by the Trump administration. 
The 
Trump 
administration’s 
announcement 
caused 
uncertainty in the markets as 
the tariffs go against years of 
precedence of free trade with 
China.
Director Scott Jacobs said the 
program helps companies “step 
back and assess their business 
practices in order to become 
more competitive.”
“The 
whole 
idea 
of 
the 
assistance model is to help 

companies invest in themselves 
by building their capabilities 
faster 
and 
more 
efficiently 
than they could without the 
program,” Jacobs said.
The program offers client 
companies guidance in a variety 
of areas, including sales and 
marketing, personnel training 
and new product development. 
Firms can qualify for up to 
$75,000 in matching funds from 
the center to cover the cost of 
business improvement projects.
The 
grants 
announced 
Wednesday 
represent 
a 
$300,000 decrease in funding 
overall from 2017 when the 

Department 
of 
Commerce 
designated a total of $13.3 
million to TAACs. 2018 marks a 
$600,000 decrease in funding 
for the Great Lakes Trade 
Adjustment Assistance Center, 
which was awarded $1.7 million 
in 2017. In 2016, the Center 
received $1.65 million from the 
EDA.
Jacobs said the center was 
currently in the third year of a 
five-year cooperative agreement 
between the Department of 
Commerce and the University, 
and that federal funding is 
not distributed in a “uniform 
manner.”

“It 
ends 
up 
fluctuating, 
and we were disappointed in 
that lower amount of funding, 
however, over the three years 
so far … we’ve received well 
over $3 million, which, in sum, 
is adequate for us to our work,” 
Jacobs said.
“Our clients and companies 
across the U.S. are worried 
about a potential increase in raw 
material costs, but largely they 
haven’t seen that yet,” Jacobs 
said. “Anything beyond that — 
restrictions in trade or a bunch 
of uncertainty — you know, it’s 
unclear what’s going to happen 
with that.”

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refugee, 
started 
his 
talk 
by 
acknowledging 
his 
refugee 
identity, jokingly referring to his 
transformation 
“from 
refugee 
to 
bourgeoisie.” 
Nguyen 
and 
his family fled to the United 
States in 1975 after the fall of 
Saigon, settling in a refugee 
camp in Fort Indiantown Gap, 
Pennsylvania. He explained he 
still feels like a refugee because 
his earliest memories are of this 
time when he was separated 
from his parents and brother — a 
story parallel to the child-parent 
separation crisis of today at the 
U.S.-Mexican border.
“That’s why I take it personally 
when I hear stories today about 
children being taken away from 
their parents, because I feel there 
is no justification of that,” Nguyen 
said.
He then talked about the idea 
of “good” and “bad” refugees, 
describing the limitations of these 
one-sided views and emphasizing 
every person’s right in America to 
be mediocre, a line that garnered a 
lot of applause.
“I resist this whole idea of 
good and bad refugees or good 
and bad immigrants, because 
what that implies is the only 
acceptable refugee or immigrant 
is the exceptional refugee, the 
exceptional immigrant,” Nguyen 
said. “But you can only admit one 
or two of those people, and I think 
that’s exactly the intent behind 
this idea of good and bad refugees 
or immigrants. I, for one, believe in 
America in which equality means 
the equal right to be mediocre.”
Nguyen also spoke about U.S. 
and Vietnamese perceptions of 
the Vietnam War. He shared 
how the war wasn’t over for the 
Vietnamese people surrounding 
him in his refugee camp growing 
up with the losses and grief they 
still carried. He described himself 
feeling “split in two” while 
watching 
“Apocalypse 
Now,” 
at first being on the side of the 
American soldiers until he saw 
them killing Vietnamese. Through 

