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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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

michigandaily.com

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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

