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Unopposed elections for LSA Student Gov. conclude ANDREW COHEN/Daily
Dr. Marschall S. Runge, the new vice president for medical affairs and University Health System’s chief executive officer, holds a meet and greet in the Rotunda Gallery at the North Campus Research Complex on Thursday,
LSA juniors Jason Collela and Reid Klootwyk win executive seats By CARLY NOAH Daily Staff Reporter
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With litigation pending, CSG elections undecided Commission likely won’t announce winners until Friday night By LEA GIOTTO and TANAZ AHMED Daily Staff Reporters
The results of this week’s Central Student Government elections remained undecided early
Friday morning. Voting closed online at midnight Friday. According to the CSG Compiled Code, unofficial results are to be released to candidates 24 hours after polls close. Official results are to be released on the CSG website within 24 of confirmation by the University Elections Commission and after all pending litigation concludes. Election complaints can be delivered to the election director up until 24 hours after the polls close.
The UEC convened Wednesday and Thursday for hearings after Make Michigan filed a complaint against The Team for destruction of campaign materials. Make Michigan claimed that representatives or volunteers from The Team threw buckets of water on advertisements written in chalk that read “Vote for Make Michigan,” and subsequently replaced them with chalk advertisements that read “The Team.” Make Michigan members and
volunteers said they had drawn these promotions near the block ‘M’ on the Diag the night of March 16. The destruction allegedly occurred the night of March 18. “It’s under (UEC) code that they are responsible for educating all of their members and candidates and ensuring they follow the rules that are prescribed for the election,” said Law School student Rachel Jankowski, counsel for Make Michigan. See ELECTIONS, Page 3
Following an uncontested election, LSA juniors Jason Colella and Reid Klootwyk were elected the next president and vice president of LSA student government, respectively. Eight of the 10 vacant spots for LSA representatives were also filled in uncontested elections. The two remaining positions will be filled by write-in candidates, who had not been announced at press time. At a candidate forum on Monday in the Michigan Union, the candidates stressed student engagement, as well as the implementation of an international student mentorship program and a project to allow transfer students to defer their enrollment like admitted freshmen currently can. At the event, Colella and Klootwyk both emphasized the importance of interacting with students. Klootwyk works as the vice chair
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MUSKET performs ‘Into the Woods’ like never before
Talented cast of student performers brings a fresh spin to modern classic By ALEX BERNARD Daily Community Culture Editor
Adam Quinn was excited. He couldn’t get the words out fast enough. “I can guarantee that in seven months of research, there is something we are doing with this show that we have revealed to no one, that no production of Into the Woods has done before. And I can guarantee that.” That’s what director Adam Quinn told me in a Starbucks on the corner of State St. and Liberty St., where dozens of students tapped away at their laptops. It was easy to imagine what they were typing about: an economics paper, a sociology thesis, a tweet about how the barista got their name wrong on the cup – “It’s Alex, not ‘All Hecks!’” It was easy to imagine. It always is. After all, it’s an ancient, respected practice – peoplewatching. Observing that old man walk his Dachshund to impress the pretty woman on the bench
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and guessing that the wiener dog isn’t company enough anymore. Seeing that child trip over a tree root and distantly wondering if she’ll fall in the shower when she’s 82, and will she break her hip? And who will help her? It’s old. Old practice. Old stories. “Into the Woods” – a musical about old tales – has become just that: Old. Fascinating, thoughtprovoking and important, but familiar. Like a Lifetime Achievement Award or Robert De Niro. Or gravity. And yet, MUSKET – Michigan’s only student-run musical theater group – promises a divergence, an unprecedented approach to one of our most celebrated, most widely performed musicals. With music by the incomparable Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine, Into the Woods debuted on Broadway in 1987 to critical acclaim and 10 Tony nominations. Last December, the Disney adaptation starring Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick and Emily Blunt, among others, opened in theaters, capturing three Oscar nominations and a handful of other accolades. The musical follows some of our favorite fairytale characters – Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and his Beanstalk See INTO THE WOODS, Page 5
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for the LSA SG Communications Committee. He has served on LSA SG for one year since transferring from a community college. Colella, an East Quad resident advisor, also serves as chair for the LSA SG Budget Allocation Committee. He has served on LSA SG for three years. In an interview, Colella said he and his running mate are hoping to change students’ opinions on the role of LSA SG. “People are really cynical about student government,” he said. “It’s not because we don’t do anything, which is what a lot of people would say. It’s because people don’t realize all of the things that we have done to help improve the LSA experience. It’s a matter of working to let people know what we’re doing.” Colella added that involving international students in campus affairs will help increase on-campus diversity. “International students is a big project we’ve been working on for the past year in student government; we’re creating this big international student mentorship program,” Colella said. “We’ve been meeting with administrators and trying to figure out what our vision is to better See LSA, Page 3
Wolverines earn WNIT quarterfinal berth in win SAN PHAM/Daily
Michigan tops Missouri at Crisler Center, 65-55
Author Kazuo Ishiguro signs copies of his novels during a fiction reading event from the Zell Visiting Writers Series in the University of Michigan Museum of Art on Thursday.
