dealing with ethics on campus, 
Drea responded by describing 
her experience as a team leader 
of the University organization 
America Reads Tutoring Corps.
“I’m a team leader, so one 
thing that is interesting about 
that is rule enforcement and 
making sure I’m not partial to 
people because I know them, 
so as a team leader I make sure 
they’re following the code of 
conduct,” Somers said. “I have 
experience in terms of rule 
enforcement, in terms of, ‘Oh, 
hey, let’s have a conversation,’ 
and I don’t think conflict is 
something we should be shy of.”
When 
discussing 
new 
business 
occurring 
around 
campus, 
Law 
student 
Jacob Podell spoke about a 
constitutional 
amendment 
regarding the selection of the 
University’s 
Central 
Student 
Judiciary justices.
Adam Glass, speaker of the 
Assembly, commented on CSG’s 
efforts to improve the selection 
process.
“It seems that a lot of 
branches of CSG are coming 
together right now and are 
saying, ‘Let’s try and rethink 
this nomination process to make 
sure it allows for a diverse pool 
of applicants,’ and it effectively 
allows members of each of the 
three branches of government to 
be involved in the process early 
on,” Glass said. “This allows any 
red flags to be spotted early.”
According to Podell, two of 
the main reasons for proposing 
these adjustments include a lack 
of efficiency in the nominating 
process and a lack of diversity in 
the nominations pool.
“I think the biggest problem 
with the current system and 
the old system is diversity in 
recruitment,” Podell said. “I 
personally think the reason CSG 
is incapable of recruiting diverse 
candidates is our network is 
small. We are nine (justices) and 
need a system that incorporates 
the legislature and executive 
branch as a larger network to get 
more candidates.”

Under the current justice 
nomination process, the justices 
of the judiciary bring together a 
pool of potential nominees to fill 
an empty seat. They then present 
that list to the president, who 
selects and brings the nominee 
to the Assembly to advise, 
consent 
to 
and 
eventually 
confirm the nominee.
Under 
the 
new 
system, 
instead of the justices choosing 
a pool on their own and the 
executive branch subsequently 
vetting and choosing a nominee, 
both branches would complete 
the tasks at the same time.
In the proposed system, the 
committee for nominating a 
justice would have six members, 
four of which would have voting 
power. Two of those voting 
members would be justices 
and the other two would be 
appointed from the Assembly 
by the CSG president and 
vice president. The final two 
members would be the chief 
justice, who would break ties 
if necessary, and an observing 
member 
of 
the 
Legislative 
Assembly. The full Assembly 
then 
discussed 
potentially 

having the current chair of 
the 
Executive 
Nominations 
Committee 
serve 
as 
the 
observer.
Glass 
did 
not 
discuss 
his personal opinion of the 
measure, but said the authors 
of the proposed system believe 
improvements to the existing 
nomination 
process 
were 
needed.
“So 
under 
the 
current 
nomination 
process, 
the 
authors believe it needs some 
work,” Glass said. “Changes by 
the Assembly to the compiled 
code have indicated that the 

people necessary for an optimal 
restaurant staff.
“We started interviewing back 
in April, and didn’t stop until we 
opened,” Behler said. “We had 
over 700 people apply, probably 
about 500 interviews and ended 
up hiring about 120 people.”

Executive 
chef 
Ian 
Hockenberger 
attributed 
the 
attention 
drawn 
in 
by 
the 
restaurant 
thus 
far 
to 
the 
restaurant’s quality food and 
ingredients.
“We’re using a lot of local 
ingredients, 
a 
lot 
of 
local 
purveyors,” Hockenberger said. 
“We like to have fun with our 
menu. The food’s all really high 
quality.”

