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Thursday, July 26, 2018

INDEX

Vol. CXXVII, No. 125 © 2018 The Michigan Daily
michigandaily.com

NEWS ....................................
OPINION ...............................
ARTS......................................
MiC.........................................
SPORTS................................

MICHIGAN IN COLOR
The joys of eat-
ing

Discovering history, culture

and family through food


>> SEE PAGE 9

NEWS
Admissions

U-M eliminates the

optional SAT/ACT writing

requirement.

>> SEE PAGE 2

OPINION

Eyes wide shut

Columnist Ethan Kessler

discusses Trump, North

Korea and the media


>> SEE PAGE 4

ARTS

“Mamma Mia” is
triumphant

The movie-musical hits all

the right notes
>> SEE PAGE 6

SPORTS
Man Utd. vs.
Liverpool

The Daily breaks down

things to know for the

International Champions

Cup held at the Big House.

>> SEE PAGE 10

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A talk with Maureen Riley,
director of one of the art fairs

Maureen Riley
discusses how
the Art Fair has
grown over time

By JACK BRANDON

Summer Managing Arts Editor

The Annual Ann Arbor Art Fair
took place last Thursday through
Sunday, bringing artists, vendors,
shoppers and spectators who lined
the blocks of South University,
North University, Main, Liberty
and State. For a town that sees
older teens and twenty-somethings
most of the year, Ann Arbor in the
summertime can fall into a lull.
The Art Fair brings a much needed
pulse of energy to midsummer ease
of downtown.
In a phone interview with the
Daily, Maureen Riley, executive
director of the Ann Arbor Street
Art Fair, The Original, delved into
the history of the Art Fair. Riley

said that beginning in 1960, the
art fair was put forth as an idea by
one of the merchants in the South
University area. “It was pre-mall,
and all of the shopping was in
town,” Riley said. “When all of the
students went away in the summer,
those businesses needed extra
help.”
The fair, which boasted three
music stages, over 1,000 artists,
and an expectation of 500,000
visitors according to M-Live, is in
its 59th year. Despite its longevity,
Riley says through the decades, the
Fair’s mission has remained largely
the same: to drive business into
downtown Ann Arbor during the
quiet of summer and to promote
knowledge and appreciation of art.
“The State Street Art Fair and the
South University Art Fair all have
business within their footprint
that participate within their fairs,”
Riley said, “particularly State
Street. There are merchants from
the stores on the street. That’s part
of the fun of Ann Arbor.”
In other ways, however, the

phenomenon that is the Ann
Arbor Art Fair has splintered and
shifted. In beginning, the first
artist markets were only hosted on
South University. After the events’
repeated successes, year after year,
the State Street area created a fair
of its own. “I believe that was ’67.
So there were two,” Riley said. She
continued, “there were so many
artists that wanted to be part of it,
and it had been very successful for
the South University businesses.”
The Art Fair continued to grow
into the aughts, and two more fairs
would spring up. A group of artists
started the Free Fair, in which they
sold their wares on blankets in the
diag, but the University put the
kibosh on that. “Ultimately, that
became the guild of artists and
artisans in the summer art fair.
Which is why the summer art fair
has two locations: a few blocks on
state street adjacent to the diag,
because they started there,” Riley

Nassar appeals
abuse sentence

Former USA gymnastics
coach challenges
objectivity of judge

By GRACE KAY

Summer Managing News Editor

Larry Nassar, former USA Gymnastics and
MSU physician sentenced to 40 to 175 years in
prison for sexual abuse, filed for a retrial and
asked for a new sentencing hearing as well as
a new judge to hear his case.
Nassar’s appeal claims Judge Rosemarie
Aquilina of the Ingham County Case used
the hearing as a platform to promote her own
politics and villainize Nassar.
“Judge
Aquilina
made
numerous
statements throughout the proceedings
indicating that she had already decided
to impose the maximum allowed by
the sentence agreement even before the
sentencing hearing began,” the retrial
filing reads. “Thus, from the defendant’s
perspective the sentencing hearing was just
a ritual.”
According to the filing, Nassar was
assaulted within hours of entering the prison’s
general population in May. The appeal claims
the assault due to Aquilina’s villainization of
him in court, alleging Aquilina was swayed
by public outrage against Nassar.
“Instead of proceeding to assist the judge
in reaching a fair and just sentencing decision,
the judge used the nationally-televised
proceeding as an opportunity to advance
her own agenda, including to advocate for
policy initiatives within the state as well as
the federal legislatures, to push for broader
cultural change regarding gender equity and
sexual discrimination issues, and, seemingly
as a type of group therapy for the victims” the
filing reads.
Nassar’s
attorneys
argue
Aquilina
made her personal disdain for Nassar clear
throughout the sentencing both in court and
through multiple media interviews as well
as her attendance at the 2018 ESPN ESPYS
Awards where Nassar victims received the
Arthur Ashe Courage Award.

ALEC COHEN / DAILY

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Visitors walk through the Ann Arbor Art Fair in downtown Ann Arbor Thursday.

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