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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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