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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State and 
local reps 
respond to 
shutdown

Cultural orgs come together 
to highlight sanitation crisis

Gov. Whitmer, others make efforts 
to relieve unpaid US federal workers

Student group dedicated to improving living standards in Pakistan hosts event

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 
their unique cultures.
Paani is an organization that focuses 
on improving the living standards 
in Pakistan through bettering the 

environment 
and 
implementing 
clean health technologies, especially 
through building wells, inputting 
clean energy sources and working 
with health clinics. Pakistan is 
currently undergoing the world’s 
third worst water crisis, with the 
prime minister predicting the country 
to have no more clean water by 2025.

More than 100 students filled the 
Rackham Assembly Hall as Paani 
and the Bangladeshi, Egyptian, Iraqi, 
Jordanian, 
Lebanese, 
Pakistani, 
Persian 
and 
Yemeni 
student 
associations shared various aspects 
of their culture, including food, 
dance and traditional clothing. 

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Construction 
projects 
and 
campus expansion pose concerns 
among 
student 
organizations 
about reaching the University 
of Michigan’s goal of a 25 
percent reduction in carbon and 
greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.
LSA junior Julian Hansen is 
the founder of the U-M Climate 
Action 
Movement, 
a 
student 
organization dedicated to pushing 
for campus carbon neutrality. 
According to Hansen, the power 
plant expansion poses concerns for 
reducing emissions.
“Since the initial announcement, 
there has not been much very 
vocal progress,” Hansen said. 
“But one thing is the expansion of 
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 
because it has been shown a lot 
once you really heavily invest we 
will be unlikely to divest in a time 
that will fulfill CAM’s goal.”
Engineering 
junior 
Logan 
Vear, Climate Action Movement 
member, further expanded on 
the concerns of the power plant 
expansion.

Admin and 
CAM talk 
carbon and 
planning

ENVIRONMENT

Activists and University 
discuss carbon emissions 
in light of construction 
of buildings on campus

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of business organizations within ‘U’

Applicants, board members offer thoughs on intensive application processes

Pulitzer 
winning 
author on 
inequality

CAMPUS LIFE

James Forman, Jr. , Yale 
professor, speaks about 
mass incarceration and 
institutional injustices

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The current shutdown of the 
federal government has lasted 33 
days so far, making it the longest 
shutdown in U.S. history. With 
no set end date, the shutdown has 
begun impacting finances, both 
at home and in the workplace. 
These impacts have prompted 
a number of local responses 
from 
Michigan 
government 
representatives and from those 
on campus. 
The federal shutdown began 
on Dec. 22, 2018 after Congress 
members failed to agree on a 
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 

News, 
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, 
through a study he conducted 
with fellow researchers, Shapiro 
determined delaying payments 
will do far more harm than good, 
as it will cause serious trauma to 
workers’ finances in the long run.
Michigan 
Gov. 
Gretchen 
Whitmer teamed up with Govs. 
Andrew Cuomo of New York 
and Jay Inslee of Washington to 
release a joint statement asking 
for individual states to grant 
unemployment benefits to federal 
workers who attend work without 
compensation. The Department 
of Labor has told workers they 
are not technically unemployed 
and therefore do not qualify for 
unemployment benefits. 

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