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Michigan coaching staff told him
the cause of the dismissal was
"just a combination of missing
study tables, missing class and
missing workouts."
"I never saw it coming,"
Wilcher said, adding that Cis-
soko never caused trouble in high
school. "Whatever he was asked
to do, he did it."
Wilcher did not know exactly
when these issues began, but said
"it's like the second time it hap-
pened, I know."
The coach spoke with Cissoko
and a Michigan assistant coach
V yesterday evening about the dis-
missal.
"He accepts reality, that's all,"
Wilcher said. "He was calm. He
wasn't upset because he knows
he messed up."
Cissoko was suspended by
* Rodriguez for the Oct. 10 game
versus Iowa and the Oct. 17 game
versus Delaware State after start-
ing the first four games of the sea-
son. He also did not play on Oct.
3 against Michigan State. Rodri-
guez first attributed the suspen-
sion to "a violation of team rules."
"When he comes back, it's
really up to him," Rodriguez said
after the Iowa game. "He's got
certain things he's got to do, on
and off the field, academically
and all that, and if he does that,
he'll be back sooner rather than
later."
Wilcher said Cissoko strug-
gled in his classes freshman year,
but did "whatever it took to make
* sure he got his grades."
During his suspension, Cis-
soko was relegated to the scout
team in practice. But he returned
to the field last weekend against
Penn State, playing in third-down
man-coverage situations.
After Saturday's game, Rodri-
guez said Cissoko would stay in
the lineup "unless he screws up
again."
Cissoko practiced Monday,
the team's first practice since the
Penn State game, according to
a source close to the team. The
same source said Cissoko would
frequently "show up a few min-
utes late" to practice during the
season.
But that was his last day prac-
ticing for Michigan, where he
will leave after a 20-game career
in Ann Arbor. Cissoko, who was
considered the cop prospect
in Michigan by rivalsacom and
scoutrcom, tallied one intercep-
tion and 30 tackles, including
one for a loss, while wearing the
maize and blue.
It's unclear what the future
holds for Cissoko.
"Well, it depends on how he
comes out with this right here,"
Wilcher said, adding that the
decision hinges on Cissoko's
grades. "I think he'll probably go
someplace else and play."
But one of Cissoko's high school
teammates, Edward Eniang, who
played cornerback with him, said
he thinks Cissoko will stick it out
at Michigan.
"Since tenth (grade), all he's
talked about was Michigan,"
Eniangsaid. "I expecthimto stay,
try and get his grades up, and do
anything he can to get back on
the team."
His dismissal was particularly
shocking to Eniang.
"I was definitely surprised
when I heard the news," Eniang
said. "Everyone in high school,
they have a few classes they
struggle with. But Boubacar
loved football, and he always put
in the extra work to make sure
his grades were up and he could
stay on the field."
Former high school teammate
Delshawn Morris agreed.
"(It was) very surprising,"
Morris said. "I never will find
a reason why he'd be kicked off.
He's a good person."
"The last couple weeks, he's
been working, so we thought it
was time for him to play again,"
secondary coach Tony Gibson
said after the game.
Junior cornerback Donovan
Warren said Saturday that Cis-
soko had regained the trust of his
coaches.
"Boubacar just came back with
a vengeance," Warren said. "You
know he worked hard in prac-
tice this week. Got the coaches
to trust him real well. This was
just a matter of them having con-
fidence in him, and they got con-
fidence in him."
That confidence was broken
Tuesday.
"He almost turned it around,
though," Wilcher said.
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Courtney Ratkowiak and Andy
Reid contributed to this report.
In reversal, MSA approves policy
some say infringes on free speech
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five minutes to three minutes per
speaker and from an hour to a half
an hour total.
MSA President Abhishek Mah-
anti voted to pass the resolution
both times and said he was pleased
with the discussion between mem-
bers of the assembly last night.
"All the voices were heard and
we had really good discussion,"
he said, "which I'm really happy
about."
LSA Rep. Andrew Chinsky
authored the amendments to the
resolution. He said the changes
made the selection process for
speakers more objective than in the
original version.
Chinsky said the resolution will
redirect the focus of MSA's meet-
ings back to the students, where he
said it should be.
"I am very happy that we could
come together and take some of
the first steps to making sure stu-
dents come first in our meetings,"
he said. "(The resolution) really
promotes free speech and empow-
ers students to come forward with
their issues knowing that they
are our primary concern and they
will be the ones that will be heard
above all else. That's why we were
elected."
Opponents of the resolution said
that even with the amendments,
the resolution is still too restrictive
of free speech.
