The University of Michigan’s 

Central Student Government 
met 
Tuesday 
evening 
to 

address 
topics 
including 

revisions 
to 
the 
Campus 

Affordability Guide, additional 
installations of water refill 
stations on campus, as well 
as the upcoming election for 
CSG representatives for the 
2018-2019 academic year. The 
assembly also discussed the 
continued inclusion of free 
menstrual products in various 
locations across campus.

The meeting opened with 

various 
guest 
speakers, 

including Erik Wessel, director 
of the Office of Student Conflict 
Resolution, and Gina Cervetti, 
an associate professor in the 
School of Education. Wessel 
and Cervetti spoke to the 
assembly about the process 
of amending the Statement 
of 
Student 
Rights 
and 

Responsibilities, which will 
occur next school year. Every 
three years, the Statement 
is 
open 
to 
revisions 
and 

amendments by the University 
community, 
including 
all 

students. Cervetti stressed to 
the assembly the importance 
of raising awareness of this 
student right, which may be 
unknown to many.

“I know that this has been 

a challenging time on campus 
for many members of our 
community and that some of 

these challenges have related 
to issues of campus climate,” 
Cervetti said. “This is an 
opportunity to have an active 
role in shaping that.”

Additionally, Law School 

student Tom Allen presented 
to the assembly on a ballot 
proposal for the November 2018 
election. Entitled “Promote the 
Vote,” the initiative will amend 

the 
Michigan 
Constitution 

in order to make it easier for 
Michigan residents to vote. 
The proposed initiative will 
guard the right to vote a secret 
ballot, as well as affording all 
registered voters an absentee 
ballot for any reason, among 
other changes.

“Voter 
participation 
for 

people our age (is) low,” Allen 

said. “This will make it easier 
for all of us to vote.”

According 
to 
Allen, 

the 
support 
from 
leading 

university 
student 

governments in the state will 
increase the likelihood of the 
proposal being approved. Due 
to CSG’s past endorsement of 
student voting initiatives such 

Later 
this 
month, 
the 

University 
of 
Michigan 
will 

launch the Center for Social 
Solutions, an interdisciplinary 
organization dedicated to tackling 
contemporary social issues. Earl 
Lewis, a former University faculty 
member and administrator, who 
currently serves as president of the 
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 
put forth the idea for the Center 
and will be moving to Ann Arbor 
in June to direct the initiative.

Lewis has a long history in 

academia. He taught at Berkeley 
from 1984 to 1989, then accepted 
a position at the University of 
Michigan, where he taught for 15 

years. Lewis relocated to Emory 
University in 2004 to serve as 
provost and teach as a faculty 
member. 

Lewis was named President 

of 
the 
Andrew 
W. 
Mellon 

Foundation in 2013 and has 
since been working in New 
York City. As president of the 
Mellon Foundation, Lewis has 
spearheaded a number of projects, 
such as a book series called “Our 
Compelling Interests: The Value 
of Diversity for Democracy and 
a Prosperous Society,” which 
explores the political and societal 
importance of diversity.

After his presidency ends 

in March, Lewis will officially 
become the head of the U-M 
Center for Social Solutions. Lewis 

As 
part 
of 
The 
National 

Association for the Advancement 
of Colored People Week, the 
University of Michigan chapter 
of NAACP hosted an event on 
Tuesday evening discussing the 
historical roots of the movement 
and how it applies to campus today. 
Student members of the NAACP 
on campus met in the Afro-
American Lounge of South Quad 
for this event. NAACP week began 
Monday night with a discussion 
event held in conjuction with the 
Ann Arbor Police Department. 

William V. Hampton, president 

of the Ann Arbor branch of the 
NAACP, was originally invited 
to the event as a guest speaker. 
However, due to a medical issue 
in his family, he was unable to 
attend.

LSA 
senior 
Isaiah 
Land, 

president 
of 
the 
University 

NAACP 
chapter, 
began 
the 

discussion by outlining major 
events the NAACP has been a 
part of since it was founded. 
Some of the ideas discussed were 
historical court cases including 
Guinn v. United States and Brown 

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Former prof. 
will return 
to lead social 
solution hub

Building on decades of activism, 
Latinx students work for support

See SOLUTION, Page 3A

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Gina Cervetti, an associate professor in the School of Education, presents about the amending process for the State-
ment of Student Rights and Responsibilites in the Central Student Government chambers at the Union Tuesday. 

RESEARCH

Interdisciplinary Center for Social Solutions 
will launch at end of March under Earl Lewis

Facing new uncertainty under President Trump, community returns to an old mission

Latinx students have become 

the fastest-growing population 
at the University of Michigan, 
swelling from 4.75 percent of the 
student body in 2012 to 6 percent 

in 2016. For decades preceding 
this recent growth, however, they 
have been organizing for greater 
institutional support for their 
community. This long history 
can easily go unacknowledged, 
as it has in recent negotiations 
between 
the 
University 
and 

student organizations, said Public 
Policy junior Yvonne Navarrete, 

former director of the Latinx 
Alliance for Community Action, 
Support and Advocacy.

Part of La Casa’s approach in 

working with the administration 
involved 
providing 
evidence 

of the decades of struggle the 
Latinx community has had at 
the University. They created a 
folder detailing data on the lack 

of Latinx representation and 
past documents of members of 
the Latinx community asking for 
University 
support. 
Navarrete 

said La Casa created this folder to 
show the University their history.

“A main issue we have with 

administrators is they try to tell us 
our issues are new, our situation is 

ELIZABETH LAWRENCE

Daily Staff Reporter

See GOALS, Page 3A

‘U’ NAACP 
group talks 
roots, goals 
for future

CAMPUS LIFE

Organization’s leaders 
discuss need for increased
outreach to freshman

CASEY TIN/Daily

CSG talks voting initiative, impending 
release of internal demographic report

Guest speakers talk new revisions to Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities

My Grandfather’s 

Escape from the East

This week, a Statement 
Magazine contributor 
reflects on his family’s 

escape from Communism

» Page 1B

See REPORT, Page 3A

See LATINX, Page 3A

Tim Bruns, assistant professor 

of biomedical engineering at the 
University of Michigan, along 
with Rackham student Lauren 
Zimmerman, published a paper 
this month on their research for 
a therapy to help women who 
struggle 
with 
sexual 
arousal. 

This is the first therapy of its 
kind to address a solution for the 
physiological problems of women 
suffering 
from 
female 
sexual 

dysfunction.

According 
to 
the 
National 

Institutes of Health, female sexual 
dysfunction is a condition found 
worldwide.

“Female 
sexual 
dysfunction 

(FSD) is a prevalent problem, 
afflicting approximately 40% of 
women and there are few treatment 
options,” the NIH reported in 2010.

These women might have either 

physiological problems or lack 
of overall desire. Physiological 
problems include lack of orgasm, 
pain or inability to lubricate. Low 
desire means having a low libido, 
which can be the result of multiple 
factors. Professor Bruns calls these 
distinctions 
“neck-up” 
versus 

See DRUG, Page 3A

Lab studies 
female sex 
stimulant, 
new drug

RESEARCH

‘U’ professor uses rats to 
study effects of possible sex 
drive therapy for women

SOPHIA KATZ
Daily Staff Reporter

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NOV 21, 2016

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SEPT 8, 2017

Students and
 community members 
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MAR 2, 2018

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support of DACA 
and undocumented 
students

JAN 28, 2017

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government to 
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