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the Spanish phenomenon of
“feminicide”
—
a
concept,
according to the Ferrari, that
all too many Latina women
are familiar with. Ferrari said
the term is used to describe
the unceasing deaths and acts
of violence toward girls and
women in Latin America.
“It’s
a
global.
It
began
in Argentina, but now it is
everywhere,” she said. “And
today,
these
protests
are
happening across the United
States at several universities
including Princeton, University
of Kansas, in Chicago, San
Francisco. It’s a strike that
begins with Latina women, but
it actually involved all women.”
Ana Sabau, Rackham student
in the Department of Romance
Language and Literature, said
the Latino community in Ann
Arbor wanted to commemorate
Perez’s death and the problem
of violence as a whole by
organizing in unity.
“Lots of my colleagues and
myself were thinking, what
could we do in the United States
to show our solidarity with
those movements and to also
start having the conversation
here,” Sabau said. “So two days
ago, we organized different
strikes that are going to be
happening at different colleges
in the United States.”
During the event, a list of
names of female Michigan
citizens who had been killed
by police since 2010 were read
aloud by the protesters.
Sabau said the University
of California, Berkeley, the
University of Texas at Austin,
the University of Kansas and
other schools in New York
demonstrated Wednesday as
well.
Sabau
added
that
the
demonstrations have a broader
scope, and represent issues of
class and race in addition to
violence against women.
“It’s a very difficult reality to
live with,” she said. “Part of the
show up today was to make us
think about the differences and
what happened specifically in
Mexico, Argentina and Peru.
But also, I would also think
that some of these issues are
traversed by class and race,
so I think that it’s important
to
think
about
how
the
violence is expressive of those
differences.”
During
the
event,
signs
and pamphlets with a list of
hashtags were handed out as
well. Below “Ni Una Menos”
was “Viva Nos Queremos,”
which
was
translated
by
Ferrari as “We Want Us Alive.”
Ferrari said the hashtags
and movement focuses on the
lives of all women and girls; not
just those from Latin America.
She
emphasized
what
she
described as the value of both
the physical and emotional
impact of eliminating gender-
related violence in the world.
“We want to have a complete
life,
but
also
an
integral
life,”
Ferrari
said.
“The
strike is against all sorts of
discrimination, not only the
violence that kills your body,
but the violence that kills your
spirit.”
DIAG
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residents’ safety and the moral
considerations of implementing a
cull in the city. However, the cull
was approved 8-1 by city council,
and a majority of residents
surveyed were in favor of it.
The management plan states
that, provided non-lethal methods
are practical and cost effective,
the city will sterilize 40 to 60
deer, as well as aim to kill 100
more in the next year.
“Our goal this year is to
evaluate these methods both
individually
and
collectively
so we can see what is a cost-
effective means of achieving the
community’s tolerance for the
impacts of having the deer herd in
the area,” said City Administrator
Howard Lazarus.
Lazarus said he believes that
the education component presents
a great opportunity to work with
advocates of non-lethal method to
find different means and methods
to control the deer population.
The Humane Society of Huron
Valley, an advocate for non-lethal
means of population control, said
this week they disapprove of the
2017 Deer Management Plan.
Tanya Hilgendorf, president and
CEO of Humane Society of Huron
Valley, said there is no absolutely
no need for a cull.
“We
think
the
plan
is
completely
unnecessary
and
inhumane,” Hilgendorf said on
behalf of the Humane Society.
“We have no deer emergency in
Ann Arbor. We have no public
health or safety problems. The
deer are not suffering. We don’t
have close to an overpopulation.”
Hilgendorf also charged the
cull goes against city values like
tolerance and nonviolence.
“We should absolutely not
be using violence to solve our
problems and teaching our kids
that when we are frustrated
we take out our guns,” said
Hilgendorf. “We see so much
violence in our world against
people and animals, and have
so much worry every single day
about people getting shot. Do we
really need more shooting and
more killing?”
As part of the 2017 plan, the
city will develop a data collection
plan for measuring the success
of the lethal, non-lethal and
educational programs. Success
will be determined by looking
at property damage, vehicular
accidents and the health of the
deer herd, looking for indications
of Chronic Wasting disease in
deer or Lyme disease in humans.
At Monday evening’s City
Council meeting, the council
also approved a first-read vote on
two ordinances that would allow
discharge of firearms on city
land. Those ordinances will come
back for a second read in front of
the council on Nov. 14, where the
council will also vote to approve
a contract with White Buffalo,
the vendor chosen to carry out
both the lethal and non-lethal
methods.
