“For some of them, it
is their first time ever
reading
their
work
in
front of an audience other
than their classroom, and
so we really like being
able to give them that
experience,” Peters said.
“For the listeners, they’re
just
hearing
so
many
interesting stories about
the
student
experience
because a lot of students
are writing about their
own life experiences or
people they know.”
The
event
features
students studying a wide
variety
of
disciplines
ranging
from
English
and creative writing to
psychology, public policy
and computer science.
English lecturer John
Buckley said he nominates
his students to give them a
chance to share their work
in public.
“For the last couple of
years, I’ve been privileged
to
teach
through
the
Undergraduate
Research
Opportunity
Program
which enables me to pick
three
or
four
students
to really do an intensive
weekly
workshop
with
and help them try to get
published,” Buckley said.
“Part of that always ends
up being nominating them
for Café Shapiro to give
them publishing credit and
give them a chance to read
in public.”
Buckley
said
Café
Shapiro really boosts his
students’
confidence
in
their own abilities, and it is
especially memorable and
important for those who
have never participated in
an event like it before.
“I think my students
gain confidence,” Buckley
said. “I think confidence
is the big thing. Just like
most things, the first time
is the hardest. The first
time is the scariest, so if
we can get over this initial
hump, that’s a big step.”
LSA
junior
Mahmuda
Ahmed
is
an
aspiring
author
and
a
student
of
Buckley.
She
was
very
flattered
Buckley
nominated her to share her
work and said it would be
her first time participating
in a read in front of
strangers.
“It was really cool (to
be
nominated)
because
I’ve never done anything
like this before and my
professor is really cool,”
Ahmed said. “We’re in a
creative
writing
group
kind of thing so we work on
our stories together, and
this was one of the one’s
they helped me edit and so
this is the final product of
it.”
In addition to providing
a space for undergraduates
to read their pieces, Café
Shapiro
publishes
an
anthology of all the work.
Ahmed said she has never
been
published
before
and is excited about the
opportunity.
She
added
she
appreciates
how
in addition to being an
opportunity to share her
own work, the event gives
her a chance to listen to her
peers and learn more about
the campus community.
“I
think
I’ll
gain
experience,” Ahmed said.
“Also, it will be published
in the anthology too, right,
so that’s also pretty cool.
I’ve never had anything
published before. And it’s
just a really cool event, too
— we get to hear readers
and their stories, too.”
U.S.
Rep.
Debbie
Dingell,
D-Mich., John’s wife of 38
years
and
congressional
successor, wrote a Facebook
post
Friday
evening
recounting
her
husband’s
final hours.
“He was lucid, visiting
with
friends,
in
charge
until the end,” she wrote.
“And trust me he knew
exactly what he wanted,
when he wanted it and we
did it his way… Tuesday
he had asked for a pad of
paper he had things he
wanted to say. Writing had
become hard. Wednesday he
started dictating to me, had
thoughts he wanted shared
when his time came.”
These
words
made
up
John Dingell’s last op-ed,
published in The Washington
Post Friday morning with
the
preface
that
“some
occasions merit more than
280
characters.”
Dingell
espoused
congressional
action and policy on climate
change,
health
care
and
racial
discrimination,
among other topics. Over
the course of his career,
Dingell helped pass or cast
critical votes on the Civil
Rights Act, Medicare, the
Clean Water and Clean Air
acts and the Endangered
Species Act.
“My personal and political
character was formed in a
different era that was kinder,
if not necessarily gentler,”
he
wrote.
“We
observed
modicums of respect even
as we fought, often bitterly
and savagely, over issues
that were literally life and
death to a degree that —
fortunately – we see much
less of today.”
The
late
congressman’s
last public appearance on
campus was last February
alongside
Debbie,
where
the pair answered questions
from students in front of
more than 100 at the Ford
School
of
Public
Policy.
The Dingells are longtime
supporters of the campus
community, and University
of
Michigan
President
Mark Schlissel offered his
condolences to the family in
a statement Thursday.
“I
considered
John
a
historically
significant
public servant and man of
great gravitas,” he wrote.
Dingell
was
also
a
longtime
feature
in
the
pages
of
The
Michigan
Daily, as journalists over
the course of four decades
interviewed and profiled the
congressman.
“RIP
@JohnDingell,”
Stephanie Steinberg, former
editor in chief of The Daily,
tweeted
Thursday.
“Thx
for sending paczki to the @
michigandaily when I was
EIC & always supporting
student
journalists.
You
were 1 of a kind.”
