The University of Michigan
Senate Assembly gathered on
Monday to elect three new
representatives to the Senate
Advisory
Committee
on
University Affairs and further
discuss its official statement
regarding
the
University’s
views
on
transgender
bathroom policies.
The meeting began with a
presentation of the resolution
SACUA drafted earlier this
month that states all members
of the campus community
should have the right to use
the bathroom that matches
their gender identity.
The Assembly was given
the opportunity to discuss,
amend and vote on whether
they wanted to support the
resolution.
Assembly members brought
up several changes they’d
like to see made, such as a
statement about visitors, and
others wanted to broaden the
language of the resolution.
Engineering
Prof.
Doug
Noll spoke up, stating he
was
uncertain
about
the
explicit promotion of safe
spaces in the statement’s first
sentence, which states: “The
University faculty governance
is committed to working to
create a safe and inclusive
space for all people. We
support a policy that allows
all members of our campus
to use bathrooms consistent
with their gender identity.”
“I’m
a
little
concerned
about the first sentence,” Noll
said. “You might read that
to say that we’re endorsing
safe spaces generically, and
I’m not sure I would be in
favor of creating safe spaces
where you can’t have robust
discussions.”
Further
discussion
led
to the Assembly to remove
the entire first sentence of
the resolution, leaving them
with a statement solely about
bathrooms.
The amended version of
the resolution read: “The
University faculty governance
supports a policy that allows
all members and visitors to
our campus to use bathrooms
consistent with their gender
identity.”
It passed unanimously.
The Assembly then moved
into elections of the next
SACUA representatives. LSA
Prof. Silke-Maria Weineck,
LSA Prof. John Lehman and
Pharmacy Prof. David Smith
will all end their terms as
SACUA representatives this
April. Six faculty members
were nominated from the
Assembly to fill their seats,
and three were elected.
Thirteen
candidates
and
a
presidential and vice presidential
nominee presented their platforms
and answered questions from
constituents at the University
of
Michigan
LSA
Student
Government Candidates’ Forum
on Monday night in the Michigan
League.
The
candidates
addressed
topics ranging from increasing
student involvement in campus
organizations to improving the
political
dialogue
on
campus.
The students gave speeches for 13
open representative seats, and one
presidential candidate and one vice
presidential candidate spoke about
their platforms to an audience of
about 20 people. Voting will take
place on Wednesday and Thursday.
A
common
theme
among
platforms
was
increased
communication between students
and administrators. LSA freshman
Kevan Casson, a candidate for
representative,
addressed
the
importance of making internship
and
employment
opportunities
more visible to students.
“We
need
to
increase
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Vol. CXXVII, No. 49
©2017 The Michigan Daily
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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 LSA, Page 3
Candidates
for LSA SG
summarize
platforms
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Central goals include more
involvement, furthering
communication on campus
ERIN DOHERTY
Daily Staff Reporter
MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
SACUA chair Bill Schultz leads discussion on a proposed resolution regarding University bathroom policy during the
Senate Assembly meeting at Palmer Commons on Monday.
Senate Assembly elects new SACUA
members, discuss bathroom policy
Assembly amends resolution to address transgender bathroom use on campus
MAYA GOLDMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
michigandaily.com
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See SENATE ASSEMBLY, Page 3
Ann
Arbor
City
Council
unanimously passed a resolution
Monday to oppose cuts to the
Department of Housing and
Urban Development, which were
released last week in President
Donald Trump’s administration
budget outline, obtained by the
Washington Post.
The new budget for 2018
includes over $6 billion in cuts to
HUD, stating that state and local
jurisdictions are better suited to
address their own needs. One of
the major missions of HUD, now
headed by Secretary Ben Carson,
is to provide affordable housing
for all residents of the United
States.
Councilmember
Chuck
Warpehoski (D–Ward 5) opposed
the cuts, saying the harm they
would do to the community
would be greater than the value
of the dollars saved.
