the 
University 
proposed 
a 

$1,000 increase to the starting 
salary for lecturers in 2019, 
followed by a $750 increase in 
2020 and then $500 in 2021.

Appointments 
Committee 

Vice Chair Brooke Lennox, an 

LSA sophomore, sponsored the 
resolution.

“Showing as much support as 

we can is important,” she said.

Three 
bylaw 
amendments 

were 
also 
passed, 
one 
of 
 

which requires representatives 
to 
use 
gender-inclusive 

language during official LSA SG 
events and in communications.

Diversity Affairs Committee 

Chair Corrina Lee, an LSA 
sophomore, 
offered 
an 

“unfriendly amendment,” as 
she felt a phrase mandating 
 

LSA 
SG 
members 
“shall 
 

make an effort to use gender-
inclusive language” was too 
“flippant.”

“I appreciate the sentiment 

behind 
this,” 
she 
said. 

“Obviously we should all be 

using inclusive language, but 
seeing the way it’s worded 
I reject it. It’s seems easy to 
disregard. I don’t feel like that’s 
a real culture change.”

Secretary Hunter Arcand, an 

LSA senior, disagreed.

“I don’t think this clause 

is flippant whatsoever,” he 
said. “When people make an 
 

effort, it makes a massive 

difference.”

The amendment ultimately 

failed, and the LEO resolution 
passed with 23 votes in favor 
and none against. 

The 
two 
other 
bylaws 

amendments 
replaced 
the 

Communications Committee’s 
former 
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edu with Campus Complaints, 
a 
more 
streamlined 
and 
 

accessible 
web 
page 
and 

instituted 
instant 
runoff 

voting for internal elections, 
meaning 
if 
no 
one 
wins 

a 
majority 
in 
an 
election 
 

then the candidate with the 
fewest votes will be taken 
out of the running and those 
 

ballots awarded to the person 
listed as the voter’s next choice.

President Barack Obama, and 
Fayrouz Saad, former director 
of Detroit’s immigrant affairs 
who would be the first Muslim 
woman in Congress if elected.

This 
decision 
comes 
the 

same week that Randy Bryce, a 

Wisconsin Democrat running 
for the seat of House Speaker 
Paul Ryan, R-Wis., announced 
he would unionize his own 
campaign 
staff. 
Bryce 
said 

his campaign’s contract is the 
first 
collective 
bargaining 

contract by campaign workers 
— Haberman’s is the first such 
congressional 
campaign 
in 

Michigan.

“The more folks we can help 

stay in the field, the better off 
the Democratic Party and the 
progressive 
movement 
will 
 

be,” Meg Reilly, vice president 
of 
the 
Campaign 
Workers 

Guild, said to the Huffington 
Post.

Though 
U.S. 
unionization 

was at a record low of 10.7 
percent for the year, non-
technical 
services 
saw 
an 

increase of 90,000 in union 
members, 
according 
to 
the 

Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

The Campaign Workers Guild 

is looking to further increase 
non-technical union workers 

by targeting young campaign 
workers who are usually short-
term and sometimes unpaid. 
According to Bloomberg, the 
CWG aims for a collective 
bargaining 
agreement 
that 

would apply to all Democratic 
campaigns for all government 
sectors.

Janice 
Fine, 
Rutgers 

University 
labor 
studies 

professor, has worked on both 
local 
and 
national 
election 

campaigns. She is supportive 
of the CWG goals because 
workers 
often 
overexert 

themselves without sufficient 
compensation.

“There’s no question that it’s 

exploitative work,” Fine said to 
Bloomberg. “It’s premised on 
the idea that young people will 
work 24-7 in a selfless – and 
often dangerously selfless – 
way, and that culture has been 
passed on for generations.”

Haberman agreed and said 

as a Democrat, it is his job to 
protect and “champion” the 
rights of workers.

“My staff had heard about 

the 
formation 
of 
the 
new 

Campaign Workers Guild and 
brought it to my attention,” he 
said. “They expressed a desire 
to send a message that we stand 
in solidarity with campaign 
workers 
who 
dedicate 

their 
careers 
to 
promoting 

progressive values at all levels 
of government. For me, this was 
the right thing to do,” he said. 

However, many of the low-

paid and non-paid staffers are 
often student interns. As of 
right now, Haberman said he is 
unsure if they will benefit from 
this change.

“The campaign is working 

with the CWG to determine if 
any, changes or effects this will 
have on those students who are 
in our fellowship program. It 
is our understanding that the 
unionization will only affect 
full-time staff of the campaign.”

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or receptors that have been 
shown to be linked to cocaine 
addiction.

