With just hours remaining
before polls opened for the
2017-18
Central
Student
Government
elections
Tuesday
evening,
Public
Policy junior Nadine Jawad,
the eMerge vice-presidential
candidate
who
currently
serves
as
an
executive
policy adviser, made a final
proposal
to
the
current
assembly. Jawad introduced
a
resolution
encouraging
University
of
Michigan
Housing to integrate voter
registration
into
required
first-year student events, an
idea outlined in the party’s
platform.
The resolution, citing a
study that found fewer than
half of University students
voted
in
2012
and
2014,
states that since all first-
year students are required
to attend various Welcome
Week events organized by
University
Housing,
they
should also integrate voter
registration into transitional
activities.
After six months of meeting
with the administration and
the
University’s
Residence
Hall
Association,
Jawad
tabled a discussion wherein
she
argued
incorporating
voter
registration
into
required University Housing
activities makes the most
sense.
“We think that if we can
get
freshman
when
they
first come here who haven’t
registered to vote yet to
register, we’ll make it easy
through the first meeting,”
Jawad said.
Upon meeting with RHA
and LSA student government,
Jawad
agreed
with
suggestions that the initiative
must be a collaborative effort
between
all
organizations
involved with required first-
year student events.
RHA
President
Sujay
Shetty, an LSA sophomore,
endorsed the resolution, and
placed it on the agenda for
the next two RHA Executive
Board Meeting agendas.
“I thought it was a great
idea,” Shetty said. “I couldn’t
find any factors which would
make it so it shouldn’t be
passed.”
During
her
presentation
to
the
assembly,
Jawad
argued the most effective
way
to
integrate
voter
registration into the first-
year events would be through
incorporating
it
into
RA
training each year.
Karthik
Duraisamy,
an
assistant
professor
in
the
Aerospace
Engineering
Department and his team
received a grant from the
U.S.
Air
Force
Research
Laboratories and the Air Force
Office of Scientific Research
to investigate computational
simulations related to rocket
engine safety. The team was
considered an underdog in the
field but beat out competition
from the Georgia Institute
of Technology and Stanford
University for the $4.2 million
grant.
Duraisamy said the problem
his team hopes to solve for
the Air Force is designing
systems
to
make
rocket
takeoff safer. He emphasized
that his team members are not
rocket builders — that they
are just refining a computer
simulation that helps catalyze
the design cycle.
“Instead
of
designing,
building, testing, blowing up
and going back to the drawing
board, what we want to do is
run simulations of it virtually
on
computers,”
Duraisamy
said.
His
project
focuses
on
streamlining
the
process
using computers rather than
overhauling
rocketry
in
general.
John
Dudley
Hutson,
a
former U.S. Navy officer and
judge
advocate
general
of
the Navy, joined author and
former Marine Phil Klay as
well as former Army officer Ian
Fishback Wednesday evening
on a panel in the Ford School of
Public Policy. The panel, part of
Ford’s Policy Talk series, aimed
to confront ambiguities created
by the intersection of national
security and human rights. The
discussion was moderated by
Hardy Vieux, the legal director
at Human Rights First and the
Ford School Towsley Foundation
policymaker in residence.
Vieux
directed
his
first
question at Hutson, asking if the
perception of human rights and
national security as incompatible
spheres still exists today. Hutson
argued the two do not conflict,
and instead, human rights form
the basis for national security —
especially in regard to the war on
terror.
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Researchers
receive funds
for rocket
development
Investigative journalists discuss
privacy concerns in 21st century
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Knight-Wallace journalists Bastian Obermayer and Laurent Richard discuss security concerns related to investigative journalism in the League on Wednesday.
RESEARCH
Aerospace prof. given $4.2 million
grant from United States Air Force
AARON DALAL
Daily Staff Reporter
Panama Papers’ Bastian Obermeyer, Laurent Richard present as part of Dissonance Series
Two Knight-Wallace Fellows,
Bastian Obermayer and Laurent
Richard, presented Wednesday
evening on a panel titled “Privacy
and
Security
Challenges
in
Investigative Journalism.” Law
Prof. Gautam Hans facilitated
the event, which was part of the
Dissonance speaker series.
Obermayer and Richard were
part of the team of journalists that
published the Panama Papers, a
leak of 11.5 million documents that
belonged to the law firm Mossack
Fonseca.
These
documents
detailed how more than 200,000
offshore entities served as shell
corporations for uses such as tax
evasion, fraud and other illegal
purposes, with links to dozens of
world leaders.
The
panelists
discussed
keeping
sensitive
information
from being disclosed and how to
contact sources while maintaining
their safety as journalists and the
safety of the sources.
“The question of the privacy
and the safety of the sources or
the journalists have been always
in the history of journalism very
central,” Richard said.
COLIN BERESFORD
Daily Staff Reporter
Ford panel
talks rights,
concerns of
ambiguity
CAMPUS LIFE
Policy conversation reviews
intersection of human
rights and military life
NICOLE TSUNO
For the Daily
JOSHUA HAN/Daily
Public Policy junior Nadine Jawad, vice-presidential candidate for CSG, debates campus issues in the Student Pulica-
tions Building on Monday.
CSG deliberates on proposal aimed
at boosting freshmen voter registration
Hours before polls open, eMerge candidate presents resolution with University housing
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