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Mock wage board speakers discuss the $15 minimum wage for student workers in Weill Hall on Tuesday.
After
droughts
and
floods
throughout
the
country,
North
Korea is experiencing
damage and shortage in
cabbage crops, the Guardian
reported. Cabbage is a vital
ingredient in making kimchi,
a popular Korean dish.
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Yale’s Greek community
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at Yale, and everywhere, who
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home,” read a statement posted
to Facebook from Pi Beta Phi
— one of the university’s four
sororities.
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unfolded
on
Yale’s
campus
earlier
this
month
after
a
professor
criticized
the
university’s
guidance
for
students
to
avoid
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Halloween costumes. The
incident sparked protest around
issues of racism and inclusion
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national conversation on racial
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Local, state leaders talk Asian
Americans in public service
Panelists cite
stereotypes about
personality, aptitude
as challenges
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
Asian Americans involved in
local and state government spoke
at the University on Monday about
issues facing Asian Americans
working in public service.
Hosted by the South Asian
Awareness Network, the panel
featured three Asian-American
leaders in government: Mumtaz
Haque, a member of the Michigan
Civil
Rights
Commission
and a Detroit Public School
administrator; Andrew Kim, the
legislative director of the Macomb
County Board of Commissioners;
and state Rep. Stephanie Chang
(D–Detroit),
the
first
Asian-
American woman in Michigan’s
legislature.
All
three
panelists
said
stereotypes are one of the biggest
challenges Asian Americans face
in a professional environment.
Kim said because of his race,
people often assume he lacks
charisma
and
works
better
with mathematics than other
disciplines.
“I think we get a lot of
stereotypes and a lot of ignorance
of
who
they
think
Asian
Americans are, and sometimes
that
ignorance
and
those
stereotypes
undermine
your
abilities,” Kim said. “I would
always get comments like ‘Hey,
Andrew is a good analytics guy,
but he’s not a good politics guy.’ ”
Haque said she found herself
feeling like she needed to prove
that she was capable of taking
action because of her more
reserved nature.
“(Asian Americans) are very
reserved and we think before we
speak, and that is taken sometimes
as us being a person who is not
aggressive enough to make things
happen,” Haque said. “We are
quiet workers, but sometimes
that is misunderstood for being
less aggressive or effective, so we
really need to speak up for the
right cause.”
Chang primarily spoke about
her experience as an Asian
American running for public
office in a predominately Black
district. The area of Detroit she
represents is 39 percent Black.
She noted that despite initially
having concerns about running
in the district due to her race,
she found most of her hesitations
unfounded.
“When I was deciding whether
or not I wanted to run, I went
back and forth between yes and
no for a long time. But part of the
reason why I was hesitant was I
thought being Asian American
was going to be a barrier,” Chang
said. “There are definitely a lot
of barriers externally, but I think
that sometimes we create our
own barriers in addition to the
ones that other people create.”
Panelists also offered advice
to Asian-American students who
hope to get involved in public
service.
Haque said students should
find a mentor and volunteer in
their communities.
“Find somebody who motivates
you, who you think could be your
role model, and get involved in the
community around you,” she said.
“There are so many nonprofit
organizations around you, and
that is how I started, because my
heart was into it.”
Chang, who is a University
alum, said students need to
remember to look at the world
outside of just the University
campus.
“The University of Michigan
and Ann Arbor can kind of
feel like a bubble,” Chang said.
“Sometimes it’s hard, especially
if you don’t have a car, but it’s
important to really be involved in
things outside of campus.”
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Group calls on ‘U’ to raise
minimum hourly wage to $15
Proposed figure
would be almost
double the state
mandated hourly pay
By ALEXA ST. JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter
Students from all three Uni-
versity of Michigan campuses
filled the Betty Ford auditorium
in Weill Hall on Tuesday to advo-
cate for a University-wide mini-
mum wage hike.
The event was held specifically
for working students — many
of whom have minor criminal
records, their own young children
or come from financially unstable
backgrounds — to share their
own personal financial struggles
and their experience living off
University wages.
The Student Labor Coalition
organized the gathering to emu-
late a wage board, which in some
states or municipalities is empow-
ered to determine and enact an
adequate minimum wage. The
event was modeled on the New
York City Wage Board, which
passed a minimum wage hike for
fast food workers that was later
adopted statewide.
Though the state of Michi-
gan does not have such a board,
organizers intended for the
simulation to allow students and
community members the oppor-
tunity to consider the impacts of
wages at the University.
During the event, students
called
on
the
University
to
increase the wage it pays campus
hourly workers, which is often $10
per hour or less for many student
jobs, according to a Student Labor
Coalition press release. Attendees
expressed concerns, in particular,
with the high costs of necessary
expenditures, like tuition, books
and technology, as well as paying
off student debts and the cost of
living off campus in Ann Arbor.
Student Labor Coalition said
they are in favor of raising the Uni-
versity’s minimum wage to $15 per
hour — nearly double the state’s
minimum wage of $8.15 per hour.
Members of the student orga-
nization estimated that imple-
menting the increase would cost
the University less than $20 mil-
lion per year, according to the
press release.
If the minimum wage on cam-
pus is increased to $15 per hour,
the University would be one of a
handful of universities making
the change. The University of
California system and the Uni-
versity of Washington in Seattle
plan on paying $15 per hour to
minimum-wage employees on
their campuses.
The mock wage board consist-
ed of four speakers, who, along
with the student speakers, dis-
cussed the influence raising the
minimum wage to $15 per hour
would have at the University. The
board included Katie Oppenheim,
president of the Nurses Union at
the University, and David Reyn-
olds, who works at the Center of
Labor and Community Studies at
U-M Dearborn. Rackham student
Austin McCoy and Chris McKin-
ney, the director of Youth Poverty
Project, a nonprofit organization
in Detroit dedicated to helping
low-income students with college
finances, were also members of
the board.
Those on the board responded
to students’ stories with sugges-
tions of how to make a difference
in the current minimum-wage
environment.
McKinney specifically spoke
about the difficulties students
experience
when
employers
require what he deemed unnec-
essary
background
informa-
tion, like an applicant’s parental
obligations, that could make the
applicant seem less employable.
“We do need to have this con-
versation and we do need to vote,”
McKinney said. “But we do need
to have other conversations . .
. we don’t have to disclose our
past (to employers) because this
See WAGE, Page 3A