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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
First Step Sessions
WHAT: CGIS advisers will be
holding a session to provide
more information about the
CGIS application process,
programs and scholarships.
WHO: CGIS
WHEN: 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Weiser Hall, Suite 255
Zell Visiting Writers
Series: Ocean Vuong
and David Gates, Poetry
and Prose Reading
WHAT: Best-selling authors will
be speaking about their work
and experiences as writers.
WHO: UMMA
WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.
WHERE: Museum of Art,
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Mindfulness@Umich
WHAT: Meditation session for
beginners as well as experienced
meditators. They are drop-in and
participants can come whenever
they are free.
WHO: Mindfulness@Michigan
WHEN: 4:15 to 4:45 pm
WHERE: Angell Hall, G243
Teach Out Series-
Fake News, Facts, and
Alternative Facts
WHAT: Online community
learning event where
participants discern fact from
fiction and find credible news
sources.
WHO: Office of Academic
Innovation
WHEN: Noon to 5 p.m.
WHERE: teach-out.org
Arthur Brooks, president
of the American Enterprise
Institute,
says
there
are
several ways in which those
in poverty can escape their
situation. One of these ways is
by living a “startup life.”
Brooks, who gave a talk
Wednesday afternoon about
escaping
poverty
through
entrepreneurship as a part
of the Policy Talks at the
Ford School of Public Policy,
said living a “startup life”
includes
taking
risks
and
using weaknesses to propel
strengths. He also discussed
how those in positions of
privilege can help those in
poverty.
Brooks
highlighted
the
Prison
Entrepreneurship
Program,
an
organization
based in Houston, Texas, that
works to educate and mentor
men in prison on starting and
running their own businesses.
“People
walking
around
who
can’t
work,
they’re
literally the most vulnerable
people in our society today,”
Brooks said. “The reason the
Prison
Entrepreneurship
Program exists is because
they’re trying to find a way to
solve this.”
Of the men who were took
part in the program, only 7
percent went back to jail in
their first three years out, as
opposed to 50 percent of those
who were not a part of the
program, according to Brooks.
Through
the
program,
Brooks said, he realized what
the incarcerated men were
learning was changing their
outlooks on life. Suddenly,
they started talking about the
things that were going right in
their lives and living like an
enterprise.
“I thought I was going to
find the secret to startup
businesses, and what I found
was the secret to startup
lives,” Brooks said. “See, when
I talked to these guys, they
didn’t want to talk about their
businesses and the money they
were making. They wanted to
talk about all the things that
were going right in their lives
because they had learned
about entrepreneurship.”
Public
Health
student
Stuart
Hammond
came
to
the
event
because
he
wanted
to
get
Brooks’s
perspective on capital within
entrepreneurship.
“I have experience working
in pretty low-income settings
and so I was interested in
what he was going to say about
the role of capital in having
successful
entrepreneurial
experiences,”
Hammond
said. “The indirect way that
he talked about it was he
did talk about these people
coming out of prison, they
had time, and time itself
is a resource that you can
capitalize on.”
The men in the program
implemented
two
things
Brooks
later
recognized
were part of people living
“startup lives”: taking risks
and using weaknesses to
propel strengths.
Brooks
cited
a
study
done by Steven Levitt, an
economist at the University
of Chicago and the co-author
of
Freakonomics,
which
looked at participants facing
a big decision. Levitt told the
participants that he would
make the decision for them
through the flip of a coin,
with heads being yes and
tails being no.
Meeting on the first floor of
the Michigan Union Wednesday
night, speakers at the South
Asian Awareness Network event
discussed
civic
engagement,
political
issues
and
their
personal experiences working in
government.
Christine Stead, president of
the Ann Arbor Public Schools
Board, and Bobby McKenzie,
director
of
the
Muslim
Diaspora
Initiative,
answered
questions
from
community
engagement
chairs
Subhan
Chaudry, a Business sophomore,
and
Srinidhi
Subramanian,
an LSA senior. Chaudry and
Subramanian
moderated
the
event for an hour and then
entered an open, unmoderated
discussion with attendees. Three
state representatives were also
scheduled to attend but were
unable to attend last minute.
Stead discussed her years of
experience working in the Ann
Arbor
Public
Schools
Board
extensively. She said living in
Ann Arbor has led her to become
passionate about education in
politics.
“It’s been a huge privilege
for me to grow up in this town
because education is important
here, and that’s unique,” Stead
said. “Education in general — it’s
given me every opportunity that I
have.”
Stead voiced her opposition to
the work of Secretary of Education
Betsy DeVos when she worked
in
Michigan
on
the
Detroit
charter school system, saying
her school-choice system works
well in theory but has led to the
disenfranchisement of a number
of students in the city. Stead also
encouraged attendees to become
involved in the political process
in any way that they could. She
identified the use of technology by
young people as a new way to vote
and participate.
Stead was satisfied with the
dialogue at the event and the role
she and McKenzie played despite
the absence of the other speakers.
“Between the two of us, we had
some hopefully helpful tactical
ideas around how to raise an
issue and stay engaged and get
to solutions,” Stead said. “These
things unfortunately do take time,
and they also take lots of people to
kind of create momentum. But I’m
hoping people heard something
that is useful and constructive.”
McKenzie
spoke
on
his
experience
as
the
head
of
the MDI and working with
legislators on local, state and
national scales. He recounted his
experiences working with hard-
right
Republican
congressmen
and his ability to pesuade them
to work with him. Despite being
a Democrat, he said, using data
and objective explanations of the
problems the MDI faces helped to
bridge the political gap.
He said a major problem with the
American political environment
is that politicians are forced to
pander to their bases instead of
working constructively across the
aisle. He praised the skills and
competence of elected officials,
but he also expressed frustration
with the political requirements of
the system and what he views as
the limits it places on progress.
Chaudry said this event is the
first of its kind for SAAN. He said
the organization is now able to
help students effect change on
campus and that that has become
a goal for the leadership.
“All we’ve ever focused on is
awareness and knowledge and
getting that out, but we’ve never
really gone into the activism area,”
Chaudry said. “And that was a big
thing for us: How do we get people
energized? How do we help them
in achieving these goals? Because
yeah, we can teach them all about
these issues and show them what’s
wrong. But in the end, if we don’t
do anything about it, there’s no
solution.”
LSA senior Sahr Yazdani, a
board member for SAAN and part
of the marketing team, expressed
a similar excitement about the
evolving role of the organization
and this event.
“Events like these are really
important because they remind
students of their ability to make
change and to catalyze something
that could actually be productive
for people in the future,” Yazdani
said.
Stead and McKenzie answered
several questions about student
activism on the University of
Michigan campus specifically and
said persistence is key for any kind
of advocacy. After the event, Stead
expressed her optimism in the
face of ongoing challenges and her
confidence in student activists.
Policymaker delivers Ford lecture
on using startups to escape poverty
SAAN explores activism in civic engagement talk
American Enterprise Institute president discusses incarceration, entreprenurship
Politician and policy advocate advise South Asian Awareness Network to stay persistent in speaking up
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