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Monday, October 30, 2017
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“What can we do now?” was the
question for many after President
Donald Trump’s election win back
in November, particularly at the
Women’s March — a day after his
inauguration in January — which
saw thousands of women protest
Trump’s policies and behaviors
towards women and minorities.
Many activists considered his
presidency
the
embodiment
of discriminatory policies and
thought.
After the end of the afternoon’s
main event, one of the Women’s
March co-chairs, Linda Sarsour,
told all women to “get to work.”
The Women’s Convention, set
in the Cobo Center of Detroit,
was organized around the idea
of giving women and allies the
political tools to understand the
problems in the country and
turning concerns into action.
A central message seen this
weekend was to support female
politicians in 2018, when Congress
is up for grabs.
Despite
the
priciness
of
the event — tickets were $295
—
scholarships
and
group
registrations were provided, over
5,000 were in attendance from
across the country.
The host city was also a focus
in the discussions across the three
nights — according to Sarsour,
Detroit represents many of the
systematic concerns the speakers
and panelists hoped to address.
“We
actually
intentionally
chose Detroit as a place we
wanted to invest our resources
in,” Sarsour said earlier this year
in the Detroit Free Press. “As a city
that reflected a lot of the issues
that people were working on
across the country with poverty,
police brutality, gentrification, we
thought there was a lot of really
great organizing already going
on in Detroit and wanted to give a
platform to those organizers with
the conference.”
The morning welcome saw
#MeToo founder Tarana Burke
and actress Rose McGowan;
#MeToo is the hashtag created to
bring awareness of the prevalence
of sexual assault and harassment
in women’s lives, created shortly
after the take down of former
media mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Friday evening saw prominent
female
politicians,
including
Sen. Kristen Gillibrand, D-N.Y.,
and U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence,
D-Mich.,
as
an
emphasis
throughout the event was the
importance of electing women in
office. According to the Women’s
March organizers, more than
20,000 women have committed
to run for office.
“Do not wait for some white
knight in Washington,” Gillibrand
said. “It is the grassroots ... it is
you. The resistance is you.”
Lawrence expanded on the
concept of losing birth control
but still having Viagra covered by
insurance companies.
“The
conversation
changes
when a woman takes a seat at
Billy Stevens still hadn’t let go of
the trophy.
Not when he got on the
bus
to
Baltimore-Washington
International Airport. Not when
he got landed in Detroit. Not for the
bus ride back to Ann Arbor, either.
He said he couldn’t let it out of his
sight.
And really, can you blame him?
The Michigan men’s soccer team
was the Big Ten champion. It took
104 minutes, but the 17th-ranked
Wolverines topped No. 9 Maryland,
2-1, in College Park.
No one could have seen this
coming.
Last season, the Wolverines
finished with four wins in 19
games. Two years before that,
Stevens came to Ann Arbor as a
member of the No. 2 recruiting
class in the nation, only to finish
with six victories.
But Michigan held a meeting
after the 2016 season, one that
ended with an unsurprising loss to
the top-ranked Terrapins. Stevens
doesn’t remember exactly when it
happened. He remembers what it
was about.
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INDEX
Vol. CXXVII, No. 19
©2017 The Michigan Daily
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A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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SPORTS..........B-SECTION
ADMINISTRATION
Men’s soccer
clinches first
ever Big
Ten title
SPORTS
Michigan defeated
Maryland, 2-1, in double
overtime
KEVIN SANTO
Managing Sports Editor
ALEXIS RANKIN/Daily
Attendees of the Women’s Convention in Detroit Friday.
Women’s Convention in Detroit brings
female leaders in business, government
The convention was the first in 40 years, reconvening in response to President Trump
NISA KHAN
Daily News Editor
Another one
The Michigan football
team has a new starting
quarterback in redshirt
freshman Brandon Peters,
and he could alter the course
of the Wolverines’ season.
