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From the Daily:
Vote newMICH
in CSG elections
Candidate
declares bid for
second term on
existing platform
By BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
Sticking to his original
platform
of
improving
basic services and quality
of life in Ann Arbor, Mayor
Christopher Taylor (D–Ann
Arbor) formally kicked off
his re-election campaign at
a fundraising party in the
Arbor
Brewing
Company
Tuesday. This is his second
time
running
for
mayor,
but
first
time
doing
so
uncontested.
Taylor
previously
represented
Ann
Arbor’s
3rd
Ward
as
a
City
Councilmember
for
three
terms before being elected
mayor amid a crowded ballot
in 2014. The crowded race
followed the retirement of
Presenters says
media promotes
misconceptions
about controversy
By LUCAS MAIMAN
For the Daily
The Social Work and Education
Collaboration,
a
new
student
organization based out of the
School
of
Social
Work
and
the School of Education at the
University of Michigan, held a
panel event Tuesday featuring
educators from the Detroit Public
Schools system.
During the event, panelists
discussed what they considered
misconceptions
about
Detroit
Public
Schools,
such
as
deteriorating infrastructure, and
emphasized how the controversy
surrounding DPS impacts students
and the school environment.
Kaili McGrath, a Social Work
graduate student and one of the
coordinators of the event, said
she found members of SWEC
wanted to learn more about DPS.
SWEC focuses on bridging service
gaps in education and bridging
interdisciplinary
professional
learning communities, according
to their website.
“When we first started our
organization, we asked if there
was one thing you would want to
learn more about what would it be,
and the answer was Detroit Public
Schools,” she said.
During the event, Marnina
Falk,
a
third
grade
teacher
and
community
engagement
coordinator
for
the
Detroit
Federation of Teachers, said for
her, the lack of staff in the Detroit
education system is the biggest
From THE MICHIGAN DAILY
This
Central
Student
Government
election
season
has brought new debate to the
often-discussed issues of mental
health, diversity and inclusion
and student voice. All three
CSG parties — Your Michigan,
the Defend Affirmative Action
Party and newMICH — have
commendable
platforms
that
seek to address these issues using
a multitude of means. However,
newMICH’s
specific
plans
for the most important issues
facing campus today stand out
among the three. LSA junoors
David
Schafer
and
Micah
Griggs, running for president
and vice president respectively
on the newMICH ticket, are
experienced,
socially
aware
students, with detailed plans
to improve CSG. The Michigan
Daily’s Editorial Board endorses
the newMICH candidates in this
year’s CSG elections.
The
four
core
tenets
of
newMICH’s platform — student
voice, connection, well-being
and safety and opportunity
—
outline
their
plans
to
implement change. Though their
platform is ambitious, Schafer’s
experience as a student assistant
with the Office of Academic
Multicultural
Initiatives
and
Griggs’
experience
working
with the Black Student Union
and as an Intergroup Relations
facilitator shows their ability
to work with groups dedicated
to
diversity
and
inclusion.
This experience and their time
working as LSA representatives
in
CSG
demonstrate
firstly
that they are committed to
these issues. Secondly, it shows
that they have worked with
administrators through these
groups to accomplish goals like
increasing minority enrollment,
establishing
international
student mentorship programs
and requiring CSG members to
complete Integroup Relations
training. However, many of
their plans hinge on the crucial
approval, and subsequent funds
of the University’s Board of
Regents.
The Board of Regents is
empowered by the state of
Michigan’s
constitution
to
Revisions aim to
clarify enforced
definition of
consent, harassment
By RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan
announced an updated policy
on sexual misconduct Tuesday,
including
changes
to
the
enforced definition of consent, an
expansion of what is considered
prohibited
conduct
and
the
consolidation
of
sanctioning
and appeals procedures. The
amendments will be effective
July 1.
The new policy, renamed the
University of Michigan Policy and
Procedures on Student Sexual
and Gender-based Misconduct
and Other Forms of Interpersonal
Violence instead of the Student
Sexual Misconduct Policy, will be
officially updated and available to
the public on April 6. A draft of
the updated policy was released
in September 2015. The policy
was last revised in 2013.
The
revisions
expand
the
policy’s scope to include gender-
based harassment — violence
suffered due to gender identity,
sexuality
and
orientation
—
and
intimate
partner
violence in addition to sexual
harassment and sexual assault.
Stalking, which was originally
encompassed under the label of
sexual harassment, will now be
addressed as its own category.
Holly
Rider-Milkovich,
director of the Sexual Assault
Prevention
and
Awareness
Center, said in a joint interview
Tuesday
with
University
President Mark Schlissel and Title
IX Coordinator Anthony Walesby
that the expansions ensure the
University’s
compliance
with
federal guidelines.
“It aligns with the Clery Act
and Title IX concerns,” she said.
“We want these behaviors that
students sometimes experience
concurrently to fall under the
same policy.”
The University is currently
under
investigation
by
the
Department of Education’s Office
of Civil Rights, which enforces
Title IX, over its handling of
newMICH party
platform includes
adding member to
‘U’ governing body
By CAMY METWALLY
Daily Staff Reporter
A central component of one
of this year’s Central Student
Government platforms might
require changes to either the
state’s
constitution
or
the
University of Michigan’s Board
of Regents’ bylaws — which
has raised questions among
students and other candidates
for CSG executive offices on
the feasibility of their plans
given
the
legal
strictures
surrounding the board.
The
component,
from
newMICH’s platform, calls for
the addition of a student to the
Board of Regents. LSA junior
David
Schafer,
newMICH
presidential
candidate,
emphasized the platform point
in an interview on February 11.
“We’re
very
proud
that
newMICH is the only party
that calls for student presence
on the Board of Regents, either
in a voting or non-voting
capacity,” Schafer said.
When they declared their
candidacy
in
February,
newMICH cited the progress
of
campus
initiatives
in
colleges
similar
to
the
University, noting that some
had succeeded in placing a
student on their equivalent of
a Board of Regents in a non-
voting capacity.
LSA junior Micah Griggs,
newMICH’s vice-presidential
candidate, said in a February
interview having a student
sit on the board with a voting
capacity would be ideal, but
the overall goal is to amplify
the students’ voice. She said a
non-voting member would still
play a large role in supporting
issues pertinent to the well-
being of students, such as the
University’s Counseling and
Psychological
Services
and
Sexual Assault Prevention and
OPINION
MAZIE HYAMS/Daily
Kim Travis-Ewing, a Detroit Public School social worker, speaks during a panel on misconceptions of Detroit Public Schools at
the School of Education Tuesday.
See NEWMICH, Page 3A
See POLICY, Page 3A
See MAYOR, Page 3A
See DPS, Page 3A
See NEWMICH, Page 4A
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questioned
‘U’ announces updates to
policies on sexual assault
DPS educators talk impact
of school perception at panel
Taylor set
to run for
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