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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

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ANN ARBOR
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