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society that has been deemed crim-
inal," Silvers said. "Deemed crimi-
nal why? Usually because of the
color of our skin."
Felix Lopez, vice chair of MSA's
Peace and Justice Commission, was
the lead organizer of the event.
He said that after the death of
Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah,
who was shotbyethe FBI in Dearborn
last month, he realized that students
on campus were unaware of police
brutality, even though it was occur-
ring so close to the University.
"Ann Arbor is a bubble and I
sometimes feel like I don't know
what's happening around me,"
Lopez said. "I just thought about
this idea especially after the mur-
der of Abdullah bythe FBI in Dear-
born. It really just struck a chord to
me in saying like 'Hey, we're stu-
dents and we're people too and it is
affecting us."
Lopezsaid withlastnight'sevent
he hoped to bring people together
on campus and inspire them to
work for change.
"We have to really be conscious
about these issues and really be
conscious about our own sur-
roundings and realize that being in
the University and having all this
access and resources that a lot of
people just don't have, that we can
actually make change," he said.
Kim Miller-Tolbert, chair of
MSA's Minority Affairs Commis-
sion, said police brutality needs to
be discussed more on campus.
"I think that police brutality is
an issue that affects a lot of people
and its somethingthat really needs
to be talked about and brought to
the forefront," she said.
I Silvers explained how a cycle of
poverty, crime, police brutality and
incarceration continues to repeat
itself. She said the core of the prob-
lem rests in the fact that people are
hungry and desperate for money.
From there, she said, come petty
thefts, which leads to incarcera-
tion, the inability to find employ-
ment after that incarceration and
then more poverty.
"If we were more concerned
with making sure people had food
to eat and a place to live we would
lessen the crime in our society," Sil-
vers said.
Davilatoro, who said he was
imprisoned for possession of mari-
juana, said he would never call the
police in any situation because he
has never had a positive experience
associated with them.
"I would never call the cops, not
Friday, November 20, 2009 - 7A
at all," he said "They ain't saving
my life, they're ruining my life."
Silvers told students that grass-
roots organization is the best way
to fight police brutality, but that the
process could take decades.
"It takes a long time to really
develop the kind of organization
you would need to stand up to
police brutality," she said.
John Oltean, chair of the Peace
and Justice Commission, said that
he was pleased with the discussion
that took place at the event. He said
that Silvers was able to give advice
to young activists.
"I liked the discussion aboutthe
activism and possible solutions to
organizing," he said.."I thinkitwas
pretty inspiring for some young
people of color and some activists
in the room to hear her stories and
how she's had success combating
these types of issues."
Max Nwabara, co-chair of the
NAACP Political Actions Com-
mittee, said that he was impressed
with the diversity of the event par-
ticipants.
"It's actually a more diverse
crowd than I thought it would be,"
Nwabara said. "I thought it would
be mostly minority students .but
there are a lot of whit6 students
who came out and I guess it's good
to hear."
MIA MARINO/Daily
The Board of Regents meets in the Fleming Administration Building for its monthly meeting yesterday.
NOTEBOOK
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$2.2 million. The project is expected
to be completed in fall 2010.
A renovation project at Wolverine
Tower, which houses much of the
University's business, finance and
development offices, was granted $6.3
million from the regents. This project,
which will renovate 61,000 square
feet, is expected to be completed in fall
2011 and will temporarily displace 50
parkingspots.
The regents also approved $1.5 mil-
lion to replace a chiller - essentially
a large air conditioning unit - that
SPACE
From Page IA
,with all the things we're doing, but I
thinktheyunderstandatafundamen-
tal level why we're doing it and why
it's important to do it," Mueller said.
"It'sjust changing behaviors now."
In an interview on Wednesday,
Sullivan also stressed that efforts
underway to centralize the allocation
of classrooms would also be helpful
for student groups, who may current-
ly have difficulty securing a space.
"If you have a student group
that wants to find a place to meet
in the evening, how would you go
about doing that?" Sullivan said in
an interview on Wednesday. "Well,
sometimes it amounts to knowing
serves both the Chemistry Building
and the Willard H. Dow Laboratory.
