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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Social Change in North 
Korea

WHAT: Nonprofit director 
Andray Abrahamian will 
describe his experience with 
social policy in North Korea. 

WHO: Nam Center for Korean 
Studies

WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

WHERE: Michigan League, 
Henderson Room

Book Release Party

WHAT: Prof. Phoebe Gloeckner’s 
Graphic Narrative class celebrates 
its full-color publication featuring 
work by a number of Art & Design 
students. 

WHO: Stamps School of Art and 
Design

WHEN: Noon to 1:30 p.m.

WHERE: Art and Architecture 
Building

Green Opera Project

WHAT: The opera, titled “The 
Difficulty of Crossing a Field,” is 
a modern retelling of Ambrose 
Bierce’s play set in the Old South.

WHO: School of Music, Theatre 
& Dance

WHEN: 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Earl V. Moore 
Building, McIntosh Theatre

Holocaust 
Rememberance Vigil 

WHAT: By reading their names 
and meeting with survivors, the 
24-hour commemoration honors 
the 6 million Jews killed in the 
Holocaust.

WHO: Conference on the 
Holocaust

WHEN: 9 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.

WHERE: The Diag

South American 
Newspapers Lecture

WHAT: The 2017 Aiton Lecture 
in Latin American History will be 
delivered by Argentinian professor 
Lila Caimari on the effect of 
submarine cables on newspapers 
in South America. 
WHO: Department of History

WHEN: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

WHERE: Tisch Hall, Room 1014

National Grilled Cheese 
Day

WHAT: Celebrate the grilled 
cheese in all its greasy glory 
Wednesday at any dining hall on 
campus.

WHO: Michigan Dining

WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

WHERE: Dining halls

Sustainability Solutions

WHAT: Panelists from both the 
non-profit and for-profit sectors 
will lead a conversation on how 
large organizations push for 
sustainability.

WHO: Student Sustainability 
Initiative
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Rackham 
Amphitheater

Fracking and Water 
Policy
WHAT: Public policy, political 
science and engineering 
professors will discuss the 
intersection of energy and water 
research, and the future of 
sustainable policy. 
WHO: Center for Local, State, 
and Urban Policy

WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

WHERE: Weill Hall, Room 1110

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nation’s #robotics industry 
thanks to leadership in 
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A WHOLE day just for 
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flattered to have a small 
part of @UMich 33rd annual 
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You asked me what I got for 
the iclicker and then doubt 
my answer. So now you got 
it wrong. Sucks to doubt me. 
Oh

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@ItsTrippyTrav

this white girl in class next to 
me is home shopping. she fr 
viewing homes for $900k+

Chairs used in last week’s 

notable Stumbling Blocks exhibit on 

affirmative action will not be put to 

such symbolic use much longer. The 

University of Michigan Property 

Disposition Department announced 

Monday on Facebook that the 

University is currently selling the 

chairs to the public for $10 each.

The pop-up exhibit served as 

reminder of Proposal 2, the 2006 

constitutional amendment that 

banned on race- and gender-based 

affirmative action in the state, 

which the Supreme Court upheld 

in 2014. The 950 empty maize and 

blue chairs arranged on the Diag 

served to personify the number of 

underrepresented minority students 

who were unable to attend the 

University following the ban.

Presidential Bicentennial Prof. 

Martha Jones, who led the exhibit’s 

coordination, wrote in an email 

interview she was happy to see the 

chairs put to continued use.

“I am pleased that the chairs will 

have a life beyond the exhibition,” 

she wrote. “The rest will go out 

into the world and become part of 

other gatherings and conversations. 

Stumbling Blocks was always 

intended to be a pop-up experience, 

one that would further our best 

thinking about the future.”

Some students, however, called 

out what they perceived as irony in 

the chairs’ short-lived significance.

LSA senior David Song, a former 

Daily photographer, wrote in an 

email interview he was a bit taken 

aback by the speed of the process.

“It feels almost like a stab in the 

back to offer these “missing students 

after Proposal 2” chairs up for 

money,” he wrote. “I recognize that 

(the University) or whoever owns this 

property probably doesn’t have much 

use for it now, but the timing feels a 

little too soon.”

Special events manager Julie 

Ashley said Tuesday she hadn’t 

yet heard any student complaints. 

After offering the chairs to 

buildings and facilities managers, 

she said Property Disposition has 

been receiving marked interest in 

the chairs, which are emblazoned 

with the University’s bicentennial 

logo.

“We’ve gotten a lot of interest 

from employees for things like 

tailgates,” she said.

- KEVIN BIGLIN

ON THE DAILY: STUMBLING BLOCKS BACK IN THE HOT SEAT 

BRIAN KOSASIH/Daily

Matt Ladies, the treasurer of MUSIC Matters, talks about SpringFest at the CSG Chamber 
Meeting on Tuesday. 

L A ST CSG

After 
conducting 
three 

campus-wide 
surveys 
and 

analyzing 
the 
results, 
the 

Central Student Government 
Mental 
Health 
Taskforce 

released its 2017 official report 
and comprehensive summary 
of its findings.

The 
task 
force 
was 

commissioned in November 
of 2016 by LSA senior David 
Schafer, 
then-president 
of 

CSG, and consisted of three 
co-chairs and a board of 16 
members. Two of the surveys 
the 
task 
force 
released 

measured opinions on mental 
health in regard to classroom 
climate, while one focused on 
understanding 
campus-wide 

opinions on mental health 
resources.

More than 1,000 students 

responded to the surveys. The 

task force reported a majority 
of stress- and mental health-
related 
issues 
came 
from 

academic stress, anxiety and 
depression.

The results, which include 

feedback from students and 
faculty across all schools and 
colleges at the University of 
Michigan, found that while 
students are aware of the 
mental 
health 
resources 

available to them on campus, 
not all students find the 
resources easily accessible.

In an example given by 

the research, some students 
responded 
the 
long 
wait 

time for appointments and 
the limited hours at CAPS 
contributed to their inability 
to utilize these on-campus 
resources. Students living on 
North Campus also responded 
they feel it is much more 
difficult for them to seek 
mental health assistance, as 

they do not have equal access 
to the resources on Central 
Campus.

When it came to analyzing 

input from faculty, the results 
found 
that 
while 
faculty 

did 
vary 
on 
opinion 
and 

experience, just over half of the 
faculty members responded 
they felt fully or moderately 
informed about the mental 
health resources available to 
students on campus.

One of the most conclusive 

results 
from 
the 
surveys 

found 96 percent of student 
respondents feel there is an 
importance for mental health 
to be accommodated on a 
college campus, yet 74 percent 
feel uncomfortable addressing 
their mental health concerns 
with faculty. According to 
LSA senior Yumi Taguchi, 
co-director of Active Minds 
and a co-leader of the task 
force, these were some of the 

most striking results.

“We weren’t really sure 

what we were going to 
find before we sent out 
those surveys, but two 
things we thought were 
very interesting was both 
faculty 
and 
students 

really support the idea 
that 
a 
college 
campus 

should create a supportive 
environment 
for 
mental 

illness, 
and 
also 
there 

was a striking difference 
between 
faculty 
and 

students when it came to 
comfortability when asking 
for accommodations,” she 
said. “Faculty were pretty 
comfortable handling any 
accommodation 
requests 

whereas students felt very 
uncomfortable.”

Following the results, 

the task force created 13 
recommendations it hopes 
will be established next 
year. According to Business 
junior Grace Nasr, chair 
of 
CSG’s 
Health 
and 

Safety 
Commission 
and 

Central Student Government Mental 
Health Taskforce releases report

The official report follows the conducting and analysis of three campus-wide surveys

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