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Ethics committee
recommendation
generates debate
during meeting
By JACKIE CHARNIGA
Daily Staff Reporter
Calls to remove a Central
Student
Government
representative after members
of Students Allied for Freedom
and
Democracy
questioned
his
conduct
at
their
Diag
demonstration
continued
to
generate discussion at Tuesday’s
CSG meeting — even after
the body’s ethics commission
decided Monday it would not
seek disciplinary measures.
At
Tuesday’s
meeting,
members of SAFE reiterated
their concerns regarding the
conduct of CSG Rep. Jesse
Arm, the LSA sophomore who
was filmed loudly criticizing
and
SAFE
members
who
were holding a demonstration
designed to imitate an Israeli
checkpoint last month. The
group called for his dismissal
from the assembly soon after.
The incident prompted the
body’s
first-known
Ethics
Committee investigation, which
resulted in a recommendation
not
to
take
disciplinary
measures against Arm.
The Michigan Daily reported
Monday that the full CSG
assembly would need approve
the
ethics
commission’s
recommendation,
based
on
information provided by Public
Policy junior Thomas Hislop,
who chairs the commission.
However,
CSG
officials
said
Tuesday
the
report’s
recommendation was actually a
binding decision, citing the lack
of historical precedent for this
kind of investigation.
Hislop read the investigation’s
full report to the assembly.
“I
think
it’s
important
that you hear it. I think it’s
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
See CSG, Page 2A
Forum touches
on relatively high
minority enrollment,
sensitivity trainings
By CAMY METWALLY
Daily Staff Reporter
Last month, the University
aimed
to
further
prompt
conversation
on
campus
diversity with the launch of a
weeklong
Diversity
Summit
led
by
University
President
Mark
Schlissel.
Tuesday
night, more than 100 graduate
students gathered in Rackham
Auditorium
to
extend
the
conversation
by
discussing
minority representation among
graduate students.
According to the University’s
Office of the Registrar, 13 percent
of
newly
enrolled
domestic
master’s students and 19 percent
of
newly
enrolled
domestic
doctoral students at Rackham in
2015 identify as underrepresented
minorities. There are about 8,358
students in Rackham, comprising
approximately half of the total
graduate
and
professional
students on campus.
Rackham
Communications
Director Aileen Kim said the
University is among the top
schools in terms of minority
enrollment
among
graduate
students — it is in the top 12
schools in the nation for the
most
doctorates
awarded
African Americans, Hispanic
Americans, Native Americans
and Pacific Islanders.
Students sat at approximately
15 different tables, each with
a designated facilitator. After
discussing questions in smaller
groups, attendees shared their
ideas with the room.
The two questions: “What are
the issues or challenges around
ZOEY HOLMSTROM/Daily
Bobbie Carlton, founder of Carlton PR & Marketing Innovations and Innovation Women, speaks at the Story Lab at Rackham Auditorium on Tuesday.
See RACKHAM, Page 3A
PREVIEW
SMTD
students make
Shakespeare’s play
accessible for all
By MARIA
ROBINS-SOMERVILLE
Daily Arts Writer
Identifying
the
heart
of
William
Shakespeare’s
“Henry IV Part 1,” director
Priscilla Lindsay, professor
of School
of Music,
Theatre
& Dance,
said,
“Power,
how
you
take
it,
how
you
keep it.”
And
the
cast
advises
you
to
leave your
thesaurus at home; come to the
Power Center this weekend to
hear the clang of swords and see
ever-shifting power dynamics
as characters travel from tavern
to battlefield and back again.
“Henry IV” provides a slice
of English history, as it tracks
Prince Hal’s rise to victory
when the vengeful Hotspur
challenges his inheritance of
the throne. I sat down to chat
with SMTD seniors Robert
O’Brien and Caleb Foote, who
play Prince Hal and Hotspur,
respectively. They shared a
hope that the 400-year-old play
would be accessible.
“A lot of people come into
Shakespeare thinking it’s very
wordy,” O’Brien said.
“A
snoozefest?”
Foote
interrupted, laughing.
“Like they need a thesaurus
or something. I want them to
leave thinking, ‘I understood
that,’ ” O’Brien said.
O’Brien
plays
Hal,
the
rebellious young son of King
Henry and heir to the throne
who, despite his noble status,
chooses to surround himself
with a lower-class ruffians who
spend their time imbibing,
swearing, gambling — causing
an overall ruckus.
See HENRY IV, Page 5A
President also
explains stance on
divest movement
By MICHAEL SUGERMAN
Daily News Editor
In an exclusive meeting
with
The
Michigan
Daily
Monday afternoon, University
President
Mark
Schlissel
discussed the search for a
new
athletic
director
and
elaborated
on
his
stance
regarding the divestment from
certain industries such as coal
and oil.
Athletic director search
“We’re in a situation where
we’re not doing this in the
setting of a crisis,” Schlissel said
Monday, referring to the search
for a new athletic director.
University officials confirmed
the search a week ago.
Schlissel
will
serve
as
the chair on a committee
to select the new athletic
director, employing the help
of interim Athletic Director
Jim Hackett, Special Counsel
Liz Barry, softball coach Carol
Hutchins,
women’s
soccer
player Corinne Harris, a LSA
senior, Chief Financial Officer
Kevin Hegarty, faculty athletic
representatives English Prof.
Anne
Curzan
and
Stefan
Humphries, who is a former
EMILIE FARRUGIA/Daily
Students in the Asian/Pacific Islander American Cultural Performance class dance in a hula performance at Hatcher
Graduate Library on Monday.
See SCHLISSEL, Page 3A
GOVERNMENT
ADMINISTRATION
Stop at GOP
candidate’s alma-
mater closed to press
at University’s request
By SHOHAM GEVA
Daily News Editor
Ben Carson, a Republican
presidential
candidate
and
University alum, will visit the
University’s
Medical
School
before two campaign stops in
Michigan on Wednesday.
Further
information
on
the nature of the visit, which
is closed to press, was not
available from either the Carson
campaign or the University on
Tuesday evening.
University spokesman Rick
Fitzgerald said Tuesday evening
that the details of the visit were
still being decided.
The visit is closed to press
specifically by request of the
University, according to Bruce
Alan Pfaff, Carson campaign
Midwest regional field director.
Carson, a neurosurgeon by
training, graduated from the
See CARSON, Page 3A
Shakespeare’s
‘Henry IV,
Part 1’
Dec. 10 at 7:30,
Dec. 11-12 at 8:00,
Dec. 12 at 2:00
Power Center
$28/$22 or $12
for students
sex issue
the inside story behind what
happens under the sheets
» INSIDE
H UL A THE NIGHT AWAY
Assembly
will retain
rep. after
review
Rackham students discuss
‘U’ culture around diversity
SMTD brings
‘Henry IV’ to
Power Center
Schlissel plans to emphasize
campus input in AD search
Carson to
visit campus
before EMU
address
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