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WEATHER
TOMORROW
HI: 41
LO: 26
Average of 80
individuals relocated
to Washtenaw
County annually
By BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
Editor’s note: The name of a
refugee in this story has been
changed because of potential
implications on his family or
future refugees, denoted with a
star.
For
over
half
his
life,
Hassan* has been without a
country to call home. As a small
boy, he fled from Somalia in
1992 amid a civil war, arriving
in Kenya alongside hundreds
of thousands of other Somali
refugees.
Now, Hassan, his wife, and
his four children — the oldest
six years old, the youngest one
year old— are starting their life
again in Washtenaw County.
About 80 refugees per year
are resettled by Jewish Family
Services of Washtenaw County,
the only resettlement agency in
the area.
Hassan
and
his
family
applied through the United
Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees for resettlement
as asylum-seekers in 2009.
After seven years of screenings
and waiting, he learned he
was one of the few to have
his
application
approved.
According to UNHCR, less than
1% of all refugees registered
with the United Nations are
resettled in new countries.
Continuous
warfare
and
famine has prevented many
refugees
like
Hassan
from
returning to Somalia — one
group
of
many
worldwide
that are finding their home
countries inhospitable. More
than 400,000 Somali refugees
remain in Kenya — primarily
in decades-old refugee camps
— according to the UNHCR.
However, while in the country
they are not issued legal work
See REFUGEES, Page 3
ZACH MOORE/Daily
Matisyahu performs at Hill Auditorium Monday.
Students say Music
Matters concert
falls short of pro-
peace message
By LARA MOEHLMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
Jewish-American
reggae
and
alternative
rock
artist
Matisyahu
joined
Ann
Arbor native Nadim Azzam,
a
Palestinian-American
performer,
for
a
concert
intended to promote peace
and unity at the University of
Michigan Monday night.
Following the event, many
students
said
they
were
impressed
by
both
Azzam
and Matisyahu’s presence and
musicality. However, several
also noted a lack of content
explicitly engaging with the
theme of unity. The stop was
part of a nationwide college
tour for Matisyahu, who is
known for his political and
social activism, with the self-
professed aim of promoting
peace.
The concert, hosted by the
University’s
Hillel
and
the
student organization MUSIC
Matters, drew a crowd of
roughly 500 students to Hill
Auditorium.
In a March interview with
The Michigan Daily, Matisyahu
said he conceived the college
tour idea after he was asked to
make anti-Israel comments at
a music festival in Spain last
summer.
After he refused, he said he
was kicked out of the festival
before being invited back to
Spain to play another concert
amid
the
controversy.
He
then played despite protests
from Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions movement protesters
throughout his performance.
“This concert series and
these shows is really not about
politics,” he said in March.
See MATISYAHU, Page 3
Opposition group
says Lumm’s e-mails
show bias on deer
management plan
By BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
Opponents of the Ann Arbor
deer cull accused the body of
unethical
behavior
prior
to
the cull’s approval in 2015,
calling for the resignation of
Councilmember Jane Lumm (I–
Ward 2) at Monday’s City Council
meeting.
Local residents opposed to the
city’s deer management program
— a long-termpolarizing issue
that concluded its first iteration
in early March — accused Lumm
of having an unethically close
relationship
with
deer
cull
advocates from 2014 to 2015.
The activists, led by Ann
Arbor resident Sabra Sanzotta,
said Lumm has an undisclosed
relationship with the pro-cull
advocacy
group
Washtenaw
Citizens for Ecological Balance.
Sanzotta and other activists
cited several of Lumm’s e-mails,
obtained through a Freedom of
Information Act request, as a
basis for their argument.
Similar charges were leveled
against Lumm and WC4EB in
January from a different set
of e-mails. Ann Arbor resident
Jennifer Robertson cited those
e-mails to claim Lumm had
forwarded city documents to
WC4EB before they were made
public, and that WC4EB provided
personal information on public
opponents to the cull through
2014 and 2015.
“We are being poisoned by toxic
cronyism and the indifference of
our elected officials,” Robertson
said at Monday’s meeting, calling
on Lumm to resign.
In response to the charge,
multiple council members and
Mayor
Christopher
Taylor
(D) came to Lumm’s defense,
drawing angry responses from
many residents in attendance
and causing Taylor to call the
chamber to order multiple times.
Taylor specifically noted that
though he was the only individual
to vote against the cull and often
disagrees with Lumm, he did not
believe any of her actions were
unethical.
