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ALICE TRACEY
Daily Staff Reporter
Panel discusses human rights violations,
impact of US foreign policy in North Korea
Conversations occur amidst recent negotiations of denuclearization between both countries
YSA hosts
the founder
of Qahwah
coffee shop
CAMPUS LIFE
Local entrepreneur talks
current situation in Yemen,
reflects on own experiences
EMMA RUBERG
For the Daily
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Lieutenant
Governer
tours U-M
MCity site
Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrest II
talks future of autonomous
vehicles in state of Michigan
Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II toured
the University of Michigan’s driver-
less car test and research site, Mcity,
Wednesday afternoon. The visit
was part of Gov. Gretchen Whit-
mer’s “Home for Opportunity” tour,
a series of 50 events intended to
highlight avenues for technological
innovation, infrastructural devel-
opment and economic opportunity
in the state of Michigan.
Mcity Deputy Director Carrie
Morton started the event with a
presentation on Mcity’s research
and partnerships as well as the
future of autonomous vehicles. She
noted Mcity is currently focusing
on small-scale, local deployments
of autonomous vehicles, such as the
driverless shuttles in Detroit.
“We’re going to see this increas-
ing level for deployment, where they
can drive themselves in a very small
area, similar to the May Mobility
shuttles in Detroit,” Morton said.
“We’ll see these in small deploy-
ments, but make no mistake, at this
stage, all of those are pretty highly
curated science projects and
they’re not ready to scale and
they won’t be for some time.”
NIKKI KIM
Daily Staff Reporter
This Wednesday, the Climate
Action
Movement
at
the
University of Michigan hosted
an event focused on building
the climate change movement
on
campus.
Held
in
the
Annenberg Auditorium at the
Gerald R. Ford School of Public
Policy, the event attracted
about 100 students, faculty and
community members.
The event began with four
panelists discussing the most
pressing
issues
concerning
climate change and how to
address them, followed by a
small group breakout session in
which students brainstormed
their own ideas about the
issues and finished with a large
group discussion.
Engineering junior Logan
Vear, president of the Climate
Action
Movement
at
the
University of Michigan, started
off the event by explaining the
goal of bringing community
members together to figure out
how best to address climate
issues and make a change in
the University and larger Ann
Arbor community.
“Although we do not have the
power to change things at the
global level, taking action and
influencing change at the local
level is just as important,
if not even more so,” Vear
said.
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Thursday, February 21, 2019
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CAM, faculty
address ‘U’
obstacles in
sustainability
LSA Student Government votes to
amend language requirement
CAMPUS LIFE
Student group highlights climate
challenges facing campus community
ANGELINA LITTLE
For the Daily
Resolution passes in favor of allowing final semester to be taken pass/fail
LIAT WEINSTEIN
Daily Staff Reporter
LSA Student Government
convened for their weekly
meeting Wednesday evening
in Mason Hall to discuss the
LSA
language
requirement
policy and fixing faulty MCard
readers in residence halls.
LSA SG passed a resolution
26 to 0 in favor of allowing
the last semester of the lan-
guage requirement to be taken
pass/fail. LSA juniors Gabbie
Ammond, Wyatt Puscas, Jon
Reid and Jordan Schuler and
LSA senior Hanna Simmons
sponsored the resolution and
discussed concerns many stu-
dents
taking
language
courses may have about their
GPAs in language courses.
Currently,
students
are
required to take four semes-
ters of one language in order
to complete LSA’s language
requirement. Prior to LSA SG’s
vote on Wednesday, the first
three courses in the sequence
could be taken pass/fail, but
the last course had to be taken
for a grade. Since the language
requirement went into effect,
students have voiced concerns
over the large time commit-
ment required to finish all
four courses of the sequence.
KEEMYA ESMAEL/Daily
LSA Student Government meets to discuss the LSA foreign language requirement in Mason Hall Wednesday evening.
On
Wednesday
night,
about 100 students attended
the
Yemeni
Students’
Association’s event “Crisis,
Commitment,
and
Coffee:
A Yemeni American Story.”
The event featured Ibrahim
Alhasbani,
a
Yemeni
Immigrant and the founder
of Qahwah House, a coffee
shop in Dearborn, Michigan.
Qahwah House aims to teach
their customers about the
struggles
of
those
living
in Yemen, where the shop
sources their coffee.
Alhasbani
began
his
presentation by describing
Yemen’s
historical
connection to coffee. He also
explained the origins of the
coffee shop’s name. Qahwah
translates
to
“coffee”
in
English.
“Yemen is the birthplace
for coffee,” Alhasbani said.
“That’s why Yemen’s coffee
is the most important coffee
in the world … I remind
everyone, coffee comes from
where? It comes from Yemen.”
KARTIKEYA SUNDARAM/Daily
Panelists open up for audience questions at the North Korea and Human Rights event at Weill Hall Wednesday evening.
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See LSA, Page 3A
On Wednesday night, about 100
students and faculty gathered in
the Annenberg Auditorium for a
panel to discuss the human rights
violations in North Korea and the
role of American foreign policy in
such conversations. The panel was
hosted by the Donia Human Rights
Center, in partnership with the
Ford School of Public Policy, Inter-
national Policy Center, Law School
and the Nam Center for Korean
Studies.
The panel took place amidst
recent negotiations
of
denuclearization
between
the United States and North Korea
while humanitarian crimes contin-
ue to occur under the Kim Jong-un
regime.
Business sophomore Richa Shah
explained why she came to the
panel and expressed her desire to
partake in the broader conversa-
tion.
“Dialogue can often be ineffec-
tive but if communities go about
it in a strategic way with tangible
plans, I think it will help,” Sacha
said.
The panel opened with Jared
Genser, a legal expert with pro-
bono experience in the North
Korean humanitarian crisis. He
explained the progress the inter-
national community has made
with resolutions adopted by both
the United Nations Human Rights
Council and the General Assembly
of the United Nations to focus on
the rights of North Korean citizens
under Kim’s dictatorship.
“While we have done a lot of
report writing, public speaking
issuing, and combinations of the
two, really nothing has been put in
major effect regarding the situation
in North Korea,” Genser said.
According to Genser, the human-
itarian rights of the North Korean
people are often pushed to the back
burner by many policymakers who
focus solely on denuclearization.
Citing the Responsibility to Protect
doctrine adopted by the UN World
Summit in 2005 that obligates
states to protect populations from
crimes against humanity, Genser
emphasized the necessity of bring-
ing to light the human rights issue
in North Korea. He noted the fam-
ine, lack of basic food policies in
North Korea and the Gulag concen-
tration camps as some of the many
problems that North Korean citi-
zens face on a daily basis.
“The international community
has a responsibility to help and
engage in these human rights viola-
tions in North Korea,” Genser said.
“But the reality is that the world
focuses almost exclusively on North
Korea’s nuclear and missile pro-
grams. And the security establish-
ment in the United States, such as
the defense department or intel-
ligence agencies, really make the
ability to engage in North Kore-
an human rights much more lim-
ited than you would expect.”
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See YSA , Page 3A