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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

College Student
@CollegeStudent

May your D’s turn to C’s and 
your C’s raise to A’s and B’s.
In the name of GPA I pray, 
amen.

Austin McCoy
@AustinMcCoy3

Props to the guy who seemed 
to be streaming TV
/movie 

while sitting in a public bath-
room stall. I admire not having 
that type of shame. haha

Little Nicole
@NikkiPowley

You stop buying happy Meals 
at @McDonalds. I haven’t 
reached this stage in my life 
yet. #SignsYoureARealAdult

rachel
@racheld1899

I HAAAAAATE DRIVING IN 
ANN ARBOR

Government, Business 
and Human Rights: 
What are the Stakes?
WHAT: Lt. Col. Eldridge 
R. Singleton, a senior DoD 
official, will discuss the role 
government-business relations 
in addressing international 
human rights issues.

WHO: International Institute

WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.

WHERE: Weiser Hall, Room 355

Contemporary Directions 
Ensemble

WHAT: Performance of works 
by three giants of contemporary 
music: Charles Ives, Pierre Boulez 
and Elliott Carter. Conducted by 
Oriol Sans.

WHO: School of Music, Theatre 
& Dance

WHEN: 8 p.m.

WHERE: Earl V. More Building, 
Hankinson Rehearsal Hall

Ahava Shabbat Dinner

WHAT: Part of Hillel’s 
campuswide ShabbUM event, 
Ahava will host a Shabbat dinner 
for members of the LGBTQ Jewish 
community.

WHO: AHAVA

WHEN: 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

WHERE: School of Social Work, 
Room B760

Friday Flicks: Dunkirk

WHAT: A free screening of the 
acclaimed war film ‘Dunkirk,’ 
which portrays the English 
army’s evacuation from France 
during WWII. Popcorn and 
water provided.

WHO: Center for Campus 
Involvement

WHEN: 9 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.

WHERE: Michigan Union

World AIDS Day

WHAT: A screening and 
dicussion of ‘Alternate Endings, 
Radical Beginning,’ a video work 
about the narratives of the Black 
community within the AIDS 
epidemic.
WHO: University of Michigan 
Museum of Art
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 7:45 p.m.
WHERE: UMMA, Helmut Stern 
Auditorium

CSAS Lecture: Self & the 
World in a Life Narrative

WHAT: Chitralekha Zutshi, 
professor of history at the 
College of William and Mary, 
will examine the autobiography 
of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah, 
the Kashimiri political leader.

WHO: Center for South Asian 
Studies

WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Weiser Hall, Room 110

African Migration to 
Europe: Black Diamonds

WHAT: Screening of ‘Black 
Diamonds,’ a film that follows the 
journey of two boys from Mali 
to Spain in dream of escaping 
poverty through becoming 
professional soccer players.

WHO: Dept. of Romance 
Languages & Literature
WHEN: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: North Quad, LRC 
Viewing Room

Fall Commencement 
Celebration: Big House 
Tour

WHAT: Graduating seniors are 
invited to a tour of Michigan 
Stadium. RSVP required. 

WHO: Center for Campus 
Involvement

WHEN: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

WHERE: Michigan Stadium

their respective emails that 
though 
they 
support 
the 

right of students to protest, 
they encouraged them to not 
participate.

“We 
urge 
you 
not 
to 

participate in such a protest, 
which gives power to the 
people who spread falsehoods 
and 
hate,” 
Moje 
wrote. 

“Instead, we urge you to teach 
your courses and use them 
as an opportunity to engage 
our students in discussions 
about free speech, the power 
of multiple perspectives, how 
to launch productive protests, 
and about the right to the 
opportunity to learn for all 
people.”

Instructors take action
With a number of students 

planning 
to 
participate 
in 

the strike, professors across 
campus 
acknowledged 

the 
ongoing 
#StopSpencer 

events 
and 
made 
efforts 

to 
accommodate 
students 

missing class. 

David Gerdes, Arthur F. 

Thurnau Professor of Physics, 
did not cancel class Thursday, 
but offered accommodations 
for students in his Physics 240 
class, 
making 
participation 

extra credit and providing 
students the opportunity to 
make up attendance points. 

Though 
Gerdes 
said 
he 

understands students should 
protest Spencer in their own 
way, he believes holding class 
Thursday 
and 
encouraging 

attendance 
is 
the 
most 

powerful course of action.

“I understand the urge to 

protest Spencer, however I 
think that someone like him 
derives his power from the 
power to distract, disrupt and 
capture the narrative,” Gerdes 
said. “I don’t feel that the best 
way to respond to ignorance 
and hatred is to bring our 
teaching mission grinding to 
a halt. But I understand that 
people disagree about this.”

