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BUSINESS
Less than two weeks after
the mass shooting at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School
in Parkland, Fla., more than a
dozen corporations, including
Delta
Airlines,
MetLife
and
Hertz cut ties with the National
Rifle Association. Ann Arbor
businesses
like
Bivouac,
an
outdoor clothing and supplies
store, are following suit. These
companies will no longer offer a
discount to NRA members, and
many asked for their information
to be removed from the NRA
website.
After the outdoor clothing and
equipment company REI released
a statement announcing it would
no
longer
carry
CamelBak
products in its stores after it
discovered CamelBak’s owner,
Vista Outdoor, is a major firearm
and ammunition manufacturer
and failed to make a statement
following the Parkland shooting.
Local
Ann
Arbor
business
Bivouac decided to follow suit
and agreed to stop carrying
CamelBak
products
after
concerned customers of Bivouac
emailed Bivouac Vice President
AJ Davidson, demanding they
confront the gun control issue.
“It’s not so much that they
sell guns — that’s not the issue,”
Davidson said. “It’s just that after
these mass shootings, they refuse
to put out any kind of statement
or make any kind of change that
would help prevent these mass
shootings, and as a company,
they’re in a prime position to do
something, or at least issue some
kind of statement to show that
they actually care.”
Jerry Davis, associate dean for
Business and Impact at the Ross
School of Business, has written
several
books
on
corporate
activism, and most recently, an
article for The Conversation.
Given the speed and volume of
companies severing ties with the
NRA, Davis said he found this
wave of corporate activism to be
unprecedented.
“And now with the NRA
boycott, it took two days (for
Businesses
cut ties with
NRA in wake
of Parkland
City Council appoints members
to local police review task force
DARBY STIPE/Daily
Councilmember Jack Eaton (D-Ward 4), proposed an amendment to reaplce a member of the Police Oversight Taskforce with Shirley Beckley at City Hall Monday.
Social media, calls for public statements
impact local, national corportations
JULIA FORD
Daily Staff Reporter
Controversy arises over Mayor Taylor’s omission of task force member at meeting
Monday
night,
in
the
culmination of years of the
public
calling
for
increased
accountability of the Ann Arbor
Police Department, Ann Arbor
City Council finalized a roster
for a task force to develop a police
review board.
In response to recent racist
incidents in Ann Arbor, including
the shooting of Aura Rosser by a
white police officer in 2014 and
the Blake Transit Center incident,
where a Black teen was dragged
into the bus station and put in
handcuffs, Transforming Justice
Washtenaw has continued to
press for increased transparency
and accountability for the AAPD.
Amid pressure from TJW, the
council had previously decided to
assemble a task force in order to
establish parameters for a police
review board with the perspective
of everyday citizens, especially
those with unique insights such
as affected minorities and social
workers.
With a list of 13 recommended
members from the Human Rights
Commission and two alternates,
the council settled on 11 members
for the task force. Among the 11
individuals, the council selected
HRC member Dwight Wilson,
high school student Keyshon
Cotton as well as three task force
members who have Ann Arbor
addresses, but reside in Pittsfield
Township, Scio Township and
Ypsilanti.
Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher
Taylor emphasized the diversity
of the task force, saying the force
includes active HRC members,
a member from the LGBTQ
community, social workers, public
defenders, civil rights attorneys
and community educators.
“The
resolution
asked
for
increased diversity, and I believe
that we have it,” Taylor said. “The
task force is majority women
which I believe is a good thing and
majority-minority which I also
believe to be a good thing.”
Though the council seemed
to accept many of the HRC’s
recommendations, taking nine of
GRACE KAY
Daily Staff Reporter
Parties running for executive
positions
on
University
of
Michigan
Central
Student
Government met Monday night
and discussed their platforms
in a debate hosted by CSG in the
Rogel Ballroom of the Michigan
Union. The presidential and vice
presidential
candidates
from
MVision,
MomentUM,
True
Blue, eMpower, aMplify, Let’s
Keep Michigan Time, Defending
Affirmative Action Party and
Serfdom USA discussed their
party platforms and their goals
for the upcoming year. CSG’s prior
successes and failures, issues
of discrimination, and campus
affordability were some of the
topics addressed at the event.
