About 60 people gathered at 
the Ann Arbor Federal Building 
on Monday and marched in 
protest of President Donald 
Trump’s national emergency 
declaration. 
Organized 
by 
local organization Stop Trump 
Ann Arbor, the protest was one 
of 262 noontime Presidents 
Day protests around the nation 
coordinated by MoveOn, a 
national organization focusing 
on education and advocacy 
through petitions, supporting 
campaigns 
and 
mobilizing 
events.
On their website, MoveOn 

referred to the protests as 
“rapid-response events.”
“Donald Trump has declared 
a 
#FakeNationalEmergency 
– an illegal power grab from 
an unhinged man to push his 
racist, 
dangerous 
policies,” 
the MoveOn website reads. 
“We’re 
mobilizing 
rapid-
response events on Presidents 
Day – Monday, 2/18 – against 
Trump’s fake crisis and racist 
deportation force and to stand 
with immigrant, Muslim, and 
Black and brown communities 
to stop Trump’s dangerous and 
illegal power grab.”
On Friday, Trump declared 
a 
national 
emergency 
to 
obtain funding Congress had 
refused him in their latest 

spending bill for a wall along 
the U.S.-Mexico border. The 
national 
emergency 
would 
provide access to about $8 
billion in total with about 7 
billion pulling from military 
construction 
projects, 
counter-narcotics 
programs, 
and a Treasury Department 
asset forfeiture, which is more 
than the $5.7 billion Trump 
had originally requested from 
Congress. 
Trump 
already 
received 
$1.3 
billion 
from 
Congress to build more fencing 
on the border.
The 
move 
has 
divided 
Republicans lawmakers, some 
of whom joined the Democrats 
in opposing Trump’s national 
emergency declaration. The 

administration is also facing 
legal pushback, much of which 
focuses on Trump’s Friday 
remarks about the declaration.
“I could do the wall over 
a longer period of time,”” 
Trump said Friday. ““I didn’t 
need to do this. But I’d rather 
do it much faster.””
Jessica 
Prozinski, 
co-founder of Stop Trump 
Ann Arbor and co-organizer 
of Monday’s protest, explained 
one goal of the protest was 
to impel Congress to reject 
Trump’s 
declaration 
and 
override any potential veto.

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On Monday night, the 
Ford School of Public Policy 
hosted 
U.S. 
Rep. 
Debbie 
Dingell, 
D-Mich., 
and 
Fred 
Upton, 
R-Mich., 
to 
participate in an installment 
of the Conversations Across 
Difference 
Policy 
Talks 
speaker series. The event 
was hosted at Annenberg 
Auditorium in the Public 

Policy School. Titled “Voices 
from Across the Aisle,” the 
event was co-sponsored by 
the Program in Practical 
Policy 
Engagement 
and 
student 
organization 
WeListen as a means of 
discussing 
the 
political 
divide in American politics.
The audience consisted 
of about 200 Ann Arbor 
residents, 
ranging 
from 
local 
professionals 
and 
community 
members 
to 
University 
of 
Michigan 

faculty 
members 
and 
students. 
The 
event 
concluded with a reception 
where 
during 
which 
all 
of 
the 
attendees 
were 
encouraged 
to 
stay 
and 
mingle with the speakers 
as a means of encouraging 
further discussion in a less 
formal setting. Michael Barr, 
dean of the Public Policy 
School, 
briefly 
addressed 
the audience at the start of 
the night to introduce the 
premise of the forum.

“Congresswoman Dingell 
and 
Congressman 
Upton 
… do represent different 
parties 
and 
different 
constituencies, parties and 
peoples 
with 
sometimes 
different 
ideologies 
and 
different policy positions,” 
Barr 
said. 
“This 
session 
will look at the manner by 
which such divergence helps 
or sometimes hinders the 
democratic process, in how 
we can work better together. 

The University of Michigan 
Spectrum Center collaborated 
with the Rackham Graduate 
School and medical student 
organization 
OutMD 

Monday to host a panel of 
LGBTQ-affirming 
medical 
professionals. During the event 
held at Rackham Auditorium, 
University faculty and health 
service professionals discussed 
their experiences with LGBTQ-
identifying patients and offered 
advice to undergraduate and 
graduate 
students 
seeking 
reliable and friendly health care.
OutMD 
is 
a 
student 
organization within the Medical 
School for LGBTQ-identifying 
medical students and their 
allies. OutMD helped organize 
the event and aims to spread 
the word regarding disparities 
LGBTQ patients face within 
medicine and health care.

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extra pay for 
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Mika LaVaque-Manty, LSA Honors 
Program 
director 
and 
associate 
professor of political science, addressed 
the ways in which rule-following 
affects one’s life during the LSA Student 
Honor Council speaker event titled 
“Your life, Your rules” Monday night.
LaVaque-Manty 
used 
his 
background in philosophy to examine 
the ideas of multiple philosophers 
including Mencius, Aristotle and 
Immanuel Kant. In his presentation, 
LaVaque-Manty explained how the 
actions a student takes may have a 
major effect on their future and said 
students should consider the reasoning 
behind their decisions.
“My argument today is not going 
to be against instrumental reasons — 
that is, doing things because we get 
something out of it — but I’m going to 
suggest that there are other reasons 
beyond instrumental reasons, or that 
sometimes it’s actually helpful to 
not think in terms of instrumental 
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MDining 
student 
employees were not paid 
overtime nor given any extra 
compensation for their work 
during 
the 
polar 
vortex 
when all events and classes 
were canceled due to severe 
cold 
weather, 
University 
spokesman Rick Fitzgerald 
said.
Jennifer 
Plascencia, 
LSA senior and MDining 
employee, said MDining was 
conflicted 
about 
whether 
to stay open during the 
polar vortex. She said she 
ultimately decided to work 
during those two days to 
make it easier for residents 
to eat, despite knowing she 
would not get extra pay. 
“Given our dining hall 
size, we could have easily 
just closed and said ‘you guys 
can go eat at South Quad or 
wherever else you want to 
eat,’” she said. “But we didn’t. 
We opened up both days and 
it went well.”
From Jan. 30 to the morning 
of Feb. 1, the University 
issued 
an 
emergency 
reduction of operations as a 
result of frigid, below-zero 
temperatures across the
Midwest. The polar vortex, 

which killed more than 20 
people around the country, 
set record temperature wlows 
for Michigan and resulted in 
the closure of many schools, 
businesses and universities.
The last time the University 
canceled classes and other 
campus events was due to a 
snowstorm in February 2015. 
In the past 40 years, the 
University has only closed 
four times. 
Fitzgerald 
said 
because 
student employees are not 
“critical employees,” they do 
not have to report to work 
when there is an emergency 
reduction of operations. He 
also said this status prevents 
student 
employees 
from 
receiving 
extra 
benefits 
during 
an 
emergency 
reduction 
of 
operations, 
which 
is 
what 
occurred 
during the polar vortex.
“Specific 
to 
MDining, 
student 
employees 
are 
not designated as ‘critical 
employees,’” Fitzgerald said. 
“So they are not required 
to work when there is a 
reduction in operations. If 
they choose to work those 
days, they are paid their 
regular hourly rate.”

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at the Voices from Across the Aisle Policy Talk at Ford Monday.

Stop Trump Ann Arbor protests 
the President’s national emergency 

Activist group addresses issues of immigration enforcement through “rapid-response events”

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