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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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