an 
associate 
professor 
of 

accounting at the Ross School 
of Business, brought up the 
Leadership Crisis Challenge, 
a leadership simulation for 
Business students that puts 
students in the seat of a 
business leader or executive 
during a crisis of any kind. 
Students then must handle the 
crisis, talk to reporters and 
maintain their public persona. 
Wright said this program could 
be adapted for faculty to teach 
them how to respond to campus 
crises through their leadership 
positions at the University.

The 
posters 
found 
at 

Stockwell last week highlighted 
the low enrollment rates of Black 
students at the University and 
at Michigan State University, 
and 
connected 
these 
rates 

to alleged differences in IQ 
levels between Black and white 
students. A similar comparison 

was made last year when other 
racist flyers were found around 
campus. 
University 
faculty 

released a statement on the 
LSA 
Diversity, 
Equity 
and 

Inclusion page debunking this 
relationship between race and 
intelligence.

Szymanski said a University-

wide statement from Schlissel 
regarding the faulty logic of 
these 
posters 
would 
show 

students 
the 
University 
is 

dedicated to combating racism 
through academics.

“A lot of research about race 

and race issues comes out of 
the University so I’m thinking 
of things of, in the scientific 
area, where there are a number 
of articles in recent years in 
the scientific journals pointing 
out that race is not a scientific 
category,” Szymanski said. “I 
think that’s something that our 
students often don’t understand 
and they need that pointed out 
to them and if it comes with the 
voice of their whole University, 
I think that’s a strong point.” 

Schlissel 
also 
responded 

to the suggestion of putting 
closed-circuit 
television 

cameras in the hallways of 

campus dorms to find the 
culprits 
behind 
any 
future 

racist acts like the graffiti in 
West Quad. He said cameras 
are already positioned at the 
entrances and exits of most 
residence halls but he said 
he’s wary of putting cameras 
in 
residence 
hall 
hallways 

because he wants to protect 
student privacy.

“Many 
things 
go 
on 
in 

dormitories that I think if 
students really thought about 
it, they’d prefer not to be on 
video,” Schlissel said.

Ortega replied to queries 

from students about why the 
University hasn’t caught any 
of the people committing these 
acts by saying victims must deal 
with the burden of continuing 
to interact the police and 
University administration until 
the perpetrators are caught.

“The extended period of time 

to pursue some of these matters, 
even when they know who the 
students are or they have some 
idea, it doesn’t erase the pain of 
the students who are victims of 
this and so there’s some sense 
on their part to do something 
more 
urgent,” 
Ortega 
said. 

“They’re set saying, ‘So where’s 
the justice for us as victims?’”

Schlissel went on to provide 

SACUA with an update on the 
proposed name changing of the 
C.C. Little Science Building. 
He said the formal request 
made last month is now being 
reviewed by the President’s 
Advisory 
Committee 
on 

University History.

The 
proposal 
is 
being 

compared 
to 
a 
rubric 
the 

committee 
developed 
last 

year for renaming University 
buildings. 
Some 
principles 

for 
name 
changes 
include 

respecting 
the 
University’s 

commitment to pedagogy and 
considering the original name 
within its historical context.

Schlissel said this second 

principle 
is 
important 
in 

the example of C.C. Little 
because of Little’s confirmed 
belief in eugenics, a method 
pseudoscience that promotes 
human 
progress 
through 

selective breeding.

“What (the name) meant 

to people 100 years ago or 80 
years ago might have been quite 
different than what it means 
now even if we’ve learned 
nothing over the interim but 
these two ideas of looking, 
in context, ‘Was this person 
representative of their times or 
were they, in some fashion an 
outlier, an extreme version of 
something that we would not 
want to be associated with,’” 
Schlissel said.

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has gained national attention 
to the project. Most recently, 
the 
U.S. 
Secretary 
of 

Transportation, Elaine Cho, 
unveiled new guidelines for 
the testing site.

The 
Center’s 
marketing 

specialist, 
Jane 
Sugiyama, 

explained the scope of the 
student’s work at TechLab.

“The students are required 

to 
attend 
lecture 
that’s 

two hours once a week,” 
Sugiyama said. “In the first 
couple weeks they’re learning 

project management, business 
models, ecosystem mapping 
and basically all the tools that 
you would need to help launch 
a startup and create a valuable 
value 
proposition. 
Then 

later we bring in some guest 
speakers.”

Sugiyama 
detailed 
the 

experience 
and 
work 
that 

students are doing with Tome, 
the Detroit-based company.

“They’re going to be doing 

B-to-V 
testing 
which 
is 

bicycle-to-vehicle testing so 
the students will actually be 
doing the bicycle-to-vehicle 
detection out at Mcity on the 
test track,” she said. “The 

students are really engrained 
within the companies and 
treated 
just 
like 
a 
team 

member.”

The companies also test 

software and work on data sets 
that are less track-intensive, 
as 
track 
time 
at 
Mcity’s 

facility can be exclusive and 
expensive.

