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specifically cracks in the ice,
which led him to his current
research today.
He says he did not anticipate the
direction his study took him, as he
originally had anticipated that, as
a student of physics, he would “be
playing with lasers in a basement
somewhere.”
Bassis
continued
to
study
glaciers when he realized the
research he was doing — on
the ways global warming was
affecting
the
ice
sheets
in
Antarctica — would have a wide-
ranging impact.
“When I first started, we knew
about global warming,” he said.
“We were not quite sure how the
ice sheets were going to respond.
And the big debate was whether
or not we should even be worried
about the way in which the ice
sheets were going to respond
within the next century.”
Bassis studies the way in which
glaciers calve, or break apart.
Bassis’s research on the way
ancient glaciers affect sea level
change was recently published
in the research journal Nature
Geoscience. Bassis worked on
the study with Sierra Petersen, a
University of Michigan’s National
Science
Foundation
Ocean
Sciences postdoctoral fellow.
Bassis said during the beginning
of his career he “was at the right
place at the right time.” Certain
events, like the disintegration of a
particular ice sheet in Greenland
around 2002, triggered more
investigation in his field.
His research, looking at the
ways changes in glaciers affect the
rise in sea levels and how glaciers
are, in turn, affected by a changing
climate, portrays a drastically
different image of the originally
predicted numbers for sea level
change.
ICE
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with CSG and those who are not.
“I think that CSG does a lot
of things, but those who are not
involved in CSG are not so much
interested,” Minsk said. “Very few
things come across when they think
of CSG. They probably think of the
airBus, and then they probably also
think of these diversity events and
mental health events, those two
specifically because we get a lot of
emails about them.”
Knowing they serve as a party
with independence in its own
sense, their decision to run comes
with the hope to represent students
who also feel this separation from
CSG, but as a result, the two expect
to end up gaining more experience
with CSG in the process.
“We
wanted
to
see
this
experience,
we
wanted
to
especially since we have no
experience,” Minsk said. “I feel like
we’re kind of contrary to a lot of the
culture of the CSG elections.”
When it comes to campaigning,
the two will solely rely on the
name of the party itself.
Specifically, their hope is when
students scroll through CSG’s
website and browse through the
names of running parties, the
name Better Than The Rest will
stand apart from its opposing
groups and will garner interest
from potential voters.
In
a
discussion
of
these
opposing groups, they stated
they
feel
the
eMerge
and
Movementparties
bring
essentially the same things to
the table. On the contrary, they
said Better Than The Rest looks
to differentiate itself from these
parties, though Beljanki and
Minsk do agree with the policies
put forward by other parties.
BETTER
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he was looking to be more informed
given the increased amount of
political activism following the
inauguration of President Donald
Trump.
“I want to learn a bit more
knowledge about the rights of
various people,” Krause said. “There
are a lot of things like protestor
rights that are very specific, and
knowing more about that would be
very cool.”
Another
event
attendee,
Engineering
sophomore
Jovana
Paripovic,
echoed
Krause’s
sentiments
regarding
the
importance of being knowledgable
amid current political climate.
“I feel like we should all come
together because there are a lot of
controversial things going on out
there,” Paripovic said.
When asked about the racist
and
anti-Semitic
and
emails
sent out to computer science and
engineering students a few weeks
ago, Paripovic noted she believes
they
failed
to
create
racial
division on campus.
“If anything, I think it really
brought us closer together,” she
said. Paripovic also said the
positive response from students
on campus made her think, “I am
so lucky to be part of an inclusive
community.”
During
the
event,
the
organizers
announced
the
creation of the “I’ve Got Your
Back” campaign — an initiative
that aims to distribute pins with
different messages to spread
awareness about social justice
issues and inform others they are
allies.
“We wanted to do something
that you couldn’t just wear and get
away with not doing anything,”
Adeniji explained.
RIGHTS
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University of Michigan’s Asylum
Collaborative, many of the asylum-
seekers aided in Detroit are from
the West African region, with an
estimate of 90 percent coming
from
African
countries.
He
explained that, unlike refugees,
asylum-seekers are fleeing more
isolated
violence
than
active
conflict.
Because
of
the
lack
of
recognition by the United States
during this process, asylum-
seekers
cannot
receive
any
funding from the government.
“Without
Freedom
House,
individuals
would
be
in
emergency shelters,” Rogers said;
he explainined that getting an
apartment after a stay at a shelter
would be impossible without
being granted asylum by the
government.
“And
emergency
shelters typically have 90-day
maximum length of stay.”
A provider
From the linens on the mattress
to daily transportation to legal
aid, Freedom House provides
essentials and support for more
than 45 people every day of
the year, through cultural and
linguistic barriers. According to
the Freedom House website, in
2015, the organization helped 144
people, with 110 singles and 10
families.
“The ultimate goal of the
program is to help our residents
secure legal status and to have
the necessary skills, tips and tools
to be independent and stable and
self-sufficient when they exit our
program and enter permanent
housing,” Rogers said, adding the
average length of stay is a year to
a year and a half. The maximum
length of stay is, however, two
years.
The organization also has an
attorney on site, but also has a
partnership with the University
and its immigration law clinic.
Upon admission to the United
States, individuals have a year
to
submit
their
applications
for asylum. Working with the
legal team, the seekers usually
take six months to pull together
an
application
of
medical
records, evidence of injuries and
translation of documents.
Upon
submitting
the
application, seekers then receive a
receipt date with an alien number
and are granted three months
of residency from that date.
Despite having a year for asylum
status, the end of those three
months can leave individuals as
undocumented and at risk of being
detained by immigration. Rogers
said the receipt serves as proof
of an individual seeking safety
within the States. In six months
from receipt date, one can apply
for work authorization, leading
to greater chances of financial
independence.
“Without Freedom House,
they would be bouncing around
from
emergency
shelter
to
emergency
shelter,”
Rogers
said. “Which increases their
vulnerability, especially with
this
political
climate
and
these executive orders. The
vulnerability has the potential
to interact and come across
immigration
officials
and
that would certainly result in
detention and being deporting.
And most likely, if you are
deported, there is the case once
you land back home, you are
going to be killed.”
In fact, in all facets of Freedom
House’s work, the organization
has
strong
partnerships
with
other
organizations
throughout the state. From
Gleaner’s
Community
Food
Bank which provides meals and
nutrition lessons to ProsperUS
Detroit for entrepreneurship
courses,
Freedom
House
has a personalized schedule
of workshops and classes to
provide relief to its occupants.
Advanced French students
at the University can volunteer
at Freedom House with either
as a tutoring resident or by
translating documents for legal
aid.
FREEDOM
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