LSA sophomore Catherine 
Garton 
was 
motivated 
to 
found the University of Mich-
igan’s chapter of the Citizens’ 
Climate Lobby this semester, 
because of a core belief that 
students’ voices are impera-
tive for creating policy to 
combat climate change. For 
two years, Garton was a mem-
ber of CCL’s Ann Arbor chap-
ter, one of 489 active chapters 
the organization maintains. 
Its main goal is to lobby for 
national policies that address 
carbon emissions and climate 
change in every congressional 
district.
On Nov. 27, the main policy 
for which the CCL had been 
advocating was introduced to 
Congress: a national carbon 
price, known as The Energy 
Innovation and Carbon Divi-
dend Act of 2018 (H.R.7173). 
The bill is sponsored by U.S. 
Reps. 
Theodore 
Deutch, 
D-Fla.; 
Brian 
Fitzpatrick, 
R-Pa.; John Delaney, D-Md.; 
Francis Rooney, R-Fla.; Char-
lie Crist, D-Fla.; and David 
Trott, R-Mich.
In a statement regarding 
the introduction of the bill, 
CCL said it hoped Rep. Deb-
bie Dingell, D-Mich., would 
co-sponsor the bill, “either 
now or when the bill is rein-
troduced in the new Con-
gress.” Dingell, a member 
of the House Committee on 

Energy and Commerce, said 
Congress had act on climate 
change now, but did not speci-
fy whether she would cospon-
sor the bill.
“It’s time that Congress 
takes action to address cli-
mate change and ensures that 
the US is a world leader in 
addressing global warming,” 
Dingell wrote in an email 
to The Michigan Daily. “In 
Michigan and on the Energy 
and Commerce Committee 
I’m having critical conversa-
tions about changing the sta-
tus quo and taking action now. 
Our economy and environ-
ment are at stake and we must 
think outside the box to miti-
gate irreversible damage.”

The policy applies a fee on 
the carbon dioxide content 
of fossil fuel producers at a 
starting rate of $15 per ton 
in 2019 and increasing by $10 
per ton annually. The revenue 
generated from this fee would 
be subsequently redistributed 
equally among U.S. house-
holds through tax rebates, 
and a border carbon adjust-
ment fee protects U.S. manu-
facturers by applying that 
price to imported goods. The 
policy also restricts addition-
al regulation and stops the 
yearly price rise beyond $15 if 
the annual 5 percent emission 
reduction target is being met. 
According to a 2014 study 
by Regional Economic Models 

and Synapse Energy Econom-
ics, the policy’s would result 
in a 50 percent reduction of 
carbon emissions below 1990 
levels in the next 20 years, an 
addition of 2.8 million jobs 
stimulated by the return of 
tax revenue and the preven-
tion of 230,000 premature 
deaths from air pollution. 
Deutch, a University law 
alum, introduced the bill to 
the Congress floor, empha-
sizing the need for American 
investment in clean energy 
technologies.
“This 
aggressive 
carbon 
pricing scheme introduced by 
members from both parties 

Ann Arbor residents and 
City 
Council 
members 
are 
raising concerns over some 
past 
tweets 
from 
recently 
elected 
Councilmember 
Jeff 
Hayner, 
D-Ward 
1, 
including 
inflammatory 
comments directed at sitting 
councilmembers and electoral 
opponents.
Ann Arbor resident Chris 
Dzombak created a database 
with close to 7,000 tweets 
allegedly written by Hayner. 
The tweets date back to March 
6, 
2014. 
Hayner, 
defeated 
independent 
opponent 
Ryan Hughes, a Democratic 
Socialist, with amore than 70 
percent of the vote. Hayner ran 
a campaign focused primarily 
on environmental issues such 
as the dioxane plume. 
Hayner declined to comment 
on the matter.
“I don’t have a Twitter,” 
Hayner wrote in an email 
statement. “You must have 
received some bad info. Not 
interested.”
Hayner 
admitted 
in 

On 
Wednesday, 
two 
Michigan 
State 
University 
board members, as well as two 
board members-elect, spoke 
out against Interim President 
John Engler’s decision to close 
a $10 million fund created to 
pay for mental health services 
for survivors of former MSU 
doctor Larry Nassar’s abuse.
Engler 
announced 
the 
closure 
of 
the 
Healing 
Assistance fund Tuesday in 
light of MSU settling a $500 
million lawsuit with more 
than 300 women who have 
been assaulted by Nassar. The 
fund has been frozen since 
July over concerns of fraud, 
and Engler said the remaining 
balance of $8.6 million will be 
used “to reduce the amount 
of our borrowing to pay the 
settlement.”
Current 
board 
members 
Brian Mosallam and Dianne 
Byrum and recently elected 
board members Brianna Scott 
and 
Kelly 
Tebay 
released 
a statement on Twitter in 
opposition 
to 
the 
interim 

