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Polls now open as
three parties vye for
assembly seats, offices
By ALYSSA BRANDON
Daily Staff Reporter
Central Student Government
executive elections have arrived,
and the University community
has a host of candidates and plat-
forms to consider.
The Team
Running on The Team’s execu-
tive ticket are LSA junior Will
Royster and LSA sophomore Matt
Fidel, who will vie for CSG presi-
dent and vice president, respec-
tively.
Royster is currently the Black
Student Union’s academic con-
cerns chair; Fidel previously
served on the Social Responsibil-
ity Committee for the now-dis-
banded Sigma Alpha Mu.
The Team is CSG’s newest
party, and its platform focuses on
inclusiveness and uniting the stu-
dent body. One of its priorities is
on-campus diversity, which The
Team plans to target by advocat-
ing moving the Trotter Multicul-
tural Center to a more accessible
location, among other initiatives.
The Team has also announced
plans to increase CSG transpar-
ency by creating a text-message
hotline, interactive newsletter
and CSG-staffed coffee cart in
Mason Hall.
In a prior interview with The
Michigan Daily, Royster said The
Team wants to focus on empow-
ering other students.
“What we really care about is
empowering the campus through
cross-campus
collaboration,”
Royster said. “Even our motto,
‘Our Campus, Our Community,
Our Commitment, Your CSG,’ we
really mean that.”
Fidel said he and Royster want
to focus more on change and less
on politics.
“We aren’t worried about the
credit; we’re worried about see-
ing change,” he said.
Make Michigan
Make Michigan is returning to
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Vote expected next
week following
review by resolution
committee
By LEA GIOTTO
Daily Staff Reporter
After failing to secure the
passage of a similar proposal last
year, Students Allied for Free-
dom and Equality proposed a
new divestment resolution at
Tuesday night’s Central Student
Government meeting.
SAFE
is
the
University’s
chapter of Students for Justice
in Palestine, an international
organization that stands for
Palestinian solidarity on college
campuses. One of the group’s
primary goals is to advocate
for the Boycott, Divest, and
Sanctions movement, which in
part asks institutions to divest
from companies that allegedly
facilitate the violation of Pal-
estinian human rights. Divest-
ment movements are typically
group proposals made to a city
or university board, requesting
suspension of investments in
companies that support unethi-
cal or immoral actions.
The proposed resolution asks
CSG to support the creation of a
committee through the Univer-
sity’s Board of Regents to evalu-
ate the University’s investments
in four companies. In the resolu-
tion, SAFE specifically accused
The Boeing Company, Cater-
pillar Inc., G4S and the United
Technologies
Corporation
of
profiting from alleged human
rights violations against Pales-
tinians.
The meeting began with nine
speakers voicing their position
during the community concerns
portion of the meeting. Eight of
the speakers, including seven
University students and an Ann
Arbor resident, spoke in favor of
divestment.
LSA
sophomore
Benjamin
CAMPUS LIFE
Organizers recount
historic event during
50th anniversary
celebration
By ALYSSA BRANDON
Daily Staff Reporter
Fifty years since the historic
“Teach-In Against the Vietnam
War,” a dozen retired Univer-
sity faculty members and activ-
ists took the stage in Angell Hall
Auditorium to reflect on their
experiences with activism Tues-
day.
In
1965,
approximately
50
University
faculty
members
organized what they called a
“Teach-In” — a protest and that
would consist of University facul-
ty discussing the negative aspects
of war continuously for a night.
Frithjof Bergmann, a philoso-
phy and romantic studies profes-
sor in 1965, was a main organizer
of the protest. During the event,
he said he and other University
professors
conceptualized
the
original teach-in after participat-
ing in an anti-war protest outside
the White House.
“We thought, there has got to
be something more we professors
can do other than walking around
until we had holes in our shoes,”
Frithjof said during the event.
“For me that was the beginning,
and the idea that professors can
do more than march in circles.”
Frithjof said more than 3,000
individuals attended the 1965
teach-in. The night consisted of
debates, lectures and musical
performances — all aimed at edu-
cating the University community
about peace.
“It became obvious in that
night, that actually one could
make a difference in one night,
and that was something that very
few knew,” Bergmann said.
In an interview with The
Michigan Daily, Thomas Mayer,
who was an assistant professor
of sociology during the teach-in,
said participating in the protests
propelled him forward in activ-
ism
throughout
his
teaching
career.
“It really convinced me that
explaining an issue and giving
Research to address
local impacts of
fluctuating Great
Lakes water levels
By IRENE PARK
Daily Staff Reporter
University grants are aiming
to explore the impacts of the his-
torically high rate of water level
fluctuation in the Great Lakes.
The University’s Graham Sus-
tainability Institute awarded
seven grants, totaling $70,000,
to
American
and
Canadian
researchers studying how Mich-
igan residents are adjusting to
the fluctuations.
John Callewaert, director of
the Integrated Assessment Cen-
ter at the Graham Sustainabil-
ity Institute, said changes in the
lakes’ water levels could have a
significant impact on regional
habitats, recreation and shore-
front management.
To study those impacts, the
University will award $10,000
over a six-month period to each
Town hall centers
on construction
plans approved by
Board of Regents
By COLLEEN HARRISON
Daily Staff Reporter
Big changes are ahead for
the North Campus Recre-
ation Building.
Last week, the University’s
Board of Regents approved
a $13 million renovation to
the NCRB. The project will
also include the construc-
tion of an 18,000 square foot
addition. In 2013, the regents
enacted a $65-per-term stu-
dent fee to fund renovations
for the University’s unions
and recreation facilities.
About 30 members of the
North Campus community
gathered Tuesday night to
participate in a town hall
with the firm contracted to
complete the project.
Charles Lewis, the senior
vice president of Integrat-
ed
Design
Solutions,
led
the meeting and presented
attendees
with
mock-up
renovation
designs.
Mike
Widen, the director of Recre-
ational Sports, co-facilitated
the meeting and helped field
attendees’ questions.
“We wanted to take you
through where we’re at in
general with the planning,”
Lewis said.
RESEARCH
See DIVEST, Page 3A
See PLATFORMS, Page 3
See TEACH-IN, Page 3A
See NCRB, Page 3A
See GREAT LAKES, Page 3A
AMANDA ALLEN AND RUBY WALLAU/Daily
RIGHT: LSA sophomores Nicole Khamis and Tahany Alsabahi, LSA junior Laith Hasan and LSA junior Devin Ross, authors of the Divestment Resolution, answer
questions from Central Student Government members about the resolution at the CSG meeting in the Rogel Ballroom on Tuesday. TOP LEFT: LSA seniors Taylor
Ryan, Daniel Hurwitz-Goodman and Alyssa Tender hold signs in support of Divestment. BOTTOM LEFT: Students raise their hands in support of BDS.
WILLIAM LYNCH/Daily
Members of the North Campus community attend a town hall meeting to discuss future renovations in a
racquetball court on Tuesday.
Voting guide:
CSG party
platforms
explained
SAFE presents revamped
divest resolution to CSG
Vietnam War
protestors talk
1965 teach-in
‘U’ awards
grants for
study of
lake levels
Architecture firm joins
forum on NCRB project
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