the cube is especially impressive,
given the size of the project.
“There
is no other
human-
manipulable
cube like
this, to the
best of our
knowledge,”
he said. “So
to be very
precise, it is
the world’s
largest
stationary,
human-manipulable Rubik’s Cube.”
Engineering senior Ryan Kuhn,
one of the developers and producers
of the project, is excited about having
a cube on North Campus that can
compete with the Central Campus
landmark.
“Now North Campus has an
iconic cube of our own,” he said.
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City Council will go ahead with
a vote on a $10 million contract to
sell the downtown Library Lot
to Chicago-based real estate firm
Core Spaces during its April 17
meeting, despite the raising of legal
questions regarding the contract
by
former
Councilmember
Stephen Kunselman.
Kunselman raised concerns
the sale of the lot to a private firm
would jeopardize the tax-exempt
status of the Build America
Bonds that were used to fund
construction of the surface and
underground parking lots the
Library Lot is currently used for.
Should the council approve the
contract, the city will still continue
operation of the underground lot.
According to Councilmember
Zachary Ackerman (D–Ward 3),
the contract does not put the status
of the bonds at risk, based on the
legal advice of Dykema Gossett
PLLC, the city’s outside bond
counsel. One of Kunselman’s main
concerns was that a 2012 memo
from Dykema was not signed and
did not carry legal weight.
“Basically, the 8/9/12 Bond
Counsel memo was written in
response to the ‘hypothetical’
and certainly one would expect
Bond Counsel to stand by their
‘unnamed and unsigned’ advice
on the ‘hypothetical’ cause they
can’t be held accountable for that
if the Core Space ‘private use’
proposal of the ‘bond financed
facility’ is found to ‘jeopardize the
tax-advantage status of the bonds,’
“ Kunselman wrote in an email
Thursday to the council.
Ackerman confirmed that even
if the legal advice from Dykema
were invalid, it is insured, meaning
any cost incurred to the city as
a result would be covered by
Dykema.
“So this issue was put to
rest five years ago, and like a
lot of things, information gets
buried over time, especially
when they’re legal findings,”
Ackerman said. “It re-emerged
now, as we’re approaching the
vote, and the concern is that this
memo from our bond counsel,
Dykema, was never signed.
We have since confirmed with
Dykema that they still hold their
finding to be true, and that any
memo issued to a client is legally
justifiable and covered by their
insurance.”
Responding to the email from
Kunselman, Mary Joan Fales,
a senior assistant city attorney,
noted the absence of a signature
on the memo did not invalidate
the advice or its insurance.
“Dykema’s
professional
insurance
coverage
applies
to legal advice rendered in a
memorandum to a client to the
same extent as legal advice
rendered in the form of an
opinion letter,” she wrote.
“Neither the manner in which
the legal advice is rendered
nor the inclusion or absence
of a signature create any
liability exposure for the City
or alters the City’s right to rely
on the legal advice provided.
Bond Counsel has specifically
confirmed
applicability
of
insurance
coverage
and
that
the
memorandum
was
prepared
with
the
understanding the City would
be relying on it.”
In his email, Kunselman
suggested
an
alternative
revenue-generating plan for
use of the Library Lot ––
building another library. This,
he noted, didn’t run the risk of
using the bond-funded lot for
a private purpose, and the plot
of land across the street, on
which the current downtown
district library stands, could
be sold for private use.
City Council to vote on Library Lot
sale despite legal questions on deal
Former Councilmember Stephen Kunselman raised concerns regarding the contract
ANDREW HIYAMA
Daily Staff Reporter
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