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University research associate Lauretta Ovadje participates 
in a free weekly kickboxing class at the Trotter Multicultural 
Center on Tuesday. 

Facebook 
CEO 
Mark 

Zuckerberg and his wife 
Priscilla Chan welcomed 
their first child, a girl 
named Max. They also 

announced plans to donate 
millions of their $45 million 
fortune, The New York Times 
reported. 

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Campus rape 
culture

WHAT: Ph.D. candidate 
Kathryn Holland will 
give a presentation 
about combatting 
campus rape culture and 
factors affecting sexual 
assault reporting.
WHO: Department of 
Women’s Studies
WHEN: Today from 
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: 2239 Lane Hall

YALE UNIVERSITY

Faculty defend prof’s criticism

Forty-nine Yale University 

faculty members signed an 
open letter defending Erika 
Christakis, the faculty member 
whose October email criticiz-
ing the university’s guidance 
on culturally insensitive Hal-
loween costumes ignited cam-
pus protests, the Yale Daily 
News reported Monday.

Christakis’ e-mail criticized 

the efforts of Yale administra-
tors to remind students to be 
culturally 
appropriate 
dur-

ing Halloween. In the letter 
defending her, faculty mem-
bers argue Christakis’ e-mail 
spurred useful campus debate, 
and merely questioned how 
expression should be moni-
tored on a college campus.

“The email ... did not express 

support for racist expressions, 
but rather focused primarily on 
the question of whether moni-
toring and criticizing such 
expression should be done in a 
top-down manner,” the letter 
read.

In response to the e-mail, 

students 
have 
demanded 

Christakis and her husband 
resign from their posts in one 
of the university’s residential 
colleges.

Students at University 

of California, Berkeley 

criticize investment 
in private corrections 

companies

Berkeley’s Afrikan Black 

Coalition called for the univer-

sity to divest from private cor-
rections companies, in which 
the Daily Californian reports 
the school has invested $25 
million.

The students called Berke-

ley’s investment strategy “ethi-
cally embarrassing,” saying 
that corrections companies 
profit from the imprisonment 
of minority groups.

The companies in ques-

tion include the GEO Group, 
Inc., the Corrections Corpo-
ration of America and G4S. 
The ABC also denounced 
the school’s additional $425 
million investment in Wells 
Fargo, claiming that company 
also invests heavily in private 
corrections companies.

J UST FOR KICK S

THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

In this week’s lead, Daily 
Staff Reporter Nabeel 
Chollampat 
explores 

the 
culture 
of 
Christian 

fraternities and sororities on 
campus. There are currently 
three at the University. 

>> FOR MORE, SEE THE STATEMENT

Turkish 
President 

Recep Tayyip Erdogan 
said Monday he will 
resign if there is truth 

to Russian Prime Minister 
Vladimir Putin’s claim that 
Turkey shot down a Russian 
plane, CNN reported.

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Research 
seminar

WHAT: An education 
research seminar discussing 
aid for low-income students.
WHO: Department 
of Economics
WHEN: Today at 8:30 a.m. 
WHERE: 3240 Weill Hall

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Drug
addiction

WHAT: This community 
talk will focus on drugs, 
addiction and the brain.
WHO: Department 
of Psychology
WHEN: Today from 
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Ann Arbor 
District Library (S. 
Fifth Street)

Senior piano
recital

WHAT: Ahyoung Cho 
will play his senior piano 
recital, featuring pieces 
by Bach and Chopin. 
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. 
Moore Building, 
Britton Recital Hall

Russian 
feminism

WHAT: Professor Natalia 
Pushkareva will give a 
talk about the history of 
feminism in Russia.
WHO: Institute for 
Research on Women 
and Gender
WHEN: Today from 
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: 1636 School 
of Social Work

Armenian
diaspora

WHAT: The Armenian 
Studies Program Lecture 
will discuss the modern 
Armenian diaspora.
WHO: Center for 
Middle Eastern and 
North African Studies
WHEN: Today from 
4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: 1636 School 
of Social Work

Swing dance
lesson

WHAT: Swing Ann 
Arbor will offer a free 
class to new attendees. 
Beginners will also be 
able to attend the social 
dance that follows for free.
WHO: Swing Ann Arbor
WHEN: Today at 8:00 p.m., 
social dance at 9:00 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan League, 
Vandenberg Room

Percussion
ensemble

WHAT: This ensemble 
will feature composer 
Roshanne Etezady’s work, 
“Feast or Famine,” for 
marimba and percussion. 
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. Moore 
Building, McIntosh Theatre

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10-month-old Kieran David pokes Public Policy junior Daniel Sharp with a drumstick on the Diag on Tuesday 
during a Groove demonstration to promote their upcoming performance on Friday.

STICK IT TO ‘ EM

Speakers defend CSG member 
after Diag demonstration

Assembly also hears 

pitch for planned 

DPSS student 
advisory board 

By JACKIE CHARNIGA

Daily Staff Reporter

Several University students 

and former Central Student 
Government 
representatives 

appeared at Tuesday’s CSG 
meeting to discuss an incident 
last month that led representa-
tives from Students Allied for 
Freedom and Equality to call 
for the removal of a current 
CSG representative.

