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“Going forward, the sessions 

will be similar inasmuch as 
there will be a lot of large group 
instruction,” Lazarus said. “But 
we will work more on providing 
tools to deal with inequity 
and 
they 
will 
move 
from 

philosophical to more practical 
discussions.”

Washtenaw 
County 

Commissioner Felicia Brabec 
said this inequity is not a new 
issue for the community and is 
something she has been working 
on personally since the county’s 
equity summit in 2015.

“What we are doing now 

is the culmination of years of 
work of a core group of us really 
working on bringing it to our 
region in a way that is accessible 
for 
folks 
and 
gets 
people 

excited and wanting to address 
inequities and move forward 
on these things,” Brabec said. 
“Sometimes that takes a while, 
but here we are.”

Many 
officials 
agreed 

inequity has been an issue in 
Ann Arbor and Washtenaw 
County for quite some time. 
Councilmember 
Chuck 

Warpehoski, D-Ward 5, said 
there was a time when housing 
policy in Ann Arbor allowed 
deeds that restricted ownership 
of the property to Caucasians. 
While city policies today may 
seem race-neutral, Warpehoski 
said there are still policies that 
drive inequity, one of which was 
a city mobile “A2 Fix It” app 
for reporting issues to the City 

Council.

“These type of policies, while 

they do not appear inequitable, 
cause a racial and digital divide. 
Some people have less access,” 
Warpehoski said. “These things 
need to be equally accessible for 
all people.”

Amid discussion of health and 

educational inequities, Lazarus 
touched on current racial issues 
and public distrust of the Ann 
Arbor Police Department and 
the council’s consideration of 
developing a police review board 
without 
investigative 
power. 

In response to the community 
criticism of the process, Lazarus 
said the police department had 
already gone through inherent 
bias training.

“They (the initiative and the 

review board) are definitely 
related,” Lazarus said. “I think 
part of the goal of the review 
of 
the 
police 
department 

community 
engagement 

practice is to identify the areas 
where the police department 
can 
communicate 
more 

effectively, build trust with 
the community and ensure 
that the way that we police the 
community is in large part the 
way the community wants to 
be policed which revolves on 
breaking down barriers and 
better 
educational 
practices. 

Which is similar to what we are 
doing with the initiative.”

Warpehoski also argued the 

idea of a police review board 
is an ideal that aligns with the 
initiative’s goals.

“While the design of the 

police 
review 
board 
and 

whether it will have police 
members is not established and 

is still an open question, having 
structures both internally and 
externally helps solidify our 
commitment to the people,” 
Warpehoski. “I want all our 
boards considering equity.”

Lazarus, 
Brabec 
and 

Warpehoski 
all 
agreed 
on 

several 
major 
issues 
the 

initiative must address: Health, 
education and housing. Brabec 
said during the session Monday 
she was asked what success for 
the initiative would look like.

“I 
came 
up 
with 
these 

four things right off the top 
of 
my 
head,” 
Brabec 
said. 

“Diminishing 
or 
no 
health 

disparities, 
integrated 

neighborhoods, schools with 
access to the same resources 
and developed transportation.”

While the initiative is still 

in its early educational phases, 
officials say they hope to begin 
making real changes in city 
and county policy soon. The 
initiative, 
Warpehoski 
said, 

is really about the city finally 
following through on its core 
principles.

“We talk a lot about a lot 

of things in this community, 
but for me success means we 
actually roll things out that 
address the inequities that are 
very real,” Warpehoski said. “I 
would really like this to not be 
a once and done type of thing. 
I want this to be an ongoing, 
consistent part of how the city 
and the county does business. So 
that we are always challenging 
ourselves to do better when 
it comes to equity and we are 
consistently year in and year out 
finding ways to address these 
inequities.”

she said.

