Tuesday morning racist fliers
were posted outside Stockwell
Residence Hall, presenting the
minority enrollment numbers at
both the University of Michigan
and Michigan State University,
insinuating gaps in the average
IQ of Black and white students.
This
correlation
between
race and mental ability was
popularized in the late 1990s
by Charles Murray, a political
scientist slated to speak at the
University next Wednesday.
The forthcoming event is
sponsored by the University’s
chapter of College Republicans
and the American Enterprise
Institute
University
of
Michigan Executive Council, a
public policy think tank where
Murray serves as the W.H.
Brady Scholar.
The
event’s
Facebook
description says Murray will
be discussing his 2012 book
“Coming Apart: The State of
White America, 1960-2010.”
The lecture will be followed
by a Q&A section “at which
students are encouraged to ask
tough questions, but engage
respectfully with the speaker.”
Following incidents of racist
flyering at the University in
September, the LSA Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion team
released a statement disputing
theories
of
biological
Central
Student
Government
met
Tuesday
night to pass a resolution to
place a charging station in
the Shapiro Undergraduate
Library. The assembly also
discussed
removing
the
LSA course guides usually
sent out to freshmen before
they arrive for orientation
due to the amount of paper
used for a document that the
representatives argued is not
often utilized by incoming
students.
In addition, CSG briefly
touched on the racist fliers
found on campus this morning.
CSG
President
Anushka
Sarkar, an LSA senior, spoke
on the possibility amending
the
Statement
of
Student
Rights and Responsibilities
to address bias incidents, as
the current version does not
have a policy and thus has no
means to punish violators.
While Sarkar did not directly
address the flyers themselves,
CSG Vice President Nadine
Jawad, a Public Policy senior,
mentioned the racist incident
in passing and thanked those
CSG
representatives
who
took photos of the racist
flyers, saying if they received
updates from the Dean of
Students
Office,
students
would be informed.
Returning to the assembly’s
agenda, CSG then allocated
funding for a charging station
to be placed on the first floor
of the Undergraduate Library.
The $699 charging station
would be paid for solely by
CSG.
However,
any
costs
associated with maintenance
and
upkeep
would
be
furnished by the library. The
resolution was written by
LSA junior Ali Rosenblatt,
vice speaker of CSG, and was
passed unanimously 31 to 0.
CSG
also
proposed
the
possibility of removing the
LSA
course
guides
from
new-student
orientation
packets. CSG representative
Zoha Qureshi, an LSA junior,
proposed the idea and spoke
on the work she had done with
Newnan Advising Center to
implement a reduction in the
course guide’s production.
“It’s a really thick packet
of a lot of paper that just gets
wasted because a lot students
don’t end up using it,” Qureshi
said.
She went on to advocate
for more student input in
the matter of removing the
course guides, as well as
the reformation of the now-
defunct
Student
Advisory
Committee to LSA Advising.
CSG also used the short
meeting to recall two Rackham
representatives
who
had
failed to attend any meetings
throughout the entire seventh
assembly. The vote to recall
was the first in CSG history
under
the
new
rules
for
representative removal.
A
discussion
between
two
political experts held at Grand
Valley
State
University
was
livestreamed to a crowd of around
40 attendees at the Ford School
of Public Policy Tuesday night.
The
event,
titled
“Character
and Presidency,” featured David
Brooks,
a
New
York
Times
columnist, and Ronald C. White,
an
award-winning
presidential
historian.
The event began with former
U.S. diplomat Peter F. Secchia
presenting
a
clip
from
the
documentary “Gerald R. Ford:
A Test of Character.” The short
segment
displayed
the
38th
president’s
moral
conflict
in
pardoning his predecessor Richard
Nixon, who resigned in the wake of
the Watergate Scandal.
Secchia said Ford was able to
make the decision that cost him
re-election because he was able to
naturally see beyond short-term
results and think about the public
good. Character was ingrained in
him, he explained.
“It wasn’t the water he drank, it
wasn’t the religion he had, it wasn’t
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Murray IQ
propaganda
printed on
racist poster
Schlissel Leadership Breakfast
focuses on DEI, role of faculty
See AUTHOR, Page 3A
BRIAN AUSTIN KOSASIH/Daily
President Schlissel discusses university initiatives in the Robertson Auditorium Tuesday morning.
CAMPUS LIFE
“Bell Curve” author to speak at ‘U’
next Wednesday, despite controversy
SOPHIE SHERRY
Daily News Editor
Launches new Michigan Medicine Program using Big Data to analyze illness, disease
About a dozen students came to
the lobby of Angell Hall Tuesday
night for LSA dean Andrew Martin’s
Student Town Hall, looking for
administrative answers to recent
racist incidents on campus.
Almost all the students’ questions
revolved around the campus climate
with many students expressing
worry, lack of safety and inability
to focus on school. LSA sophomore
Arwa Gayar said coming to events
like the town hall was especially
important
for
marginalized
students and groups to make
themselves heard by institutional
insiders.
“I feel like it’s very important
to establish those institutional
connections
and
administrative
connections because ultimately our
voices need to be heard,” she said.
“But also I’m just very interested
to see what the dean feels is most
pressing to talk about right now,
considering recent events. I just
want to know what topics he’s going
to discuss in general, just gauge
what’s on his mind right now, what
are his priorities right now?”
Austin
McCoy,
a
Michigan
Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral
fellow
who
studies
protest
movements, has emphasized only
doing so when it won’t create a
ANDREW HIYAMA
Daily Staff Reporter
Policy talk
examines
character,
leadership
GOVERNMENT
Columnist David Brooks,
Historian Ronald C. White
lead Public Policy event
ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
ALEC COHEN/Daily
LSA representative Zoha Qureshi discusses the possiblity of designating reflection rooms in the Union Tuesday.
Central Student Government passes
resolution for UGLi charging stations
Assembly also proposes to stop giving copies of the LSA course guide to freshman
MORGAN SHOWEN
Daily Staff Reporter
“Anybody have a
problem with that?”
The experiences of an openly
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See DEI, Page 3A
The
Michigan
Chamber
of
Commerce
is
currently
advocating for an amendment
to the Michigan Constitution,
which
would
change
term
limits
for
state
legislators.
The specifics of the plan for
revision of the 1992 state law
remain ambiguous, but those
behind
it
seek
to
provide
for
more
effectiveness
and
representation of members of
the state Congress.
According to The Detroit
News, in 2019, roughly 70
percent
of
state
senators
and over 20 percent of state
representatives’
terms
will
expire, leaving an abundance of
seats open for re-election. This
also invites the possibility that
inexperienced
representatives
will be given the responsibility
of dealing with intricate matters
of the previous administration.
The amendment, if accepted
for reform, would be placed on
the 2018 voter ballot. On Sept.
27, the Michigan Chamber of
Commerce voted to work with
staff
in
contacting
outside
See LEGISLATURE, Page 3A
See POLICY, Page 3A
Possibility
for state leg.
limits to be
lengthened
GOVERNMENT
JORDYN BAKER
Daily Staff Reporter
Michigan Chamber of
Commerce seeks to aid
efficiency with positions