SAFE held a demonstration 

on the Diag on Nov. 17 during 
which organizers displayed a 
pretend wall designed to repre-
sent the wall separating Israel 
and the West Bank. During the 
demonstration, CSG represen-
tative Jesse Arm, an LSA soph-
omore, was recorded loudly 
confronting and criticizing the 
demonstrators. In response, 

SAFE asked CSG to dismiss 
Arm from the assembly.

LSA junior Matt Fidel, a for-

mer CSG representative, said 
he wanted to contextualize the 
incident for the assembly, say-
ing an 18-year-old named Ezra 
Schwartz was killed in a terror-
ist attack in the West Bank the 
same day as the demonstration.

“This was an American kid 

from Boston studying abroad 
in Israel,” Fidel said. “I can tell 
you from first-hand experience 
this was a very emotional day in 
the Jewish community.”

Fidel said after viewing the 

video, it was clear to him that 
Arm’s conduct was emotion-
ally charged, as he was upset 
about the killing of Schwartz. 
However, Fidel said his con-
duct was not disrespectful, as 
he was voicing his opinion on a 
topic about which he and many 
members of the Jewish commu-
nity felt strongly. He urged the 
assembly not to exclude Arm 
from the assembly.

“As a body, I’m not sure that 

CSG should be in the business of 
telling leaders on campus that 

they should not be standing up 
for what they believe in or voic-
ing their opinions on what they 
feel strongly about,” Fidel said. 
“To have this protest and then 
not even understand slightly 
why this may have been a trig-
gering experience for members 
of this community on campus I 
think is insensitive and also not 
really logical.”

Business senior Alex Adler, 

chair of University of Michi-
gan 
Hillel, 
echoed 
Fidel’s 

comments. He said Arm was 
triggered by a particular phrase 
on SAFE’s wall and acted 
accordingly.

“He reacted emotionally. I’m 

not here to say if that was right 
or wrong, but what I will say 
that he is not the only one from 
the Jewish community who felt 
triggered,” Adler said.

Adler said rather than inves-

tigating Arm’s behavior, CSG 
should encourage a facilitated 
conversation on campus from 
dissenting student groups.

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Papers of famed assisted suicide 
advocate open at the Bentley

Historical library 
hosts collection 

from ‘U’ alum Jack 

Kevorkian

By ALEXA ST. JOHN

Daily Staff Reporter

Dozens of letters in the Bent-

ley Historical Library’s newly 
archived collection about Uni-
versity alum Jack Kevorkian, an 
advocate for assisted suicide, all 
read something similar to one 
written in December 1992: “Dear 
Dr. Kevorkian … I can no longer 
continue living like this. The 
quality of my life is totally dimin-
ished … I have nothing to look 
forward to but continued pain 
and loss of dignity.”

According to Lara Zielin, edi-

torial director at the Bentley 
Historical Library, the recently 
acquired collection includes art, 
papers and photographs from 

throughout Kevorkian’s life.

Ava Janus, Kevorkian’s niece 

and the sole heir to his estate, 
eventually donated the collec-
tion to the Bentley Library after 
his death in 2011. The collection 
was opened to the public in mid-
September.

The collection is of particular 

relevance since California Gov. 
Jerry Brown (D) signed the End 
of Life Option Act into law, which 
allows terminally ill patients the 
right to end their lives with the 
assistance of a physician.

California joined Washington, 

Oregon and Vermont in legaliz-
ing what is commonly known as 
physician aid in dying, or assisted 
suicide.

According to Bentley Library 

Director Terry McDonald, a his-
tory professor, the library was 
in touch with Kevorkian’s rep-
resentatives when he was still 
alive, discussing the possibility 
of his collection coming to cam-
pus. McDonald said that so far, 
the collection has generated a 

tremendous amount of attention, 
particularly from the media.

“Dr. Kevorkian was a gradu-

ate of the University of Michigan 
Medical School, and therefore 
his story is part of the University 
story,” McDonald said. “Of course 
he was a major figure in Michigan 
politics in the 1990s and the early 
part of the 21st century when his 
version of the ‘right to die’ debate 
became an important issue in the 
state. For both of those reasons, 
we wanted to have his archives 
here at the library.”

McDonald also said there 

is biographical material about 
Kevorkian’s youth growing up in 
Pontiac, as well as information on 
his time as a student in the Medi-
cal School and about his career, 
first as a pathologist and later as 
a “right to die” activist.

Not only was Kevorkian a phy-

sician, McDonald said, but he was 
also a poet and painter, as seen in 
examples of his various works 
displayed in the Bentley collec-
tion.

However, of most interest to 

people are the so-called “medi-
cide” files, which are the letters 
Kevorkian received from people 
who wanted him to help them 
with their death, and in some 
cases, videotape recordings of 
actual interviews with his cli-
ents, McDonald said.

“He was this compelling and 

really interesting person and, 
especially in Michigan, we know 
him as ‘Dr. Death’ and this ‘right 
to die’ guy,” Zielin said. “But he 
was so much more, and he has 
this long and interesting eccen-
tric and admittedly odd career.”

Mayer Morganroth, Kevorki-

an’s longtime attorney, said there 
are many public misconceptions 
about the doctor, the first regard-
ing the nickname “Dr. Death.” 
Morganroth said Kevorkian did 
not receive the name because he 
was bringing about the end of 
life; instead, he received it after 
inventing the oculi, an instru-
ment used to determine whether 
a person had died.

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