Students at the University 

are taking “going green” to 
another level. 

With 
the 
recent 

construction 
of 
two 
solar 

pavilions, students will now 
be able to socialize while 
powering 
their 
phones, 

laptops 
and 
tablets 
on 

renewable energy on campus. 
The two pavilions are located 
near Palmer Commons on 
Central Campus and the Bob 
and Betty Beyster Building on 
North Campus, respectively.

Business 
junior 
Grant 

Faber, 
vice 
president 
of 

Students for Clean Energy, the 
organization which facilitated 
the 
initiative, 
shared 
the 

group’s 
intention 
for 
the 

pavilions.

After receiving a $25,000 

grant from the Planet Blue 
Student Innovation Fund, the 
Students for Clean Energy 
purchased the pavilions from 
Harvest 
Energy 
Solutions. 

Each pavilion is made up of a 
315W solar panel, LED lights 
for night use, an energy-
storage 
battery, 
four 
AC 

outlets and six USB ports.

“It 
creates 
an 
outdoor, 

solar-powered workspace that 
would serve as an open-air 
space for student collaboration 
and learning, all powered 
by clean energy,” Faber said. 
“Students can now use these 
pavilions day or night for 

studying and hanging out, and 
they will be able to charge 
their devices using 100 percent 
clean energy while doing so.”

University 
alum 
Jayson 

Toweh, former president of 
Students for Clean Energy, 
has high hopes for the solar-
powered pavilions.

“I hope people get more 

of 
an 
awareness 
about 

renewable 
technology 
and 

for more students to have an 

opportunity to engage with 
it,” Toweh said.

The mission of Students 

for 
Clean 
Energy 
is 
to 

encourage the University of 
Michigan to utilize cleaner 
and more renewable sources 
of energy. According to Faber, 
this project helps further 
these goals by helping raise 
awareness about clean energy, 
working to combat climate 
change and attempting to 

begin a motion to reduce 
dependence on foreign oils.

LSA sophomore Anna Kang 

shared her thoughts on the 
new solar pavilions.

“I think people too often 

forget 
about 
how 
their 

decisions 
now 
create 
the 

world of tomorrow,” Kang 
said. “Renewable energy is a 
focus on creating a healthier 
earth for generations to come, 

LSA Dean Andrew D. Martin 

confirmed faculty will place a 
special emphasis on ensuring 
professors hold their exams 
solely during the designated 
exam period in the upcoming 
academic year.

“For many years, the LSA 

Faculty Code—the governing 
document of the LSA faculty—
has mandated that all faculty 
members refrain from having 
final exams on the last day 
of class or during an earlier 
instructional 
time,” 
Martin 

wrote in an email to the Daily.

Students 
who 
still 
have 

classes going on at the time of 
certain exams say they have 
found this to be difficult, while 
others say they appreciate the 
chance to focus on other finals 
or have a lengthier break. 
Regardless, Martin said there 
are adverse consequences in 
pushing up finals they will be 
addressing.

“We’ve 
learned 
from 

conversations 
with 
our 

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LSA final
exam policy 
to change,
dean says 

ACADEMICS

Dean Andrew Martin 
aims to reduce having 
exams on last day of class

CARLY RYAN & 
KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporters

COURTESY OF MATTHAEI BOTANICAL GARDENS & NICHOLS ARBORETUM

An example of a solar panel installation, the Michigan Solar House is located in the Matthaei Botanical Gardens.

Two solar pavilions constructed to 
contribute to ‘U’ sustainability efforts

Grant funds solar panels built at Palmer Common, Bob and Betty Beyster buildings

CORY ZAYANCE
Daily Staff Reporter

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See SOLAR, Page 3
What first started as a 

simple, local business venture 
was shut down when fears of 
customer disapproval became 
priority.

Underground 
Printing 

stopped 
selling 
political 

merchandise last month in an 
effort to stay politically neutral, 
according 
to 
Underground 

Printing 
co-owner 
Rishi 

Narayan.

The company, which began 

when co-owners Narayan and 
Ryan Gregg were students at 
the University of Michigan 
in 2001, is primarily a custom 
T-shirt company. With two 
retail stores in Ann Arbor and 
several more on other college 
campuses around the country, 
it has established itself as a 
major college apparel outfitter.

