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Wednesday, January 23, 2019 — 3A

To 
explore 
the 
implications 
of 
this 
disciplinary 
disparity, 
Tucker-Shabazz compared 
classroom punishment to 
charges on a bank account, 
drawing the metaphor that 
positive behavior increases 
a student’s balance.
“This is a hidden fee, but 
this is also a steep fee that 
young Black girls are paying 
for the same misconduct,” 
Tucker-Shabazz 
said. 
“One part of the story is 
that Black girls and other 
children are not starting 
at the same balance, but 
they’re also having deficits 
and withdrawals from their 
account 
more 
frequently 
than other populations and 
at a faster rate, and no one is 
talking about it.”
According 
to 
Tucker-
Shabazz, 
however, 
zero-
tolerance policies are often 
prejudiced 
with 
“hidden 
fees” 
for 
Black 
girls, 
creating a ripple effect on 
their academic possibilities, 
future careers and overall 
life outcomes.
“(The 
zero-tolerance 
policy) holds them back in 
the short-term, in K-12,” 
Tucker-Shabazz 
said. 
“But they are also more 
likely to not graduate high 
school or college on time 
… to be unemployed or 
underemployed more than 
any other population, and 
more likely to report mental 
illness.”
Tucker-Shabazz 
elaborated on stereotypical 
depictions of Black women 
as animalistic and angry, 
using 
examples 
from 

children 
books 
to 
show 
these 
characterizations 
begin 
during 
girlhood. 
Such perceptions, Tucker-
Shabazz 
claimed, 
lead 
adults to view and treat 
young 
Black 
girls 
like 
adults, resulting in harmful 
consequences.
“Starting at age 5… (Black 
girls) are more likely than 
white girls to be perceived as 
older, as having more carnal 
knowledge of the body, as 
being more aggressive in 
their 
behavior,” 
Tucker-
Shabazz 
said. 
“They’re 
more sexualized than any 
other child in the classroom 
… We see Black girls as non-
members of children, and 
we see them as adults. So we 
actually punish them, as a 
result, as adults.”

Next, 
Rackham 

student 
Shannon 
Moran 
discussed 
the 
link 
between 
mentorship 
and 
representation by sharing 
her experience as a mentor 
for other LGBTQ women in 
STEM. She then looked at 
research on the importance 
of mentorship and visibility 
for other underrepresented 
populations such as Blacks 
and Hispanics in STEM. 
In particular, Moran noted 
that she had no such data on 
mentorship in the LGBTQ 
community. 
“(Studies 
on 
LGBTQ 
mentorship) do not exist,” 
Moran said. “But I’m not 
about to wait around for 
a study that shows that 
LGBTQ mentorship works 
in STEM to start doing what 
I know works. I’m not an 
expert … but I do know how 
to share my experience.”

“It could be interpreted, and 
it has been by some residents, 
that we’re trying to make 
our 
trespass 
harsher, 
that 
we’re trying to make it more 
punitive,” Grand said. “When 
in fact, bringing trespass into 
the city’s ordinance was a 
result of the work of the Ann 
Arbor Police Department and 
the Human Rights Council.”
Ramlawi 
echoed 
Grand’s 
statements 
and 
shared 
he 
initially 
had 
reservations 
about passing the ordinance, 
too. However, Ramlawi said 
he now believes the new 
ordinance will be beneficial in 
handling these cases.
“It does not change the 
ordinance itself, but the policy 
procedures of enforcement,” 
Ramlawi said. “I think it 
expands the civil rights of 
folks and it does not take away 
more.”
AAPD Interim Chief Robert 
Pfannes explained the need 
for the new ordinance came 
from a realization within 
the police department that 
many individuals convicted of 
trespassing are often repeat 
offenders and suffer from 
mental illness. He stated that, 
with the current trespass 
process 
mandating 
mailed 
court dates, it is difficult for 
the many homeless offenders 
to 
receive 
important 
documents when they don’t 
have a permanent address.
“It’s a way for them to 
access resources, to not get 
deeper 
into 
the 
criminal 
justice system, and there’s 
no 
downside 
from 
an 
enforcement 
angle 
either,” 
Pfannes said.
The proposed amendment 
comes about a year after 
a 
16-year-old 
Black 
teen 
was 
arrested 
at 
Blake 
Transit Center for allegedly 
trespassing. The 2017 arrest 
drew severe criticism from 
the public for the officer’s 
use of force when arresting 
the Ann Arbor high school 
student and for citing the 
student with trespass when 
he claimed to be waiting for 
the bus.
Several Ann Arbor residents 
also 
voiced 
concerns 
over 
pedestrian 
and 
vehicle 
accidents. Pedestrian safety 
has been a consistent topic 
of debate. Members of the 
local citizen group A2 Safe 
Transport 
attended 
the 
meeting and urged the council 
to 
make 
improvements 
to 
crosswalks.

