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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

