Katie Wolberg returned to
campus after winter break filled
with anticipation. As a second-
semester
LSA
freshman,
she
resolved to explore her developing
interest in consulting, excited by
the prospect of what joining a firm
offered her: a network, a group of
friends and a community at the
University of Michigan. Despite
Katie’s interest in data analytics
and consulting, her anticipation
quickly turned into disappointment
when she was met with rejection at
some of the top consulting clubs
on campus, cutting short her
opportunity to engage in this new
atmosphere.
“I’m planning on transferring
to the School of Information,”
Wolberg said. “I’m interested in
maybe consulting in the future,
or doing something in the tech
industry, and I thought [joining
a club] would be a really good
opportunity to meet new people
and expand my network … and then
it fell through and now I’m like, ‘Do
I need to rethink what I’m doing?’”
Campus clubs and organizations
are an integral part of the college
experience. With more than 1,600
clubs at the University, students are
afforded the opportunity to engage
in a myriad of activities.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author
James Forman Jr., a law professor
at Yale University, discussed
mass incarceration, government
intervention
and
systemic
inequalities within the criminal
justice
system
Thursday
in
Weiser Hall. About 150 students
and faculty gathered for this
event, organized by the Donia
Human Rights Center Annual
Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture.
Forman
spoke
about
his
Pulitzer
Prize-winning
book
“Locking Up Our Own: Crime
and
Punishment
in
Black
America” and the historical
context that details a past
of
African-American
mass
incarceration and intense law
enforcement implemented by the
government in response to issues
within the African-American
community.
After law school, Forman
worked as a public defender in
Washington D.C. He described
a particular case in which he
defended a 15-year-old who plead
guilty to possession of a gun and
a small amount of marijuana.
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Just a few days after Julia Putnam
and Tim Wise delivered a keynote
address at the Reverend Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. Day Symposium,
Paani partnered with eight other
cultural
organizations
at
the
University of Michigan for “Culture
Night” to raise awareness about
the sanitation issues facing their
respective countries and to share
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Paani is an organization that focuses
on improving the living standards
in Pakistan through bettering the
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LSA junior Julian Hansen is
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Action
Movement,
a
student
organization dedicated to pushing
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plant expansion poses concerns for
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there has not been much very
vocal progress,” Hansen said.
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the Central Power Plant, which
Schlissel says will take us halfway
to our 2025 goal, but all in all we are
a bit nervous about the expansion
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once you really heavily invest we
will be unlikely to divest in a time
that will fulfill CAM’s goal.”
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member, further expanded on
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days so far, making it the longest
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begun impacting finances, both
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Michigan
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representatives and from those
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on Dec. 22, 2018 after Congress
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border security deal. President
Donald Trump has shut down
the government, saying he won’t
reopen it until he receives a
payment plan for the Mexico-
United
States
border
wall.
Democrats in Congress refuse
to accept his offer, and House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said the
State of the Union Address would
not be held until the president
reopens the government.
In an interview with Michigan
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Matthew
Shapiro,
professor of Economics at the
University of Michigan, said this
shutdown is far different than the
one in 2013 because there is no
end in sight. He explained those
affected have delayed paying bills,
including paying their mortgage,
because doing so helped them
financially
during
the
2013
government shutdown. However,
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with fellow researchers, Shapiro
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will do far more harm than good,
as it will cause serious trauma to
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Gov.
Gretchen
Whitmer teamed up with Govs.
Andrew Cuomo of New York
and Jay Inslee of Washington to
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for individual states to grant
unemployment benefits to federal
workers who attend work without
compensation. The Department
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