According 
to 
Claire 
Duvernoy, 
an 
A2 
Safe 
Transport member, there have 
been three pedestrians injured 
in the past three weeks at 
crosswalks in Ann Arbor.
“We are at a crisis in 
perspective 
to 
pedestrian 
safety,” Duvernoy said. “We 
need to have a comprehensive 
review of all crosswalks in Ann 
Arbor.”
Barbara Clark, the mother 
of a 17-year-old driver who 
critically injured a 21-year-old 
male University of Michigan 
student last week, also spoke 
on pedestrian safety. Clark 
expressed her apologies to the 
family of the student injured 
by her son and joined other 
residents in demanding the 
council devote more resources 
to improving crosswalks.
“I’m not here to revisit the 
accident,” Clark said. “I’m 
here because I don’t want 
another pedestrian injured 
or killed, or their family to 
experience the devastation 
this family is feeling, and I 
don’t want another driver to 
experience the guilt my son 
feels.”
Councilmember 
Kathy 
Griswold, D-Ward 2, discussed 
some of the pedestrian safety 

concerns made during public 
comments 
and 
mentioned 
the new crosswalk guidelines 
that were released Tuesday. 
The designs were created in 
response to resident concerns 
of 
inconsistencies 
among 
crosswalks.
“First I want to thank 
the staff for the crosswalk 
design guidelines that were 
just issued — that is a major 
improvement 
in 
crosswalk 
safety,” Griswold said. “I will 
be working with staff over 
the next couple of weeks, 
and I will be introducing a 
formal resolution of specific 
action items that will make 
crosswalks 
safer 
for 
all 
roadway users.”

MLK
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COUNCIL
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“With the recent trend that is hap-
pening in America, you have this 
popularity of hate statements to-
ward Latinx people, you have this 
popularity of hate statements to-
ward immigrants,” Ijidakinro said. 
“In this time, especially with our 
current administration, I feel that 
this teach-in about anti-racism is 
needed now more than ever.”
Ijidakinro said he and LSA junior 
Shaima Abdullah, another student 
leader within MESA, chose to fo-
cus the teach-in on contemporary 
racial issues in addition to the his-
tory of racism in the United States 
to show how past events directly 
impact current prejudices.
“I do think that the majority of 
people think that the civil rights 
era has ended, and you think of the 

Martin Luther King era, but when 
we show students what’s occurred 
recently on campus to compare to 
the history, they’re seeing the simi-
larities and it’s just proof that civil 
rights hasn’t ended,” Ijidakinro 
said.
During the event, Abdullah and 
Ijidakinro led numerous activities, 
including filling in a timeline of 
racism in the U.S. and completing a 
worksheet on the “Four ‘I’s of op-
position,” in order to generate con-
versation regarding one’s influence 
on systemic issues such as racism 
and inequity. The Four Is of oppo-
sition, which include institutional, 
ideological, interpersonal and in-
ternalized, urged students to real-
ize change can occur through both 
group and individual actions.
Engineering junior Bhavin Gandhi, 
a residential adviser for Univer-
sity Housing, said a lawsuit filed 

against the U-M Bias Response 
Team in May 2018 often restricts 
his ability as an RA to protect his 
residents from hate speech in 
dorms. After the University re-
sponded to the lawsuit by claiming 
University policies do not infringe 
upon free speech, RAs are no lon-
ger allowed to erase slurs or racist 
symbols from whiteboards outside 
students’ rooms.
During the teach-in, students re-
flected on how they challenge rac-
ism and inequality in their daily 
lives through student organiza-
tions or activism. Gandhi said his 
role as an RA gives him the oppor-
tunity to both challenge his innate 
biases and confront them by help-
ing other students navigate life at 
the University.
“Personally, my biases are one thing 
I’m trying to realize a bit more, and 
also educating people who I know 

didn’t have the best upbringing,” 
Gandhi said. “For example, a lot 
of my residents who are of color 
didn’t know how to do the FAFSA 
when they were applying to col-
lege. That’s something I’m trying 
to help a little bit more with — the 
things that I learned as a person of 
color for college management.”
Abdullah stressed the need for 
students to educate themselves 
on how their personal actions and 
words can oppose racism.
“(We should be) educating our-
selves, 
continuously 
reading, 
whether that’s becoming more 
aware of our language and the 
speech we’re using and how that 
impacts people, or even what orga-
nizations we’re a part of and how 
we want to continuously make 
not just personal changes in our 
lives, but structural changes too 
in society,” Abdullah said. 

