Event part of second
annual week on
campus celebrating
the city
By RACHEL COHEN
Daily Staff Reporter
The Detroit Partnership’s “The
SOUP” event brought students
together Wednesday to learn about
Detroit-based charities through a
collaborative environment and a
soup dinner.
The event, part of the University
of
Michigan’s
second
annual
Detroit Week, was modeled off
of the Detroit SOUP, a micro-
granting dinner that sponsors
Detroit-based projects and aims to
foster a sense of community for its
attendees.
The Detroit Partnership had
hosted SOUP events for several
years before Detroit Week started,
and organizers said they were
asked to come together with several
other
student
organizations,
including Semester in Detroit and
the Black Student Union, to help
initiate Detroit Week and continue
the event this year.
Public
Policy
senior
Blair
Sucher, part of the recruitment
staff of Semester in Detroit and one
of the main organizers of Detroit
Week for the past two years, told
the audience the event was about
broadening the narrow views in
which many people see the city.
“Detroit Week is really about
branching out from the norms of
how we see Detroit...there are a lot
of narratives that are talked about
when you talk about Detroit,” she
said. “The point of Detroit Week is
really to broaden that view and see
it from a different light.”
To participate in SOUP events,
attendees pay a sum of money
— in this case, $5 — which buys
them dinner and a chance to vote
on which charity idea they would
like to see come to life. The money
raised from the event goes directly
to the winning project.
While
most
SOUP
events
end in a vote, due to last minute
cancellations from two of the
presenting groups, The Children
of Detroit was the only charity
to present and received the event
earnings of $200.
The Children of Detroit is a non-
profit tutoring program started by
Olivia McKinney and Courtney
Blackett, Clarkston Junior High
School freshmen. McKinney and
Blackett said they and a few other
tutors plan to travel to Schulze
Academy for Technology and the
Arts in Detroit to help the students
grow and learn.
While they noted that they
are starting small, they said
their overall aim is to grow their
organization to help students at
various Detroit public schools and
give them a fair chance at success.
McKinney and Blackett said
the idea for the nonprofit stemmed
from
encouragement
in
their
language arts class to create
activist campaigns, and their
passion for Detroit.
McKinney said she hoped by
improving Detroit’s education
system,
it
would
improve
perceptions of the city as a whole.
“I think that by helping kids in
the school system and by helping
the next generation, (people’s
views)
will
improve
slowly,”
McKinney said.
Many of the students who
attended the event were students
involved in the Detroit Partnership.
LSA senior Shannon Folster, who
serves on the Education Team
within the Detroit Partnership,
said she thought SOUP fit into
Detroit Week because it was a way
of getting the campus together
to support programs benefitting
Detroit.
“It’s a cool way to get people
together to celebrate something
we’re interested in within Detroit
context,” Folster said.
LSA
senior
Imran
Hakim
Mohamedsha,
the
Detroit
Partnership’s education director,
said he hopes attendees leave the
event feeling inspired.
“If a freshman in high school
could do something like a peer
tutoring
project,
obviously
as
college students we have more
resources and experience so I hope
that we all feel a bit challenged to
do a bit more,” he said.
LSA junior Amalia Gomez-
Rexrode said she attended because
she volunteers at the Detroit
Hispanic
Development
Center,
adding that her experience as an
out-of-state student spending time
in Detroit has been meaningful.
“I thought it was a wonderful
event, definitely very casual, really
conducive to good conversation
and it was awesome to hear from
these freshmen who were just so
innovative and really want to make
a difference so that was incredibly
inspiring,” Gomez-Rexrode said.
opinions so that we can listen to
those who disagree, because when
we listen to those who disagree we
discover the truth more,” she said.
“I also think that we as a society
are kind of moving towards a place
where we feel that the question of
abortion has been answered, but I
think that there is a conversation
that still needs to be had.”
Students for Life member Emily
Stumpo, an LSA freshman, said
she felt the pro-life argument
should be heard, noting that she
liked how Klusendorf took a
philosophical approach.
“I am personally pro-life, so
I really appreciate the fact that
the University allowed this to
happen,” she said. “A lot of the
time, in pro-life work, you get shut
down really early on, so I really
appreciate that. I really liked the
balanced way his discussion went.
It wasn’t religious, which is a large
turnoff for a lot of people.”
Stumpo added she felt what she
called a value for human life was
an integral part of the lecture.
