Donned in maize and blue 

T-shirts that read “Michigan 
Grandpa” 
and 
“Michigan 

Mom,” Freddy Kennett and 
Robby Hauldren took the stage 
at Ann Arbor’s Hill Auditorium 
for Music Matters’s annual 
SpringFest. Five months ago, 
the duo electrified the crowd 
at Detroit’s Masonic Temple 
with a phenomenal rundown 
through 
their 
discography, 

but last night’s performance 
was 
different. 
After 
trips 

to both Europe and South 
America 
for 
a 
tour 
with 

Whethan and performances 
for 
Lollapalooza’s 
regional 

tour 
respectively, 
Kennett 

and Hauldren seemed to have 
a stronger grasp of how to 
transform an EDM show from 
a disk-spinning display of 
their content into a dynamic 
and engaging experience.

With new music to work 

with, like their beat tape 
Honey, Kennett and Hauldren 
layered tracks left and right. 
Their 
famed 
release, 
“It’s 

Strange,” normally reserved 
for the show’s encore, was 
thrown in mid-set with the 

heavy beat of “Drip Drip” 
in 
the 
background. 
They 

also paid their respects to 
electronic 
music 
pioneers, 

Justice, with a remix of the 
group’s hit track “D.A.N.C.E.” 
Still, they didn’t shy away from 
unadulterated crowd-pleasing 
hits, ending the evening with 
their most recent blow-up 
track, “Last To Leave.” All 
in all, the performance was 
engaging and unpredictable, 
aspects that can be hard to 
come by at EDM shows, where 

songs are often played in 
isolation with no regard for 
live arrangement.

The show’s opening acts, 

Miller Guth and Lost Kings, 
also 
put 
on 
impressive 

performances, 
with 
the 

typically 
pop-driven 
Lost 

Kings 
toying 
with 
head-

banging bass drops. These 
acts, plus a more artistically 
mature Louis The Child, made 
this 
year’s 
SpringFest 
an 

absolute success.

In commemoration of the 50th 

anniversary of Martin Luther 
King Jr.’s passing, the Ford School 
of Public Policy held a policy 
talk Wednesday evening on the 
prospects of the healthcare in the 
United States and the Affordable 
Care Act. The talk began with an 
introduction from Law professor 
Michael Barr.

Barr 
highlighted 
King’s 

work during his “Poor People’s” 
campaign, which was designed 
to draw attention to U.S. poverty 
in the late 1960s with special 
attention to poor health care.

“Of all the forms of inequality, 

injustice in health care is the most 
shocking and inhumane,” King 
said at a 1966 Medical Committee 
for Human Rights convention. 

The talk was moderated by 

Public Policy professor Paula 
Lantz, who explained the context 
of the ACA during its creation 
under President Barack Obama’s 
administration, as well as current 
disparagement 
by 
President 

Donald Trump’s administration.

The ACA introduced new 

restrictions on health care: With 
few exceptions, citizens were 
required to obtain health care 
coverage, 
allowing 
states 
to 

expand their Medicaid programs 
to those who previously didn’t 
qualify. 
However, 
critics 
of 

the ACA point out its cost and 
inequitable distributions among 
classes.

Lantz asked panelists where 

the Affordable Care Act stands 
today, and how it has changed 
under the Trump administration 
after an agressive but ultimately 
doomed campaign to ‘repeal 
and replace.’ Economist Gail 
Wilensky, 
former 
President 

George H.W. Bush’s senior health 
and welfare adviser, opened the 
debate by noting she believes 
the Trump administration has 
passed very little legislation with 
regard to the act the threat of 
repeal.

“Despite the efforts of not 

very 
effective 
Republicans 

in Congress, there has been 
precious little change on the ACA 
in terms of participation both 
by individuals and insurance 
companies,” Wilensky said.

Jonathan 
Cohn, 
a 
senior 

national correspondent at the 
Huffington Post, identified two 
main successes of the ACA. First, 
he argued, the ACA has increased 
human welfare and access to care 
through its national coverage 

expansion.

