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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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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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