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ACADEMICS

Growing up, life sciences 
researcher Majd Abdulghani 
watched her mother overcome 
the various obstacles she 
faced as a Muslim female 
scientist working toward her 
Ph.D. in London. With her 
mother’s determination and 
bravery in mind, Abdulghani 
will have the opportunity to 
return to England to pursue 
her own doctoral degree in 
genetics as Saudi Arabia’s 
very first Rhodes Scholar.
“My mom was doing her 
Ph.D., and that showed me 
a lot about the sort of effort 
it takes to be a scientist, but 
also at the same time, how 
wonderful it is and also how 
it’s possible to be a scientist, 
be a woman — and my mom 
is also a Muslim and wears a 
headscarf,” Abdulghani said. 
“She was doing all of this 
while raising three teenagers 

and two children, so she was 
really an inspiration for me 
at that point in my life and 
continues to be.”
Once her mother completed 
her Ph.D. and the family 
returned to Saudi Arabia, 
Abdulghani took a particular 
interest 
in 
genetics. 
She 
recalled 
how 
her 
mother 
encouraged her to pursue the 
field and since then, she has 
enjoyed it thoroughly.
“When I went back to 
Saudi Arabia, I was ready to 
go to college and I chose to 
become a geneticist because 
I just really enjoyed it in high 
school,” Abdulghani said. “I 
remember my mom said to me, 
‘Don’t you want to discover 
the gene that cures cancer?’ 
And while that’s probably not 
going to happen for biological 
reasons, that’s why I chose 
to study genetics. It’s been 
incredibly rewarding so far. 

Researcher 
is 1st Rhodes
scholar pick
from Saudi

LEO holds community forum to discuss 
launch of the One University Campaign

Majd Abdulghani is a genetics researcher 
and an award-winning NPR podcaster

New lecturer initative working to make all three ‘U’ campuses more equitable in funding 

KATHERINA SOURINE
Daily Staff Reporter 

On 
Wednesday 
evening, 
the 
Lecturers’ 
Employee 
Organization held its first of 
several Ann Arbor community 
forums to discuss the launch of 
the One University Campaign, 
which 
strives 
to 
make 
all 
three University of Michigan 
campuses 
more 
equitable 
learning institutions.
Despite the fact that the 

LEO’s 
tumultuous 
contract 
bargaining process last semester 
resulted in significant budget 
increases 
for 
lecturers, 
the 
lecturers point out gains were 
not distributed equally across 
all three University campuses. 
LEO at U-M Dearborn and the 
U-M Flint has held parallel 
community 
forums 
to 
work 
toward parity. About 25 students, 
graduate 
student 
instructors 
and lecturers across all three 
campuses attended the Ann 
Arbor forum.

“Although 
we 
made 
real 
substantial progress last time 
around … that did not reduce 
the gap between Flint and 
Dearborn,” LEO President Ian 
Robinson, a sociology professor 
on the Ann Arbor campus, said. 
In fact, he explained despite the 
50 percent increases in minimum 
wages on all three campuses, 
professors at U-M Flint and 
U-M Dearborn earn, on average, 
$10,000 less per year than the 
typical Ann Arbor professor.
Not only are the professors at 

U-M Flint and U-M Dearborn 
paid less in comparison to their 
Ann Arbor peers, but they work 
significantly more hours.
“In 
Flint 
and 
Dearborn, 
(lecturers must) teach an extra 
course to be considered full-
time,” Robinson explained in an 
interview with The Michigan 
Daily. “Instead of teaching three 
courses a term (like Ann Arbor 
lecturers do), they teach four.”

CITY

Resident-sourced database 
of new Councilmember’s 
Twitter stokes criticism

RACHEL CUNNINGHAM 
Daily Staff Reporter

DESIGN BY NOLAN FELICIDARIO

‘U’ student environment advocates 
celebrate intro of national carbon bill

Policy, though unlikely to pass, is new step in direction of taxing carbon emissions 

JULIETTE SIBLEY
For The Daily

MSU pres. 
closes fund 
for Nassar 
survivors

ADMINISTRATION

Trustees slam Engler for 
close of Healing Assistance 
fund after fraud concerns

MAEVE O’BRIEN
Daily Staff reporter

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Archive of 
Hayner’s 
tweets call 
out Council

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Spanish Lecturer Erin Levin facilitates the Lecturers’ Employee Organization discussion on financial equity across Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses at the 
LEO offices Wednesday night. 

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