Lazarus
said
city
officials
have had extensive meetings and
discussions with various groups of
interested stakeholders, including
animal rights activists that are
against the cull and groups that
are in support of thinning the deer
population through a cull.
“They are not going to agree
with everything we ultimately
decide to do but they have had
the opportunity to help us shape
the management plan as it exists
now,” he said.
CULL
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About 40 students gathered in
Angell Hall to watch the debate
with the College Republicans.
Before the debate, Randy Clark,
a Republican candidate for state
representative
in
Michigan’s
52nd
district
addressed
the
audience, challenging students
to vote in the election and
further their involvement with
politics.
“Everybody wants to run
and hide under a rock because
they can’t stand this mess that’s
going on, but you really have to
get involved, you have to make a
difference,” he said.
At the College Republicans
watch party, LSA sophomore
Amanda Delekta said she found
the debate to be an overall
positive experience, compared
with
previous
debates
and
campaign tactics.
“I thought that it was Trump’s
best debate by far, I thought
he did a lot better job staying
on topic and not trying to talk
over people,” Delekta said. “I
thought that the moderator did
a lot better job making sure each
candidate respected the other
person and their time. So overall
I thought it was a nice statement
to end a brutal campaign on both
sides.”
However, Delekta said she
wished
the
candidates
had
discussed
at
greater
length
the issue of Supreme Court
justice appointment, which she
considers to be the most pressing
issue of this election.
“We’ll fill at least two —
possibly three — justices, which
is crazy for one president, and
hasn’t been done in a long time,”
she said. “And that’s going to
set the direction for policy
in America for decades and
decades.”
In response to the question,
Trump said he has a list of
20 conservatives who could
fill
the
seats
as
justices,
emphasizing
the
importance
of their close interpretation
of
the
constitution,
while
Clinton encouraged the Senate
to confirm President Barack
Obama’s
nominee,
Merrick
Garland.
Engineering
freshman
Lincoln Merrill also said he
felt
Trump
performed
well
in this debate, citing times
when he challenged Clinton on
inconsistencies in her campaign.
“From a policy standpoint,
Trump definitely won,” he said.
“I still think he could have kept
his cool a little better … I think
Trump did what he needed to do
in this debate.”
He
added
that
he
felt
moderator Chris Wallace, host of
“Fox News Sunday,” performed
better
than
moderators
in
previous debates.
“He hit them both equally
hard on different subjects, he
was the most fair of all the
moderators and his performance
blew me away,” he said.
In
Weill
Hall,
about
50
students attended a debate watch
party
organized
by
College
Democrats, Students for Hillary
and the Michigan Democratic
Coordinated Campaign.
LSA senior Olivia Rau, a
member of Students for Hillary,
said her organization aims to
bring awareness to the issues
discussed during the election
and ensure that students are well
informed when it comes time to
vote.
“Our main goal is to get
students thinking and paying
attention to the issues and
providing a platform for them to
get exposed to what’s happening
in the election,” she said.
One
point
of
contention
between the candidates that
resonated with the audience
came toward the end of the
debate, when Wallace asked
the candidates how they would
resolve dwindling funding for
entitlement programs like Social
Security and Medicare, which he
said account for 60 percent of all
federal spending.
“Social security is going to run
out in the 2030s,” he said. “And at
that time, recipients are going to
take huge cuts in their benefits.”
In response to the question,
Clinton said she planned to raise
taxes on the wealthy and use the
money to add to Social Security.
In contrast, Trump pointed to
the Affordable Care Act, saying
he would abolish it.
“One thing we have to do:
repeal and replace the disaster
known as Obamacare,” Trump
said.
Public Policy junior Katie
Putnam said she thought this
issue will play a large role in the
future.
“I personally care a lot about
the Affordable Care Act,” she
said. “And Medicare is going to
be huge coming up.”
Questions about the economy,
which devolved in discussions of
several scandals raised against
both
candidates,
also
drew
strong
reactions
from
both
candidates.
While Trump referred to
accusations
about
Clinton’s
deletion of classified emails,
Clinton
brought
up
2006
comments from Trump, released
earlier this month, in which he
bragged about touching women
without consent.
“Donald
thinks
belittling
women
makes
him
bigger,”
Clinton said. “He goes after their
dignity, their self worth, and I
don’t think there is a woman out
there who doesn’t know what
that feels like.”