Installation is expected to be com-
pleted next fall and is projected to save
$300,000per year in energy costs.
An additional $3.8 million was
approved to upgrade the University's
wireless internet network and tele-
phoneswitch.Theprojectalsoincludes
additional outside cabling to the Wall
Street complex, North Quad and the
North Campus Research Complex.
SCHOOL OF INFORMATION
TAKES CONTROL OF
MASTER'S PROGRAM
The regents approved a request
the secret handshake with some-
body to get access to a room."
Another major effort of the
Space Utilization Initiative has
been to centralize computer serv-
ers. Mueller said building server
farms allows the University to save
on space and energy required to
house and maintain servers that
have been previously spread across
campus at each building or unit. ,
"We have a couple of parallel
activities going on around comput-
er machine rooms," Mueller said.
"A lot of schools and colleges have
their own server rooms ... so we've
been working with units to get out
of the mindset that they have to
have their own machines in their
own building in order to manage
them, because a lot of that could be
to transfer the administration of
the Master of Science in Informa-
tion degree from the Rackham
Graduate School to the School of
Information.
Speaking before the regents yes-
terday, Provost Teresa Sullivan said
the move is consistent with admin-
istrative practices in other profes-
sional schools, like the schools of
Law, Engineering and Business.
"The MBA is not in Rackham; the
MPH is not in Rackham," Sullivan
said in an interview on Wednesday.
"It's similar to that."
- Chris Photiades
contributed to this report.
mdnaged virtually."
Other efforts are also under-
way to better use space on campus,
including an effort to consolidate
vivaria facilities - which house
animals used for testing.'
Renovations to repurpose space
on campus are already underway,
with plans to convert the fourth floor
of Dennison Hall from classrooms to
office space for several environmen-
tal programs. The renovations are
scheduled to be completed during
summer 2010, University spokesman
Rick Fitzgerald said yesterday.
The initiative, which was started
two and a half years ago, is expect-
ed to be fully implemented over the
next two and a half years and Muel-
ler said she expects the University
to meet its utilization goals.
RUSSELL
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for refusing to cooperate with
the original investigation into the
matter, conducted by the Worker
Rights Consortium, a University
affiliate that closely monitors fac-
tories that produce goods bearing
college and university licensed
logos. At the time, the apparel
maker said it was the economy, not
the staff's unionization, that influ-
enced the closing of the factory.
The University of Michigan's
Advisory Committee on Labor
Standards and Human Rights sent,
a letter to University officials ask-
ing them drop ties with the com-
pany in February.
"Because of the company's pre-
vious failure to adhere to its own
standards of conduct, we do not
feel that continuing the license,
even under strict monitoring of
any new code of conduct, is appro-
priate," the letter said.
USAS also successfully pushed
Russell to compensate workers for
the months they were dismissed
and incorporate a company-wide
neutral stance on unionization.
After hearing of the recent
breakthrough, Siobin Harlow,pro-
fessor of epidemiology and chair of
the Advisory Committee on Labor
Standards and Human Rights, said
she appreciates the work the stu-
dents have done.
"The University was pleased
to learn of the historic agree-
ment negotiated between Rus-
sell Corporation and workers in
Honduras," she said in an e-mail
statement.
In a press release, WRC Execu-
tive Director Scott Nova credited
the success of the movement in
part to the "involvement of the
University (of Michigan) and its
students and faculty."
"The strong and effective action
taken by the University of Michi-
gan in enforcing its labor rights
code of conduct played a vital role
in producing this historic result,"
he wrote.
While the future of the compa-
ny's relationships with schools is
still uncertain, SchechtertheSOLE
member, said the WRC is essential
in maintaining this victory.
"Continued support of indepen-
dentmonitoringbodies, particular-
ly the WRC, should be emphasized
in the universities' policies regard-
ing labor rights going forward,"
she said.
Harlow wrote in an e-mail
to the Daily that the committee
"will likely discuss this settle-
ment at its December meeting,
however the committee will not
review the case formally unless
and until Russell Corporation
makes an application to renew its
license with the University."
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