After
President
Donald
Trump
signed
an
executive
order last week to reverse carbon
emission regulations on coal-
fired power plants enacted by
former President Barack Obama,
members of the University of
Michigan community reacted, on
the whole, with criticism.
University spokesman Rick
Fitzgerald said University leaders
are working to understand the
full implications of Trump’s order,
and are still working toward a 25
percent decrease in greenhouse
emissions.
“As we work to understand
the implications of the executive
order, sustainability remains an
important topic for our university
community,”
Fitzgerald
said.
“We’ve invested significantly in
this area, and are in the process
of implementing key efforts to
increase progress toward our goal
to reduce carbon emissions by 25
percent by the year 2025.”
Engineering
Prof.
Richard
Rood teaches a class on climate
change, and said he considers the
regulation rollback to be harmful
and will degrade progress made
to reduce carbon emissions under
Obama.
“Many climate scientists find it
hurtful and also a very backward
stepping political position,” Rood
said.
Rood
said
he
considers
Trump’s actions to be a strong
political statement to the coal
industry, but said he ultimately
believes the bringing back coal
jobs — one of Trump’s campaign
promises — will not happen
because of the economy moving
toward alternate forms of energy.
“From my point of view, its
position that it will reinstate coal
jobs is not something that’s going
to happen, that’s driven more by
economics,” Rood said. “In that
regard, I think it (the executive
order) is hollow.”
Ross also said he believes
Obama’s
executive
orders
accelerated the development of
renewable energy sources, but
the United States could now be
at a disadvantage with Trump’s
reversal of the order.
“I think what it does is it takes
Chants of “Free the Weed!”
could be heard and cannabis
flags were raised high on the
Diag on Saturday afternoon
as an estimated 6,000 people
gathered to participate in the
46th annual Hash Bash. Leading
activists, medical researchers,
community leaders and citizens
spoke on behalf of the support
and legalization of marijuana
consumption, followed by live
music.
One
of
the
speakers
at
the
event
was
30-year-old
Zahra Abbas, a University of
Michigan-Dearborn
student
who, after being prescribed
medical
marijuana
for
her
severe
epilepsy,
has
been
seizure free for almost two
years. Abbas left the University
three years ago because of her
medical condition, but said she
was able to return to her studies
this past fall because of medical
marijuana.
“I was never seizure free
without the cannabis,” Abbas
said. “The most I made it
seizure free before was three
months and that was right after
brain surgery. Without brain
surgery, I would only make it
a week or something at a time,
and that would be a good week,
but on the 13th, it’ll be two years
seizure free.”
Abbas said, as a student,
she has been met with an
overwhelming
amount
of
support
from
faculty
and
students who support the use of
medical marijuana.
“I even had one teacher that,
he was really happy about it,”
she said. “He was a psychology
teacher and his wife used it.”
Richie
“Free
the
Weed”
Clement, the legislative assistant
to Detroit City Councilmember
George Cushingberry Jr. (D–
District 2), spoke at the event,
urging
people
to
vote
for
representatives who support the
legalization of recreational and
medical marijuana usage.
“If you don’t support weed,
you’re not the one we need!”
Clement chanted.
Clement
discussed
the
significant
amount
of
misunderstanding
he
feels
surrounds the plant and the
implications of its consumption.
“F—k the box, think outside
the box,” Clement said. “It’s
time that people wake up and
put to rest all the lies that’ve
been told about the plant, it’s
time to get away from this 1939
bullshit mentality.”
Jerry Spencer, director of
Great Lakes Bay Region of the
National Organization for the
Reform of Marijuana Laws, an
organization
that
advocates
the legal use of marijuana,
A wide variety of visual and
written art created to highlight
gender-
and
sexuality-based
violence
were
displayed
in
West Quad Residence Hall as
hundreds of students walked by
Friday evening.
The
Networking,
Publicity
and Activism Program housed
within
the
Sexual
Assault
Prevention
and
Awareness
Center organized this event,
called “rEVOLUTION: Making
Art for Change,” which aimed
to promote stories of survivors
and educate observers on gender,
sexism
and
empowerment.
This is the 12th year SAPAC has
hosted the show.
Along with multiple rooms
containing student submissions,
a separate area was devoted to
SAPAC resources encouraging
participants to pursue healthy
relationships and reach out if
necessary.
LSA senior Alyssa Dunbeck
and
LSA
junior
Srinidhi
Subramanian
served
as
coordinators of the event.
“We hope that this event
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A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
SPORTS..........B-SECTION
‘U’ admin.
denounce
new climate
change order
See CLIMATE, Page 3A
GOVERNMENT
Students express uncertainty over effects
of Trump’s reversal of Obama progress
CALEB CHADWELL
Daily Staff Reporter
DETROIT — For the seniors,
for a banner and to prove the
NCAA
selection
committee
wrong — these three reasons
urged the Michigan women’s
basketball team forward during
its postseason appearances.
