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LSA sophomore Tahany Alsabahi holds a sign that hung last year on the Central Student Government chamber’s door
during the UM Divest protest at the opening of the new Edward Said multicultural lounge in North Quad Thursday.

“The Team” VP
nominee attended
trip that caused

$85,000 in damages

By ALYSSA BRANDON

Daily Staff Reporter

LSA sophomore Matt Fidel, The

Team’s candidate for Central Stu-
dent Government vice president,
participated in a ski trip during
which members of his fraternity
Sigma Alpha Mu, as well as soror-
ity Sigma Delta Tau, reportedly
caused at least $85,000 in dam-
ages, campaign manager Jacob
Abudaram, an LSA junior, con-
firmed to The Michigan Daily last
week.

Last month, over Martin Luther

King, Jr. weekend, several ski trips
hosted by six University Greek life
chapters caused over $100,000
in damage to two Michigan ski
resorts and were suspended by
their national chapters. The par-
ticipants are also facing an inves-
tigation by the Michigan State
Police, and the possibility of Uni-
versity sanctions.

Last month, CSG collaborated

with both the Interfraternity
Council and the Panhellenic Asso-
ciation to release a public apology

on behalf of the Greek organiza-
tions involved in the incident.

Abudaram, Fidel and running

mate Will Royster, an LSA junior
and CSG presidential candidate,
agreed to an interview with the
Daily on Wednesday night with
the knowledge that it would
include discussion of the incident.

Prior to the interview, Abuda-

ram and Fidel both told the Daily
that there would be questions
Fidel could not answer specifically
about the involvement of his fra-
ternity for legal reasons, but that
he would discuss his own senti-
ments about the incident.

Upon being told the Daily would

still like to ask questions about
Fidel’s involvement in the incident,
with the understanding that Fidel
and Royster could decline to com-
ment whenever they deemed nec-
essary, Abudaram told a reporter
they would leave the interview if
those questions were asked.

Until the reporter agreed not to

ask questions about Fidel’s indi-
vidual involvement, Abudaram
and Fidel would not continue the
interview.

Fidel, who also serves on the

Social Responsibility Committee
for SAM, did comment on the fall-
out of the trip overall. However,
he said the ski trip incident was
shameful, and not characteristic of

“Take Back the X”

draws students
and alumni to

Rackham

By KATIE PENROD

Daily Staff Reporter

When he started to speak

Thursday
inside
Rackham

Amphitheatre, Lester Spence

choked up and wiped tears from
his eyes. As one of the speakers
in “Taking Back the X, Bringing
Back the Love,” Spence, an asso-
ciate professor at Johns Hop-
kins University, helped wrap up
the University’s series of Black
History Month events. Spence
said this experience was an
emotional one, because he felt
so personally connected to the
University.

The event took place on the

third anniversary of Trayvon

Martin’s death, and the group
acknowledged a moment of
silence in his honor.

Fifteen University groups col-

laborated to organize the event,
which included storytelling and
singing, and featured five alum-
ni keynote speakers.

In addition to Spence, speak-

ers included Melba Joyce Boyd,
distinguished professor of Afri-
cana Studies at Wayne State
University; Gerloni Cotton, a
law student at University of

California, Los Angeles; Domi-
nique Mathews, a Detroit-based
poet; L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy,
associate professor at City Col-
lege of New York; and Rackham
student Austin McCoy.

McCoy said the “Taking Back

the X” event means something
different to each individual, but
for him, his focus was on the
human rights leader Malcolm X
and considering ways to rethink
his legacy in the context of

Medicare, Medicaid
to cover CT scans

for high-risk

patients

By JACKIE MILLER

Daily Staff Reporter

After a push led by a Univer-

sity professor, the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services
finalized
coverage
guidelines

this February for individuals at
high risk for developing lung can-
cer, allowing them the ability to
receive lung-screening CT scans
with no co-pay.

CMS is the federal agency that

administers Medicaid and Medi-
care.

