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 talks new book 
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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

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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.

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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

ELIZABETH LAWRENCE

Daily Staff Reporter

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