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Ford School hosts
discussion with Rep.
Dave Camp and
Rep. Mike Rogers
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
Two alums of the U.S. House
of Representatives — former
Republican Congressmen Dave
Camp and Mike Rogers —
addressed a crowd of 120 people
Tuesday night during the Ford
School of Public Policy’s final
Policy Talk of the fall semester.
Camp served in the House
of Representatives for more
than 24 years and is known for
introducing the Tax Reform
Act of 2014, a comprehensive
tax reform bill. Rogers worked
in Congress for more than
14
years,
specializing
in
cybersecurity
and
national
terrorism policy. Before his time
as a representative, he served in
the United States Army and was
an FBI special agent.
Rogers,
who
chaired
the
Permanent Select Committee
on
Intelligence
while
in
office, said he thought one of
the biggest national security
issues is how the United States
prepares for cyber attack, due to
the rapidly increasing technical
capabilities
of
antagonistic
countries.
“What most people would
find shocking is that they
are
overwhelming
us
with
numbers,” he said. “There are
more SBR (Russian intelligence
agents), or what you would
know as KGB agents operating
in
the
United
States
than
there were at the height of the
Cold War, and there are more
Chinese espionage operations
being conducted than we have
ever seen.”
Rogers
said
the
most
important
first
step
the
government can take toward
addressing the issue is cyber
See CONGRESS, Page 2A
RITA MORRIS/Daily
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Clarence Page moderates the discussion during the Diversity Summit held in Rackham Auditorium on Tuesday.
Hundreds fill
Rackham as Schlissel
calls on community
for suggestions
By LARA MOEHLMAN
and ALLANA AKHTAR
Daily Staff Reporters
After
hearing
responses
from audience members who
filled
Rackham
Auditorium
and crowded the lobby outside,
University
President
Mark
Schlissel told the room that
diversity is a long-term ideal
that can only be improved with
the help of every member of the
community.
Schlissel
and
other
administrators
hosted
a
community-wide
assembly
Tuesday morning to discuss
diversity
and
inclusion
on
campus. The assembly was
part of the week-long Diversity
Summit, organized to engage
faculty and staff in dialogue
and brainstorm solutions to
make campus more inclusive.
The assembly was emceed
by
Pulitzer
Prize-winning
journalist Clarence Page, who
told The Michigan Daily on
Monday he hoped the forum
would get people past their
shyness in discussing race,
gender and ethnicity in public.
“The University is one place
where the very purpose of it
is to learn about the universe,
the world around you beyond
the world you are accustomed
to,” Page said. “I am glad the
Michigan folks are doing it and
I’m glad to be a part of it.”
Despite a slight increase
in
the
enrollment
of
underrepresented
minority
students in the 2015 freshman
class, Schlissel and members
of the campus community have
See DIVERSITY SUMMIT, Page 3A
SMTD stages
opera ‘Deceive
Your Family’
EVENT PREVIEW
Two one-act
operatic farces
revived by ‘U’
students
By DAYTON HARE
Daily Arts Writer
Humans
are
irresistibly
drawn to drama. Some people
even have a penchant for creating
it in their own lives, though most
are content
to
witness
it run havoc
over
oth-
ers — even
if those oth-
ers are ficti-
tious. Thus,
the
theat-
rical
per-
formance
was
born,
and
plays
of
expan-
sive
emo-
tional depth
became
central
to
the
soci-
etal psyche
of peoples in locations ranging
from the Yucatan to the Japa-
nese archipelago. Music has also
been historically associated with
drama and emotion, so it’s hard-
ly surprising that the two arts
managed to combine into one of
the oldest and most theatrical
genres in classical music: opera.
This
week,
contributing
a little bit more towards the
400-year-old tradition of opera,
students from the School of
Music, Theatre & Dance will
demonstrate this dramatic art
in several performances of two
one-act operas.
“Every time we try to select
works to produce for the School
of Music, Theatre & Dance, we
try to find pieces that fit the
student population that we have
— the singing actors who are
in the program — and we try to
offer pieces that have as many
roles as possible,” said Robert
Swedberg,
the
production’s
director and associate professor
of music, in an interview with
The Michigan Daily.
“We
have
a
tremendous
number of really worthy singing
actors who we would like to
be able to accommodate with
See OPERA, Page 3A
EMILIE FARRUGIA/Daily
Flautist Michal Zak, a member of the Polish music and dance group Janusz Prusinowski Kompania, teaches a song during
the Kompania’s music and dance workshop at the Michigan League Ballroom on Tuesday.
Resolution asks
‘U’ to not assist
in immigration
enforcement
By JACKIE CHARNIGA
Daily Staff Reporter
Central Student Government
brought
multiple
resolutions
to
the
assembly
floor
at
their
Tuesday
meeting,
including
proposals
related
to
immigration
policy
and
funding. During the session,
CSG vetoed a resolution to
support making the University
a sanctuary campus and heard
several options for spending
the
remainder
of
their
legislative discretionary fund.
The assembly also received
an update on the University’s
ongoing debate over the release
of course evaluation data.
Course evaluations
CSG
President
Cooper
Charlton,
an
LSA
senior,
reported
to
the
assembly
that conversations about the
release of course evaluations
are ongoing with the Senate
Advisory
Committee
on
University Affairs.
Cooper
said
the
three
stipulations
CSG
wants
to
met are the release of course
evaluations
to
advisers
See CSG, Page 2A
Event host
emphasizes need
for affordable
housing in A2
By ANNA HARITOS
Daily Staff Reporter
The University’s Sociology
Department
hosted
a
simulation
Tuesday
night
meant to show students how
it feels to live below the
poverty line.
The
workshop,
titled
“Experiencing
Poverty
in
America,” was facilitated by
the Interfaith Council for
Peace and Justice, an Ann
Arbor group that envisions a
world free from violence and
poverty.
ICPJ
Director
Chuck
Warpehoski, who is also a
member of the Ann Arbor
City Council, said he aimed
for
participating
students
to gain deeper knowledge of
and empathy for those living
in poverty.
“Our main focus of the
simulation is the empathy
CAMPUS LIFE
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
See SIMULATION, Page 3A
How to
Deceive
Your Family
(Two Operas
About Love
and Greed)
Nov. 12-15
Thursday at
7:30, Friday and
Saturday at 8:00,
Sunday at 2:00
$22 and $28
reserved seating $12
students with ID
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» INSIDE
Two former
legislators
talk taxes,
security law
With summit, ‘U’ solicits
input for diversity plans
CSG discusses proposals for
sanctuary campus, funding
Students
engage in
poverty
simulation
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