In an effort to continue the 

building of Flint following 
its declaration of a state 
emergency 
in 
2015, 
Gov. 

Rick Snyder’s recommended 
budgetfor 
the 
2018 
fiscal 

year allocated funds toward 
multiple 
programs 
and 

initiatives within the city. The 
budget will run from Oct. 1, 
2017, to Sept. 30, 2018.

To offset the thousands 

affected by lead contamination, 
about $49 million has been 
promised to be allocated for 
Flint in the proposal. Since 
the state of emergency was 
declared, 2015 a total of $234 
million in aid has been sent 
the city. However, Rep. Dan 
Kildee (D–Flint) said while 
this continued funding is a 
step in the right direction, it is 
not a complete solution.

“The state of Michigan is 

responsible for what happened 
in Flint and we need their 
long-term 
commitment,” 

Kildee said. “They spend some 
money and treat it as if they 
have solved the problem. The 
real question is whether it’s 
enough, and so far it’s not.”

In order to support the 

drinking 
water 
declaration 

of emergency in Flint, $25 
million of the total $49 million 
has been allocated to address 
the emergency state. If the 
proposal receives legislative 
approval, the funding will be 

available to Flint residents 
as needed. Though this state 
funding is appreciated and 
necessary, 
state 
Sen. 
Jim 

Ananich (D–Flint) noted the 
programs that have appeared 
more successful have been 
community efforts and ideas.

“There’s been a number 

positive solutions that the 
community helped develop,” 
Ananich said. “Lansing caused 
the problem, and I think they 

need to let Flint come up with 
the proper solutions.” 

Though 
Kildee 

acknowledged Flint has an 
inevitably 
slow 
recovery 

ahead, 
largely 
because 
of 

the long-term effects of lead 
poisoning, the state needs to 
expedite the recovery process 
as much as possible.

“All of the improvements 

that have taken place are good 
but are too slow,” Kildee said. 

“The state does not have a 
sense of urgency — the most 
positive thing about Flint is 
that the people of Flint haven’t 
given up.”

Ananich also mentioned the 

long-term nature of the water 
crisis and the problems that 
causes for both the people and 
the budget.

While women are rising to 

equality in most fields, a seminar 
hosted 
by 
Central 
Student 

Government 
Wednesday 

evening 
discussed 
the 
fact 

that women remain a distinct 
minority within technology and 
the sciences.

LSA junior Olivia Luciani, 

one of two event organizers, 
alongside Engineering freshman 
Julia 
O’Sullivan, 
expressed 

the importance of this topic 
and why she was inspired to 
coordinate the event.

“Visibility 
of 
women 
in 

technology 
and 
dialogues 

around diversity in computer 
science are both very important, 
at Michigan and nationwide,” 
Luciani said. “Women have 
made huge strides in tech 
industries over the past 50 years, 
but there are still perceptions 
some hold that pose unique 
challenges to women and may 
stand in the way of true gender 
parity in the workplace.”

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CSG hosts 
dialogue
for women 
in tech, CS

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Student, faculty share 
their experiences in math, 
science related fields

KATHERINA SOURINE

For The Daily

DESIGN BY JULIA MARGALIT

Snyder releases latest budget proposal, 
$49 million promised in aid to Flint

State representatives see funds as a step in the right direction, not a fix-all 

CARLY RYAN

Daily Staff Reporter

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Keysha Wall and Lauren Kay, 

if elected in the upcoming Central 
Student 
Government 
elections, 

hope to use their positions to amplify 
the voices of minority students 
on campus to the University of 
Michigan administration. Wall, an 
Art & Design senior, and Kay, an LSA 
senior, are running for president and 
vice president, respectively, with the 
Defend Affirmative Action Party, 
the University’s longest-standing 
student political party.

Though the party has not won 

the executive ticket in recent 
years, 
DAAP’s 
preliminary 

platform consists of a long list of 
policies focusing on issues such as 
minority enrollment, expanding 
rights for undocumented students 
and other marginalized groups 
on campus, and mental health, 
among others.