Hockenberger also credited 
the success of Jim Brady’s to the 
general retro ambiance of the 
restaurant.
“The visuals that you get inside 
the restaurant are great,” he said. 
“It’s really a stunning place to eat, 
especially the upper floors.”
Despite the consumer traffic 
the location and aesthetics of 
Jim Brady’s has brought since 
its opening, Brady still credits 

the majority of his restaurant’s 
success to the energy of his staff 
and the Ann Arbor community.
“My dad told me a long time 
ago: The secret to the restaurant 
business is people, people, people, 
location,” 
Brady 
explained. 
“Without the people and the 
energy that our team brings and 
that the community brings, it’s 
nothing.”

The Ross School of Business’ 
Case Competition team took first 
place at the ninth annual MBA 
National Case Competition, held 
Jan. 3-5 at Deloitte University in 
Westlake, Texas according to PR 
Newswire.
Business graduate students 
Thomas 
Corness, 
Jessica 
McClain, 
Jason 
Rock 
and 
Andrea Schiff earned a total 
of $20,000 in scholarships for 
their win. The competition, 
which challenges students to 
develop 
innovative 
solutions 

to business problems, hosted 
1,000 students from top MBA 
programs across the country in 
the regional competitions, with 
only 64 advancing to national 
finals.
The U-M team came in 
first place for their innovative 
presentation 
on 
a 
growth 
strategy 
for 
sweetgreen, 
a 
healthy fast food chain. The 
restaurant model would value 
transparency, 
nutritional 
value of menu offerings and 
environmentally 
sustainable 
business 
practices. 
The 
company, which operates in 
almost 100 locations throughout 

the U.S., sent leaders to judge the 
competition in addition to other 
industry and Deloitte leaders.
“This year, we challenged 
the teams with a case focused 
on creating a growth strategy 
for a startup health-conscious 
restaurant chain,” Bill Lam, 
principal of Deloitte Consulting 
LLP, said to PR Newswire. 
“The participants approached 
the case with passion and 
determination for helping guide 
a socially conscious, purpose-
driven brand. The competition 
provided the MBA students 
great exposure to the realities 
of working in a dynamic, ever-

changing business world.”
Competing teams suggested 
business development growth 
through 
expanding 
product 
offerings, creating innovative 
formats for target consumers, 
utilizing digital opportunities 
and 
identifying 
the 
requirements needed to execute 
those strategies.
Runners-up 
included 
Carnegie 
Mellon 
Tepper 
School of Business, University 
of 
Virginia 
Darden 
School 
of Business and New York 
University 
Stern 
School 
of 
Business, which came in fourth 
place.

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her the Charles Rufus Morey Book 
Award — an award acknowledging 
distinguished books that have 
contributed meaningfully to the 
field.
Elizabeth Sears, chair of the 
History of Art Department, said 
Forsyth’s commitment to creating 
a global and wide-ranging history 
department made her a celebrated 
professor for more than 30 years.
“She was a really famous teacher 
in the day,” Sears said. “Very 
conscientious, (she) put together 
beautiful art history lectures 
where words and texts worked so 
well. She really helped people to 
learn to look, to see. I think she 
was very devoted to the University 
of Michigan, to art history and to 
her own field —medieval.”
As 
a 
result 
of 
Forsyth’s 
donation, the University became 
the second in the country to offer 
a professorship in the specialty 
of medieval art. Sears noted how 
medieval history is sometimes 
misused by contemporary politics 
to discuss ideas of racial purity. 

She said the professorship allows 
the department to shed light on an 
often neglected or misunderstood 
historical period.
“The Michigan department has 
always believed in the importance 
of studying many cultures and 
deep history,” Sears said. “Whereas 
some departments are focusing 
more exclusively on modern and 
contemporary, 
we 
believe 
in 
having a full chronological as well 
as geographical range. Medieval 
has been one of our great strengths 
for decades. This (gift) preserves 
it.”
Jeffrey 
Craft, 
chief 
administrator of the department, 
said the donation allows the 
department to “transcend” its 
previous 
research 
and 
study 
abroad programs. Craft noted how 
Forsyth’s gift will positively impact 
the history of art department as 
well as LSA as a whole.
“As for LSA, I think (the 
donation) will help them because 
there are things where we would 
go to them and ask them for 
funding, and that we now can be 
more self-sufficient,” Craft said. 
“That frees up the funds to be used 
for other departments and other 

