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Ann Arbor City Council met 
Monday night to discuss the 
affordable housing resolutions 
and the appointments of the 
police oversight commission. 
Affordable 
housing 
issues 
addressed 
the 
Lockwood 
development and developments 
on Main Street and Industrial 
Street. The Lockwood of Ann 
Arbor 
senior 
development 
resolution 
failed, 
while 
three 
resolutions 
dedicated 
to 
an 
affordable 
housing 
development 
passed. 
The 
appointment of 11 nominees to 
the Independent Community 
Police Oversight Commission 
appointment 
was 
passed 
despite 
community 
member 
interruption during the vote.
The Lockwood of Ann Arbor 
Apartments 
development 
is 
a three-story senior housing 

facility proposed to be built 
on a controversial area of 
residential 
land 
near 
the 
intersection of Wagner and 
Jackson roads. The developer 
guaranteed 
40 
percent 
of 
the units to be dedicated to 
affordable 
housing 
ensured 
for 99 years. Many opposing 
councilmembers cited zoning 
ordinances as the reason to 
decline the resolution, as the 
area is currently a single family 
unit zone and the Lockwood 
development 
would 
require 
the council to change it to a 
planned 
unit 
development 
zone. 
Councilmember 
Jeff 
Hayner, D-Ward 1, voted no to 
Lockwood specifically because 
of zoning. 
“It’s a zoning question before 
us,” Hayner said. “To decide, 
I’m going to be asking myself, 
‘Do the community benefits 
offered meet the standards of 

the PUD?’” 
Other 
opposing 
councilmembers 
cited 
environmental 
concerns. 
Councilmember 
Anne 
Bannister, D-Ward 1, discussed 
her 
concerns 
with 
the 
development impinging on the 
dioxane plume treatment site.
“I am very convinced by 
three experts who have told 
us that this property is a key 
location for remediation of the 
plume,” Bannister said. “It is 
near the main plume the source 
site of the dioxane and it is the 
best location, that I’m aware of, 
to pump and treat this chemical 
out of the ground if possible.”
LSA senior Krishna Motta 
and LSA sophomore Hannah 
Bradshaw 
spoke 
to 
the 
council about the importance 
of 
affordable 
housing 
in 
Ann Arbor. Both Motta and 
Bradshaw 
discussed 
how 
affordable 
housing 
affects 

students, 
senior 
citizens 
and 
people 
with 
a 
lower 
socioeconomic 
status. 
They 
pointed 
councilmembers 
to 
multiple resolutions that offer 
various options for the city to 
pursue affordable housing. 
“There’s a lot of options that 
the city has passed up even 
though they say they support 
affordable housing,” Bradshaw 
said. 
“There’s 
some 
great 
resolutions in front of you today 
where you can take action on 
affordable housing and start 
providing for the community. 
Even 
though 
(Ann 
Arbor) 
claims to be a diverse and 
welcoming place, the reality is 
that it’s not for a lot of people in 
a lower socioeconomic status, 
and that’s making your city less 
diverse and less welcoming to a 
lot of people.” 

On 
Monday 
night, 
the 
University of Michigan Central 
Student Government hosted 
a candidate debate for the 
upcoming election March 27 
through 28. The event included 
a presidential debate followed 
by a vice presidential town hall, 
which consisted of 12 questions 

asked by Senior News Editor 
Remy Farkas. The questions, 
compiled by The Daily, touched 
on topics including campus 
climate, 
sustainability 
and 
student body unity.
The event was moderated by 
Director of Debate Aaron Kall.
This 
year’s 
candidates 
include presidential candidate 
Ben 
Gerstein 
and 
vice-
presidential candidate Isabelle 
Blanchard, members of the 
Engage Michigan Party. The 
other presidential candidate 

is Engineering freshman Shub 
Argha, who is running without 
a party.
LSA 
sophomore 
Gerstein 
is from Highland Park, Ill. 
and represents the Engage 
Michigan Party. In his opening 
statement, he described how the 
party’s platform aims to ensure 
students’ voices are heard. 
They also plan on bridging the 
gap between CSG and other 
student organizations, as well 
as 
increasing 
accessibility 
across campus.

“Between Isabelle and I, we 
each have a combined four years 
of experience in CSG.” Gerstein 
said. “(We will work) to make 
sure that every single student 
on 
Michigan 
feels 
valued, 
recognized, heard, has their 
voices and passions elevated 
and understands that CSG’s 
purpose is to work for them 
and to elevate their needs to 
the school’s administration.”

