Former Michigan Governor
John Engler has been chosen for
the interim president of Michigan
State
University
Wednesday
morning
morning,
following
the Larry Nassar scandal that
prompted the resignation of
university president, Lou Anna
Simons. Students and faculty
protested the decision in droves
at the university board of trustees
meeting that same day.
Engler is a Republican and
Michigan State University alumni
who graduated in 1971 with a
degree in agricultural economics.
He served as Michigan’s governor
from 1991 to 2002.
He
was
voted
into
the
position by MSU’s Board of
Trustees, which consists of four
Democrats and four Republicans,
unanimously.
“We owe it to them to fix the
problems and to change the
culture so that a better MSU will
be their legacy, and that they
know something positive came
out of their suffering,” he said in
a public statement Wednesday
afternoon.
Despite the unanimous vote,
many students and faculty at the
University have criticized his
selection. Students came to voice
their concerns at the Board of
Trustees meeting later that day in
a “flood” of protest. One of these
concerns, felt by faculty members
Award-winning journalist
Brooke Jarvis and award-
winning
anthropologist
Jason De León, an associate
professor at the University
of
Michigan,
participated
in a discussion Wednesday
afternoon about the stories
and
findings
behind
immigration
statistics.
A
day after President Donald
Trump’s State of the Union
focusing on more stringent
immigration
policy,
both
panelists explored the ripple
effects of immigration policy
on individuals and families,
and the intersections therein,
moderated by Ann Lin, an
associate professor of public
policy.
The
discussion,
which
was part of the Livingston
Lectures hosted by Wallace
House
and
sponsored
by
the Ford School of Public
Policy, began with Jarvis
summarizing
her
article
“Unclaimed”,
published
in The California Sunday
Magazine.
The
article
is
about a unidentified man in a
comatose state who spent 16
years in the hospital. He was
suspected to be a migrant,
but there was not much to his
story.
“His story was so short, it
was just a shadow of a story,”
Jarvis said.
Over those 16 years, many
people contacted the hospital
thinking that the man was
their loved one. Jarvis was
struck by number of families
that endured the loss of a
loved one attempting to cross
the border.
“The point of the story
was to learn more about all
these families and what their
experience was like,” Jarvis
said.
Jarvis
and
De
León—a
recent
MacArthur
Genius
honoree — both talked about
Facebook and other online
groups that have been created
for the sole purpose of sharing
stories about and looking for
loved ones that have been lost
crossing the border.
“It’s this whole world of
people sharing stories and
sharing pictures, either of
someone they’ve lost or of
someone whose been found,”
Jarvis said.
The discussion then moved
to President Donald Trump’s
anti-immigration rhetoric and
his plans to build a wall, and
then moved to immigration
laws in general. Trump vowed
to tighten restrictions on
immigrants during the State
of the Union Tuesday evening,
blasting terror attacks he
claimed were enabled by the
This flu season is shaping up
to the most severe since the 2009
swine flu pandemic. According
to the Centers for Disease
Control
and
Prevention,
flu
season typically peaks between
December and February the
United States. As we near the
height of the season, University
of
Michigan
students
have
flooded into University Health
Service.
Researchers have said cold
weather and a less effective flu
vaccination has enabled the
efficacy of the virus this season.
Additionally, a particularly hard-
hitting strain of the virus, H3N2,
make up 80 percent of flu cases
this year. According to UHS,
the flu vaccination is 70 percent
effective in preventing the illness
in healthy patients.
Arnold Monto, a professor
at the School of Public Health,
said this year’s vaccination is
less effective than usual due to a
“triple whammy.”
“We’ve got big outbreaks,
we’ve got the virus that is
causing the outbreaks being the
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Engler met
with protest
as new MSU
interim head
Debate surrounds placement of
city staff on police review board
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Based on several incidents of police brutality and concerns of transparency within the Ann Arbor police department, the Human Rights Commission is assembling a
task force to draw a charter for a police review board.
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Citizen groups argue police positions on new commission will be conflict of interest
Based on several incidents of
police brutality and concerns
of transparency within the Ann
Arbor police department, the
Human Rights Commission is
assembling a task force to draw a
charter for a police review board.
Though City Council, HRC and
local community groups agree
on the need for the commission,
they disagree on whether City
Council members, City staff and
the deputy police chief should sit
on the board.
The purpose of the police
review board, currently referred
to as the Co-Produced Policing
Commission, is to train and
educate the police and general
public,
review
community
complaints
and
police
interactions, improve community
policing outcomes and foster
positive relationships between
Ann Arbor residents and the
police force. As a first step, HRC
is forming a temporary task force
made up of community members
who will design a charter for the
Council to vote on. The charter
will include bylaws and a general
framework for the community-
based commission.
The
HRC
is
accepting
applications for the task force
ALEX COTT
Daily Staff Reporter
See FLU, Page 3A
This year’s
flu strain
especially
dangerous
KICKER
‘U’ researchers point to
weather, student living
conditions, vaccination
MOLLY NORRIS
Daily Staff Reporter
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Brooke Jarvis, a contributing writer to The New York Times, speaks on the panel Beyond The Wall: The Human Toll of
Border Crossings at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Tuesday.
Award-winning journalist talks stories
of immigration from personal lens
Jarvis, Lin highlight human repercussions after Trump crackdown on policy
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at international culture,
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At
its
weekly
meeting
Wednesday
evening,
the
University
of
Michigan’s
LSA
Student
Government
confirmed
six
appointed
representatives and officially
added ten members to the
Budget Allocations Committee.
Appointments
Committee
Chair Kevan Casson, an LSA
sophomore, welcomed the new
members and urged them to
reach out with questions.
“I really want to be a
resource for you,” Casson said.
Casson
also
said
going
forward,
the
Appointment
Committee plans to “taper
down” its recruitment of new
representatives.
Two new resolutions were
passed during the meeting.
The
first,
sponsored
by
Counsel Nathan Wilson, an
LSA junior, passed 29 to 0
with no abstentions. The bill
is an amendment to the ninth,
18th and 19th chapters of LSA
SG bylaws and redefines the
responsibilities of the election
director. The resolution also
See LSA SG, Page 3A
LSA gov.
welcomes
incoming
members
STUDENT GOV
Representatives propose
zero-waste initiatives,
acting on MSU scandal
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