at the University of Michigan 
… This (is) an issue that 
connects all students,” Irwin 
said.

As the election for new CSG 

representatives 
approaches, 

the 
assembly 
touched 
on 

the need to remain civil and 
fair during campaigning and 
election season. Guest speaker 
Brian Koziara, a University 
Law Student and Yale School 
of 
Management 
student, 

stressed to assembly members 
the importance of respect and 
politeness during the election 
process.

“Remember to be civil, and 

to be kind, “ Koziara said. 
“(You) should act like the CSG 
you want to see in the world.” 

Community 
concerns 

included 
those 
of 
food 

insecurity 
on 
campus. 

The 
University 
is 
the 

only university in the Big 
Ten that does not have a 
university-sponsored 
food 

pantry available to students, 
according to the assembly. 
According to the speakers 
and CSG President Anushka 
Sarkar, an LSA senior, Ann 
Arbor is currently considered 
a food desert, with the nearest 
grocery store a bus or car ride 
away from campus.

“I think this is an important 

first step,” Sarkar said.

Additionally, 
with 
the 

limited dining hall hours and 
lack of affordable nutritious 
food options near campus, 
pressure is being put on the 
University to invest resources 
into addressing this issue. A 
resolution 
was 
introduced 

during the meeting to push 
the University to provide both 
initial and consistent funding 
for a food bank for students, 
as well as the possibility 
of granting financial aid to 
students who are considered 
“food insecure.”

Sarkar mentioned efforts 

to implement a new Wellness 
Zone 
on 
North 
Campus, 

following the creation of the 
first location in the Michigan 
Union in 2011. There are also 
plans to host a meet-and-
greet event in the coming 
weeks in order for students 
to engage with their CSG 
representatives. The release 
of 
CSG’s 
second 
annual 

demographic report has been 
proposed as well.

The 
meeting 
concluded 

with the passing of multiple 
resolutions, 
including 

further 
exploration 
into 

the 
University’s 
potential 

transition from fossil fuels to 
cleaner energy sources, and 
further revision of the CSG 
election code.

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members 
said 
they 
found 

themselves wishing for Baker 
to share more of these quirky 
anecdotes from his career as a 
prolific journalist.

Engineering and Business 

junior Kevin Li noted he 
wanted to hear more of Baker’s 
own experience reporting in 
the White House.

“I think overall I wish he had 

spent a little more time talking 
about specific observations 
he could have made as White 
House 
chief 
correspondent 

for The New York Times,” 
he said. “I really enjoyed the 
stuff about how Biden would 
tap people on the shoulder 
and kind of joke with them, 
whereas Obama was more 
like back with the message. 
But, I think it is always really 
insightful when you have such 
a public figure who is so close 
to the presidency physically 
here in Ann Arbor.”

Business 
junior 
Abhi 

Muchhal also attended Baker’s 
talk and was struck by Baker’s 
observations of how hallmark 
issues unfolded within the 
Obama administration.

“I 
think 
it 
was 
really 

interesting how when you 
first read news stories, they 
are often polarized in one 

direction or the other and 
his perspective taking a lot 
of the moments in Obama’s 
history 
was 
talking 
about 

the nuance,” Muchhal said. 
“How some people thought 
about it this way, some people 
thought about this way and 
how Obama ended up deciding 
it. So it was an interesting way 
to think about Obama’s legacy 
even though it has only been a 
couple years.”

During 
the 
question 

and 
answer 
period, 
many 

audience members echoed the 
sentiment of Li and Muchhal 
and expressed a desire to 
hear more of Baker’s own 
perspective on the issues that 
defined the eight years of 
the 
Obama 
administration. 

However, Baker was quick 
to point out his job is not 
to insert his own opinions. 
Baker’s talk was a collection 
of observations and an attempt 
to forecast how Obama will be 
remembered in history. 

“He is a very disciplined 

guy, and I think we saw that,” 
Baker said. “But, because of 
that, we didn’t necessarily 
always, you know, see the 
world through his eyes. We 
weren’t always sure you know 
what he was thinking or where 
he was going … Obama will 
occupy an important place 
in our history, we just don’t 
know what it will be exactly 
and that is what makes him so 
interesting.”

new modular cabins would 
be 300 square feet each and 
include a sleeping and living 
area and a bathroom with a 
shower.

The 
Johnston 
Hall 

recreational 
facility, 
which 

was destroyed by a tree during 
a storm, would be replaced 
and feature open recreational 
space, 
restrooms 
and 
a 

laundry room. The proposal 
includes 
required 
upgrades 

to the electrical, water supply 
and septic systems as well. If 
approved, the funding for the 
project would come from LSA.

LSA 
freshman 
Kirsten 

Nelson, 
a 
Camp 
Davis 

participant, said while she 
hopes a couple of cabins are 
preserved for their historical 
value, they are definitely in 
need of repair.

