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said. "He's a part of the creation of
that - there were no Make Michigan
people actually a part of the creation
of this new SafeRide app."
Previously, Public Policy junior
Bobby Dishell, Make Michigan's
presidential candidate and current
CSG vice president, and Campus Saf-
eRide LLC concluded a formal agree-
ment wherein Campus SafeRide LLC
agreed to officially endorse Make
Michigan and gave Make Michigan
exclusive rights to promote the appli-
cation.
FORUM filed a countercomplaint
against Make Michigan claiming the
complaint was frivolous.
"Long before Mr. Greenfield
became an official candidate with the
FORUM party, he was hard at work on
a project to address student's trans-
portation needs," the respondent's
reply brief read.
The brief included multiple e-mails
between Greenfield and University
Provost Martha Pollack about the
development of the SafeRide app,
However, the petitioners of Make
Michigan responded in another brief
with a letter from Engineering senior
Summit Shrestha, one of the technical
developers for Campus SafeRide LLC.
"No member of the FORUM politi-
cal party has participated in the tech-
nical development of the SafeRide
application at any stage of this pro-
cess," Shrestha wrote in a March 25
letter to the UEC. "Mr. Greenfield
claims to have participated in this
development process, but his asser-
tion is simply untrue."
The UEC held a hearing Wednes-
day night and will come to a conclu-
sion Friday morning.
If FORUM is found responsible, the
UEC will issue the party a statutory
maximum of eight demerits, which
would result in a 24-percent reduc-
tion of FORUM's votes, Nitta said.
The second case preventing the
release of election results pertains to
an alleged violation of irresponsible
e-mail use by the Defend Affirmative
Action Party.
Steven Richards, a Social Work and
Public Health graduate student and
FORUM legislative candidate for the
School of Social Work, is suing DAAP
for improperly sending an e-mail to a
listserv of 630 Social Work students
on March 24, encouraging them to
vote for DAAP.
According to the complaint brief,
Social Work student Cassandra Muro
sent the e-mail on behalf of Social
Work student Reyna Asadizoudegani,
the DAAP legislative candidate for the
School of Social Work.
However, the respondent's brief
read: "Ms. Muro, unlike her friend,
did not become involved with DAAP
and has never volunteered with
DAAP. Ms. Asadizoudegani has never
asked Ms. Muro for assistance with
her campaign."
If the UEC finds the DAAP respon-
sible for requesting the e-mail, three
to four demerits will be issued per
e-mail recipient, Nitta said.
The hearing will begin at 4:30 p.m.
on Friday and the decision will be
announced 36 hours after the hear-
ing concludes.
RWANDA
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from the country since 1959 began to
return to the nation.
The genocide ended in 1994 with
the victory of the Tutsi Rwandan
Patriotic Front, leaving between
500,000 and 1 million Rwandan
people dead.
During the war, Rusesabagina
offered refuge to 1,268 people,
both Hutu and Tutsi, in the Mille
Collines, the large hotel where he
had previously served as manager.
As a result of paying off generals
and wielding his connections, all
of the hotel guests survived the
genocide.
Rusesabagina's story was later
depicted in an Academy Award-
nominated film starring Don
Cheadle. The film was shown
Monday as part of the University's
commemoration activities.
In his remarks, Rusesabagi-
na said many of the problems in
Rwanda have been caused by poli-
ticians and government-sponsored
media and not the country's aver-
age citizens.
Rusesabagina also said other
countries require collective action
to intervene in international con-
flicts, as well as time to make deci-
sions and then take actions. He
also claimed the United Nations is
ruled by six or seven powers that
intervene in other countries only
to protect their own interests.
Rusesabagina, who was also a
2005 recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, has previous
history with the University. In
2005, he was awarded the Univer-
sity's Wallenberg Medal, an honor
that recognizes individuals who
have made significant contribu-
tions toward furthering human
rights.
Allan Stam, professor of Pub-
lic Policy and Political Science
and director of the International
Policy Center, said he, along with
Political Science Prof. Christian
Davenport, first thought about
organizing a commemoration of
the genocide six months ago.
Stam said Rusesabagina's own
observations during the event as
well as 20 years of study would
provide a perspective that people
in the United States don't often
hear.
"That there is hope for progress
in the future but that there is still
a lot of people who need to be held
accountable for what took place in
the past," Stam said.
Rusesabagina, who now lives
in Belgium and has not been to
Rwanda since 2004, said he does
feel nostalgic about his home. He
also established the Hotel Rwanda
Rusesabagina Foundation, which
works to prevent future genocides
and promote the healing process in
Rwanda.
"My dream is that one day we see
Hutus and Tutsis sitting around
that table," he said. "We'll see all of
these people talking. Bringing the
whole truth to the table. Practicing
equal justice towards sustainable
peace, not only for us but also for
our neighbors."
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ment, community service, career collegiate experience can often
MENTORSHIP planning, nutrition and fiscal be extremely limited, Chrzan
From Page 1 understanding. Through indi- said.
vidual interactions, workshops, Mentors will also help their
field trips and presentations, students analyze the important
frey Canada states that students Detroit students will learn how components of their personal
in low-income neighborhoods to apply new information in each identities, specifically focusing
are more likely to know some- of these fields to their own lives. on what it means to be a Detroi-
one who has served time in For both Chrzan and fel- ter. Chrzan said this means
prison than someone who has low board member and Educa- educating students about their
been to college. This distinc- tion graduate student Angela communities and the role they
tion hit home with Chrzan, a Abiodun, who also grew up in play within them. With many
Detroit native. With the imple- Detroit, academic empowerment of the University student men-
mentation of CHAMPIONS: and identity development sig- tors not being from Detroit, the
DETROIT, he and his fellow nify two of the development group stresses that mentors be
board members aim to change plan's most crucial components. aware of the specific challenges
the paradigm. Chrzan said academic empow- Detroit students face.
