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LO: 53

Former factory 

worker emphasizes 

importance of 

monitoring

By CAMY METWALLY

Daily Staff Reporter

At a speak-out Monday, Noi 

Supalai, former union president 
and garment worker from Bangkok, 
Thailand, addressed a group of 
students to share her experience as 
an employee at a Thai factory where 
she produced Nike apparel.

The event was hosted by the 

campus chapter of United Students 
Against 
Sweatshops 
to 
raise 

awareness about proper oversight 
of apparel factories overseas,

In 
November 
2015, 
Nike 

announced it would stop allowing 
independent inspectors, such as 
the Worker Rights Consortium, to 
monitor work conditions in Nike 
apparel factories. Instead, the 
company said it would internally 
self-monitor its own activities — a 
decision that groups like USAS have 

said they fear will lead to potential 
worker abuse.

Morgan 
Currier, 
USAS 

International 
Campaigns 

Coordinator, began the speak-out 
with an interactive exercise, asking 
the attendees to think critically 
about the role students play in 
perpetuating the abuse of foreign 
laborers and ways in which they 
can improve worker conditions. 
She said institutions such as the 
University of Michigan, by signing 
contracts with brands like Nike, 
indirectly allow such practices to 
continue to exist. The University’s 
Athletic Department signed an 
apparel deal with Nike in 2015 that 
does not expire until 2027.

“We believe that we should only 

be doing business with brands who 
respect the rights of their workers,” 
Currier said. “What we do in USAS 
is we support the organizing efforts 
of workers around the world. We 
don’t believe in charity; we believe 
in solidarity.”

Students listened to her remarks 

as they read one another’s clothing 
tags — tags that read made in 
Honduras, Indonesia, Cambodia, 

Jasmine Rand 
delivers remarks 
for Diversity and 
Inclusion Week

By MADELEINE GERSON

Daily Staff Repoter 

Jasmine Rand, the attorney for 

the families of Trayvon Martin, 
Michael 
Brown 
and 
Tamir 

Rice, spoke at the University of 
Michigan Monday, discussing 
her work work on racial relations 
in the United States and human 
rights activism.

Rand, a professor at University 

of Miami School of Law, is also 
active in civil rights movements 
and was recognized by the 
National Bar Association as one 
of the top 40 lawyers under 40 in 
the nation in 2013.

The event is one of several 

this week sponsored by the 

Greek 
Life 
Diversity 
and 

Inclusion Task Force, Central 
Student Government and the 
Black Business Undergraduate 
Society as part of a campus-wide 
Diversity and Inclusion Week.

During her remarks, Rand 

emphasized how her personal 
background 
and 
experiences 

led her to discover her passion 
for law and commitment to 
advocating for underrepresented 
communities. 

“I am a first generation high 

school graduate,” Rand said. “I 
was born to a teenage mother. 
Do not judge me by my successes. 
Judge me by the number of times 
I fell down and stood back up 
again. Do not judge me by the 
number of times I have appeared 
on CNN.”

Rand told the audience that she 

believes social justice is an issue 
relevant to all careers and fields 
of study.

“It 
doesn’t 
matter 
what 

See RAND, Page 3

KRISTINA PERKINS/Daily

Jasmine Rand, civil rights attorney for the families of Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Michael Brown, discusses the importance of collective activism in the Ross 
School of Business Monday.

See NIKE, Page 3

Lauren Southern 
and Cathy Young 
condemn First 

Amendment abuse

By ALEXA ST. JOHN

Daily Staff Reporter

Cathy 
Young, 
Reason 

Magazine 
contributing 

editor, and Lauren Southern, 
Canadian 
journalist 
and 

activist, came to the Michigan 
League 
Monday 
night 
to 

present a joint lecture on free 
speech on college campuses. 
Both Young and Southern 
ultimately 
defended 
the 

importance 
of 
what 
they 

characterized as the often 
abused First Amendment right.

Hosted by the Michigan 

Review, Young and Southern 
gave a talk titled “Fighting 
the Speech Police.” The event 
was attended by about 60 
people, including students and 
community members.

Young 
spoke 
first 
at 

the 
event, 
discussing 
her 

experience 
coming 
of 
age 

in the Soviet Union and the 
ways Russia restricts radical 
and controversial free speech. 
She connected the country 
to college cmpuses, saying 
the necessity to conform to 
dominant ideology is prevalent 
and reminds her of the strict 
conditions for free speech in 
the Soviet Union.

In particular, Young cited 

recent incidents such as a recent 
occurrence at Yale University. 