In response to the initial 

guide, Public Policy junior 
Lauren Schandevel organized 
her own guide titled “Being 
Not-Rich 
at 
UM” 
that 
is 

specifically tailored to lower-
income 
students, 
as 
the 

original 
guide 
was 
geared 

vaguely toward “students from 
all backgrounds.” She said 
this new document would be 
beneficial for those who found 
themselves underrepresented 
in the original.

“I would have liked to see 

more stuff about ways to make 
money on campus because I 
feel like a lot of lower income 
students rely on a steady 
income and scholarships and 
grants and work-study and 
a job, and I felt like that was 
missing in the guide,” she said.

“This is a document in 

which we can be honest about 
the 
barriers 
lower 
income 

and first-gen students face on 
this campus,” the guide reads. 
“This guide is for anyone who 
has ever felt marginalized 
on 
campus 
— 
particularly 

students who are economically 
disadvantaged, and especially 
low-income students of color, 
whose racial oppression is 
often compounded by their 
SES.”

St. Onge, one of over 70 

students with editing access 

on the newer guide, voiced her 
appreciation for the over 10 
sections and 35 pages worth 
of material. These sections 
include general categories such 
as housing and employment, 
as well as specific categories 
that include places to look for 
scholarships, 
study 
abroad 

opportunities, where to shop 
for reasonably priced groceries 
and other necessities.

“If we’re going to have a 

section that’s like upper-class 
‘how to handle your allowance’ 
kind of budgeting that isn’t 
a hugely important part of 
the guide, we really need any 
guide on affordability to start 
with and focus on resources 
that 
actually 
help 
people 

afford to be here,” St. Onge 
said. 
“Understanding 
how 

your financial aid package 
works, how you can use it to 
your benefit, what kind of 
scholarships and employment 
opportunities 
are 
available 

to you, which jobs work well 
with student schedules and 
how you can compete in this 
really intense atmosphere that 
expects you to complete all 
of these incredibly expensive 
internships and study abroad 
programs.”

At 
the 
CSG 
meeting 

Tuesday night, Vice President 
Nadine Jawad, a Ford senior, 
addressed 
the 
controversy 

surrounding the original guide 
and committed to continuing 
to work on the project as a 
whole.

“I want to hold myself 

accountable 
for 
publishing 

a guide that has made some 
students 
feel 
marginalized 

or feel that it has excluded 
a demographic of students 
who think this guide was not 
made for them,” she said. “I 
do believe that all mistakes 
come with positives and I have 
met with many people who 
disagreed with the guide, and 
because of that we have a clear 
path on how to improve.”

Jawad has been actively 

contributing to Schandevel’s 
guide 
and 
made 
plans 

to 
convene 
with 
student 

representatives 
to 
continue 

workshopping 
ideas. 
This 

revised approach pools voices 
from 
students 
who 
have 

personally used resources cited 
in the new guide while adding 
the extensive research found 
by CSG in its development of 
the first copy.

“I believe that this guide can 

be something that represents 
many different backgrounds 
and I appreciate the dedication 
people have made to addressing 
some of the issues with the 
guide,” Jawad said. “As we 
work to get another version on 
the table, I hope more people 
will attend our town halls and 
conversations 
around 
these 

issues with the visibility of the 
guide now. I would love to see 
more people engaging in the 
work we do all years so we can 
hear feedback and continue to 
improve.”

According to LSA freshman 

Juan Orozco, his transition 

into the University as a HAIL 
Scholar 
eliminated 
many 

potential stressors and made 
the 
university 
experience 

much more achievable, but he 
still faces day-to-day struggles 
of living in Ann Arbor.

“I’m a low-income student 

(and) 
coming 
into 
the 

University, I had to rely a lot 
on scholarships and funds to 
actually get here – otherwise 
I wouldn’t be able to attend, 
my family wouldn’t be able to 
handle the debt,” he said.

He referenced the Go Blue 

Guarantee, 
which 
promises 

full tuition to any in-state 
student 
with 
a 
familial 

income of $65,000 or less, as 
a milestone for students in a 
similar situation as him, both in 
ideology and implementation. 
He reaffirmed steady progress 
from the student body and 
its 
student 
government 
is 

essential to continuing to make 
the University a welcoming 
campus and a life-changing 
opportunity for all students to 
learn and flourish.