The 
company 
also 
sells 

printed apparel on Amazon. 
Last 
year, 
it 
began 
to 

experiment 
with 
selling 

political 
merchandise, 
and 

released “Not My President” 
shirts and “Make America 
Great Again” apparel.

Narayan said the decision to 

See PRINTING, Page 3

Local shop
under fire
for political 
shirt sales

BUSINESS

Underground Printing 
removed merchandise 
from online after backlash

MAYA GOLDMAN

Daily Staff Reporter

Canadian 
singer-

songwriter 
Mac 
DeMarco 

will be the latest musician 
to grace the University of 
Michigan’s campus thanks to 
a performance slated for Oct. 
21 at Hill Auditorium.

In bringing DeMarco to 

campus, student group Big 
Ticket Productions seeks to 
shake up the general type of 
artists who have come to Ann 
Arbor more recently.

“Looking at the past four 

years, I can’t think of a show 
that was booked by a student 
org at Hill that expanded 
beyond the rap realm so we 
made it one of our goals for 
this 
term,” 
said 
Business 

senior 
Daniel 
Madion, 

artist booker for Big Ticket 
Productions.

Additionally, the change 

of pace is something that 
has been quietly desired by 
students on campus as well.

“Before booking this year’s 

show, we sent out anonymous 
surveys around campus and 
one of the major themes was 
getting a new sound in Hill,” 
Madion said.

DeMarco’s Hill Auditorium 

appearance 
is 
a 
one-off 

performance 
for 
Michigan 

before he ships off for the 
European leg of his tour, 
according to Big Ticket. The 
performance also doubles as 
DeMarco’s first time playing 
in Ann Arbor.

“Not to say that we don’t 

love bringing hip-hop artists 
to campus — they’ve each 
been amazing shows — but 
this year we’re excited to 
represent a different genre 
of music,” Madion said. “Mac 
is 
an 
incredibly 
talented 

musician and we’re so excited 
to have him play.”

Tickets to the performance 

will start at $15 for students 
with valid UM IDs and $25 
for the public. Tickets will 
be available both online and 
in-person at Michigan Union 
Ticket Office beginning Sept. 
7 at 9 a.m.

Big Ticket
Productions 
to host Mac 
DeMarco

College of Engineering to complete 
drone testing facility by end of year

AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily

Nao, a robot used for a project in the developmental psychology department, is just one example of the University’s commitment to cutting edge robotic technology.

ARTS

Canadian musician to perform at 
Hill Auditorium on October 21

ANAY KATYAL

Managing Arts Editor

Transport, military purposes, data collection all possibilities with new space

It’s not a bird, it’s not a 

plane, it’s a new improvement 
to robotics research at the 
University. 

Construction 
began 
last 
month 

for the College of Engineering’s 
new, 9,600-square-foot, 50-foot-
high, 
state-of-the-art 
drone-

testing facility, and will be 
completed by the end of the 
year according to a University of 
Michigan press release. S. Jack 

Hu, vice president for research, 
said the facility will be the best 
of its kind.

“We’re giving our students and 

faculty the most comprehensive, 
safe testing facilities possible 
for these vehicles, which hold 
great promise for a wide range 
of applications,” Hu said.

Varying in size, drones have 

the potential to be used for 
military purposes, transport, 
environmental 
surveillance, 

data collection and package 
delivery, among other things.

The $800,000 project, dubbed 

M-Air, will be a netted, outdoor 
facility, 
which 
aerospace 

engineering 
professor 
Ella 

Atkins says allows testing to be 
as realistic as possible while still 
remaining safe.

“The reason it’s important 

to have an outdoor facility is 
a lot of the hardest questions 
in 
handling 
these 
vehicles 

involve imperfect navigation, 
bad weather, wind, the kind 
of 
environmental 
conditions 

that you can’t really create 
in an indoor space,” she said. 
“It’s just too perfect indoors –– 

the temperature, lighting, no 
precipitation.”

Federal 
Aviation 

Administration 
regulations 

restrict 
researchers 
to 

conducting 
outdoor 
drone 

flights at low altitudes, and only 
to where they can still be seen 
by the operator. Additionally, 
outdoor drone flights on the 
University’s 
campus 
must 

go 
through 
a 
University 

approval 
process 
to 
avoid 

interference 
with 
University 

hospital helicopters and other 

ANDREW HIYAMA

Daily Staff Reporter

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