Central Student Government 
held its final meeting of the 
8th assembly Tuesday night. 
The assembly voted to pass 
several resolutions, including 
a 
resolution 
to 
designate 
University of Michigan Blue 
Bus 
routes 
from 
campus 
locations to grocery stores, 
as well as a resolution to 
improve pedestrian safety at 
the University. At the meeting, 
several 
non-CSG 
students 
presented a new idea for an app 
to better integrate first-year 

students when they first come 
to campus.
During 
community 
concerns, 
Engineering 
freshmen Sanil Gosain, Cooper 
Kennelly and Marcus Toure 
gave a presentation on their 
idea for a new app which would 
help first-year students adjust 
to the University. The app 
would provide freshmen with 
questions in academic, social 
and lifestyle categories and 
then use those results to match 
them with other students, clubs 
and organizations on campus. 

As a computer science 
major, LSA junior Armind 
Chahal often finds herself 
one of the only women in 
her upper-level CS courses. 
Chahal said though the 
uneven gender ratio in CS 
classes is significant, it is 
so commonplace that she 
has come to expect it and is 
usually able to ignore it.
“I went to a discussion, 
and there were 30 people 
in the class, and about four 
or five of us were women,” 
Chahal said. “I think it’s 
definitely noticeable once 

you get into the core classes 
for CS and even more 
noticeable once you get to 
the electives. You kind of 
just get used to it, I think, 
and it kind of seems like 
people get sick of hearing 
about it so you really just 
stop bringing it up after 
a certain point. You just 
ignore it and move on. 
That’s how I’ve coped with 
it.”
Currently, 
Chahal 
is 
taking 
Electrical 
Engineering 
and 
Computer 
Science 
376, 
an 
upper 
level 
course 
introducing 
students 
to 
the theory of computation. 

Though her professor and 
most of her peers are male, 
she 
noted 
how 
having 
a 
female 
instructional 
aide reminds her of the 
importance 
of 
equal 
gender 
representation 
in fields like computer 
science. In EECS courses, 
IAs are the equivalent of 
undergraduate 
teaching 
assistants who aid students 
in course material and lead 
lab sections.
“I 
think 
it’s 
very 
important that there is 
that even balance because 
even though you don’t 
have 
an 
even 
balance 
of women and men, the 

people who are in those 
power positions should be 
a balance,” Chahal said. “I 
think that will get more 
people to either stay in 
the program or start the 
program.”
Last 
month, 
a 
study 
published 
by 
three 
University 
of 
Michigan 
professors found the group 
of instructional aides for 
computer science classes 
at the University is nearly 
equally split between men 
and women, even though 
EECS 280, an introductory 
course for CS majors, is 
only 25 percent female.

The 
Office 
of 
Student 
Life hosted the Michigan 
Difference 
Student 
Leadership 
Awards 
on 
Tuesday 
to 
honor 
the 
outstanding work of various 
individuals 
and 
groups 
on 
campus. 
Thirty-seven 
groups 
and 
individuals 
were 
acknowledged 
for 
their work in public service, 
social justice, research and 
academic accomplishments.
Students are nominated 
by peers, faculty, and staff 
through 
an 
online 
form. 
This year, more than 300 
individuals and groups were 
nominated.
The 
award 
categories 
ranged from leadership in 
club sports, sustainability, 
fine 
arts, 
research 
and 
innovation 
and 
social 
change. 
Many 
of 
the 
awards acknowledged both 
an individual and group. 
Freshman, 
sophomore, 
junior, senior and graduate 
student of the year awards 
were also announced.

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CSG looks at 
concerns for
safety of A2

pedestrians 

Simulation trains participants to 
confront effects of social privilege

See CSG, Page 3A

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Representatives also debate increasing 
number of bus routes to grocery stores

Sorority, fraternity team up to convery real-world consequences in ‘ The Game of Life’

ATTICUS RAASCH
Daily Staff Reporter

See AWARDS, Page 3A

‘U’ hosts 
recognition 
ceremony 
for students

CAMPUS LIFE

Leaders on campus receive
awards for involvement, 
academic achievement

CALLIE TEITELBAUM
Daily Staff Reporter

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Researchers at the University of Michigan found found that women filled 56 percent of IA spots in EECS courses. 

Gender balanced among EECS IAs 
despite disparity among students

Study finds balanced distribution of men and women working as computer science aides

LIAT WEINSTEIN
Daily Staff Reporter

See PRIVILEGE, Page 3A

On 
March 
21, 
reports 
from 
the 
University 
of 
Michigan 
Research 
and 
Animal Care and Use offices 
found that 11,548 zebrafish 
were poisoned by bleach, 53 
mice died of dehydration, 
while 
others 
were 
given 
gastrointestinal cancer and a 
mutant rabbit went missing 
from 
University 
animal 
testing laboratories between 
March 2018 and September 
2018.
The reports were legally 
required by the federal Office 
of Laboratory Animal Welfare 
and eventually obtained by 
animal advocacy group Stop 
Animal 
Exploitation 
Now, 
which has now requested an 
independent investigation of 
the matter.
In a letter to University 
President Mark Schlissel and 
the Board of Regents, SAEN 
Executive Director Michael 
Budkie 
urged 
University 
administration 
to 
punish 
the staff involved in these 
incidents.
See ANIMALS, Page 3A

Negligence 
alleged in
deaths of 
lab animals

RESEARCH

Reports find zebrafish, 
mice died while being 
experimented on at ‘U’

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On Tuesday, approximately 
30 people attended “Check 
Your Privilege: The Game 
of Life,” an event hosted 
by the Chi Upsilon Sigma 
National Latin Sorority Inc. 
and Lambda Theta Phi Latin 

Fraternity 
Inc. 
to 
discuss 
the real life ramifications of 
privilege and inequality. 
The event featured multiple 
simulations to convey various 
forms of economic difficulty 
and realities. Following the 
simulations, attendees split 
into 
small 
groups 
before 
convening in a large group to 

discuss their thoughts.
According to LSA junior 
Salvador Vargas, a Lambda 
Theta Phi member who helped 
facilitate the discussions, the 
simulations were necessary to 
open up conversations about 
privilege.
“When we had the more 
collaborative 
event, 
the 

simulator in the second half, 
I think the reflection turned 
out well,” Vargas said. “It 
didn’t 
feel 
forced, 
people 
were very genuine sharing 
personal experiences, so I 
definitely think it was quality 
conversation.”

statement

the

Clearing the
in-betweens

PARNIA MAZHAR
Daily Staff Reporter

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Simulation trains participants to 
confront effects of social privilege

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The University’s chapters of Chi Upsilon Sigma National Latin Sorority Inc. and Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity Inc. held an identity awareness event, “Game of 
Life: Check Your Privilege,” in East Quad Residence Hall Tuesday evening.

