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Amid
objections
from
community
activists,
Ann
Arbor
City
Council
moved
forward
Tuesday
with
a
proposed amendment to allow
for a waiver of restrictions on
the eligibility of city employees
to sit on the police oversight
commission. The amendment
will be addressed at a second
reading during the next council
meeting.
The 2014 shooting of Aura
Rosser by an Ann Arbor Police
officer provoked months of
debate and protest, eventually

sparking interest in the creation
of a police oversight committee.
The
council
unanimously
passed a resolution in October
to establish an independent
police oversight committee.
Councilmember
Julie
Grand, D-Ward 3, attempted
to clarify the intent of the
amendment,
explaining
the
amendment would not apply to
police officers or current city
employees.
“There was a misperception
about the ordinance coming
forward,” Grand said. “I know
with any new process there will
be some bumps along the way.
This was a bump that we made
sure was corrected.”

On Tuesday night, The
Quito Project held a workshop
titled “Breaking the Barriers
of Voluntourism: Engaging
in
Sustainable
Cultural
Humility
Practices,”
discussing the impact of
voluntourism: a combination
of tourism and volunteer
work abroad. The workshop
touched on the challenges
of international volunteer
work, which, according to the
organizers, can sometimes
be unsustainable and harm
the communities it aims to
help.

LSA
senior
Nora
Kuo,
Quito Project co-President,
introduced
the
event
by
explaining how volunteers
can
unintentionally
harm
the communities with which
they work.
“We want to learn how to
volunteer
abroad
without
coming
in
with
harmful
behavior that is disrespecting
the community,” Kuo said.
Kuo said The Quito Project,
a student organization based
in Quito, Ecuador that works
to minimize the achievement
gap
for
primary
school
students
in
low-income
areas,
started
holding

these workshops when they
noticed
their
Michigan
tutors
weren’t
achieving
what they had hoped.
“There was a disconnect
between what we wanted to
do and what was happening,”
she said.
Danyelle J. Reynolds, the
assistant director for student
learning and leadership for
the Ginsberg Center, led
the workshop portion of the
event, beginning by asking
the audience if they had any
preconceived definitions of
voluntourism.
The
responses
of
the
audience
were
mixed,

leading into Reynolds’ next
point. She explained though
the word often holds negative
connotations, she said she
believes voluntourism is not
inherently good or bad.
“There isn’t a consensus
for
what
voluntourism
means,” Reynolds said. “It’s
all about what you’re actually
doing.”
She noted one of the
obstacles
for
volunteers
was not knowing why they
wanted to volunteer. This
often impacts how volunteers
eventually
approach
their
work, Reynolds said.

Sean
Donahue,
a
lawyer
whose
focus
area
includes
environmental
litigation,
discussed the President Donald
Trump’s administration’s efforts
to deregulate key environmental
policies at Hutchins Hall on
Tuesday. The talk was organized
for The Environmental Law
and Policy Program Lecture
Series put on by the University of
Michigan Law School.
Donahue’s
firm,
Donahue,
Goldberg & Weaver, LLP, based
in Washington D.C., focuses on
Constitutional,
environmental
and civil rights litigation.
Environmental
policy
deregulation under the Trump
administration
has
been
a
controversial
and
prevalent
initiative,
Donahue
said.
Trump promised to decrease
environmental regulations and
promote coal and industrial
energy during his campaign.
Donahue compared the Trump
administration’s
efforts
to
cut regulations to the French
Revolution, saying it was similar
to the beginning of a new regime.

michigandaily.com
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM

City Council
deliberates
commision
amendment

CSG discusses felony self-disclosure
policy at ‘U’, tri-campus disparities

See OVERSIGHT, Page 3A

ASHA LEWIS/Daily
A community member gives a testimonial during the CSG meeting regarding reporting criminal records on UM applications in the Michigan League Tuesday night.

CITY

Representatives discuss police oversight
committee , community shares concerns

RACHEL LEUNG &
LEAH GRAHAM
Daily Staff Reporter
& Daily News Edtior

Carceral State Project opposes new policy, One University Campaign to equalize campuses

PARNIA MAZHAR
Daily Staff Reporter

See POLICY, Page 3A

Litigator
examines
changes to
regulations

GOVERNMENT

Lawyer offers look into
Trump administration’s
environmental policies

CALLIE TEITELBAUM
Daily Staff Reporter

Breaking Barriers of Voluntourism talks
challenges of volunteering abroad

The Quito Project hosts discussion on sustainable international public service

EMMA RUBBERG
For The Daily

See CSG, Page 3A

Wendy’s will not renew its
contract with the Michigan
Union when it reopens in 2020.
This decision comes following
concern expressed by University
of Michigan student leaders and
community members after the
fast food chain failed to join
the Coalition of Immokalee
Workers’ Fair Food Program.
Central Student Government,
Ann Arbor City Council and
the Michigan Union Board
of Representatives all signed
resolutions
encouraging
the
University
to
prohibit
Wendy’s from leasing a spot in
University property until they
join the Fair Food Program,
with City Council additionally
encouraging individuals and
institutions in the Ann Arbor
community
to
boycott
the
chain.
The
Fair
Food
Program
is
a
partnership
between
farmers,
farmworkers
and
retail
food
companies
that
seeks higher wages and better
working conditions for those in
participating farms.
See WENDY’S, Page 3A

Wendy’s to
not renew
restaurant
lease in Union

BUSINESS

Amid concerns of activists,
the fast food chain decides
against returning in 2020

ZAYNA SYED
Daily Staff Reporter

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INDEX
Vol. CXXVII, No. 77
©2019 The Michigan Daily

N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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See BARRIERS, Page 3A

At the University of Michigan
Central
Student
Government
meeting
Tuesday
night,
students, faculty and community
members
came
together
to
discuss a resolution opposing

the
University’s
new
felony
notification policy, which has
spurred controversy on campus
over the past month. Guest
speakers
also
discussed
the
One
University
Campaign,
a
coalition working to make all
three University campuses more
equitable.

The University implemented
an
amendment
requiring
faculty, staff, student employees,
volunteers and visiting scholars
to provide notification if they are
charged with or convicted of a
felony crime. They must notify the
University within one week of a
charge or conviction occurring on

or after Feb. 1, 2019.
Once the University is notified,
University Human Resources will
process each post-employment
case using a process similar to the
school’s current pre-employment
background screening procedure.

the

DARBY STIPE/Daily
Danyelle J. Reynolds, Assistant Director for Student Learning and Leadership at the Ginsberg Center, speaks about responsible Voluntourism abroad in North
Quad Tuesday.

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