Though the innovations are 

important and applicable, Fay 
prioritizes the talent pipeline 
that is made up of TechLab’s 
students.

“(Google and Ford) could 

have 
great 
autonomous 

vehicles on the road, but 
what I really want is that 

machine 
learning 
company 

that supplies both of them to 
be here in Michigan,” Fay said.

Engineering 
junior 
Matt 

Jankowski 
spoke 
to 
the 

benefits and drawbacks of 
doing independent study work 
as opposed to a traditional 
co-op. He expressed his desire 
to work for mobility startups 
in the future.

“I think being in a co-op is 

still more of a real workplace 
experience because it shows 
you what working full time 
is like,” Jankowski said. “A 
work-study 
course 
doesn’t 

allow for that.”

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possibly could.”

While a student at the 

University and student body 
president, 
Armstrong 
was 

subject of an anti-gay blog, run 
by then-Michigan Assistant 
Attorney 
General 
Andrew 

Shirvell, 
which 
defamed 

Armstrong.

“Me and my community, 

we 
were 
suddenly 
being 

tested with this outing — 
where people were finding 
themselves having to interact 
with being outed,” Armstrong 
said. “And that power and 
privilege of coming out (being) 
taken away from them.” 

Following 
the 
keynote 

speech, 
five 
students 

and alumni of the LGBT 
community, 
including 

Armstrong, gathered for a 
panel discussing coming out, 
allies and intersections of 
identities.

LSA freshman Juan Orozco 

was interested in the discussion 
of different identities and the 
representation of each as a 
Latino student.

“The intersectionality from 

being a brown person and also 
being queer was kind of cool to 
see,” Orozco said.

University 
alum 
Steph 

Parrish, who uses gender-
neutral pronouns, discussed 
coming out and realizing their 
sexuality. 
Parrish 
realized 

they weren’t like the rest of 
their soccer team when they 
began to realize they were 
attracted to the girls on the 
team.

“I’ve always kind of known 

I was different, to use the 
cliche, both with my gender 
and my attractionality, but it 
really wasn’t until the very end 
of high school that I started to 
realize that there were words 
and language out there for 
people like me,” Parrish said. 
“I came to realize, wow I 
have a crush on half my team. 
That’s awkward. But I started 
to realize that’s a thing, that’s 
OK.”

The panelists talked about 

people who have supported 
them in their coming out, 

which varied from friends to 
parents to siblings. University 
alum S. Kerene Moore spoke 
about her sister, who is also 
gay, and how she helped her 
come out, especially when it 
came to their parents.

“It’s still important to me 

today to have this older sister 
that I can call and clear things 
with or talk to my parents 
for me because I’m not good 
with that,” Moore said. “And 
you know, I come from a very 
Christian household and I 
was actually president of my 
high school Christian club 
... but I still can’t have those 
conversations with my parents 
that she can because she’s 
just older and more willing to 
stand up to them.”

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established 
through 
the 

removal of Potawatomi people 
from this land and the treaty 
of Fort Meigs, as well as the 
establishment of the U of M 
Biological Station, which was 
established subsequent to the 
burning of an Ottawa village 
in Burt Lake by the County 
Sheriff,” 
MInode’e 
said. 

“Several people died, and that 
happened in 1902 and the bio 
station was established in 1907. 
So we went to different points 
around campus and discussed 
their historical significance.”

The 
march 
stopped 
at 

the School for Environment 
and Sustainability, a plaque 
commemorating 
the 
Native 

American “land gift,” and the 
Michigan Union, to discuss 
Michigamua — now known as 
the Order of Angell — a senior 
honor society that came under 
fire for appropriating Native 
artifacts and rituals.

The other goal of the march 

was to articulate demands 
towards 
the 
University 

regarding 
their 
treatment 

of 
the 
Native 
American 

community, which makes up 
0.8 percent of the student 

body. 

“The treaty of Fort Meigs, 

which established the land on 
which this University sits, has 
a clause in it that guarantees 
education for Native American 
youth,” MInode’e said. “So 
our 
concern 
is 
increasing 

American Indian enrollment, 
and we want the University 
to establish a position in 
admissions or another relevant 
department 
to 
work 
with 

tribal communities, schools 
and colleges in order to recruit 
and retain Native American 

students.”

MInode’e also said a goal 

of the march was to build 
up the community of both 
Native 
American 
students 

and people of color more 
broadly. To accomplish this, 
they 
reiterated 
Students 

for 
Justice’s 
demand 
the 

University establish a Central 
Campus multicultural center.

Issa, who was instrumental 

in the passing of the CSG 
resolution, said she found the 
demands of today’s march very 
reasonable.

“The 
University 
of 

Michigan prides itself on being 
inclusive and making people 
feel welcome, and if these 
demands can be met, as long 
as they’re not hurting other 
people, then why not?” Issa 
asked. “There’s a bad history 
there, and if the U of M can 
do its part in sort of helping 
indigenous students feel more 
welcome, then I think this is a 
great thing. I think this is an 
amazing initiative.”