Annual lung screenings will be

available to patients ages of 55-77
and have an extensive smoking
history. However, doctors will
have the final say in deciding
who are appropriate candidates
to undergo the testing. If testing
is considered appropriate, then
patients must also undergo smok-
ing cessation counseling.

Radiology Prof. Ella Kazer-

ooni, the director of Cardiotho-
racic Radiology, has been on the
forefront of the race to get these
screening approved by the CMS.

“Lung cancer is the lead-

Students impacted

by expanded

options to defer

deportation

By ISOBEL FUTTER

Daily Staff Reporter

Earlier this month, a federal

court stalled an expansion of
an executive order that would
have expanded the provisions
for some undocumented immi-
grants to remain in the country
— including some students.

President
Barack
Obama

announced his intention to issue
an expansion of the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arriv-
als policy in November. DACA,
first introduced by the Obama
administration in 2012, allowed
undocumented
immigrants

brought to the United States
before the age of 16, legally or
illegally, to delay deportation. It
also provided the opportunity to
acquire work authorization.

The expansion was set to

take place on Feb. 18, but fol-
lowing a challenge filed by 26
states, including Michigan, U.S.
District Judge Andrew Hanen
issued a preliminary injunction
against the executive order Feb.
16. The lawsuit charged that

the proposed changes extended
beyond constitutional executive
power.

In his injunction, Hanen

pointed to procedural, rather
than
strictly
constitutional

issues.

“(The Court) hereby finds

that at least Texas has satisfied
the necessary standing require-
ments that the defendants have
clearly legislated a substantive
rule without complying with the
procedural requirements under
the Administration Procedure
Act,” he wrote.

The proposed DACA expan-

sion would have widened the
age range eligible for DACA,
which currently only applies to
individuals who arrived in the
United States before 2007, to
individuals in the country since
2010. Additionally, it would have
removed an eligibility cap of 30
years, and extended the deferred
action period from two to three
years. The executive order also
allowed parents of U.S. citizens
and lawful permanent residents
to request deferred action, as
well as employment authoriza-
tion.

Law Prof. Margo Schlanger,

who used to lead the civil rights
office for the Department of
Homeland Security and had
minor involvement in the origi-

North Quad

residents vote to
honor theorist
Edward Said

By IAN DILLINGHAM

Daily Staff Reporter

Nearly one year ago, stu-

dents from the UM Divest
movement hung a sign on the
door of Central Student Gov-
ernment chambers as part of a
weeklong protest to occupy the
room. The sign read “Edward

Said Lounge” — homage to
the
prominent
Palestinian-

American literary theorist and
academic, Edward Said. As the
protests ended, the sign was
removed.

Thursday night, at a dedi-

cation ceremony for the new
Edward Said Lounge on the
third floor of the North Quad
Residence Hall, LSA junior
Tala Dahbour, co-chair of Stu-
dents Allied for Freedom and
Equality, held back tears as she
unrolled the sign once again.

“This
sign
was
painted

almost a year ago by Arab and
Muslim students during a time

when they felt very unsafe on
this campus,” Dahbour said.
“It’s a very proud moment to
be here at a time when we don’t
have to paint it on a piece of
paper.”

While many racial and eth-

nic groups on campus have
multicultural and minority-
cultural lounges — including
Alice Lloyd’s Vicky Barner
Lounge honoring Native Amer-
ican communities and Burs-
ley’s Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lounge honoring the icon-
ic civil rights leader — the
Edward Said Lounge is the first

SAN PHAM/Daily

LSA freshman Elizabeth Azevedo creates a print during the Mochas and Masterpieces Pop Art event at the Michigan Union Thursday.

M AKIN ’ M A STE RPIECES

See LUNGS, Page 3
See LOUNGE, Page 3
See IMMIGRATION, Page 3

See BLACK HISTORY, Page 3
See SKI TRIP, Page 3

CSG exec.
candidate
was on ski
trip in Jan.

Black History Month event
features variety of speakers

White House
immigration
reforms stalled

New multicultural lounge
celebrates Arab heritage

Prof. leads
charge for
lung cancer
screenings