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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
ZOEY HOLMSTROM/Daily
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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