8A — Wednesday, September 28, 2016
News
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Robbery reported on N. Thayer St. Tuesday
On Tuesday at 12:30 a.m.,
two men entered and robbed
an apartment on the 400 block
of North Thayer Street, near
the School of Nursing. Five
residents, who are University
of Michigan students, were
present, according to a crime
alert issued at 6:39 a.m. by the
University of Michigan Division
of Public Safety and Security.
According
to
a
press
release from the Ann Arbor
Police Department, the men
approached the house and asked
if they could charge their cell
phone. Once they were inside,
one man pulled out a handgun
and demanded credit cards,
computers and cash. Though
several items were stolen, no
one was hurt and no shots were
fired.
It is unknown in which
direction the men fled from
the house, and a K-9 track was
unsuccessful.
The suspects were described
as each being approximately
6’0” to 6’5” and 200lbs.
Detectives
are
still
interviewing victims and are
hoping to get more information
in the coming days. Detective
Lieutenant Matthew Lige said
as more information becomes
available, AAPD will inform the
campus community.
This is a developing story.
Check back at michigandaily.
com for updates.
— Jennifer Meer
On Tuesday, Central Student
Government
released
the
second of two statements this
week supporting Black students
after racially charged posters
were found on the University of
Michigan’s campus Monday.
“If we are truly are the
‘Leaders and Best,’ then we
must work to ensure that every
student feels welcomed, safe,
and valued at Michigan,” the
statement said. “Until we do so,
we cannot honestly describe
ourselves as such.”
The posters, found Monday
in Mason and Haven Hall,
listed
“reasons
why
white
women shouldn’t date black
men” and “race differences
in intelligence.” A third type
called upon “Euro-Americans”
to stop “denying your heritage”
and “be white.” A group called
the Alt-Right movement has
claimed
responsibility
for
creating and distributing the
fliers. The Alt-Right is a white-
supremacist organization that
has been labeled as a hate-group
by the Southern Poverty Law
Center. According to U.S. News,
the group has targeted people
of color, Jewish people and
women.
More
than
200
students
gathered
in
the
Fishbowl
Monday
night
to
protest,
calling for more action from the
administration. Some attendees,
like LSA junior Lakyrra Magee,
wished to see quicker turnover
to the University President
Mark Schlissel’s diversity plan,
which aims to create a long-term
strategy for increasing diversity
on campus, with a benchmark of
2025.
“It’s possible to do both,”
Magee said, referring to the
University addressing current
events
and
the
five-year
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
plan. “But they’re not doing it.
We want Schlissel to address us
… about 2017, not 2025.”
Last Friday, CSG also released
a statement in support of the
#BlackLivesMatter
movement
in
solidarity
with
Eastern
Michigan University students
after racist graffiti was found
in EMU dorms and academic
buildings.
Tuesday’s
statement
expressed a similar sentiment
from the one on Friday, calling
for solidarity.
“Let us start affirming that
#BlackLivesMatter — today and
everyday,” the statement said.
— Nisa Khan
CSG pens statement on racially charged fliers
UM Medical School hosts
ceremony for body donors
Students express appreciation in Rackham Auditoriam Tuesday night
In
Rackham
Auditorium
Tuesday
night,
about
300
medical and dental students, as
well as their family and friends,
attended
the
University
of
Michigan
Anatomical
Donations Program’s annual
memorial service for those
who have donated their bodies
to medical research.
The
service
included
speeches from students about
the importance of donors and
the impact they have on student
education, performances by the
Auscultations Student Choir
and a closed casket viewing in
honor of the people who gave
their bodies to science.
Dean Mueller, director of
the
anatomical
donations
program, said the students
who worked with the donors
took the initiative to show the
importance of the donation.
“We are here to memorialize
the donors that give their
bodies to science,” Mueller
said. “It’s really more of a thank
you service from the students
to the donors, and it is just a
great way to ground everybody
and bring them back home and
help everybody remember why
we’re doing what we’re doing
and how important it is.”
The
Revised
Michigan
Anatomical Gift Law, which
was amended in 2008, allows
residents
to
donate
their
bodies “for the purpose of
transplantation,
therapy,
research, or education … ”
This decision can be made by
authorizing a donor symbol
to
be
imprinted
on
one’s
driver’s
license,
writing
a
donor statement in wills or
making the decision while
terminally ill. Once registered,
the
Anatomical
Donations
Program facilitates the usage
of the donor at the University
of Michigan.
First-year Dental student
Peter Arvanitis spoke about
the
benefits
of
having
physical
subjects
to
learn
from,
describing
them
as
crucial to long-term practical
knowledge.
“As great as our anatomy
faculty is here at Michigan,
there are certain things that
can’t be conveyed only through
diagrams
and
lectures,”
Arvanitis said. “As some of the
other students here can attest,
the things that can be taught
through diagrams and lectures
are
sometimes
forgotten
shortly after the next test. But
learning with our donors was
tangible, it was vivid and that
solidified the concepts in my
mind.”
First-year Medical student
Marwa
Ayyash
said
she
considers the act of donating
one’s body to education to be
extremely charitable and kind.
“It’s
really
honorable
because as students it really
helps us a lot and for the
families; I think it’s a noble
cause,” she said. “It allows
the families and the person
who donated their body for
this to help shape our lives as
doctors.”
In a speech written as a
letter to her donor, second-
year Medical student Kathryn
Brown said a deep connection
forms between the student and
the donor.
“To our donor, today we
learned about the anatomy of
the legs,” Brown said. “Those
words might sound simple or
boring maybe, but I want to
thank you because with your
help, it was amazing. These
hands, did they once cradle
new life? Your well-worn feet,
to what corners of the world
did they walk? … You can’t
tell us, but just know that we
wonder and appreciate that the
answers are important.”
