In an effort to increase 

awareness 
of 
sexual 
assault 

on campus, members of the 
Sexual 
Assault 
Prevention 

and Awareness Center’s Peer 
Education 
program 
had 
a 

number of stations out on the 
Diag 
Wednesday 
afternoon, 

showcasing 
different 
aspects 

of healthy relationships and 
consent.

Nursing senior Lena Briggs, 

peer education co-coordinator 
at 
SAPAC, 
helped 
organize 

the event — consisting of the 
education station, the policy and 
activism table, the swag station 
and the self-care table — and said 
she hoped it brought visibility to 
key issues SAPAC focuses on.

“We want to spread messages 

of positivity around healthy 
relationships and around consent 
so that people can engage in these 
behaviors with their partners 
and their peers,” Briggs said. 
“We also want to create a more 
positive culture around campus 
and 
hopefully 
prevent 
any 

violence as well.”

To achieve this goal, the 

education station focused on 
providing students with facts 
and statistics on sexual assault 
through an educational game. 
LSA senior Andreea Taran, a 
SAPAC volunteer, helped run the 
station.

“We 
are 
going 
through 

some statements on healthy 
relationships, 
consent 
and 

sexual assault that are kind of 
controversial, like false reporting 
statistics,” Taran said.

The policy and activism station 

featured pamphlets discussing 
sexual 
assault 
prevention 

policies and ways to contact local 
representatives, the swag station 
handed out SAPAC resources 
and the self-care station aided 
students facing exam stress.

“Healthy 
relationships 
are 

centered around equality, respect 

and love,” Briggs said. “People 
should feel empowered enough 
to say ‘no’ when they want to, 
they should ask for consent in 
any sexual activity and know that 
consent is easy.”

The event partnered with 

Raise the Bar, a program that 
trains personnel at local bars 
around campus in bystander 
intervention in sexual assault. 
Students were encouraged to 
visit all four stations to be entered 

into a raffle for prizes sponsored 
by the bars participating in the 
program.

“Consent is all about showing 

respect for your partner and for 
yourself, and we are all about 
establishing that as a precursor 
to help fight sexual assault on 
campus,” Taran said.

University 
of 
Michigan 

LSA 
Student 
Government 

discussed and voted on two 
resolutions Wednesday night 
to allocate funding for a light 
therapy room in the Shapiro 
Undergraduate Library and to 
suggest LSA change its current 
exam policy from allowing 
students to take a maximum of 
three exams in one day to two 
exams in a day. 

Both 
the 
light 
therapy 

resolution 
and 
the 
exam 

policy 
resolution 
passed 

unanimously, with 21 votes in 
favor and no votes against or 
abstentions.

The meeting also featured 

resolutions on free speech in 
LSA SG and the conditions of 
the Mason Hall bathrooms — 
both of which passed — and 
calling for adequate lighting 
on North Campus, which was 
tabled until the first summer 
session.

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LSA reps
pass exam
limitation
resolution

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Assembly also decides to 
bring therapy lights to 
UGLi for student wellness

MATT HARMON
Daily Staff Reporter

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LSA sophomore Ellen Yang talks to LSA freshman Josh Qu about sexual assault violence and prevention techniques 
on the Diag on Wednesday.

Annual SAPAC Diag day focuses on 
traits of healthy relationships, consent

Members open four stations geared toward raising awareness about sexual assault

CORY ZAYANCE
Daily Staff Reporter

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Panelists 
representing 

an 
array 
of 
corporations 

and 
companies 
admitted 

sustainability may not seem 
synonymous with corporate 
America — but the tide, they 
all emphasized, is turning. 
John Viera, global director of 
sustainability at Ford Motor 
Co., 
Diane 
Holdorf, 
chief 

sustainability officer and vice 
president 
of 
environmental 

stewardship, health and safety 
of the Kellogg Co. and Andy 
Buchsbaum, 
vice 
president 

of conservative action at the 
National Wildlife Federation, 
discussed how companies and 
nonprofit organizations can 
drive sustainability in front of 
an audience of about 60 people. 

In the auto industry, Viera 

said a key to a company culture 
that focuses on sustainability 
is making sure each sector of 
the business — from finance 
to engineering — has a goal of 
being sustainable.