Music,
Theatre
&
Dance
sophomore Liliana Talwatte said
she thought Hillary responded
strongly to Trump’s attacks.
“I think she was fantastic,”
she said. “She responded well (to
Trump’s criticism).”
Putnam said that she did not
expect Clinton to respond in a
way that mirrored Trump’s style.
“There
were
some
times
where we were thinking that she
was playing a little dirtier,” she
said. “Trump was already going
to do that himself.”
DEBATE
From Page 1A
costs in light of dwindling state
appropriation to higher education,
the current Board of Regents
approved a 3.9-percent tuition
hike for in-state residents and
4.4-percent increase for out-of-
state students this summer.
Weiser is opposed to the board’s
decision, and has proposed a freeze
on individual in-state tuition from
the time students begin at the
University.
Fellow
Republican
candidate Meyers proposed similar
actions to stop tuition increase, and
disapproved of raising University
President Mark Schlissel 3 percent
in light of the increase to student
fees.
“No one will pay more than
they did freshman year,” he said.
“There are always ways to spend on
students … when we cut costs and
find new funding sources.”
Much of Weiser’s platform
also focuses on his background
in philanthropy and ability to
fundraise. On campus, the former
Dennison Building is now named
after Weiser’s following his $50
million donation toward building
renovations in December 2014.
The
former
ambassador
also
founded the University’s Weiser
Center for Emerging Democracies
and the Ronald and Eileen Weiser
Center for Europe and Eurasia
after returning from his posting
in Slovakia in 2008. As of this
February, Weiser’s donations to the
University totaled $95.9 million.
As the vice chair of the ongoing
Victors for Michigan donation
campaign, which aims to fundraise
$4 billion, the largest goal of any
campaign launched by a public
institution of higher education,
Weiser said increasing charitable
contributions is a priority for him.
“With
philanthropy,
we’re
looking for a place where we can
make a difference first in the
world,” he said. “I can provide time
to the University and commit to
the fundraising responsibility as
regent.”
Weiser’s political leanings —
specifically his role as vice chair to
the finance committee for Trump’s
campaign in Michigan — have
prompted some pushback from
his Democratic opponents. In an
interview with The Michigan
Daily earlier this week, Deitch
said Weiser’s political views were
fundamentally
“incompatible”
with the University, in part due to
his support for Trump.
Speaking
to
his
political
leanings, Weiser said his focus was
on progress.
“I support politics of change,
and Democrats are not bringing
change,” he said.
Weiser’s
other
focus
areas
include socioeconomic regional
diversity, equality between Ann
Arbor and the University’s other
satellite campuses in Flint and
Dearborn and transparency in the
board’s proceedings. Specifically,
he plans to invest more resources
into students on all three campuses
by having faculty travel between
the locations and research the best
practices for broadening students’
financial backgrounds.
“We can learn a lot about each
other,” he said. “The Board of
Regents has the capacity to be
more than it is … and I care about
this University because of what it
can do.”
WEISER
From Page 1A
period of economic growth, Lin
said China is not struggling, but is
merely suffering from cyclical and
external factors that do not require
structural changes to its economy.
“To
make
adjustments
in
economic
structure
is
very
difficult,” Lin said. “It is very
important to understand the true
causes … and the main reason is
cyclical.”
However, shifting away from
China, Lin argued that the United
States’ economy does need to
undergo structural changes for
it to fully recover from the 2008
financial crisis.
“In the short run, general
structural reforms are important
in raising the economic growth
rate,” Lin said. “We need to have
an innovative way to make the
structural reform … and that
requires political leadership.”
LSA junior Paul Miriani said
Lin’s argument that the American
economy
requires
structural
changes came as a surprise.
“That is not an argument that I
have ever heard before,” Miriani
said. “It was a lot more critical of
(Obama’s) administration and the
eight years (in which) the U.S. has
not done what is necessary is a
different perspective.”
Ann Arbor resident Charles
McIntosh said he wished Lin
would have talked more about
the differences between the U.S.
economy before and after 2008.
“I do not think that he talked
about it enough, and what struck
me about the difference before
and after 2008 is we did not talk
about
public
investment
and
corporate investment,” McIntosh
said. “However, I actually think
his views fit in pretty well with a
lot of economic views on the right
in the United States today and I do
not find it a particularly surprising
suggestion that economies need to
restructure.”
