In response to yesterday’s
protests
regarding
racist
incidents
on
campus,
Central Student Government
executives solemnly addressed
the assembly Tuesday night,
urging representatives to stand
with the demonstrators and
actively listen to the concerns
of their constituents.
CSG
President
Anushka
Sarkar, an LSA senior, stressed
the importance of maintaining
the
assembly’s
purpose
in
representing the entire student
body, including the voices of
the demonstrations.
“You were all elected to
represent students and their
views,” Sarkar said. “If there’s
enough hurt and frustration
in the student body that these
demonstrations are happening,
it’s your job to engage with it so
please make sure you do your
due diligence to represent those
voices and that they’re heard.”
While no official statement
has been released by CSG,
Sarkar took to her personal
Twitter
account
speaking
on behalf of CSG to weigh
in
on
the
demonstrations
yesterday afternoon, standing
in
solidarity
with
the
demonstrators.
Sarkar
offered
support
and services to the student
demonstrators.
“Folks engaged in these
demonstrations — let us know
how we can help. Water, fans,
solidarity, let us know,” Sarkar
wrote.
CSG Vice President Nadine
Jawad, Public Policy senior,
followed
Sarkar’s
statement
by highlighting the emotional
struggles students throughout
campus are facing and offering
strong condolences for the
demonstrators.
“A lot of students on campus
right now are really hurting
and there’s a lot (of), honestly,
sadness going around campus
right now and a lot of people
don’t feel safe and included
right now,” Jawad said.
She spoke about the demands
of recognition on behalf of the
demonstrators, calling upon
representatives to collaborate
on ways to make the entire
student body feel included.
“As representatives of your
respective colleges I think we
should really put our heads
together to think about ways —
not that we can solve the issue
because that’s not a practical
thing to say — but maybe just
make a dent in making people
feel included,” she said.
CSG
Rep.
Hafsa
Tout,
an LSA senior, began first
reads
of
a
resolution
she
co-sponsored, which allocates
$3,500 to conduct a study by
University
of
Michigan
researchers have figured out
a new way to help research
subjects feel at home during
experiments: actually doing the
experiments in a home.
The
BioSocial
Methods
Collaborative at the University’s
Institute for Social Research
unveiled
its
new
HomeLab
Tuesday. The “lab” is a fully
functioning
research
facility,
with one catch — it looks like a
regular apartment. According
to Richard Gonzalez, director
of
the
BioSocial
Methods
Collaborative and ISR’s Research
Center for Group Dynamics, the
HomeLab has a fully functioning
kitchen, bathroom, living room
and bedroom. It also has hidden
cameras
and
microphones,
motion sensors and many other
devices
to
help
researchers
collect data on their subjects in
the most natural setting possible.
Gonzalez said the idea for
the lab came out of a need for
increased interaction between
different fields of science.
“We started out about four
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Students advocating for new name for C.C. Little
building lead protest to panel discussing change
AARON BAKER/Daily
Students protested on their way to the “To Rename or ot Remain” panel about the C.C. Little building, walking down North University Tuesday.
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A student speaks at the “To Rename or to Remain” panel about the C.C. Little
building in the League Tuesday.
Hundreds of students, faculty members march to League to protest name, say eponym was a racist, relates building to current climate
Students
and
community
members gathered together in
the Diag Tuesday afternoon to
protest the C.C. Little building
name as well as other injustices
facing the minority community on
campus. Protesters rallied against
the University’s continued use of
Little’s name on campus buildings
because of his work with eugenics,
which
often
targeted
women
of color. The protest included
a march that ended at a panel
discussion hosted by LSA Student
Government on the removal of
Little’s name from the building.
Before
reaching
their
final
destination, protesters marched
from the Diag to the Fishbowl,
where
they
expressed
their
frustration toward the University
with other students. Afterwards,
white allies blocked the street as
minority students marched to the
panel held in the League Ballroom.
For LSA sophomore Diamond
Berry, the protest was especially
personal because her friends were
directly impacted by racist acts on
campus.
“Black people are being targeted
on campus, and as a Black person
I feel that I need to be out here in
support of my people,” she said.
“A few my friends were targeted
personally, so I’m here to support
the movement for equality.”
Once the protesters reached
the panel, they were given an
opportunity to talk about their
own experiences, and explain why
they advocated for the removal
of
Little’s
name
from campus. Many expressed
discontentment about the amount
of time that the University has
taken to address this issue as
well as the lack of answers that
the administration has provided
students.
LSA
freshman
Tyler
Washington said she had hoped
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LSA senior Anushka Sarkar speaks about the recent protests on campus at the CSG meeting in the Union Tuesday.
Central Student Government responds
to racist incidents, week of protests
The body also discussed allocating funds to a survey for religious-views on campus
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Over
30
students
lined
the halls of the University of
Michigan
School
of
Social
Work Tuesday afternoon to call
attention to an email sent by
SSW Payroll Coordinator Kari
Dumbeck, in which she implored
students to respect the Pledge of
Allegiance, with an emphasis on
overtly religious rhetoric.
Dumbeck sent the email to the
school’s Masters of Social Work
listserv on Monday afternoon
in response to Public Health
graduate student Dana Greene’s
decision to protest the number
of pervasive racist incidents
affecting Black students and
students of color on campus.
This year alone, three Black
students have woken up to find
racist vandalism in West Quad
Residence
Hall,
anti-Semitic
and anti-Black racial slurs have
been spray-painted onto East
Liberty and South State Street
buildings and anti-Latino and
pro-Trump graffiti have been
scrawled on the Rock.
Beginning Monday morning,
Greene kneeled at the block
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Religious
bias in prof.
email spurs
anger, sit-in
CAMPUS LIFE
Social Work professor’s
email about Dana Greene’s
kneel-in leads to protest
KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporter