In a formal request to the
University
of
Michigan’s
Board
of
Regents
Monday
morning, University President
Mark Schlissel called for the
renaming of the C.C. Little
Science Building after months
of protests against the former
University president’s history
of
eugenics
research
and
involvement in the tobacco
industry.
The
regents
are
set to vote Thursday on the
recommendation.
“The University community
makes a significant commitment
to an individual or family when
it names a space after a person
and those who wish to change it
carry a heavy burden,” Schlissel
wrote
in
a
communication
released on the agenda for the
upcoming Thursday meeting.
“In this case, I believe that
heavy burden has been met
for the reasons articulated in
the
(advisory
committee’s)
recommendation.”
Review of the building’s
association
with
Little
by
the
President’s
Advisory
Committee
on
University
History began after an official
request from University faculty
and students to the committee
to change the building’s name
The Michigan Daily and
University
President
Mark
Schlissel met Monday afternoon
to discuss the University of
Michigan’s role in responding
to
national
movements
concerning sexual misconduct
and
gun
violence.
Schlissel
also commented on matters
concerning the University and
Ann Arbor specifically, including
his
recent
recommendation
for
the
renaming
of
C.C.
Little Science Building and
West Quad Residence Hall’s
Winchell
House,
the
racist
blackface
Snapchat
incident,
the
Lecturers’
Employee
Organization
bargaining
efforts for higher wages and
benefits and the Detroit Free
Press’s
investigation
into
the
University’s
reported
investment of endowment funds
into the companies of prominent
University donors.
C.C. Little and Winchell
House renaming
Monday
morning,
the
University Board of Regents
released
their
agenda
for
this
Thursday’s
meeting
in
the Michigan Union, which
included two recommendations
from Schlissel to remove the
names from the C.C. Little
Science
Building
and
West
Quad’s Winchell House. The
announcement has come after
months of student protests,
dialogues with administrators
and
investigations
into
the
University figures the buildings
were
named
after
by
the
President’s Advisory Committee
on University History.
The
administration
came
under fire for the names of
the
buildings
after
more
research had been done and
heavily publicized about Little
and Winchell, and the social
movements
they
supported
through their work at the
University.
Little,
a
former
president of the University, was
a renowned eugenicist who
supported
the
sterilization
of people he deemed inferior
such as minorities and people
with disabilities and a very
large supporter of the tobacco
industry, despite his background
in science.
Winchell, on the other hand,
served as a professor and regent
at the University in the late 1800s
and published many academic
pamphlets alleging white people
were physically predetermined
to be the dominant race due to
brain size and other various
metrics, a sentiment that is now
called racist and has been proven
to be incorrect by countless
studies.
After
the
committee’s
research
and
months
of
deliberation,
the
committee
A self-driving car killed a
pedestrian last week in Tempe,
Ariz. when an Uber SUV struck
Elaine Herzberg as she was
crossing the street with her
bike at night. Since the accident,
students and faculty involved
with
autonomous
transport
research at the University of
Michigan have grappled with
the implications of the fatality
and how the event might alter
the trajectory or research of
driverless cars in the future.
The University opened its
own autonomous vehicle testing
facility, Mcity, in 2015, a 32-acre
urban environment on North
Campus with freeways, roads,
signs and artificial storefronts.
Since then, the international
research
community
has
regarded Ann Arbor as a leading
city for self-driving research and
testing.
Already, Uber has temporarily
grounded public autonomous
testing in four cities across the
U.S. since the fatality yet current
state and federal legislation
does little to discuss the ethics
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‘U’ buildings
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President Schlissel answers questions about recent recommendations to rename C.C. Little, addressing sexual
assault on campus and how the University is adapting to gun violence at the Fleming Administartion Building Mon-
day.
ADMINISTRATION
C.C. Little, Winchell House scrutinized
for racist pasts, subject to vote Thursday
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Graduate Employees’ Organization to host call to action on Trans Day of Disposability
Due to inadequate transgender
care
services,
the
Graduate
Employees’ Organization — a union
representing
graduate
student
instructors and graduate student
staff assistants at the University
of Michigan — is fighting for
transgender health care coverage by
raising awareness at their Trans Day
of Disposability rally and putting
pressure on the University Human
Resources to take part in health
care negotiations. Through these
negotiations, GEO hopes to achieve
more transparent information and
health care coverage from at least
two providers for the transgender
community in Ann Arbor.
GEO’s Trans Health Caucus
has been meeting with Human
Resources in special conferences to
address trans health care coverage
under GradCare, a health care plan
exclusively available for graduate
students,
including
instructors,
staff
assistants
and
research
assistants. Though GradCare covers
transgender surgeries in general,
it deems specific genital surgeries
as cosmetic and refuses to cover
those expenses. According to Jill
Seale, a Transgender Resources and
Comprehensive AAFF coverage
featuring an interview with “Bladerunner 2049” visual effects artist
John Nelson
See UBER, Page 2
After Uber
fatality, ‘U’
considers
role of tech
RESEARCH
Students and researchers
weigh pros and cons of
self-autonomous vehicles
ETHAN LEVIN
Daily Staff Reporter
MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
Students gather on the Diag to promote transgender rights and advocate for better access to healthcare for transgender people Monday.
Schlissel: Building name changes to be
“exceptionally rare” going forward
President Schlissel talks C.C. Little, blackface Snapchat incident and more with Daily
ALEX COTT
Daily Staff Writer
See MEDICAL, Page 3
History lecturer Jonathan
Marwil
considers
teaching
a holy profession and the
classroom a holy place. He
rarely uses technology in the
classroom such as PowerPoint
as he feels it is one of the
most boring ways of teaching.
He himself does not own a
cell phone. He said he lives
in a simpler world and sees
how cell phones impede the
world of his students. For
most students and professors,
Canvas provides an easy mode
of communication between and
among each other, in Marwil’s
class, he relies on email and if
students need him, they know
where to find him.
Instead
of
using
online
portals, chooses to interact
with his students in person. He
says the profession of teaching
has been complicated by the use
of technology and is confident
in his courses’ success without
it. Most of the courses he
teaches are discussion-based
and he believes his students
learn best by interacting and
See CANVAS, Page 3
Profs leave
Canvas for
increased
connection
ACADEMICS
Google Drive, personal
websites utilized in favor
of online education portals
REMY FARKAS
Daily Staff Reporter
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