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American Culture and Native American Studies Prof. Bethany Hughes discusses the history of redface and how it has affected our cultural climate at the Politics of Blackface Talk in North Quad Monday.

In light of the recent controversy

surrounding Virginia Gov. Ralph

Northam’s
1984
medical
school

yearbook,
in
which
he
and
a

classmate posed in blackface and

donned a Ku Klux Klan robe, the

University of Michigan Institute

for the Humanities hosted the panel

discussion titled “The Politics of

Blackface Then and Now: What’s in

Your Yearbook?” Monday afternoon

in North Quad Residence Hall.

The event drew a crowd of more

than 50, though only a handful of

students attended. The event was

part of the High Stakes Culture

series hosted by the Institute for the

Humanities and U-M Humanities

Collaboratory,
which
brings

humanities
professors
together

for a conversation about relevant

political issues and current events.

Monday’s
conversation
was

moderated
by
Angela
Dillard,

associate dean for undergraduate

education, focused primarily on

the
ramifications
of
blackface

and the prevalence of minstrelsy

throughout
the
19th
and
20th

centuries. In the early 19th century,

minstrel
shows
featuring
white

actors performing dances in black

makeup gained popularity.

Panelists also discussed redface,

or the commercialization of Native

American identity, and yellowface,

the appropriation of Asian cultures.

Dillard said these conversations

about blackface reveal how common

expressions of overt racism are in

modern American society.

“For weeks on end, what was

lurking in yearbooks became a

national obsession,” Dillard said.

“One that reminds us of issues

around
blackface,
race,
racism

and
various
forms
of
cultural

appropriation are still alive and

very present in our contemporary

landscape.”

Many
panelists
noted
the

tendency to dismiss incidents of

blackface, redface and yellowface

as isolated episodes that ignore

the
history
behind
cultural

appropriation.

The
University
of
Michigan

President’s Commission on Carbon

Neutrality hosted its first town

hall
Monday
night
to
discuss

the goals and responsibilities of

the commission and to share the

collective
ideas
of
community

members with the commission. The

commission has scheduled another

town hall for April 3.

The event, which was open to all

students, faculty and community

members, was at capacity and had a

waitlist of approximately 90 people.

Despite the initial interest in the

forum, the auditorium had about 60

open seats during the actual event.

The
town
hall
featured

presentations
from
co-chairs

of
the
commission
Jennifer

Haverkamp, director of the Graham

Sustainability Institute, and Stephen

Forrest,
professor
of
electrical

engineering and computer science,

as well as an audience Q&A.

In an earlier interview with The

Daily, University President Mark

Schlissel said he hoped the town hall

would provide an opportunity for

the commission to listen to concerns

from Ann Arbor residents and allow

community
members
community

members to be more sympathetic

toward the efforts of the University

in moving toward carbon neutrality.

“I’d love to understand which

questions are front of mind for

students,” Schlissel said. “In the

flipside, I’d love the students to see

the thoughtfulness and seriousness

with which the members of the

commission are taking this really

important task.”

Haverkamp began the event by

discussing the University’s history

of sustainability and its goal to

reduce its carbon emissions by 25

percent by 2025. She noted, initially,

carbon emissions went down by

approximately 20 percent, but after

the University expanded, emissions

are currently only down 7.5 percent.

“It led to 2025 sustainability goals,

which Michigan is still operating

under
and
working
toward,”

Haverkamp
said.
“And
these

were goals on landfill waste, food

purchases, land-based chemicals,

transportation efficiency, campus

culture and, the reason we are

here today, greenhouse gases. And

the greenhouse gas goal that was

established through that process is

to, by 2025, reduce scope 1 and scope

2 emissions by 25 percent below the

levels that we had in 2006.”

The
GHG
Protocol
Corporate

Standard classifies scope 1 emissions

as direct emissions from owned

or controlled sources and scope 2

emissions as indirect emissions from

the generation of purchased energy.

Forrest added the commission

aims to move past these goals. He

said
the
commission
welcomes

community input. However, Forrest

said he wants people to know the

commission has no actual power to

take action.

Bob Dascola and his family have

been in the barbershop business for

220 years. The family barbershop,

Dascola Barbers, will celebrate its 80th

anniversary in April. Dascola Barbers is

located near Ben & Jerry’s and Potbelly

Sandwich Shop at 304 1/2 S. State St.

Dascola emphasized the importance

of family in his business practice.

“This is a family business that we

have,” Dascola said. “It’s not just one

person. It’s a whole family, and so this is

what we’re celebrating in April. Eighty

years of a family business in Ann Arbor.”

The shop at South State isn’t the

only location the family has owned.

There have been a total of five different

locations, including the current one.

The first shop was opened by Dascola’s

father in 1939.

