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She also detailed how the GOP 

gave her family a chance at a 
different life. Tarver spoke about 
her family’s move to Michigan 
after a relative was lynched in 

Alabama. She said she believes this 
move helped her mother get an 
opportunity to become involved in 
politics.

“When my mother came to 

Michigan, she could vote in 1918. 
She could vote here since 1918. She 
could vote in Michigan since 1918 
thanks to Republican women,” 
Tarver said. 

Newman 
addressed 
sexual 

assault in the United States, 
specifically 
the 
#MeToo 

movement. Newman called for 
stronger adherence to misconduct 
policies

“I for one, am happy about the 

#MeToo movement,” Newman 
said. “I think it is about time and 
was glad to see it happen … We 

have policies and I think they 
need to be implemented.”

Epstein 
addressed 
her 

desire to become involved 
in politics when she began 
noticing legislators voting for 
issues of which they weren’t 
fully knowledgeable.

“I am ready to serve 

Michigan’s 11th district at 
a time where conservative 
values 
are 
needed 
more 

than ever,” Epstein. “When 
we talk about the swamp 
in Washington, D.C. – that 
swamp is real. We have 
legislators who are voting on 
things in which they know 
nothing. We have legislators 
introducing legislation and 
voting on legislation they have 
never read.”

Berden 
addressed 
what 

she sees as a societal issue 
regarding child development 
and responsibility.

“It concerns me to see 

someone 
of 
a 
younger 

generation 
not 
knowing 

how to dust furniture or do 
anything (on their own),” 
Berden said. “It seems to be a 
laxer in the way we are raising 

children today. The early years 
formation are so important.”

Tarver 
made 
an 
analogy 

comparing 
how 
Republicans 

identify with their platform and 
how religious groups identify with 
religious texts.

“If you are a subscriber to the 

Bible, you identify as a Christian,” 
Tarver said. “If you are a believer 
in the Quran, you are considered 
a Muslim. If you are a believer in 
the Torah, you are Jewish. These 
writings are sacred for (people 
that adopt them), believe in and 
hold dear are how we identify 
ourselves...what joins us all in 
identifying who we are is written 
in our Republican platform.”

Epstein 
reflected 
on 
the 

Republican 
platform 
and 
its 

relation to the U.S. Constitution.

“The 
Republican 
platform 

brings us back to the ideals of 
our founding fathers and what 
the Constitution was intended to 
achieve in this country,” Epstein 
said.

College 
Republicans 
Vice 

President Amanda Delekta, an LSA 
junior, felt the event was important 
in displaying how the party regards 
female representation in politics. 

“In the current political moment, 

we’ve seen how women have had 
a lot of hardships in gaining full 
inclusion in the American political 
sphere,” Delekta said. “We wanted 
to explore how those issues are 
being explored in the Republican 
Party and I think often times it’s 
explored through the Democratic 
Party.”

The University of Michigan 

has announced several plans to 
renovate the Michigan Union, 
including the elimination of the 
Billiards Room. In a recent post 
on eBay, the University’s Property 
Disposition 
department 
listed 

several Billiards Room items for 
auction.

The items include three vintage 

pool tables, with prices ranging 
from $840 to $3,650, and a stained-
glass pool table light for $1,676.

Susan Pile, senior director of 

University Unions and Auxiliary 

Services, said the auction for the 
pool tables will end Wednesday 
and the auction for the light will 
end 
Thursday. 
However, 
she 

expects the University will sell 
more items from the room in the 
near future.

“We anticipate a few more 

lights and tables will be made 
available in the coming months as 
we determine plans for the items,” 
Pile wrote in a statement for the 
Detroit Free Press. 

Proceeds from the auctions will 

go toward the Michigan Union 
student leadership scholarship.

The 
board’s 
decision 
to 

eliminate the Billiards Room has 
generated some criticism in the 

past months from students and 
alumni.

University alum Alan Knaus, 

a member of Friends of the 
Michigan Union, expressed his 
disappointment 
the 
Billiards 

Room would not be preserved in 
the remodeled Union. According 
to 
Knaus, 
the 
renovations 

favor students over alumni by 
eliminating historic elements such 
as the Billiards Room.

“I was not happy with (the 

elimination of the Billiards Room) 
and the alumni that were there 
were also not very happy about 
that,” Knaus said last March.

In a Statement article for The 

Daily, contributor Will Feuer, a 

Public Policy junior, explained 
the significance of the Billiards 
Room in his college life. Feuer, 
a member of the University’s 
Billiards Club declared students 
and communities on campus are 
devastated by the University’s 
decision to eliminate the Billiards 
Room.

“Though 
far 
and 
few 
in 

between, there is a network 
of individuals on campus who 
don’t just love billiards but love 
the billiards hall,” Feuer wrote. 
“That’s why I question the Union 
renovations slated to begin this 
April, which will not only erase the 
pool hall entirely but also devastate 
the community surrounding it.”

ON THE DAILY: MICHIGAN UNION AUCTIONS POOL TABLES, LIGHTS 

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RACHEL LEUNG
Daily News Reporter

