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Joshua Johnson — host of 

NPR’s “1A” — navigated the 
issue of free speech on college 
campuses, and how to encourage 
free 
dialogue 
while 
also 

maintaining a comfortable and 
safe environment for students, at 
a live taping of his show Thursday 
night. 
The 
panel 
discussion 

“Speak Freely: Debating the 
First Amendment in a Changing 
America” was co-sponsored by 
Michigan Radio and Wallace 
House, a fellowship program for 
journalists at the University of 
Michigan, and drew hundreds of 
people to Rackham Auditorium. 

 Johnson, a journalist for the 

show that focuses on politics, 
policy and technology daily, sat 
down with a panel featuring 
University 
faculty 
members 

Angela Dillard and Faith Sparr, 
who teach in the Departments of 
Afroamerican and African Studies 
and Communications Studies, 
respectively, as well as Rackham 
student Maximillian Alvarez and 

LSA senior Jesse Arm. 

The conversation started with 

the panelists responding to the 
question of how universities 
should respond to controversial 
far-right 
personalities, 
such 

as white supremacist Richard 
Spencer, and whether universities 
are obligated to host these 
speakers. In October, Spencer 
requested 
to 
speak 
at 
the 

University 
without 
invitation, 

and after a lengthy negotiation 
process, the University announced 
in January Spencer would not be 
speaking this semester, though 
they would offer him potential 
dates to speak once the semester 
is over.

Dillard 
acknowledged 
the 

University’s legal obligation of 
protecting free speech, but said 
people must acknowledge “the 
idea that we would have such a 
divisive, potentially dangerous 
person… and how disruptive that 
might be on our campus to the real 
work of our campus.” 

“It is not something that the 

University of Michigan is at one 
mind about,” Dillard said.

Host of ‘1A’ 
holds debate 
on issues of 
free speech

See DEBATE, Page 3

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Ian Robinson, President of LEO and LSA lecturer, speaks about the unjust compensation University lecturers receive at the Michigan Union Thursday.

CAMPUS LIFE

Faculty-student panel discusses Richard 
Spencer, conservatism in the classroom

REFAEL KUBERSKY

For the Daily

LEO demands pay raises and job security, calls University counteroffer “insulting”

After receiving what members 

called an “insulting” response 
to their salary proposal from 
the 
University 
of 
Michigan 

Monday night, the Lecturers’ 
Employee 
Organization 
held 

a 
press 
conference 
at 
the 

Michigan Union prior to the 
University Board of Regents 
meeting 
Thursday. 
Lecturers 

and allies addressed the board 
and University President Mark 

Schlissel directly, emphasizing 
the union’s core demands, which 
include higher wages, enhanced 
job 
security 
and 
improved 

benefits.

More than 75 people, including 

lecturers, allies, students and 
members 
of 
the 
Graduate 

Employees’ 
Organization 

gathered in support of LEO, many 
with signs, buttons and T-shirts. 
The press conference featured 
lecturers from the School of 
Social Work and University of 
Michigan-Dearborn, as well as 
LEO President Ian Robinson 

and Heather Ann Thompson, 
professor of Afroamerican and 
African Studies.

Robinson, a sociology lecturer, 

expressed worry at the meeting 
that in light of the University’s 
“shockingly low” offer, the union 
may not be able to conclude 
negotiations before its current 
contract ends on April 20.

“We are not going to get to 

a contract by our goal of early 
April unless the administration 
rethinks the role that we play 
and the respect that we deserve 
and makes a much bigger offer 

in response to our demands,” 
Robinson said. 

LEO, 
which 
represents 

nearly 1,700 non-tenure track 
faculty members across all three 
University campuses, has been 
bargaining for a new contract 
with 
the 
University 
since 

last semester. Right now, the 
minimum salary for a full-time 
lecturer is $34,500 at University 
of Michigan-Ann Arbor, $28,300 
in Dearborn and $27,300 in Flint.

In its counterproposal, the 

University 
offered 
a 
$1,000 

LEAH GRAHAM
Daily Staff Reporter

See LEO, Page 3

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Lecturers hold press conference 
to outline frustrations with ‘U’

More 
than 
125 
million 

Americans 
are 
exposed 
to 

dangerous levels of air pollution, 
according to the American Lung 
Association’s 2017 State of the 
Air Report. The environmental 
and health ramifications of air 
pollution are well documented: 
Haze, ozone depletion, acid rain 
and lung cancer are among many 
of the consequences that result. 
But social costs, like increased 
criminal activity, may also result 
from the worsening air quality, 
according to research by a 
University of Michigan professor.

