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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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It’s #MiRobotics Day! Our
state is at the center of the
nation’s #robotics industry
thanks to leadership in
robotics research
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A WHOLE day just for
#Germany?? We are
flattered to have a small
part of @UMich 33rd annual
“German Day”
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@snazzy_yazzy
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
Trav
@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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