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Jerome M. Adams, M.D., M.P.H. Surgeon General of the United States speaks on the topic of “Better Health Through Better Partnerships” at the IHPI Director’s Lec-
ture in Robertson Auditorium Thursday.
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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome
Adams came to the University
of Michigan campus Thursday
to meet with University and
community leaders and deliver
the Institute for Healthcare
Policy
and
Innovation’s
Director’s Lecture.
About 400 people attended
the
talk
at
the
Roberston
Auditorium in the Ross School
of
Business,
titled
“Better
Health
Through
Better
Partnerships” — a nod to what
Adams
has
called
his
top
priority as surgeon general.
Before the talk, Adams met
with University students for a
roundtable discussion. Medical
student Raymond Strobel told
The Daily in an email interview
he enjoyed the opportunity to
talk with Adams. The surgeon
general’s thoughts resonated
with him.
“The
roundtable
was
a
terrific opportunity to meet
and hear from the Surgeon
General,”
Strobel
wrote.
“His points on health policy
advocacy were great: in today’s
society, we need to work hard
to “widen our tent” – choosing
to be inclusive and diplomatic
when seeking common ground
on health priorities with others
– and remember our role as
servant leaders in healthcare.
His thoughts on students’ roles
in advocacy were also timely; he
urged not to think of ourselves
(students) as the future, but the
now.”
Following
a
morning
of
meetings and discussions with
campus leaders, Adams began
his lecture in conversation with
IHPI director John Ayanian.
Adams highlighted the need to
create partnerships in health
care, something he learned
while serving as state health
commissioner of Indiana under
then-Governor
Mike
Pence.
He said he could have picked a
disease or condition to focus on,
but instead, is hoping to look
at the bigger picture of health
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parternship to boost public health
Nearly two months after the
Latinx Alliance for Community
Action, Support and Advocacy
released a list of demands for
the University of Michigan
to take to ensure a more
supportive environment for the
Latinx community, students
see gradual progress on certain
demands but encounter an
overall lack of urgency in
support of institutional change.
The
Latinx
community
is
the
University’s
fastest-
growing
student
minority
group,
growing
from
4.75
percent to 6 percent between
2012 and 2016. The majority
of La Casa’s demands called
for more Latinx representation
in University staff, faculty and
administration as well as more
services for Latinx students and
an overall acknowledgment of
the community on campus.
After the list was released, E.
Royster Harper, vice president
for Student Life, Chief Diversity
Officer Robert Sellers and Julio
Cardona,
interim
assistant
dean of students, met with La
Casa in order to discuss what
steps needed to be taken to
move forward. Since then, the
administration has continued
meeting with La Casa to work
toward solutions.
In an interview with The
Daily on Wednesday, Harper
explained
the
University
administration
has
been
helping La Casa make contact
with
various
department
members to assist with the
University’s efforts to respond
to the demands.
“We have been meeting with
La Casa members and faculty
members of the community, I
would say for maybe at least a
month, and sometimes twice
a day,” Harper said. “Going
through what the concerns are
and, in some cases bringing
people in to help us understand
what we’re currently doing.”
LSA
junior
Yezeñia
Sandoval,
external
director
for
La
Casa,
highlighted
the
administration’s
timely
response to the list of demands
and lauded the administration’s
plan
to
get
La
Casa
representatives communicating
with directors from different
departments.
“After
we
released
the
demands, the University was
quick to set up meetings,
especially Royster and Sellers,”
Sandoval said. “The meeting
was just kind of to get a better
understanding of what the
demands actually meant, what
details were in them, and set up
a series of demands that would
follow them up. We also would
get people from those actual
offices and departments to sit in
a room with us.”
Harper explained another
aspect of these meetings was
to look at the Campus Climate
survey by Office of Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion in order
to
better
understand
what
challenges Latinx students face
on campus.
Sandoval touched on some
of
the
positive
outcomes
from
conversations
with
The Bias Response Team,
Center for Campus Involvement
and
the
Expect
Respect
community gathered Thursday
afternoon
in
the
Michigan
League to discuss the impact of
bias incidents on the University of
Michigan campus, and effective
responses
that
students
and
administration can take after bias
incidents occur.