“I heard about the possible 

cabin renovations before I 
went out west and I was glad 
I would get to stay in the neat 
old cabins,” she said. “I love 
‘roughing it’ while camping 
but I was surprised to see that 
my cabin had cracks going 
across the entire floor with 

a hole in the middle. A few 
days I moved in, a chizzler dug 
himself up through this hole 
and into my cabin. Although 
the cabins did not ruin my 

experience by any means, I 
would say that it is time for an 
upgrade. I think a few of the 

old cabins should stay at Camp 
Davis for historical value, but I 
definitely support the plan for 
new cabins.”

Echoing Nelson’s tone of 

appreciation for the cabin’s 
rustic 
nature, 
LSA 
junior 

Kyle Doroudian said he has 
sentimental 
memories 
of 

battling the cold and wildlife 
in his living quarters.

“The cabins were a lot of fun 

unless you don’t like the cold 
or are afraid of mice,” he said. 
“I’m sure if you’d asked me this 
question two summers ago, 
I would’ve had a lot stronger 
feelings about it but it’s sort of 
a fond memory for me now, as 
in it was part of the experience 
out there.”

LSA 
sophomore 
Bailey 

Delehant, who will attend 
Camp Davis this summer, said 
she feels comforted knowing 
the University is putting effort 
into maintaining the quality of 
the camp accommodations.

“I’m really happy to see that 

the UM cares just as much 
about updating Camp Davis 
as it does for the Ann Arbor 
campus. I think the people that 
work there and the students 
that attend care about the 
program a lot, and it makes me 
happy to know that the school 
cares just as much.”

concerns over the security of 
University 
email 
accounts. 

Wildfire’s 
email 
utilized 

an old University logo and 
welcomed students back to the 
University after winter break, 
using language such as ‘We’re 
thrilled to have you back 
Wolverines!’ The subject of the 
email was ‘Wildfire App U-M’ 
and the email address was 
seemingly chosen to mimic 
those of the University.

School 
of 
Information 

assistant 
professor 
Florian 

Schaub explained companies 
can find email addresses to 
send 
marketing 
materials 

to through various means, 
including 
targeting 

institutions and paying third 
party websites to release data.

“They try to find ways to 

figure out email addresses,” 
Schaub said. “For example we 
have MCommunity, which is 
a public portal and you can 
search for people and see their 
email 
addresses 
and 
their 

contact information.”

This 
brings 
up 
another 

salient concern on campus 
of internet privacy. As the 
University 
is 
increasingly 

reliant on the internet, more 
and more personal information 
is being uploaded for anyone 
to find. To highlight these 
emerging issues, the School of 
Information and the Office of 
Information Assurance held 
the 
first 
annual 
Privacy@

Michigan symposium at the 
end of January to call attention 
to internet data privacy. Schaub 
spoke at the event and gave 
audience members strategies to 

help them make good internet 
privacy decisions.

As 
for 
situations 
like 

the 
Wildfire 
one, 
where 

information — like an email 
address — has already been 
gathered, 
Schaub 
suggests 

email users be careful when 
coming across an unexpected 
email. 
Overall, 
Schaub 

emphasized that users should 
be suspicious whenever they 
are accessing a link, website or 
application, and urged them to 
read the company’s data policy.

“When I’m signing up for 

a service or a mobile app, (I 
ask) what are they allowed 
to do with my data,” Schaub 
said. “Whenever you use an 
email address you need to be 
really cautious and think about 
who they are sharing this data 
with.”

Dana Fair, the University 

Information and Technology 
Services 
senior 
marketing 

communications 
specialist, 

confirmed Wildfire was not 
affiliated with the University. 
However, Fair explained in an 
email interview Wildfire was 
just a marketing email and not 
malicious software.

“Receiving 
emails 
from 

entities outside the institution 
does not suggest that U-M 
email addresses or the privacy 
of 
individuals 
have 
been 

compromised,” he wrote.

In an email, Interim U-M 

Chief 
Information 
Security 

Officer Sol Bermann echoed 
Fair’s 
statements 
and 

maintained while marketing 
emails may be ‘junk’ and seen 
as annoying, there is little 
that can be done to prevent 
unsolicited 
emails 
from 

entering any inbox.

“The University community, 

myself 
included, 
often 

receives unsolicited marketing 

emails,” Bermann said. “This 
is not much different than 
unsolicited email you get in 
other email accounts you may 
have, and it can certainly be a 
nuisance.”

Many 
email 
accounts, 

whether 
through 
the 

University or personal, are 
subjected to marketing emails. 
However, Wildfire concerns 
some because the application 
claims to provide students 
with safety alerts, similar to 
the emergency alerts which 
the 
University 
Division 
of 

Public Safety and Security 
sends. Having an application 
that is not affiliated with 
the University advertise to 
students 
they 
can 
provide 

emergency 
notifications 

about 
matters 
concerning 

campus safety and security 
may potentially conflict with 
reliable information coming to 
and from DPSS.

DPSS currently sends safety 

and 
crime 
alerts 
through 

multiple channels, such as 
the Michigan App and the 
newly released DPSS App. In 
addition, students and faculty 
can sign up to receive text 
message alerts in the event of 
an emergency.

DPSS 
Associate 
Director 

Melissa Overton said while 
DPSS 
has 
not 
evaluated 

Wildfire, the Michigan and 
DPSS apps are the only alert 
systems 
they 
approve 
of 

because of their reliability.

