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.

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City Council 
deliberates 
commision 
amendment

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

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Representatives discuss police oversight 
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Carceral State Project opposes new policy, One University Campaign to equalize campuses 

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Litigator 
examines 
changes to 
regulations

GOVERNMENT

Lawyer offers look into 
Trump administration’s 
environmental policies

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Breaking Barriers of Voluntourism talks 
challenges of volunteering abroad

The Quito Project hosts discussion on sustainable international public service

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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

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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

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

