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How Sweep It Is
Understaffing
drives move to
increase pay from
$9 to $11
By BECCA SOLBERG
Daily Staff Reporter
In the entrances of all of the
University dining halls, signs
read: “$11 per hour. Dining Hall
jobs. They’re money.”
Starting this semester, the
wages for dining hall staff
increased from $9 to $11 in
order to combat the decrease
in student applicants and allow
the workers to have more
flexible schedules, according
to Michigan Dining Director
Steve Mangan.
The 22 percent wage increase
comes
after
a
significant
decline in student dining hall
employees and applicants.
Mangan suggested possible
factors contributing to this
decline including “changing
demographics, higher incomes
for many of our students and
more jobs available in town
and campus” as explanations
for the drop in employment
and
consistent
dining
hall
understaffing.
According
to
the
Office
of Budget and Planning the
number of first-year, in-state
students with parents’ incomes
above $150,000 has decreased
from 54 percent to 49 percent,
however
for
out-of-state
freshman the number increased
from 68 percent to 76 percent.
In an interview with the Daily
in 2014, E. Royster Harper,
vice president for student life,
said the University’s difficulty
finding students to fill campus
jobs could be associated with
higher-than-average
family
incomes.
School
of
Education
junior Andrew Campbell, a
Markley
dining
employee,
said understaffing has been
a problem in his experience
working at the dining hall prior
See WAGES, Page 3A
Community unifies
in solidarity to
discuss current
racial climate
By DESIREE CHEW
Daily Staff Reporter
About 50 people participated
in the Martin Luther King Jr.
Annual Unity March on Sunday
to honor King’s legacy and bring
to light current issues of racial
inequality.
The event was jointly organized
by the Second Baptist Church of
Ann Arbor and First Unitarian
Universalist Congregation of Ann
Arbor.
The group, consisting mostly of
churchgoers, marched from the
Washtenaw County Courthouse
to the Second Baptist Church.
They
waved
commemorative
banners and sang songs like the
“Ballad of Martin Luther King”
and “We Shall Overcome.”
The event’s organizer Ronald
Woods, who serves in the Social
Concerns Ministry of the Second
Baptist Church, explained that
the march is a yearly tradition held
on the second Sunday of January.
Its purpose is to commemorate
Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy,
as well as advocate for issues
related to racial inequality and
social justice.
“This is the 34th MLK Unity
March Program,” he said. “It
was started in 1983, three years
before the holiday was federally
approved. The march this year
is special because it’s 2016 and
it is significant to keep forward
motion going on issues of justice
and race.”
Rev. Desmond Martin, an
associate minister at the Second
Baptist
Church,
emphasized
the significance of the issues
that were on the agenda of the
Civil Rights Movement should
continue to be advocated for
today.
“Unfortunately many of the
issues that were relevant when
the march first started 34 years
ago are still very, very relevant
today,” he said. “The battle that
was being fought was for the soul
of America and that is still very
resonant today.”
Other Black participants at the
See MARCH, Page 3A
Sub-commission
aims to increase
student awareness
of opportunities
By EMILY MILLER
Daily Staff Reporter
A sub-commission of Central
Student Government met on
Sunday with representatives from
student organizations involved in
Detroit to foster discussion about
the University’s role in the city.
CSG and the sub-commission
form the Detroit Congress and
aim to prompt connections and
conversations between student
organizations to raise awareness
on campus of opportunities for
students in Detroit.
The
CSG
Commission
on
Detroit Engagement has eight
members from CSG who have
had experiences with Detroit
and are passionate about student
involvement within the city,
which could be anything from
music to entrepreneurship.
LSA sophomore Dylan Bennett,
co-chair of the CSG Commission
on
Detroit
Engagement,
emphasized the importance of
student involvement in fostering
a strong connection with Detroit.
“We
can’t
have
a
true
relationship with Detroit if we
can’t get our students there,” he
said.
The meeting opened with
a discussion of the individual
groups,
their
involvement
with Detroit and their goals
as organizations. The student
organizations
that
attended
included
Detroit
Partnership,
Detroit
Revitalization
and
Business Initiative, JDs in the D
and Seven Mile Music.
A discussion followed about
the needs and opportunities
each organization provides to
the others. LSA senior Alyssa
Setting is a representative from
Detroit Partnership, a student-
run organization that encourages
See DETROIT, Page 3A
Across the nation,
sharp uptick in bills
aimed at curbing
the issue
By CAITLIN REEDY
Daily Staff Reporter
According to a new study
done
by
the
American
Association of State Colleges
and Universities, the number
of
states
that
considered
legislation addressing sexual
assault on campus in 2015 rose
significantly compared in past
years.
26
states
considered
legislation
that
addresses
sexual assaults on campus in
2015, compared to six states the
previous year.
Occurrences of sexual assault
on college campuses are far
from rare: in a Sept. 2015survey
conducted by the Association
of
American
Universities,
23.1 percent of female college
students reported they had
experienced
unwanted
sexual contact during their
college years, whether it be
kissing, touching or unwanted
penetrative sex.
AAU, an association made
up of leading public and private
universities,
is
primarily
focused on higher education
and the research agenda. But
two years ago in response
to the growing conversation
See POLICY, Page 3A
Plaintiffs argue
the current
program is public
safety risk for
residents
By BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
Ann
Arbor’s
deer
cull,
which aims to manage the
city’s growing deer population
by killing a portion of it, may
be stopped in its tracks by new
legal action against the city.
On Friday, plaintiffs of
the Sanzotta v. The City of
Ann Arbor court case filed a
temporary restraining order
application against the City of
Ann Arbor in the United States
District Court in Detroit. The
motion attempts to cease all
action toward the deer cull,
which could begin as early as
Jan. 1.
The
court
will
hear
ALLISON FARRAND/Daily
Ann Arbor resident Cheryl Ervin, center, leads a song as marchers arrive at the Second Baptist Church after walking from the Washtenaw County Courthouse on
Sunday. The unity march was part of the church’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day program.
See CULL, Page 2A
SARAH SQUIRE/Daily
Senior Brent Petway celebrates as the buzzer sounds in Michigan’s tense win over Indiana.
Infographic by Anjali Alangaden and Mariah Gardziola
University
Dining ups
wages by
22 percent
CAMPUS LIFE
Annual march honors MLK,
addresses civil rights issues
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
CSG’s Detroit
Congress aims
to connect city
and University
Michigan legislature lags
in sexual assault policy
CITY
Protesters
file lawsuit
in district
court against
A2 deer cull
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