By establishing trust-based erment means not only tutor- The students will be paired
relationships with students, ing students, but also providing with mentorsbased on an assess-
mentors will be able to effec- them with exposure to different ment of their compatibility with
tively administer six different campus environments through potential partners. Surveys will
areas of focused development. the arrangement ofcollegevisits. be administered to both men-
These." areas include academic For many high school students in tors and students that will help
empowerment, identity develop- Detroit, this type of firsthand to establish academic strengths
and weaknesses, extracurricu-
E EU E lar interests and plans for the
future. More generally, the orga-
nization hopes that the close-
ness in age between mentors and
students will facilitate a quality
of comfort in each relationship.
1 9 The goal is for students to feel
as though they can relate to the
1 7 5 3 experiences of each mentor.
The creators of CHAMPI-
ONS: DETROIT are looking for
9 27Michigan students who under-
stand the power of relation-
4 2 1 8 ships, and who feel passionately
about making a difference in the
7 4 6 3 city of Detroit. Most impor-
tantly, Chrzan said, they are
seeking not just mentors, but
5 3 4 J8 loyal champions who will cheer
students on in their pursuit of
2 1 5 8 future success.
CHAMPIONS: DETROIT will
1 2 6 3 release their applications for
student mentors in the coming
4 I weeks. Following the application
V I1"' process, board members will
quickly begin training future
mentors so that they will be
ready to start working with stu-
dents in September.
LSA
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Dabrowski is currently already
on the Executive Board of LSA-SG
as academic relations officer. In
this role, she chairs the Academic
Affairs Committee. In the past,
Dabrowski worked on the Taking
Responsibility for the Earth and
Environment Subcommittee and
Student Life Committee of LSA-
SG.
Walsh is the current counsel on
the Executive Board. He has been
BILL
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said this interest-free tuition plan
would eliminate financial barriers
to higher education. The bill was
introduced in February.
"Interest is taken off the table,"
Knezek said. "By doing the pro-
gram interest-free, we're saving
students tens of thousands of dol-
lars - literally with the swipe of a
pen."
The current legislation includes
only the implementation of a pilot
program. Funded with an initial $2
million grant, the pilot would con-
sist of 100 community college stu-
dents and 100 four-year university
students. Knezek said lawmakers
would monitor the program's suc-
cess over a five-year period with
the possibility of then considering
system-wide legislation.
Knezek said one of the propos-
al's best features is its ability to be
self-sustaining in the long run.
"When you pay back into the
program, this isn't going to banks,
this isn't going to line anybody's
pockets, nobody is making a profit
off you having attended an institu-
tion of higher learning," he said.
"Those dollars are going into the
active in LSA-SG since he worked
on the Taking Responsibility for
the Earth and Environment Sub-
committee as a freshman. He was
later elected chair of that subcom-
mittee and previously served on
the Curriculum Committee for the
College.
Dabrowski and Walsh will focus
on specific goals regarding aca-
demic projects and new student life
initiatives. A key point of their plat-
form is to make course evaluation
data public for studentstouse while
choosing courses.
"We hope to empower students
to take ownership of their educa-
program to fund the next genera-
tion of students."
Knezek said the legislation
was introduced through identical
House and Senate Bills, the latter
of which is sponsored by Sen. Jim
Ananich (D-Flint). The House bill
is currently being reviewed in the
Committee on Competitiveness
chaired by Rep. Mike Shirkey (R-
Jackson).
However, unlike in other states,
support for SMART is not unani-
mous in Michigan.
Audrey Spalding, director of
education policy at the Mackinac
Center of Public Policy, said tuition
model plans are simply not sustain-
able in the longterm.
"Is an engineering major who
might be facing the prospect of
earning $100,000 after graduation
really going to sign on to a program
where he's promising a percent-
age of his income? Probably not,"
Spalding said. "Is someone who's
considering majoring in a less
lucrative major more likely to sign
on to this program? Absolutely."
Spalding said without those
high-earning graduates, the fund
would not be substantial enough to
continually finance rising tuition
costs.
Spalding said she is also con-
cerned by the fact that "pay it
tion," Dabrowski said.
Another goal outlined in their
platformisto reevaluatethecurrent
LSA Race and Ethnicity require-
ment to broaden the program and
include courses on Intergroup Rela-
tions.
Regarding student life initia-
tives, Dabrowski said she and
Walsh want to address current
campus climate by fostering col-
laborative dialogue between stu-
dent groups.
Johnson and LSA junior Allie
Hammond, vice presidential can-
didate, both active members of
LSA-SG, lost the election.
forward" plans ignore the root
problem - the exorbitant price tag
of higher education. She said leg-
islative initiatives such as SMART
would actually incentivize univer-
sities to raise tuition, given that
students would pay a fixed percent-
age of their own salary regardless
of the institution's price.
"It completely eliminates the
connection between what you pay
for your degree and what degree
youget," she said.
Last summer, the University's
Board of Regents approved the
smallest annual tuition increase
in 29 years. Still, the change is part
of a broader trend of upwardly spi-
raling tuition. LSA in-state tuition
increased by 60 percent between
academic years 2004-05 and 2013-
14.
Despite the opposition, Kne-
zek said part of his confidence in
SMART lies in the fact that every-
one can agree that some kind of
reformis necessary. When itcomes
to student loans, barriers to access
and the cost of higher education,
he said he remains committed to
improving higher education in the
state.
"Everybody acknowledges
the fact that we have a crisis
right now as it relates to college
tuition."