When the team used drugs to 

block these receptors, the rats 
no longer sought food when 
they heard the trigger sound; 
however, Ferrario said this 
type of drug would not work 
for humans given how large an 
effect a healthy lifestyle and 
environment have on obesity 
in people. Nonetheless, the 
findings could still be a “huge 
step” to understanding obesity.

In 
an 
email 
interview, 

Ferrario stated these findings 
could be very significant if they 
could find out how individual 
differences relate to this kind 
of cue-triggered eating.

“Our data suggest that a 

one-size-fits-all approach may 
not be best when it comes to 
maintaining a healthy weight, 
but 
rather 
that 
prevention 

and 
treatment 
strategies 

may need to be tailored to 
individual 
needs,” 
Ferrario 

wrote. 
“We 
can 
use 
our 

obesity-prone and -resistant 
rodents as tools to work out 
changes in the brain that 
influence feeding and potential 
strategies, both behavioral and 
pharmacological, to dampen 
and reverse unhealthy eating 

patterns.”

Rackham student Rebecca 

Derma, who works in Ferrario’s 
lab, stated in an email interview 
that she believed obesity is a 
very important area of research, 
and Ferrarrio’s research struck 
a chord with her.

“Carrie’s research examining 

the 
psychological 
and 

neurobiological 
contributors 

to obesity struck a chord with 
me,” Derman wrote. “Whereas 
addictions 
are 
rather 
rare 

disorders, obesity is a very 
common disorder and it is on 
the rise. It’s prevalence (both 
in 
human 
and 
nonhuman 

animals 
- 
pets 
and 
urban 

wildlife) 
to 
me, 
suggests 

that it arises from a rather 

‘normal’ 
appetitive 
process. 

This is of particular interest 
to me because it allows us to 
explore the more naturalistic 
and perhaps more generally 
relevant forms of ‘maladaptive’ 
appetitive behaviors.”

There is a lot more research to 

be done, and Ferrario said there 
are already people working on 
extrapolating on this research. 
The studies were only done on 
male rats, and Rackham student 
Yanaira 
Alonso-Caraballo, 

who also works in Ferrario’s 
lab, has been studying how 
naturally occurring changes in 
female reproductive hormones 
enhance cue-triggered food-
seeking in obesity prone rats. 
Alonso-Caraballo studies the 

different responses that occur 
when rats are in different 
phases of their ovulation and 
menstrual cycles.

“For the past 15 years, we 

have been mainly studying 
males, and females are basically 
the 
understudy,” 
Alonso-

Carabello said. “So a lot of 
the drugs and treatments that 
are out there have been done 
on males, and this is across 
all sciences. My goal moving 
forward is to keep on studying 
females and the female brain 
and the female behavior, and 
understanding the very basic 
mechanisms of behaviors and 
how the brain works.”

Derman stated she felt the 

research was important on 

two different levels in order to 
increase human well-being and 
uncover important truths about 
reality.

“First, 
it 
is 
important 

because 
uncovering 
the 

mechanism that drive obesity 
will help us treat and prevent 
this disorder and ultimately 
bring us closer to maximizing 
humanities 
collective 
well-

being,” Derman wrote. “And 
second, from a basic science 
perspective, understanding the 
neurobiology of behavior is a 
profoundly valuable endeavor 
because there is intrinsic value 
in uncovering the nature of 
reality, whether or not it results 
in a direct impact on human 
life.”

productive and important.”

Deloria 
began 
teaching 

this winter at Harvard in 
a 
transitional 
semester, 

teaching a graduate seminar 
in Native-American studies. 
Beginning next semester, he 
will teach an introductory 
course on Native-American 
studies — which would look 
similar 
to 
the 
course 
he 

taught at the University — 
and an introductory seminar 
for graduate students on the 
same subject. Deloria looks 
forward to his time at Harvard 
and hopes to accomplish the 
similar goals he achieved at 
the University.

“At Harvard, I am hoping 

to do a little more of the 
same,” Deloria said. “It’s a 
different 
institution 
with 

different challenges and it’s 
an institution that is really 
interested in Native-American 
issues.”

Deloria 
discussed 
his 

latest scholarly project on 
researching global indigenous 
people 
in 
countries 
such 

as 
Taiwan, 
Australia 
and 

Scandinavia. He said Harvard 
will allow him to further 
explore these areas.

“I’ve got a real interest in 

global indigenous connections 
and some experience with 
Taiwan and Australia and 
Scandinavia,” 
Deloria 
said. 

“Harvard is a place where I 
think it could be interesting 
to 
learn 
about 
indigenous 

groups.”

