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
ThisSucks@umich.
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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