2A - Wednesday, November 12, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com I PleMOD= Dn aily 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com PETER SHAIWN DOUGLAS SOLOMON Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 e .1251 734-418-4115 eat. 1241 pjshahin@michigandailycom dougsolo@michigandailycom PRESENTATION BORN TO iKE Police campaign for new bike lanes A new campaign spearheaded by Michigan State University Police is creating a conversation between students and police about the lack of bike lanes on campus, The State News reported last Sunday. MSU Police Lieutenant Randy Holton emphasized the impor- tance of bikers complying with motorist practices when bike lanes are not available. According to Holton, the most common accidents on campus are those in which a cyclist rides through a crosswalk and makes contact with a vehicle. He also blamed motorists and pedestri- ans for not paying attention when traveling through campus. Columbia announces finalists Stanford University contends for campus improvement grants with bedbugs found in dorms Three finalists for Barnard College's Student Government Association Endowment Grants are left with the chance to have their proposals for campus improvement become reality, the Columbia Spectator reported Tuesday. A panel of 10 SGA members will choose the finalists from a varied collection of proposals. The winning idea will receive a $17,000 grant. The three proposals are a requestforadditionalprintersand computers, the implementation of a mug-sharing program and the request for a mural of alumni. AMANDA ALLEN/Daily LSA senior Adam Eickmeyer speaks to faculty about his thesis project at the LGBT Faculty Alliance Annual Reception held in Rackham on Tuesday. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES The Stray HathiTrust AdviseStream Birds concert presentation workshop THE FLE Zoolander By ZAK WITUS AND CONRAD FOREMAN Two Arts writers investigate cultural tensions in the 2001 comedy film. Though a goofy flick on the surface, "Zoolan- der" mentions issues facing minorities, people with eat- ingdisorders and others. SPORTS Six figures By GREG GARNO Interim Athletic Director Jim Hackett was alloted an annual salary of $600,000. He will work for an "indefi- nite" period, and his ter- mination will likely occur when a new athletic director is appointed. Former Ath- letic Director Dave Brandon resigned Oct. 30. WHAT: Folk group Stray Birds will perform, showcasing their songwriting and sound that is described as subtle and graceful. WHO: Michigan Union Ticket Office WHEN: Tonight at 8p.m. WHERE: The Ark WHAT: HathiTrust stew- ards will discuss the future prospects of the HathiTrust Digital Library. WHO: School of Information WHEN: Today from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. WHERE: Rackham Gradu- ate School Amphitheatre WHAT: This workshop will teach how to create an AdviseStream account, priotize tasks and use the features of the account. WHO: The Career Center WHEN: Today from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. WHERE: The Career Center Bed bugs found in two Toyon Residence Hall rooms have final- ly been exterminated, The Stan- ford Daily reported Sunday. The bed bugs were first dis- covered in a double room ear- lier this year and it took month to eliminate them. The students living in the affected dorm room were forced to seek temporary housing, which led to frustration. about the lack of communication between the university's Resi- dential & Dining Enterprises Stu- dent Housing and the students involved. - CARLYNOAH T HR EE T HINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW TODAY Planetary Ventures, a Google subsidiary, signed a $1.16 billion lease agreement for a section of the former Moffett Federal Airfied, ABC News reported Monday. NASA said Plan- etary Ventures will renovate and use three hangars. This week's issue of The Statement Maga- zine looks at startup culture in Detroit, the new goals for the Trotter Multi- cultural Center and aPerson- al Statement about fashion and family. s> FOR MORE, SEE STATEMENT, PG.1B 3According to Michael McDonald from the University of Florida, voter turnout for last week's midterm elections was 36.4 percent, MSNBC reported Tuesday. Observers attribute this low turnout rate to the' gridlock in Congress. r. 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WHO: College of Engineering WHEN: Today from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. WHERE: Space Research Building, Room 2246 WHAT: Swing Ann Arbor will teach University students how to swing dance. Lessons are free. WHO: Swing Ann Arbor WHEN: Tonight from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League, Vanderberg Room CORRECTIONS . Please report any error in the Daily to correc- tions@michigandaily.com Social Work profs. lead immigration discussion Prominent socialist figure talks World Wars 0 Panelists say national policy worsened after 9/11 By JOEL GOLDSTEIN Daily Staff Reporter The topic of immigration has evolved throughout U.S. his- tory, though never lacking in complexity and contentiousness Social Work Profs. Sherrie Kos- soudji and Laura Sanders took up the subject on Tuesday, lead- ing a discussion on U.S. immi- gration reform. The panel discussion was hosted by the groups Common Sense Action and Social Work Allies for Immigrant Rights. Kossoudji and Sanders, who are activists for immigrants' rights in the Ann Arbor community, spoke about -the "push factors" that motivate people to cross the borders without documen- tation. "It's really important for us to learn about the issues that cre- ate the world around us, espe- cially because you don't get the whole story on CNN," said LSA sophomore Daniel Karr, vice president of policy for