MInode’e said he found the 

march today to be an uplifting 
experience 
and 
seemed 

optimistic for what the future 
held.

“I’ve been really humbled 

and amazed by how dedicated 
students are on this campus, 
particularly students of color, 
to fighting for justice and 
not settling for any less,” 
MInode’e said. “I think that 
it’s a beautiful thing when 
we support each other, and 
I’m really indebted to all the 
organizers who worked to 
make tonight a possibility. And 
I would encourage the rest of 
the student body to participate 
in 
civil 
disobedience 
and 

protest 
whenever 
possible, 

because it’s what makes our 
democracy 
worth 
fighting 

for.”

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you want to go,” Bennett said. 
“The end goal doesn’t matter. 
What matters is that you put 
the effort in. Accept your past 
for what it is and don’t let it 
affect you in your current 
journey.”

In her speech, Business 

professor 
Amy 
Young 

mentioned an anecdote about 
a former student with a speech 
impediment who overcame his 
hurdle in a public speaking. 

Her story struck a chord 
with LSA sophomore Rachel 
Mazzotta.

“I thought that Professor 

Young’s 
presentation 
one 

of her student and how he 
fostered a sense of reimagining 
the 
possible 
even 
with 
a 

stutter,” Mazzotta said. “He 
really seems to have taught 
her more about her teaching 
abilities and touched everyone 
in his class.” 

Wrapping up the panel was 

Business senior Sam Orley, 
the 
executive 
director 
of 

Wolverine Support Network, 

who discussed how events in 
his personal life led him to get 
involved with mental health 
matters on campus.

“In 2013 as I was entering 

my senior year of high school, 
and my brother was a junior 
at Michigan, he took his life,” 
Orley said. “This is of course 
had 
a 
profound 
traumatic 

impact 
on 
my 
life 
both 

being with him and not. But 
experiencing from a distance 
his time at Michigan, and how 
his experience with mental 
illness was largely affected 
by the climate around him. 

It’s not that there weren’t 
people or outlets to get help 
— it’s just that he didn’t feel 
comfortable doing so. That’s 
why I’m here today, and that’s 
what motivated me to join 
Wolverine Support Network.”

Other speakers at the event 

included 
Patrick 
Borchert 

and Lars Gruss, exchange 
Ross 
MBA 
students 
from 

Copenhagen, 
and 
Mark 

St. 
George, 
principal 
at 

PricewaterhouseCoopers 
LLP and board member for 
National Alliance on Mental 
Illness.

“He said ... ‘I don’t see 
how many people can be 
depressed if all I see is smiling 
Wolverines.’ 
After 
hearing 

this disconnect between the 
University and the students, 
we decided we needed to host 
a week of events.”

According to Ball, chair 

of LSA SG’s Public Activities 
Committee, this is the second 
annual Mental Health Diag 
Day, but the first year an entire 
week has been scheduled to 
promote awareness.

“We felt like last year, 

when we would just do a 
single day, it wasn’t enough 
to increase the amount of 

awareness that we wanted to 
bring to mental health and 
positivity,” Ball said.

While 
Ball 
is 
excited 

about the other mental health 
awareness events, she said she 
loves the Diag Day because of 
the energy it brings to campus.

“Personally, 
I 
have 
a 

personal 
attachment 
to 

Mental 
Health 
Diag 
Day 

because I feel like it’s the 
most lively,” she said. “But 
I’m definitely excited for the 
City Health Forum that we 
have. We’re also going to be 
having a TEDx talk which is 
really exciting. But honestly, 
all of it’s great. As long as it’s 
celebrating 
mental 
health, 

that’s all that matters.”

Aside from LSA SG’s table, 

several other organizations 

had booths set up around the 
edges of the diag. LSA senior 
Emma Abed attended as a 
representative from CAPS in 
Action, the student-run mental 
health group connected to 
CAPS. The group, which is 
in its third year, wanted to 
let students know about its 
action-based 
programming 

and the support people can 
find within different mental 
health groups.

“We’re the only student 

mental health org on campus 
that has a direct connection to 
CAPS, which gives us a really 
unique position and a lot of 
different resources than other 
student orgs,” Abed said. “I 
hope that students learn that 
there are so many resources on 
campus and people that want 

to support them. So if they 
are struggling or they know 
people who are struggling, 
just learn who’s out there and 
who they can talk to.”

LSA sophomore Ammar 

Affan stopped by the CAPS in 
Action booth to learn about its 
workshops and mental health 
on campus. He said he thought 
the Diag Day was a good way 
to get the word out about 
mental health awareness.

“I’ve been studying since 

morning and I just needed a 
break and I think that mental 
health is pretty important 
so I just wanted to see what 
the University does,” Affan 
said. “We always talk about 
physical health but I guess it’s 
equally important because it’s 
still health, all in all.”

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These are 

terrible times to 

live in 

I’ve been really humbled and 

amazed by how dedicated 
students are on this campus, 
particularly students of color, 
to fighting for justice and not 

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