After
confirmation
that
prominent
white
supremacist
Richard Spencer requested to speak
at the University of Michigan, the
NAACP and Black Student Union
released
statements
requesting
action to bar Spencer from speaking.
The Black Student Union sent a
letter to University President Mark
Schlissel and the Board of Regents
Tuesday night that demanded
Schlissel deny Spencer’s request,
especially in light of recent racist
events on campus.
“Allowing such a person to
speak on this campus is a threat to
the physical and emotional safety
of many students on campus,”
the letter read. “Too many times
already have students of color been
placed under emotional distress due
to racist campus climate.”
With the University set to take
part in a weeklong summit to
examine the Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion plan, the letter explained
the hypocrisy in advocating for a
welcome and secure environment
yet allowing speakers like Charles
Murray and potentially Spencer on
campus. Furthermore, the letter
explained worries about potential
violence if Spencer were to speak
— schools including the University
of Florida and Michigan State
University have denied Spencer’s
request to speak in order to protect
their students’ safety.
“Richard Spencer is a violent
white supremacist who advocates
ethnic cleansing, and while he may
deny promoting physical violence,
his supporters engage in violence
against marginalized people with
the intent of protecting white
supremacy,” the letter continued.
“His rally in Charlottesville this
summer drew hundreds of armed
protesters that resulted in the
murder of a Ms. Heyer. His rhetoric
is nothing less than hate speech
and goes against everything the
University claims has no place on
this campus.”
The
University
already
offers
countless
research
opportunities in its 19 schools
and colleges. But on Wednesday,
over 250 of the University’s
interdisciplinary
research
teams, were able to showcase
this work.
The
MCubed
Symposium
consisted of teams referred to
as “cubes” as they are headed
by
three
faculty
members
from at least two different
disciplines.
Launched
in
2012, MCubed has an online
system that streamlines the
process of professors securing
funding. This platform, and its
multidisciplinary
approach,
allows
for
groundbreaking,
innovative research.
During
the
symposium’s
opening remarks, University
of Michigan President Mark
Schlissel
discussed
the
importance of using different
fields in crafting solutions to
problems.
“The biggest problems we face
in society don’t conveniently set
themselves up to be knocked
down by one-source solutions,”
Schlissel said. “Problems don’t
know what disciplines they’re
supposed to fall under. They’re
just problems.”
The keynote speaker was
Francis Collins, the director
of the National Institutes of
Health. He discussed new NIH
programs, including one called
“All of Us” that aims to engage
diverse participants in making
discoveries in medical research.
Collins
applauded
MCubed
for incentivizing researchers
from different fields to work
together.
“One of the challenges we all
have in medical research is that
it often feels like herding cats,”
he said. “The MCubed program
can get the cats moving.”
The
symposium
featured
several “cubes,” with members
of each team describing their
research. One of these cubes
was “Digitizing Orson Welles’
Heart of Darkness.” Orson
Welles proposed a movie to
production
company
RKO
Pictures to be based on Joseph
Conrad’s
novel
“Heart
of
Darkness.” This project was
ultimately shelved and adapted
into “Citizen Kane,” one of
Welles’s most famous movies.
This cube’s purpose was to
make the historical materials
behind the unmade “Heart of
Darkness” movie available to
the public by digitizing them.
Rackham
student
Vincent
Longo, a member of the “cube,”
discussed the goals of the
team’s research.
Ann Arbor’s last odd-year City
Council elections will take place
this upcoming Tuesday, Nov. 7.
The Michigan Daily sat down
with six of the eight candidates to
discuss platforms and how local
races impact University students.
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I think one of the biggest
issues facing Ann Arbor for
the
future
is
that
supply
and demand issue. It affects
everyone: it affects residents,
it affects students … the best
possible solution for this right
now is that you have to develop
and redevelop. You need to make
units available because keeping
it constant where it’s at will just
affect the supply and demand
and cost because if there’s
nothing there, the rents or costs
of buying a house will keep just
skyrocketing and make it less
and less affordable.
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A guide to
the A2 City
Council
2017 race
CITY COUNCIL
The Daily interviewed
each of the candidates
up for election on Tuesday
MAYA GOLDMAN &
ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporters
JOHN YAEGER/Daily
Rackham student Vincent Longo speaks at the M Cubed Symposium “Hail to the Cube” at Rackham Wednesday.
MCubed event hosts National Institutes
of Health director, highlights research
250 interdisciplinary teams presented projects at the symposium dedicated to innovation
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During
the
Bicentennial
celebrations, students, staff and
alumni caught a glimpse into the
University of Michigan’s past
quite literally with the augmented
reality application MGoView. The
app’s users toured 30 historic sites
around campus, spotting flying
cars, woolly mammoths and even
former President John F. Kennedy.
MGoView’s project manager,
Evan Hoye, described the way in
which the application, released
in May 2017, relates to the
Bicentennial.
“The
University
is
looking
toward
its
third
century
as
it discusses the past two,” he
explained.
MGoView offers users detailed
historical tours of the University
while incorporating cutting-edge
technology.
“(The) goal was to focus on the
future and to look at what’s on
these borderlands of technology
and how we can bring that to a
mainstream audience.”
MGoView
app shows
‘U’ history
in new way
CAMPUS LIFE
Augmented reality app
showcases 200 years of
University history, change
KATE JENKINS
For the Daily
Business
senior
Matthew
Mansour has reported to the
Ann Arbor Police Department
and University of Michigan
authorities that he has been
harassed
and
discriminated
against by his roommates after
coming out as gay several weeks
ago on social media.
Mansour,
who
lives
in
Landmark, said his roommates
had been threatening him and
his therapy dog ever since they’d
discovered they would be living
with the emotional support
animal, and this manifested
in them urinating in the dog’s
water bowl and verbally abusing
it.
“I came out on social media
on National Coming Out Day,
and it was kind of difficult,
but I had a lot of support from
my community and friends.”
Mansour said. “But the next day
I was packing for Fall Break,
(my roommate) came home,
started banging on the wall and
screaming, ‘All gays go to hell.’
He was using gay slurs and made
some disgusting, homophobic
comments. This happened that
night and I was really afraid, and
I left to Denver for fall break.”
While Mansour was away
he had a friend come in to
pick something up from the
apartment, where she found
$680 worth of his belongings —
including his kitchenware and
his dog supplies — were missing.
“Everything
was
gone,”
Mansour said. “We found out
that it had been thrown out the
window. My bedroom door had
knife marks all over it. He had
a knife and he was trying to get
into my room by stabbing the
door and stabbing the handle.”
Mansour
believes
one
of
his roommates was the main
perpetrator, though there were
co-conspirators. That roommate
says his friend caused most of
the damage and was the one who
destroyed Mansour’s belongings.
Student was
attacked by
roommates
for sexuality
Campus asks University admin to
reconsider potential Spencer visit
ALEC COHEN/Daily
Students protested the speech of Charles Murray, earlier this semester. Many are now concerned at the prospect of Richard Spencer coming to campus.
CRIME
Student alleges after he came out as gay,
his roommates became hostile, violent
CARLY RYAN &
COLIN BERESFORD
Daily Staff Reporters
RHEA CHEETI
Daily Staff Reporter
After Richard Spencer made a request to speak, campus concerned for safety
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