The University of Michigan 

Central 
Student 
Government 

passed 
multiple 
resolutions 

Tuesday 
evening, 
including 

amendments to the Statement 
of 
Students 
Rights 
and 

Responsibilities 
regarding 

medical amnesty for all ages of 
students and more substances 
than alcohol, as well as a new 
definition of “hazing.” In the 
current 
statement, 
medical 

amnesty 
is 
only 
applicable 

to minors and when under 
the influence of alcohol. This 
resolution aims to expand the 
definition to encompass other 
substances as well as people of 
any age.

As of October 2016, the 

Michigan 
Medical 
Amnesty 

Law was expanded to include 
any controlled substance and 
apply to individuals of any age. 
Rackham 
student 
Nicholas 

Fadanelli, one of the authors of 
the resolution, expressed the 
importance of the resolution 
and 
was 
extremely 
pleased 

the resolution passed at the 
meeting. Fadanelli also said 
he and the other authors of the 
resolution were surprised these 
protections were not aligned 
with the state law already.

“I 
am 
very 
excited 
that 

CSG has agreed to author this 
amendment … because I think it 
is very important that we extend 
these protections to students 
who have consumed drugs that 
are not alcohol that need medical 

attention,” Fadanelli said. “The 
fact that this is not currently 
protected under University of 
Michigan policies is a big shock 
for me and other authors, and we 
are very gracious for the support 
that the other members of CSG 
and the members of SACUA and 
other administrators have given 
us thus far in the process.”

Other 
resolutions 
passed 

put forth a request to the 
University to create a concrete 
definition of hazing in the 
Statement of Students Rights 
and Responsibilities. In the 
resolution, the authors stated 
in 
the 
current 
statement, 

the definition of hazing is 
hyperlinked 
with 
references 

to 
‘Campus 
Community 

Perspectives,’ 
‘University 

Policies’ and ‘Michigan State 
Law.’

“The lack of a definition for 

hazing leaves unclear how the 
Statement will be interpreted,” 
the 
Hazing 
Statement 

Amendment Resolution read. 
“The ‘University Policy Against 
Hazing,’ last updated 2 April 
2004, remains the basis for 
current policy, yet is insufficient 
to match the contemporary 
needs of our student body by 
failing to explicitly define and 
condemn acts of hazing.”

Both 
amendments 
to 
the 

statement will be sent to the 
Students 
Relations 
Advisory 

Committee of the Faculty Senate 
to be reviewed.

Revolution, Ryu said people 
were coming up with new 
slogans and artwork for their 
protests 
based 
on 
global 

popular culture. Ryu also said 
one podcast in particular, “I 

Am a Petty Cheat,” had a large 
impact on generating interest 
in the revolution.

Throughout 
the 
event, 

Ryu emphasized the peaceful 
nature 
of 
the 
Candlelight 

Revolution. She attributed this 
as an explicit shift toward a 
new era for South Korea and is 
hopeful this trend will change 
the country’s diplomacy in the 
future.

 “The fact that it was 

peaceful — not a single window 
was broken — even though 
some 16 million people came 
out on the streets was itself 
also a departure and paradigm 
shift from earlier histories 
of 
more 
violent 
protests,” 

Ryu said. “It brought about a 
complete change in the way 
South Korea has engaged with 
North Korea and a possible 
path to ending the Korean War 
that now seems to be a real 
prospect.”

anger.

Other 
prominent 
figures 

associated 
with 
MSU 
and 

USA 
Gymnastics 
were 

arrested 
earlier 
this 
year 

in the wake of the Nassar 
scandal. Steve Penny, former 
chief executive officer of USA 
Gymnastics, was arrested in 
October for tampering with 

evidence. Kathie Klages, former 
gymnastics coach of MSU, was 
arrested for lying to police. 
William Strampel, former dean 
of MSU College of Osteopathic 
Medicine, 
was 
arrested 
in 

March regarding his handling 
of the Nassar investigation.

Lindsey Lemke, a survivor 

and 
former 
Michigan 

State gymnast, wrote in a 
Twitter statement that she 
is not surprised by Simon’s 
arrest, and sees it as taking a 
step forward toward holding 

enablers 
of 
sexual 
abuse 

accountable.

“She knew all along that 

Nassar should not have been 
treating us but yet she chose 
not to do the right thing and 
continued to employ Nassar at 
Michigan State University,” the 
statement 
said. 
“When 
I 

confronted Lou Anna in the 
court 
sentencing 
of 
Larry 

Nassar, she had no answers, 
she didn’t know who I was, and 
she proved that she was unfit 
to be in the position she was 

in … this serves as a statement 
that we are continuing to hold 
our fight and that we are not 
backing down until all enablers 
are held accountable for their 
poor actions.”

