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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes pictures with churchgoers after speaking at the House of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church in Flint on Sunday.
Presidential hopeful
discusses water
crisis
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
Democratic presidential can-
didate Hillary Clinton visited
Flint on Sunday to attend a com-
munity meeting with Flint Mayor
Karen Weaver. During remarks
at the meeting, Clinton discussed
her support for the Flint commu-
nity amid the city’s water crisis
and federal states of emergency.
The Flint water crisis began
in April 2014 when the city
switched from Detroit city water
to Flint River water. In the weeks
and months following the switch,
citizens began reporting adverse
health effects, but the city didb’t
return to Detroit water until Oct.
2015.
Clinton’s visit follows her
mention of the Flint water cri-
sis in the last two Democratic
debates and on the campaign
trail. Additionally, the visit came
just two days before the New
Hampshire primary, where Clin-
ton trails Bernie Sanders by 20
points, according to a NBC/Wall
Street Journal poll.
Clinton’s
appearance
was
preceded by a sermon by Pastor
Kenneth L. Stewart in the House
of Prayer Missionary Baptist
Church where the meeting was
held, in which he encouraged
patrons to wait for God’s assis-
tance in the crisis.
Clinton discussed the need
for both immediate action in the
form of infrastructure improve-
ments and long-term monitoring
and care for the affected chil-
dren. Lead exposure in young
Gathering
initially created in
response to Return
of Kings meet-up
By RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Writer
Nearly 100 protesters gath-
ered in the Diag Saturday night
to attend a rally for women’s
rights awareness in response
to a proposed meet-up of self-
proclaimed men’s rights group
Return of Kings in downtown
Ann Arbor. The protest carried
on despite the event’s cancella-
tion late last week.
LSA
sophomore
Susanna
Wang created the rally’s Face-
book event protesting ROK’s
meet-ups, which turned into
a community effort to address
women’s
rights
and
issues
including reproductive health,
sexism on campus and discrimi-
nation against sexuality. Both
city organizers and students
said their aim was to frame the
rally positively — as a show of
feminism and solidarity — rath-
er than an angry reaction to the
proposed meet-up. One of the
event’s organizers, Lauren Ash-
ley, a Hazel Park resident, said
the interest the event garnered
on Facebook moved her to alter
its message.
“When we found out over 600
people were interested in com-
ing … we wanted to turn this
into something good and focus
on the positive,” Ashley said.
“Instead of focusing all of our
energy and resources on these
awful men, we wanted to cel-
ebrate women instead.”
ROK gained national atten-
tion on social media last week
after
announcing
“interna-
tional tribal meetups” for mem-
bers. The group, led by founder
Roosh Valizadeh, is infamous
for advocating agendas such
as the legalization of rape on
private property and gender-
based subjugation. The Uni-
versity’s Department of Public
Safety and Security and the Ann
Arbor Police Department said
Agency says sexually
active women not
on birth control
should avoid alcohol
By KATIE PENROD
Daily News Editor
On Tuesday, the Center for
Disease Control released a
statement recommending that
sexually active women who
are not on birth control should
refrain from drinking alcohol.
Since the statement’s release,
the CDC has received harsh
backlash from women citing the
recommendation as antiquated
and extreme.
During pregnancy, if women
consume alcohol, they are at
risk of giving their newborns
fetal alcohol syndrome. This
syndrome
can
encompass
symptoms such as learning dis-
abilities and heart defects.
Women’s
Studies
Prof.
Joanne Motino Bailey, director
of the Nurse Midwifery Ser-
vice at the University, said she
thought that while there is some
merit to the CDC’s recommen-
dation, the way it was released
assumed a lot about sexually
active women.
“I have no idea what their
tactic is in this very broad, far-
reaching
justification,”
she
said. “I think it would be totally
appropriate for women who are
planning a pregnancy to avoid
alcohol; that makes complete
sense. But this broad-arching
idea, assuming women are hav-
ing sex with men, is making
men’s responsibility not even
considered.”
LSA
senior
Stephanie
Mecham, director of circle
engagement for Lean In at the
University, echoed Bailey’s sen-
timents, saying that the CDC’s
statement leaves out certain
subsets of women and leads to
questionable assumptions about
who is sexually active and in
what way.
“I think it’s really problemat-
ic because it definitely excludes
a lot of people. It excludes a lot
of people who identify as queer
or lesbian and people who are
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Justin Idleburg of St. Louis unloads donations of water at a “water tailgate” outside Flint City Hall on Saturday. The
“water tailgate” was part of the effort manifested in the tri-campus summit to resolve the Flint water crisis.
Over 50 from Flint,
Dearborn and
Ann Arbor discuss
implementing change
By LARA MOEHLMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
Members of the University
community gathered at the Uni-
versity’s Flint campus Saturday
morning for the inaugural Tri-
Campus Community Engagement
Summit, where students from the
Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint
communities came together to
explore issues including rights
of campus workers, community
organizing, body image and refu-
gee support.
The event, which drew roughly
50 students, was centered around
the theme of social justice and the
University’s Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. symposium: #WhoWill-
BeNext. The day’s workshops and
activities were entirely student-
run, a product of planning and
preparation from a cross-campus
committee of student leaders.
In her opening address to stu-
dents, Susan Borrego, chancellor
of the University’s Flint campus,
said though the meeting was
held in Flint due to a scheduling
conflict, the relocation was ulti-
mately a valuable opportunity for
students to engage in community
networking within the context of
the city’s current water contami-
nation crisis.
“It couldn’t be a more impor-
tant moment in the life of this
community,” Borrego said, add-
Keynote speaker
discusses link
between work and
social movements
By EMILY ROBERTS
Daily Staff Reporter
As part of the 40th Annual
Alfred L. Edwards Conference
and Celebration, Dr. Michael Eric
Dyson, scholar, social activist,
author and reverend, gave the key-
note address to a crowd in the Ross
School of Business Friday evening.
Lecture attendees included cur-
rent Business students, potential
students, alumni and guests.
Dyson’s talk covered a wide
range — he jumped from sharing
an anecdote about receiving a call
from O.J. Simpson to discussing
the significance of race in profes-
sional athletes’ reputations, drop-
ping names like Cam Newton
and Serena Williams, to political
responsibility in Flint, Michigan.
His stories were often punctuated
with bits of humor and song — from
belting a line from Adele’s “Hello”
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ACTIVISM
RESEARCH
CDC advice on
drinking faces
heavy backlash
Tri-campus summit aims
to foster student organizing
CAMPUS LIFE
Conference
looks at need
for diversity
in business
Women’s
rights rally
promotes
solidarity
Clinton visits state to attend
Flint community meeting