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It was a tense night in the
Central
Student
Government
chambers as attendees discussed
the question of divestment and
Students Allied for Freedom
and Equality petitioned CSG
to pass a resolution supporting
the divestment from companies
operating in Israel on the behalf
of Israel.
Last year, during the David
Schafer administration — the
previous CSG president — the
resolution failed to pass —
however, with its closest margin
ever, at 34 to 13.
A group of about 50 students
from the Latinx Alliance for
Community Action, Support and
Advocacy arrived at the chambers
during community concerns to
present their case in support of the
Palestinian students on campus
— which is not yet a resolution.
The group petitioned and spoke
about how they believed in and
supported divestment.
“It is my moral obligation to
stand here in solidarity with my
Palestinian brothers and sisters,”
Public Policy senior Gloriela
Iguina-Colon said. “As Latinx
people we know what it feels
like to be run out of our homes,
to know that there are legacies
of colonialism persisting today,
to feel in our souls the pain of
ours and others’ oppression, to
know that our liberation is bound
together.”
Representatives from LACASA
related
to
the
struggles
of
Palestinian students and spoke
about how they believed these
companies
were
committing
human rights violations. Heated
arguments formed as the group
expressed
their
sentiments
and were quickly silenced by
CSG’s uniform processes and
regulations.
Some CSG members fired
back and asked the community
members to stop disrespecting
them,
to
which
the
group
responded by saying they were
trying to make their voices
heard to the people they elected
as representatives.
This
later
sparked
a
conversation
among
CSG
members to pause rules and
open caucus during agenda
topics like community concerns
in order to make CSG more
accessible to the general student
body.
Another group, who said
they were Palestinian students
speaking on behalf of other
Palestinians, called on CSG to
support them in having their
concerns acknowledged by the
University of Michigan. They
called for CSG’s assistance in
creating an ad hoc, unbiased
committee of professionals to
look further into the issue and
hear concerns on both sides.
“What
we’re
proposing
with this resolution is for the
University to create a board
to make these decisions about
divestment,” LSA senior Reema
Kaakarli said. “What we’re
asking for, because we know
this is such a controversial
and difficult topic, is for the
University to create an ad hoc
committee to work directly
with the divestment office, and
put together a group of people
who have a lot of knowledge
about the University and how
divesting would work.”
The group called for CSG to
acknowledge their voices and
the needs of the students at the
University, and asked for help
in getting administration to do
the same. They want a group
of
impartial
individuals
to
research into the situation and
student reactions and propose
alternate companies to divest
in.
CSG also passed resolutions
in
support
of
funding
a
SAPAC conference, protecting
resources
that
support
survivors of sexual assault and
a calculator loan program, both
unanimously.
Black
holes,
new
planet
discoveries and now, breaking
records.
For
University
researchers, the sky isn’t the
limit — and neither is space.
A
Hall
thruster
engine
designed by a University of
Michigan team has broken
records
in
its
speed
and
efficiency,
compared
to
similar devices used in space
technology today.
The project research and
development was headed by
Alec
Gallimore,
University
of
Michigan
professor
of
aerospace
engineering
and
Robert
J.
Vlasic
dean
of
Engineering.
The development of a Hall
thruster relies on technology
which
utilizes
the
power
generation
capability
of
a
spacecraft
through
solar
rays, putting power in a small
amount of propellants, more
than
is
possible
through
naturally occurring chemistry.
This technology would replace
the
standard
conventional
chemical rockets, as it has been
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INDEX
Vol. CXXVII, No. 21
©2017 The Michigan Daily
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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
CROS SWO R D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
ADMINISTRATION
Research
takes steps
with Mars,
technology
RESEARCH
‘U’ team thruster engine
designed broke records in
its speed and efficiency
KATHERINA SOURINE
Daily Staff Reporter
RHEA CHEETI/Daily Reporter
Students gather in CSG Chambers in support of divestment Tuesday evening.
Over 50 students call for divestment
during Central Student Government
The assembly also passed a resolution on supporting funding for a SAPAC conference
RHEA CHEETI
Daily Staff Reporter
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See MARS, Page 3A
The Meijer grocery shuttle,
a Central Student Government
initiative
that
last
year
provided
students
with
a
weekly bus shuttle to Meijer,
has
been
discontinued
for
future use. The service was
launched in fall 2016 under
former CSG President David
Schafer’s
administration,
which worked closely on the
issue of food insecurity on
campus.
According to Engineering
junior AJ Ashman, CSG chief
of staff to the vice president,
the program began with a
commission within Shafer’s
administration in order to
assist freshmen who live off
campus or who might not be
aware of the food options
available to them outside of
the dining halls. Specifically, a
goal of the administration was
to help those students of low
socioeconomic
backgrounds
find
less
expensive
food
options,
as
many
grocery
stores in the heart of campus
are more expensive are than
See MEIJER, Page 3A
CSG body
puts brakes
on Meijer
bus route
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
The old transportation
service costed $1,600 a
week for governing body
JORDYN BAKER
Daily Staff Reporter
Considering
the
protests
on campus that followed the
speech from Charles Murray
last month and student concerns
over a possible visit from
Richard Spencer, The Daily sat
down with University President
Mark
Schlissel
to
address
these issues, the progress the
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
plan has made over the past
year and the renaming of the
C.C. Little building.
The Michigan Daily: Since
our last meeting with you, the
one-year anniversary for the
DEI plan has passed. How do
you think the progress has been
going and how has its execution
really been performed over the
past year?
President Mark Schlissel: I
think the best way of answering
that is to highlight next week’s
summit. So we have a Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion summit
with multiple events through
the week, which will include
Rob Sellers and myself releasing
our report on the first year,
which has both a summary and
then a whole bunch of individual
reports from all the schools and
colleges that lays out each of
their objectives and reports on
progress over the first year. If I
had to say in general, I think the
initiative is off to a good start,
but there’s a huge amount of
work to be done and there are
some things that are immediate
and short term, and there are
Schlissel on
free speech,
C.C. Little,
DEI summit
See SCHLISSEL, Page 2A
In monthly interview, ‘U’ president
gives insight into his thoughts on issues
ALEXA ST. JOHN
& ANDREW HIYAMA
Managing News Editor &
Daily Staff Reporter
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North Ingalls
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Family Income
and Student
Housing Location
Students think there’s more to
housing than SES, survey finds
Results indicate students wary of expense, relationship between SES and location
The Michigan Daily administered
a survey to 1,000 randomly selected
respondents at the University of
Michigan campus. There were 100
respondents, representative of all off-
campus neighborhoods as delineated
by Beyond the Diag. The following
article includes data collected in this
survey, particularly regarding the
relationship between socioeconomic
status and housing location.
For Kinesiology sophomore Paige
Willian, the matter of procuring
off-campus housing was a decision
shaped by recommendations from
her peers rather than monthly
rent — yet, after having lived in her
apartment for a couple of months,
she said she now strongly believes
housing is segregated by students’
financial situations.
“Looking for housing last year,
I was fortunate enough to not
worry too much about the price
of my living situation,” she said.
“I chose my apartment building
through recommendations from
older students I knew that were
older than me who do happen to
be of similar socioeconomic status
to myself. This year I definitely see
that this results in segregation of
housing by how much students can
afford.”
According to the housing cost
survey administered by The Daily
KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporter
See HOUSING, Page 3A
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