LSA 
sophomore 
Morgan 

McCaul, 
also 
a 
survivor, 

echoed Lemke’s sentiment that 
these charges represent an 
important moment of increased 
accountability regarding the 
Michigan 
State 
University 

administration, 
as 
well 
as 

justice for survivors.

“Her 
charges 
mark 
a 

significant 
moment 
in 
the 

course of this story, one where 
enablers of sexual violence 
begin to face accountability 
for their failure to ensure the 
safety of those they were legally 
responsible to protect. This has 
been a long time coming, but it 
is one more long-sought step 
towards collective justice,” she 
said.

She 
further 
recalled 
the 

hearings last January, in which 
Judge 
Rosemarie 
Aquilina 

garnered 
national 
acclaim 

for her empathetic support of 
the “sister survivors.” 

“Back in January, I asked 

Judge Aquilina to impose a 
sentence upon my abuser that 
would send an unmistakable 
message to those who ‘look 
the 
other 
way 
to 
protect 

their 
green-and-white,’” 

she said. “Today, that feels 
realized.”

it, because I feel like people 
should be about they business 
more than trying to trick 
somebody or get over them. If 
there ain’t no lease, then I’ll 
take a chance because I feel like 
they wouldn’t jeopardize they 
business to do me wrong.”

The owner of the house on 

State Street, who also owns the 
Campus Student Bike Shop on 
Maynard Street, declined to 
comment.

Young, 
a 
gregarious 

grandfather, moved to Ann 
Arbor in 1989 for a better life. He 
works part-time as a custodian 
and receives disability benefits 
for a leg injury.

“I haven’t seen an abandoned 

building here since I’ve been 
here and I’ve never heard no 
gunshots,” Young said. “I feel 
like this is a good place for me. 
The cost of living is high, but 
there’s jobs here, so you can 
afford to live here. I just like 
Ann Arbor. The atmosphere, 
it’s a walking, running, talking, 
active town. The future is 
bright for me here. I tell my 
friends and people that wanna 
have something in life, that 
want to enjoy life, come to Ann 
Arbor.”

While Young said he has 

never experienced any issues 
with no-lease rentals, those 
familiar 
with 
affordable 

housing policy in Ann Arbor 
still caution against it.

Zack Ackerman, Ann Arbor 

City Councilmember, D-Ward 
3, 
strongly 
advises 
against 

entering into a rental agreement 
without a lease. The liability, he 
said, is too great. And while the 
flexibility of no-lease renting 
may be attractive to tenants 
without dependable streams 
of 
income, 
Ackerman 
said 

it’s not a solution to the lack 
of affordable housing in Ann 

Arbor “by any means.”

“I think it’s a profiteering 

band-aid 
to 
the 
affordable 

housing issue. Leases mostly 
exist to protect tenants’ rights,” 
Ackerman said. “And if a tenant 
is entering in a relationship 
with a landlord without a 
lease, they’re entering into it 
without any right whatsoever, 
which means any personal 
property they bring into the 
property, they’d have no proof 
it’s their own. And the landlord 
or any other tenant could lay 
claim to it, and the original 
tenant would have no legal 
recourse whatsoever. So this 
is an extremely dangerous 
proposition for a tenant, and I 
would strongly not recommend 
any tenant enter into it unless 
they’re in desperate enough 

straits.”

LSA 
senior 
Christopher 

Olson, 
co-president 
of 
the 

University 
of 
Michigan’s 

Roosevelt 
Institute 
–– 
a 

student-run, progressive think 
tank and advocacy organization 
–– said the phenomenon is 
a symptom of the affordable 
housing problem in Ann Arbor 
and similarly cautions renting 
without a lease puts tenants at 
the whims of their landlord. 
Rents have risen steadily in 
Ann Arbor in last decade — 
the median rate for rent in Ann 
Arbor increased 14 percent 

from 2010 to 2015 reaching 
$1,075 
per 
month, 
despite 

the amount of high-density 
housing areas also rising by 32 
percent.

“I would think that (month-

to-month rentals) are more 
of a symptom of the fact 
that we have an affordable 
housing problem here,” Olson 
said. “Leases provide legal 
protections to tenants in a 
number of ways. They have to 
give you notice of entry, they 
have to fix the stuff that you ask 
them to fix. Not having a lease 
puts you more at the discretion 
of the landlord.”

Gayle 
Rosen, 
a 
lawyer 

with Student Legal Services, 
the 
University’s 
law 
office 

for 
students, 
said 
verbal 

agreements between a tenant 
and landlord can be legally 
binding, if they meet certain 
criteria, though she “certainly 
wouldn’t recommend” it.

“You have to agree to certain 

terms in order to have a valid 
verbal agreement,” Rosen said. 
“You have to agree on the rent 
amount and the length of time 
that you’re going to be there, 
but it could just become a 
month-to-month lease, where 
each month the other party 
gives notice that they were 
terminating the lease, that 
it continues. It’s effectively 
a verbal agreement, a verbal 
lease.”

