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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NEWS......................... 2A

OPINION.....................4A

SP O RT S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7A

MICHIGAN IN COLOR ..3A

A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A

S T A T E M E N T . . . . . . . . . . 1 B

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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All is possible
Between three quarterbacks, 
four running backs and 
countless blitzes, Jim 
Harbaugh always manages 
to keep opponents on their 
toes
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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