this movie and other media of its 
kind, he realized how powerful 
and destructive stories can be.
“Stories can empower and 
stories can destroy us at the same 
time, and that’s one of the reasons 
why I became a writer,” Nguyen 
said.
Throughout his talk, Nguyen 
read excerpts from four of his 
books: 
“The 
Sympathizer,” 
“Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam 
and the Memory of War,” “The 
Refugees” and “The Displaced: 
Refugee 
Writers 
on 
Refugee 
Lives.” After sharing his stories, 
he held a question-and-answer 
session. In one response, he 
emphasized the need to write 
stories that bring people together.
“We have to change how stories 
are told,” Nguyen said. “We need 
to write stories in America that 
build bridges instead of building 
walls. We need to tell stories 
opening our hearts instead of 
closing our minds.”
LSA junior Hannah Brauer 
read some of Nguyen’s books 
in her classes and appreciated 
the viewpoint he provided on 
the 
Vietnam 
War. 
She 
said 
something that resonated with 
her was his reference to a New 
York Times review for his book 
“The Sympathizer” that called it 
“the voice for the voiceless” when 
really those voices were just not 
being heard.
“I like how he referenced the 
New York Times review they gave 
him about the book, when really 
it’s not the voiceless, it’s those who 
popular culture refuses to hear,” 
Brauer said. “So he’s trying to be 
that voice that is heard, and he is 
being is heard.”
Christina Do, an employee 
at 
Washtenaw 
Community 
College, is also a fan of Nguyen’s 
writing and relates to many of 
his experiences as her parents 
are also refugees of the Vietnam 
War. She talked about the power 
of seeing her identity represented 
by Nguyen.
“The feeling of seeing someone 
who 
shares 
your 
experience, 
who shares your identity in some 
way, it’s an incredibly gratifying 
experience,” Do said.

The University of Michigan’s 
Central Student Government 
met Tuesday night to pass 
a 
resolution 
to 
fund 
the 
 
Buses 
to 
Ballots 
initiative 
and another to help fund the 
Career Center’s JCPenney Suit 
Up event.
The assembly also passed 
a resolution to recommend 
adding motion activated lights 
in academic buildings at the 
University. Shortly after the 
meeting began, CSG observed a 
moment of silence in memorial 
of 9/11.
The 
Buses 
to 
Ballots 
initiative was born out of the 
Big 
Ten 
Voting 
Challenge, 
the conference-wide push to 
increase student voter turnout 
in the 2018 midterm elections. 
Buses would take students to 
and from polling places from 6 
a.m. to 11 p.m. on Election Day 
in November in an attempt to 
increase student voter turnout.
The 2014 midterms only 
produced a 14 percent college 
student voter turnout, which 

students and administrators 
are eager to raise.
CSG Vice President Izzy 
Baer, an LSA junior, says 
this is a great opportunity 
to highlight and overcome 
barriers to voting for students.
 
“CSG is very excited to have 
the opportunity to support 
student voting accessibility on 
election day,” Baer wrote later 
to The Daily. “While it is vital 
for students to register and 
vote, there are difficulties — 
such as transportation — that 
are often not discussed. We see 
this as a positive step forward 
in increasing student voting 
turnout across the board this 
November.”
CSG 
President 
Daniel 
Greene, 
a 
Public 
Policy 
senior, discussed the positive 
implications that subsidizing 
transportation to the polls will 
bring.
“CSG is excited to uphold 
(University) 
President 
Schlissel’s 
Big 
Ten 
Voter 
Challenge and help improve 
voter 
turnout 
amongst 
Michigan students,” Greene 

wrote to The Daily following 
the meeting. “AR 8-009 makes 
voting less of a burden by 
addressing 
barriers 
created 
by some polling site’s off-
campus locations. The funding 
allocation subsidizes student 
transportation to the polls, 
so students have guaranteed, 
direct transportation to their 
assigned polling stations.”
 
Greene also says CSG is 
dedicated to the student body’s 
interests and will continue to 
pass policies to achieve this.
 
“CSG remains committed 
to empowering student voices 
beyond campus, and I believe 
the resolutions helps Central 
Student Government embody 
the University’s mission to 
develop leaders and citizens 
who will challenge the present 
and enrich the future,” Greene 
wrote.
 
Engineering 
junior 
Zeke 
Majeske 
was 
happy 
the 
resolution passed, but says 
these busing systems will bring 
out many students who only 

live in Ann Arbor for their 
educational career, swaying the 
votes against the permanent 
residents living in the city. He 
expressed his concern with 
this affair.
“I am afraid that the buses 
will bring lots of non-residents 
to polling places where they 
will vote in city elections,” 
Majeske wrote to The Daily. 
“I am happy the resolution 
passed, I just like to vote ‘no 
with rights’ on stuff if I think 
more needs to be said.”
The 
Career 
Center’s 
JCPenney Suit Up event is 
taking place September 30, 
and will be busing students to 
JCPenney. CSG also passed a 
resolution to help sustain the 
Career Center’s Clothes Closet 
for non-traditional sizes.
Other 
resolutions 
passed 
included the fall 2018 CSG 
budget plan, as well as a 
resolution to amend the CSG 
election code. Under this new 
code, students would not be able 
to endorse the representatives 
through social media platforms 
without filling out the official 
endorsement paperwork.

