An
LSA
freshman
who
requested to remain anonymous
was held up when walking back to
South Quad Residence Hall from
a fraternity party Friday night
— he could have called an Uber,
but instead, he decided to set out
on foot. During the walk back, a
car pulled up next to him and an
occupant of the car demanded his
property.
This incident has occurred
amidst
a
series
of
similar
robberies near campus in the
past few weeks, something the
University of Michigan Division
of Public Safety and Security and
the Ann Arbor Police Department
said they are still trying to combat.
“(I was) on East (University)
and a car pulled up,” the victim
said. “I didn’t think anything of it
just because I thought it was like a
normal car parking and then a guy
jumped out. He had a longer gun,
like possibly a shotgun kind of
thing. He was like, ‘Hold up. Don’t
say anything.’ ”
The robber, wearing a red
bandana, proceeded to take the
victim’s wallet and cell phone, and
then drove off in his what a police
report would later describe as a
gray, four-door car. The victim
walked back to South Quad,
borrowed his roommate’s phone
and called the police.
This is one of four robberies
in downtown Ann Arbor in the
As
part
of
a
national
movement to preserve various
data sets stored on government
websites, University of Michigan
students, faculty and Ann Arbor
community members have begun
working together to prevent the
loss of important data.
Information graduate student
Noa Kasman, a member of the
University’s Society of American
Archivists
Student
Chapter,
helped
coordinate
a
data-
archiving event held by University
libraries last weekend, in which
300 attendees gathered at the
Undergraduate Library with the
same goal — to ensure data is not
lost amidst the efforts of President
Donald Trump. She said the
preservation efforts originally
stemmed
from
the
Internet
Archive’s End of Term harvest,
which started in 2008 in an effort
to protect data on government
websites that tend to be either
removed or overlooked during
transitions between presidential
administrations.
“There’s
an
understanding
that when there are presidential
transitions, websites will change,
and data that’s available online,
especially
from
government
agencies, is quite vulnerable,” she
said.
Justin Schell, director of the
Shapiro Design Lab, said the
current political climate lends a
sense of urgency to these archival
efforts, referencing changes the
Trump
administration
have
instituted such as the amount of
information on climate change
on the Environmental Protection
Agency website.
“We’re
seeing
webpages
change, we’re seeing different
kinds of data under threat,” he
said. “The geospatial databases
related to the racial disparity in
housing is one thing that people
are talking about. We’ve had
contacts inside the EPA who
have told us about particular data
sets that they’ve heard could go
down. So we quickly try to back
those up and preserve those, so
it is this moment where we have
a particular thing to work on and
not just the general ‘we’re trying
to fix government data.’ ”
He
said
the
archiving
efforts
during
their
event
focused mainly on information
from
National
Oceanic
Atmospheric
Administration,
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration and the
Department of Energy.
The
Educational
Data
Governance Initiative and the
Data Refuge are two groups
that
help
coordinate
the
national events and guided the
areas of focus for the event to
minimize overlap with efforts
of other universities. Schell said
collaboration both with other
DETROIT — The Democratic
National
Committee
held
its third “Future Forum” at
Wayne State University to
introduce
local
Democrats
to
the
candidates
running
for leadership offices at the
national level.
The
event
opened
with
remarks from Democrats such
as Rep. Debbie Dingell (D–
Mich.) and Detroit Mayor Mike
Duggan. The morning session
was
devoted
to
discussing
issues considered relevant in
Michigan, which would prove
to be hot topics as the day
progressed.
Speeches echoed themes of
party unity, demand for labor,
the importance of the younger
generation and voter rights.
Chuck Jones, the president of
the United Steelworkers Local
1999, spoke about the demand
for work.
“For
the
working-class
people, jobs are what we are
interested in — we’re not
asking for handouts, we’re
asking for an opportunity to
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CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
SPORTS..........B-SECTION
AAPD, DPSS
respond to
concern over
robberies
Hijabi Monologues aim to share
experiences of Muslim women
See CRIMES, Page 3A
MAX KUANG/Daily
Visiting Lecturer Norhayati Abdullah speaks at the the Hijabi Monologues in Rackham Amphiltheater on Friday.
CRIME
String of off-campus crime alerts
over the weekend alarms students
MATT HARMON
Daily Staff Reporter
Student speakers share stories of post-election frustration, faith and community
“Being a hijabi, I know the
sense of betrayal that I felt
after this election and I wasn’t
probably alone.”
Experiencing and witnessing
hatred
towards
Muslim
women during the election and
after the recent presidential
inauguration,
University
of
Michigan
LSA
sophomore
Fatima Haidar said she felt she
had no choice but to act.
Haidar,
alongside
LSA
sophomore Alyiah Al-Bonijim,
decided to create an avenue
for students and community
members to voice their stories,
feelings and frustrations about
what it means to be a hijabi in
America.
After less than a month of
organizing and planning, the
two students revived the Hijabi
Monologues: a two-hour series
of
personal
stories,
songs,
poetry and spoken word. A
crowd of more than 250 packed
the
Rackham
Amphitheatre,
reaching full capacity within
minutes after doors opened on
Friday evening.
In their opening statement
of
their
theme,
“Halfway
Hijabi,” Haidar and Al-Bonijim
explained
the
importance
MADELEINE GERSON
Daily Staff Reporter
See DNC, Page 3A
DNC holds
forum to
introduce
candidates
GOVERNMENT
National leaders call
on local Dems to forge
party unity, coalitions
ANNA HARITOS
Daily Staff Reporter
MICHELLE PHILLIPS/DAILY
University community works to save
gov. data from presidential transition
Local archivists join bipartisan preservation effort in tense political climate
EMILY MIILLER
Daily Staff Reporter
Sweepless
After taking a two-goal
lead against the 11th-ranked
Buckeyes, the Michigan
hockey team faltered late and
failed to notch its first sweep
of the season.
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See ARCHIVE, Page 3A
See MONOLOGUES, Page 3A
Iranian researcher Hamed
Razavi
recently
received
the Sumner Myers Award in
January for best mathematics
thesis at the University of
Michigan.
However,
the
University Ph.D. graduate will
not accept the award in person
due
to
President
Donald
Trump’s
recent
executive
order that barred immigration
from citizens of seven Muslim-
majority countries, including
Iran.
Razavi
is
currently
in
Switzerland doing his post-
doctoral
research
at
the
Biorobotics Laboratory of the
École Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne. According to
a public Facebook post from
University mathematics Prof.
Karen Smith, Razavi’s visa
process has been halted.
“His visa application process
has been suspended by the
recent Presidential Executive
Order restricting immigration
from several countries,” Smith
wrote. “Welcome to Trump’s
new ‘great’ America, where the
See BAN, Page 3A
Travel ban
blocks ‘U’
honoree’s
reception
CAMPUS LIFE
Iranian researcher unable
to accept award in U.S.
due to Trump legislation
MAYA GOLDMAN
Daily Staff Reporter