A common theme among
student responses was the
importance of giving thanks
to both the donors and their
families and friends. First-year
Dental student Andrew Brown
said without donors, he and his
classmates’ formal education
would not be possible.
“I think I speak for our class
when I say, as we continue
on these journeys, we will be
forever grateful for the gifts
that you have given to us, to
this school and to the future of
our health care,” Brown said.
Attendees Crystal Childs
and Sam Cross from East
Leroy, Mich., and Charlotte,
Mich.,
respectively,
said
they were grateful for the
hospitality and the memorial
service for their loved ones.
Cross was supportive of the
donation process and said she
hopes that the University’s
students will use the education
they gain from donations to
cure illnesses tomorrow.
“I can see the great benefit of
it, that it does help in research
of diseases and what goes on in
the human body,” Cross said.
Childs,
who
lost
her
stepfather
to
Lewy
Body
Dementia last September, said
she agreed with Arvanitis.
“I think it’s great,” Childs
said. “Hearing the students
speak about how much it
means to them spoke to me. A
book is a book and a lecture is
a lecture but to really solidify
education you have to touch
and see.”
MATT HARMON
For the Daily
ARNOLD ZHOU/Daily
Rackham student Shira Schwartz explains the effective uses of co-learning spaces at a discussion hosted by the
Institute for the Humanities at the Thayer Building Tuesday.
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Clinton unfavorably and 63
percent say the same for Trump.
While
he
acknowledged
the unpopularity of the two
candidates,
McPherson
said
he believes the TV media is
pushing a false equivalency on
the ratings between the two
candidates that shouldn’t exist.
“Our goal is to correct the
perception
of
Trump.
We
don’t think he is qualified at
all, especially compared to
Clinton,” McPherson said. “I
imagine him being in the most
powerful position ever and
there is no way that it could end
well.”
The
group
hopes
to
eventually plan a rally in the
University’s diag to speak out
against Trump. As of now, they
are bringing in activists and
volunteers to interact with club
members.
“We want to funnel people
who aren’t involved to join what
is more of an activist group,”
McPherson said. “We have
more of a Democratic tilt, but
we do have some Libertarians
that feel like they have to vote
for Clinton.”
While ultimately McPherson
said he thinks Clinton is the
better candidate, he added that
the group aims to spark critical
conversation
rather
than
promote Clinton’s candidacy.
“Even if you vastly disagree
with Clinton, you can’t say that
Trump would be the better
option,”
McPherson
said.
“What we do is more about
visibility, getting people to talk
with friends and family about
the election.”
The group’s anti-Trump view
was also held by the majority of
a sample of students in a poll
conducted by The Michigan
Daily. Almost 75 percent of
repondents said they planned
to vote for Clinton.
Public Policy junior Molly
Aronson, a club member, said
besides
disagreeing
with
Trump’s conservative policies,
she believes that the GOP
candidate is a dangerous choice
for the country.
“People are talking about
the election in the sense that
Clinton is the lesser of two
evils,” Aronson said. “I see it
in the opposite sense because
if
Trump
were
elected
it
could create a dangerous
environment for a lot of people.”
Similar to Aronson, LSA
sophomore Lauren Schandevel
said she believes voting in this
election is more than just a
question of whose policies you
prefer. Schandevel, who helped
to create the club at its onset but
is no longer a member said she
finds Trump’s inflammatory
rhetoric alarming.
“It mobilizes sections of
the
population
that
have
been dormant for awhile but
now they feel like someone is
speaking for them,” Schandevel
said. “(It’s) creating this kind
of atmosphere where people
feel like it’s acceptable to hate
and to be open about it. I think
that’s a really dangerous thing.”
Schandevel also noted that a
large emphasis in this election
is the lasting legacy the next
president will have choosing
a replacement for deceased
Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia.
“This is going to be someone
who is either going to preserve
progressive policies that have
done a lot of good ... that’s
decades of lingering effects of
this presidency,” Schandevel
said.
However, it is also this
lingering effect of a SCOTUS
justice that is the primary
influence
on
Engineering
sophomore Jack Kuchta in his
decision to vote for Trump.
Kuchta said that his foundation
is built on conservative values,
citing his Catholic upbringing.
“For me, a big reason that I
would vote for Trump is to pick
a conservative, pro-life justice
to replace Antonin Scalia who
definitely held my conservative,
pro-life values,” Kuchta said.
Kuchta added that, as a
conservative on a primarily
liberal campus, he has felt
threatened by people attacking
him for what they assume are
his views, based on depictions
of Trump supporters in the
media.
Referencing Clinton calling
half of Trump supporters a
“basket of deplorables,” Kuchta
said Clinton and the media are
painting Trump supporters in
a negative light, leaving people
assuming
that
all
Trump
supporters
as
racists
and
homophobic.
“We don’t want Trump solely
for him ... I know people who are
voting for Trump solely because
they
want
a
conservative
justice,” Kuchta said. “For me,
if
someone
loves
someone,
cool, that doesn’t affect me.
If they want to get married,
that’s totally fine by me. A lot
of people think conservatives
are complete homophobes. It’s
a very bad representation of
conservatives.”
When
asked
about
the
creation
of
this
club,
the
University’s
College
Republicans,
who
endorsed
Trump, wrote in a statement,
“The creation of this club
doesn’t come to much of a
surprise
given
the
liberal
bias of this university. Aside
from supporting Mr. Trump’s
presidential campaign, College
Republicans
will
also
be
working with the campaigns of
Congressman Dave Trott and
Congressman Mike Bishop. We
encourage all conservatives to
uphold our values by supporting
our local and congressional
Republican candidates.”
College Democrats declined
to comment on the existence of
Students Against Trump.
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