2A — Wednesday, December 2, 2015 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com EMILIE FARRUGIA/Daily 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. 3 1 2 Research seminar WHAT: An education research seminar discussing aid for low-income students. 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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. Read more online at michigandaily.com 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. Read more online at michigandaily.com