Approximately 
400 
Ann 

Arbor community members 
embarked 
in 
unseasonably 

warm 
temperatures 
to 

raise awareness for suicide 
education 
and 
prevention 

by participating in the Out 
of the Darkness community 
walkSaturday morning in West 
Park.

Out 
of 
the 
Darkness 

community walks took place 
nationwide this weekend with 
the aim of raising awareness 
about suicide prevention as 
well as funds for the American 
Foundation 
for 
Suicide 

Prevention 
to 
implement 

education 
and 
awareness 

strategies.

The Ann Arbor walk was 

one of more than ten Out of the 
Darkness walks that took place 
in the state of Michigan over 
the weekend. According to 
Patricia Wheeler, chair of the 
walk and board member for 
the AFSP southeast Michigan 
chapter, this year’s Ann Arbor 
walk reported record breaking 
funds 
— 
surpassing 
their 

original goal of $30,000 dollars 
by raising over $50,000.

“For this walk, today we 

have 
raised 
more 
money 

than any walk in Ann Arbor,” 
Wheeler said. 

The money raised came 

from donations from local 
organizations 
as 
well 
as 

funds raised by participating 

teams and individuals. All the 
funds raised are used to raise 
awareness about suicide and to 
develop methods of education 
directed 
toward 
suicide 

prevention.

“Fifty 
percent 
of 
the 

funds raised today stay in 
the southeast Michigan area 
to help with local education 
and 
prevention 
measures,” 

Wheeler 
said. 
“The 
other 

half goes to the national 

organization, 
which 
is 

collectively the largest funder 
of suicide research.”

Most participants were Ann 

Arbor community members 
including Ann Arbor residents, 
high school and University 
students, all of which were 
present to support the AFSP’s 
efforts to raise awareness.

LSA senior Taylor Rovin 

joined the walk to show her 
support for suicide prevention 

and participated on behalf 
of her feminist sorority, Zeta 
Omega Eta, which included the 
walk as part of their rush week 
events.

“All of the rush events for 

my sorority are optional but 
I thought this one was really 
cool and an important event to 
be a part of,” Rovin said.

On mornings with home football 

games, collegiate men and women 
across campus rifle through piles 
of maize and blue clothing in an 
attempt to put together the perfect 
game day outfit.

A game day outfit could be 

the most important form of garb 
University of Michigan students 
wear throughout their time at the 
University. Captured by Snapchat, 
Instagram, Facebook and the 
like, what one wears on Saturday 
football lives on eternally in the 
realm of social media. Now, this 
demand for Michigan spirit wear 
could soon be leading to changes 
with local retailers. 

The Michigan Daily conducted 

a campus survey on student spirit 
wear choices to 500 randomly 
selected students, of which 56 
students responded.

Based on the survey results, 

56.14 
percent 
of 
respondents 

suggested their primary source 
of tailgating clothing was campus 
retailers, such as the M Den or Moe 
Sport Shops.

The M Den, a staple University 

clothing store on State Street, 

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A look at 
choice of 
game-day
ensemble

BUSINESS

Licensed retailers, online 
clothing sellers among 
most popular for students

RACHEL LEVY
Daily Staff Reporter

ROBERT BUECHLER/Daily

Ann Arbor residents participate in the Out of the Darkness walk for suicide prevntion in Ann Arbor Saturday.

Community members walk to raise 
awareness for suicide prevention

Students and city residents collect over $50,000 for mental health education

ALEXIS RANKIN
Daily Staff Reporter

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The Leadership Engagement 

Scholarship, approved in January 
by Central Student Government 
and designed to provide assistance 
to students who wish to become 
more involved on campus but may 
not have the financial means to 
do so, continues in its fundraising 
process despite no longer being a 
CSG initiative. The fundraising is 
led by LSA senior Micah Griggs, 
former CSG vice president, and 
Business junior Arathi Sabada, 
former 
CSG 
chief 
operating 

officer.

At the beginning of their terms as 

CSG President and Vice President 
in 2016, David Schafer and Griggs, 
respectively, 
administered 
a 

demographic report to members 
of CSG, and found the results to 
be economically homogenous— 75 
percent of the student governing 
body comes from homes earning 
over $100,000 a year. This report 
was one of several that made the 
CSG administration aware of 
how the University, specifically 
regarding students in leadership 
positions, lacks financial diversity.

When CSG passed a resolution 

See SCHOLARSHIP, Page 3A

CSG votes 
to continue 
fundraising
program

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

The 2017 Leadership 
Engagement Scholarship 
aims to assist with finances

JORDYN BAKER
Daily Staff Reporter

Recreational 
marijuana 

is now closer than ever to 
becoming 
permitted 
by 
law 

in Michigan. A ballot petition 
being circulated by the Coalition 
to 
Regulate 
Marijuana 
Like 

Alcohol is “well past” 250,000 
signatures, 
according 
to 
the 

group’s spokesman Josh Hovey. 
The state of Michigan requires 
252,523 valid signatures for the 
initiative to make it onto the ballot 
in November 2018.

