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 
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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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The lab is fully functioning 
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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