“I just feel education should 

be equitable for everyone, and 
being able to budget for low-
income students to come into 
U of M and to be able to get an 
education here, and transfer 
that to a degree, and later a 
job, to provide for themselves 
later on, I think that’s the most 
important thing,” he said.

people see as Engler’s weak 
stance on sexual assault. A 
report from Bridge Magazine, 
published by The Center for 
Michigan ––a thinktank that 
analyzes 
and 
informs 
the 

public 
on 
Michigan 
policy 

issues –– recounted Engler’s 
role in a 1990s sexual assault 
case of female prison inmates 
in which he prohibited state 
prison officials from speaking 
to lawyers and United Nations 
investigators to discover the 
scope of the women’s claims. 
In 2009, the stated settled the 
lawsuit for $100 million on 
behalf of 500 women assaulted 
by prison guards.

In anticipation of Engler’s 

appointment 
Tuesday, 
MSU 

professor Rob DeLuca issued 
a statement on behalf of the 
faculty-comprised 
MSU 

Steering 
Committee, 
calling 

for a month- to semester-
long process to appoint a new 
MSU president and strongly 
suggesting it be a woman with 
extensive academic experience. 
He 
claimed 
the 
Board 
of 

Trustees would be ignoring the 
wishes of the MSU community 
by appointing someone with 
no 
academic 
leadership 

experience.

“We 
expressed 
in 
no 

uncertain terms that appointing 
a former Governor with no 
academic leadership experience 

as interim president would not 
be the best way to heal the 
wounds 
of 
our 
community 

in this politically polarized 
climate,” the statement read. 
“The Board of Trustees seems 
to have chosen to ignore major 
stakeholders 
of 
the 
MSU 

community in their rush to 
appoint an interim president.” 

In light of the sentencing of 

Nassar, Engler assured members 
of the community he plans to 
improve MSU communication 
and transparency.

“I will move forward as if 

my own daughters were on this 
campus and will treat every 
student as I would my own 
daughters,” Engler said.

Dan Martel, president of 

MSU’s 
College 
Democrats, 

wrote a letter to the Board 
of Trustees on behalf of the 
chapter calling for a sit-in until 
they are heard.

“The appointment of former 

Gov. John Engler shows a 
clear dismissal of the concerns 
and desires of the student 
body and alumni,” the letter 
read. 
“Instead 
of 
instating 

a clear, transparent process 
for determining the interim 
president, the trustees instead 
chose 
to 
appoint 
Engler 

through 
over-the-weekend 

backroom deals. Instead of 
appointing a uniting figure 
ready to repair campus and take 
on the complex issue of sexual 
assault, the board instead chose 
to appoint a partisan figure that 
would only further divide the 
MSU community.”

“I think it’s the ability to 

critically analyze what they 
see in the sports industry, 
what they see from the outside 
as an insider, and allows them 
to see beyond the messaging 
… and think about what the 
actual plan was, what was the 
problem, what the goal in the 
product (was),” Cho said. “The 
hope is that they can think 
at a level that would provide 
value to an actual company, 
see if they can get to that level 
of thought and analysis that 
would equal or add value to the 
actual people in the industry.”

While 
not 
a 
practicing 

lawyer, Cho is a member of 
the State Bar of California 
and said his legal background 
helps him in his position at the 
University.

“It has helped me more and 

more as my career has gone 
on, particularly in my last 
role at adidas, specifically in 
Basketball Sports Marketing. 
Our global partnership with 
the NBA involved a number 
of larger partnership legal 
agreements 
and 
smaller 

agreements,” Cho said. “It 
has always helped that I can 
approach those and review 
them and finalize them with 
our actual legal team. So not 
practicing law but being able to 
bring the business context with 
an agreement to a discussion 
with our legal team as we are 
finalizing amendments.”