During the event, in reference to
Chinese and American economic
interaction, Ciorciari asked Lin
about his thoughts regarding
China’s exclusion from the Trans-
Pacific Partnership. The TPP is
a trade deal involving the United
States and 11 other Pacific Ocean
nations, including Japan, Australia
and Canada.
“To exclude China from the TPP
is not a development because China
is now one of the largest trading
countries in the world,” Lin said.
“I don’t think this is economically
advisable because not only is it not
good for China, it is not good for all
economies.”
When asked by an audience
member whether he thought that
the criticism levied by politicians
in the United States toward China
for alleged currency manipulation
and other unfair trade practices
is reasonable, Lin said he believed
that the focus of talks about United
States-China relations should be
about the benefits they brings to
both countries.
“To maintain good economic
relations is certainly good for
China and for the U.S.,” Lin
said. “Politicians like to find a
scapegoat.”
BANK
From Page 1A
architectural carvings.
“Mary’s
work
has
done
so much to both recover the
ways that women have been
active and engaged, especially
intellectually, over the whole
course of the United States as
well as being very clear about
the limitations that remained
in
terms
of
expectations
of women continuing to be
deferential or the ways in
which women’s intellectual
work would be filtered or
condescended to,” Silbert said.
For her project, Silbert has
gone to different libraries
around campus to look at
artifacts
that
show
how
women were able to attain
the educational and political
opportunities they have today,
something that she noted has
vast significance this election
year.
LSA senior Michael Gawlik
echoed Silbert’s admiration
for Kelley, saying the best
class he has taken so far at the
University was Kelley’s Sex
and Gender in U.S. History,
1600-2000. Since taking it
his sophomore year, Gawlik
has developed an interest in
women’s studies and history,
and Kelley is now his adviser
for his honors thesis.
Gawlik’s
thesis
looks
at
differing literature narratives
regarding
prostitution
in
the 19th century and aims
to
establish
how
social
judgments and blame of the
behavior shifted from book to
book.
As a man, Gawlik said he
has often seen misconceptions
about women’s studies — for
instance, the assumption that
it is only related to feminism.
“I think sometimes women’s
studies
is
misunderstood
by
the
general
population
of students and it’s seen as
something that you should
only be involved in if you’re a
woman or if you’re a feminist,
and I think it is something
that is just really important
because it provides you with
a framework — as a history
major — for looking at the past
differently,” Gawlik said.
Mentorship
through
research
How
to
bring
women’s
studies to a more mainstream
integration on campus, Kelley
and her students said, remains
a slight challenge. Despite
her extensive work in the
field, Kelley said she does
not think the creation of a
women’s studies requirement
on
campus
—
much
like
there is a Race and Ethnicity
requirement
—
would
benefit the women’s studies
movement. She said the idea
of integrating women’s studies
into history lectures would
be beneficial, but has found
it sometimes unsuccessful in
practice.
“The
problem
with
mainstreaming is that it can
look like it’s an add-on as
opposed to just being fully
part
of
the
curriculum,”
Kelley said. “The Race and
Ethnicity requirement is in
terms of people learning about
people who happened to have
been deeply disadvantaged in
this culture, and certainly not
all women have been deeply
disadvantaged … on the basis of
sex and gender. They’ve been
disadvantaged to a certain
extent, but not to the same
extent, and I think to equate
those is not appropriate.”
Silbert
said
she
felt
conflicted about whether a
women’s studies and Race
and
Ethnicity
requirement
could
be
all-encompassing,
but generally felt it would be
advantageous for students to
think outside their traditional
realm of thinking.
“There are very visible ways
that there are gender gaps
between programs or certain
spaces on this campus, but I’ve
had the experience of teaching
Intro to Women’s Studies and
I’ve found in those experiences
once students had language
for the ways that gender
can
influence
everything
students express frustration,”
Silbert said. “But I think it’s
a healthy frustration so much
of women’s studies is that
learning to see.”
Gawlik
echoed
the
sentiments of both, saying the
current gaps in knowledge
show
there
is
room
for
progress.
“There are a lot of gendered
ideas in American society and
regardless of how liberal one’s
school is, those ideas are still
going to be something that
students
have
internalized
when they come to this school
and that will be part of the
campus culture,” he said. “So I
think that even though U of M
is probably more progressive
than most schools … there’s
still progress to be made.”
KELLEY
From Page 2A
“Our main
goal is to
get students
thinking”
“I think
sometimes
women’s studies
is misunderstood”
“There are a lot
of gendered ideas
in American
society”
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