LSA junior, explained recent 
updates intended to improve 
accommodations for students 
with dietary restrictions in the 
University dining halls.

From 
listing 
ingredients 

listed for each food item to 
EpiPen training administered 
to 
all 
dining 
staff, 
these 

changes 
aim 
to 
make 
all 

students 
comfortable 
eating 

in the dining halls regardless 
of diet. It was also announced 
that hydration stations will be 
available again this football 
season, 
providing 
students 

with water, snacks and portable 

phone chargers throughout the 
day to better ensure student 
safety during these high-risk 
events.

A 
resolution 
introduced 

during the assembly addressed 
the need for a basic centralized 
room reservation information 
site for general student use 
on campus. Using an online 
database, this service would 

provide 
students 
with 

a list of available study 
spaces on campus they 
could reserve for work or 
meetings.

Rackham 
student 

Austin Glass said first-
year 
and 
transfer 

students 
are 
especially 

disadvantaged in terms 
of 
having 
established 

connections to resources 
that provide spaces to 
study and congregate.

“This is more of a call 

to action rather than a 
specific action that I’m 
asking 
CSG 
to 
take,” 

Glass said. “In this case 
I’m 
asking 
(student 

organizations) to all look 
into a very simple resource 
that would present to 
students rooms that are 
available for reservation.”

Upon 
consideration, 

these 
rooms 
would 

be 
available 
in 
three 

areas on campus where 
student 
residences 
are 

concentrated, 
including 

North Campus, the Hill 
neighborhood, and South 
Quad.

A resolution funding the 

Buses 
to 
Ballots 
initiative, 

which aims to increase voter 
participation and accessibility 
among students on election 
day, by providing shuttle buses 
to off-campus polling stations 
incited 
much 
conversation. 

Many students have class on 
election day and cannot afford 
to spend time waiting in long 
lines to vote.

“We already have the routes 

laid out, as well as the number 
of impacted students, which 
would be a huge number,” said 
Rackham 
student 
Nicholas 

Fadanelli.

Other initiatives have been 

enacted to alleviate this issue, 
including 
ride-sharing 
app 

Lyft’s offer to provide voters 
with free rides to polling 
places this November. Some 
representatives 
said 
one 

problem many students face, 
in addition to a lack of time, is 
the inability to pay to get from 
campus to a local polling place. 
Engineering senior AJ Ashman 
spoke to the assembly about his 
past experience traveling far 
distances to vote, citing large 
fees to get from one location to 
the other.

“In my mind … the fact that 

there is a cost to go to vote, 
seems to be kind of like a poll 
tax to me,” Ashman said. “I 
think this (initiative) is going 
to turn out to be a very good 
opportunity for us.”

Braylon Edwards, a former 

Michigan 
Football 
wide 

receiver and Big Ten Network 
analyst, was suspended from 
his role by the network after 
he tweeted negative remarks 
about the U-M football team 
following Saturday’s loss to 
Notre Dame.

Edwards’, 
now-deleted 

tweet, was posted Saturday 
night after the game and 

read: “(Cesar) Ruiz is weak, 
line is weak, shea (Patterson) 
is scared, (expletive) Michigan 
offense is so predictable.....
Michigan football is sadly one 
thing......Trash.”

The 
BTN 
suspended 

Edwards 
indefinitely, 

announcing on Twitter that 
the words were a violation 
of social media guidelines. 
Since then, he has tweeted a 
comment and later apology 
regarding the initial attack on 
individual players, while still 
affirming his criticism of the 

team as a whole.

During his career at the 

University, Edwards won the 
Fred Biletnikoff Award, given 
to the best wide receiver in 
the country, and earned All-
American honors. He continues 
to hold the school records for 
career receptions (252), yards 
(3,541) and touchdowns (39).

 While talking to reporters, 

Harbaugh 
commented 
on 

his 
disappointment 
in 
the 

comment. 

“Number one, first of all, 

(what he said) is not true. It’s 

not factual. There’s nobody 
in our program who thinks 
 

those things about any player 
on our team. Let alone the 
two players he described,” 
Harbaugh said. “On another 
level, it’s disappointing that 
a member of the Big Ten 
 

Network 
would 
choose 

to attack the character of 
two of our players. That’s 
disappointing.”

 Harbaugh followed up his 

defense of his players during 
a press conference on Monday. 
“If somebody wants to attack 

An organization for all 

students, a place for them 
to meet, the unification of 
various factions of student 
interest — that was the dream 
of University student Edward 
Parker in 1904. By 1907 the 
Michigan Union, the “student 
union” — was first opened in 
an old home on State Street.

But over the years the 

Union, housed in the current 
building since 1917, became 

“more of an alumni center 
and hotel service… less of a 
student center,” according to 
Henry Johnson, University 
vice-president for student 
services. In the year of the 
Union’s diamond anniversary 
Parker’s dream is being 
rejuvenated — the Michigan 
Union is undergoing a facelift 
in structure and philosophy. 

The renovations now in 

progress are the result of a 

year’s worth of efforts by 
students and administrators to 
change the building’s emphasis 
back to student activities. 

Currently, Barbers, billiards, 

books, bowling, and bus tickets 
are all available at the Union. 
There is also a box office, an art 
gallery, movies, and theatrical 
productions. Administrative 
officers for a wide range of 
student organizations and 
services are also housed in the 

Union. 

This fall, for the first time, 

students will be living in the 
Union. Renovations are being 
completed on 91 hotel rooms 
and 127 graduate students and 
students over 21 have signed 
leases.

All University students 

this fall will automatically be 
members of University Club, 
a restaurant on the first floor. 
Formerly only dues-paying 

students, faculty, alumni, and 
staff were members of the club, 
and relatively few students 
chose to join.

Plans are also being made 

to move and expand a section 
of the University Cellar into a 
snack bar. The new food service 
will be similar to the “MUG” 
(the Michigan Union Grill) 
which was a popular place for 
students to meet until it was 
closed in the early 1970’s.

A 24-member task force of 

students, faculty, alumni, and 
administrators was appointed 
in February to assess the 
operations of the campus 
landmark. Sub-committees 
of the task force submitted 
recommendations for 
programming, food service, and 
physical changes. 

A report detailing the 

recommendations of the task 
force was delayed during the 
summer and is expected to be 
released next week.

Despite the “slow progress” 

made on the report, feasibility 
studies were conducted this 
summer and renovations and 
clean-up have already started, 
according to Jeff Lebow, a 
member of the task force who 
is serving as an intern in the 
Office of Student Services 
(OSS) working on Union 
planning.

“I’ve been working all 

summer long to make sure 
they don’t forget it’s a student 
union,” Lebow said.

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