According to BRT, the term
“bias incident” refers to any
conduct
that
discriminates,
excludes or harasses anyone
based on an identity. Currently,
students can report bias incidents
anonymously
online
and
by
phone.
Many students who attended
the event specifically mentioned
the recent incident in which
University
student,
Lauren
Fokken,
an
LSA
sophomore,
posted a Snapchat in a black
face mask, and captioned it
“#blacklivesmatter.”
LSA senior Jordan Jackson,
Fokken’s co-worker at Victors
cafe in Mosher-Jordan Residence
Hall,
reported
Fokken
to
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Panel talks
methods of
disclosing
racist acts
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Bias Incident Prevention
Response Team outlines
incident reporting process
KATHERINA SOURINE
Daily Staff Reporter
La Casa demands get administration
attention, receive gradual response
La Casa members fear lack of urgency, potential loss of steam after summer
AMARA SHAIKH
Daily Staff Reporter
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In November 2016, during
the 2016 presidential election
campaign, Muslim Americans
and the mosques in which they
worshipped were victims to
dozens of attacks, followed by
Islamophobic
rhetoric
from
then-Republican
presidential
candidates
Ben
Carson
and
Donald Trump. These events
helped
ignite
a
firestorm
of
Islamophobic
rhetoric
nationwide,
leading
to
the
formation of the Islamophobia
Working Group on the University
of Michigan campus.
On
Thursday,
the
Islamophobia
Working Group celebrated their
second anniversary with the
event, “Restructuring Academia
and Student Life” at the Harlan
Hatcher
Graduate
Library
Gallery. Prof. Evelyn Alsultany,
director of the Arab and Muslim
American
Studies
Program,
mediated the event.
The same harmful rhetoric
affected the University’s campus,
Alsultany noted. She recounted
the experience of LSA senior Jad
Elharake, a panelist at the event,
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Anti-hate
org marks
its second
anniversary
CAMPUS LIFE
Islamophobic Working
Group hosts discussion
on progress. struggles
REFAEL KUBERSKY
Daily Staff Reporter
ROSEANNE CHAO/Daily
Kumi
Naidoo,
newly-
appointed secretary general of
Amnesty International, gave a
talk at the Ford School of Public
Policy Thursday afternoon on
economic inequality, climate
change and the role the U.S.
plays in global justice. Naidoo,
a South African human rights
activist,
will
succeed
Salil
Shetty in August 2018, who has
been secretary general since
2010.
Naidoo began his talk by
addressing
the
concept
of
creative
maladjustment,
an
idea that was also emphasized
by civil rights activist Martin
Luther King Jr. After showing
a clip of King’s 1963 speech on
the concept, Naidoo suggested
humans
have
become
too
well-adjusted
to
economic
inequality across the world,
and
maladjustment
would
be necessary to push global
change.
“One of the challenges for
public leadership and public
policy is whether we have the
courage to analyze the problems
without sanitizing what the
problems actually are,” Naidoo
said. “And speaking true to
power, whether it makes some
in power lose that power.”
Naidoo returned to the issue
of income inequality, giving a
personal example of how easy it
can be to become well-adjusted
to
inequality.
Naidoo
had
been heavily involved in anti-
apartheid activities in South
Africa, and after apartheid
ended,
many
organizations
offered positions and equity
to well-educated Black South
Africans out of pressure to
be
inclusive
and
provide
equal opportunity. Several of
Naidoo’s friends accepted these
positions, rocketing into higher
socioeconomic
class
levels,
while Naidoo turned down
offers, trying instead to direct
equity given to nonprofits.
“We looked at them and said,
‘Hang on, if you give us that
10 percent equity, that’s not
Kumi Naidoo
talks US role
in opposing
“affluenza”
Amnesty International Secretary General
addresses global justice at Ford lecture
SONIA LEE
Daily Staff Reporter
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