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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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