The LSA Bicentennial Theme 

Semester 
hosted 
its 
second 

symposium Friday in East Quad 
entitled “1877: Reconstructing 
the University of Michigan.” The 
event was a panel discussion 
Reconstruction in the aftermath 
of the Civil War in Michigan, 
including how the University’s 
modern image was shaped by the 
admittance of female students.

Michelle McClellan, associate 

history and Residential College 
professor 
explained 
how 

Reconstruction was a time of 
disarray, in which the country 
was trying to experiment with 
ways to reunite the country.

“Reconstruction is really the 

era where we would start to 
recognize the world as we know 
it,” McClellan said. “This last 
quarter of the 19th century is 
where, if we could time travel, 
we would start to recognize the 
outlines then of what we know 
now.”

According 
to 
Martin 

Hershock, professor of history 
at 
UM-Dearborn, 
Michigan 

was considered a standard of 
progression in the country with 
the creation of the Republican 
Party. 

“Michigan 
replicated 
that 

intense 
religious 
fervor 
and 

evangelical 
commitment 
to 

change,” he said. “Many referred 
to Michigan in very idealistic 

Early 
Saturday 
morning 

approximately 
30 
abortion 

opponents 
from 
throughout 

Michigan were met with an 
overwhelming number of about 
400 abortion rights advocates, 
mostly from Ann Arbor, chanting, 
“My body, my choice” along the 
sidewalks in front of west Ann 
Arbor’s Planned Parenthood.

Planned 
Parenthood 
is 
a 

nonprofit organization that offers 
reproductive health care services 
as well as testing for STIs, breast 
cancer screenings and services for 
the LGBTQ community.

The abortion opponent rally 

was initiated by the national 
organization 
Protest 
Planned 

Parenthood, 
which 
aims 
to 

defund Planned Parenthood and 
tax-funded abortions. Planned 
Parenthood 
provides 
health 

care for women and only three 
percent of their budget goes 
towards abortions. The event was 
scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. which 
concluded at about 10:30 a.m.

A 
counter-rally 
was 

organized in response by the 
local organization Stop Trump 
Ann Arbor, which seeks to 
defend the abortion services of 
Planned Parenthood. Its event 
to defend Planned Parenthood 
was scheduled to organize an 
hour earlier starting at 8 a.m. and 
lasting until about 10:30 a.m.

Jessica Prozinski, a founder 

of Stop Trump Ann Arbor, 
organized and led the abortion 

rights counter-rally over the 
course of three weeks. In a 
rebuttal to defend the services of 
Planned Parenthood, Prozinski 
said 
her 
motivations 
for 

organizing the counter-rally were 
the importance and immediate 
concern for the safety and health 
of women who have abortions.

“We will not go back to the 

days of back-alley abortions and 
coat-hanger atrocities,” Prozinski 
said. “There is no way we’re going 

back and we’re building a new 
integrative women’s movement 
to fight for women’s rights and for 
the rights of all people.”

Prozinski also shared how 

the counter-rally is just one-step 
forward in the movement for 
women’s health and how people’s 
perspectives across the country 
are changing.

“We are going to keep fighting 

from keeping the forces of reaction 
from claiming our country,” 

Prozinski said. “We’re going to 
build a new social movement to 
make our country finally equal 
and democratic.”

Ypsilanti resident Mariel de 

Soleil, a member of the local 
organization Citizens for Pro-Life 
Society, got the idea of organizing 
a local rally from the national 
movement and sought support 
through the effort through emails 
to friends and colleagues. De Soleil 

When 
Anna 
Forringer-Beal, 

a 2016 University of Michigan 
graduate of LSA, found out she 
had won a Gates Cambridge 
Scholarship to study at Cambridge 
University next year, she had to 
take a minute to digest the news.

“I was working when I found 

out, and I was on break, and I 
just left and walked around the 
block a couple times,” she said. 
“I was so excited — just so much 
energy — but I also really see it as 
a responsibility. It certainly feels 
like I’m responsible to share what 
I learn with others … so it can go 
beyond me and just my one year at 
Cambridge.”