“We continue to promote the 

Michigan and DPSS apps for 
accurate alert information,” 
she said.

As 
of 
Tuesday 

representatives for Wildfire 
have not responded to requests 
for comment. A link to the 
developer’s website on the 
Apple App Store leads to an 

error message.

LSA sophomore Sean Yoon 

shared 
his 
concern 
that 

Wildfire, an application not 
approved by the University, 
might 
provide 
students 

and faculty with unreliable 
information and sources.

“I definitely think reliability 

comes really important when it 
comes to this issue,” Yoon said. 
“We know DPSS (alerts) are 
credible and they are related 
to the University and they are 
giving us credible information, 
whereas this one we don’t 
know if they are credible or 
not.”

LSA 
junior 
Evelyn 
Kim 

shared Yoon’s concerns about 
the reliability of Wildfire but 
saw some potential benefit 
in having a student-reported 
communication 
app, 
as 

Wildfire depends on students 
to report incidents in a social-
media type platform.

“I think that if there are 

people who are saying they 
witnessed something, that can 
actually help the investigation 
of the case — I think that’s 
actually a helpful side of 
Wildfire,” Kim said. “(But) 
that application should require 
people to at least provide 
their phone numbers so that 
they can provide some critical 
information there.”

However, Yoon and Kim both 

agreed the marketing of the 
application in the email sent 
to students was deceitful and 
problematic because Wildfire 
misrepresented themselves to 
the community as a University-
sanctioned 
application 
for 

campus safety information.

“The fact that they even used 

the logo for the University of 
Michigan is a problem in the 
first place,” Yoon said.

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USA’s core beliefs and his own 
“conservatarian” 
political 

philosophy. He then addressed 
the idea of ideological diversity 
by discussing the future of 
U.S. politics and emphasizing 
the need to challenge the rise 
of leftist ideals on college 
campuses.

Kirk repeatedly expressed 

his disagreement with what he 
calls socialist or neo-Marxist 
ideology, describing socialism 
as 
“the 
greatest 
killer 
of 

humanity in the last 100 years 
and the worst idea of the 20th 
century.”

“It baffles me, the rise 

of 
socialism 
on 
college 

campuses,” Kirk said.

Kirk’s speech touched on 

a variety of other subjects, 
including 
the 
Boycott, 

Divestment 
and 
Sanctions 

movement, 
which 
pushes 

for divestment from Israel. 
A 
#UMDivest 
resolution 

successfully passed in Central 
Student 
Government 
last 

November, for the first time 
on the Ann Arbor campus. The 
resolution 
urges 
University 

Board of Regents to form a 
committee to investigate three 

companies operating in Israel 
with alleged human rights 
violations against Palestinians. 

Kirk condemned the BDS 

movement 
as 
anti-Semitic 

and said, “Israel is a beacon of 
freedom in the Middle East.”

Among 
the 
other 
topics 

Kirk discussed were political 
philosophy, 
human 
nature, 

religion and biases in the 
media.

After speaking for about 40 

minutes, Kirk opened the floor 
up to questions. Participants 
asked Kirk for his opinion 
on a range of issues such as 
President 
Donald 
Trump, 

institutionalized 
oppression, 

regulating large corporations 
and identity politics.

He also responded to several 

questions about how young 
conservatives can engage their 
liberal peers in discussions. 
Kirk encouraged the audience 
to stay “as informed as you 
possibly can, not just about 
the 
other 
viewpoint, 
but 

other foundational ideas and 
perspectives.”

Kirk responded to several 

questions 
intended 
to 

challenge 
his 
ideas. 
One 

student asked Kirk whether 
his Facebook page actually 
sparks dialogue, or whether 
it’s simply “pandering” to his 
base. Kirk said the Facebook 

page does foster conversation. 

According to Kirk, some of 

the material he puts online 
is “intentionally trying to be 
edgy, spur discussion, spur 
debate … And some of it is also, 
I think, very good intellectual 
content.”

Many 
of 
the 
students 

who attended Kirk’s speech 
were 
visiting 
from 
nearby 

universities. 
Spencer 

Edwards, 
a 
sophomore 
at 

Jackson College, came to the 
event to hear from a younger 
conservative thinker.

“I grew up on a lot of 

conservative 
ideals 
with 

my 
grandparents, 
guys 

like Michael Savage, Rush 
Limbaugh … Those are the 
guys for an older generation. I 
feel like these guys like Charlie 
are guys who represent our 
generation 
more,” 
Edwards 

said.

LSA 
freshman 
Michael 

Dedecker 
said 
he 
also 

appreciated hearing Charlie 
Kirk 
speak, 
especially 
in 

relation 
to 
his 
humorous 

retorts against liberal ideals.

“I’m probably going to start 

following him around more on 
Twitter, just because I thought 
he was funny and he offered 
some new perspectives on how 
to combat socialism with new 
arguments,” he said.

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I’m really happy 
to see that the 
UM cares just 
as much about 
updating Camp 
Davis as it does 

for the Ann Arbor 
campus. I think 
the people that 
work there and 
the students that 
attend care a lot