“These aren’t just numbers 

and stats, these are really people 
getting health care,” Cohn said.

Second, 
Cohn 
noted 
the 

ACA 
has 
changed 
political 

conversation and expectations 
of what the government should 
provide its people. Even though 
the ACA has been criticized by 
many, those same critics do not 
support absolute repeal.

John 
Ayanian, 
a 
health 

Natural-foods store Better 

Health is relocating from its 
East Stadium Street location 
to Washtenaw Avenue, where 
it will rebrand itself as Better 
Health Market and Café. The 
new health produce store will 
open April 12 with its grand 
opening on April 18, and will 
feature an expanded selection 
of produce, in-house food and 
kombucha on tap.

Owner Tedd Handlesman 

wanted 
to 
offer 
customers 

other options besides vitamins 
and supplements, so he chose 
to expand Better Health to sell 
more produce and prepared 
foods.

“Our mission is our name, 

to help improve and better 
the health of everyone that 
patrons 
our 
establishment,” 

Handlesman said. “We want 
to continue to grow and to do 
that with new markets and 
locations.”

In addition to the Nature’s 

Kitchen Café, the new location 
will feature a kombucha bar. 
Here, 
customers 
will 
have 

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LEO to strike next week 
pending ‘U’ salary proposal

Louis the Child headlines 
SpringFest, shows growth 

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Panelist Gail Wilensky discusses issues surrounding current health care policies at the Annenberg Auditorium Wednesday. 

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Students attend SpringFest’s Louis the Child concert at Hill Auditorium 
Wednesday Night.

ARTS

Group authorizes picket lines April 9 and 10 if demands are not satisfied

Members of the Lecturers’ 

Employee 
Organization 
will 

strike on April 9 and 10 if the 
University of Michigan does 
not satisfy their demands for 
significant 
salary 
increases 

before Sunday. LEO members 
voted Wednesday evening to 
authorize the action. 

Last 
week, 
lecturers 

authorized 
union 
leadership 

to call for a walkout and 
have showed “overwhelming 
support” for them to do so, LEO 
President Ian Robinson said.

“There 
is 
absolutely 
no 

question of our resolve on this,” 
Robinson said after a general 
membership meeting in Ann 
Arbor. “All three campuses are 
in unity on this — for going 
forward with our strike plan 
if we do not have an adequate 
offer on the table by Sunday.”

After 
several 
additional 

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Daily Staff Reporter

See HEALTH, Page 3A

Health cafe 
and market 
relocating, 
expanding

BUSINESS

Organic, natural food store 
BetterHealth is moving 
centrally after rebrand

CORY ZAYANCE
Daily Staff Reporter

Ford panel talks current-day status 
of Affordable Care Act, life of MLK

HuffPost Senior reporter Jonathon Cohn, joined by Public Policy professors

ABBY TAKAS
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Daily Arts writers delve into 
the subject of how disability 

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from film to music to TV.

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Particularly 
in 
student 

neighborhoods 
surrounding 

the University of Michigan, 
poor 
lighting 
continues 
to 

be a cause for concern, as 
many students and Ann Arbor 
residents draw a correlation 
between 
frequent 
campus 

crime alerts, pedestrian safety 
and poor street lighting.

Online 
crime 
statistics 

highlight 
a 
potential 

correlation between crime in 
the city and poorly lit areas. 
According to February 2018 
data from the Ann Arbor 
Observer Crime Map, crime 
concentrates around areas like 
Packard or State Street. The 
most common crimes in these 
areas are burglaries, followed 
by slightly lower instances of 
robbery and sexual assault. 
Instances 
of 
burglary 
and 

robbery in 2017 also spiked in 
October 
through 
December 

— though in 2016, crime was 
much higher in the spring — 
especially around areas like 
North State and Packard Street.

Packard was one of a few 

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See LEO, Page 3A

Street light 
lacking in 
off-campus 
community 

COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

Residents draw correlation 
between crime statistics
and inadequate lighting

GRACE KAY

Daily Staff Reporter

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