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School of Music, Theatre & Dance graduate student 
Joseph Swift plays the bassoon during the SMTD 
performance at Hill Auditorium on Tuesday. 

At 
least 
11 
people 

have died in a bomb 
attack 
in 
Tunisia. 

The blast hit a bus 
transporting Tunisian 

presidential guards, and the 
government has declared a 
state of emergency, Reuters 
reported.

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Blood Battle 
2015

WHAT: The Blood Battle 
is an annual blood drive 
competition between 
the University and the 
Ohio State University. 
WHO: Blood Drives United
WHEN: 12 a.m. 
to 11:45 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan 
Union, League and 
Pierpont Commons

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Counseling service experiences 

4.1 percent attendance bump

Northwestern 
University’s 

Counseling and Psychological Ser-
vices saw a 4.1-percent increase in 
use between the 2013-2014 and 
2014-2015 school years, the Daily 
Northwestern reported Tuesday.

The statistic also reflects a 

24.2-percent jump in attendance 
within CAPS’ Stress Management 
Clinic, a program which clinic 
coordinator Henry Perkins said 
includes workshops “designed to 
provide Northwestern students 
with information about stress, 
stress management and to teach 
specific stress management skills.”

Courtney 
Albinson, 
CAPS’ 

associate director for outreach 
and education, said the programs 

CAPS offers, such as the Stress 
Management Clinic, are “inten-
tionally based on what we see stu-
dents need.”

Berkeley panel talks affordable 

housing crisis

As part of the Berkeley Arts 

Festival, a panel staged a teach-
in Sunday to address the “afford-
able housing crisis” in Berkeley, 
Calif. and discuss issues related 
to gentrification, student hous-
ing and rising price tags in the 
area, 
the 
Daily 
Californian 

reported.

Panelists 
referred 
to 
the 

Berkeley Student Cooperative as 
a model for affordable housing. 

The BSC is a nonprofit housing 
group that, according to its web-
site, works “to provide a quality, 
low-cost, cooperative housing 
community to university stu-
dents, thereby providing an edu-
cational opportunity for students 
who might not otherwise be able 
to afford a university education.” 
It is the largest student housing 
cooperative in the United States.

BSC 
owns 
20 
properties, 

with an average rent of $730 per 
month. BSC President Austin 
Pritzkat noted that the monthly 
rent fee has actually been low-
ered over the last three years to 
account for inflation.

 
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THREE THINGS YOU 
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Arbor: 
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recounts 

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After 
five 
protestors 

were shot at a Black 
Lives Matter sit-in over 
the death of 24-year-old 

Jamar Clark, two men were 
arrested, while two other 
suspects remain at-large, the 
New York Times reported.

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Blueprint for 
NaNoWriMo

WHAT: Blueprint Literary 
Magazine will host an 
on-campus writing group 
to encourage participation 
in the National Novel 
Writing Month contest, 
which ends Nov. 30.
WHO: Blueprint
WHEN: 12 a.m. 
to 11:59 p.m.
WHERE: Duderstadt 
Center

Dining Out 
exhibit

WHAT: Historian Jan 
Longone curated an exhibit 
celebrating the history 
of the restaurant dining 
experience. The exhibit 
will feature historic 
guidebooks about eateries.
WHO: University Library
WHEN: 8 a.m. to 11:59 p.m.
WHERE: Harlan 
Hatcher Graduate 
Library, Clark Library

Stories of 
Mothers Lost

WHAT: The White 
Ribbon Alliance for Safe 
Motherhood will host a 
memorial for women who 
have died of pregnancy-
related complications.
WHO: Institute for 
Research on Women 
and Gender
WHEN: 8 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: Lane Hall 
Gallery, first floor

“Technology 
Homecoming”

WHAT: Dug Song, CEO 
of the local company 
Duo Security, will host 
companies like Google, 
Arbor Networks, and more 
at an “Ann Arbor Tech 
Homecoming” to promote 
opportunities in the area. 
WHO: Duo Security
WHEN: 4p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Babo Market

Ready, Set, 
Go Global

WHAT: Get more 
information about study 
abroad experiences, the 
application process, and 
scholarship and financial 
aid opportunities.
WHO: Center for Global 
and Intercultural Study
WHEN: 5 to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: G155 Angell Hall

Women in 
science

WHAT: The exhibit 
features comic panels of 
women in STEM fields.
WHO: Natural 
History Museum
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Ruthven 
Museums Building
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Lives of 
the Great 
Patriotic War

WHAT: This exhibition 
showcases the lives of 
Jewish Soviet soldiers 
during World War II.
WHO: Department 
of Judaic Studies
WHEN: 8 a.m. 
to 11:59 p.m.
WHERE: Hatcher 
Graduate Library

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LSA sophomore Jesse Arm defends his actions against the staged simulation of a West Bank checkpoint held in the Diag 
by SAFE during the Central Student Government meeting in the CSG chambers on Tuesday.

Q & A: Professor to attend UN 
Climate Conference in Paris

Faculty and 

students to join 
observational 

delegation Nov. 30

By JACKIE CHARNIGA

Daily Staff Reporter

Paul Edwards, a professor in 

the School of Information and the 
Department of History, is a mem-
ber of the University’s observa-
tional delegation that will attend 
the United Nations 2015 Climate 
Change Conference in Paris from 
Nov. 30 through Dec. 11. Edwards, 
along with two other faculty mem-
bers, was responsible for selecting 
the eight students who will join him 
in the delegation.

