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Belafonte addresses inequality in keynote Social activist, musician delivers speech to celebrate Dr. King’s legacy By TANAZ AHMED
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Kinesiology sophomore Capri’Nara Kendall participates in a demonstration organized by the Black Student Union in front of Hill Auditorium Monday. As a follow-up to their #BBUM campaign the students announced seven demands and gave University administrators seven days to respond.
Protests call for inclusion BSU demands seven initiatives aimed to improve diversity
By YARDAIN AMRON & CLAIRE BRYAN Daily Staff Reporters
The protest lasted barely ten minutes, but the ultimatum was clear: seven demands, seven days. Coinciding with Martin
Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, students from the Black Student Union protested the University’s response to racial issues on campus across Central Campus. As the first wave of students and staff filed out from social activist Henry Belafonte’s keynote address at Hill Auditorium, a line of about 15 students from BSU were waiting on the steps, signs in hand. Engineering junior Robert Greenfield, BSU treasurer, stepped onto a lamppost plat-
form and addressed a crowd of about 30 people. “What brings me here today is not that social action is done. What brings me here today is the unfinished business of the first three fights of the Black action movement,” Greenfield said. LSA senior Erick Gavin, a member of the BSU, took Greenfield’s place on the lamppost and laid out a concrete list of demands, some of which were addressed late last week by the
University. Business senior Shayla Scales, who spoke last, demanded a response from the University’s administration. “We have heard the University use the phrase ‘We are listening’ since 1970, and I am tired of waiting for a response. We are tired of waiting for a response,” Scales said. “We allow the University seven days to end negotiations and to come to conclusions on our seven demands.” See PROTESTS, Page 5A
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For the 28th annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium, Harry Belafonte, a social activist and award-winning musician, delivered the keynote memorial lecture at Hill Auditorium. Every year, the University holds the largest Martin Luther King, Jr. Day symposium of any college in the nation. Along with the keynote speech, the University held several other events that examined the symposium’s 2014 theme, “Power, Justice, Love: Heal the Divide.” According to the symposium’s website, the notions of power, justice and love were transformed during the Civil Rights
Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Together, these changed concepts helped bridge the divide created by racial violence and inequality. Belafonte, a noted singer and songwriter, worked with King and former President John F. Kennedy during the Civil Rights Movement. He was formerly a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, promoting one of the United Nations principal charitable organizations. Belafonte called on the attendees to look for solutions to a variety of systemic problems, ranging from lingering racism to violence agasint women, adding that, “somewhere along the line we (the nation) seemed to have lost our moral compass.” During his speech, Belafonte discussed issues the country currently faces, such as the unequal distribution of wealth and its connection to the prevalence of racism and sexism in popular culture. Belafonte also recounted the See KEYNOTE, Page 5A
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CAMPUS LIFE
MHacks moves to Motor City for third event
Students develop new video games in contest
Three-day computer programming expo draws 1200 student participants By IAN DILLINGHAM Daily News Editor
DETROIT—While many people from around the nation flooded into Detroit this weekend for the annual North American International Auto Show, a group of computer science students made the journey for a different reason. Hosted by MPowered and Michigan Hackers, MHacks — a three-day computer programming competition and expo — moved to Detroit this semester to better suit the needs and mission of the event. This weekend’s event was the third presentation of the hackathon at the University in the last two years. Following the format of previous years, teams of four stu-
dents, who may not have even known each other prior to the event, were required to brainstorm, design, build and demonstrate a piece of technology within the event’s 36-hour window. While prizes are awarded for the best creations, many participants said hackathons represent the beginning of a transition in how colleges teach computer science. Rather than traditional lecture-style instruction, hackathons focus on the projectbased learning, which many view as more applicable to realworld industries. Engineering junior Dylan Hurd, one of the event’s directors, said computer science program s ac ro s s t he cou nt r y h ave b e en delv i ng in project-based learning — which MHacks demonstrates. “A lot of schools are seeing that learning extends beyond the classroom — it’s about knowing how to work in a real-world environment,” Hurd said. “I think the University does a See MHACKS, Page5A
Wolverine Software hosts intensive 48-hour competition By EMILIE PLESSET Daily Staff Reporter VIRGINIA LOZANO/Daily
Students, faculty fill the Michigan Union’s new Starbucks in its soft opening Monday.
Private preview kicks off opening of new Starbucks Coffee chain serves as final addition to Union eateries By CAROLYN GEARIG Daily Staff Reporter
Let the caffination begin. Or not, decaf’s fine too. Starbucks opened its Michigan Union location at a private preview event Monday morn-
ing and will host its grand opening Tuesday. The coffee chain joined a host of recent additions including Ahmo’s Gyros and Deli and Au Bon Pain. Starbucks occupies the space next the Union Courtyard that previously held Amer’s Mediterranean Deli, which closed in May after its reapplication for the space was rejected. The location will serve coffee beverages, sand-
wiches, baked goods and other items, similar to other locations near campus on South University Avenue and State Street. One unique factor from the other stores, however, is that the Union location will accept Blue Bucks. Michigan Union director Susan Pile said she hoped the addition of Starbucks — as well as Au Bon Pain, which opened Jan. 7 — will bring more activSee STARBUCKS, Page 5A
A video game can take up to 100 professional developers and over a year to create, but this past weekend, 70 University students created them in teams of four in only 48 hours. Wolverine Software, a student group dedicated to the developing video games, ran the 48-Hour Game Jam competition, which began its run Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. and ended Sunday at 7:00 p.m. in the Duderstadt Center on North Campus. At the end of the 48th hour, students played each other’s games and ranked their top three favorites. Judges also scored the games on various aspects including gameplay, creativity and originality, visuals, audio, polish and bugs, and the incorporation of the theme. See GAMES, Page 5A
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