initiatives. It’s a win not only for us 
as a department, but for LSA.”
Craft said the introduction 
of postdoctoral fellowships and 
faculty research projects allows 
the department to stand among 
national 
programs. 
He 
also 
mentioned how the donation, 
one of the largest ever given to a 
humanities department in LSA, 
must be distributed carefully in 
order to ensure the money will 
support different projects for 
undergraduates, graduates and 
faculty members.
“With such an endowment, 
there comes responsibilities on 
making sure we utilize the funds 
how Professor Forsyth wanted 
them to be used, while following 
all the regulations from the 
University,” Craft said.
The department has not decided 
on how to allocate the funds, but 
hopes the donation will incentivize 
new talented professors join the 
University.
Rackham 
student 
Michelle 
Al-Ferzly, whose research focuses 
on medieval Islamic art, considers 
Forsyth’s donation instrumental 
in guaranteeing the future of 
medieval studies at the University.

“If there is a professor in a 
certain discipline in a department 
and they retire, sometimes it is 
really hard to replace them because 
there aren’t funds devoted to that 
specific field,” Al-Ferzly said. 
“Having that professorship will 
just ensure that our department 
will continue to have expertise in 
the medieval field.”
Sears echoed this statement, 
noting how the gift will attract 
faculty members with a history 
of strong teaching and innovative 
research.
“It’s 
also 
very 
good 
for 
recruiting because it makes it very 
attractive for a faculty member to 
come to a place where they know 
that they have serious research 
money that is dedicated to their 
field of interest,” Sears said. 
“Of course, as you go outside, 
particularly in the humanities, 
there is a great deal of competition 
for limited resources. It’s also a 
world in which we’re realizing the 
advantages of collaborative work. 
The fact that this can supply the 
seed money for more ambitious, 
long-term projects is extremely 
attractive.”

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“My favorite thing is to connect 
with people and that’s what I love 
about doing this sort of work,” 
Woolf said. “What’s challenging 
is seeing the people you start to 
care about hurting in a way that I 
wish I could do more. I think the 
most challenging is that all I can 
do it limited to a point. I can do 
everything I can and she is still in 
Mexico.”
Bautista has lived in Ann 
Arbor for the past 20 years with 
her three children, Pamela, 19, 
Lourdes, 16, nicknamed “Lulys,” 
and Bryan, 14, who were all 
born in the United States. After 
their permission to remain in 
the U.S. was denied, Bautista 
was forced to return to Mexico 
with her two youngest children. 
There, Bautista reunited with 
her 
husband, 
Luis 
Quintana 
Chaparro, who was deported 
in 2010. Lulys stayed in Mexico 
for one year and returned to the 
U.S. to be with her older sister 
Pamela, who chose to continue 
her education at Michigan State 
University.
The exhibit consisted of four 
panels of Woolf’s photographs 
and direct quotes from Bautista 
and 
her 
family 
members. 
One 
image 
showed 
Bryan’s 
schoolteacher wiping tears from 
his face as he waited in the airport 
security line to Mexico. Others 
depicted Pamela embracing her 
mother, Bautista and her husband 
cooking in a small kitchen and 
Bryan throwing old schoolwork 
into a fire in anticipation of his 
mom’s deportation.
Woolf said she hopes that 
by looking at the photographs 
viewers will understand the 
positive 
characteristics 
of 
Bautista and her family.
“The hardest thing is that a lot 
of times it’s a preconceived notion 
that being an undocumented 
immigrant comes with a bad 
connotation, so I want someone to 
look at this and see that Lourdes 
and her family are wonderful 
people that are doing the best 
they can in a difficult situation,” 
Woolf said.

