Tragedy struck this weekend 

at A2 STEAM, a K-8 Ann Arbor 
public magnet school program 
housed in Northside Elementary 
School, when a fire Saturday 
night killed several chickens 
being raised by A2 STEAM 
students.

The fire department was 

called about 9:20 p.m. with a 
report of flames on the side 
of the school. According to 
Derek Wiseley, Ann Arbor Fire 
Battalion chief, when firefighters 
arrived on the scene, they found 
the adjacent chicken coop to be 
on fire.

The fire was put out within 

20 minutes of the call, but the 
firefighters were unable to save 
four of the coop’s five chickens. 
The surviving chicken is being 
cared for at a local animal 
hospital and is expected to 
survive.

The incident has taken a 

toll on A2 STEAM students and 
families, Wiseley told MLive. 
Parents and teachers came to the 

school Saturday night to offer 
help and assess the damage.

“It’s a big deal for these kids 

and the parents and everybody,” 
Wiseley said. “There were some 
parents on the scene that were 

clearly upset.”

- MAYA GOLDMAN

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ON THE DAILY: NO MORE CHICKENS CROSSING THE ROAD

Rep. 
John 
Sarbanes, 

D-Md., attended a roundtable 
discussion 
with 
University 

of 
Michigan 
students 
in 

the School of Public Policy 
Monday, discussing the issues 
of 
“big-money” 
politics, 

gerrymandering 
and 
the 

hyperpolarized 
partisanship 

that he says has developed in 
Congress.

Sarbanes 
started 
by 

explaining a unique solution 
to eliminate big donors from 
controlling 
a 
politician’s 

campaign 
funding. 
He 

proposed 
small-donor 

matching 
for 
campaign 

funding, with an accompanied 
federal tax credit.

Sarbanes claimed this would 

enable voters to “reclaim their 
democracy.”

“The average citizen feels 

like their voice is not being 
heard,” Sarbanes said, “Young 
people have an important role 
to play in figuring out new 
approaches to our politics that 
can be more empowering.”

Public 
Policy 
professor 

Richard 
Hall 
moderated 

the 
discussion. 
He 
said 

he 
appreciated 
Sarbanes’s 

position 
on 
money 
and 

campaigning.

 “(Sarbanes) is the leader in 

the house on campaign finance 
reform … (which) hasn’t gained 
much traction in a very long 
time,” 
he 
said, 
explaining 

the importance of smaller 
donations.

When 
discussing 

gerrymandering, Sarbanes said 

he supports the Redistricting 
Reform Act of 2017, which 
would authorize nonpartisan 
groups to redraw the districts’ 
lines to eliminate politicized 
districts.

This 
is 
a 
significant 

conversation 
in 
Maryland, 

especially 
in 
Sarbanes’s 

district, where large cities 
and communities are greatly 
divided among districts, he 

explained.

He 
said 
computers 

now dictate district lines, 
where 
they 
construct 

districts with “precincts 
not 
communities,” 

as 
top 
priority. 

Gerrymandering 
in 

Michigan is also largely 
debated.

Public Policy junior 

Jeryne 
Fish, 
whose 

home is in Sarbanes’s 
district, said she’s glad 
Sarbanes 
addressed 

topics important to her, 
such as the cynicism 
between politician and 
constituent.

“I think it is rare that 

everyday 
citizens, 
let 

alone one’s our age, can 
sit down and talk to him 
to ask these questions,” 
she 
said. 
“(Sarbanes) 

talking to our generation 
is a step in the right 
direction because all too 
many times politicians 
say that they don’t have 
the time.” 

Maryland representative calls 
for voters to “reclaim democracy”

Rep. Sarbanes, D-Md., criticizes gerrymandering and partisan politics

CATHERINE NEWHAM

For the Daily

The average 

citizen feels like 
their voice is not 

being heard

