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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WHAT: Attend an 
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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 
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Artist Talk

WHAT: Ernst Karel will 
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Taylor. This is a video and 
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WHO: Ernst Karel 
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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. 

3

Gifts of Art : 
Old Friends

WHAT: Rock/folk trio 
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celebrate St. Patrick’s Day 
and popular rocks from 
the ‘50s through the ’90s.
WHO: Old Friends
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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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achieve goals.
WHO: Jay Pryor
WHEN: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 
p.m.
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WHAT: A panel of recent 
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and personal experiences 
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WHO: Office of Academic 
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 WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. 
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organized by the Alumni Center’s to thank donors who gave 
$50 or less, on the Diag Wednesday.

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.”

AVA RANDA/Daily

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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