Hannah Smotrich, associate 

professor in the School of Art & 
Design, designed the exhibit and 
collaborated with Public Policy 
professors Ann Lin and Fabiana 
Silva to give the photographs 
historical and political context. 
The exhibit included a timeline 
of changing immigration law 
enforcement policies from former 
president Ronald Reagan through 
President Donald Trump, as 
well as a graph representing 
the number of undocumented 
immigrants over several decades.
“I’m interested in how we can 
embed information in ways that 
allow you to access it at different 
levels,” Smotrich said. “I’ve done 
a fair amount of exhibition work 
with narrative, all of which have 
another layer of intent...the goal is 
not only to work on a visual level, 
but also to inform, whether it’s a 
social justice oriented story or 
just understanding a particular 
person’s story in a larger societal 
context.”
Kinesiology 
sophomore 
Rachel Rodriguez attended the 
event for her Latino/a American 
Studies class on Literature of 
the Undocumented. Rodriguez 
said she hoped the exhibit would 
raise awareness of the challenges 
undocumented individuals face. 
“I just hope more people 
become aware of what’s going 
on 
with 
other 
individuals,” 
Rodriguez said. “Some people 
have 
the 
privilege 
to 
stay 
in this country and to have 
documentation and apply to 
jobs, internships, schools. I just 
hope people are aware that 
undocumented people also try in 
this country.”
Similarly, LSA junior Gabriela 
Paniagua noted the importance of 
bringing attention to these issues. 
“I think this art and this 
exhibit really brings to light all 
the sacrifices people have to make 
to just make sure their children 
get what they deserve,” Paniagua 
said. “Looking around, there is 
a diverse group of people here 
having conversations about this 
art. I think exhibits like this and 
conversations like this — creating 
a discussion — can’t be bad. It’s 
good to be talking about the 
current policy going on right now. 
Real families are being affected 
by it.”

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for Eduardo and opened the 
discussion by asking Eduardo 
how it feels being the grand-
son of an activist, and if there 
are feelings of guilt for not be-
ing more active in United Farm 
Workers, the organization his 
grandfather created.
“Growing up, I always felt a 
little disconnected and it was 
something that I pushed to the 
side,” Eduardo said. “I could 
give a memorized spiel about 
who he was and what he did 
but I didn’t feel a personal con-
nection.”
The son of a Mexican father 
and a Cuban mother, Eduardo 
confessed he has come to iden-
tify more with his Cuban heri-
tage.
“I actually feel more Cuban 
than I do Mexican,” Eduardo 
said. “I grew up more with my 
mom’s side of the family, always 
visiting my Cuban grandpar-

ents in Miami.”
However, he found that he grew 
closer to his father through this 
experience.
“I definitely feel through the 
process of this film closer to my 
dad and that side of the family,” 
Eduardo said.
Eduardo’s father gave him the 
advice that if he were to take 
on an activist role, it should 
come naturally. Through this 
film, Eduardo was able to find 
both his passion and his sense 
of duty.
“After making this film, I found 
my passion was filmmaking,” 
Eduardo said. “I get the best of 
both worlds — that I can make 
films and educate people at the 
same time. I can pursue my 
own creative endeavors.”
His grandfather shared the 
same approach to life. When 
asked by an audience member 
what question he would ask 
Cesar today, Eduardo stated he 
would want to know what kept 
him going despite all the obsta-

cles he faced. Eduardo shared 
that he already knew the an-
swer and that his grandfather 
believed the key to succeeding 
in life is having a passion for 
what you do.
“My grandfather used to always 
say ‘I’m not any different than 
anyone else, I just have a pas-
sion and I see what’s wrong and 
I try my hardest to fix it,’” Edu-
ardo said.
This statement resonated with 
LSA freshman Justin Hutchins, 
who said he believes it is imper-
ative the general public learn 
more about historical figures 
and discover how human they 
really are.
“There’s so much more you can 
learn about these historical fig-
ures and the human aspect of 
it,” Hutchins said. “They seem 
like not normal people, but 
even Cesar said he himself is 
just a normal guy.”
Overall, the members of La 
Casa found the event both in-
spiring and essential for the 