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See SOCCER, Page 2B
See CONVENTION, Page 3A
The University of Michigan
Lecturers’
Employee
Organization gathered Friday
morning in Pierpont Commons
on North Campus to bargain
for higher wages, improved
benefits and fairer performance
evaluations. LEO organizers,
lecturers and allies of the
union also held a rally outside
to promote awareness of these
issues.
LEO
is
a
member-run
organization for non-tenure-
track instructional faculty at
the University of Michigan
across all three campuses: Ann
Arbor, Dearborn and Flint. The
union, founded in 2003, serves
as a bargaining agent for 1,500
lecturers.
LEO not only unites lecturers
across all three campuses but
also serves to protect their
members from injustice. LEO
Flint Chair Stephanie Vidaillet
Gelderloos,
lecturer
III
in
English, teaches on the Flint
campus and has been a member
of LEO since 2013.
“The Union to me is like a
See RALLY, Page 3A
LEO rally
advocates
for increase
of benefits
ACADEMICS
The Lecturer’s Employee
Organization promotes
awareness, wants more pay
ALEX COTT
Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan
is no stranger to outer space.
Now, with the closure of the
University’s
Bicentennial,
a first-ever time capsule —
containing
information
all
about a modern Michigan — will
be launched into the cosmos.
The Michigan Bicentennial
Archive,
referred
to
as
“M-BARC”, hosted a panel
Friday afternoon in Stamps
Auditorium
to
reveal
the
finished
Bicentennial
time
capsule.
The
capsule
was
presented
to
the
students
who created it, and includes
interviews from hundreds of
members of the University
of
Michigan
community
including
students,
faculty,
staff and alumni to give future
generations a clear image of
what the University was like
during its bicentennial year.
The event began with various
speakers including University
President Mark Schlissel and
Gary Krenz, executive director
of
the
Bicentennial
office.
The
event
continued
with
M-BARC’s panel, in which
students showed videos of the
process, answered questions
regarding the creation of the
time capsule and unveiled the
finished product.
“The
M-BARC
project
represents
a
new
chapter
in
Michigan
research
and
educational
excellence,
and
also in Michigan ambition,”
Schlissel said during the event.
“The M-BARC project unites
the extraordinary talents of the
Bicentennial
time capsule
launching
soon in space
See CAPSULE, Page 3A
Michigan Bicentennial Archive hosted a
panel to showcase the capsule’s contents
SAYALI AMIN
For the Daily
University hosts Bicentennial finale
3-D interactive light HAILstorm! show paid
tribute to the 200 year legacy of the ‘U’
“Arriving Home” art installment reflects
on dedication, diversity of faculty, staff
Students,
faculty
and
community members gathered
together in Ingalls Mall to
watch HAILstorm! on Friday
night, the 3-D light show that
paid tribute to the University
of Michigan’s 200 year legacy.
The show was projected on
the outside of the Rackham
Building,
and
was
deemed
the pinnacle of the University
of
Michigan
Bicentennial
Celebrations. It was produced
by
the
Bicentennial
Office,
Bluewater
Technologies
and
Maxin10sity,
and
featured
a wide variety of high-tech
graphics and animation. Along
with
the
show,
there
was
music, food and festivities for
Pop-up
tents
and
exhibits
showcasing the future of the
University of Michigan littered
the Diag on Friday as the
University concluded celebrations
for its Bicentennial.
The events began with the
dedication of a new statue called
“Arriving Home” — a stainless
steel and acrylic spiral which
reflects
colors
that
change
depending on time of day and
sun angle — located near the C.C.
Little Science Building. According
to Diane Vasquez, co-founder of
Voices of the Staff, the circular
nature of the statute reflects that
“the staff are important to the
AMARA SHAIKH
Daily Staff Reporter
MORGAN SHOWEN, RACHEL
CUNNINGHAM &
KATE JENKINS
Daily Staff Reporters & For the Daily
See BICENTENNIAL, Page 3A
ALEC COHEN AND MICHAEL BARSKY/DAILY
As part of the UM Bicentennial Fall Festival, students signed a block M during the day on the Diag and a video projection was shown at night on Rackham.
See FINALE, Page 3A