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. The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Tuesday, October 10, 2017 — 3 CLAIRE MEINGAST/Daily Protestors march for the Indigenous Peoples Day rally in the Diag Monday. INDIGE NOUS PEOPLES R ALLY 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.” MCITY From Page 1 SACUA From Page 1 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.” PANEL From Page 1 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.” CELEBRATE From Page 1 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.” HEALTH From Page 1 DIAG From Page 2 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 settling for any less