Five speakers shared their
research in regulating false
information online to a crowd
of approximately 50 students
and faculty members Tuesday
night at Rackham Assembly
Hall. The panel, titled “Catching
Fake
News,”
was
part
of
the University of Michigan
Dissonance Event Series, which
focuses on the intersection of
technology,
privacy,
policy,
security and law.
Panelists
included
Mark
Ackerman,
a
School
of
Information professor, Ceren
Budak, a School of Information
assistant professor, Engineering
professor Rada Mihalcea and
Fredrik
Laurin,
a
Knight-
Wallace fellow. The panel was
moderated by Brendan Nyhan,
a professor in the Ford School of
Public Policy.
Nyhan opened the event
by sharing the history of fake
news. He said fake news is now
more widely read than ever
before. Nyhan also said humans
struggle to handle the volume
of content they are exposed to
daily, so machines can be used
to help ease the issue of volume.
“‘What should we do about it?’
is the values question implicated
here,” Nyhan said.
Pulitzer
Prize
winning
author
Heather
Ann
Thompson spoke at Literati
Bookstore on Tuesday night
as a part of the Sweetland
Writing Center’s Writer to
Writer series. As part of the
series, the center brings in a
renowned author monthly to
speak about their work, their
process and their advice to
younger writers studying at
the University of Michigan
and in the surrounding area.
Thompson
works
as
a
historian at the University
in the Departments of Afro-
American
and
African
studies and History as well
as the Residential College.
Additionally, Thompson is a
critically-acclaimed
author
with more than 20 awards
including a Bancroft Prize
and Pulitzer Prize for her
book “Blood in the Water:
The Attica Prison Uprising of
1971 and its Legacy.” Since its
release, Thompson has been
on a neverending press tour for
“Blood in the Water”, including
an interview on “The Daily
Show with Trevor Noah.”
Shelly Manis who works
at
the
Sweetland
Writing
Center and runs the Writer to
Writer Series, conducted the
interview with Thompson at
Literati and organized for it
to be broadcasted live on the
student radio station WCBN.
Thompson
first
revealed
that she never viewed writing
as her calling, nor did it come
naturally to her, which was
rather discouraging as she
began to work in her field of
study.
“Writing is hard and it feels
like your identity is always
on display when you try to
convey something on paper,”
Thompson said.
Thompson explained that
once she found “a passion
for what I wanted to write
about,” the process seemed to
flow. She set out as a writer to
kindle that same passion in her
readers because the issues that
she covers are so important to
surround with conversation.
She writes in an “accessible”
manner so that anyone can
learn from her research.
“I
wanted
my
random
relatives in Kansas to pick this
up and go, ‘Oh, this is a page
turner,’” Thompson remarked.
“Blood
in
the
Water”
chronicles
a
1971
prison
uprising at Attica Correctional
Facility
in
New
York.
Prisoners had been trying
to improve their conditions
legally
by
petitioning
the
government, but they were
met with extreme resistance.
As
a
result,
the
inmates
staged an uprising, taking the
prison guards hostage and
negotiating with the state.
The
University
of
Michigan’s Central Student
Government
met
Tuesday
to introduce and discuss a
proposal
of
the
executive
team’s new liaison program
to be integrated within all
campus organizations.
The mission of the program
is
to
provide
a
platform
for
students
and
their
organizations to externally
address
possible
issues
within their groups. It also
aims
to
foster
a
greater
connection between campus
organizations.
According to LSA senior
Sena Adjei, CSG senior policy
advisor, this initiative came
about after concerns arose on
how to make the campus more
connected
and
make
CSG
more visible campus-wide.
“This is the exec team’s
best answer to one of the
most serious ills that campus
has seen,” Adjei said. “The
University of Michigan is such
a big campus and exists in a
bunch of completely isolated
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The
Unappointed
Advisory
Committee on Academic Freedom
held
a
panel
discussion
and
general
assembly
on
Tuesday
evening to discuss the history of
noncompliance, divestment and
boycott
at
the
University
of
Michigan
in an effort to contextualize
the recent disciplining of Prof.
John
Cheney-Lippold
and
Graduate Student Instructor Lucy
Peterson’s refusal to write an
academic recommendation for a
student to study abroad in Israel.
The panelists were introduced by
Deirdre de la Cruz, director of the
Doctoral Program in Anthropology
and History, who emphasized
the teach-in as an analysis of the
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CSG forms
a plan for
student org
integration
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academia was a
career for me”
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This
month,
a
team
of
political
scientists
known
as the Bright Line Watch
released
a
study
showing
that Republicans, Democrats
and independents are all more
likely to support candidates
that respect independent legal
investigations.
Bright
Line
Watch works to monitor the
state of U.S. democracy and any
potential threats it faces.
Brendan Nyhan, a professor
in the Ford School of Public
Policy at the University of
Michigan and a co-director
of the Bright Line Watch
team, co-authored the study
along with five other political
scientists.
The
study,
called
“Party,
policy,
democracy
and
candidate
choice
in
U.S.
elections,”
was
conducted
in
late
October
and
involved
surveying
962
online
participants
about their preferences for
candidates’
policy
positions
in a hypothetical upcoming
election.
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study looks
into court
hearings
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support for independent
legal investigations
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