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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” 

See RALLY, Page 3A
See CLINTON, Page 3A

See CDC, Page 3A
See FLINT, Page 3A
See CONFERENCE, Page 3A

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