According 
to 
Rosen, 

University 
students 
almost 

always sign leases and she does 
not often see cases of disputes 
between tenants and landlords 
without a lease.

“I don’t see it frequently,” 

Rosen 
said. 
“I’ve 
seen 
it 

probably less than five times. 
Sometimes 
they’re 
sublease 

situations, 
where 
someone 

wants to sublease and they 
do that without a written 
agreement and that’s a little 
bit more common. Why they 
do it, I don’t know. In some 

instances it might be they never 
got around to signing a lease. 
I certainly don’t think it’s a 
preferred option because the 
lease is a little bit unclear.”

Students and Ann Arbor 

residents alike have mobilized 
this year to revive the Ann 
Arbor 
Tenants’ 
Union, 

which shut down in 2004 due 
to lack of funding. Students 
were 
then 
redirected 
to 

Student Legal Services for 
mediation and legal assistance. 
Last month at a Central Student 
Government meeting, however, 
SLS director Doulgas Lewis 
said he’d like to see the union 
in action again. 

“The tenants’ union helped 

a lot of things happen in 
government 
in 
this 
town 

that wouldn’t have happened 
without it,” Lewis said at the 
meeting. “I think their last shot 
was trying to get rent control in 
Ann Arbor.”

In the end, Young and his 

girlfriend did not rent the space. 
The room in question was $600 
per month with a bathroom 
and access to a kitchen and 
living room, but Young did not 
feel the space was an adequate 
return for the rent.

Young 
said 
his 
past 

experiences 
have 
led 
him 

to trust his landlords. He 
would, however, like a written 
agreement stating his security 
deposit is refundable.

“I’ve done it before in the 

past and never had no problems. 
But I feel like you ought to 
have something written out 
to give me so you can let me 
know that I’ll be assured I 
can get my security deposit 
back,” Young said. “We be on 
even playing fields. Because 
(the landlord) needs a security 
deposit, to make sure his place 
won’t get damaged, and I need 
something written saying that 
I get my security deposit back if 
nothing’s damaged. And that’s 
good business.”

The Native American Student 

Association contributed eight 
turkeys to the center, where 
AIHFS staff planned to both 
deliver food and hold a feast 
Tuesday night. MESA also 
funded a community lunch 
Tuesday during which members 
of 
AIHFS 
and 
University 

students 
talked 
about 

contemporary issues affecting 
Native American communities, 
and 
especially 
students. 

These issues spanned from 
the 
increasing 
need 
for 

Native students to specialize 
in environmental preservation 
as well as maintaining cultural 
values.

Shiloh Maples, the healthy 

foods initiatives coordinator at 
AIHFS and member of the Little 
River Band of Ottawa Indians, 
highlighted the necessity for 
Native American people to 
work 
together 
to 
continue 

growth 
and 
development 

within communities.

“Native culture relies on 

interdependence 
to 
survive, 

whereas 
dominant 
culture 

really relies on independence,” 
she said. “The interdependence 
is about growing together. We 
support one another because 
our future and well-being are 
interconnected.”

Teia McGahey, a 2017 U-M 

Dearborn alum from the Ojibwe 
tribe, serves as an assistant for 
the youth program AIHFS runs 
for students in high school and 
higher education. The program 
works with young adults to 
help prepare for college or 
joining 
the 
workforce 
and 

facilitate cultural engagement. 
She stressed the importance of 
outreach for Native American 
youth and collaborations with 
the University.

“I feel like a lot of Native 

people and people from all over 

have been very disconnected 
from our culture, histories and 
ways of living, and I feel that 
it’s really important to have 
those and hold on to them, 
for anyone who wants to,” she 
said. “That’s the most fulfilling 
thing about working here, is 
being able to help be the bridge 
for people to their culture and 
where they come from. I think 
that’s very healing, and that’s 
how I see a lot of the work our 
community programs do here, 
is facilitating healing for our 
people.”

McGahey 
explained 
how 

partnership with the University 
can 
provide 
resources 
to 

educate and mobilize Native 
and non-Native students alike.

“Collaborations 
like 
this 

are so powerful because it’s 
just growing our work in so 
many different ways, it can 
be planning events, starting 
movements, 
getting 
in 
the 

social justice world in a way 
that is beneficial for us, and 
being able to collaborate totally 
increases our potential,” she 
said.

LSA 
sophomore 
Samara 

Jackson 
Tobey, 
activism 

chair 
of 
Native 
American 

Student Association External, 
has 
spearheaded 
Native 

American 
Heritage 
Month 

initiatives 
and 
explained 

how reconnecting with these 
communities 
will 
benefit 

students on campus.

