More than 40 Ann Arbor 
residents gathered for food 
and drink at the home of 
Ann and Steve Arbaugh on 
Thursday night in support of 
former journalist Jen Eyer’s 
candidacy for the Ward 4 
city council position in Ann 
Arbor. 
Those 
in 
attendance 
included Mayor Christopher 
Taylor; state Sen. Jeff Irwin, 
D-Ann Arbor; Washtenaw 
County 
Commissioner 
Katie 
Scott, 
D-District 
9; and former state Sen. 
Mitch Irwin. Former City 
Councilmembers 
Kirk 
Westphal, D-Ward 2; Margie 
Teall, D-Ward 4; Graydon 
Krapohl, D-Ward 4; and 
Joan Lowenstein, D-Ward 2, 
were also present. 
During the event, Eyer 
said she wanted to continue 
working in public service 
after 
her 
time 
on 
the 
Board 
of 
Commissioners. 
After reflecting on where 
she could make the most 
difference, Eyer explained 
she was compelled to serve 

at the local level, which she 
believes is often overlooked.
To Eyer, one of the most 
important issues in the city 
is a housing crisis, which she 
said she believes is largely 
due to an affordable housing 
shortage. 
“We have 80,000 people 
who commute into our city 
every day, and we are a city 
of 120,000 people,” Eyer 
said. “Our population grows 
75 percent every single day. 
How many of those people 
would like to live here? I 
would guess quite a few.”
Eyer said she would like to 
address the city’s structural 
budget deficit. In addition, 
she said she wants to see the 
city pursue more aggressive 
action to address what she 
called the “existential threat 
of climate change.”
“I don’t know about you, 
but I feel like Ann Arbor 
should be a leader among 
cities when it comes to 
climate action,” Eyer said. 
“And we are so far from that 
goal right now that we can’t 
even see it. We are not doing 
the work.”

University 
of 
Michigan 
President 
Mark 
Schlissel 
announced 
a 
$50-million 
increase 
in 
funding 
for 
the 
Center 
for 
Academic 
Innovation, the creation of 
the Firearm Injury Prevention 
Research Initiative and a new 
fund dedicated to achieving 

climate neutrality to a crowd 
of more than 200 faculty, staff 
and students at the annual 
Leadership 
Breakfast 
in 
the Ross School of Business 
Thursday morning. 
The funding for the Center for 
Academic Innovation, Schlissel 
said, would support the center 
as they develop strategies to 
make academic knowledge more 
accessible through technology 
and research. 

According to Schlissel, the 
funds will be distributed over 
the course of five years, with 
$10 million given to the center 
every year. 
“Our 
innovations 
have 
already personalized learning 
to 
students 
from 
diverse 
backgrounds, 
they 
have 
identified 
potential 
biases 
in 
testing 
and 
empowered 
learners to make data-driven 
choices about how they allocate 

their studying time,” Schlissel 
said. 
“They’re 
leveling 
the 
playing field and identifying 
opportunities 
that 
were 
previously unseen.” 
The first iteration of the 
center, the Office of Digital 
Education and Innovation, was 
founded in 2014 to bridge the 
gaps between digital platforms 
and academic learning. 

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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Friday, October 4, 2019

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM

In 
a 
packed 
Michigan 
Theater Thursday evening, 
students gathered for a Penny 
Stamps lecture featuring the 
man behind many of the hats 
displayed in fashion exhibits 
and donned by celebrities: 
Stephen Jones.
Stephen 
Jones 
is 
the 

fashion 
world’s 
leading 
milliner, or hatmaker. Having 
made a name for himself 
in the 1970s in London, 
Jones was a student of Saint 
Martin’s 
School 
of 
Art 
during the day and regularly 
attend the Blitz nightclub 
in the evenings, where he 
and his friends would wear 
outrageous outfits. By 1980, 
Jones had opened up his 
own store in Covent Garden. 

Forty years later, Jones still 
attracts the biggest names 
in the industry, crafting hats 
for celebrities including Lady 
Gaga, Rihanna, Madonna and 
Meghan Markle.
The lecture was hosted by 
the School of Art & Design as 
the first event in their yearly 
Penny Stamps Speaker Series.
Onstage, several different 
headpieces were displayed, 
from berets and headbands 

to more elaborate headpieces. 
Art & Design senior Sofia 
Zertuche 
found 
that 
the 
displays added an important 
visual element to the lecture.
“Usually we don’t have 
things 
onstage,” 
Zetruche 
said. 
“Having 
the 
hats 
onstage, 
it 
provides 
an 
interesting outlook on what 
the show is about.” 

Earlier this year, more than 
250 parking spots for hospital 
employees were converted to 
patient-only spaces, making it 
challenging for hospital staff to 
find parking and get to work on 
time. At the Board of Regents 
meeting on Sept. 18, dozens of 
nurses showed up wearing red 
shirts holding signs that read 
“Schlissel: Fix Parking Now!” 
At that same Regents meeting, 
the board approved a new $920 
million hospital.
Mary Masson, spokesperson 
for Michigan Medicine, wrote 
in an email to The Daily that the 
University of Michigan has been 
aware of parking concerns for 
a while now, for both patients 
and employees. Masson said in 
order to try to create a better 
experience 
for 
patients 
and 
their families, they converted 
employee 
spaces 
to 
patient 
spaces.
“We recognize parking is 
currently a challenge for our 
employees and our patients,” 
Masson wrote. 

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he 
arrived 
at 
the 
University of Michigan in 1962, 
Cazzie 
Russell 
didn’t 
expect 
to 
become 
engraved 
in 
the 
history of Michigan Basketball. 
Assistant coaches James Skala 
and Tom Jorgensen came to his 
neighborhood high school in the 
south side of Chicago to recruit him 
to the Michigan basketball team, 
telling him he would be guaranteed 
to play if he came to the University. 
Russell later came to the 
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for 
a 
visit 
before 
committing for basketball. During 
his visit, Coach Skala attempted to 
take him on a tour of Yost Arena 
to woo him. Skala lost the keys 
that day, so the pair couldn’t get 
into the arena. Russell committed 
regardless. 
This weekend, Russell will 
be coming back in honor of the 
homecoming game. 
“I ended up coming to Michigan, 
which was a real blessing because I 
was told by Coach Skala, he said, 
‘If you come to Michigan you can 
play.’ I enjoyed his visit and enjoyed 
his honesty,” Russell said. 

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Stephen Jones, milliner and fashion designer, speaks to the audience about his life’s work of making and designing hats at the Penny Stamps Lecture in the Michigan 
Theater Thursday evening. 

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See HATS, Page 3A

DESIGN BY MICHELLE FAN

See PEN, Page 3A
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