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on campus and the Latinx 
communities in Ann Arbor. 
In addition to the opening 
ceremony, La Casa is organizing 
events 
featuring 
Latinx 
professors and guest speakers 
such as Prof. Ruth Behar and 
Prof. Ashley Lucas.

The 
Center 
for 
Multi-
Ethnic 
Student 
Affairs 
and 
La 
Casa 
are 
working 
collaboratively to feature more 
than 20 events over the next 
month. 
This 
collaboration 
marks 
progress 
from 
last 
year’s boycott organized by La 
Casa against MESA, claiming 
they 
overlooked 
Latinx 
students on campus.
La 
Casa 
Lead 
Director 

Lesley Rivas, an LSA junior, 
explained how La Casa works 
to uplift Latinx students at the 
University.
“We try to give leadership 
opportunities where they can 
learn about their history, learn 
how to be activists on campus 
and how to take initiative,” 
she said. “The Latinx Heritage 
Month this year is really a 
product of many months of 

really hard work put on by 
students, 
staff 
and 
faculty, 
in contrast to last year when 
our 
heritage 
month 
wasn’t 
prioritized. This month we 
really 
emphasized 
the 
fact 
that we matter on campus, 
our community is a priority, 
especially right now because of 
how the families and students 
here are being impacted by 
everything politically, namely 

Trump’s administration and 
negative media portrayal.”
LSA 
sophomore 
Yosabeth 
Guerrero explained how she is 
continuously thankful for the 
community she has become 
a part of and the support it 
provides her.
“Being Latina means I’m able 
to represent my culture and be 
with people who look like me, 
people with the same skin tones 

and with the same practices 
and traditions,” Guerrero said. 
“It’s 
important, 
especially 
on this campus because it is 
a PWI, predominantly white 
institution, so when we get 
together, we form a coalition 
in order to provide a better 
support 
system 
amongst 
ourselves as a marginalized 
group on campus. I feel like I’m 
back home.”

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an article published in Medium 
claimed the Stanford prison 
experiment 
lacks 
credibility. 
The article said new interviews 
revealed the guards had been 
coached, 
and 
raised 
other 
issues having to do with the 
methodology and replicability 
of the study.
The 
Stanford 
prison 
experiment is not the only 
example of canonical psychology 
research coming under fire. A 
number of studies –– including 
the Milgram experiment, which 
was 
meant 
to 
demonstrate 
the 
disturbing 
extent 
of 
human 
obedience 
–– 
have 
received 
criticism 
for 
lack 
of 
replicability 
or 
sloppy 
procedures. 
Many 
of 
these 
studies are considered essential 
to the field and appear in 
standard psychology textbooks.
According 
to 
Howard 
Kurtzman, 
acting 
executive 
director 
of 
the 
American 
Psychological 
Association’s 
Science 
Directorate, 
the 
problem of older psychology 
studies being re-evaluated is 
not new but part of a continual 
trend.
“I see this as a gradual 
process,” Kurtzman said. “There 
are some findings that we’ve 
thought were true that maybe 
aren’t, but more commonly the 
magnitudes of the effects may 
be smaller than we realized.”
Kurtzman said a major issue 
is that many older studies have 
been difficult for researchers 
to repeat due to a variety 
of 
factors 
including 
small 
sample sizes and careless use 
of 
statistical 
methods. 
He 
clarified replicability problems 
affect all scientific disciplines, 
not 
just 
psychology. 
The 

National Academies of Science, 
Engineering, and Medicine is 
currently conducting a study on 
reproducibility in science.
Over the past five to 10 years, 
Kurtzman said, the psychology 
community has been working 
to 
address 
the 
replicability 
crisis, focusing on increasing 
sample 
sizes, 
sharing 
data 
and pre-registering studies to 
promote transparency.
Because 
of 
the 
attention 
being 
paid 
to 
replicability 
issues, 
Kurtzman 
believes 
research quality and reliability 
will improve within the next 
10 to 20 years with journals 
and scientific funding agencies 
increasing their standards.
He 
estimated 
the 
field’s 
focus on high-quality research 
will begin to change teaching 
practices for psychology over 
the next five to 10 years.
“I 
think 
going 
forward 
research that is published in 
journals will be more reliable,” 
Kurtzman said. “All that will 
filter into teaching. I’m sure it’s 
being discussed already at the 
graduate level and seminars, and 
that will filter down, I think, to 
undergraduate 
teaching 
and 
eventually into textbooks.”
The replicability crisis has 
also become an area of focus 
for the University of Michigan 
Department 
of 
Psychology. 
Patricia 
Reuter-Lorenz, 
chair of the Department, said 
psychology faculty are well 
aware of the problem.
“I know that there’s been a 
lot of attention paid in smaller 
groups of faculty and graduate 
students in particular to the 
replication crisis and improving 
the rigor of research methods,” 
Reuter-Lorenz said. “We have 
several 
department-wide 
initiatives that are organized to 
achieve those goals.”
Though 
the 
department 

