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