The debate began with each
party
introducing
themselves
and their platforms. Engineering
freshman
Noah
Tappen,
Let’s Keep Michigan Time’s
presidential
candidate,
began
by thanking CSG for inviting
all the parties to participate in
the debate. His comment was
in reference to The Daily only
hosting five of the larger parties
to participate in the debate held
last Thursday.
“I want to thank you for having
me at this event, as you may know,
me and two of the other running
parties weren’t invited to the first
debate — it’s a shame,” Tappen
said.
The first half of the debate
consisted of questions formulated
by CSG, and each party was
allotted one minute to formulate
a response.
Another one of the parties who
was not at The Daily’s debate on
Thursday was the Serfdom USA
party.
Presidential
candidate
Liam Stewart, an LSA junior,
explained the parties platform to
establish a “feudal society” at the
University.
“I
support
diversity,”
Stewart said. “I want nobles
to be representing the LGBTQ
community, I want nobles to be
representing ethnic and racial
minority communities, I want
nobles to be representing non-
gender binary communities. I
want nobles to be representing
every single aspect we have on
campus.”
The first question posed to
each party asked what they
saw as CSG’s biggest successes
and disappointments this past
year. MVision praised last year’s
CSG for demonstrating what
diverse leadership looked like.
However, LSA sophomore Izzy
Baer, MVision vice presidential
candidate,
pointed
out
the
continued need to talk about
“invisible identities” in order to
create a campus supportive of the
student body.
“I think one of the biggest
improvements we can draw on is
The University of Michigan
Senate Assembly met Monday
afternoon to elect three new
representatives to the Senate
Advisory
Committee
on
University Affairs and vote
on the Faculty Statement on
Safety, Speech, and Academic
Freedom
Endorsed
by
Committee for an Inclusive
University.
The Faculty Statement on
Safety, Speech, and Academic
Freedom
Endorsed
by
Committee for an Inclusive
University passed with no
opposition and a handful of
abstentions.
The
statement
is not a formal policy, but
rather a declaration of values.
It includes support of rights
to safety and free speech,
denouncement of hate speech
and
discrimination
and
a
commitment
to
activism
regarding these issues. The
statement is intended to be
a starting point for further
discussion and activism.
Afterward,
the
Assembly
began
the
SACUA
Three new
reps to join
SACUA in
late April
ACADEMICS
Over half the seats on the
governing body will now
be occupied by women
JULIA FORD
Daily Staff Reporter
RYAN MCLOUGHLIN/Daily
Parties running for Central Student Governemtn executive positions met and discussed their platforms in a debate
hosted by CSG in theUnion Monday night.
Crowded field of candidates consider
representation at CSG-hosted debate
Representatives discussed party platforms, relationship with administration
AMARA SHAIKH
Daily Staff Reporter
See DEBATE, Page 3
See COUNCIL, Page 3
See NRA, Page 3
The University of Michigan’s
Academic Reporting Tool released
its grade distribution feature over
the weekend, allowing students
to explore grade distributions of
courses before registration. The
new feature caters to the voices
of many students, according to
Innovation Advocacy Lead Amy
Homkes-Hayes.
“As you can imagine, students
have asked for us to show course
information
in
a
University-
sanctioned tool,” Homkes-Hayes
said.
The
Office
of
Academic
Innovation created ART 2.0 in 2016
and has been adding new features
and mechanisms to aid students
ever since, listing 9,273 University
courses. The Office of Academic
Innovation works closely with the
Office of the Provost, individual
schools and colleges, the Senate
Advisory Committee on University
Affairs
and
Central
Student
Government to identify what kind
of academic data would be most
helpful to the student body.
Homkes-Hayes referred to ART
2.0 as a helpful tool that attempts
Update of
ART 2.0 to
show grade
scope data
ACADEMICS
University tool includes
grade distributions, major
info before backpacking
REMY FARKAS
Daily Staff Reporter
See ART 2.0, Page 3
See SACUA, Page 3