UMMA hosts British author for Q&A session Kazuo Ishiguro speaks as part of Helen Zell Writer’s Series By TANYA MADHANI Daily Staff Reporter
Students and Ann Arbor residents packed the Apse Room in the University’s Museum of Art on Thursday, awaiting the entrance of British author Kazuo Ishiguro. Ishiguro was invited to participate in a University reading as part of the Helen Zell Visiting Writers Series, which has hosted writers such as fiction writer Sergio Troncoso and graphic novelist Alison Bechdel. Ishiguro read for 40 minutes from an excerpt of his
most recent work, “The Buried Giant,” a fantasy-historical fiction novel set during the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, and fielded questions from the audience. When asked to name authors and works that have been most influential to him, Ishiguro noted Charlotte Brontë and Marcel Proust. Brontë’s narration style in particular, Ishiguro said, has influenced his own writing to the point when he mimicked a scene from her novel, “Jane Eyre,” in one of his works. “I do love (her) and I hadn’t realized how much she had influenced me in my writing,” Ishiguro said. “I read ‘Jane Eyre’ a few years ago and there are all these things I’ve ripped off from it. There’s a particular way her narrator appears to con-
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fide in the reader.” Ann Arbor resident Karen Park said she attended the event after reading Ishiguro’s novel, “Remains of the Day,” and said, while she loved the setting, she wished there was more opportunity for questions from the audience rather than a lengthy reading of his novel. “It was still great to have him be here and be able to talk to us,” Park said. “I had a hard time getting into (the chapter) as he was reading it. I heard that sometimes it’s not best, like when you do a book on tape, to have the actual author reading the book. Perhaps that’s the case in this case, that it’d be better read than spoken out loud by the author.” Park said, however, she See AUTHOR, Page 3
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By KELLY HALL Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan women’s basketball team always records hype videos for the fans, but Thursday, it didn’t need them. Wolverines coach Kim Barnes Arico said the home-court advantage at Crisler Center would make the difference, and it did. The fans exploded after foul calls on Michigan and became louder with every bucket that expanded its game-defining lead late in the second half. “The energy is huge in a basketball game, especially when you’re trying to withstand a run that the other team is making, or when we’re trying to run and put it away,” said senior forward Nicole Elmblad. “To have the crowd we had tonight was special.” After a rough start, the Wolverines (8-10 Big Ten, 19-14 overall) beat Missouri 65-55 with a well balanced offense that included five players scoring in double digits, led by senior guard Shannon Smith, who recorded 13 points. “A lot of times, we’ve got a couple people that are leading us in scoring,” Elmblad said. “When we’re able to distribute that scoring and we’re able to get everyone on the court as a threat, it makes teams struggle to guard you.” Added Barnes Arico: “Nicole Elmblad knocked down some shots for us, See WNIT, Page 3
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