Beginning in January 2020,
all
University
of
Michigan
Greek life organizations will
transition to a winter semester
rush process, according to a
University press release.
The move comes a semester
after the Interfraternity Council
suspended all social activities
for two months after reports
of hazing and sexual assault.
Allegations
included
hazing
that placed fraternity recruits in
near-death situations, drugging
members
in
undisclosed
fraternity
chapters
and
a
number of claims of sexual
misconduct involving fraternity
brothers.
At
a
closed
IFC
meeting in November, members
urged each other to vote for the
ban so as to avoid sanctions from
national bodies.
Starting in the 2019-2020
school
year,
students
will
need to have completed at
least 12 academic credits at
the University and be in good
behavioral
and
academic
standing to be permitted to
rush. This policy is already in
place at many other universities,
including Indiana University.
Neither IFC nor Panhellenic
representatives responded to
requests for comment.
“We have studied the impact
of recruitment practices on
first-year
students
in
the
first semester on campus and
Aiming
to
highlight
marginalized
students
on
campus and promote social
acceptance, LINK: Connecting
Cross-Cultural Gaps Through
a Common Language, a talent
showcase hosted by student
organizations
Redefine,
the
Vietnamese Student Association
and Zeta Omega Eta at the
University of Michigan, was
held Tuesday evening.
The showcase, which featured
speakers, dance groups, spoken-
word, art, film and comedy,
among other art forms, drew
about 100 students, faculty and
community members. Before
the speakers took the stage,
attendees were able to browse
photography exhibits and visual
art from over 40 different artists
who
aimed
at
representing
diversity among humanity.
The event began with a
dialogue between two students,
featuring a video that voiced
the necessity of stripping away
labels. In comparing labels to
the cars we drive, the video
explained we should focus on
what’s on the inside rather than
what is initially seen by the
outside observer.
“Who would you be if the
world never gave you a label,
never gave you a box to check?”
the video narrator said. “Would
you be white, Black, Asian,
Mexican,
Middle
Eastern?
No. We would be one. We’d be
together, no longer living in
the era of calling human beings
Black people or white people.
These labels that will forever
blind us from seeing a person for
who they are, but instead seeing
them through the judgmental,
prejudicial, artificial filters of
who we think they are.”
Hawra Altaee, a University
alum and clinical therapist, was
the first speaker at the event and
detailed her experiences fleeing
from violence during the Persian
Gulf War. Altaee was born in
Iraq amid the war, and explained
when she was an infant, her
family fled to Saudi Arabia
where they were promised a
few weeks in a refugee camp.
Instead, they were forced to
remain for four years with
limited living conditions in
the desert. In 1995, her family
was given the opportunity to
be randomly selected to come
to the United States and as she
continued her academic career,
her experiences led to a passion
for social work.
Altaee encouraged attendees
to recognize the choices given
between allowing struggles to
stop or halt future endeavors
versus
using
them
to
our
advantage. She highlighted the
ambition she saw in the room
and gave her best wishes to
those present in pursuing future
goals, however large or daunting
they may initially seem.
“We have a choice as to
whether we allow our struggles
and our circumstances and
our hurdles to motivate us
or whether we allow them
to be a chip on our shoulder
and to hinder us,” Altaee said.
“Everybody in this universe
The University of Michigan’s
Central
Student
Government
convened
Tuesday
night
to
discuss issues of gender inclusion
and the promotion of the use of
green books. The penultimate
meeting of the seventh assembly
centered most of its discussion
on the upcoming CSG election,
which will determine the newly
elected representatives for next
year’s assembly.
The meeting began with the
reintroduction and the passing
of various resolutions. These
included a resolution to promote
green books, a resolution to fund
the remaining amount of the CSG
AirBus deficit and a resolution
to
encourage
gender-neutral
language where appropriate.
The meeting then moved into
executive communications, in
which CSG executives delivered
some of their final announcements
to the current assembly. CSG
president Anushka Sarkar, an LSA
senior, confirmed the installation
of Wi-Fi on the Diag, as well as a
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Carol Anderson discusses her book “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide,” at Forum Hall in Palmer Commons Tuesday afternoon.
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“White Rage” explores reactions of white population to Black freedom struggles
Speaking on systemic barriers
in
place
throughout
U.S.
history, to African Americans’
advancements in society, was
Emory
University
professor
Carol Anderson, who highlighted
her book “White Rage: The
Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s
Divide” as part of a talk hosted by
the Donia Human Rights Center
at the University of Michigan
Tuesday.
“It is the presence of black
people
who
achieve,
who
aspire, who refuse to accept
subjectation, the presence of
black people who demand their
civil rights,” she said as she
began the talk, explaining the
factors that contribute to white
rage.
Anderson
built
upon
this
notion
by
describing
how
the quality of education and
segregated
school
systems
have fundamentally impacted
African-American students. She
explained how even though the
Brown v. Board of Education
decision desegregated schools
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CSG talks
green book
usage, fair
campaigns
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
2nd last assembly meeting
concluded with reps urging
all to get votes ‘cleanly’
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Daily Staff Reporter
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Arabesque dance team TeamLoyal performs dabkeh at Redefine’s cross-cultural event Link in the Union Ballroom
Tuesday.
Over 100 students participate in LINK,
cultural showcase fostering social unity
Speakers. dance groups, art, and film presentations highlighted marginalized voices
JORDYN BAKER
Daily Staff Reporter
Purple Squirrel
Statement contributor
Yoshiko Iwai reflects on
her experience overloading,
overworking and
overextending herself as a
University student.
» Page 1B
See WHITE RAGE, Page 3A
Shannon Briscoe, a senior
secretary in the Admissions
Office of the University of
Michigan’s
Law
School,
currently drives to work from her
home in the Whitmore Lake area
of Livingston County. Google
Maps estimates this trip to take
around 20 minutes, pending
traffic. For Briscoe and others in
similar situations, the Ann Arbor
Area Transportation Authority’s
proposed express bus service
carrying commuters from this
area to the University’s campus
and downtown Ann Arbor would
be a valuable alternative.
“I currently get off of the
freeway now at the Eight Mile
exit, which is where the proposed
stop for it is,” Briscoe said. “I
definitely would leave my car
there and take this service into
and out of Ann Arbor, depending
on the times of day it is offered.”
If implemented, this service
would run on U.S. Route 23,
connecting a Park & Ride Lot
on Eight Mile Road with top
See BUS, Page 3A
AAATA to
implement
new US 23
bus service
CITY
For commuters, route
offers valuable alternative
to driving into campus
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Daily Staff Reporter
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