Though campus is abuzz 

about the presidential election, 
international students, many of 
whom have never experienced 
the American political process 
firsthand, are bringing a new 
perspective to the contentious 
race.

Noting 
political 
discourse 

among students has been tense at 
times during the election season, 
Business sophomore Jonathan 
Cheng, who is from Hong Kong, 
said he thinks Americans should 
first recognize what a privilege 
it is for them to be able to 
democratically elect their leader.

“I think it is pretty impressive 

for Americans to vote for their 
president,” Cheng said. “Voters 
should treasure this opportunity 
where this is not a certainty for 
people in many other countries.”

Cheng said he decided to 

pursue his college studies in 
the United States, both because 
American 
universities 
are 

consistently 
ranked 
highest 

in the world, and because 
he valued the more relaxed 
learning 
environment 
and 

relationship between professors 
and students.

“The relationship between 

students and faculty are more 
‘equal’ and friendly,” Cheng said. 
“I remembered in my accounting 
class, while a student dropped 
his notes on the floor, the lecturer 

The University of Michigan 

Central Student Government 
launched a new campaign, 
“It Starts With Me,” at an 
event on the Diag Tuesday. 
The initiative aims to bring 
awareness 
to 
racism 
and 

discrimination on campus.

As 
part 
of 
the 
event, 

students were also encouraged 
to submit feedback to the body 
about their initiatives and 
plans this semester.

For 
the 
event, 

representatives 
from 
the 

general assembly, as well as 
CSG commissions, were posted 
near Mason Hall with 600 
donuts, CSG handouts and a 
suggestions board for students 
to write on.

As of Tuesday afternoon, 

the suggestions on the board 
primarily 
centered 
around 

transportation 
to 
North 

Campus, as well as expressions 
of 
solidarity 
for 
minority 

students on campus.

LSA junior Zena Shunnar, 

deputy programming officer 
for CSG, said the event was 
organized in part because 
leaders in the organization 
believe the body needs to be 
more accessible to students. 
Increasing transparency of the 
assembly’s initiatives was part 
of the platform of newMICH, 
the political party led by CSG 
President David Schafer and 
CSG Vice President Micah 

Griggs, LSA seniors.

“I think it’s important to 

show students what we’re 
doing, 
to 
actually 
have 

interaction,” Shunnar said at 
the event. “The main reason 
we chose Diag Day (was) just to 
show face and to not be behind 
a door so much.”

“One trend that I’ve noticed 

is about more frequent buses 
on weekend, like the timing 
of 
buses,” 
Shunnar 
said. 

“And then just, like, a lot of 
people who have been feeling 
discrimination 
on 
campus, 

supporting different causes 
and minorities on campus.”

In the past few months, 

several 
incidents 
targeting 

minority students have sparked 
controversy on campus. In 
September, posters were hung 
in Mason and Haven Halls 
bearing slogans like “denying 
your heritage … be white.” In 

response to the slogans, more 
than 200 students marched 
through campus, chanting “No 
justice, no peace” to express 
solidarity.

By the end of the day, the 

suggestion board was covered 
with more than 300 different 
suggestions, 
ranging 
from 

“No more meatless Monday” 
to “Fight racism,” and CSG 
representatives 
said 
they 

University 
of 
Michigan 

alum 
Stanford 
Lipsey, 

the longtime publisher of 
The Buffalo News and a 
significant donor to several 
initiatives and groups on 
campus, 
including 
student 

publications, died Tuesday 
morning at the age of 89.

Lipsey 
was 
a 
native 

of 
Omaha, 
Nebraska 

and 
graduated 
from 
the 

University 
of 
Michigan 

in 
1948 
with 
a 
B.A. 
in 

Economics. While a student, 
he was a photographer for 
The Michigan Daily and a 
photography editor for the 
Michiganensian yearbook.

In 2005, Lipsey donated 

$3 million for the renovation 
of the Student Publications 
Building, 
which 
houses 

several campus publications 
including 
the 
Daily. 
The 

Board 
of 
Regents 
then 

renamed 
the 
Stanford 

Lipsey Student Publications 
Building in his honor. Lipsey 
also 
established 
a 
series 

of 
annual 
scholarships 

and 
prizes 
in 
2007 
for 

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Wayne State Prof. Saeed A. Khan speaks at Islamophobia: Politics, Priorities and Prejudice in 2016 at the Hatcher Graduate Library Tuesday.

With the presidential election 

less than a week away, about 
50 people gathered Tuesday at 
Hatcher Graduate Library to 
listen to researchers Saeed Khan 
and Sarrah Buageila discuss data 

on how everyone, but especially 
those 
from 
marginalized 

communities, 
can 
affect 
the 

political process at both the local 
and national level.

The event — Islamophobia: 

Politics, Priorities and Prejudice 
in 2016 — was organized by 
the Institute for Social Policy 
and Understanding, a nonprofit 

founded in 2002 that conducts 
research aimed at empowering 
American Muslims to increase 
community 
involvement 
and 

participation in democracy in the 
United States.

Buageila, the project manager 

for ISPU’s research department, 
began the talk by detailing the 
results of two polls on American 

Muslims. She said the ISPU found 
61 percent of Americans hold 
an unfavorable view of Islam, 
roughly half of all Americans do 
not know a Muslim and 80 percent 
of U.S. media coverage of Islam is 
negative. Furthermore, she said 
only 60 percent of Muslims are 
registered to vote in the United 

See LIPSEY, Page 3A

JEREMY MITNICK/Daily

University of Michigan students write suggestions for Central Student Government as part of a campaign to increase 
inclusivity and tolerance on campus through an event on the Diag Tuesday.

The Statement

Daily Arts Writer Adam 

DePollo travels to Valparaiso 

and the home of his favorite 

poet, Pablo Neruda.

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Alex Hill, data and design 

coordinator 
for 
the 
city 
of 

Detroit’s Health Department, 
spoke 
at 
the 
University 
of 

Michigan 
Institute 
for 
the 

Humanities Tuesday on the 
importance of contextualizing 
data

Hill heads Detroitography, a 

project designed to document 
how 
Detroit’s 
history 
has 

changed its geography, economy 
and 
society. 
The 
project, 

launched by Hill shortly after 
he moved to Detroit in 2009, 
emphasizes how residents tie 
their identities to the spaces and 
places where they live.

“When I first moved to the 

city, I had a lot of questions about 
where things were and what was 
going on, so in my free time, I 
started pulling data and creating 
my own maps to understand 
it,” Hill said. “In that process, 
I was connecting with a lot of 
other people in Detroit who were 
making maps and they were 
creating some great work.”

For Hill, a love of maps started 

at an early age. As a former 

See MAP, Page 3A

International 
students draw 

value from 
U.S. election

Nonprofit urges Muslim-Americans 
to participate in political process

GOVERNMENT

Presidential race sparks intrigue, 
concern outside the United States

CALEB CHADWELL

Daily Staff Reporter

Researchers present data on low voter registration, high Islamophobic sentiments

KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporter

Stanford 
Lipsey, ‘U’ 
alum, dies 
at age 89

CAMPUS LIFE

Former Buffalo News 
editor was significant 
donor to student groups

CALEB CHADWELL

Daily Staff Reporter

Central Student Government hosts Diag 
event to gather feedback from students

Participant concerns center on University diversity, access to North Campus

ERIN DOHERTY

For the Daily

Lecturer 
links data 
and maps 
in Detroit

STATE

Alex Hill discusses 
project to create 
cartographies of city

MARGOT SHERIDAN

Daily Staff Reporter