Forringer-Beal is one of just 

36 American scholars to earn the 
scholarship this year. She and the 
rest of the American cohort will 
be joined by 54 other international 
scholars whose names have not yet 
been announced. Established in 
2000 by an endowment from Bill 
and Melinda Gates, the scholarship 
will enable her to spend a year at 
Cambridge University in England 
and earn a Master’s degree in 
multi-disciplinary gender studies.

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SPORTS.............B INSERT

Bicentennial 
panel covers 
‘U’ history of 
race, gender

Recent incidents expose divide 
between DEI plan and students

See BICENTENNIAL, Page 3A

ILLUSTRATION BY CARLY BERGER

CAMPUS LIFE

Second LSA symposium examines 
Reconstruction, female admission

RASHEED ABDULLAH

Daily Staff Reporter

Activists criticize institutional responses, officials express long-term optimism

In response to recent hate acts 

and a changing political climate, 
students are questioning the nature 
and progress of the University 
of Michigan’s five-year plan for 
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. 

Program leaders are replying by 
emphasizing long-term goals and 
voicing optimism for short-term 
strategies. 

Announced in February 2015, 

the DEI plan officially launched in 
October 2016 as a program aimed at 
fostering an inclusive and equitable 
campus climate. The five-year 
operation will cost $85 million, in 

addition to its annual investment 
of $40 million. The University-
wide plan consists of 49 sub-plans, 
each organized by a University unit 
of administration, academics or 
athletics.

Among 
the 
plan’s 
various 

initiatives are Wolverine Pathways 
and the HAIL Program, which 
aim to increase minority student 

enrollment 
and 
socioeconomic 

diversity, as well as a diversity-
related 
training 
program 
for 

faculty and staff. It also includes a 
strategy to offer financial support to 
departments that conduct diversity-
related 
research. 
Construction 

of the new Trotter Multicultural 
Center closer to central campus is 

JENNIFER MEER
Daily Staff Reporter

See SCHOLARSHIP, Page 3A

Alum wins 
prestigious 
Cambridge 
scholarship 
 

ACADEMICS

Scholar Anna Forringer-
Beal to pursue Master’s 
degree in gender studies

MAYA GOLDMAN

Daily Staff Reporter

CAROLYN GEARIG/Daily

Jessica Prozinski, the founder of Stop Trump Ann Arbor, speaks to dozens of pro-choice and pro-life activists in front 
of Planned Parenthood on Saturday morning.

Over 400 pro-choice activists counter
rally to “Defund Planned Parenthood” 

Opposing viewpoints expressed at local, nationwide Planned Parenthood demonstrations

DYLAN LACROIX

For the Daily

In full bloom

The Michigan men’s 

basketball team traveled to 

Bloomington and notched its 
first road win of the season, 
leaving Assembly Hall with 

a victory for the first time 

since 2009. » Page 1B

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See PROTEST, Page 3A

See DEI, Page 3A

Susan Taylor, former editor-

in-chief of Essence magazine and 
founder and CEO of the National 
CARES 
Mentoring 
Movement 

— a movement aiming to reduce 
the cycle of intergenerational 
poverty among African Americans 
— delivered a keynote speech 
about finding one’s purpose to 
approximately 100 people in the 
Ross School of Business Robertson 
Auditorium Friday night. The 
speech was a part of the kick-off 
even of the 41st annual Alfred 
L. Edwards conference, hosted 
and organized by the Ross Black 
Business Students Association.

The 
Ross 
Black 
Business 

Students Association, one of the 
largest professional student-led 
organizations in the Business 
School, 
is 
devoted 
to 
the 

recruitment of undergraduate and 
graduate Black business students 
and the professional and academic 
development of its members. The 
association does this through 
program 
initiatives 
focused 

on professional and academic 
development events throughout 
the academic year. 

See EIC, Page 3A

Importance 
of purpose 
stressed at 
conference

BUSINESS 

Susan Taylor, CEO of 
CARES Mentoring 
Movement, speaks to 100

DYLAN LACROIX

For the Daily