Latinx community. Julianna 
Collado, external director of La 
Casa, believed the documentary 
showing helped bring the com-
munity together and fostered a 
friendly environment.
“We thought this was a really 
important event to help center 
our community as Latinx stu-
dents on campus,” Collado said. 
“We really just wanted to focus 
on empowering our students, 
getting an education, getting a 
piece of their history, because 
so many people [in this group] 
identify as Mexican.” 
Ronnie Alvarez, lead director of 
La Casa, agreed and added the 
event helped with strengthen-
ing the Latinx community on 
campus.
“This event and what it was for 
aligns a lot with the goals of La 
Casa, which is a student organi-
zation that was created as not 
only a platform for political ad-
vocacy, but also to create a com-
munity,” Alvarez said.

while the plaintiffs “previously 
enjoyed 
the 
peace 
of 
mind 
and repose which comes from 
having dry basements and no 
water 
problems,” 
after 
they 
went through the program, they 
“experienced the inconvenience 
associated with the installation 
of the sump pump and related 
equipment, the ongoing burdens 
associated with the maintenance 
and operation of the sump pumps 
and, in general, the diminution in 
their quality of life attributable to 
the FDDP.”
Irvin Mermelstein, a local 
attorney, and Dan O’Brien, a 
contract lawyer from New York, 
worked together on the 2014 
effort, which ultimately failed. 

Mermelstein 
also 
represented 
Lynn Lumbard, who in 2015 filed 
a complaint against the city on 
identical grounds. It, too, was 
thrown out. In 2016, the two cases 
were consolidated and brought 
before the Court of Appeals, which 
upheld the lower court’s ruling in 
favor of the city.
Mermelstein 
and 
O’Brien 
collaborated on the most recent 
case against the city, which 
involved the same four plaintiffs 
as 
the 
previous 
challenges. 
The federal lawsuit, filed in the 
Eastern District of Michigan 
in 2017, alleged violations of 
the 
Constitution’s 
anti-slavery 
provisions and the Takings Clause.
The 
plaintiffs 
complained 
the 
program 
“destroyed 
the 
foundation drainage system at 
houses that had been constructed 
decades ago and appeared to be 
functioning as designed” and 

“replaced it with a system of 
unwanted operating equipment, 
inside and outside their homes, 
that is burdensome, costly, unsafe, 
noisy and incompatible with the 
peace of mind and comfort the 
Plaintiffs enjoyed.” The circuit 
court heard oral arguments in 
early December 2018.
Mermelstein said despite the 
circuit court’s ruling, the case was 
not yet over.
“This case is still in active 
litigation,” Mermelstein said. “It 
would be inappropriate for us 
to comment any further on the 
record at this time.”
Circuit 
Judge 
Kethledge 
issued a concurring opinion. He 
noted the plaintiffs had received 
compensation, as they owned the 
sump pumps the city installed in 
their homes.
“But the Takings Clause does 
not say that private property 

shall not ‘be taken for public use, 
without just compensation, and 
without remedy in state court,’” he 
wrote in his opinion. “Instead the 
Clause says that private property 
shall not ‘be taken for public 
use, without just compensation’ 
period. And that plainly means 
that, if the taking has happened 
and the compensation has not, 
the property owner already has 
a constitutional entitlement to 
relief.”
He said he wished the circuit 
court had decided to hear the 
matter, as the residents were 
entitled to make their case in 
court.
“Federal courts have a ‘virtually 
unflagging’ obligation to exercise 
the jurisdiction that Congress has 
given them,” he wrote. 

“Let’s try and 
rethink this 
nomination 
process,” Glass 
said.

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