Dascola began his career in 1965 after

he graduated from Detroit Greene’s

Barber College. Dascola said he worked

in his father’s barbershop throughout

his education.

“I can tell you growing up in the

business really made a big difference

in how I viewed things,” Dascola said.

“One of the things that we’ve always

prided ourselves on was having a family

member in each one of our businesses to

make sure that the people working there

were doing good work, because when

your name’s on the front of the building,

that is your reputation out there.”

Dascola said the world of hair has

changed since he first started in the

business.

He said his own hairstyle helped him

get on the map and gain popularity.

“People would walk by and say, ‘Well,

look, there’s a guy with a long hair cut.

He must know what he’s doing,’ which

sure put me on the map and I actually

put two places out of business on South

U because those guys didn’t have a clue

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University President Mark Schlissel speaks with The Daily about campus
issues at the Fleming Building Monday.

See SCHLISSEL , Page 3

With Tuesday’s high profile speaker event
reaching admission capacity, community
members resell free tickets on Facebook

‘U’ Commission hosts town hall on carbon neutrality

Each month, The Michigan Daily

sits down with University President

Mark Schlissel to discuss events and

issues on campus. During this month’s

interview,
Schlissel
touched
on

topics of One University, the Carbon

Neutrality Commission, the felony

disclosure policy, free speech and

ethical food practices.

One University

The One University Campaign

was created as an effort to equip

the University of Michigan’s Flint

and Dearborn campuses with more

resources. Schlissel said while all three

University campuses share the same

overarching goals, they are separate

campuses
under
one
university

umbrella.

“We have distinct missions and

distinct priorities, and we employ and

serve distinct communities of people,”

Schlissel said. “We’re very much a

confederation of three campuses.”

Members of the 1U campaign have

said all three campuses operate under

one president and one board of regents.

Representatives from the campaign —

which is run by a coalition of students

and faculty across the three campus

— spoke at the most recent University

Board of Regents meeting and has

garnered the support of the Lecturer

Employees’ Organization.

Specifically, 1U is asking the

University and state of Michigan

to dictate more funding to the U-M

Dearborn and Flint campuses and

claims the University inhibits these

campuses through the use of a “silo

system” budget model created by

University administration.

Schlissel said the autonomy of

each campus allows the campuses

to serve their individual student

populations. He noted differences in

the socioeconomic and geographic

diversity among the three campuses

as some factors that would create

different student populations and

ultimately different uses of funding.

“Each campus has the flexibility

to serve its student community by

making its own choices and priorities

and policies,” Schlissel said. “Each

of the campuses makes up its own

budget based on how to best serve

its constituency.”

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Schlissel talks felony
disclosure policy, free
speech, One University

“We are very much a confederation of three
campuses,” the University president said in
monthly sitdown with The Michigan Daily

Institute for Humanities hosts
conversation on impacts of blackface

Event featured discussion of impact of cultural representation and appropriation

With free student tickets for

the Ben Shapiro event on Tuesday

evening selling out in under two

minutes on Feb. 18, some students are

now selling their reserved seats for as

much as $200.

The event, which is hosted by the

University of Michigan’s chapter of

Young Americans for Freedom, had

initially held 617 of the 1060 tickets for

University students.

YAF Vice Chair Kate Westa, LSA

sophomore, explained while YAF

does not support ticket reselling —

especially at such an expensive price

— the organization does not have

control of what happens to tickets

once they are in students’ possession.

“YAF does a really good job of

bringing these high profile speakers at

such a low cost to us and we want to

ensure that it goes for no money to the

people who end up securing tickets for

the event,” Westa said. “We don’t

condone the reselling, especially at

such high prices, but once we get rid

of those tickets, it’s out of our hands.

It’s unfortunate to see this happen

because we want everyone to be

able to go, but that’s just the way the

market works sometimes.”

LSA junior Sohum Mehta wanted

to see Shapiro, but was unable to get

one of the free tickets.

“I’m still looking, but people are

charging like $150 for a ticket,” Mehta

said.

Numerous students are selling the

tickets on University Facebook pages.

Though students like Mehta were

having trouble finding moderately

priced
tickets,
LSA
senior
Ben

Rappaport was able to buy one for $40.

Rappaport wanted to attend the event

to learn more about Shapiro’s beliefs,

which are different from his own.

“From what I heard I got it for a

steal,” Rappaport wrote in a message

to The Daily. “I think it’ll be good for

me to hear the views of someone whom

I disagree with almost everything on.”

LSA junior Amar Srinivasan was

one of the students selling his ticket

to see Shapiro on the “University

of Michigan Class of 2020” page on

Facebook. He sold his ticket for $45,

but reported that he saw a range of

prices from $20 to $60.

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