Julia Lee, assistant professor of 

management and organizations 
at the Ross School of Business, 
explored 
the 
correlation 

between 
unethical 
behavior 

and air pollution in a study with 
researchers 
from 
Columbia 

University 
and 
Harvard 

University. The findings, soon to 
be published in the Psychological 
Science journal, demonstrate a 
relationship between the anxiety 
caused by pollution and social 
ills.

Lee first became interested in 

behavioral ethics while earning 
her doctorate degree in Public 
Policy at Harvard. She began to 
look at the relationship between 
air 
pollution 
and 
unethical 

behavior with her former adviser 
Francesca Gino, a professor 
of business administration at 
Harvard Business School.

“We had some initial data from 

FBI and EPA, but realized that 
putting together a large dataset 
and accounting for many possible 
confounds (e.g., demographics, 
# of police officers, etc) may be 
a daunting task, and that’s when 
we decided to team up with 
Jackson Lu and Adam Galinsky 
at Columbia Business School,” 
Lee wrote in an email interview.

Lee 
and 
her 
colleagues 

analyzed 
vast 
datasets, 

combining the Environmental 
Protection Agency’s city-level 

pollution data with the FBI’s city-
level crime data, allowing them 
to analyze 9,360 American cities 
in total.

“Jackson loved talking about 

how comprehensive this dataset 
was by reporting that the data 
had 17 different cities across 
different states that were all 
named ‘Springfield,’” Lee wrote.

Ultimately, the team found 

strong 
correlations 
between 

unethical behavior and pollution, 
and believe anxiety related to 

pollution may be at the heart of 
the issue.

“There is an existing body 

of 
work 
showing 
that 
air 

pollution increases stress and 
anxiety,” Lee wrote. “Francesca 
Gino and I had already done 
some work on how engaging 
in unethical behavior might 
reduce people’s anxiety at least 
temporarily, and demonstrated 
that cheating resulted in the 
reduction in participants’ stress 

When 
Kinesiology 
junior 

Okpalefe 
Edevbie 
transferred 

from Wayne State University to the 
University of Michigan’s School 
of Kinesiology, he was excited to 
learn about a major WSU didn’t 
offer — Sports Management — 
which focuses on the interactions 
of sports and business.” He knew 
there was less diversity at the 
University in comparison to WSU, 
but was surprised at how often 
he felt he was the only minority 
student in his courses, specifically 
in the sport management program.

“In my classes, I’m usually one… 

if not the only minority student in 
a lot of my classes, which I thought 
was 
interesting 
particularly 

in sport management because 
African 
Americans 
influence 

sports and sports culture so much 
in this country,” Edevbie said. 
“But, I thought that there would be 
at least more African Americans 
like myself in the program.”

According 
to 
La’Joya 
Orr, 

managing director for recruitment 
and admissions for the Kinesiology 
School, 
the 
school’s 
student 

population is 77 percent white, 

See KINESIOLOGY, Page 3

Diversity in 
Kines. seen 
as obstacle 
to students

ACADEMICS

According to department, 
Kines. school is 77 percent 
white, 12.6 percent URM

RACHEL CUNNINGHAM

Daily Staff Reporter

‘U’ study finds correlation between 
worsening air quality and crime levels

Anxiety caused by air pollution believed to lead to unethical behavior, crime

KATE JENKINS
Daily Staff Reporter

See POLLUTION, Page 3

On Thursday afternoon, the 

University of Michigan Board of 
Regents met for the first meeting 
of 
the 
semester, 
with 
many 

representatives of the Lecturers’ 
Employee Organization and Stop 
Spencer voicing their concerns 
during public comments. Topics 
discussed 
included 
increasing 

wages and benefits for lecturers, 
#StopSpencer, 
allocation 
of 

funds to several investments and 
renovations, and actions currently 
being taken by the Interfraternity 
Council to create a safer Greek life 
community.

During 
University 
President 

Mark 
Schlissel’s 
opening 

statements, 
he 
offered 
his 

sympathies to the victims of 
the recent shooting at Marjory 
Stoneman Douglas High School in 
Parkland, Florida.

“Before we get started, I’d like 

to acknowledge in great sadness 
the events in Florida and extend 
the sympathies of the entire 
University of Michigan community 
to the families and survivors of 
yet another terrible mass shooting 

See REGENTS, Page 2

LEO given 
no answer 
from Board 
of Regents

ADMINISTRATION

During public comment, 
Regents respond to IFC 
speaker, silent for LEO

JORDYN BAKER 

& AMARA SHAIKH

Daily Staff Reporters

NEW YE AR CE LE BR ATION

JOSHUA HAN/Daily

Performers dance on stage during the CSSA Chinese New Year Celebration Gala at the Michigan Theater 
Saturday. 

