The University of Michigan 

Central Student Government 
met 
Tuesday 
night 
and 

discussed the introduction of 
many 
resolutions 
including 

reducing meal prices for Pell 
Grant students. Public Policy 
senior 
Alexandrea 
Somers, 

the author of the resolution, 

said she hopes to pass this 
resolution by early November 
after modifications are made 
by the assembly.

The 
resolution 
proposed 

would be a pilot program 
to combat food insecurity. 
Somers discussed how the 
program 
would 
allow 
Pell 

Grant recipients to apply for 
a reduced meal plan through 
University dining halls.

Fifty Pell Grant students 

per semester would receive a 
subsidized meal plan and pay 
only $7 per meal instead of 
the current rate of $16 a meal 
in the dining halls. Pell Grant 
recipients come from families 
who earn an income of less 
than $50,000 a year. Somers 
emphasized the importance 
of the initiative as it was one 
of the issues she promised 
to address in her election 
campaign.

“When I ran for CSG, one 

thing that ran out to me was 
that people said that they 
wanted to have (Supplemental 
Nutrition Assistance Program) 
benefits for the dining halls,” 
Somers said. “I thought well, 
SNAP benefits are complicated, 
so what’s an easier way to start 
making those steps towards 
getting near that goal. Dining 
hall accessibility is valuable 
to off-campus and Pell Grant 
students, so that is the first 
step to make things happen.”

Some questioned whether 

Somers would be willing to 
extend the benefits to people 
who don’t qualify for the Pell 
Grant such as undocumented, 
international 
and 
graduate 

students. 
Somers 
said 
she 

would be open to the idea, but 
recognizes her time is running 
short as a senior.

“Things 
need 
to 
move 

quickly for me,” Somers said. 
“I’m a senior, and it’s almost 
the end of the first semester. 
This is a big need. As a low-
income student, I think it’s 
important that students aren’t 
starving. This university has 

Scott 
Vetere 
resigned 

as 
assistant 
coach 
for 

the 
Michigan 
women’s 

gymnastics 
team 
Oct. 
15 

following 
a 
misdemeanor 

charge for alleged indecent 
or 
obscene 
conduct 
in 

public, as indicated by a case 
report 
obtained 
through 

the Michigan Courts website.

Vetere, 39, and an 18-year-

old student at the University, 

were each charged on Oct. 8 
after officers found Vetere 
and the student engaged in 
sexual activity in a parked 
car outside of an apartment 
complex at 625 Hidden Valley 
Club 
Drive, 
according 
to 

MLive. Vetere was arraigned 
Friday, Oct. 19 in Ann Arbor’s 
15th District Court, and his 
pre-trial is scheduled for Nov. 
14. The student’s arraignment 
is scheduled for Nov. 14, also 
according to MLive.

The 
Daily 
confirmed 

Vetere’s resignation Tuesday 
evening. Associate athletic 

As part of a Diversity, Equity 

and Inclusion initiative to start 
conversations about diversity 
within 
different 
fields 
of 

study, Dialogues on Diversity 
in Science was held Tuesday 
evening at the University of 
Michigan Power Center. 

Dialogues on Diversity, a 

social justice theater company, 
helped host the event, with 
executive director Ron Jones 
asking the audience questions to 
combat preconceived notions of 
diversity and privilege.

The end of the discussion 

consisted of scenario skits and 
discussion of how to handle 
situations 
such 
as 
sexual 

harassment, racially charged 
comments and bad reputations. 
While the event was scheduled 
to last from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., 
discussion 
about 
scenarios 

lingered 
for 
thirty 
minutes 

longer than expected. 

Some attendees said those 

in 
the 
sciences 
not 
value 

conversations 
on 
diversity, 

equity and inclusion, but instead 
regards them as “distractions to 
the lab.”

“There’s a culture clash when 

a minority or non-dominant 
culture come to an environment 
where it’s mostly a dominant 
culture,” 
Rackham 
student 

Omari 
Baruti 
said. 
“They 

don’t value conversations on 
diversity or you talking about 
diversity as much as the non-

dominant culture. Some things 
they say is that, ‘I’ve never had 
to experience these issues, so I 
feel like I shouldn’t have to talk 
about this.’ Or, ‘I feel like this 
is something we shouldn’t talk 
about in the lab. I don’t want to 
talk about it here. Maybe you 
guys can go elsewhere and talk 
about it, but not here.’ They feel 
like it’s a distraction from the 
productivity of the lab.”