Cho credits his mentors at 

and beyond the University for 
providing him with crucial 
knowledge and experience in 
his industry.

“I’ve 
been 
fortunate 
to 

work with a number of terrific 
mentors 
at 
both 
brands 

who have shared all of their 
previous experience with me 
and allowed me to span a larger 
time frame than my actual time 
in the industry,” Cho said. “So 
I’ve had the fortunate ability 
to work with a number of 
20-plus year veterans at Nike 
and adidas that have shared a 
lot of their experiences with 
me in addition to the direct 
first hand experiences that 
I’ve had and it’s a combination 
of those two that have allowed 
me to get this far.”

Cho’s 
dedication 
to 
the 

University and his newfound 
love of teaching inspires him 
to provide students the same 
wisdom he received as he 
worked in the sports industry.

“I love it,” Cho said. “I 

absolutely love teaching. It’s 
something I think I’ve been 
subconsciously preparing for 
my entire time in the sports 
industry that I have only 
consciously started to think 
about and now plan for but 
it’s incredibly rewarding. For 
me, it’s giving back to the 
students that same experience 
and wisdom that my previous 
mentors and colleagues gave to 
me as I was going through the 
industry. I have no idea if I’ll 
teach another class but even 
this one opportunity is more 
than I ever hoped or expected 
for.”

Kelli 
Donahue, 
associate 

program 
chair 
and 
senior 

lecturer 
at 
the 
Sport 

Management Program, first 
met with Cho to discuss the 
possibility of a lecture.

“It’s 
very 
exciting 
to 

have 
David 
teaching 
for 

us this semester in Sport 
Management,” Donahue wrote 
in an email interview. “David’s 
career working on NBA global 
partnerships and marketing 
for adidas is one that many of 
our students hope to emulate, 
and for them to learn from 
David first hand is immensely 
valuable.”

Kinesiology senior Cameron 

Dotson 
said 
in 
an 
email 

interview he has enjoyed being 
in Cho’s course this semester. 
Dotson was a former intern at 
Under Armour where he met 
one of Cho’s early mentors. He 
said he values Cho’s previous 
experience and the lessons he 
teaches in his course.

“I think the best thing 

I have learned from David 
is the value of being a good 
person and just looking to do 
the right thing when you can. 
Through our conversations, 
as well as personal examples 
that he’s spoken on in lecture, 
it seems as though he really 
prioritizes ethical work, and 
being altruistic in a fast-paced, 
exciting 
industry,” 
Dotson 

wrote. “I think I speak for all 
of my classmates when I say 
that I hope we stay in touch in 
the future!”

violence has been revised as 
well to emphasize that the 
University believes emotional 
abuse 
is 
a 
reoccurring 

behavior and not an isolated 
incident.

In an effort to improve the 

sanctioning 
process, 
cases 

that used to be heard by a 
voluntary board of OIE and 
OSCR-trained faculty, staff 
and student representatives 
will 
now 
be 
heard 
by 

professional OSCR staff. This 
approach 
will 
reportedly 

ensure 
professionals 
with 

significant training will be 
responsible for determining 
proper sanctions.

Rackham student Kamaria 

Porter, who currently serves 
on the sanctioning board, 
wrote in an email she found 
the volunteer board to be an 

unsustainable process due to 
competing schedules and the 
large time commitment of 
case review sessions.

“Being 
on 
the 
board 

is 
a 
huge, 
unpaid 
time 

commitment,” 
Porter 

wrote. “It includes reading 
sometimes hundreds of pages, 
deliberating for hours, and 
follow up emails. In addition, 
we had an 8 hour training. 
Sometimes things come up 
and board members can’t be 
available. That model doesn’t 
seem sustainable in terms of 
securing volunteers who are 
already deeply involved in a 
professional job, serving as 
faculty, or pursuing a degree 
full time. 

Finally, 
the 
option 
of 

mediation 
between 
an 

accuser and the respondent is 
now available in cases of non-
penetrative sexual assault.

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