In a Q&A with The Michigan 

Daily, Edwards discussed his history 
with the conference, changes to the 
negotiation structure and the fact 
that, despite the terrorist attacks 

earlier this month that killed 130 in 
the region, the conference will still be 
held in Paris. The conference will be 
attended by world leaders including 
President Barack Obama.

The Conference began in 1992 

when countries signed an interna-
tional treaty for its creation. Their 
target goals, which include set limits 
on global temperature increases and 
greenhouse gas emmission reduc-
tion, have continued to change with 
each years’meeting. 

What is the significance and 

structure of the conference?
This is the 21st conference of 

parties to the framework conven-
tion on climate change that has 
been meeting every year since 
1995. The convention is essentially 
an agreement to agree — or try to 
agree — of the world’s nations. 
Back when it was signed in Rio in 
1992, all the parties to the conven-
tion said we will meet and negoti-
ate an agreement to stop climate 
change and adapt to its effects.

What is your history with the 

Climate Change Conference? 
Essentially the Kyoto Protocol 

was signed in (1997), but it was 
not actually enforced for (almost) 
another 10 years, until 2005. It’s 
been very weak and ineffective 
but at least it was something. In 
Copenhagen in 2009, which I also 
attended with the first U-M del-
egation, there was a lot of hope in 
Copenhagen that there would be 
a binding agreement coming out 
of that — it was right after Obama 
had been elected — but that has not 
happened. It’s billions of dollars 
that were pledged in Copenhagen 
that was never delivered and will 
never be delivered. The thing that 
did come out of Copenhagen was a 
kind of plan to keep the planetary 
warming to less than 2 degrees 
centigrade.

How has the conference 

changed?

There has been kind of a really 

important change in the way the 
whole association is structured. It 
used to be that the countries were 
grouped into various categories 
and then essentially assigned a 
sort of target that everyone would 
have to reach. It was more of a 
top-down approach, but this time, 
it’s much more bottom-up, where 
every country has put together 
its own independent, nationally 
determined contributions, which 
is basically a statement of what 
it’s planning to do to slow climate 
change and adapt to the effects.

Why aren’t you staying for 

the full conference?

A big feature of these confer-

ence meetings is that they have 
enormous side events of all kinds. 
Demonstrations and exhibitions 
by corporations and international 
organizations, all kinds of really 
interesting things happen that 
aren’t formally part of the meeting, 
but with the attacks, the govern-
ment is trying to discourage large 
gatherings. They cancelled most of 
these. Some of them will happen 
anyways — people will defy the 
police — hold those meetings no 
matter what, but it’s not prudent.

The delegation will discuss their 

experience Jan. 21 at North Quad. 

SAFE representatives call for 
dismissal of CSG member

Group deems Jesse 

Arm’s conduct 

inappropriate during 
Diag demonstration

By JACKIE CHARNIGA

Daily Staff Reporter

At a Central Student Govern-

ment meeting Tuesday, repre-
sentatives from Students Allied 
for Freedom and Equality called 
on on the body to dismiss a 
representative for his conduct 
toward SAFE demonstrators on 
the Diag.

The demonstration occurred 

last Thursday and featured 
two 8-by-12-foot mock walls to 
represent the 25-foot security 
wall that separates Israel and 
the West Bank.

During the CSG meeting 

on Tuesday, SAFE members 
played a video of the interac-
tion between demonstrators 
and CSG representative Jesse 
Arm, an LSA sophomore.

“You’re not serious about 

this, with these signs here,” 
Arm said in the video. “It’s dis-
gusting. Take it down, you’re 
not serious.”

In the video, a member of 

SAFE said she would take 
down the mock wall when the 
real wall was taken down in 
Israel.

SAFE member Devin Jones, 

an LSA senior, said Arm was 
demonstrating conduct unbe-
coming of a regular student, let 
alone a CSG representative.

“For you to think you have 

some type of right to come 
up to us and vent in that way 
is irresponsible,” Jones said. 
“Palestinians deal with this 
sort of abuse every single day.”

Jones said Arm and other 

students 
verbally 
targeted 

SAFE because of a terrorist 
attack that occurred earlier 
that day in the West Bank, dur-
ing which three people were 
killed. Jones said the organi-
zation could not have foreseen 
before they planned the dem-
onstration.

“We reserved it a month in 

advance,” he said. “We were 
talking about specific Pales-
tinian suffering in result of 
state policy, and you wanted to 
point to the tragedy of that day. 
We’re being held to a double 
standard that should not exist 
for a student group.”

Arm responded to the alle-

gations 
by 
apologizing 
to 

SAFE, saying he acted emo-
tionally because a friend of 
his was killed in the terror-
ist attack — the dead included 
Ezra Schwartz, an American 
taking a gap year in Israel.

Arm said he does not believe 

in censorship, but does believe 
in his right to challenge the 
protesters on behalf of constit-
uents who may feel similarly to 
him.

“I felt I questioned the taste, 

timing, and appropriateness 
of this display. I specifically 
proposed that at the time, as 
opposed to an incendiary pro-
test portraying students as ter-
rorists,” Arm said. “I represent 
students who felt marginalized 
and unsafe by the protest. I 
don’t think I’ve done anything 
to jeopardize my position on 
this assembly.”

CSG representative Branden 

Shafer, an LSA senior, said he 
was concerned by Arm’s asser-
tion that he acted in accor-
dance with those he represents 
by asking SAFE to take the 
wall down.

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