Over
100
students
and
faculty members congregated
on the Diag on Thursday
to rally against President
Donald Trump’s recent ban
on immigration from seven
predominantly
Muslim
countries.
President
Trump’s
executive
order
has
temporarily suspended the
immigration of citizens and
refugees from Iran, Iraq,
Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen
and Somalia from entering
the United States. While a
nationwide block has been
placed on the ban by U.S.
District Senior Judge James
Robart in Seattle, the Trump
administration is currently
working on an appeal.
The rally was organized
by a group called Academic
United — No to Visa and
Immigration
Ban:
U
Michigan, in an attempt to
show their support for the
immigrants,
refugees
and
permanent
U.S.
residents
affected
by
the
ban.
Organizers also spoke of the
recent racist and anti-Semitic
emails sent to students of the
College of Engineering on
Tuesday night, offering a sit-
in to provide support.
A primary event organizer,
who
wished
to
remain
anonymous due to concerns
about her immigration status
from a country impacted by
the executive order, stated
the rally’s goal was to “raise
awareness to the University
of
Michigan
community
so they will know that the
people
who
are
affected
by this executive order are
actually
their
colleagues,
their friends, their lab-mates,
and people who they interact
with on a day-to-day basis.”
The goal of Academics
United-
No
to
Visa
and
Immigration
Ban
rallies,
according to their Facebook
page,
is
“to
demonstrate
the impact of this action
on thousands of honest and
ambitious students.”
Along with the rally and
sit-in provided for students
affected by the hate emails
sent to College of Engineering
students, organizers of the
rally provided an open mic for
those wishing to share their
stories or relate messages of
hope and inspiration to the
Following
three
racist
and anti-Semitic emailssent
to
University
of
Michigan
engineering
and
computer
science
students
Tuesday
night, an anonymous email was
sent out Thursday morning to
at least one graduate student
email list, this time outlining
an alleged incident of racism
involving the sender, a Black
woman, and two white men.
The email expressed disgust
with the University for failing
to address the alleged hate
crime with an investigation.
University police, however,
say they recieved the email tip
a month ago and attempted to
contact the sender, to no avail.
The
email
—
entitled
“Pathetic,
Outraged
and
Disgusted!!”
reads:
“Dear
University of Michigan, you
have lost my respect!! I don’t
want to hear a freaking thing
about racist emails!! I love the
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Vol. CXXVII, No. 27
©2016 The Michigan Daily
N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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
See EMAILS, Page 3
New emails
sent to list
cite alleged
hate crime
ADMINISTRATION
An anonymous female
sent graduate students
messages on the incident
ALEXA ST JOHN
& RIYAH BASHA
Managing News Editor
& Daily News Editor
JEREMY MITNICK/Daily
Students march through the Diag to protest the immigration executive order on Thursday.
Over 100 gather on Diag to protest
Trump’s immigration executive order
Academics United talks about historical parallels of anti-immigrant executive order
CORY ZAYANCE
For the Daily
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See BAN, Page 3
The U.S. Senate confirmed
Betsy DeVos as secretary of
education, with Vice President
Mike
Pence
casting
an
unprecedented
tie-breaking
vote Tuesday.
Despite a 24-hour effort
by Senate Democrats to hold
the floor in protest of DeVos’
confirmation,
they
were
unable to convince another
Republican to change his or
her vote.
The Michigan native has
been criticized for her lack
of public school experience,
which led Senate Minority
Leader
Charles
Schumer
(D–N.Y.)
to
describe
her
as
“uniquely
unqualified,”
a phrase originally coined
by former President Barack
Obama
in
reference
to
President Donald Trump.
Additionally,
many
Democrats,
including
Sen.
Debbie Stabenow (D–Mich.),
expressed
concern
about
DeVos’
focus
on
charter
schools, which have proved
largely
unsuccessful
in
See DEVOS, Page 3
Campus
divided in
response to
DeVos vote
GOVERNMENT
Students exhibit mixed
reactions on controversial
Secretary of Education
CARLY RYAN
Daily Staff Reporter
Ray Jackson and Jimmy
King, two members of the Fab
Five — the 1991 recruiting
class for the University of
Michigan
basketball
team
— discussed the stereotypes
surrounding
Black
male
athletes, including athletics
overshadowing
academics
and exploitation by brands.
Jackson and King, joined
by Maurice Ways, current
football player and former
Michigan and NFL football
player
Braylon
Edwards,
discussed the stereotypes and
misrepresentations of Black
athletes Thursday night in
the Robertson Theatre in the
Ross School of Business.
LSA junior Maurice Ways
began the night by speaking
to his experience as a student
athlete and going over his
daily
schedule,
including
when he has to fit in classes
and when he has time that
isn’t taken up by school or
athletics. Ways emphasized
how
people
often
don’t
consider
athletes
to
be
students as well.
“Someone
told
me
the
only reason you’re going to
Michigan is to play football,”
Ways
said.
“There’s
a
stereotype about the Black
male athlete that he’s either/
or … I can be whatever I need
to be whenever I need to be
it.”
Ways
talked
about
the
number of African-American
men at the University and
the
number
of
African-
American male athletes. Only
740 of the 43,000 students
at the University are African
American men.
“The football team makes
up more than half of the
Black male athletes at the
University
of
Michigan,”
Ways quipped.
Kelsey
Penebaker,
an
athletic
trainer
at
the
University, came to learn
about the experiences of the
students she works with.
Current and
former UM
athletes talk
stereotyping
Racist, anti-Semitic emails prompt
ten-hour-long Union student sit-in
See ATHLETES, Page 3
JEREMY MITNICK/Daily
Students4Justice holds a sit-in in response to racist and anti-Semitic emails at the Michigan Union on Thursday.
CAMPUS LIFE
Football and basketball stars discuss the
representation of Black male athletes
COLIN BERESFORD
Daily Staff Reporter
The protestors expressed discontent about the University’s response to the incidents
Students4Justice held a sit-
in at the Michigan Union as
a response to the emails sent
to
University
of
Michigan
engineering
and
computer
science undergraduate students
and the defilement of a prayer
rug in the reflection room in
the
Shapiro
Undergraduate
Library.
The event began Thursday
with a march of approximately
60 students from the Diag to
the Union, which they planned
to occupy until it closed at 2
a.m. The crowd grew in size
as the marchers chanted and
progressed to the Union.
Chants included slogans such
as: “No justice, no peace, no
racist police,” and “No alt-right,
no KKK, no fascist USA.”
Once at its destination, the
group wound its way through
the building before spreading
out to occupy the study rooms on
the first floor. Over 150 students
and community members took
part in the sit-in. Fliers were
circulated that had a condensed
version of the letter of demands
that Students4Justice wrote in
response to the racist fliers that
first appeared last fall.
Members of the organization
said they wanted their voices
to
be
heard.
LSA
junior
Victoria Johnson, a leader of
Students4Justice, said she does
not believe the University’s
response has been sufficient.
“We
feel
like
the
administration
hasn’t
done
enough,” she said. “It has been
silent. They’re not showing up
and giving the support that is
needed to the students that
have
been
attacked.
We’re
going to sit in the union until
they meet our demands.”
Participants
of
the
sit-
in
worked
on
homework
assignments, chatted with those
around them and decorated the
Union with posters and various
flags. LSA freshman Maria
Tout said she noticed a feeling
of inclusiveness even though
the sit-in was a protest.
ANNA HARITOS
Daily Staff Reporter
See SIT-IN, Page 3