“I just enjoyed his passion for
human life,” she said. “That’s
something that I aspire to, as
a psychologist. Life and the
potential for people to have a
productive life is something that
we as people who have productive
lives take for granted, and we don’t
realize that we contribute to those
lives that aren’t productive. I really
appreciate people who do Scott’s
work so that human life really gets
the integrity and human life that it
deserves.“
In an interview after the
presentation, Klusendorf said he
hopes to spark a new conversation.
“My goal is — if they’re pro-
choice — is to give them something
they’ll think about,” he said.
“That’s it. I don’t think we want
to say people will not change their
minds. I’m open to having my
mind changed. I could be wrong.
And then the way I keep an open
mind is to listen to arguments from
the other side. My goal was to give
pro-choice students something to
think about. My goal for the pro-
life students was to equip them
to give an intelligent but gracious
defense for the pro-life view.”
Klusendorf
added
that
he
thought it was important for
different viewpoints to exist in a
university setting.
“I think one of the most
damaging
things
to
a
good
education is political correctness
that censors viewpoints and deems
them to be unsafe or intolerant
or somehow dangerous to the life
of the community,” he said. “We
ought to have a commitment to
pursue the truth and follow the
evidence wherever it leads and
not close off certain things as off-
bounds because we don’t want to
offend somebody.”
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Making
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WHAT: Learn how to
effectively work in groups to
solve problems and increase
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WHO: CRLT-Engin
WHEN: 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Lurie Robert H.
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WHO: CGIS and
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WHERE: Shapiro
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North
Korea
has
sentenced University of
Virginia student Otto
Frederick Warmbier to
15 years hard labor for crimes
against the state, according
to CNN. He was charged
with trying to steal a political
slogan banner from his hotel
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Artist Talk
WHAT: Ernst Karel will
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Humanity!,” which was made
in collaboration with Verena
Paravel and Lucien Castaing-
Taylor. This is a video and
audio installation exploring
the fragility and folly of
humanity.
WHO: Ernst Karel
WHEN:3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: 306 State Street,
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President
Barack
Obama has decided
not
to
open
the
southeast
Atlantic
coast to drilling, according
to The New York Times.
This shift of plans was
due to an outpouring of
opposition in more than
100 coastal communities.
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Gifts of Art :
Old Friends
WHAT: Rock/folk trio
Old Friends will play
Irish-inspired music to
celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
and popular rocks from
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WHO: Old Friends
WHEN: 12:10 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: University
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Lean Inside
WHAT: Jay Pryor, a
transformational leader
who helps people seek
their destinies, will speak
about his experiences as a
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the audience about how to
achieve goals.
WHO: Jay Pryor
WHEN: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m.
WHERE: Palmer
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WAKE UP
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WHAT: A panel of recent
University graduates will
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and personal experiences
after graduation.
WHO: Office of Academic
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WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Student
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WHAT: Listen to Dan
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MICHIGAN MONE Y
U.S. News released
their annual list of
graduate program
rankings Wednesday,
placing the University of
Michigan in the top 15 for
all 6 categories. Especially
significant thiws year
is the University’s Law
School ranking, which
jumped from eleventh to
eighth nationally.
The list includes
business, education,
engineering, law,
medicine and nursing
programs.
Jeff Thomas, Kaplan
Test Prep’s executive
director of pre-law
programs, said he thinks
the Law School’s ranking
is particularly exciting.
“The University of
Michigan Law School
jumped three spots in
the U.S. News & World
Report rankings, which
is both notable and
impressive because it’s
a list where the order
remains relatively static.
It remains one of the most
competitive JD programs
in the country,” Thomas
said.
The College of
Engineering was ranked
sixth nationally. The
Medical School was
ranked 11th for research
and fourth for primary
care. The Ross School of
Business and the School
of Education both made
the list at number 12, and
the School of Nursing
was ranked seventh.
Additionally, the Ford
School of Public Policy,
which is ranked every 3
years, also made number 8
on this list.
“U-M officials
note that rankings are
just one measure of a
university,” a University
press release said. “What
matters most in choosing
a school is the match
between the particular
interests, abilities
and ambitions of each
student with the specific
programs, approaches and
opportunities offered by a
particular school.”
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Olivia McKinney and Courtney Blackett, freshman at Clarkston Junior High school, present their non-profit tutoring
program, Children of Detroit, during the Detroit Partnership’s SOUP at Trotter Multicultural Center on Thursday.
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