Common Sense Action. Sanders said immigration policy took a turn for the worse after 9/11, following the estab- lishment of the Department of Homeland Security, referring to what many say are violent and dehumanizing detention and deportation tactics enforced on the undocumented immi- grant community. According to national reports, 369,000 depor- tations took place in 2013. Sanders is a co-founder of the Washtenaw Interfaith Coali- tion for Immigrant Rights, an activist group that represents immigrants and works to ensure that they are treated fairly and within their rights. The group maintains an open phone line to help people who are facing abuse, detention or deportation. The group also provides educa rtional programs for immigrants to make sure they know their rights. Sanders said the organization has received more than 526 calls over the past six yeais. WICIR has also worked with the local government and sheriff to create a more humane environment for undocumented immigrants in the community. Sanders empha- sized that new national immi- gration policies have begun to favor tough border security as opposed to legal pathways. "There's a real necessity for legal pathways for the millions of people who are here right now," Sanders said. She also said the immigration system that is designed to house Author discusses what he sees as link between capitalism and imperialism By EMMA KINERY DailyStaffReporter On Tuesday night, the Inter- nationalYouth and Students for Social Equality hosted "Impe- rialism and the World Wars of the Twentieth Century: His- torical Lessons and Present Dangers," a lecture by David North, the national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party in the United States and the chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site. The event, which coinciden- tally fell on the anniversary of the signing of the armistice to end World War I, was one of 11 occurring in universi- ties across the United States. North said his goal in partici- pating in the lecture series is to "contribute to the education of students and the explana- tion of the basic principles of socialism analysis made by the Socialist Equality Party of the political situation within the United States and international (countries)." North focused on how he believes capitalism and the imperialist strategies he associated with it lead to the world wars, drawing paral- lels between the strategies and goals of the capitalist world before World War I and those of today, warning of an approaching world war. He started the talk by questioning the crowd of their knowledge of how World War I began and arguing that it was not an acci- dent or a response to-an assas- sination. While the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria triggered the war, North said even at the Inter- national Hague Conference of 1907 "it was very well under- stood that there was an inde- scribable link between war and capitalism." "There was a sense, that without the intervention of world groups, political orga- nizing and socialist move- ments, not only was war possible; it was inevitable," he said. North went on to say it was and still is important for the international workers' move- ment to actively rally against war, and that if war is to break out, the working class and socialists must work to "bring it to a speedy termination." North argued WWI was instead a "preemptive" war that Germany chose to wage to demonstrate its hegemo- ny. Comparing events such as the contemporary arms races, the recent emergence of one between--nations in Asia and the militarization that occurred prior to World War I, North argued that the believed link between capitalism and war is still true today. He pointed to several events that have occurred this month that he said show how close we are to an accidental war and how capitalist countries are leaving Russia and China out of trade organizations to create a new and - in his opinion - dangerous world order. North ended his lecture by urging students to learn more about socialist theory, saying he feels that the only way to prevent this World War III is through the collaboration of the working class. The audience mainly con- sisted of older individuals, with a few students who only voiced their opinions during the question and answer ses- sion that followed. Audience members ques- tioned the validity of North's strong belief in an approaching World War III and his com- ments that neither Russia nor China is an imperialist nation. Art & Design sophomore Wake Coulter, who had previ- ous interest in learning more about the socialist movement on campus and in World War I's influence on today's politics, said he was glad to see there are people who are passionate about history and how it can affect today's world. "There's still an active sec- tion of even modern society that is very much not forgetting the benefits and also the down- sides of the social movements of the early 1900s, and I think that those can have a really profound effect on today's poli- tics if we took a deeper look at them," he said. permanent residents and the non-immigrant visitor system began to merge in the '70s and '80s, leading to the complicated bureaucracy we have today. "If you were to become legal citizen today, you probably started around 1992, because of 7 9 2 1 8 how long the waiting lists are," Kossoudji said. At the end of the lecture, Kos- 9 soudji explained the benefits Americans gain from allowing T9 2 immigrants to enter the country. According to Kossoudji, undoc- 3 7umented immigrants tend to make less than minimum wage, doing jobs that Americans don't want to do, which pushes down prices throughout the economy. 6 6 0 0 DO YOU FOLLOW US? michigandaily The finest news fit to tweet I .