Hovey says the group’s goal is to 

collect 350,000 signatures, to give 
themselves a cushion for invalid 
signatures — signatures that 
cannot be traced to a registered 
voter or signatures from a voter 
who has already signed — and 

they aim to have everything 
submitted to the state by Nov. 22.

If they are able to reach their 

goal, and the state validates at least 
252,523 signatures, the initiative 
will then go to the legislature 
for a vote. If the bill fails in the 
legislature, it will then go on the 
ballot in Nov. 2018 for residents of 
Michigan to vote.

Though he isn’t sure how it 

will fare in the legislature, state 
Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, 
is optimistic about the proposal’s 
chances if it goes to the ballot in 
2018.

“I support the bill,” Rabhi said. 

“In terms of whether or not it is 
viable, I think that you are seeing 
unprecedented support, frankly, 
for this bill statewide. I think that 
the petition drive is going really 
well. I think that people are ready 

Coalition
petitioning 
for legal use 
of marijuana

Students, faculty confronted by
internet racism speak against hate

See PETITION, Page 3A

GOVERNMENT

State must validate 252,523 signatures 
for initiative to be on the ballot in 2018

ANDREW HIYAMA

Daily Staff Reporter

LSA sophomore Kori Thomas 

was confronted with two unpleasant 
surprises one Friday morning in 
October of her freshman year.

The first was a collection of 

racially charged flyers she found 

posted outside her dorm, with 
subjects like “Black and White IQ 
Distributions” and “Lifetime Risk of 
HIV Diagnosis by Race/Ethnicity.”

The second was the flood of 

aggressive and threatening replies 
she received after tweeting pictures 
of the posters.

“You cant escape the meme 

magic. It wont stop until every 

white man and woman is woken up. 
#MAGA #AltRight,” another tweet 
read.

Thomas was not expecting the 

high volume of replies, she said. 
There were 192 in total — some 
supporting her, but most reinforcing 
the message on the posters. In 
retrospect, she said, she might not 
have tweeted those pictures if she 

had known the reactions she would 
receive.

“I thought it might be a couple 

people, but it was so much, so I just 
kind of blocked it out,” Thomas said. 
“After that happened I just didn’t 
know how to deal with it. So if there 
was a better way not involving that 
(tweeting the pictures), I would 

ANDREW HIYAMA

Daily Staff Reporter

See ONLINE, Page 3A

Racist Incidents on Campus

March 30, 2016 
"#StopIslam", "Trump 2016" 
written in chalk on the Diag 

September 26, 2016 
Racist posters ("reasons 
why women shouldn't 
date black men") found in 
Mason and Haven halls 

October 2, 2016 
Online faculty petitions 
condemning the racist posters 
are erased by an unknown 
individual, replaced with phrase, 
“All of the Communists Will 
Hang on the Day of the Rope.” 
The quote comes from “The 
Turner Diaries,” a political fiction 
novel that features a race war.

October 3, 2016 
White supremacist posters 
cited websites arguing race 
determines intelligence and 
anti-Muslim sentiments 
found posted near Diag

October 21, 2016 
More racist posters 
("Black and White IQ 
distributions") found 
outside South Quad

November 9, 2016 
Violent messages were 
written on the Rock after 
Trump’s win. The messages 
were covering pro-Clinton 
decorations.

November 14, 2016 
Posters in Union encouraged 
students to report 
undocumented individuals 
and displayed white voting 
statistics of the 2016 election 
along with phrases such as 
“He’s Our President.”

January 20, 2017 
Racial slurs directed at 
Black student in 
prospective students' 
Groupme

February 6, 2017 
someone urinates on Muslim 
prayer rug in Shapiro Library

February 7, 2017 
Emails threatening Black and Jewish 
students sent to engineering students' 
listserv

April 25, 2017 
Black Law Student Association board 
- Graduate Employee Organization 
posted on that Facebook page there 
were far-right chalkings on the 
campus and on the Black Law 
Student Association board.

April 25, 2017 
West Hall Arch and CC 
Little - White supremacist 
group posts anti-Semitic 
stickers on Black Lives 
Matter posts. BLM posters 
were also torn down, 
although it is unknown if 
they are related.

August 2017 
University Biological Station - Racist graffiti 
appeared in the bathroom of University 
Biological Station near Pellston. University 
President Mark Schlissel reported this in an 
email to students. 

September 2, 2017 
Anti-Latino and Pro-Trump graffiti were 
found on the Rock before classes 
started. 

September 17, 2017 
Central Campus posting column - A 
poster reading “Free Dylann Roof”, the 
white mass shooter who entered a 
historically Black church and killed nine 
people, was posted on the cylindrical 
vents on campus.

September 17, 2017 
Downtown mural was defaced with 
graffiti supporting Dylann Roof. The 
graffiti also had anti-Black slurs.

September 17, 2017
Three Black students had 
racial slurs written on 
their dorm room doors in 
West Quad

September 20, 
2017 
Man arrested 
outside Union after 
punching and 
shouting n-word at 
at least one 
student

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Doing O’K

Fifth-year senior 

quarterback John O’Korn 

replaced an injured 

Wilton Speight and had 
his redemption moment.

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