Around 8:12 p.m. Friday,
the
Epsilon
Alpha
Sigma
Sorority, is the University of
Michigan’s first Arab sorority,
dubbed the Empowered Arab
Sisterhood, revealed its first
class of new recruits. The seven
girls recruited, the “Al-Afdal
line,” marched into Auditorium
D in Angell Hall, yelling “We’re
the girls of Arab countries!” in
Arabic.
As the girls were revealed,
a founding member of the
sorority’s
chapter
at
the
University
removed
a
pink
bandana from each girl’s eyes
and wrapped a flag from their
country of origin around her
shoulders. Arab music blared as
the girls announced themselves
to the audience.
“I’m number nine, the leader
of my line, and my name is Maria
Ulayyet,” one newly initiated
sister said. “My sisters know
me as bint al-sham (Daughter of
Sham-Damascus) and I’m from
Damascus, Syria, the oldest
capital in the whole world.”
“My name is Layla Jawad,
my sisters know me as Amena,”
another sister said. “I’m from
Lebanon and I am one of the
only Arab women in the Ross
School of Business.”
In honor of World AIDS
Day,
the
National
Council
for Negro Women, the Black
Student Union and Creatives
of Color presented the HIV
Monologues Sunday night to
teach students and faculty about
the disease that affects millions
of people around the world. The
Department of Afroamerican
and African Studies and the
University of Michigan Museum
of Art co-sponsored the event,
which was held at the Helmut
Stern Auditorium.
Using spoken-word poetry,
skits, music and monologues, the
monologue performers created
a space to destigmatize those
afflicted with the disease and
educate the audience about the
realities of HIV/AIDS.
The night began with a
moment of silence to remember
the millions lost from HIV/
AIDS, followed by a question
posed to the audience: Why
should you care? A presentation
highlighted the current reality
of HIV/AIDS in the United
States, which has particularly
impacted the African-American
community. In 2015, African
Americans made up 44 percent
of all new HIV diagnoses. The
event then moved into the
speaker section of the night.
The first speaker was Nesha
Haniff, an educator in the
departments of women’s studies
and Afroamerican and African
studies. Haniff’s speech centered
around low representation of
women in the discussion of HIV/
AIDS prevention.
“The
methodologies
developed for women to prevent
them from having HIV and STI
infections are not very well
developed and they are very,
very unfriendly,” Haniff said.
“And so, as a result, women
become more vulnerable to
infections like STIs and HIV.”
Haniff explained how the
only options for women to
protect their own bodies are to
use the female condom, which
can be uncomfortable and very
noticeable to the partner, or to
use pre-exposure prophylaxis,
a drug that is difficult to access.
“A lot of education breaks
down in practice,” she said.
“Be conscious of this problem,
be
educated
about
it,
and
advocate for the science that
are relevant for women’s bodies
… revolutionize and change the
science so that we can develop
safe and important features for
the new medications that we
will take.”
The night continued with
various
performances
from
students and faculty.
Michigan
state
Senate
Republicans voted to scale
back minimum wage and paid
sick leave laws, S.B. 1171 and
1175 last Wednesday. The bills
now move to the state House of
Representatives, while critics
on the left mobilize to protest
these and other Republican-
sponsored
bills
during
the lame-duck session.
The
original
initiatives,
which would have raised the
minimum wage to $12 by 2022,
were supposed to appear on
the Nov. 6 ballot. Instead,
the state Senate adopted the
proposal in September, which
many Democrats worried was a
maneuver to alter the bill after
the election. Sociology lecturer
Ian Robinson, president of
the
Lecturers’
Employee
Organization,
said
because
amending a ballot proposal
would require a three-quarter
majority
in
both
houses,
adopting the proposal made it
easier for Senate Republicans
to alter the bills.
“If they passed it in full —
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Students, community remember
victims of California shooting
HANNAH SIEGEL/Daily
Students gather on the Diag for a vigil to remember the victims of the Borderline shooting Saturday afternoon.
CAMPUS LIFE
Epsilon Alpha Sigma, reveals new class
of recruits Friday evening in Angell Hall
ZAYNA SYED
Daily Staff Reporter
Attendents held signs reading “Remember Borderline” and “Never Again”
Braving light rain and harsh
winds
with
signs
reading
“Remember
Borderline”
and
“Never Again”, approximately 20
University of Michigan students,
faculty and community members
congregated on the Diag for a vigil
Saturday afternoon in honor of
those lost to gun violence. Music,
Theatre
&
Dance
freshman
Olivia Johnson organized the
vigil, hosted by Arts in Color, in
response to a shooting near her
hometown in Thousand Oaks,
Calif.
According
to
CNN,
the
shooting
transpired
at
Borderline Bar & Grill on Nov. 7
and left 13, including the gunman
and a sheriff’s deputy, dead. It was
“college night” at the Western-
style bar, meaning entry was open
to anyone over the age of 18 and
the crowd included many patrons
from area universities.
Johnson attended Newbury
Park High School in Thousand
Oaks and said she used to go
to the bar with her friends on
Wednesdays — the same day of
the week as the shooting — for
18-and-over night.
ALEX HARRING
Daily Staff Reporter
See SENATE, Page 2A
Minimum
wage laws
scaled back
by Senate
GOVERNMENT
Bill allowing workers more
sick leave voted down, to
move to State House
JULIA FORD
Daily Staff Reporter
HANNAH SIEGEL/Daily
Dr. Nesha Haniff speaks at HIV Monologues presented by the National Council for Negro Women, the Black Student
Union and Creatives of Color Sunday night.
HIV Monologues aims to educate,
erase stigmas surrounding diagnosis
University Black Student Union and Creatives of Color co-sponsor event
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When University of Michigan
Music
Theory
professor
Patricia Hall heard of musical
works potentially composed
at Nazi concentration camps,
she began her research into the
sounds of Auschwitz. During
Hall’s tours of the most deadly
system of camps during the
Holocaust last summer, she
was struck by the irony of the
manuscripts
she
analyzed.
Upon
deeper
review,
Hall
decided she wanted to delve
more
broadly
into
music’s
relationship with the history
of the Holocaust.
“I was immediately coming
across highly ironic titles of
popular German songs; I was
so affected by them I had to
stop what I was doing and
stare at them to process some
of these titles,” Hall said.
A
particularly
intriguing
piece Hall found was titled
“The Most Beautiful Time of
Life.”
Professor
discovers
music from
Auschwitz
RESEARCH
University performed
modern day tribute to
music of the Holocaust
REMY FARKAS
Daily Staff Reporter
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