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The buildings’ original namesakes honored former university presidents who were instrumental in the sale of 272 slaves to a Louisiana plantation in 1838 to help pay off campus debt. The two buildings, which had been known for years as Mulledy Hall and McSherry Hall, have been given the interim names Freedom Hall and Remembrance Hall, respectively. Yale’s Greek community commits to diversity The fraternities and sororities at Yale University have pledged to implement concrete measures designed to be more inclusive of people of color, The Yale Daily News reported Monday. “We do not condone racism or misogyny, and we pledge to be allies to the women of color at Yale, and everywhere, who deserve an inclusive place to call home,” read a statement posted to Facebook from Pi Beta Phi — one of the university’s four sororities. 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WHO: Swing Ann Arbor WHEN: 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. WHERE: Michigan League, Vandenberg Room •Please submit corrections to corrections@ michigandaily.com SOUP Dinner WHAT: The Health Equity SOUP Dinner are microgranting opportunities that allow local projects and initiatives to give five- minute presentations to pitch their goals. WHO: Sujal Parikh Memorial Symposium on Health and Social Justice WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. WHERE: Rackham Assembly Hall 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.” Read more online at michigandaily.com 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