See CSG, Page 3

Two 
presidential 
hopefuls 
made their cases before Michigan 
voters for the first time on Monday 
as they seek the Democratic 
nomination for the nation’s highest 
office in 2020, preceding a rally for 
President Donald Trump planned 
for next week in Grand Rapids. 
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, 
D-New York, taped a town hall 
forum with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes 
in Auburn Hills, later appearing 
with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at a 
“Fems for Dems” rally in Clawson. 
Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke, 
D-Texas, made two campaign 
stops in metro Detroit the same 
day, visiting Center Line and 
Ferndale.
Following 
a 
two-month 
exploratory 
phase, 
Gillibrand 
officially announced her candidacy 
on Sunday. At the Auburn Hills 
town hall just the next day, she 
faced questions about her plan 
to stand out in the crowded 
Democratic primary.

Students not 
shocked by 
admissions 
controversy 
 

Some at ‘U’ say wealthier families can 
provide children with legal and illegal benefits 

The Ford School of Public 
Policy and the Center for Russian, 
East 
European, 
& 
Eurasian 
Studies hosted former ambassador 
William J. Burns on Monday 
afternoon 
in 
the 
Annenberg 
Auditorium of Weill Hall to detail 
the inner workings of American 
international 
relations. 
The 
event was this year’s Vandenburg 
Lecture, a series of presentations 
named after former U.S. Sen. 
Arthur 
Vandenburg, 
a 
U-M 
alum, and funded by the Meijer 
Family Foundation. About 35 
people from the Ann Arbor 
community attended the event, 
entitled “American diplomacy in a 
disordered world: A conversation 
with Ambassador William J. 
Burns.”
Burns has held several high-
level positions within the U.S. 
State 
Department 
spanning 
decades of administrations. He 
joined the Foreign Service as a 
career ambassador in 1982. 

William J. 
Burns talks 
U.S. foreign 
policy goals

CAMPUS LIFE

Former diplomat looks 
at workings of American 
international relations

ARJUN THAKKAR 
For the Daily

CSG candidates debate issues facing 
campus ahead of March 27 election 

Discussions touched on issues of U-M emergency response, climate action, Title IX 

Presidential 
hopefuls 
campaign 
in Michigan

GOVERNMENT 

REMY FARKAS
Daily News Editor 
BARBARA COLLINS & 
PARNIA MAZHAR 
Daily Staff Reporters

For 
many 
University 
of 
Michigan students, the recent 
college admissions scandal — 
in which federal prosecutors 
charged 50 people for various 
offenses 
related 
to 
college 
admissions, including buying 
their children entry into some 
of the nation’s most selective 
schools — was not wholly 
surprising.
Lauren Schandevel, Public 
Policy senior, said last week’s 
events highlighted how common 
it is for wealthier families to give 
their children advantages in the 
college process through both 
legal and illegal measures.
“In actuality, this kind of 
stuff happens all the time,” 
Schandevel said. “If not through 
explicitly breaking the law, there 
are plenty of legal ways through 
which 
wealthy 
parents 
can 
give their children a leg up into 
college. I was not surprised when 
I found out that these families 
are actually breaking the law to 
make that kind of thing happen 
because I’ve heard so many 
stories about the legal ways in 
which these things happen.”
The 
scandal, 
which 
was 
revealed 
to 
the 
public 
on 
Tuesday, 
was 
the 
largest 
college 
admissions 
scheme 
ever prosecuted by the United 
States Justice Department and 
sparked discussions nationwide 

about economic inequality in 
selective public and private 
schools. Parents were charged 
with bribing athletic coaches 
and standardized test proctors 
to 
secure 
their 
children 
acceptances into schools such as 
Stanford, Yale and the University 
of Southern California, among 
others. 
The list of parents indicted 
in the scandal included actress 
Lori Loughlin and her husband, 
fashion 
designer 
Mossimo 
Giannulli, along with actress 
Felicity Huffman. After the 
scandal unfolded, USC launched 
an internal investigation into 
the scam and Loughlin was 
fired by Crown Media, the 
media production company that 
previously employed her on 
Hallmark Channel.
According to the indictment 
unsealed in federal court on 
Tuesday, the leader of the 
scheme, William Rick Singer, 
founded the Edge College & 
Career Network in 2007 to 
help parents bribe coaches and 
entrance exam proctors. The 
indictment 
revealed 
parents 
involved in the scandal paid 
Singer between $15,000 and 
$75,000 to have members of the 
organization either take the ACT 
or SAT for the student or correct 
the answers once the test was 
completed.

See COLLEGE , Page 3

See POLICY, Page 3
KATELYN MULCAHEY/Daily
CSG presidential candidates Shub Argha and Ben Gerstein share their platforms at the CSG Presidential Debate in the Michigan League Monday night. 

City Council discusses police oversight 
commission, housing affordability 

Meeting included rejection of a senior living development, while affordable living resolutions passed 

LIAT WEINSTEIN
Daily Staff Reporter

 Former U.S. Rep. Rourke, 
U.S. Sen. Gillibrand make 
their case to MI voters 

CATHERIN NOUHAN
Daily Staff Reporter

 Ann Arbor City council congregates to discuss various resolutions at city hall monday night. 
 
 
 

See CITY, Page 3

LEAH GRAHAM 
Daily News Editor 

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