“I have the privilege of serving
on the Urban County Steering
Committee for the City, and in
that role I see a couple things,”
he said. “One, I see how these
funds that are under attack are
See CITY, Page 3
A2 council
denounces
Trump’s
HUD cuts
ANN ARBOR
City approves resolution
to oppose President’s six
million dollar budget cuts
ANDREW HIYAMA
Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan
Museum of Natural History
announced plans last Friday
to close its Ruthven Museums
Building location. The building
will officially close on Dec.
31, 2017 and the museum will
permanently move to the new
Biological Sciences Building in
2018.
It was announced over two
years ago that the building
would close once the new
Biological Sciences Building was
finished across the street.
According to a University
press release, the museum will
incorporate the biological theme
of its new home into the exhibits
with a display on cells, genes
and molecules. Along with new
exhibits, the famous mastodon
couple
and
two
prehistoric
whales will be featured at the
entrance of the BSB.
Amy Harris, the director
of the Museum of Natural
History, said the move will be
a continuous process until the
final opening event in the fall of
2019.
“We’ll be opening in three
stages,” she said. “We’ll be
closing on New Year’s of this year
and then, while we’re closed to
the public, we’ll be moving all of
our specimens and our exhibits
and our people over to the new
building and getting settled
into our new work spaces. We
have an exhibit firm that we’ve
hired to help us develop, design,
fabricate and install the new
exhibits and they will be doing
that installation in batches.”
Harris said she has high
hopes for the museum after the
move and said the act of moving
buildings is not new to the
Natural History Museum.
“(The
Ruthven
Building)
is the third location of our
museum since it was founded in
1837 with the Cabinet of Natural
History,” she said. “Moving to
the Biological Sciences Building,
that’ll be our fourth move, so
Nat. history
museum to
move to new
science hall
Diversity, funding, sexual assault
topics of discussion at CSG debate
See MUSEUM, Page 3
JOSHUA HAN/Daily
2017 Central Student Government presidential and vice-presidential candidates debate campus issues and their platforms in the Student Publications Building on
Monday.
ADMINISTRATION
Artifacts will begin relocation to new
Biological Science Building Dec. 31
Movement, eMerge and DAAP discuss campaign platforms at Daily-hosted event
The Michigan Daily hosted
its
second
annual
University
of
Michigan
Central
Student
Government debate on Monday
night, with the president and
vice president candidates from
eMerge, Movement and the Defend
Affirmative Action Party fielding
questions from moderators and
online submissions. The fourth
party running, Better Than the
Rest, did not attend the debate due
to a scheduling conflict.
The parties began the debate
with overviews of their platforms,
highlighting the initiatives they felt
most strongly about.
DAAP’s presidential candidate
and vice presidential candidate
are Art & Design senior Keysha
Wall and LSA senior Lauren Kay,
respectively. Both Wall and Kay
stressed that their main focus
was empowering undocumented
students, with an emphasis on
ending the 28-month residency
within high school cutoff of in-state
tuition for these students.
Presidential candidate Anushka
Sarkar, LSA junior, and vice-
presidential
candidate
Nadine
Jawad, Public Policy junior —
who are running with eMerge —
maintained that the three pillars
of their campaign were voice,
opportunity and momentum. They
highlighted the importance of
building upon the momentum the
current CSG administration has
built with its recent initiatives, and
making CSG proceedings more
transparent.
LSA juniors Evan Rosen and
Dan Sweeney, who are running
for president and vice-president
the Movement party respectively,
responded to the recent video
controversy they were facing, before
Rosen departed for a hearing.
Issues of sexual misconduct,
CSG
experience
and
diversity
were frequently brought up during
the debate, with all six candidates
proposing various initiatives to
address these.
RHEA CHEETI
& NISA KHAN
Daily Staff Reporter &
Daily News Editor
See DEBATE, Page 3
MATT HARMON
& MAYA GOLDMAN
Daily Staff Reporters