President
Donald
Trump
signed an executive order last
Monday that placed a hiring
freeze on the federal government,
with the exception of military,
national security and public safety
personnel.
The two-page order, which was
promised during his campaign as
a part of his “Day One” agenda, is
meant to cut government payrolls
and ensure a more efficient
government.
According to Trump’s contract
with the American voter, the
freeze is among six measures
meant to prevent corruption
and
special
interest
group
manipulation, a goal with which
LSA junior Enrique Zalamea,
president
of
University
of
Michigan’s chapter of College
Republicans, agrees.
“I support the federal hiring
freeze, as I believe it’s a necessary
step towards ‘draining the swamp’
of bureaucracy, special interest
group collusion and corruption,”
Zalamea said.
At a news conference last
Monday, Sean Spicer, White
House
press
secretary,
said
the freeze is meant to counter
the expansion of the federal
workforce. However, in 2016,
the increase in federal workers
was about one percent, and the
number of executive branch
employees hasn’t been this low
The
Senate
Advisory
Committee on University Affairs
approved to write a statement on
Monday to support University
of Michigan President Mark
Schlissel’s
remarks
defending
international
students
in
response to President Donald
Trump’s executive orderpassed
last weekend. The order banned
immigration and travel from
several
Muslim-majority
countries such as Syria and
Somalia, resulting in multiple
protests
in
Michigan
and
nationwide.
The resolution was drafted
by SACUA member Silke-Maria
Weineck, professor of comparative
literature and German studies.
SACUA member Robert Ortega,
associate professor of social work,
explored the possibility of adding
statistics about the number of
foreign faculty and students to the
statement in order to emphasize
the prevalence of the international
community, but later decided
it was unnecessary, given the
evidence of the community’s
importance
to
the
academic
environment.
“It’s incontrovertible that it’s a
problem, not just with students,
but we have faculty, we have
families that are also experiencing
some extreme angst,” he said.
The resolution was passed
unanimously.
There was discussion regarding
whether or not SACUA should
bring attention to the existence of
a petition that calls for Trump to
reconsider his immigration order,
but there was no motion to extend
that debate.
Aside from the petition, Ann
Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor
has
also
spoken
outagainst
Trump’s ban on his Facebook
page.
“Trump and his supporters
have polluted something beautiful
— the honor of the United States
and its people,” Taylor wrote.
“The world looking in, ourselves
looking about us, we must now
reasonably question the continued
truth of that reputation. Are we in
fact a decent and just people? Is the
United States of America a force for
good? Do we as a people have the
courage to try to make the world a
better place, or are we debilitated
by weakness and fear?”
In
addition
to
endorsing
the statement, SACUA heard
from Kelli Trosvig, University
vice president for information
technology,
about
her
plans
for her new position. Trosvig
received a five-year appointment
to the position of vice president for
information technology on Nov. 14
of last year.
Trosvig said moving forward
at the University she has her
concerns about the availability of
anonymous patient data to health
The
Central
Student
Government’s
Mental
Health
Climate and Resources Task Force
hosted its second town hall Monday
night as a continuation of the first
meeting held last Wednesday, this
time discussing with students
residing on North Campus.
The goal of the meeting was to
address the results of three surveys
regarding mental health sent to
the entire University of Michigan
community last semester including
students, faculty and staff. The
surveys
focused
on
resource
innovation and classroom climate
and found that 91.3 percent of the
1,000 students who responded to
the survey have dealt with mental
illness at some point while on
campus.
The town hall focused on the
difficulties students face in finding
mental health resources on North
Campus.
There
are
currently
no branches of Counseling and
Psychological Services available
on North Campus, though CAPS
does have counselors in the
College of Engineering. Multiple
organizations
have
stepped
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A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Community
responds to
new federal
hiring freeze
Justices Sotomayor, Baer explore
diversity, future of academia at ‘U’
See RESPONSE, Page 3
AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Susanne Baer participate in a discussion moderated by Michele Norris at the President’s Bicentennial Colloquium at
Hill Auditorium on Monday.
GOVERNMENT
Students, faculty question intentions
and consequences of executive order
CARLY RYAN
Daily Staff Writer
Students, faculty fill Hill Auditorium for first of three bicenntennial colloquium
At a bicentennial colloquium
kicking off a yearlong celebration
of the University of Michigan’s
history Monday morning, U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia
Sotomayor
called
out
the
University’s
historically
low
enrollment of African-American
and minority students.
“We
are
making
large
improvements towards a kind
of equality but we are still far
from it,” she said. “When you
look at the number of African
Americans at the University of
Michigan, there’s a real problem
there.”
As of October 2016, just under
5 percent of students are African
American,
according
to
the
University Registrar.
A
dialogue
between
Sotomayor and German Justice
Susanne Baer, moderated by
journalist
Michele
Norris,
packed Hill Auditorium with
more
than
1,000
students,
faculty
and
community
members. The event— the first of
three Presidential Bicentennial
Colloquia
sponsored
by
the
University
Bicentennial
Committee—focused
on
diversity
in
the
University
community and how students
MATT HARMON
Daily Staff Writer
See CSG, Page 3
CSG plans
expansion
of CAPS at
town hall
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Second mental health town
hall outlines availability of
North Campus resources
JORDYN BAKER
For The Daily
HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily
SACUA Chair Silke-Maria Weineck discusses the need for a Senate Assembly taht is representative of the entire uni-
versity in the Fleming Building on March 7, 2016.
SACUA statement to support Schlissel’s
stance against Trump immigration ban
Committee also hears from new VP for information technology, CSG representative
EMILY MIILLER
Daily Staff Writer
MVP?
Since losing to Illinois
in Champaign, Derrick
Walton Jr. has increased his
production and proved that
Michigan may only go as far
as he takes them.
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See SACUA, Page 3
See COLLOQUIUM, Page 3
Despite the January cold,
about 20 Ann Arbor residents
marched to Nichols Arboretum
on
Monday
to
protest
the
University of Michigan’s decision
to allow a deer cull on campus.
The culling officially started on
Monday in various parks around
Ann Arbor, including Nichols
Arboretum.
The march was organized by
the Friends of Ann Arbor Wildlife
in Nature, an animal rights group
formed in opposition to the lethal
deer
management
program
the city of Ann Arbor has been
pursuing since last year.
LSA junior Aaron Brodkey,
president of the Michigan Animal
Respect Society, said he joined
the march to oppose what he saw
as wrongful human intervention
in nature, and suggested the city
explore non-lethal options.
“Personally, I just think it’s
maybe wrong or rash to make
this decision,” Brodkey said. “I
feel like we’re taking it into our
own hands and playing God in
this position and saying, ‘Hey,
we need to massacre 100 deer for
See CULL, Page 3
First day of
City deer
cull sparks
Arb protest
CITY
Ann Arbor animal rights
group leads march to
Nichols Arboretum
ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter