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The 
leadership 
of 
the 

Lecturers’ 
Employee 

Organization has postponed a 
walkout planned for Monday and 
Tuesday after the University of 
Michigan bargaining team began 
to “move in the right direction” 
at 
a 
last 
ditch 
bargaining 

session Sunday morning, LEO 
announced in a tweet Sunday 
night.

The eight-member LEO Union 

Council decided to call off the job 
action after reviewing bargaining 
progress and consulting with the 
union bargaining team.

According to LEO President 

Ian Robinson, more than 2,000 

people, including students, had 
signed up for picket shifts in the 
event that the union called for 
members to strike.

Robinson said Friday that even 

if the University did not fully 
meet LEO’s demands, if they 
presented offers that showed 
progress, union leadership would 
continue negotiating.

“If they don’t come to table 

with an adequate offer but it 
shows enough progress that 
we can call off the strike in 
good faith, we would call of the 
strike and continue bargaining,” 
Robinson said.

Sexual Assault Prevention 

and Awareness Center held its 
fifth annual Yes Means Fest on 
the Diag Sunday afternoon to 
raise awareness of bystander 
intervention and consent. The 
event was organized by SAPAC’s 
Bystander 
Intervention 
and 

Community 
Engagement 

volunteer program.

The 
event 
inspired 

conversations 
surrounding 

the problem of sexual violence 
on 
campus, 
and 
featured 

several 
student 
groups, 

musicians and artists in a series 
of 
performances. 
Proceeds 

from the event went toward 
SafeHouse 
Center, 
which 

supports people impacted by 
sexual 
assault 
or 
domestic 

violence.

LSA seniors Julia Berg and 

Bonnie Cheng, who served as 
co-coordinators of the BICE 
program, 
spoke 
about 
the 

event’s focus on the intersection 
of 
consent 
and 
bystander 

intervention. 

“April 
is 
Sexual 
Assault 

Awareness 
Month 
and 

we’ve 
already 
had 
SAPAC 

on 
the 
Diag, 
which 
was 

organized 
by 
(Consent, 

Outreach 
and 
Relationship 

Engagement) and was very 
primary prevention oriented,” 
Berg said. “We wanted to make 
sure that this was very distinct 
and 
more 
geared 
towards 

secondary 
prevention 
and 

bystander intervention.”

Yes Means Fest featured 

several student groups including 
Wolverine Support Network, 
Students for Choice, HeForShe, 
Expect Respect, SafeHouse and 
the Office of Student Conflict 
Resolution. 

Berg spoke further about 

how the event served as a way 
for student groups to raise 

awareness on the importance 
of bystander proactiveness and 
showcase how their specific 
organization could help people 
resolve related issues.

“In years past it’s been held 

in the Trotter Multicultural 
Center, but we really wanted 
to bring it to the Diag to just 
make it a bigger event that’s 
more accessible to people,” Berg 
said. “We wanted to bring out 

the 
community 
engagement 

aspect of BICE, so we wanted to 
partner with all these orgs and 
work with them.”

Cheng said holding the event 

on the Diag also allowed them 
to expand the range of people 
hearing their message.

Visual 
and 
written 
art 

expressions created by about 
45 
University 
of 
Michigan 

students 
and 
faculty 
were 

displayed in Rackham Graduate 
School Friday evening for the 
Sexual 
Assault 
Prevention 

and Awareness Center’s art 
exhibition 
“rEVOLUTION: 

Making Art for Change.”

The event was founded by 

a former SAPAC volunteer in 
2006 as part of her senior honors 
thesis. Years later, SAPAC’s 
Survivor 
Empowerment 
and 

Ally Support Program continues 
to organize the art show as a 
platform for the University 
community to address issues 
including 
sexual 
violence, 

gender and sexism.

The SEAS Program is one 

of the three volunteer groups 
housed within SAPAC. SEAS 
focuses efforts on educating the 
community on prevention, self-
care and how to be supportive of 
sexual violence survivors. 

LEO cancels 
strike plans, 
bargaining 
progresses

As crisis rages on, refugees share 
experiences at “Making Home”

AHAD BOOTWALA/Daily

Panelists at MRAP’s capstone event, Making Home, discuss refugee difficulties at Rackham Saturday.

ADMINISTRATION

Union president says administration 
beginning to move in right direction

Michigan Refugee Assistance Program hosts panel of experts, refugees

Washtenaw 
Community 

College student Anwar Mawli 
is from Syria, but he lived as a 
refugee in Lebanon after the 
Syrian conflict proved too unsafe 
for him and his family to stay in 

the country. He arrived in the 
United States in June 2017.

“We 
don’t 
need 
money. 

We don’t need food. We need 
solutions,” 
Mawli 
said 
when 

asked how Americans can help 
Syrian refugees.

Mawli’s story served as part 

of a four-person panel at the 

“Making 
Home” 
discussion 

event 
Saturday 
evening 
held 

at Rackham Graduate School. 
The event was presented by the 
Michigan 
Refugee 
Assistance 

Program, with about 40 students, 
faculty and community members 
in attendance.

LSA 
senior 
Zoe 
Proegler, 

co-president of MRAP, opened 
the event by explaining her 
favorite moment of last week’s 
exhibit demonstrating life in the 
refugee camp tents on the Diag. 

SAPAC art 
show gives 
survivors 
a platform

CAMPUS LIFE

“rEVOLUTION” art 
show displays work 
from 45 students, staff

Yes Means Fest raises awareness for 
bystander intervention and consent

Fifth annual event feature performances, interactive artwork on the Diag

Heartbreaker

The Michigan hockey team 

saw its season end with a 4-3 

loss to Notre Dame in the 
Frozen Four on Thursday.

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This fall, the Ross School 

of Business will offer its third 
semester of the Living Business 
Leadership Experience, a class 
that immerses undergraduate 
and graduate students in real-
life business projects. The class 
is part of the Business School’s 
Real 
Experience 
in 
Action-

Based Learning initiative, a new 
curriculum 
philosophy 
that 

emphasizes 
problem-solving 

surrounded by the complexities 
and ambiguities of the business 
world.

Mike 
Barger, 
executive 

director for the Business School’s 
Office of Strategy and Academic 
Innovation was the vice president 
of fleet operations for JetBlue 
Airways’ former vice when he 
was approached ten years ago 
by Business School Dean Scott 
DeRue. The Business school 
was looking to utilize a team of 
University of Michigan Business 
students to help develop some of 
JetBlue’s projects. 

Ross class 
provides
real-world 
experience

BUSINESS

“Living Business” soon 
in third semester, helps 
students problem solve

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Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center held its fifth annual Yes Mean Fest on the Diag Sunday afternoon. 

AHAD BOOTWALA/Daily

Panelists at MRAP’s capstone event, Making Home, discuss refugee difficulties at Rackham Saturday.