History department chair 

James 
Cook, 
University 

professor 
of 
history 
and 

American studies, discussed 
the close relationship he has 
had with Deloria and the 

lasting effect he had on his 
colleagues. Cook and Deloria 
began 
their 
time 
at 
the 

University around the same 
time in 2001 and Cook said 
they have since been close 
colleagues and friends.

“We have supported each 

other’s work in many ways.” 
Cook said. “I am very sad about 
that, he is one of my closest 
friends and colleagues here 
and I understand why this was 
a good move for him and really 
wish him well.”

Deloria 
comes 
from 
a 

Native-American family with 
his father and grandfather as 
Native-American intellectual 
leaders, setting the foundation 
for 
his 
love 
of 
Native-

American history. He often 
brings his Native-American 
legacy into the classroom. 
Rackham 
student 
Matthew 

Villeneuve described how he 
would accompany his lectures 

with Sioux songs, bison hides 
and by singing protest ballads 
on his guitar.

“Phil’s not just one of the 

best scholars of American-
Indian history, but he is also 
a 
tremendously 
creative 

thinker in American Studies, 
and a wonderful mentor and 
teacher,” Villeneuve said in an 
email interview. “I’m guessing 
these kinds of folks don’t 
come along very often. I’m 
excited to see the intellectual 
community that Phil is able 
to gather in Cambridge and I 
can’t wait to see what he does 
with the place.”

Deloria 
looks 
forward 

to making a difference at 
Harvard and beyond.

“It’s a chance to make a 

difference at a big institution 
and to make a difference like 
this at this institution, is to 
make a difference in the wider 
world.” Deloria said.

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of #MeToo, accusing actors, 
politicians, university officials 
and men of sexual assault and 
harassment across the nation.

At 
the 
House 
meeting, 

state 
Rep. 
Kristy 
Pagan, 

D-Canton, 
spoke 
in 
favor 

of 
improved 
funding 
for 

prevention education as well 
as a potential requirement 
 

for 
health 
care 
facilities 

to 
ensure 
all 
minors 
are 

aware of their rights during 
examinations, 
specifically 

that they may be accompanied 
by 
a 
parent, 
guardian 
or 
 

other 
adult 
during 
the 

examination.

Pagan also noted the state of 

Michigan currently allocates 
no funding for rape prevention 
and 
services 
within 
the 

budget for the Department of 
Health and Human Services. 
She proposed a $1 million 
allocation 
from 
the 
state 

budget for these services. This 
would require an increase in 
federal funding in Michigan.

“We are one of the only 

states in the country that 
does not have any money 
going toward sexual assault 
prevention,” 
Pagan 
said. 

“This leaves a striking gap in 
providing these services to 
nonprofits. We are only able to 
fund 18 nonprofits that focus 
on sexual assaults throughout 
our entire state. And these 
18 nonprofits are only able 
to cover 33 of Michigan’s 83 
counties.” 

State 
Rep. 
Erika 
Geiss, 

D-Taylor, 
spoke 
on 
the 

current lack of protection for 
survivors of sexual assault 
and harassment on college 

campuses. 
She 
proposed 

the creation of a Title IX 
ombudsman 
within 
the 

Department of Civil Rights 
who would become a resource 
for 
survivors 
and 
help 

protect them from potential 
retaliation or intimidation.

“Creating 
a 
Title 
IX 

ombudsman would help to 
strengthen the laws on Title 
IX 
reporting 
and 
ensure 

that victims and survivors 
are given the support and 
help that they need,” Geiss 
said. “Creating this Title IX 
ombudsman would reaffirm 
Michigan’s 
commitment 
to 

protecting 
those 
who 
are 

victims of unwanted sexual 
behaviors.”

State Rep. Donna Lasinski, 

D-Scio 
Township, 
argued 

in favor of eliminating the 
current “10-year statute of 
limitations for charging or 

filing a civil lawsuit against 
a 
person 
suspected 
of 

committing a sexual assault on 
a person under the age of 16,” 
according to the Detroit Free 
Press.

“We know that for adults, 

the processing of a sexual 
 

assault is very difficult,” she 
said. “For those who are minors 
when the assault occurred, we 
know that these are some of 
our most vulnerable citizens. It 
is disgusting and inhumane to 
take away a child’s innocence 
and to rush them through (the) 
process of what it takes for 
them to reconcile what has 
happened to them.”

Lasinski also proposed a 

law should be put in place to 
require health facilities to 
begin investigations of a report 
of sexual assault against a 
health professional within 48 
hours.

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