“I’ve endorsed opponents of
(Lumm)” Taylor said. “If she runs
again, I’ll probably do it again,
because we don’t vote the same
on many issues. However, I have
heard nothing that shakes my
confidence in Councilmember
Lumm’s
ethical
behavior
in
this matter. Building coalitions
with citizens and colleagues is
democracy in action … she has
been an effective public servant
in
this
regard,
although
I
disagree with it.”
Councilmember
Chuck
Warpehoski (D–Ward 5) also
said Lumm’s involvement with
local activists was in no way
unethical, comparing it with his
own involvement with a summer
youth work program sponsored
by
the
Washtenaw
County
Sheriff’s Department.
“I don’t that there is some
cronyism that puts me in the
pocket of the ‘summer jobs’
RYAN MCLOUGHLIN/Daily
Rackham student Britany Moore raised concerns regarding tuition rates and the lack of scholarships at Michigan
universities in the Michigan League on Monday.
Current, former
college presidents
explore need for
public universities
By LUCAS MAIMAN
For the Daily
Mary
Sue
Coleman,
University
of
Michigan
president emerita, returned
to campus Monday night to
discuss accessibility in public
higher education alongside
current University President
Mark Schlissel.
Schlissel
and
Coleman
joined
other
panelists
to
address the goals of the
Lincoln
Project,
a
policy
discussion headed by the
American Academy of Arts
and Sciences which aims to
consider the implication of
reduced state investment in
public education and the role
of the federal government
in funding public research
universities.
Coleman
currently
serves
as
the
president of the Association
of American Universities, and
is a co-chair on the Lincoln
Project.
In his welcome and call to
order at the event, Schlissel
said
research
universities
allow students to engage in
interactive and innovative
modes of learning.
“At a research university,
your children learn from
faculty that are creating new
knowledge,” Schlissel said.
“They’re defining what the
current limits are of human
knowledge and what the next
questions to be answered are.
Students get to participate in
the act of discovery.”
Coleman said the Lincoln
Project has cast a light on
the importance of public
research
universities.
The
Lincoln Project has produced
four publications about the
importance, shift in funding,
economic role and finances of
these institutions.
Other
panel
members
included
Patrick
Doyle,
president
and
CEO
of
Domino’s; M. Roy Wilson,
president of Wayne State
University; and Lou Anna
K.
Simon,
president
of
Michigan State University.
The leaders all discussed
how investments into public
universities serve as fuel for
driving the nation’s economy.
In
Michigan,
Simon
said
the
Lincoln
Project
highlights why the portion
of the education budget that
is a part of the research at
universities has declined. In
2011, Gov. Rick Snyder (R)
cut state funding to higher
education
by
15
percent,
funding has gone up in small
increments since then. In
the
2017-2018
fiscal
year
recommendations,
Snyder
recommended
increasing
higher education allocation
to pre-2011 levels.
Doyle, who also serves
as the chair of the board of
directors for the Business
Leaders of Michigan, said
public higher education is
See COUNCIL, Page 2
See LINCOLN, Page 2
Body also consider
sexual misconduct
policy, appoints
new chairs
By ISOBEL FUTTER
Daily Staff Reporter
Warde
Manuel,
University
of Michigan athletic director,
emphasized
the
seriousness
he
places
on
academics
for
student athletes at Monday’s
Senate Advisory Committee on
University Affairs meeting.
“We
drive
our
student
athletes to be very successful
academically,” Manuel said. “Not
just for eligibility purposes, but for
themselves and their lives.”
Manuel, who was appointed
in January to succeed Interim
Athletic Director Jim Hackett,
visited SACUA for the first time
since his appointment to talk
about the relationship between the
Athletic Department and faculty.
SACUA
Chair
Silke-Maria
Weineck,
a
professor
of
comparative
literature,
said
correspondence
between
the
Athletic Department and faculty
has lessened in the past few years.
“I think there’s a bit of a sense
from
your
predecessors
that
the faculty and the Athletic
Department have drifted apart,
for lack of better words,” Weineck
said. “And there hasn’t been a lot of
interaction between the Athletic
Department and the faculty.”
Faculty
members
echoed
Weineck’s
statement,
saying
they felt faculty members were
not given a voice due to poor
See SACUA, Page 3
Nonprofit
aims to help
refugees
resettle in A2
Matisayhu, Nadim Azzam
perform at Hill Auditorium
Cull activists call
for resignation of
councilmember
Coleman, Schlissel discuss
higher education funding
At SACUA
visit, Warde
Manuel talks
athlete aid
CITY
ANN ARBOR
ACADEMICS