Anne Berg, a University of 

Michigan lecturer of History, 
and Rackham student Andrea 
Gillespie discussed the facts 
and stigmas of the current 
refugee crisis at a dinner and 
lecture Saturday evening at 
Rackham Assembly Hall. The 
Michigan Refugee Assistance 
Program hosted the event, 
which illustrated the details 
of the refugee resettlement 
process and the impacts of the 
Trump administration on the 
crisis.

Gillespie, the vice president of 

external affairs of MRAP, works 
with many refugee resettlement 

organizations 
and 
currently 

focuses on refugee and forced 
displacement studies. Gillespie 
stated there are 22.5 million 
refugees currently registered 
with the United Nations High 
Commissioner for Refugees, 
and 20 people are displaced 
every minute.

According 
to 
Gillespie, 

most refugees leave the top 
“source” countries of Syria 
and Afghanistan with the goal 
of fleeing to host countries, 
including Turkey and Pakistan. 
Lebanon is also a major host 
country — she stated one in four 
people in Lebanon are refugees.

The 
Ann 
Arbor 
Police 

Department is recommending 
Scorekeepers –– a bar which, 
thanks to its popularity among 
University of Michigan students, 
is the most Ubered-to destination 
in the state of Michigan — lose 
its liquor license when it expires 
on April 30, according to a report 
from MLive.

The recommendation, made 

at the Jan. 12 meeting of the 
Council Liquor License Review 
Committee, was based on the 
more than 150 service calls to 
the bar in 2017. According to a 
memo signed by AAPD Sergeant 
Bill Clock and presented to the 
committee at its Feb. 2 meeting, 
the AAPD also filed 81 case 
reports for the location last year. 
Case reports, Clock wrote, are 
made for all criminal violations 
“and 
some 
non-criminal 

offenses.”

The memo lists the content 

of several reports, including 
one in which an officer issued 
Minor in Possession citations 
to 
two 
patrons 
who 
were 

drinking though each had an 
“X” written on their hands by 
bar staff, indicating they were 
minors. 
In 
another 
report, 

officers discovered the bar was 
displaying an expired liquor 
license, and in a third, officers 
issued an MIP to a patron who 
they determined had never been 
asked for identification by staff.

“Based on the number of 

overall incidents in 2017, and the 
listed violations, The Ann Arbor 
Police Department does not 
support renewal of this liquor 
license,” Clock wrote.

One student, who requested 

to remain anonymous out of 
fear of legal consequences, said 
Skeeps’ reputation as a haven for 
underage customers was widely 
known. The bouncers were strict 
about asking for ID, the student 
said, but not always as strict about 

making sure it was genuine.

“Everyone basically at Skeeps 

is underage, but they use a fake 
ID to get in,” the student said. 
“Everyone shows some sort of ID, 
whether it’s a fake ID or someone 
else’s ID, to get in.”

The bar has also received 

attention for its practice of 
selling “Skeeps cards” –– $3,000 
cards that give their owners VIP 
status, allowing them to cut the 
line and enter without providing 

proof of age. According to a 2014 
Spoon University article, the 
Skeeps card was originally given 
to patrons who accumulated a 
$1,000 tab and tipped 20 percent, 
but the bar had to raise the price 
several times to match demand. 
The anonymous student said 
she bought a Skeeps card her 
freshman year.

As of January 2018, students 

minoring in Community Action 
and Social Change through the 
School of Social Work are now 
eligible for a Poverty Solutions, 
Action & Engagement certificate. 
The certificate is sponsored by 
Poverty Solutions — an initiative 
that 
seeks 
to 
develop 
new 

strategies to fight poverty — and 
would allow for a more focused 
study within the CASC minor with 
additional resources from Poverty 
Solutions.

Because Poverty Solutions is 

a multidisciplinary initiative on 
campus, it adds and strengthens 
programs 
already 
available 

on campus. Julia Weinert, the 
assistant 
director 
of 
Poverty 

Solutions, said the CASC minor 
coordinated well with the initiative 
because they had similar goals.

“We partnered with the CASC 

minor,” Weinert said. “They’re 
very much aligned with their 
mission and their work to identify 
ways to act on issues of social 
justice.” 

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Student org 
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refugee crisis

All four Democratic candidates 
for governor debate in Ann Arbor

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2018 Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidates wait to speak at the Deomcratic gubernatorial forum at Washtenaw County’s Learning Resources Center 
Saturday.

CAMPUS LIFE

Michigan Refugees Assistance Program 
talks resettlement process, criminalization

REMY FARKAS
Daily Staff Reporter

Candidates talk politicians failing the working-class, field constituent questions

The state of Michigan’s 2018 

Democratic 
gubernatorial 

candidates 
gathered 
at 

Washtenaw County’s Learning 
Resources Center on Saturday 
morning 
while 
attendees 

packed the hallway, exceeding 
the 
venue’s 
250-person 

capacity. 
The 
candidates, 

William Cobbs, Shri Thanedar, 
Gretchen Whitmer and Abdul 
El-Sayed, answered audience 
questions 
regarding 
their 

economic, environmental and 
health care policies.

Candidates 
differed 
on 

several points of policy during 
the debate, but all claimed the 
state of Michigan has failed its 
working-class constituents in 
recent years, often taking aim 
at Republican Gov. Rick Snyder 
and the GOP-led legislature for 
these failures.

On 
the 
economy, 
most 

candidates 
the 
decried 
tax 

cuts and abatements for large 
corporations during Snyder’s 
governorship as a failed policy. 
Cobbs, former vice president 
for 
Xerox, 
supported 
this 

sentiment.

ALON SAMUEL 
Daily Staff Reporter 

Certificate 
available 
for CASC 
students

ACADEMICS

Community Action and 
Social Change minor 
collaborates on program

SAYALI AMIN
Daily Staff Reporter

ALEC COHEN/Daily

The Ann Arbor Police Department recommends that Scorekeepers, a bar popular with University students, lose its 
liquor license when it expires on April 30th. 

AAPD says Skeeps should lose liquor 
license after 156 incidents in 2017

Review committee will decide whether to renew license expiring April 30

ANDREW HIYAMA

Daily News Editor

Gutting one out

Michigan escaped with a 
76-73 overtime win over 
Minnesota on Saturday

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Following 
controversy 

surrounding the Michigan State 
University Board of Trustees, state 
Rep. James Lower, R-Cedar Lake, 
introducedlegislation Thursday to 
change the way higher education 
board members are elected.

Currently, members of the 

state Board of Education and 
the boards of the University of 
Michigan, MSU and Wayne State 
University are selected through a 
statewide popular vote after being 
nominated by political parties. 
For many other universities in 
Michigan, board positions are 
already appointed by the governor.

If 
the 
legislation 
passes, 

Michigan’s 
three 
biggest 

universities would be under more 
government control through a 
constitutional 
amendment. 
It 

requires a two-thirds majority 
vote 
in 
the 
Michigan 
State 

Congress to be put on a ballot.

The plan would call for the 

boards to be terminated at the end 
of 2018, allowing the governor to 
appoint eight members on Jan. 1, 
2019. The state Senate would be 
able to provide advice and consent.

See VOTERS, Page 2

Bill drafted 
to let Gov., 
not voters, 
pick boards

GOVERNMENT

Proposal comes in wake 
of Larry Nassar case, 
outrage against MSU

CARLY RYAN
Daily News Editor

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