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Rackham student Alex McConnell walks through the rain down State Street Sunday evening. McConnell, a native Californian, said Californians would “kill to have this kind of (rainy) weather,” which caused many events this weekend to be postponed.
Annual sustainability report shows slow-moving progress University sees 3 percent increase in greenhouse gas emissions
that require improvement for the University to meet its sustainability goals. One large category was the amount of waste sent to landfills, a sign of effective food waste composting. The University’s stated goal for 2025 is to reduce it by 40 percent. According to the report, by the end of 2015, it had been reduced 1.7 percent. Energy conservation and greenhouse gas emissions saw similar trends. For these areas, the report drew on numbers from
By ANDREW HIYAMA Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan’s 2015 Sustainability Progress Report, released last week, identified several key areas
Energy Management — a division within Plant Operations at the University — which monitors the energy use of buildings on campus, tracking their heating and air conditioning systems and implementing energy conservation measures in academic buildings. For the past six years, the program has recorded an 8-percent annual reduction in energy consumption in the buildings it was responsible for. However, the report said it
remains unclear whether or not this reduction will continue at the same rate once the University of Michigan Health System, University Housing and athletics are incorporated into the program. As well, according to the report, the University is currently progressing negatively toward its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2025, instead increasing emissions by 3 percent as of this year. A third major category, See REPORT, Page 3A
Concert funds to be donated to initiatives in the city By JENNIFER MEER Daily Staff Reporter
This Wednesday, MUSIC Matters will team up with Consider Magazine to incorporate the Detroit Village in their fifth annual SpringFest. SpringFest is a day-long festival located on the University of Michigan Diag and North University Avenue that aims to bring together a wide array of student organizations, musicians and entrepreneurs. Detroit Village will be a display at Springfest featuring Detroit businesses. MUSIC Matters said their goal is to improve the University’s relationship with the city. Proceeds from the SpringFest hip hop trio Migos concert, beginning at 8 p.m. at Hill Auditorium, will go to MUSIC Matters’ summer camp
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CSG works to extend center connector bus Governing body pushes to continue Detroit to Ann Arbor service By JENNIFER MEER Daily Staff Reporter
Among other agenda items, before they ended the year on Tuesday Central Student Government passed a resolution to encourage the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost to extend the contract for the MDetroit Center Connector — the bus that runs between Ann Arbor and Detroit — for spring 2016. The connector has had problems with maintaining funding in the past. Initially, in 2013, the project received $153,000 from the University to run on a four-day schedule. In June 2015, the University planned to end the connector’s services when grant funding had expired
and ridership was found to be insufficient. However, prior to the resolution, the connector’s current contract, which began in spring 2015, would expire at the end of the 2016 winter term. Public Policy sophomore Dylan Bennett, co-author of the resolution and co-chair of the CSG Detroit Congress, said after successful but small outreach events in previous years, such as a panel of speakers to discuss job opportunities in Detroit that brought in only 50 people, the commission really wanted to redefine its role through projects like these. The CSG Detroit Congress aims to bring together student organizations that are working to discuss and improve Ann Arbor’s relationship with Detroit. “This year we said, ‘We’re a student government body. Let’s facilitate discussion. Let’s be the leading body on bettering the University’s relationship with Detroit,’ ” See BUS, Page 2A
for children in Detroit, which is set to begin in 2017. “Our goal for the event is to address the student body’s weakened relationship with Detroit,” a press release reads. “In the past, the University has held close ties with the city through which the nation’s best and brightest have been funneled to jobs in Detroit.” Connection with Detroit has been a focus for multiple student organizations in recent weeks. LSA sophomore Dylan Bennett, the co-chair of the CSG Commision on Detroit Engagement, presented a resolution, which recently passed in the Central Student Government, to extend the University’s current contract with the MDetroit Connector — a bus that travels from Ann Arbor to Detroit. The resolution was passed last Tuesday. Bennett said in an interview, the University has a weakened relationship with the city to an extent. “I think the fact that the University actually shut down See SPRINGFEST, Page 3A
Summit on cancer aims to improve patient care Disease’s prognosis in women is focus of lectures, discussions By IRENE PARK
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Students perform Dabke, a traditional Arabic dance, at Arab Xpressions 2016 hosted by the Arab Student Association in the Michigan Union Friday.
Arab Xpressions highlights traditional song and dance
Organizers cite positive portrayal of culture as motive for event By NISA KHAN Daily Staff Reporter
A video highlighting issues students have had with the University of Michigan’s Arabic language classes kicked off
Friday’s annual Arab Xpression show, which celebrates Arabic culture through dances, skits and songs. In explaining the event to the audience in the Rogel Ballroom, Arab Student Association hosts and LSA seniors Lana Abdole and Devin Jones emphasized the uniqueness of Arab Xpression — as the only Arab culture show of its kind at the University — and the importance of combating negative stereotypes in light of recent events on campus.
In an interview, Abdole echoed these sentiments. “We wanted the opportunity to use the culture show to show you other side of things as opposed to the stereotypes in the public,” she said. “Arabesque, the dance group that performs, is the only traditional Arab dance group on campus. Specifically, this year we really wanted the show to provide a platform for people of Arab heritage to reclaim what it means to be Arab.” See DANCE, Page 3A
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Saturday at the North Campus Research Complex, the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center Breast Oncology and Community Outreach Programs hosted the fourth annual Breast Cancer Summit. The summit was aimed at individuals currently being treated for breast cancer, those who survived breast cancer, those at high risk and those interested in prevention. For women in the United States, breast cancer is the second most deadly type of cancer, according to nonprofit breastcancer.org. In 2016, it is estimated there will be more than 40,000 deaths from breast cancer. It is also the second most commonly diagnosed cancer, with approximately 307,000 new See CANCER, Page 3A
Twin Chillings Michigan lost both games of a doubleheader in the cold Friday
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