After meeting with a group
of student government leaders
at the Cube Monday, University
of Michigan president Mark
Schlissel
discussed
his
administration’s response to
anti-Black,
anti-Muslim
and
anti-LGBTQ posters discovered
over the past week.
Last Monday, anti-Black and
anti-women posters were found
in University buildings. Today,
more offensive posters were
found posted around campus
from
the
white-supremacist
group alt-right.
Speaking specifically to the
meeting that was occurring,
Schlissel told The Michigan
Daily he wanted to bring
together student leaders in an
effort to continue the actions the
University is taking in response
to last week’s incidents.
“We were struck by another
round of these terrible, racist,
hateful posters, and I’m trying
to look for proactive things
that we can do together as a
community to speak out against
hate,” Schlissel said. “It’s really
important to me that the student
body as a whole pays attention
to this and appreciates what’s
going on and steps up to support
students that feel like their place
here is being attacked.”
Over the past week, students
have initiated a series of protests
Former President Bill Clinton
visited Flint Monday afternoon
to campaign for Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton, highlighting her policy
proposals
on
the
economy
and
college
affordability.
Approximately 500 people filled
the University of Michigan-
Flint’s Northbank Center to
hear Clinton speak.
Michigan has received a fair
amount of attention from both
campaigns this election with
recent visits from Republican
presidential nominee Donald
Trump,
Chelsea
Clinton,
Democratic
vice-presidential
nominee
Tim
Kaine
and
Anne Holton, former Virginia
secretary of education and wife
of Kaine.
In his remarks, Bill Clinton
said the most significant item
to emerge from the Democratic
National
Convention
this
year were updates to Hillary
Clinton’s
higher
education
reform plan, the New College
Compact, influenced by her
primary opponent Sen. Bernie
Sanders’ (I–Vt.).
“You’ve got to make college
affordable,” he said. “The most
important thing that happened
at the Democratic Convention
was the new plan that was
agreed upon by Senator Sanders
and Hillary Clinton.”
The new plan incorporates
aspects
of
Sanders’
higher
education
plan
by
making
public universities tuition-free
for students from families who
make less than $125,000 per
year.
He also dedicated much of his
speech to outlining the various
aspects of Hillary Clinton’s
economic plan, including her
focus on small businesses and
manufacturing. He charged that
Trump’s plan would serve to
only benefit the rich.
“Her opponent wants to go
back to trickle-down economics
on steroids,” he said. “It’s the
same old story with tax cuts for
billionaires.”
For many attendees, the fact
that Clinton had visited the city
was the most important aspect
of his speech. On the Republican
side, some attention has also
been paid to Flint. Trump
visited the city in September;
however, he encountered a
colder
reception.
Michigan
Attorney General Bill Schuette
also spoke at the Republican
National Convention in July
where he stated his goal of
obtaining justice for Flint.
The Flint water crisis has
been an issue that Hillary
Clinton has repeatedly said to
be of high importance to her.
She first highlighted the issue
during a Democratic debate in
Ahead
of
Tuesday’s
vice
presidential
debate
between
Sen. Tim Kaine (D–Va.) and Gov.
Mike Pence (R–Ind.), education
stands out in the records of both
running mates and could draw
student interest in the event.
In a Michigan Daily poll of
University of Michigan students,
higher education reform was
recognized
as
an
important
issue for voters, with 26 percent
of respondents citing higher
education
reform
as
being
“extremely important” to them
and 35.1 percent responding it is
“very important.” 59.7 percent of
respondents also said they prefer
a “debt-free” college reform plan
and another 18.8 percent said
they prefer a “tuition-free” plan.
On the campaign trail, Pence
has cited his yearly budget
investments in education as the
largest ever in his home state
of Indiana, while Kaine has
highlighted his continued work
in the Senate to secure $9.5
million in education funding in
his home state of Virginia, as well
as his wife Anne Holton’s work in
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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
C L A S S I F I E D S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
See SCHLISSEL, Page 3
KEVIN ZHENG/Daily
Dr. Amir Ganjavie talks about censorship and portrayal of sexuality in Iranian filmography in a lecture on campus Monday.
The portrayal of women in
Iranian cinema is limited, Amir
Ganjavie, a communication and
culture Ph.D. student at York
University in Toronto, said at
a talk Monday night on love,
intimacy and eroticism in the
genre.
At its first lecture series of
the semester, the Department
of Near Eastern Studies hosted
Ganjavie, a cultural critic and
Iranian film connoisseur who
has written for publications
such
as
BBC
Persian
and
Senses of Cinema and Cameron
Cross, Iranian Studies Prof. at
the University of Michigan to
discuss Ganjavie’s work on the
utopic visions of national cinema
and how intimacy is portrayed
in Iranian films.
Ganjavie began his lecture
with a brief history of how
women came to be depicted in
Iranian films noting this the
Pahlavi Dynasty, which ruled
Iran until 1979, encouraged
filmmakers to make women
objects of affection. However,
after the Islamic Revolution
of 1979, a whole new range of
restrictions
were
levied
on
the Iranian film industry by
the government, with women
See DEBATE, Page 3
EMILIE FARRUGIA /Daily
President Bill Clinton speaks at the Michigan Democratic Party Stronger Together Rally in Flint Monday.
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See FILM, Page 3
The
Senate
Advisory
Committee
on
University
Affairs met Monday evening
to discuss how the committee
responded
to
campus
controversies, as well as review
edits made by the University of
Michigan’s Dearborn and Flint
representatives to a resolution
from
a
previous
SACUA
meeting
on
a
tri-campus
governance
investigation
requested
by
UM-Dearborn
and UM-Flint.
In response to the recent
postings of racially charged
flyers around campus, SACUA
members
said
they
saw
the speed of other student
organizations and University
representatives’ reactions to
the event as a sign that they
should examine the efficacy
of their own statements and
social media strategies.
William
Schultz,
chair
of both SACUA and Senate
Assembly, said their recent
social media efforts, including
a
tweet
that
went
out
addressing the flyers, were
See SACUA, Page 3
Schlissel: ‘U’
response to
fliers aims to
be proactive
Lecture explores censorship and
portrayl of women in Iranian film
CAMPUS LIFE
Amid discovery of new alt right posters,
president meets with student leaders
ALEXA ST. JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter
Female cinematic roles have shifted as government regimes altered over time
TYLER COADY
Daily Staff Reporter
Bill Clinton emphasizes economic
policy points in Flint campaign stop
Speech highlights need for college affordability
LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
Suicide prevention
awareness
Students gather to give
messages of hope on the Diag
» Page 2
Faculty
discusses
tri-campus
resolution
ACADEMICS
Committee also talks
ways to address
controversies online
MATT HARMON
Daily Staff Reporter
Higher ed
a focus at
‘U’ before
VP debate
GOVERNMENT
Kaine, Pence both tout
policy on topic during
campaign
CALEB CHADWELL
Daily Staff Reporter