“I
interviewed
him
a
handful of times in college,
and he was always generous
with
his
time,”
Joseph
Lichterman,
a
former
Daily arts writer, added on
Twitter Thursday. “He also
made fun of me on Twitter
once, which is probably the
best thing that happened to
me on here.”
Fifteen years ago, just
hours before winning his
26th
term
in
Congress
back in 2004, Dingell told
Daily
reporter
Margaret
Havemann he would govern
until he couldn’t any more.
“If I can do it, I will,”
he said. “There are a lot of
people who have a say in
what I do, the people and
my wife being some of them.
And if the good Lord says
come up here with me, then
I guess I will have to.”
“Markets don’t differ in
kind from other institutions,
it’s
just
that
people
in
mainstream
economics
decided that they were going
to focus on this mathematical
aspect of markets and ignore
the rest,” Busch said.
In the discussion of his
third
proposition,
“The
histories of economics and
of economics fail to take
standards
into
account,”
Busch
explained
the
history
behind
economic
institutions. He emphasized
the importance of learning
market history to understand
the
functions
of
modern
markets.
“The histories of markets
and economics fail to take
standards
into
account
because
each
former
standard creates a different
form
of
market,”
Busch
said. “The trend is towards
greater concentration and a
greater ability to manipulate
thoughts.”
The
fourth
proposition
was
“Supply
chains
and
financialization
create
inequalities.”
Busch
said
there has been a massive
increase in inequality in the
United States within the last
25 years.
“Banks used to invest in
order
to
produce
things,
and
now
they
invest
in
order to maximize return
in investment,” Busch said.
“They’re fickle with respect
to firms but they are loyal
with respect to capital.”
In
Busch’s
final
proposition, “Economics lies
behind changes in actual
markets,” he explained the
market
standardization
that
makes
economics
predictable.
“At the same time that
economics is performative,
it is performative in two
ways,” Busch said. “It is
performative in the sense
that it provides a model
for performing firms and
markets,
and
it’s
also
performative in the sense
that it provides a model of
public
understanding
of
markets.”
John Carson, STS faculty
member
and
associate
history professor, explained
the complex nature of the
markets Busch described to
The Daily after the event.
“Markets
are
not
the
simple,
easy
methods
of
allocation
that
they’re
sometimes thought to be,
but that they are complex
social institutions that need
to be seen in all the different
functions
that
they
do,”
Carson said. “They need to be
thought about as to how we
can use them in ways that are
good and what really are all
the elements that are a part
of them, not just the ways
that prices are allocated.”
Rackham
student
Elana
Maloul
currently
teaches
an
English
124
course
on
global
capitalization.
She
said
her
greatest
takeaway
from
Busch’s
presentation was receiving
a
new
understanding
of
the traditional supply and
demand model.
“Abstract
models
shape
market practice and shape
public
perceptions
of
markets,”
Maloul
said.
“Probably
the
largest
takeaway that I got was that
the models that my students
express in class when we
talk about market systems
— because we talk about
market systems a lot — are
still those very old models
that have zero consciousness
of contemporary models, the
ones that he described.”
“With Trump, we see
a return of these large-
scale work raids,” Lopez
said.
“In
my
opinion,
very purposefully visible
f lexing of muscle.”
The
University
of
Michigan
has
also
reacted
to
recent
immigration
policy
changes.
In
response
to
travel
restrictions
imposed by the Trump
administration,
University
President
Mark Schlissel announced
in 2017 the University
would not disclose the
immigration status of its
students.
The
University
welcomes
applications
regardless of immigration
status,
according
to
a
U-M
website
for
undocumented
students
created
by
Student
Community of Progressive
Empowerment
and
the
Office
of
Academic
Multicultural Initiatives.
Noting
none
of
WICIR’s anti-deportation
campaigns
have
been
successful since Trump’s
election,
Lopez
said
ICE appears to be less
concerned
with
its
image than in previous
administrations.
“ICE’s
public
face
used
to
be
something
that would cause them
to change what they are
doing. It’s no longer the
case, generally speaking,
anymore,”
Lopez
said.
“They’re not ashamed of
their violent immigration
enforcement tactics.”
Because
Washtenaw
County
is
not
located
on a U.S. border, Lopez
said
most
immigration
enforcement occurs when
an undocumented person
gets a traffic ticket or
an arrest. He said this
makes
undocumented
immigrants less trusting
of
public
services,
especially
since
the
Trump
administration
proposed
a
“public
charge” rule in October
2018.
The
law
would
deny
legal
status
to
undocumented
people
who use certain public
benefits.
