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

