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 

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Friday, October 19, 2018

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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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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

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