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The Michigan football team had a simple strategy Saturday night against Minnesota. And with the efforts of Karan Higdon and Chris Evans, that strategy worked.
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DEI office to survey faculty thoughts on UM climate The poll will reach 5,000 librarians, curators and other University employees REMY FARKAS For the Daily
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Students perform at Sarani, the Indian American Student Association show at Hill Auditorium Friday.
IASA performance celebrates philanthropy, blending cultures
Annual show showcased culture across India through several dance numbers HALEY MCLAUGHLIN For the Daily
The Indian American Student Association gathered Friday on the stage of a crowded Hill Auditorium to present its annual cultural show, showcasing the diversity
of dance, music and language that can be found across India. The show, titled “Sarani: The Allure of Adventure,” took the audience on a tour on different parts of Indian cultures. While exploring the history of India through song and dance performances, IASA weaved American cultural elements
CITY
Anti-deer cull group puts forth petition The online petition calls for end of controversial deer culling program in A2 ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
A local animal rights group launched a change.org petition yesterday protesting the Ann Arbor City Council’s decision to continue Ann Arbor’s lethal deer management program. The petition reached 360 supporters as of Sunday evening. The petition, which was started by the Friends of Ann Arbor Wildlife and Nature, argues City Council mismanaged municipal funds to support a program that, in FAAWN’s perspective, was unnecessarily cruel and had limited success in controlling Ann Arbor’s deer population. “Ann Arbor residents want to know that their tax dollars are being put towards programs that have their best interests at heart,” the petition reads. “For this reason, we are petitioning the City of Ann Arbor to stop the killing of 350 deer this Winter and look to non-lethal options to manage the deer population.” Ann Arbor’s deer cull See PETITION, Page 3A
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into the show and explored the significance of being IndianAmerican. The show is the biggest student-run cultural show in North America, with audiences of 3,200 to 4,000 typically gathering each year, according to show coordinator Ashwin Johri, an Engineering senior.
IASA, the second-largest active group on campus, has brought together Indian American students for the past 34 years to perform in shows, participate in community service and discuss the larger social, political and economic matters affecting India today. See PERFORMANCE, Page 3A
The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion announced the University of Michigan will conduct a survey evaluating the topics of diversity, equity and inclusion within its campus. The survey will question 5,000 librarians, curators, postdoctoral fellows and house officers at Michigan Medicine and others places. To maintain confidentiality, the 15-minute web-based survey will be conducted by an independent Ann Arbor research firm SoundRocket. The survey was announced just prior to a second DEI survey that went
Higdon, Evans highlight run game as Michigan tops Minnesota, 33-10 KEVIN SANTO
Managing Sports Editor
Karan Higdon and Chris Evans might as well have been competing with each other. After all, when a team comes nine yards shy of boasting two 200-yard rushers for the first time in program history, that’s usually how it goes. And such was the story for the Wolverines. They ran the ball. They ran the ball. Then they ran the ball again. In the end, Michigan’s ground game exploded to the tune of 371 yards — helping the Wolverines claim a 33-10 victory over Minnesota (1-5 Big Ten, 4-5 overall) and maintain possession of the Little Brown Jug. “We’ve just been really focusing on the run game and
knew, again, that we were going to have to run the ball to win,” said senior left tackle Mason Cole. “We have the backs to do it, and we blocked well enough to get them through the line of scrimmage and onto the second level. From there it was all those guys.” Higdon struck first on the second drive of the game. The Wolverines’ junior running back got the ball on 2nd-and-10, found the hole that
Michigan’s offensive line seems to be opening more with each passing week and charged 77 yards untouched to the end zone — the longest rush by a Wolverine since Denard Robinson ran for a 79-yard touchdown against Air Force in 2012. One offensive series passed the Wolverines (4-2, 7-2) by. Then Evans followed suit. On 1st-and-10 from Michigan’s own 40-yard line, the sophomore running back did it
all himself — breaking tackles at the line of scrimmage before cutting outside and streaking down the right hash marks for Michigan’s third touchdown of the game. And so went the game of back and forth. Higdon punched in a fiveyard touchdown with just over three minutes left in the third quarter to cap off a 46-yard drive. Evans broke another run to the outside and took it 67 yards to the house on the next series to put the Wolverines up, 33-7. “I looked up at one point and the statistics looked like we were Air Force,” said Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. “… I’ve never seen that many plus-50 yard runs in one game, any team I’ve ever coached or been on. That was quite the performance.” That it was. And it made Brandon Peters’ job easy. In his first collegiate start, the redshirt freshman was asked to throw just 13 times. He completed
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out to all students. The DEI Office has conducted several similar climate surveys over the past year. Previous campus climate surveys were sent to a total audience of 8,500 people, with questions that were tailored to staff and students finding 72 percent of the campus community is satisfied with the current campus climate. In an email interview with University spokeswoman Kim Broekhuizen, she said ADVANCE, a U-M specific survey and research resource, did not survey the nearly 5,000 faculty members — librarians, archivists and postdoctoral fellows — that are included in the most recent survey. See SURVEY, Page 3A
GOVERNMENT
Weekly MI state house legislative wrap-up The Michigan House has recently been focused on auto insurance reform COLIN BERESFORD Daily Staff Reporter
Each week, The Michigan Daily will be publishing a wrap-up of the most important bills proposed in Michigan Legislature over the past seven days: This past week, Michigan legislators have been busy debating auto insurance reform. On Thursday evening, HB 5013, which would have reduced insurance premiums, was defeated in the House of Representatives by an overwhelming majority of Democrats and some Republicans, 45-63. The bill would have allowed drivers to choose between $250,000, $500,000 and unlimited lifetime coverage for medical expenses resulting from auto crashes. Under current law, Michigan is the only state with such that mandates unlimited coverage. Opponents to the bill state it doesn’t guarantee rate reductions because car insurance companies can get an exemption from the state if See WRAP-UP, Page 2A
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