It’s for those three reasons
that the Wolverines, led by
Michigan coach Kim Barnes
Arico, battled Kent State, Wright
State, St. John’s, Virginia Tech
and Villanova to get to Saturday’s
contest against Georgia Tech.
And, most importantly, it’s
for those three reasons that
Michigan is going to get to hang
its first banner in Crisler Center,
after
defeating
the
Yellow
Jackets in triple overtime, 89-79.
It was the first time in history
that a WNIT final went into
even a single overtime.
“Our mood was ‘We have
another quarter,’ ” said senior
guard Siera Thompson. “They
keep giving us another chance
to win this game and we never
had any doubt in our mind. We
kept fighting, we came this far,
and we weren’t gonna lose this
game.”
The Wolverines (28-9 overall)
hosted Georgia Tech (22-15)
at Detroit Mercy in Calihan
Hall on Saturday. The last
time Michigan and the Yellow
Jackets met was on Dec. 1 for the
Big Ten/ACC Challenge, where
the Wolverines broke away with
a 92-52 victory. But, like Barnes
Arico warned after the Villanova
game on March 29, this would be
a completely different team.
With nine seconds left in
the game, the Wolverines were
down by three. Junior guard
Katelynn Flaherty, though, had
the ball, took a deep three and
made the shot. It was tied at 67
with 9.6 seconds left.
“I took the shot,” Flaherty
said. “I knew we didn’t have
much time left. I figured it was
the best shot to take and it just
happened to go in.”
Georgia Tech still had a
chance to claim victory, and with
0.6 seconds left in the game, a
foul was called on Michigan. An
excruciating minute later —in
which the referees reviewed the
play — it became clear that the
game was going to be decided
by a pair of free throws. But
the
Yellow
Jackets
couldn’t
capitalize and went 0-for-2,
sending the game to its first
overtime.
Five minutes were put on the
clock, and sophomore center
Hallie Thome beat out Georgia
Tech’s center in the tip-off,
leading to a personal layup not
long after. Williams then went
1-for-2 on free throws, pushing
Michigan ahead, 70-67.
With a minute to go, the
Yellow Jackets hit their own
three. Again, the game was
tied. Thompson took the ball
downcourt, and a timeout was
called with 10.9 seconds left to
go, but Michigan couldn’t put
the game to bed.
The Wolverines went into
their second overtime. It was
76-74 with 14.1 on the clock,
and a Georgia Tech player broke
away for a layup, leaving senior
guard Danielle Williams on the
floor and the Wolverines with
possession. Michigan couldn’t
take the game, though, and —
once again — it was pushed into
its third overtime.
This time, sophomore guard
Jillian
Dunston
predicted
her team would win by 10 — a
prediction that pushed the team
through.
“We
knew
this
was
it,”
Flaherty
said.
“We
were
running out of gas. We knew
they were tired. We just pushed
through.
(Dunston
said
it)
at the beginning of the third
overtime. It happened, and we
just believed her.”
After four points by Thome
and two apiece for Flaherty
and Munger, the game had
19.5 seconds left and Michigan
was sitting with a 10-point
advantage.
Barnes Arico threw a thumbs
up to the crowd, the clock
wound down and Michigan had
a championship victory on its
resume.
See ART, Page 3A
Student-led
display hall
showcases
poetry, art
CAMPUS LIFE
SAPAC event highlights
gender- and sexuality-
based violence, assault
ARIELLA MELTZER
For the Daily
ROBERT BUECHLER/Daily
Safer Michigan Coalition co-founder Chuck Ream speaks in front of a large crowd at Hash Bash in the Diag on Satur-
day.
Over 6,000 attend annual Hash Bash,
advocate for legalization of marijuana
Attendees urged to vote for, support recreational, medical marijuana legislation
DYLAN LACROIX &
AARON DALAL
Daily Staff Reporters
michigandaily.com
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See BASH, Page 3A
See WNIT, Page 3
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell
(D–Mich.)
and
Val
Boreland,
executive vice president of Content
Strategy
for
NBC
Universal,
spoke on gender disparities in the
workplace and the importance of
mentorship in instilling confidence
in young leaders at the Lean
In Leadership Summit at the
University of Michigan this past
weekend.
Alongside the two keynote
speakers, the summit featured
an interactive panel as well as
breakout discussion groups, where
conversations
revolved
around
various methods for students to
assert themselves and gain valuable
advice from mentors around them.
LSA junior Natalie Andrasko,
co-director of Internal Operations
for the conference, highlighted the
importance of the summit in terms
of fostering dialogue about gender
in the workplace.
“I think there’s a big problem
where there’s a lot of career
resources on campus, but it’s hard
to start a dialogue about issues
facing women, especially at our
age when we’re just entering the
See SUMMIT, Page 3A
Leadership
forum aims
to support
mentorship
CAMPUS LIFE
Summit draws Debbie
Dingell, Val Boreland for
female empowerment
RHEA CHEETI
Daily Staff Reporter
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Michigan wins
first WNIT
championship
Michigan outlasts Georgia Tech in triple overtime,
becomes WNIT champions
SYLVANNA GROSS
Daily Sports Editor