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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Tift Merritt
WHAT: Songwriter Tift Merritt
performs a concert featuring her
new music, which is known as
distaff country soul.
WHO: The Ark
WHEN: 8 p.m.
WHERE: 316 S. Main St.
Party for the Planet
WHAT: The dining halls will serve
a selection of earth-friendly foods
as they celebrate Earth Day.
WHO: Michigan Dining
WHEN: 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: All University dining
halls
Kate Anderson Brower
WHAT: Author of the book
“The Residence,” Kate Anderson
Brower will talk about modern
power brokers of the White House
staff from the past.
WHO: Gerald R. Ford Presidential
Library
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Gerald Ford Library
Social Area Brown Bag
WHAT: Graduate Students
Yuyan Han and Zachary
Reese present on the influence
of guessing and the social
comparison in romantic
relationships.
WHO: Social Psychology
WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m.
WHERE: East Hall, Room 4464
Buromoscow
WHAT: Two lectures on
Russian Architecture, Design
and Urbanism will explore
vast changes in Russian urban
planning.
WHO: School of Art & Design
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Art & Amp
Architecture Building, Room 2104
Women,
Entrepreneurship
Conference
WHAT: A conference with
female innovators showcasing
the potential of women as
enforcers of social change.
WHO: Center for
Entrepreneurship
WHEN: 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan League,
Ballroom
Entrepreneurial Oscars
WHAT: The 3rd annual
entrepreneurial Oscars will
showcase and recognize
innovative efforts in the
community and host
performances.
WHO: MPowered
Entrepreneurship
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham Auditorium
Tunde Olaniran
WHAT: New Beat Happening
presents Tunde Olaniran and
Asante, performing their R&B
hits. Cost is $5 for students with
Mcards.
WHO: Center for Campus
Involvement
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan League,
Ballroom
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A study by researchers at
Oxford University in London
found Twitter feeds in the state
of Michigan were filled with
fake or untrustworthy news
accounts before and after the 2016
presidential election.
The researchers stated that
between Nov. 1 and Nov. 11,
fake news was as common as
professional news content shared
on Twitter feeds. A total of 46.5
percent of the content appearing
in Michigan as political news was
“of an untrustworthy provenance
or falls under the definition of
propaganda based on its use of
language and emotional appeals,”
according to the study.
“The proportion of
professional news content being
shared hit its lowest point the day
before the election,” the paper
reads.
President Donald Trump
won Michigan’s electoral votes
by a margin of 10,704 votes
over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
According to the study, the “junk
news” also appeared in several
battleground states, including
Wisconsin. Whether they had
any influence on the results in
unknown.
The study included 138,686
tweets from accounts claiming
to be “Michigan users,” with
more than twice as many tweets
featuring pro-Trump hashtags
as pro-Clinton ones. Researchers
admitted one limitation of the
study was its inability to use
tweets without pro-Trump or
Clinton hashtags.
Though U.S. intelligence
officials state election results
were not hacked by Russian
Intelligence, the ranking members
of the Senate Intelligence
Committee said Russia might have
used “internet trolls” to put out
alleged fake news in Michigan and
other swing states.
“It’s been reported to me
— and we’ve got to find this
out — whether they were able to
in effect (target) specific areas
in Wisconsin, Michigan and
Pennsylvania,” U.S. Sen. Mark
Warner (D–Va.) told The Detroit
News.
Schools like the University of
Michigan are taking measures to
spread awareness of fake news
in the media. In fall 2017, a one-
credit class titled “Fake News,
Lies, and Propaganda: How to Sort
Fact from Fiction” will be offered
to undergraduate students, aiming
to dispel biases about the news
and teaching students how to look
at media with a more critical eye.
ON THE DAILY: FAKE NEWS TRAVELS FAST, TWITTER STUDY FINDS
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Journalist Jon Cohen talks about his investigation into the AIDS epidemic in the United
States and Africa at the League on Tuesday.
RE AL NEWS
Central
Student
Government’s new president
and vice president, LSA junior
Anushka Sarkar and Public
Policy junior Nadine Jawad,
were sworn in Tuesday night
for their first meeting.
“I
couldn’t
believe
the
overwhelming victory, to see
all of our (representatives)
elected,
to
be
the
first
woman of color ever elected
to this position, and just
the
overwhelming
amount
of support we got from the
community,” Jawad said on
the night of their win. “We just
made history.”
eMerge ran on a platform
of raising student voices on
campus
with
a
campaign
standing
on
three
pillars
of
voice,
opportunity
and
momentum.
Such
plans
include
advocating
the
reduction
of the number of exams a
student can take on a day
from four to three as well
as the expansion of in-state
tuition from undocumented
undergraduates
to
include
undocumented graduate and
nontraditional students.
The committee, also sworn
in, mostly comprises eMerge
candidates.
Representatives
such as LSA sophomore Ali
Rosenblatt believe they were
a split between experienced
representatives and CSG first-
timers.
“I think there is a good
amount of new reps — that
is ultimately why I wanted
to run as speaker, to help
with the transition because
(when) I was a new rep, it was
overwhelming,” she said.
She hopes to explain the
more complicated aspects of
CSG to new representatives
like LSA freshman Marianne
Drysdale.
“It is very overwhelming
at first and I kind of have my
footing coming off being a
fresh new rep, I hope that I can
bring some new insight to kind
of hit the ground running,”
Drysdale said.
LSA
sophomore
Seth
Schostak is also an experienced
CSG member who is now
serving as the chair of the
communications committee.
“I am definitely excited,” he
said. “One of my goals for next
year is to really increase the
transparency
between
CSG
and the student body. I think
we have already been working
on that a lot this past year and
I think given past experience
and
having
(first-time
CSG representatives like)
Marianne on board able to
reach that goal.”
One
resolution
was
discussed at the meeting.
While it has not yet been
passed, it aimed to approve
the
funds
to
provide
phone-charging stations in
the Shapiro Undergraduate
Library on Central Campus
and the Duderstadt Center
on North Campus. This
resolution is left over from
former
CSG
President
David Shafer’s old funds
for
chargers
in
the
Fishbowl and Duderstadt
Center. One of the reasons
to provide the chargers is
to protect students from
walking home alone at
night with a dead phone.
The
assembly
hopes
to allocate $150 for 15
chargers.
The
resolution
was
sent to the Resolutions
Committee
for
further
reads.
Central Student Government’s new
assembly officially takes office
Representatives make plans to connect with student body for the next semester
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