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