“There’s this ambient
fear
of
the
unknown
and of the potentially
catastrophic that shakes
folks’
willingness
to
use
medical
care
and
social
services
and
interact with government
officers,”
Lopez
said.
“I’m not in the business of
encouraging folks to trust
law enforcement if their
judgement tells them that
they shouldn’t.”
Jason Forsberg, deputy
chief of the Ann Arbor
Police Department, said
Chapter 120 of the city
code,
which
prohibits
public
servants
from
asking about immigration
status except in cases
such
as
a
criminal
investigation, warrant or
federal order, is meant to
encourage undocumented
people
to
trust
law
enforcement.
“The
spirit
behind
that ordinance is that
we don’t want people to
be afraid to call us when
they need help, and so
that’s why when people
are witnesses or victims
of
crimes,
we
would
never ask for immigrant
status,” Forsberg said.
Forsberg
added
most
of the county follows a
similar policy. The Board
of
Commissioners
of
Washtenaw County has
publishedwritten support
for
local
immigrant
communities.
“Most, if not all, of the
agencies in Washtenaw
County, law enforcement
agencies,
have
gotten
together and we’re all
sort of in agreement on
how we would handle
these types of things,”
Forsberg said.
The
U-M
Division
of
Public
Safety
and
Security follows a similar
policy by only inquiring
about immigration status
in the case of a security
threat, warrant or felony.
According
to
DPSS
Deputy
Chief
Melissa
Overton,
however,
the
University rarely has to
communicate with ICE.
“We rarely have to talk
to them,” Overton said.
“We have had things in
the past, but I can’t tell
you how long ago it’s
been. It’s mainly when
somebody’s been arrested
under
another
warrant
and it comes up that
they’re not here legally.”
LSA
sophomore
Sandra Perez is league
representative
for
the
Student
Community
of
Progressive
Empowerment,
an
organization
that
supports
for
undocumented
and
DACA-supported
students.
Perez
said
she and her peers are
still pushing for change
at
U-M.
For
instance,
SCOPE will attend the
next
meeting
of
the
University’s
Board
of
Regents to discuss the
University’s
28-month
policy,
which
states
undocumented
students
only qualify as in-state
students if they attended
Michigan
high
schools
and middle schools and
matriculated
to
the
University
within
28
months
of
graduating
high school.
Perez said the 28-month
rule is unfairly stringent
toward
undocumented
students,
especially
because
undocumented
students can’t apply for
federal
financial
aid,
making the cost of out-of-
state tuition particularly
challenging.
SCOPE
is
working
to
eliminate
the policy or change its
interpretation.
“It is a discriminatory
policy for undocumented
students,
specifically
because a way to prove
in-state
residency
is
providing
(proof )
from
middle
or
high
school,” Perez said. “An
undocumented
student
can
provide
all
that
information
and
more,
and yet still be denied just
because of the 28-month
rule.”
Though there are no
figures on the number of
undocumented
students
on
the
University’s
campus, Perez, who is
under
the
protection
of
DACA
herself,
said
SCOPE works with many
undocumented students,
helping
them
build
leadership skills and find
a community on campus.
“This
is
a
very
marginalized identity in
a large university,” Perez
said.
Marsh
then
updated
the
committee on the discussion
he and Senate Secretary David
Potter had with the Vice Provost
for Academic and Budgetary
Affairs Christine Gerdes regarding
the committee’s concern and
suggested revisions about the
newFaculty-Student Relationships
Standard Practice Guide.
“Those
concerns
were
transmitted
to
the
Provost’s
Office,” Marsh said. “David and I
also had a meeting with Christine
Gerdes about some of the revisions.
In general, most of those revisions
are positively received.”
SACUA
then
welcomed
University
Provost
Martin
Philbert,
who
informed
the
committee
about
the
new
Biosciences
Initiative,
which
aims to create better access to
on-campus
core
researching
facilities for students and faculties.
“This idea would be for all
sorts of cores, instrumentation,
capability and all sorts of expertise
that’s
distributed
across
the
campus,” Philbert said. “Some of it
rare, some of it relatively abundant,
but not worth any individual
investigator
investigating.
The
intention is to make them more
readily navigable and available.”
The committee then discussed
the most recent SPG changes
regarding felony charge reporting
and faculty-student relationships.
The committee expressed concern
regarding their lack of involvement
in the process of the creation and
passing of these changes to the
provost.
Committee
members
said
they feel disappointed not having
involvement or a voice every time
a specially appointed committee
is
formed
without
their
knowledge.
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We observed modicums of respect
even as we fought, often bitterly
and savagely, over issues that were
literally life and death to a degree that
— fortunately — we see much less of
today.