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This
November,
Michigan

voters will decide the fate of
Proposal 2, a citizen-initiated
proposition to move the power of
creating legislative districts from

the state House of Representatives
to
an
Independent
Citizens

Redistricting Commission.

The proposal aims to end the

practice of “gerrymandering,” or
strategically creating districts to

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Vol. CXXVIII, No.3
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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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ACADEMICS

ACADEMICS

Over
the
course
of
two

years,
three
different
unions

— the University of Michigan
Professional
Nurse
Council,

the
Lecturers’
Employee

Organization
and
Graduate

Employees’ Organization — have
threatened to strike in response to
budget cuts and staffing levels at
the University.

LEO President Ian Robinson

said these incidents are a reaction
to a broader shift at the University,
related primarily to what Robinson
sees as a prioritization of financial
concerns.

“It’s a new model that is taking

place at the University,” Robinson

said. “It is a model that has moved
from focusing on the interests
of the public to profit. Really the
birth of these unions is the result
of this new model. These strikes
are the same fight as the fight that
made these unions form.”

As
the
University
of

Michigan
Professional
Nurse

Councilprepares to vote on the
tentative contract agreement with
the University after 100 days of
bargaining and an impending
strike, UMPNC Chief Grievance
Chair John Armelagos said the
demands and concerns of nurses
at the University have not changed
since the union’s formation in 1974.

The primary motivation behind

the union’s formation was a need
to improve working conditions.
Staff were exposed to an unlimited

number of consecutive work days,
multiple shift changes within a
week and mandatory overtime.

Though in current negotiations

with Michigan Medicine, nurses
were able to reach a tentative
contract
agreement
without
having

to implement work stoppage, in
1981 and 1989 hundreds of nurses
were forced to walk the picket
line before they could come to a
satisfactory agreement with the
administration. In ’81 the nurses
went on a 3-week strike and in ’89
the nurses went on a 19-day strike.

Armelagos said he participated

in the strike of ’89.

“I was active on the picket

line,” Armelagos said. “The main
reason we picketed was due to
mandatory
overtime.
Nurses

were subjected to working in an

unlimited fashion. The hours that
nurses were expected to work
were excessive.”

Anne
Jackson,
the
onsite

representative for the ambulatory
care services at the University,
said she sees connections between
the strikes of ’81 and ’89 and
nurses’ demands for their current
contract.

“The
common
thread
is

nursing as patient care advocates
attempting to do the best we can as
registered nurses,” Jackson said.
“’81 was about nurses gaining more
professional economy. In ’89 it was
about nurses being too exhausted
to deliver safe care. Today, the
main issue is also patient care.”

Jackson, who joined as a

Gérard
Mourou,
an
A.

D.
Moore
distinguished

University professor emeritus
in the Electrical Engineering
and
Computer
Science

Department, received a Nobel
Prize in physics on Tuesday for
pioneering the field of high-
speed and high-intensity lasers.
The University of Michigan
ranks
among
the
top
50

universities in the world with
the most Nobel Prize winners.

Mourou served as a founding

director at the Center for
Ultrafast
Optical
Science,

a
research
facility
within

the College of Engineering
that studies the application
of
ultrashort
laser
pulses

in a variety of disciplines.
Mourou
is
an
established

expert
in
his
field,
and

has
received
the
Wood

Prize from the Optical Society

of America in 1995 as well as
the Edgerton Prize from the
International Society for Optics
and Phonics in 1997, among
other accomplishments, such
as the 2005 Willis E. Lamb
Awardfor Laser Science and
Quantum Optics and Charles
Hard Townes Award also by
the Optical Society of America
in 2009.

Mourou shares half of the

The
University
of

Michigan’s Central Student
Government
convened

Tuesday night to complete an
Intergroup Relations training,
address community concerns,
and confirm election results.

The Program on Intergroup

Relations, a social justice
education
program

on
campus,
facilitates

workshops
for
various

clubs and organizations to
teach
participants
about

empathetic communication in
a multicultural society.

“Today’s training, common

ground training, is critical
to our success in helping
CSG become more inclusive

and ensuring that we better
understand intersectionality
and the role of identities in
the policy work in efficacy
we do,” CSG President Daniel
Greene, a Public Policy senior,
said.

CSG also approved several

new elected students at the
meeting. Elizabeth Fakhoury,
a

Redistricting proposal
on upcoming ballot to
address gerrymandering

University labor unions draw parallels with past strikes

RESEARCH
STUDENT GOVERNMENT

RESEARCH

The citizen-initiated proposition calls for independent
commission, meets mixed reviews from students

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NOLAN FELICIDARIO/Daily

Recent slew of near-strikes a reaction to “new model” at U-M prioritizing profit over public, union president says

University professor awarded
Nobel Prize work in physics

CSG confirms newly elected
student positions, resolutions
UHS launches new service to expand
healthcare to transgender students

Professor Gerard Mourou pioneered field for high-speed lasers

In eighth assembly meeting, community concerns including
requiring representatives to hold monthly office hours

Trans Care Team to provide hormone therapy, HIV prevention

PRASHANTH PANICKER/Daily

CSG representatives rearrange their seating for a group dialogue at the Central Student Government meeting Tuesday.

See PROPOSAL, Page 2A
See UNIONS, Page 3A

See RESEARCH, Page 3A

See PHYSICS, Page 3A

ZACK BLUMBERG

For the Daily

See CSG, Page 2A

University Health Service

announced a new service in
the Trans Care Department
called the Trans Care Team,
which will provide hormone
therapy for gender affirmation,

prescriptions
to
prevent

HIV, and other services and
resources for the University
of
Michigan
transgender

community. The team is a
group of trained health care
providers that provide advice
and general care in addition to
hormone therapy.

UHS Care Manager Diana

Parrish said the new Trans Care
Team is comprised of health
care providers who possess
the knowledge and experience
in caring for transgender and
non-binary students. Prior to
this specialized care team,
insurance coverage and limited

Remote Telemetry

and Graham

Crackers:

U-M nurses describe cuts to

patient care

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Remote Telemetry and
Graham Crackers:
U-M nurses describe cuts to patient care

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