Prominent
leaders talk
sustainable
companies

CAMPUS LIFE

Business owners highlight 
conservation, stewardship 
in the corporate realm 

CALEB CHADWELL

Daily Staff Reporter

Public Policy junior Nadine 

Jawad, vice president of Central 
Student 
Government, 
was 

named a Truman Scholarship, 
an award that celebrates a 
commitment to public service. 
She will be the 27th candidate 
at the University of Michigan to 
receive this prestigious award. 

According 
to 
a 
press 

release, Jawad was one of 62 
undergraduates to be awarded 
a scholarship this year, out of 
the 768 students who were 
nominated. Candidates must be 
nominated by their university 
in their junior year, and then 
recipients are chosen by a 
selection panel based on a series 
of personal essays, letters and 
interviews.

Jawad 
aims 
to 
use 
the 

scholarship to pursue a degree in 
medicine and a Master of Public 
Health, with an interest in 
women’s health and a potential 
focus 
on 
HPV, 
gynecologic 

cancers and diseases that arise 

in situations of intimate partner 
violence.

“Ultimately, I’d like to work 

somewhere in the government 
sector, the (Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention) or the 
World Health Organization — 
that way I can blend my interest 
in public policy with my interest 
in medicine and kind of do both,” 
she said.

Marjorie 
Horton, 
the 

assistant dean for undergraduate 
education, wrote in an email 
interview 
she 
met 
Jawad 

through Jawad’s participation in 
CSG and was unsurprised by her 
success with the award.

“I see that intensity, drive 

and tireless work ethic in all 
that Nadine takes on,” Horton 
wrote. “She focuses on how 
to have a very real, tangible 
impact. With her leadership 
and 
organizational 
savvy 

and 
personal 
magnetism, 

she 
harnesses 
the 
talents 

and passions of many other 
students, builds connections in 
communities and with campus 
administrators, and achieves 

Jawad wins 
prestigious 
government
scholarship

Debbie Dingell, faculty members 
send seniors off in ‘Last Lecture’

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Rep. Debbie Dingell (D–Mich) speaks at the third annual Last Lecture Series in Weill Hall on Wednesday.

ACADEMICS

New CSG vice president is one of 62 
Truman recipients for public service

EMILY MIILLER
Daily Staff Reporter

Annual event aimed to encourage graduating students to take hold of opportunity, challenges

Wrapping 
up 
the 
year 
for 

Public Policy seniors was U.S. Rep. 
Debbie Dingell (D–Mich.) and 
distinguished professors of the 
University of Michigan to deliver 
what is traditionally called the Last 
Lecture.

The event, as part of the third 

annual Public Policy Last Lecture 
series, brought University seniors 
to Weill Hall on Wednesday to leave 
them with lasting words as they face 

graduation at the end of the month. 

Public Policy senior Keerthana 

Sundar helped organize the event, 
and noted its importance in sending 
off the seniors.

“The Last Lecture is a capstone 

event that ties together a variety 
of policy topics and perspectives 
to end the school year,” Sundar 
said. “It’s a send-off lecture full of 
insightful advice and anecdotes 
from our favorite professors.”

This year’s talk, called “Bursting 

the Bubble: Policy in the Age of 
Polarization,” aimed to discuss 
politics after the 2016 presidential 

election, as well as the importance 
of breaking down party barriers. 
Public Policy senior Connor Rubin, 
another co-organizer of the event, 
believed this year’s theme was 
particularly important given the 
events of the past year.

“This election was one of the most 

polarizing in recent history, and I 
think anyone interested in making 
a difference in their community 
needs to realize that yelling is easy, 
but doesn’t solve anything,” said 
Rubin. “The goal of this (lecture) is 
to show a variety of perspectives, 
because no singular point of view 

has a monopoly on good ideas.”

Students listened to Dingell and 

Public Policy professors give advice 
on their upcoming endeavors, as 
well as interpretations of today’s 
political climate.

“You are graduating in very 

unique and challenging times,” 
Dingell said. “You are in a rapidly 
changing 
political, 
social 
and 

economic landscape, and will need 
to use what you have learned here 
at the University of Michigan to 
address the opportunities and the 
challenges that lay ahead.”

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