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SpringFest to ft. 2 Chainz, Lil Yachty, Desiigner DESIGN BY: KATIE BEUKEMA
Higher education funding takes hit in proposed Trump budget cuts
Programs aimed at helping lower income student, such as Pell Grants, to decrease CARLY RYAN
Daily Staff Reporter
President Donald Trump’s budget proposal suggests downsizing the Department of Education by 13 percent, or $9 billion, and eliminates multiple grants, including Pell Grants and other programs aimed
at helping low-income students. The proposed budget reduces or eliminates funding for more than 20 departmental programs, including removing $2.4 billion in grants for teacher training and $1.2 billion in funding for after-school programs. At a rally in Tennessee, Trump said this budget will be more efficient, cutting programs on the basis of
redundancy. “(The budget will lower) costs to the taxpayer by reducing or eliminating funding for programs that are not effective, that duplicate other efforts or that do not serve national needs,” Trump said at the rally. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos agreed, promising the most
“vulnerable” students will be protected despite the large cuts being made. “This budget maintains our department’s focus on supporting states and school districts with the goal of providing an equal opportunity for a quality education to all students,” DeVos said at a See TRUMP, Page 3A
Annual show to be held at Crisler, will feature three headliners instead of one ANAY KATYAL
Managing Arts Editor
After bringing the likes of Migos, J. Cole and Common to campus, MUSIC Matters’ SpringFest will be hosting headliners 2 Chainz, Lil Yachty and Desiigner at the Crisler Center for the organization’s largest planned concert to date. MUSIC Matter’s sixth annual charity festival will take place on Friday, April 14 and will consist of a day-long festival with live performances from local and emerging talent, a pitch competition, food trucks and a closing performance at the Crisler Center from a headlining trio of 2 Chainz, Lil Yachty and
Desiigner, with proceeds going toward a summer camp for Detroit youth to be hosted at the University of Michigan this coming summer. Grammy-winner 2 Chainz will be making his second appearance on campus, last performing at Hill Auditorium for SpringFest in 2014. Additionally, in a change from SpringFest’s usual singleheadliner concerts, 2 Chainz will also be joined by hip-hop artists Lil Yachty and Desiigner. The two artists both boast meteoric rises to fame, immediately finding themselves in the public eye after breakout projects released early last year. “Broccoli,” Lil Yachty’s See SPRINGFEST, Page 3A
New version of ART to be less biased, Housing ‘U’ orgs to crisis talk more informative than other ratings collaborate
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Academic Reporting Tools 2.0 will make course evaluation data available
Notable authors Matthew Desmond and Alex Kotlowitz addressed 200
The University of Michigan Digital Innovation Greenhouse, housed within the Office of Academic Innovation, released a new version of Academic Reporting Tools earlier this week, which will make course evaluation data more readily available to students. Mike Wojan, a DIG userexperience designer who worked with students and other team members to design ART 2.0, said the major difference between the newest version of ART and previous iterations is the inclusion of the courseevaluation data, a decision based largely on student feedback. He said the ultimate goal of ART is summed up in the slogan: “explore, discover and decide.” “Those are the three things we’re trying to help facilitate right now: students exploring their options when it’s time to register courses, discovering things they might not have known about, courses or instructors or topics that the might not have known about, and then making more informed decisions when it comes time to register,” he said. Wojan explained the data will be represented in terms of a bar graph showing the percentage of students who
ALON SAMUEL
Daily Staff Reporter
Hosted by the Ford School of Public Policy and the National Poverty Center, a research center within the school, an event surrounding issues of race, poverty and housing in American cities was held Tuesday night in Rackham Ampitheatre and consisted of a discussion between Matthew Desmond and Alex Kotlowitz about their work within the context of the nationwide affordable-housing crisis. More than 200 University of Michigan students, faculty and Ann Arbor community members packed the auditorium to hear from Desmond, a Harvard sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient who recently published the awardwinning book, “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” an ethnographic account of lowincome residents in northern Milwaukee facing the loss of their homes. Kotlowitz is also an award-winning author and prominent journalist covering issues of urban poverty for See CRISIS, Page 3A
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responded to course evaluations questions in a certain way, like the percentage that “strongly agree.” These feature will include icons representing the sentiment behind each question, like a crystal ball to indicate many students agreed that they knew what was expected of them in the course. “We had to decide how are we going to give this information back to the user,” Wojan said. “What is going to be the easiest way for students to look at these evals, and right away understand what the data’s actually saying about the course or about the instructor?” Amy Homkes-Hayes, lead innovation advocate of DIG, said student feedback has been instrumental to the
improvement of ART, and will be necessary for its continued success. “We also have a lot of student support,” she said. “That’s one of the major ways that we’re spreading the word is by going through our student representatives to say this is a tool we want students to use while they’re engaging the backpacking process and for course selection.” She said the decisions of what information from course evaluations to include in ART were based on criteria established by the Office of the Provost, the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs and Central Student Government. The groups agreed on including standards
set for data shown based on class size, number of evaluation responses and number of semesters taught. In addition to the use of aggregate data and displaying the number of student responses compared to the number enrolled in the class, these parameters, HomkesHayes explained, heighten the validity of the data shown. “One of the benefits of using ART 2.0 is that this is official University data,” she said. “We have the blessing of all of the relevant parties in order to show it, and we also believe that we’re showing it in a really sophisticated way … that makes it easy to understand.” In an email interview, August Evrard, professor of physics See ACADEMICS, Page 3A
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on space capsule
The first ever launch aims to commemorate the University bicentennial KEVIN BIGLIN
Daily Staff Reporter
To celebrate and reflect on the University of Michigan’s bicentennial, M-BARC, the Michigan Bicentennial Archive, is designing, creating and launching the first-ever space time capsule into space, which will orbit the Earth for 100 years. As the University continues to push toward space research, the launch of the capsule marks a new era of discovery. Business senior Saanya Sethi, the M-BARC interview team leader, said the bicentennial is about celebrating the past and embracing the future — themes the time capsule will be able to represent in a tangible way. With an anticipated launch date in 2018 or 2019, there will be a test launch by the end of 2017, for which M-BARC was given an award to have a free rideshare test launch with three other winners. Part of the time capsule will include interviews with students, faculty, staff and alumni talking about their experiences at the University, which will be recorded and stored on a data chip in the See CAPSULE, Page 3A
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