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LSA freshman Liat Weinstein on her story “MESA facilitators lead peer-
led teach-in to oppose racism, inequality on campus:

“My favorite person I got to interview was probably one of the peer leaders for MESA, Ade, 
who ran the session. He gave some really interesting quotes about why it was important 
ot teach about racism, especially today, and to teach undergraduate students about their 
roles in recognizing racist incidents in their communities.” 

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because they were all talking one-on-one about racist incidents in their communities and 
actions that have impacted them personally. It wasn’t so much like a panel discussion 
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QUOTE OF THE WE E K 

“
When we remember Dr. King, of course we do it 
selectively, don’t we? We pick out only the pretty and the easy 
parts, the simple parts, the one line from one speech. You know 
the speech and you know the line, the one about judging 
people by the content of their character not the color of their 
skin. That is the easiest, least radical, least revolutionary thing 
Dr. King has ever said. That’s why we pull that one out. ”

Tim Wise, anti-racism activist and writer, during his keynote speech at the Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium Memorial Lecture

“We are a little skeptical 
for us committing to a 25 
percent reduction and saying 
that we will get there by doing 
this central campus power 
plant expansion,” Vear said. 
“The reason for that is given 
that this would commit us to 
using natural gas directly on 
our campus, and that could 
potentially lock us in for more 
years than we would hope, to 
later inhibit us to potentially 
getting 
to 
that 
carbon 
neutrality goal. The campus 
plant expansion is somewhat 
opposing to a commitment to 
carbon neutrality.”
According 
to 
Andrew 
Berki, director of the Office 
of Campus Sustainability, the 
University has found success 
in reducing greenhouse gas 
emissions despite significant 
campus expansion.
“From 2006 to 2018, we 
really 
invested 
in 
energy 
conservation in our buildings 
on 
campus,” 
Berki 
said. 
“We’ve 
seen 
a 
reduction 
of 50,000 metric tons over 
that time. Over that same 
time 
period, 
our 
campus 
has grown in infrastructure 
over 20 percent, so if you 
think about that, we’ve really 
made 
tremendous 
strides 

in energy conservation in 
existing buildings and new 
construction by mitigating 
carbon creep, even through 
tremendous campus growth.”
Berki said measures such 
as 
gathering 
energy 
and 
water conservation reports, 
as well as calling for energy 
audits, are considered when 
planning any campus building 
or expansion project.
“All construction projects 
mitigate 
greenhouse 
gas 
emissions 
through 
energy 
conservation 
measures 
and 
water 
conservation 
measures,” 
Berki 
said. 
“We use a number of these 
different 
both 
statewide 
regulations 
and 
internal 
regulations and policies we’ve 
put in place to try and make 
sure our buildings are built as 
efficiently as possible.”
After the announcement 
of the Central Power Plant 
expansion in October, Berki 
said the project would push 
greenhouse 
gas 
reduction 
efforts 
to 
about 
halfway 
toward 
their 
25 
percent 
decrease goal.
“It takes time to develop 
strategies and to get those 
strategies approved, and I’m 
happy to say we have a couple 
strategies that we really think 
are going to get us to that goal 
actually ahead of schedule,” 
Berki said. “One of those is 

the expansion of our central 
power plant where we’re 
going to add a 50-megawatt 
turbine to increase natural 
gas, increase the capacity 
of our natural gas plant, 
and reduce the amount of 
electricity that we’re buying 
from DTE, so that is going to 
get us about halfway towards 
our goal.”
In a Jan. 13 interview, 
University President Mark 
Schlissel expanded on the 
University’s 
utilization 
of 
the Leadership in Energy 
and Environmental Design 
certification 
program, 
a 
rating system that looks at the 
energy efficiency of building 
designs. The LEED system 
attempts to create efficient, 
cost-saving green buildings.
“We’ve established energy 
efficiency 
standards 
for 
our 
buildings 
and 
we’ve 
established a commitment to 
use the LEED certification 
program to shoot for a certain 
minimum level, if not exceed 
a certain level, of LEED 
certification, all of which 
are designed to diminish the 
energy needs of a building.”
According 
to 
Vear, 
the 
LEED program highlights a 
weakness in the University’s 
efforts to aggressively reduce 
greenhouse gas emissions.
“When it comes to our 
expansion 
on 
campus 
in general and all the 
construction going on — a 
lot of that currently, our 
standard is only LEED 
silver 
for 
sustainability 
measures 
for 
any 
new 
construction, 
and 
that 
has 
been 
demonstrated 
over the past few years 
to 
not 
be 
the 
most 
aggressive and the most 
beneficial measure to be 
taking in order to truly 
be sustainable and reduce 
emissions 
effectively,” 
Vear said.
According 
to 
Berki, 
Schlissel’s 
announced 
commission 
to 
create 
a timeline and distinct 
goals for the University 
to reach carbon neutrality 
is the next big step for 
the 
University’s 
efforts 
to reduce greenhouse gas 
emissions.
“I think that commission 
is 
being 
formed 
right 
now, so the membership 
scope 
and 
schedule 
of 
that 
commission 
is 
being 
formed 
by 
the 
president, and we expect 

an announcement very soon, 
what that’s going to look 
like, and that’s really the 
next step,” Berki said. “So 
that commission is going to 
be tasked with developing 
strategies and plans to submit 
to him on how to put the 
University on a track towards 
carbon neutrality.”
Berki 
also 
said 
the 
commission 
would 
be 
a 
benefit 
not 
only 
to 
the 
University, 
but 
to 
the 
nationwide effort to reduce 
greenhouse gas emissions as 
a whole.
“The president has made it 
clear that this commission is 
not only going to look at our 
own campus footprint, but 
it’s going to be tasked with 
developing technologies that 
can be transferable beyond 

the University of Michigan 
borders,” Berki said.
Schlissel 
said 
the 
University is in a perfect 
position to aid others with 
the 
findings 
of 
his 
new 
commission.
“At an academic institution, 
we’re in a great spot to solve 
the problem for us in a way 
that others can take what 
we’ve learned and come up 
with and tested and use it for 
themselves,” Schlissel said.
Despite construction and 
campus expansion, Berki said 
he still expects to achieve 
their goal of 25 percent 
reduced emissions by early 
2025.
“We’re going to meet our 
goal ahead of schedule,” 
Berki said. “I would say 
early 2020s, and the next 
step is to figure out how to 
do more, how to get on the 
path 
towards 
neutrality, 
and the commission is going 
to be taken with doing so.”

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