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Conference emphasizes U.S., India businesses AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily
Maya, a South Asian fusion dance team, performs at That Brown Show at the Michigan Theater Saturday.
‘That Brown Show’ features South Asian dance groups Performances include various styles of classical Indian, Indofusion dance
groups focused on South Asian styles including Michigan Manzil, Maize Mirchi, Maya, the Michigan Bhangra Team, the Michigan Raas Team, TAAL, Izzat and Michigan Sahana. The performances, which drew about 700 people, included classical Indian dances, singing and Indofusion, a mix of American and Indian styles. Engineering senior Kavinmozhi Caldwell, a member of both Maya and Sahana, said Maya strives to combine other
By CHETALI JAIN Daily Staff Reporter
Michigan Sahana hosted That Brown Show Saturday night at the Michigan Theater, featuring student performing
cultures into their routines. In past shows, Maya has performed Indochinese numbers and danced to African beats with drums, as well as incorporating their native dancing techniques. “We try to connect with Hispanic, African-American and Chinese culture,” said Caldwell. “(Maya) takes Bharatanatyam, Kathak or other Indian classical dances and fuses it with ballet, jazz or salsa, for example.” Engineering junior Shreya Raman attended the show to
support her friends who were performing in various groups. “My favorite was Izzat. There was a lot of energy overall, and it was great to experience the different styles of dance and music,” Raman said. “TBS brings together the different teams and provides a sense of belonging in the entire community.” Many of the groups begin choreographing and rehearsing for the show months in advance. LSA sophomore Liam See DANCE, Page 3A
Speakers highlight importance of international relationship By TIMOTHY COHN Daily Staff Reporter
Over the past weekend, the Ross School of Business hosted the seventh annual India Business Conference. The event featured panels of speakers from both the United States and India to talk about the changing business relationship between the two countries. The speakers at the event included Natarajan Chandrasekaran, CEO of Tata Consultancy Services; Niren Chaudhary, the global president of KFC; and Yashwant Sinha, the former Minister of External Affairs and former Minister of Finance to India. Each event was moderated by a Ross faculty member who also oversaw question and answer sessions.
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Improv festival aims to reach diverse crowd National, regional and campus groups featured in first annual event By NEIL SCHWARTZ For the Daily
University of Michigan student comedy groups Funny or Die University of Michigan, ComCo and Midnight Book Club hosted the first annual University Improv Festival Saturday at Rackham Auditorium. Featuring a variety of improv comedy groups from Chicago, New York, University of Iowa, George Washington University and the University, organizers said the festival aimed to bring improv comedy to a wider audience. LSA sophomore Kelsey Fox, a member of ComCo, said she hoped the event reached a large and diverse portion of the student body. “We had multiple
demographics that we were reaching out to,” Fox said. “I hope that the average Michigan student had a crazy fun time.” The festival was divided into two parts — one show at 7 p.m. and one at 9 p.m. Student group Funny or Die opened the first part with a sketch about the president of the United States debating with his staff about pre-emptively bombing countries while mispronouncing simple terms such as ‘tank’ and ‘bulletproof,’ drawing a strong response from the crowd to kick off the show. receSs, a student group from George Washington University, performed next, acting out several sketches including a reenactment of the Last Supper featuring a “Jersey Shore”-styled Jesus, a seminar on sexual misconduct in the workplace and a group of friends debating plans for high school graduation. GWU senior Kevin Palermo, a member of receSs, said he enjoys improv comedy because of the excitement from performing it. See IMPROV, Page 3A
Business Prof. Guatam Ahuja, the conference organizer, said the conference was designed to cover a wide range of topics to inform current and future business leaders. It attracted a crowd of largely business students and local businesspeople. MBA student Anand Markande, who was in attendance at the event, said this importance of emerging economies is reflected in the graduate curriculum at the Business School. “Here, we have a lot of courses that have an emerging market theme,” Markande said. “This is especially true of India and China.” On Friday, Chandrasekaran provided opening remarks to an audience of about 100 people at the Robertson Auditorium at the Ross School of Business. He spoke about executive leadership and the role of software, data, and communication in business. “There are distinct characteristics of the recent economic development in India, which are making a revolution in business,” Chandrasekaran said. See ROSS, Page 3A
offer realistic experience for students School of Nursing uses mannequins that can bleed, sweat and give birth By ALEXA ST. JOHN
David Schafer, Micah Griggs elected CSG president and VP newMICH wins executive spots, but not majority of representative seats
By JENNIFER MEER and TIMOTHY COHN Daily Staff Reporters
LSA juniors David Schafer and Micah Griggs will be the 2016 Central Student Government president and vice president, according to unofficial election results released early Saturday morning.
The results will not be made official until pending litigation is resolved. As of Friday night, four lawsuits were still pending, including several filed minutes before unofficial results were released. The newMICH ticket of Schafer and Griggs defeated Public Policy junior Thomas Hislop, and LSA junior Cameron Dotson from the Your Michigan party by a margin of 59 votes, 3,811 votes to 3,752. LSA senior Keysha Wall and LSA sophomore Chalse Okorom, the Defend Affirmative Action Party presidential candidate and vice presidential candidates,
garnered 390 votes for third place. Overall turnout was at roughly 20 percent of the student body, a 2 percent decrease from last year’s record turnout. This is the second-closest vote margin over the past decade in CSG history, following last year’s five vote victory for Make Michigan. newMICH ran on a platform of expanding student opportunities through mentorship programs, amplifying student voice in CSG, improving connection by instituting scholarships for low income students, and ensuring student well-being and safety See CSG, Page 2A
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At the University of Michigan School of Nursing, along with students, you’ll also find Donnie Philips — who appears to be a child with pneumonia. However, Philips is actually one of many robotic mannequins used to teach nursing students. The current Nursing School building, opened last semester houses six simulation rooms — including two pediatrics rooms, two medical surgical rooms and two obstetrical rooms — in which mannequins like Philips are used for classroom exercises. High-fidelity mannequins are operated through a sophisticated software program and have been in use at the University of Michigan since 2008, while low and mid-fidelity mannequins have been in use for much longer. See SIMULATOR, Page 3A
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