“As 
MESA 
evolves 

their 
relationships 
with 

(Native 
American 
Students 

Association) 
students 
and 

tribal communities, it’s vital 
MESA finds time to honor the 
commitment and opportunities 
AIFHS offers to its community,” 
Tobey 
said. 
“Bridging 
our 

students on campus with a 
greater network is what Native 
American Heritage Month is all 
about, learning your support 
systems.”

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housing issue

It brought about 

a complete 

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the day has commemorated 
the lives of many transgender 
people lost to violence and thus 
begun an important tradition 
of recognizing the many who 
fight for the rights of their 
community. 

Raivynn 
Smith, 
program 

specialist 
for 
events 
and 

partnerships at the Spectrum 
Center, 
highlighted 
the 

fears that many transgender 
individuals have of coming 
out and presenting themselves 
in the world. Smith said she 
hoped for a day when Black 
trans women could not only 
exist, but thrive, and non-
binary children could grow up 
without the fear of violence in 
their own homes. 

“Maybe one day I can wake 

up and breathe knowing that my 
community is safe. However, 
today, unfortunately, is not 
that day,” they said. “I hold my 
breath for over 350 trans and 
gender nonconforming people 
that we know of were murdered 
this year … My people are 
drowning in the ills of the 
world, drowning at the hands 
of transphobia and misogyny 
and racism and poverty and 
deep discrimination.”

Smith’s 
introduction 
was 

followed by a performance 
by the Out Loud chorus, a 
community 
chorus 
group 

dedicated 
to 
creating 
safe 

spaces for LGBTQ folks and 
their allies. The Out Loud 
Chorus is a performance group 
that uses music as an outlet and 
is a community to promote open 
environments where gender 
non-binary individuals can feel 
welcomed. 
They 
performed 

two songs that paid homage to 
the deaths of their peers and 

reflected on the power of the 
trans community. 

“We 
try 
very 
hard 
to 

get people to think about 
acceptance and LGBTQ issues 
in the general population; it’s 
part of our mission to educate 
people and hopefully reduce 
discrimination,” Tim Hamann, 
a member of Out Loud Chorus, 
said. “The way we do that is by 
changing gender pronouns in 
music, flipping things upside 
down, taking traditional songs 
and changing them.” 

The 
memorial 
concluded 

with 
the 
invited 
speaker, 

Nursing 
graduate 
student 

Vidhya 
Aravind, 
speaking 

about her narrative and the 
personal impact the memorials 
have on her every year. Aravind 
has been doing activist work 
for 
years 
to 
create 
local 

change within her immediate 
community. Aravind has led 
multiple advocacy efforts for 
trans 
students 
on 
campus 

through 
the 
Graduate 

Employee Organization and 
other channels. 

Aravind began by speaking 

about 
the 
disproportionate 

violence against trans women 
of 
color 
to 
highlight 
the 

intersections of racism, sexism, 
transphobia and homophobia. 

“It’s a full-blown crisis,” 

Aravind says. “I want to be 
clear and say that transphobia 
is a cis problem but I don’t 
know what it will take for them 
to shift their opinions on such a 
massive scale. Our bodies’ very 
existence challenge capitalist 
and colonialist structures so 
much.” 

She expressed her desire to 

focus on growing the strength 
of the trans community rather 
than trying to fight against 
the inevitable nature of cis 
mindsets. 
Such 
bottom-up 

solutions, Aravind said, are 

indicative of her acceptance of 
the structural nature of anti-
trans violence. She argued it is 
a systemic problem where anti-
trans or anti-Black thoughts 
cannot be reformed and where 
assimilation 
will 
never 
be 

enough. 

“Promises of not being the 

grotesque creatures they think 
we are continue to remain 
unheard,” Aravind said. 

She 
recognized, 
though, 

there is a future for the 
community. She said her fight is 
not against the cis community 
but rather, with the community 
of supporters and allies. She 
desires to build a world for the 
trans community rather than 
change the anti-trans world 
they live in right now. 

“I still think there’s hope 

to be had. There’s hope in a 
different world where instead 
of fighting for cishet change, 
we become a resilient enough 
community that they can’t 
touch us,” Aravind said.

The last 30 minutes of the 

memorial was open to any 
attendees to speak about their 
personal experiences. Erica, a 
member of Out Loud Chorus 
who requested her full name 
not be published, also shared 
her story. After transitioning 
at 13 and getting kicked out of 
her family’s home, she went 
years without having a proper 
community. She described her 
experience of finding herself 
through the Out Loud Chorus 
and spoke of her gratitude.

“It was the first time that 

I had a group of people who 
accepted me for who I am,” she 
said.

Aravind’s last words to the 

audience were a call to action. 

“Practice 
radical 
and 

creative compassion,” Aravind 
said. “Especially when you feel 
uncomfortable doing so.”

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