Public Health Rep. Hamdan
Yousuf voted no on the resolution
twice. He said that this resolution
threatens the democratic legitima-
cy of the assembly.
"If I were to give a caption to
this meeting it would be 'democ-
racy reconsidered,"' he said.
GOOD SAMARITAN
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rather than to prioritize safety.
"How can it be more important
what kind of a fine you have to pay if
you truly believe someone's going to
die?" Brown said. "I don't get it."
Michigan Student Assembly
Business Rep. Alex Serwer said he
thinks the bill will be effective in
encouraging students to receive
medical attention when necessary.
"(The bill) will provide students
with a safety net should they be at
risk late on a Saturday night," Ser-
wer wrote in an e-mail interview.
ABILITY WEEK
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dents, faculty and staff with dis-
abilities.
Ability Week, Schnitzer said, is
the one time in the year when the
council can promote its message to
a broader audience.
"We kind of focus on events that
are open to everybody to get people
of all backgrounds and interests to
come," Schnitzer said.
Schnitzer said the council
selected several speakers who
have channeled their disabilities
into artistic presentations.
She spoke of Sadie Wilcox, an
artist who was badly burned in
a domestic violence incident and
decided to tackle her experience
through art.
"Instead of just saying, 'This
is the end of my life because this
"It will make students more proac-
tive when considering what to do
in response to excessive drinking
behaviors."
Rep. Mark Meadows (D-East
Lansing), one of the bill's primary
supporters, along with members of
the Associated Students of Michi-
gan State University (ASMSU),
contacted Serwer earlier this
month, asking him to have MSA
write a letter of support to the
state Senate on behalf of the bill.
"As students from various class-
es, grades and circles of friends,
we have found that we can all
relate to having heard stories of
fellow classmates who have found
terrible thing happened,' (Wilcox)
made a positive thing out of it,"
Schnitzer said.
Wilcox has two presentations
scheduled for today in the Ability
Week event calendar. During the
first, she will specifically address
creating art while recovering from
traumatic burns and violence.
Sadashi Inuzuka is another
artist who overcame adversity
and will be speaking throughout
the week. Inuzuka, an art pro-
fessor at the University's School
of Art & Design, has faced sig-
nificant visual impairment since
birth.
Inuzuka said he first considered
becoming an artist when he was
three, but that his condition pre-
vented him from pursuing it.
At age 30, he moved from Japan
to North America where he finally
discovered a mediumthat he could
work with under his condition -
themselves in the scary situation
of either being too intoxicated
or having to deal with another
student who is too intoxicated,"
MSA's letter read. "In both situa-
tions, students are scared to call
the police for fear of damage to
their records or being punished by
alcohol policies."
The letter goes on to explain situ-
ations in which intoxicated students
may choose to drive their friends to
the hospital over calling for help.
This scenario, it reads, puts the stu-
dents involved, along with everyone
else on the road, at risk.
Serwer said he learned from
various House administrators and
clay.
"Because I have a visual impair-
ment, I really depend on touch,"
Inuzuka said.
While Inuzuka has created
multimedia artistic presentations
for some time now, he said he did
not feel comfortable acknowledg-
ing his disability in his work for a
long time.
"I didn't want people to label me
as an artist with a disability. I just
wanted to be an artist," Inuzuka
said.
However, Inuzuka said he
recently started considering how
his disability affected his work,
or "how I do what I do." And after
some reflection, he said, he came
away with a more positive out-
look.
"Because of my condition, I
think differently and I see things
differently,"Inuzuka said. "I think
my 'disability' is actually an abil-
the University's Vice President for
Government Relations Cynthia
Wilbanks that the letter articu-
lating MSA's perspective of the
bill held great significance in the
House Judiciary Committee's pro-
ceedings as a representation of the
student opinion.
"Now that the bill is in the Sen-
ate Judiciary Committee, we will
certainly strengthen our efforts,"
Serwer said. "We have reached
out to (the Ann Arbor Police
Department) as well as DPS so
that we can create a coalition of
law enforcement officials. Their
voices at the state level would be
very powerful."
ity."
Consequently, he said his work
is changing to focus more on dis-
ability issues.
Inuzuka will discuss his person-
al artistic journey during a presen-
tation tomorrow, and on Saturday
he will lead a clay workshop for
children.
He said he's confident art can
help bridge the gap between stu-
dents with disabilities and those
without, and encourages students
to attend the presentations to gain
understanding of a perspective
different from their own.
Schnitzer said she hopes the
presentations will diminish com-
mon preconceived notions about
people with disabilities.
"Some people might say, 'Oh
this person is disabled and can't do
anything,"' Schnitzer said. "That's
not true at all Were plucking the
art from the disability."
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