Between 
 
Jan. 
13 
and 18, more than 50 
eateries around the city 
featured 
tasting 
menus 
to celebrate the 10th Ann 
Arbor Restaurant Week. 
Organized by the Main 
Street Area Association, 
the 
biannual 
event 
is 
an opportunity for Ann 
Arbor locals and students 
to sample dishes that the 
city has to offer at a low 
price. 
Most 
restaurants 
offer lunch options for $15 
with multiple courses and 
a $28 three course dinner 
menu, with roughly half 
the participating dinner 
destinations 
enticing 
customers with a two-
for-one deal. Restaurants 
participating 
ranged 
from 
more 
expensive 
establishments 
such 
as 
Black Pearl and Pacific 
Rim to more casual spots 
like The Original Cottage 
Inn 
and 
Afternoon 
Delight.
Adam Baru, owner and 
operator 
of 
three 
Ann 
Arbor establishments — 
Mani Osteria, Isalita and 
most recently, Mikette — 
said although Restaurant 
Week does not typically 
generate as much revenue 
at 
his 
restaurants 
as 
normal 
nights, 
it 
is 
a 
useful 
marketing 
tool, 
which helps to attract new 
customers 
and 
provide 
current eaters with more 
affordable options.
“I’ve 
always 
looked 
at 
Restaurant 
Week 
(as) one of the biggest 
opportunities to market 
the 
restaurants 
and 
to 
expose people who don’t 
know about them because 
there are still many people 
who have never eaten at 
some of our restaurants, 
so it’s a great opportunity 
for them to come in,” 
Baru said. “But it is also 
for people who do know 

about it to try things that 
they 
typically 
wouldn’t 
because (of ) the value of 
the promotion.”
Baru said the winter 
Restaurant 
Week 
is 
generally more successful 
than the event’s summer 
week because of the vast 
presence of students in the 
Ann Arbor community.
“The January Restaurant 
Week is always the most 
popular and one of the 
reasons why is because 

the 
students 
are 
here 
whereas in the summer 
they are not often times,” 
Baru said. “It’s a great 
deal to be able to do this 
for not only people who 
live in town, but also this 
massive community that is 
the University … We want 
to make it a pretty low 
barrier entry, so whether 
you are a student or you 
are a family who maybe 
doesn’t dine out so often.”
Kinesiology 
senior 

Paulina 
Vokulich, 
who 
ate 
at 
Slurping 
Turtle 
and Pacific Rim by Kana 
during the week, agreed 
with 
Baru’s 
sentiments 
about 
the 
increased 
affordability of dining out 
during Restaurant Week 
and said she thoroughly 
appreciates the event for 
that very reason.
“It’s definitely nice for 
the students to go out and 
have a more affordable 
experience at a lot of 

places,” Vokulich said.
LSA 
sophomore 
Allison 
Weisenfeld 
is 
the 
marketing 
director 
of the U-M branch of 
Spoon 
University, 
a 
college student-run food 
publication. 
Weisenfeld 
echoed 
Vokulich’s 
excitement 
regarding 
Restaurant Week.
“I think it’s a really 
awesome 
opportunity 
to get students to really 
go out and explore new 

restaurants in Ann Arbor 
because 
a 
lot 
of 
time 
students feel like they are 
too busy or don’t want 
to go out for financial or 
education reasons, but it 
gives them an excuse to 
try new restaurants and 
explore 
the 
downtown 
area,” Vokulich said.
Weisenfeld 
explained 
she 
dined 
at 
several 
Ann Arbor eateries this 
past 
Restaurant 
Week, 
including Nagomi and The 
Chop House where she 
enjoyed her inexpensive 
meals.
“(The) Chop House was 
so good because obviously 
(it) is insanely expensive, 
but because each person 
was only $28 you were 
able to get steak, salad 
and a really fancy dessert 
and still got the same 
steakhouse 
experience,” 
Weisenfeld said. “I felt 
that it was a really great 
deal and it was really fun 
for a date night. I was able 
to go with my boyfriend to 
a nice restaurant that was 
fairly affordable.”
Vokulich 
also 
praised 
Restaurant Week because 
of its low costs and its 
communal value.
“It 
brings 
community 
spirit 
(to 
Ann 
Arbor) 
because it makes it more 
fun to go somewhere if 
you know there is an event 
going on,” Vokulich said.
Baru 
agreed 
with 
Vokulich, 
noting 
that 
participation in Restaurant 
Week is minimally about 
money and predominantly 
about community.
“Our mission is to serve 
a 
wide 
variety 
of 
our 
classic menu items and to 
not really worry about the 
fact that we may not make 
as much money that we 
normally would, because 
the idea is to participate 
in something that is truly 
about 
the 
community,” 
Baru said.