Rackham 
student 
Angela 

Carter 
said 
that 
she 
has 

experienced 
microaggressions 

in her work and that the pressure 
of representing Black women to 
her peers and superiors takes an 
emotional toll.

“There’s 
a 
lot 
of 

microaggressions,” Carter said. 
“You go into the department, and 
you’re the person representing 
whatever identity you conform 
with. Me, being a Black woman, 
I’m representing Black women. 

Anything that I do wrong or 
do correctly is representing 
all Black women. So I have to 
always be correct and always 
right and always perfect. You 
have to be 100 percent on all the 
time.”

Rackham 
student 
Kaylin 

White said she was happy to 
see the number of people in 
attendance, but wished more 
faculty members were present. 

 
 
State 
Rep. 
Yousef 
Rabhi, 

D-Ann Arbor, proposed a bill 
last week to require all utilities’ 
energy in Michigan to come 
from renewable sources by 2050. 
The state of Michigan currently 
requires 10 percent of energy to 
come from renewable sources 
such as wind and solar, and 
this number will increase to 15 
percent by 2021.

Under 
Rabhi’s 
proposed 

legislation, House Bill 6466, this 
standard of renewable energy 
requirements would increase to 
25 percent by 2025, 50 percent by 
2032, 75 percent by 2040, and 100 
percent by 2050.

The 
bill 
follows 

a report released by the United 
Nations Intergovernmental Panel 
on Climate Change that warned 
of the dangers that will face 
ecosystems and human health 
if global warming is not soon 
limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

“Part of the timing on this 

is we saw the International 
Commission that issued its dire 
predictions of what was going to 

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Asst. coach 
for women’s 
gymnastics 
resigns amid 
misconduct 

CSG proposal would subsidize 
meal plans for Pell Grant students

See GYMNASTICS, Page 3A

PRASHANTH PANICKER/Daily

Students speak at the Central Student Government meeting Tuesday evening. 

CRIME

Scott Vetere, an assistant women’s coach 
charged with obscene public behavior

BENJAMIN KATZ & 

MIKE PERSAK

Daily Sports Writer & 

Managing Sports Editor

Senior Alexandrea Somers hopes to implement food insecurity program by Nov.

CATHERINE NOUHAN

Daily Staff Reporter

See ENERGY, Page 3A

Rep. Rabhi 
introduces 
renewable 
energy bill

GOVERNMENT

Proposal would mandate 
100 percent renewable 
energy in MI by 2050

JORDYN BAKER
Daily Staff Reporter

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Dr. Rob Seller speaks about the importance of discussing diversity at the Dialogues on Diversity in Science at the 
Power Center Tuesday.

Dialogues on Diversity holds event to 
bring social justice issues to sciences

Hosted by the theater company and DEI, skits applied equity issues to labwork

ZAYNA SYED

Daily Staff Reporter

”I just got really good 

at covering up how I 

feel”

Read the experiences of gay 
students navigating campus 

» Page 1B

See DIVERSITY, Page 3A

David 
Pilgrim, 
founder 

and 
curator 
of 
the 
Jim 

Crow 
Museum 
at 
Ferris 

State 
University 
spoke 
at 

the University of Michigan 
Museum of Art Tuesday about 
promoting social justice and 
tolerance through the artifacts 
in the Jim Crow Museum, 
the nation’s largest collection 
of racist artifacts. The Stern 
Auditorium was packed with 
students 
and 
Ann 
Arbor 

residents.

Pilgrim is the vice president 

for Diversity and Inclusion 
at Ferris State and an expert 
on issues related to diversity, 
multiculturalism 
and 
race 

relations. In the mid-1990s, 
Pilgrim donated his personal 
collection of 2,000 artifacts 
to the university. In 2012, 
he was able to open the 
Jim Crow Museum due to a 
donation made by DTE Energy. 
The museum now receives 
hundreds of relic donations 
annually and consists of over 
9,000 objects.

The 
museum 
houses 

See JIM CROW, Page 2A

Founder of 
Jim Crow 
Museum 
talks race

CAMPUS LIFE

Curator emphasizes 
importance of artifacts 
in teaching about racism

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