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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