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Four years ago, the Black

Student Union launched the
online campaign #BBUM, or
Being Black at the University
of Michigan, and gave the
University
seven
days
to

respond to seven demands.
Some of the demands included
more
affordable
campus

housing, an increase in Black
representation on campus and
a digitization of documents
in the University’s Bentley
Historical Library.

Now,
four
years
after

BSU put forward its initial
demands,
the
organization

and the Bentley Historical
Library have completed the
project to digitize over 66,000
records from the Department
of Afroamerican and African
Studies.

The formal demand from

BSU stated: “We demand for
increased
exposure
of
all

documents within the Bentley
(Historical)
Library.
There

michigandaily.com
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Friday, October 19, 2018

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM

Amid questions of election security and

potential system hacking in the upcoming
midterm elections, Engineering prof. J.
Alex Halderman spoke at the University of

Michigan Alumni Center Thursday night
about vulnerabilities in U.S. voting systems.
Last June, Halderman appeared before the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to
testify about such.

“Hacking the Vote” was presented by the

Alumni Association, the Center for Local,
State and Urban Policy, the Gerald R. Ford

School of Public Policy and the College of
Engineering. Halderman, who has studied
voting systems for over a decade — and last
made news on campus when his email was
spoofed in a racist email scandal — was
joined by LSA professor Walter Mebane, an
expert on detecting electoral fraud. Steve
Friess, a former Knight-Wallace fellow

and freelance journalist, moderated the
discussion.

The professors discussed the reasoning

behind election security, past and current
issues with voting systems, public response
to elections and recounting votes and
the federal government’s role in making
elections

Professors discuss election security, voting
systems in panel as midterm elections approach

Hacking the Vote event tackles Russian involvement, “election forensics” and security progress

ALEX HARRING

For the Daily

See ELECTION, Page 3A

Nigel Poor, a photography

professor at California State
University-Sacramento,
spoke

at
the
Michigan
Theater

Thursday night for the Penny
Stamps Distinguished Speaker
Series. About 200 University of
Michigan students, faculty and
Ann Arbor residents came to hear
Poor speak about her work within
San Quentin State Prison, a men’s
detention facility in California.

At San Quentin, Poor teaches

an art history class to inmates
and produces her podcast “Ear
Hustle,” which details life inside
the walls of prison.

Poor became involved in the

San Quentin State Prison in 2011
through the Prison University
Project, a program in which
professors
from
Northern

California universities volunteer
to teach college courses to
inmates.

According to Poor, the prison

Nigel Poor
discusses
role of art
in prisons

CAMPUS LIFE

Podcast host speaks to
crowd of 200 at Penny
Stamps Lecture Series

CALLIE TIETELBAUM

For The Daily

MADELINE HINKLEY /Daily

University professors J. Alex Halderman and Walter Mebane discuss how safe the U.S. voting system is as the midterm elections approach at the Alumni Center Thursday night.

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©2018 The Michigan Daily

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

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Regents talk $1 billion endowment
increase, Power Plant schedule

ANNIE KLUS/Daily

CSG Vice President Izzy Baer speaks during the Board of Regents meeting at the U-M Flint Thursday.

The Board of Regents also approved model portfolio for long-term investment plans

The University of Michigan

Board of Regents approved
the
construction
schedule

and schematic design of the
Central Power Plant expansion
and discussed the University’s
endowment $1 billion increase
at its Thursday meeting in Flint.

Eucharia Ganda, president of
the U-M Flint student body, and
Izzy Baer, vice president of U-M
Ann Arbor’s Central Student
Government,
also
addressed

their
student
government

initiatives and concerns.

In March 2017, the Board

of Regents approved the $80
million Central Power Plant
expansion,
a
12,000-foot

addition expected to reduce

greenhouse gas emissions by
100,000 tons per year. The
new addition is intended to
move the University closer to
its 2025 sustainability goal —
to
reduce
greenhouse
gas

emissions by 25 percent below
2006
levels.
Though
the

project is projected to reduce
greenhouse
gas
emissions,

some question whether a long-
term investment in fossil fuel is

the best solution.

In a Public Affairs report,

Kevin
Hegarty,
University

executive vice president and
chief financial officer, said the
goal will help the University stay
on target for reducing emissions
as well as keeping track of
finances.

“Our
targeted
greenhouse

JULIA FORD

Daily Staff Reporter

See PRISONS, Page 2A

Hockey’s Here

The Daily previews

Michigan hockey’s upcoming

season after reaching the

Frozen Four in 2017-18

» Page 1B

Years after
#BBUM,
documents
digitized

Bentley Historical Library
converts over 66,000
documents from DAAS

RACHEL LEUNG
Daily Staff Reporter

See REGENTS, Page 3A

See SYRIA, Page 3A

In a blended mix of English,

Arabic, spoken word and rap,
musician
and
activist
Omar

Offendum presented to a group of
over 200 students and faculty on
Thursday about his experiences
as a Syrian-American hip-hop
artist. Offendum spoke and rapped
about growing up in his diverse
Northern Virginia neighborhood,
as well as the difficulty of weaving
together his multiple identities into
a coherent whole.

Offendum’s presentation, which

took place during a lecture of the
Introduction to Arab-American
Studies course at the University of
Michigan, touched on themes of
loss, political activism and rising
xenophobia. Offendum said his
experiences and musical style have
changed over the years as tensions
in the Middle East have become
more visible to the American
public.

“I liked to think I was this

ethnically ambiguous dude named
Omar prior to 9/11 on campus —
people didn’t really necessarily

Offendum
highlights
importance
of culture

Syrian American rapper
performs for more than
200 students and staff

LIAT WEINSTEIN

Daily Staff Reporter

See DAAS, Page 3A

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