cannot dictate what professors 
teach, 
Reuter-Lorenz 
added, 
faculty 
are 
committed 
to 
training students to become 
good scientists.
“I don’t tell faculty they have 
to do things a particular way, 
but I think there’s enough of an 
appreciation for the importance 
of this that we have as a shared 
value that we will be rigorous 
in the methodologies that we 
teach,” Reuter-Lorenz said.
In addition to the replicability 
crisis, Reuter-Lorenz noted the 
University has been affected 
by 
the 
fact 
that 
standard 
studies like the Stanford prison 
experiment 
and 
Milgram 
experiment have been facing 
scrutiny.
“I think there’s some classic 
studies that have been part 
of many of our introductory 
classes and gateway classes that 
have come under fire, that have 
come under question, because of 
methods and ethics and things 
like that,” Reuter-Lorenz said.
Still, 
Reuter-Lorenz 
and 
Kurtzman 
said 
introductory 
psychology 
textbooks 
have 
not necessarily been updated 
to 
reflect 
controversies 
surrounding 
older, 
quintessential 
psychology 
studies. Kurtzman said whether 
older studies like the Stanford 
prison 
experiment 
remain 
in textbooks depends on the 
textbook 
author’s 
goal 
and 
approach.
“If a textbook author does 
address that study, they would 
be 
well-advised 
to 
include 
coverage of the controversies 
surrounding its methods and to 
address what it teaches us about 
the importance of institutional 
review boards,” Kurtzman said.
According to Reuter-Lorenz, 
this 
re-evaluation 
of 
older 
psychology studies has elicited 
a 
response 
from 
University 

psychology professors. She said 
faculty are generally aware of 
the issues with older studies 
and make sure to address them 
in class.
“Our 
instructors 
are 
cognizant of the importance 
of 
staying 
up-to-date 
on 
developments 
in 
the 
field, 
that’s why they’re here at 
the University of Michigan,” 
Reuter-Lorenz said. “Science 
is a work in progress. There’s 
always new discoveries and it’s 
very important that our faculty 
stay on top of those.”
In fact, Reuter-Lorenz added, 
the Society for the Teaching 
of Psychology published two 
papers in 2016 outlining how 
professors should cover studies 
with 
dubious 
methodology. 
One 
paper 
discussed 
the 
Stanford 
prison 
experiment 
while the othertouched on the 
Milgram experiment. Reuter-
Lorenz said one introductory 
psychology professor at the 
University has been using both 
to inform her teaching.
LSA senior Melissa Hall, who 
studies psychology, said older 
studies including the Stanford 
prison experiment, the Bobo 
doll experiment and the Genie 
experiment are still examined 
in 
introductory 
courses. 
Though Hall said she has not 
taken a psychology course that 
addressed the re-evaluation of 
these studies, her professors 
and 
classmates 
do 
discuss 
controversies surrounding older 
research.
“Often people will raise their 
hands and try and contradict the 
information and explain how 
there’s been controversy,” Hall 
said. “The professors would 
address it then, but they still use 
them as examples.”
According 
to 
Hall, 
many 
older psychology studies used 
methods that would not meet 

modern norms for scientific 
methodology or ethics. Those 
generational 
differences 
are 
typically 
addressed 
in 
her 
University classes, Hall said, 
though these older studies are 
still treated as valid examples.
“Many 
of 
these 
studies 
obviously took place many years 
ago, so we just kind of address 
the differences in generation 
and why it’s not all applicable 

nowadays,” Hall said.
Reuter-Lorenz said students 
can 
learn 
from 
discussing 
studies that are now considered 
flawed.
“There are better methods 
that can be used than were 
used in the past and they 

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