8A — Wednesday, September 28, 2016
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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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