Former Yale official Erica 
Christakis sent out an e-mail 
to students saying warnings on 
showing appropriate cultural 
sensitivity in the selection of 
Halloween costumes were too 
restrictive, sparking backlash 
that ultimately led to her 
resigning from her position.

“We are not talking simply 

about 
disagreement; 
we’re 

talking about punishing people 
who voice their own kind of 
speech,” Young said. “When 
they restrict speech based on 
its ideological content, as I 
think has been documented, 
there’s a blatant use of double 
standards 
with 
regard 
to 

left-wing 
and 
right-wing 

inflammatory 
comments. 

This certainly promotes the 
view that these ideas are not 
legitimate speech.”

Young 
said 
she 
thinks 

certain forms of expression 
should be excluded as free 
speech, especially viewpoints 
that are generally considered 
unacceptable 
in 
society. 

However, she warned these 
selective 
restrictions 
could 

cause problems later on.

“When we make the decision 

to stigmatize certain ideas, we 
should be very, very careful to 
draw the circle of ideas which 
are considered beyond the pale 
very, very narrowly, so that 
we don’t end up stigmatizing 
legitimate ideas,” Young said.

Southern, 
in 
contrast 

outlined 
a 
more 
radical 

approach 
to 
free 
speech. 

She said there should be no 
restrictions for speech, even 

See SPEECH, Page 3

SACUA says 
ART 2.0 could 
perpetuate poor 
faculty relations

By ISOBEL FUTTER

Daily Staff Reporter

The University of Michigan’s 

release 
of 
course 
evaluation 

data continued to be a topic 
of 
controversial 
discussion 

among 
faculty 
at 
Monday’s 

Senate Advisory Committee on 
University Affairs meeting.

On Friday, the University 

relaunched a tool initially only 
available to faculty, ART 2.0, 
which 
now 
allows 
students 

to see select data from course 
evaluations for University classes. 
The launch came after months of 
dispute following the University’s 
initial announcement that they 
were exploring releasing the 
data, which drew significant 
pushback 
from 
faculty 
over 

concerns of bias and misuse. Joint 
committees of SACUA members 
and Central Student Government 
representatives 
have 
been 

working over the past few months 
in an effort to mitigate the 
concerns, and recommended the 
release of the data with several 
stipulations in February. How 
many of those stipulations will 
be followed with the University’s 
tool wasn’t clear Monday.

At the meeting, Physics Prof. 

Gus Evrard, team leader for ART 
2.0, said the release of course 
evaluations with the tool aims 

See SACUA, Page 3

Students emphasize 
need for religious 

tolerance at 

gathering on Diag

By TIM COHN

Daily Staff Reporter

Monday night, more than 70 

students attended a vigil held 
by Michigan Pakistanis after 
a suicide bombing Sunday in 
Lahore, Pakistan, left at least 72 
civilians killed and more than 
300 injured.

The vigil attendees included 

students 
affiliated 
with 

Michigan Pakistanis as well as 
other University of Michigan 
students. LSA junior Shahrooz 
Ali, who was not a Michigan 
Pakistanis member, noted the 
event was an opportunity for 
students to come together to 
mourn in solidarity.

“What happened on Sunday 

was an unnecessary act that 
left 
those 
innocent 
lives 

murdered,” Ali said. “Those 
people were just at the park, 
celebrating a day of God with 
their families. As a Muslim, I do 
not understand the reason why 
the bombers felt it necessary 
to commit this crime. Islam 
preaches a message of peace, 
for all people to come together, 

and love each other.”

During the vigil, student 

members 
of 
Michigan 

Pakistanis spoke about the 
impact of the suicide bombing. 
President 
of 
Michigan 

Pakistanis Eman Hijab, an 
LSA junior, told the crowd 
it was important to not be 
desensitized 
to 
senseless 

acts of violence like Sunday’s 
bombing.

“At a time when hope has 

diminished, faith in humanity 
weakened and overwhelming 
grief pervades, we stand in unity 
with one another.” Hijab said. 
“We must remind ourselves 
to never become complacent 

GRANT HARDY/Daily

LSA junior Eman Hijab, president of Michigan Pakistanis, takes a moment of silence, along with other members at 
Michigan Pakistanis, at a vigil for the Lahore, Pakistan bombing victims in the Diag Monday. 

See VIGIL, Page 2

ADMINISTRATION

Trayvon Martin’s attorney 
explores U.S. race relations 

Speak-out 
condemns 
Nike, calls 
for action 

Activists share 
experiences of 
curbed speech

CAMPUS LIFE

Faculty still 
questioning 
‘U’ release of 
course evals

ACADEMICS

Vigil remembers victims of 
park bombing in Pakistan