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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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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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