Jeremy Bassis, an assistant
professor of Climate and Space
Sciences
and
Engineering
currently
on
sabbatical
in
San Francisco, says he was
introduced to glaciology, the
focus of his research, by several
happy accidents.
As an undergraduate studying
physics at Pennsylvania State
University, he says he discovered
climate
and
environmental
research by walking into the
wrong classroom.
“Penn State is a big campus,
kind
of
like
University
of
Michigan; it’s kind of spread
out,” Bassis said. “The first day
of class, I was late for my class,
and I rushed in at the last minute.
And one of the few seats available
(in the classroom) was right at
the front kind of in the middle.
I kind of slinked into that seat
and slouched down a little bit.
Five or 10 minutes into the class,
I realized it was not the class I
intended to take.”
Bassis says the subject of the
class, weather and meteorology,
was not something he had
thought of before as a point of
interest. He approached the
professor to ask about research
opportunities
on
campus
in
relation to the subject, which he
later became involved in.
Bassis’s
research
as
an
undergrad led to his research
as a graduate student at Scripps
Institution
of
Oceanography
as part of the University of
California-San
Diego.
When
Bassis
arrived
on
campus,
however, the professor under
which Bassis wished to study
was on sabbatical. In order to
keep himself busy, Bassis began
to look for a research project
and was offered a research trip
to Antarctica to study glaciers,
Students were reminded of
their rights on Saturday in the
School of Social Work Building
was centered around personal
civil liberties and issues such as
rights for protestors, self-care and
bystander intervention for sexual
assault.
“Know
Our
Rights”
was
born out of an idea pioneered by
seven LSA students, who each
met with lawyers, professors
and community members over
the course of several weeks to
figure out what they, as students,
could do to make an impact at the
University of Michigan.
LSA senior ’Dolapo Adeniji,
one of the original organizers,
said the community emphasis
surrounding the event was core
to the mission of the organizers —
the education and empowerment
of others in an uncertain political
environment.
“It started as Know Your
Rights, but the more we talked
about it, we wanted it to be Know
Our Rights because it’s very
important that it is a community
type of thing going on here,”
Adeniji said. “It’s not only about
me knowing how to assert my
rights, but knowing how to assert
the rights of others.”
Students from all 19 colleges
at the University and Ann Arbor
community members were in
attendance. LSA sophomore Will
Krause said he attended because
Despite
being
outsiders
to
Central
Student
Government,
LSA juniors Evan Rosen and Dan
Sweeney are ready to make waves
on the University of Michigan
campus as elected leaders. Rosen
and Sweeney are running for
president
and
vice
president,
respectively, with Movement Party.
Rosen said he decided to run
in order to create a more united
campus.
“We’re very excited about trying
to effect positive change on this
campus,” Rosen said. “We have a
very detailed and diverse platform
that we’re excited to talk about and
a lot of people behind us who are
trying to make it happen.”
The
two
head
Movement,
one of the four parties running
in this year’s race. Movement’s
campaign is based on increasing
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Civil rights
discussed at
‘Know Our
Rights’ event
Freedom House, asylum-seeker
resource, to have budget slashed
DESIGN BY: MICHELLE PHILLIPS
CAMPUS LIFE
The series of workshops aimed to educate
students about their personal liberties
RACHEL LEVY
For the Daily
The DUUD will no longer provide funding for the organization starting March 31
Freedom House is the only
organization in the United States
that provides shelter, legal aid and
other
comprehensive
services
free of charge to asylum-seekers
and victims of human trafficking,
according to TJ Rogers, the Detroit
branch’s program manager. The
Detroit branch of the organization
was founded in 1983 with the
growing community of Salvadoran
asylum-seekers
escaping
persecution during the country’s
war.
Asylum-seekers are individuals
who are awaiting decisions on
international protections from a
foreign country, while potentially
recovering from fear of persecution
based on discrimination such as
political thought, religion, race or
sexual orientation. Refugees —
Rogers calls the label essentially an
umbrella term — are people who
fled a country due to persecution.
Upon entering the country, their
applications are considered to be
successful, while asylum-seekers
are still waiting on a response and
working with organizations such
as Freedom House in order to have
shelter in the meantime.
According to first-year Medical
student
Jack
Buchanan,
the
Freedom House liaison for the
NISA KHAN
Daily News Editor
See MOVEMENT, Page 3A
CSG Party
Movement
seeks unity
on campus
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
The president and vice-
president candidates
are outsiders to CSG
RHEA CHEETI
Daily Staff Reporter
MAX KUANG/Daily
Drew Schultz & The Broken Hearts perform at the UMMA After Hours event in the UMMA atrium on Friday.
University professor leads ice sheet
research for insight on climate change
Engineering professor Jeremy Bassis is doing his work on sabbatical in California
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To some, making the decision
to run for a Central Student
Government office without any
prior experience within University
of Michigan student governments
and without a campaign plan may
seem like a pretty big leap. But for
Engineering
sophomores
Alec
Beljanski and Nathan Minsk, this
sort of feat is something they look
forward to.
Beljanski, running for CSG
president, and Minsk, running
for
vice
president,
comprise
Better Than The Rest Party, a
party looking to provide students
with an outsider perspective to
CSG. Hoping to serve students as
representatives who understand
the distance some may feel from
student government, they look to
create a distinct platform between
those who are heavily involved
See BETTER, Page 3A
Candidates
for student
gov. body to
take leap
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
“Better Than the Rest”
look to provide different
view on administration
JORDYN BAKER
Daily Staff Reporter
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
See ICE, Page 3A
See RIGHTS, Page 3A
See FREEDOM, Page 3A
B1G WIN
‘M’ wins four straight games
for Big Ten tourney title
see Sports Monday insert