The University of Michigan 

Central Student Government 

met Thursday evening in the 
Hussey Room of the Michigan 

League to discuss proposals 
up 
for 
approval. 
CSG 

President Daniel Greene, 
a Public Policy senior, 
kicked off the meeting by 
announcing the Inclusivity 
Project, 
an 
initiative 

student government will 
be pursuing within the 
University’s 
Diversity, 

Equity 
and 
Inclusion 

strategic plan. According 
to Greene, the goal of the 
initiative is to improve 
the diversity of student 
organizations through a 
total evaluation of each 
organization’s procedures 
to foster diversity and 
inclusivity. 

“The hope is to get to 

the everyday peer-to-peer 
interactions,” 
Greene 

explained. 
“We 
believe 

that if you are a student 
of an underrepresented 
community, 
having 

student organizations be 
more inclusive will be a 
legitimate 
and 
genuine 

step in the right direction 
for 
improving 
campus 

culture.”

As Greene explained, a key 

part of the Inclusivity Project is 
a demographic survey that will 
be conducted within the next 
several weeks.

“We’re going to start working 

alongside student organizations 
to build a pseudo-DEI plan for 
their organizations,” he said. 
“We want to analyze current 
cultural procedures internally, 
look at barriers to participation 
and the inclusivity of all visible 
and invisible identities, and 
then loop back around and 
provide 
organizations 
with 

recommendations for short term 
and long term strategic plans.”

Greene 
expressed 
plans 

for continued evaluation of 
the 
inclusivity 
policies 
of 

Central Student Government 
itself 
through 
CSG’s 

yearly 
demographic 
survey. 

Surveys past have found the 
body to be from predominantly 
higher-income 
backgrounds, 

and assemblies historically have 
been made up of a majority white 
students. 

“It’s critical to ensuring the 

inclusivity and representation 
within 
Central 
Student 

Government 
to 
help 
us 

CAMPUS ORCHESTR A

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: THOUSANDS RALLY FOR CHOICE IN D.C.: STUDENTS 
MAKE TREK TO JOIN IN PROTEST

As part of National Hunger 

and Homelessness Awareness 
Week, 
Michigan 
Movement 

and 
the 
Shelter 
Association 

of Washtenaw County hosted 
a 
Campus 
Homelessness 

Awareness Day on the Diag at 
the University of Michigan on 
Tuesday to educate students on 
homelessness 
in 
Washtenaw 

County.

LSA 
sophomore 
Marissa 

Ernst, 
a 
member 
of 

Michigan Movement, a student-
run nonprofit organization that 
aims to provide aid to individuals 
in the community experiencing 
homelessness, 
explained 

Tuesday’s 
event 
worked 
to 

raise awareness around issues 
students might feel distant from.

“We’re 
trying 
to 
raise 

awareness 
for 
hunger 
and 

homelessness week because it’s 
a lot bigger of an issue in Ann 
Arbor than people really realize 
when they get distracted by 
student life,” Ernst said.

On Jan. 31, 2018, homeless 

service 
providers 
surveyed 

people in Washtenaw County 
experiencing 
homelessness 

as 
part 
of 
the 
Housing 

and 
Urban 
Development-

mandated Point-In-Time count. 
They found homelessness is 
down nearly 25 percent since 
2015, but nearly 300 people still 

experience 
homelessness 
in 

the county. Forty-five of those 
experiencing 
homelessness 

are under the age of 18, and 73 
families are homeless. 

In 
Michigan, 
over 
9,000 

people experience homelessness, 
and this number extends to 
more than 500,000 people in the 
United States. When looking at 
demographics of homelessness in 
Washtenaw County, the survey 
found African Americans are 
disproportionately more likely 
to 
experience 
homelessness. 

African Americans make up 
13 
percent 
of 
the 
county’s 

population, but total 48 percent 
in the homeless population. In 

2016, a report showed 342 people 
experienced 
homelessness 
in 

Washtenaw County. 

Tuesday’s event also provided 

information for students on 
how 
to 
get 
involved 
with 

organizations working to combat 
the issue of homelessness in the 
community. Local organizations 
listed 
include 
The 
Delonis 

Center, 
Groundcover 
News, 

Washtenaw Housing Alliance, 
Ozone House, Avalon Housing 
and Food Gatherers. On-campus 
organizations 
include 
Maize 

‘N Blue Cupboard, Michigan 
Affordability 
and 
Advocacy 

Coalition, UMSFP and Michigan 
Movement.

“Hear our voice, we want 

choice.”

This was the message hundreds 

of Ann Arbor residents and 
University students carried to 
Washington, 
D.C. 
yesterday, 

where they were joined by tens of 
thousands of demonstrators from 
around the world at an abortion 
rights rally to “mobilize for 
women’s lives.”

The crowd — which was 

estimated between 100,000 and 
300,000 people — filed towards 
the Lincoln Memorial in a scene 
reminiscent of the 1963 civil 
rights rally, when 250,000 people 
gathered at the same spot.

Echoing Martin Luther King’s 

“I have a dream” speech, Yard 
said, “Let freedom ring for all 
women.”

“We are here to petition the 

President, the Supreme Court, and 
the Congress to not overturn Roe 
v. Wade and to stop dismantling 
access to abortion,” Yard said.

“How ironic that as the Soviet 

Union throws off its shackles and 
the Berlin Wall comes tumbling 
down, 
President 
Bush 
would 

enslave the country and not allow 
a woman to have an abortion,” 
she said. “We will build a political 
army such that has never been 
seen before in this country for 
freedom for women in this land to 
choose.” 

Parts of the rally were aimed 

at future elections. “We have 
seen the effects of mobilizing 
pro-choice opinions in the recent 
elections in New York, New Jersey 
and Virginia, and now politicians 

are seeing it is a political liability 
to be anti-choice,” said Madeleine 
Hansen, president of Michigan 
NOW.

Politicians 
and 
entertainers 

spoke and sang voicing their pro-
choice opinions. “While the other 
side is bombing clinics, we’ll be 
electing candidates,” said Alan 
Cranston (D-California).

Many families and mother-

daughter teams attended the rally. 
“It is an important family issue,” 
said Linda Coselman of Ann 
Arbor, who was there with her two 
daughters.

In a wheelchair, wearing a straw 

hat with a coathanger attached, 
and holding the sign “Seniors 
nostalgic for choice,” Cybil Fisher 
sat in the front row at the rally 
with her daughter Rita Frydman. 

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