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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. 

See APPROPRIATION , Page 3

See TOWNHALL , Page 3

See BARBERSHOP , Page 3

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