MESA
From Page 1A

Downtown Ann Arbor businesses 
participate in 10th year of annual 
Restaurant Week engagement

JULIETTE SIBLEY
Daily Staff Reporter

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I’m not here 
to revisit the 
accident. I’m here 
because I don’t 
want another 
pedestrian killed.

LSA 
junior 
Yara 
El-Tawil 
worked as a research assistant at 
the Rogel Cancer Center and was 
required to download Duo Two-
Factor 
Authentication. 
While 
El-Tawil understands the need for 
cybersecurity, she does not believe 
Duo is necessary for students like 
her who do not have sensitive 
information on their University 
accounts.
“For me, it doesn’t make a lot 
of sense to have to use Duo since I 
have almost nothing on my account 
that’s in danger of identity theft or 
anything like that,” El-Tawil said. 
“But I guess since there’s been a lot 
of data leaks and stuff, the safest 
thing to do is just to go through 
all of it, regardless … because 
then you have a blanket, you can’t 
compromise any other accounts. 
But also it’s just really annoying. It 
makes sense, it’s just unfortunate.”

LSA sophomore Joey Pongrac 
said he agrees. He waited until 
the morning of Jan. 22 to install 
the Two-Factor Authentication. 
Pongrac works at the Science 
Learning Center as a facilitator 
for organic chemistry classes and 
believes the system is of no value to 
him since he is not concerned about 
individuals hacking his account.
“They said it makes my account 
more secure, but I’m not really 
worried about anyone hacking 
into my account in the first place,” 
Pongrac said. “It was pretty easy 
to install and it wasn’t a big deal. 
It took like five minutes. It’s what 
I expected, it’s just a waste of time, 
but it’s fine I guess.”
DePriest Dockins, director of 
Identity and Access Management 
at 
the 
University, 
said 
the 
introduction 
of 
Two-Factor 
Authentication was not due to 
any specific instance of security 
breaches in the University, but 
rather was due to the risk having 

minimal 
cybersecurity 
poses. 
Two-Factor Authentication was 
one of the easiest ways to ensure 
cybersecurity at the University, 
Dockins said.
“Two-Factor 
Authentication, 
as it turns out, is one of the most 
straightforward things you can 
do to protect the University’s 
resources,” Dockins said. “It’s 
something you know — so your 
uniqname and password — and 
something you have, which is 
a code or your mobile device. 
So somebody has to have all of 
those things in order to get into a 
resource.”
To 
turn 
on 
Two-Factor 
Authentication, University staff 
has to go to duo.it.umich.edu. 
Those looking to install Duo can 
download the Duo Mobile app onto 
their phone and tap the University 
of Michigan account to get a 
passcode. The next step is to select 
“send me a push,” which will send 
an authentication request to their 

device. They will then unlock their 
phone, open the push notification 
and tap the green button to 
approve.
El-Tawil said the process of 
downloading Duo was relatively 
simple, 
though 
logging 
in 
presented a problem when she was 
unable to access her smartphone 
and the seven-day verification 
expired. 
Users 
can 
check 
“Remember me for 7 days” so they 
do not have to authorize the Two-
Factor Authentication each time 
they log on, as long as they use the 
same device and browser, and the 
browser does not block cookies.
“(The program) gave you steps 
to follow, and so it wasn’t hard per 
se, it was just annoying to get used 
to,” El-Tawil said. “If I was logging 
onto something without my phone 
there, or if my phone was dead, it 
would just be a hassle to charge it if 
the seven-day verification was off. 
That was the biggest problem — 
was not having my phone.”

2FA
From Page 1A

Various local eateries, owners across town offer students and residents 
multi-course meals at affordable prices as part of limited time deals 

I’ve always looked at 
Restaurant Week (as) one of 
the biggest opportunities to 
market the restaurants and to 
expose people who don’t know 
about them because there are 
still many people who have 
never eaten at some of our 
restaurants.

