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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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

michigandaily.com

For more stories and coverage, visit

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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