The University of Michigan’s
Spectrum Center and the Office
of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs
hosted their second collaborative
open house Tuesday to spread
awareness about their activities
and services for new students on
campus.
Program
organizers
Abby
Chien,
MESA
program
manager,
and
Mark
Chung
Kwan Fan, assistant director
for the Spectrum Center, said
they’ve started to realize more
of the intersections of the two
programs’ missions, with joint
events serving as one expression
of that.
The Spectrum Center, founded
in 1971, is an organization within
Student Life that focuses on
building community among the
University’s LGBTQ students,
offering support services like
peer
mentorship,
educational
workshops and free HIV testing.
MESA also aims to create an
inclusive
space
on
campus,
focusing on issues of race and
ethnicity and offering services
such as peer mentorship and
The city discovered Monday
that a sewer overflow allowed
an estimated 600,000 gallons of
sewage to spill into the Huron
River this weekend.
The overflow was traced
back to a construction site on
Geddes Avenue near Gallup
Park. According to a press
release, debris from the site led
to a blockage in a sanitary sewer,
which then caused the overflow.
The
overflow
is
estimated
to have occurred sometime
between 3 p.m. on Saturday
and 7 a.m Monday, when it was
discovered.
The blockage was removed
immediately after its discovery,
allowing the normal flow of
sewage to return. However,
some amount of sewage had
already reached the river.
Geddes
Pond
stillwater
paddles and Argo-Gallup canoe
trips have been temporarily
suspended
by
Gallup
Park
authorities
until
the
water
can be tested. The city has
already informed the Michigan
Department of Environmental
Quality
about
the
incident,
according to the release.
There are no communities
downstream from the site who
University
of
Michigan
faculty
members
convened
Tuesday night at the School of
Social Work to contextualize
and discuss the implications
of
the
United
Kingdom’s
recent referendum to leave the
European Union.
The referendum, commonly
referred to as “Brexit,” took
place on June 23, 2016, with
51.9 percent of Britain’s citizens
voting to leave the EU and 48.1
percent voting to remain.
The panel was moderated
by Sociology Prof. Genevieve
Zubrzycki and comprised of
Law Prof. Daniel Halberstam,
History
Prof.
Kali
Israel,
Political Science Prof. Pauline
Jones Luong and History Prof.
Joshua Cole, who discussed the
causes and consequences of the
referendum.
Zubrzycki opened the panel
by noting how the vote surprised
voters in the UK and the United
States as well as stakeholders
internationally, citing reporting
from The New York Times
that said polls predicted the
referendum had an 88-percent
chance of failing.
“We woke up the following
morning on this side of the
Atlantic surprised, shocked and
with a great dose of disbelief,”
Zubrzycki said
Putting the Brexit vote in
historical context, Israel said
nostalgic visions and ideas of
a “British Empire” had some
effect in swaying the vote.
In particular, he said some
proponents of Brexit invoked
ideas of British imperialism and
nationalism in their to influence
citizens to cast their votes
away from the EU. He cited a
series of controversial bus ads
run by the “leave” campaign in
the UK, which contained false
information about the amount
of money the UK was required
to pay to the EU each week.
“The
historical
amnesia
about empire as well as the
historical nostalgia for empire
are a very important context,
for which I think needs much
more exploration than they got,
during the debates leading up
to the referendum itself,” Israel
said.
Halberstam,
participating
in the panel via webcam from
Germany, also emphasized the
causes and legal implications of
the vote to leave the EU.
“You could sort of describe
it as the populist awakening
meets the European democratic
deficit,” Halberstam said.
Describing the EU as an
“imbalanced
federation,”
Halberstam added that there
is a power vacuum in Europe
because member states have
limited
their
own
national
While Michigan football fans
eagerly await a showdown against
No. 11 Wisconsin at Michigan
Stadium on Oct. 1, another face-
off between the two storied
universities is taking place this
month.
The University of Michigan
C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
has challenged the University
of Wisconsin American Family
Children’s
Hospital
to
the
Wolverine/Badger
Challenge,
a
month-long
fundraising
competition to see who can raise
more money for childhood cancer
research.
Valerie
Opipari,
chair
of
the department of pediatrics
and
communicable
diseases
at the University, approached
Wisconsin this year about the
friendly competition as part of
Mott’s larger Block Out Cancer
campaign, which launched in
2013.
“They loved the idea,” Opipari
said. “The primary goal in the
month of September, which is
Childhood
Cancer
Awareness
Month, is to raise awareness
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OPINION.....................4A
SP O RT S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7A
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A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A
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See SEWAGE, Page 2A
ARNOLD ZHOU/Daily
LSA Dean Andrew Martin speaks to students at a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Forum at the MLB Tuesday.
After
a
year
of
planning,
University
of
Michigan
administrators are beginning to
release and implement details in
LSA’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Strategic Plan.
At the first LSA planning forum
about the plan Tuesday, with about
40 students, faculty and staff were
in attendance, Associate Dean
Angela Dillard, highlighted the
“Goals for Access” and the “Goals
for
Undergraduate
Education”
sections of the plan. These sections
focus
on
improving
aspects
of
undergraduate
student
life,
including maintaining diversity in
learning communities, improving
on-time
graduation
rates
and
making study abroad opportunities
more publicized so that all students
are able to reach their full potential.
The full strategic plan will not be
released until Oct. 6.
The plan, initiated in September
2015 by University President Mark
Schlissel, aims to create a campus
environment where every member
of the University community feel
welcome and had equal access to
the resources and opportunities
See WISCONSIN, Page 2A
GRANT HARDY/Daily
History Prof. Joshua Cole discusses the inability of the European Union to withstand external conflict during a faculty
panel discussion at the School of Social Work on Monday.
Breaking Tradition
A look at how nontraditional
students navigate traditional
campus spaces
» Page 4B
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See BREXIT, Page 2A
See LSA, Page 2A
All is possible
Between three quarterbacks,
four running backs and
countless blitzes, Jim
Harbaugh always manages
to keep opponents on their
toes
» Page 7A
City reports
overflow of
sewage into
Huron River
LSA holds first Diversity, Equity
& Inclusion Strategic Plan forum
ANN ARBOR
Officials discovered Monday that
600,000 gallons had spilled into water
LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
Administrators, faculty and students discuss implementation of DEI initiatives
NEIL SCHWARTZ
Daily Staff Reporter
Mich. and
Wisconsin
face off for
fundraising
SCIENCE
C.S. Mott Children’s
hospital competes to
advance cancer research
ALI SAFAWI
For the Daily
Panelists discuss causes, consequences
and future implications of Brexit vote
Professors talk referendum and current state of the European Union
CALEB CHADWELL
Daily Staff Reporter
Joint open
house held
by MESA,
Spectrum
CAMPUS LIFE
Offices collaborate to
welcome students at
second annual event
ANDREW HIYAMA
Daily Staff Reporter