Ultimately, Gerdes said he 

believes opening a conversation 

with students about recent 
events is a significant step 
professors should take.

“I thought it would be 

important 
to 
not 
pretend 

that we live in a bubble, to 
acknowledge 
what’s 
going 

on and to make the students 
understand that I am aware of 
their concerns and that I share 
many of their concerns and I 
am willing to support them 
within reason,” he said.

Associate 
Sociology 

professor 
Sandra 
Levitsky 

rescheduled 
her 
Thursday 

class in light of the day’s 
events.

“My planned lecture for 

today 
was 
really 
essential 

for the final class paper and 
I didn’t want anyone to be 
disadvantaged for missing it,” 
Levitsky said.

Fortunately, Levitsky had an 

extra class built in the syllabus, 
meaning students will not be 
academically affected.

Several GSIs also canceled 

discussion 
sections. 
One 

GSI, who asked to remain 
anonymous to not jeopardize 

her job, told her students 
that while canceling a 
class defies both LSA and 
departmental policy, she 
would do so.

“I strongly believe that 

learning happens in and 
out of the classroom,” 
she wrote in an email 
to her students. “Please 
take this time to educate 
yourself 
about 
current 

issues, reflect on your 
responsibilities to ensure 
a safe and welcoming 
space to learn, and act 
according to your beliefs.”

Students sit in at Dean’s 

office

Late 
Thursday 

morning, a couple dozen 
students held a sit-in at 
Martin’s office, talking 
to Martin and Angela 
Dillard, 
LSA 
associate 

dean 
of 
undergraduate 

education. 
Throughout 

the 
sit-in, 
students 

continually 
took 
issue 

with the administrators’ 
tones, 
saying 
they 

were 
dismissive 
and 

STRIKE
From Page 1

Every Friday, The Michigan 
Daily republishes an article 
from The Daily’s archives 
from a moment in University 
history. 

January 10, 1970 
— “This 

is one struggle the people 
will win,” vows a bearded 
Blue Panther revolutionary, 
speaking of the battle over 
the name of the sign in the 
Regent’s Plaza. This battle, 
begun last term, seems to be 
growing more heated as the 
winter becomes colder.

One minute the sign says 

“Regent’s Plaza,” and the 
next it is repainted to say 
“People’s Plaza.” You never 
can be quite sure what the 
name of the plaza between 
the SAB and the Union is 
at any one moment without 
first consulting the sign.

The struggle to control 

the sign is escalating into 

a half-serious game of 
wits fought by a group of 
students calling themselves 
the “Canadian Blue 
Panthers” and another 
group calling itself “the 
University.”

According to a scoreboard 

posted in the SAB office of 
the SGC coordinating Vice 
President Bruce Wilson, 
the score in the battle is 
now People 713 and Regents 
a puny 100. This score is 
compiled by totaling up the 
hours in which the sign says 
either “People’s Plaza” or 
“Regent’s Plaza,” counting 
from Dec. 6, the day of the 
first repainting by the Blue 
Panthers.

A spokesman for the 

Panthers, who called 
himself the chairman of 
the sign division, hinted 
that repainting of the sign, 
which as of yesterday 

said “Regent’s Plaza,” is 
imminent and could take 
place “some night around 
about midnight.” He fondled 
a can of blue spray paint as 
he spoke.

“We would have repainted 

the sign sooner, but it 
was too cold,” he went 
on defensively, as if his 
revolutionary zeal might 
be questioned. “Anyway, 
the plant workers have 
something which takes 
enamel off the sign.”

As if to emphasize that 

the struggle for control of 
the sign is a true people’s 
struggle, the Panther 
spokesman pointed out 
that “the masses have 
occasionally done the job 
for us.”

Plant manager A.B. 

Veker, less concerned with 
the ideological questions 

involved in the struggles 
and more concerned with 
the problem of the sign 
itself, admits that “we 
haven’t any idea how to stop 
the repainting of the sign.”

“We haven’t found the guy 

who’s doing it yet,” Veker 
says.

Plant workers did try one 

tricky maneuver over the 
Christmas holidays, taking 
the plates off the sign. They 
put the plates, which said 
“Regent’s Plaza,” back on 
the sign last Wednesday.

According to the Blue 

Panther spokesman, the 
struggle for the sign is being 
aided by the fact that “the 
guys in the Plant Dept. don’t 
like working on weekends.”

 
—AL SHACKELFORD

FRIDAY’S BICENTENNIAL FEATURE: ALL POWER TO THE PLAZA: PEOPLE SMASH REGENTS

See STRIKE, Page 3

