Thursday
marked
undocumented
immigrants’
last day to submit renewals
to
the
Deferred
Action
for
Childhood
Arrivals
program
— but undocumented students
at the University of Michigan
were undeterred. One hundred
protesters marched from the Diag
to the Fleming Administration
Building
to
lobby
University
officials for institutional resources
and protection for vulnerable
students.
After President Donald Trump’s
successive travel ban orders in
January, and again after the repeal
of DACA in September, University
President Mark Schlissel stated
the University will not disclose
students’ immigration statuses
voluntarily. Schlissel also formed
an Immigration Working Group
to monitor and analyze gaps in
resources.
Thursday’s
rally,
organized
by the Student Community of
Progressive
Empowerment,
centered around four new requests
of
the
administration:
fully
meeting financial need, extending
guidelines
to
obtain
in-state
tuition, appointing a central staff
liaison between undocumented
students
and
the
University
and improving accessibility for
prospective students.
In
October
2016,
the
University
of
Michigan
launched its five-year Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion plan — an
extensive initiative designed
to promote a more diverse
and inclusive campus through
increasing
staff
diversity,
retention of underprivileged
students and the assurance
of equal compensation for all
races, genders and identities.
The overall plan comprises
49
unit
plans
created
by
all
schools,
colleges
and
departments at the University.
Two student panels, consisting
of
25
undergraduate
and
graduate
students
each,
convene every month to discuss
new strategies and ideas with
DEI leaders.
Though the plan was created
to foster both long- and short-
term change on campus, the
first year of DEI has left many
on campus eager for more
immediate
action.
Replete
with racist incidents — ranging
from posters promoting white
supremacy
to
racial
slurs
written on students’ dorm
room doors — the past year
has weighed heavily upon both
administrators and minority
students.
Diversity Peer Educators
As part of the DEI plan,
student
diversity
peer
educators
strive
to
create
a
community
inclusive
of
all
identities
by
hosting
educational
events,
serving
as
social
justice
educators
and advising their specific
community’s
multicultural
council.
LSA senior Jad Elharake,
a diversity peer educator for
West Quad Residence Hall,
has been working over the past
nine months to add Middle
Eastern/North
African
as
an ethnicity option on all
official University documents.
In an email interview, he
expressed disappointment in
the University for dealing with
race issues through traditional
identity binaries, especially in
the historical context of the
Arab communities’ presence
on campus.
“I know that historically
when
efforts
(target)
this
same issue, our needs are not
prioritized
and
commonly
fall victim to binary views
of
race
and
identity,”
he
wrote. “Lack of institutional
memory,
documentation,
and
recognition
regarding
the past mobilization of our
community and our historical
presence
on
campus
only
further the severity of the
issue and disempower the Arab
The Ann Arbor Downtown
Development Authority approved
$150,000 to install chain-link
fences
around
city-owned
parking lots at an executive
committee meeting Wednesday.
The decision came after a
string of fatal incidents in the
city. On Monday, a 56-year-
old man fell from the parking
structure at the intersection of
Fourth and Williams streets.
A 22-year-old man fell from
the same parking lot on Sept. 7
and a teenage girl fell from the
structure on the intersection of
State and Washington streets last
year.
DDA Director Susan Pollay
explained the rooftop of the
Fourth and Williams streets
structure will be the priority,
followed by the Ann and Ashley
streets structure, the Fourth and
Washington streets structure,
the
Maynard
structure,
the
Liberty Square structure and the
Forest Avenue structure.
“(Fourth and Williams is) the
first one we’re tackling because
it’s the biggest … geographically,”
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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
SPORTS..........B-SECTION
Deadline for
renewal of
DACA draws
community
Why I kneel: A conversation with
MPH student, activist Dana Greene
KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily
Public Health graduate student Dana Greene is continuing kneeling protests to shed light on racism at the University.
CAMPUS LIFE
Approximately 100 protesters gathered
to lobby the University for more resources
RIYAH BASHA
Daily News Editor
Greene garnered national attention by kneeling for 21 hours in protest in the Diag
Public Health student Dana
Greene knelt at the block ‘M’ on
the Diag for 21 hours.
It was not a cool fall day,
either — the sun bore down on
University of Michigan students
at a peak 91 degrees.
Greene, along with dozens of
other students, gathered at the
Diag to kneel in protest of racism
across the country, mirroring
former
NFL
player
Colin
Kaepernick’s own kneel last year
that lost him his job. Food, water
and drinks were shared, and a
tent was later set up.
People
of
all
varying
backgrounds unified together,
Greene said, in a way that was
surreal to him.
For the Michigan vs. Michigan
State game Saturday — a rare
night
game
nonetheless
—
Greene has plans.
In hopes of keeping the spirit
of last Monday alive, Greene
and his team are calling upon
students, faculty and Michigan
fans to kneel and sit during
national anthem.
A letter written by Greene
circulated this week explaining
his message.
“I am no longer looking to
administration to take a stand
NISA KHAN
Daily News Editor
See FENCES, Page 3A
DDA to add
fences to
A2 parking
structures
CITY
The Ann Arbor Downtown
Development Authority
approved fence installation
ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
DESIGN BY ROSEANNE CHAO
One year in: How the University’s DEI
plan has succeeded, faced difficulties
New aspects of the plan have unfolded recently, including the Go Blue guarantee
ANDREW HIYAMA
&KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporters
Finding his peace
After suffering multiple
injuries at the beginning of
his Michigan career, Chris
Bryant has found meaning in
a new role off the field.
» Page 4B-5B
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See DEI, Page 3A
See GREENE, Page 3A
University
of
Michigan
faculty gathered outside the
C.C. Little Building Thursday
afternoon to take part in an
informational picket in support
of
recent
student
activism
calling for the renaming of
the building. Faculty members
distributed flyers pointing to
former University President
Clarence Cook Little’s support
for eugenic, anti-immigrant
and
anti-miscegenation
movements as reason to change
the building’s name.
The
picket
event
was
an
initiative
organized
by
Faculty for Justice, a coalition
proposed
by
three
faculty
members in a letter addressed
to
all
University
faculty
earlier this week. As stated
in the letter, the group exists
to
“issue
collective
public
statements, share information
about
student-led
protests,
and help initiate and organize
faculty action in support of our
students.”
The letter included a listserv
where faculty members could
See BUILDING, Page 3A
‘U’ faculty
picket C.C.
Little for
solidarity
ACADEMICS
Faculty members gathered
outside of the building
and handed out flyers
ALEXIS RANKIN
Daily Staff Reporter
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