DAAP is the political arm of the 

larger local group BAMN, which 
fights for affirmative action, 
integration 
and 
immigration 

rights. 

DAAP aims 
to focus on 
minority 
students

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Keshya Wall, Lauren 
Key highlight Central 
Student Gov. campaign

CAITLIN REEDY
Daily Staff Reporter

Though several institutions 

and officials serve as agents 
in supporting the community 
of people with disabilities on 
campus at the University of 
Michigan, those in it still face 
daily hurdles. Many resources, 
students object, fall short of 
inclusion. Furthermore, much 
of 
the 
conversation 
around 

marginalization — students and 
staff agree — fails to consider the 
experiences of individuals with 
disabilities.

The perks and pitfalls of 

registration

Services for Students with 

Disabilities is the University’s 
central 
office 
with 
which 

students who have disabilities 
can register. It helps provide 
accommodations and access for 
students academically and in 
other capacities on campus.

The office’s annual report 

from the 2015-16 school year 
shows 
a 
record 
832 
newly 

registered students — more than 

100 students higher than the 
previous year — and an overall 
registration of 2,277 students. Of 
students registered with SSD, 40 
percent have learning disabilities, 
26 percent have mental-health 
conditions and 15 percent have 
chronic-health conditions.

The 
office’s 
primary 
role, 

once students register, is to 
provide students with a Verified 
Individualized 
Services 
and 

Accommodations 
letter 
to 

compensate 
for 
a 
student’s 

disability. Students then provide 
these letters to professors — 
generally early on in the school 
year — so accommodations can be 
made for them in terms of testing, 
absences and other portions of the 
class. 

However, according to SSD 

Director Stuart Segal, the office 
can only go so far in terms of 
assisting students.

“We don’t have the ability to 

make any fundamental alterations 
in a classroom, a curriculum, or a 
program of study that leads to 
certification or licensing,” he said. 
“Students have to be able to do 

Students with 
disabilities 

criticize 

barriers at ‘U’

400 community members protest 
Trump automotive rally in Ypsilanti

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Protestors gather in response to President Trump’s visit in Ypsilanti, Michigan on Wednesday afternoon.

ADMINISTRATION

Say community is overlooked in policies, 
Schlissel DEI plan, building accessibility

JENNIFER MEER
Daily Staff Reporter

Administration announces plans to roll back emissions standards, cut EPA funding

As wind speeds surged and 

temperatures 
plummeted 

Wednesday afternoon, activists 
gathered near the Willow Run 
manufacturing 
complex 
in 

Ypsilanti to protest President 
Donald Trump’s arrival and 
speech in the city.

With just two days’ notice of 

the presidential visit, several 
grassroots organizations from 
the community organized the 

protest. Despite the lack of time 
available, they still managed 
to draw a crowd of about 400 
people.

Michelle Deatrick, vice chair 

of 
the 
Washtenaw 
County 

Board of Commissioners and 
co-founder 
of 
Michigan 
to 

Believe In, stressed the event 
was a collaboration between 
many groups.

“I had the honor of getting to 

help organize, along with a lot 
of other people,” she said. “It 
shouldn’t be just one voice, not 
just my organization, Michigan 

to Believe In, it needs to be many 
… it couldn’t just be one middle-
aged white woman’s voice

Trump arrived at Willow 

Run — the future site for the 
American Center for Mobility’s 
autonomous 
and 
connected 

vehicle-testing facility — to hold 
a roundtable with executives 
from the automotive industry 
and speak to select employees. 
During 
the 
speech, 
he 

announced plans to review the 
EPA’s auto-emissions standards, 
and roll back restrictions he 
deems unnecessary.

The Michigan Daily was not 

granted credentials to Trump’s 
speech.

The protest took place on 

one side of Airplane Road, 
just outside the Willow Run 
facilities. On the other side 
of the road stood a handful of 
Trump supporters, who came to 
counter the protest with a large 
float sporting Trump signs and 
American flags. 

MAYA GOLDMAN

Daily Staff Reporter

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