attending the speech had to have their bags and belongings searched prior to entering Palmer Commons, and they were once again searched before entering the room where the speech would be held. LSA senior Ben Decatur, co-chair of the AEI Executive Council at the University, introduced Murray and spoke on the right of free speech and the importance of that right. He went on to discuss the potential for protest and invited any protesters to engage with the speaker instead of attempting to prevent Murray from speaking. “If the hosts of tonight’s program, in collaboration with University representatives, believe that the protesters are interfering unduly with the speaker’s freedom of expression, those protesters will be warned by a University administrator,” Decatur said. “If warnings are not heeded and interference continues, the individuals responsible may be removed from the building.” Decatur turned the podium over to Murray, who was met with a mixture of cheers and boos. As Murray began to speak, a student in the audience began playing the theme song for the introduction of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies. The audience raised signs accusing Murray of being a white supremacist and a racist. Students in the back of the audience began to set off alarms on their phones to drown out the words of Murray. After only 10 minutes, the speech was brought to a grinding halt, as the protesters turned off the lights and projected the words “White Supremacist” behind Murray as they chanted “Racist, Sexist, KKK, Charles Murray go away.” Students began taking turns to scramble up to the front of the room to interrupt Murray and read pre-written speeches of their own. After the first protester read off their speech accusing Murray of wanting the protester dead because of his Iranian heritage, LSA senior Farid Alsabeh confronted the protesters for denying him the right to listen to what Murray had to say. When the event had concluded, Alsabeh spoke on why he felt the need to speak out. “When I saw that people’s first instinct was to infringe on my right to listen to a public intellectual at a public institution I felt like I just had to say: ‘Listen, you’re making it too much about yourself. Can we please think about the other people who are just here to listen to ideas?’” he said. In an interview prior to the speech, Murray pushed back on what he thinks are misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of his work and his beliefs. “The characterization of me as a white supremacist or a white nationalist or any of the various other things is unaccompanied by any direct evidence that I believe any of that stuff,” Murray said. Murray said the reason college campuses have become hostile to speakers, such as himself, can be attributed to the anger that has arisen from the election of President Trump. Murray also stated college students have become more sensitive over the past decade and he believes this is primarily due to the rise of identity politics. Murray spent the next portion of the event debating with a student of color at the podium over whether “The Bell Curve” supports the idea that Blacks are less intelligent than whites. After the student left the podium, the audience turned to a different tactic to attempt to disrupt Murray’s speech. Instead of chanting, the audience instead tried to completely ignore Murray by putting in earbuds, reading books and opening copies of newspapers in front of their faces. being led by Facebook, Google and Microsoft,” Pennebaker said. “What is beginning to happen now is we are getting these two groups of people who are now at this point where we are able to start talking to each other and take advantage of generations of really solid social science that has not been informed by giant data.” Information graduate student Kristen McGarry was in attendance and echoed Pennebaker’s sentiment specifically with the collaboration between the research and corporate spheres. McGarry noted how the corporate sponsors of the symposium such as TD Ameritrade and Mercury Fund demonstrate the corporate interest in data science. “Data is growing so much, you kind of need both people to join together to continue progressing,” McGarry said. Rackham student Jeff Lockhart, assistant organizer of the symposium, expressed how this interdisciplinary future of data science is a central mission of MIDAS and the symposium. “MIDAS has twin goals of getting researchers together in the same room from different disciplines and … it funds a lot of projects,” Lockhart said. Lockhart described how MIDAS has been successful in bringing people together and funding projects in its short existence. A poster showcase at the event featuring more than 50 research projects across the University relating to data science emphasized the scope of the symposium. The MIDAS Initiatives Panel featuring leaders within MIDAS’s research initiatives continued the symposium’s interdisciplinary focus. Carol Flannagan, the principal investigator of MIDAS’s Transportation Challenge Project, spoke during the panel about how it has helped her research on transportation safety to include perspectives from the social sciences, statistics and engineering. “One of the very cool things about what MIDAS is supporting and encouraging is these very large multidisciplinary teams,” Flannagan said. “I am working with people from all over campus, from different schools and colleges and people I have not worked with previously.” MIDAS members are excited for the future of the institute as the symposium came to a close at the institute’s new space in Weiser Hall. While Hero accounted for the weather being a key reason attendance was lower than expected, he also expressed excitement for the global audience of more than 4,000 viewers the symposium attracted via livestream. A sign, he believes, of the growing number of people interested in the work of MIDAS and the future of data science. 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WHO: Engineering Human Resources WHEN: 9 a.m. to noon WHERE: Duderstadt Cemter, Advanced Training Lab 2 Leaders and Culture Workshop WHAT: A workshop for supervisors and managers to motivate and empower their team members with University resources. Registration required. WHO: Engineering Human Resources WHEN: 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. WHERE: Lurie Engineering Center, Johnson Rooms A, B and C happening here,” Case said. “Part of this is how to turn what some call the Rustbelt into much more of a startup-belt.” Business graduate student Connor Burleigh thought the amount of venture capital Ann Arbor received was significant. “Ann Arbor gets half of the venture of the state; that’s huge,” Burleigh said. “Communities can’t be separate, it has to be Southeast Michigan as a single ecosystem.” Gov. Rick Snyder agreed with Case, and discussed Michigan’s ingenuity and leadership in combining the IT field and automotive industry. “We have that Midwestern humility, but we need to be louder and prouder,” Snyder said. “We need ambassadors for our city and state to speak up and tell our story.” After an introductory breakfast, tour members of Rise of the Rest set out to begin a string of visits with Ann Arbor startups. They spent time at Mcity, Duo Security, A2 Engage, FarmLogs, NutShell, CaHoots and TechArb. In Case’s opinion, one the most important methods to propel a startup community to higher levels of success is telling the community’s story. “Not only do most people in the community not know what the success stories are, but the vast majority of people outside of those communities don’t know what those stories are,” Case said. “Ann Arbor is doing really, really well and most people in other parts of the country don’t know how well it’s doing.” Later in the day, Case and a panel of business experts held a “fireside chat” to discuss in more detail the importance of startup communities and the challenges they face in expanding and developing. Dan Gilbert, founder of Quicken Loans Inc., and J.D. Vance, best-selling author of “Hillbilly Elegy,” joined Case on the panel. Mary Grove, director of Google for Entrepreneurs, was another panel member. One key topic of discussion was the relationship between Ann Arbor and Detroit. Panelists noted innovation, while one of the main focuses within each city, has not managed to bring the two together. They commented on the importance of bridging the gap between Ann Arbor and Detroit and how this coalition can bring prosperity to the region. Business graduate student Tobi Ogundipe agreed with the panelists and believes this connection is important to draw in investors. “My biggest takeaway was Dan Gilbert honing in on the threads of connection between Ann Arbor and Detroit,” Ogundipe said. “The talent is here and the companies are coming to Ann Arbor and Detroit; it makes sense to combine these together.” Read more at MichiganDaily.com ENTREPRENEUR From Page 1A DATA From Page 1A Read more at MichiganDaily.com