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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

michigandaily.com

For more stories and coverage, visit

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

Old West Side

Germantown

Elbel

Oxbridge

Tappan

South University

East Packard

Yost

Old Fourth Ward

North Ingalls

Under 10,000 
10,000 to 30,000 
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60,000 to 90,000 
120,000 t0 150,000
150,000 to 190,000
190,000 to 220,000 
220,000 and up

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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