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DIVERSITY
After controversial
disbandment,
members discuss
future for committee
By JACKIE CHARNIGA
Daily News Editor
The
Central
Student
Government’s Campus Inclusion
Commission,
which
disbanded
last semester after its 11 members
resigned
following
a
conflict
between the commission’s chair and
the executive commission, has been
reinstated with theappointment of
LSA junior Kendall Poindexter as
the new chair.
For CSG members, especially
in light of upcoming elections
for next year’s assembly in late
March, the resignations prompted
conversation
about
issues
of
transparency, identity and power
dynamics within the body, as
well as questions about how the
assembly would move forward.
CSG
commissions
are
committees of students chosen by
the body’s executive committee
to unite students behind specific
areas on campus. The Inclusion
Commission, whose purpose is to
address campus issues associated
with race, gender and the LGBTQ
community,
was
effectively
inoperative for the month following
the members’ desertion of the
commission.
In a Michigan in Color piece
published last semester in The
Michigan Daily, a former member
of the Inclusion Commission wrote
about why she and the 10 other
members resigned. The article was
temporarily retracted by the Daily
for additional review— an edited
version has since been republished.
Engineering
junior
Sindhu
Sreedhar, former executive chair
of the LGBTQ Issues Commission,
said the power dynamics displayed
during a meeting with members of
the executive committee regarding
commission
consolidation
left
her
feeling
marginalized
and
dispensable.
Sreedhar was contacted multiple
times for comment and did not
respond.
CSG inclusion
commission
charts path
forward
See INCLUSION, Page 3A
PATH supports
developing nations
in providing
immunization
By MADELEINE GERSON
For the Daily
Ray
Cummings,
director
of
PATH
—
a
nonprofit
organization
that
aims
to
improve public health through
vaccines
—
discussed
the
influence of vaccines in low-
income countries and other
areas and the economic costs
tied to immunization at a talk
Wednesday.
Cummings
spoke
to
an
audience
of
approximately
80
students,
faculty
and
community members at the
Ross School of Business. The
event was one of several in the
annual William David Institute
Global Impact Speaker Series.
Cummings’ nonprofit strives
to improve global public health
through five main platforms:
vaccines, drugs, diagnostics,
devices and system and service
innovations. In 2014, PATH
served 160 million individuals
in more than 70 countries,
working
alongside
UNICEF,
the World Health Organization
and other non-governmental
organizations such as Gavi, the
Vaccine Alliance.
PATH is currently working to
combat the spread of rotavirus,
Japanese
encephalitis
and
pneumococcal
pneumonia.
The nonprofit hopes to further
progress in terms of vaccine
waste
reduction,
supply
chain management and data
management of immunization
information.
“PATH is not in a position
to help countries make budget
choices. That is a process each
See PATH, Page 3A
Director of nonprofit talks
economics of vaccinations
AVA RANDA/Daily
Ray Cummings, market dynamics director of PATH, delivers information about viruses around the world at the Global Impact Speaker Series at Ross on Thursday.
RESEARCH
Attachment in
relationships
linked to more
online abuse
Insecurity leads to
individuals tracking
partner’s social
media, phone use
By ALEXA ST. JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter
Feeling
insecure
about
relationships and exhibiting
anxious attachment often leads
teens to engage in digital dating
violence
and
electronically
intrusive behaviors, according
to
a
recent
University
of
Michigan study.
According to the study, the
availability of social media at
nearly every teen’s disposal
through smartphones and other
electronics has given them the
ability to electronically harass
their partners and express
insecurities
regarding
their
relationships.
According to Pew Research
Center’s “Teens, Social Media
and
Technology
Overview
2015,” 92 percent of teens ages
13 to 17 report going online daily,
with 24 percent saying they
are online “almost constantly.”
The report also highlighted
that nearly three-quarters of
teens own or have access to a
smartphone.
This
ease
of
access
to
technology leads to abusive
behaviors
in
adolescence
that are often predictive of
abusive behavior throughout
adulthood, the study showed.
Digital dating violence is
defined as the use of technology
to
bully,
harass,
stalk
or
intimidate a dating partner,
according
to
the
National
Domestic
Violence
Hotline.
Abusive
behaviors
include
sending
negative
messages
online, controlling who the
partner can and cannot be
friends with or follow on
social media sites, stealing a
See ANXIETY, Page 3A
U.S. senator to
introduce bill that
aims to increase
college affordability
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow
(D–Mich.)
visited
campus
Wednesday
to
speak
with
members of Central Student
Government and other campus
leaders about her #InTheRed
campaign,
which
aims
to
address rising student debt.
Stabenow
discussed
the
Reducing
Educational
Debt
Act, which she and a group of
senators will introduce in the
Senate within the next several
weeks. Stabenow also visited
Michigan
State
University,
Western Michigan University
and Wayne State University to
speak with students about the
RED Act this week. Meeting
with students and talking about
this issue with them, Stabenow
said, is important because they
are the ones directly affected.
“This is very personal for
students,” she said. “Everyone
on an individual basis has a
story of trying to get the help
they need. It’s important to me
to understand how they feel
and people asking questions
Stabenow discusses student
loan debt legislation at ‘U’
SINDUJA KILARU/Daily
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) speaks about her “In the Red” initiative, a program aimed at reducing student
debt in the Michigan League on Wednesday.
CAMPUS LIFE
Participants
at IGR event
develop plans
for openness
Discussion focuses
on how to talk about
social justice with
loved ones
By EMILY MIILLER
Daily Staff Reporter
About 20 students and faculty
members filled a circle of chairs
in the Intergroup Relations
Office for a discussion called
the Talking Social Justice with
Those You Love Open Dialogue
on Wednesday.
The event aimed to facilitate
conversation on strategies for
openly
discussing
different
identities with loved ones in the
participants’ lives, including
family
and
friends.
The
discussion was part of IGR’s
CommonGround group, which
holds dialogues to facilitate
conversations on issues such as
race and gender throughout the
semester.
Social Work student Jonathan
Vanderbeck, an intern at IGR,
See STABENOW, Page 3A
See DIALOGUE, Page 2A