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CAMPUS LIFE
CLAIRE HAO
Daily Staff Reporter
CSG, DPSS host town hall to address
concerns after active shooter scare
Officers promise internal and external reviews following complaints about response
Professors
discuss role
of women in
leadership
CAMPUS LIFE
Lecture series at Trotter
looks at challenges female
authority figures face
STELLA HACKETT
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Brazilian
magazine
editor talks
Black press
Luciane Ramos Silva’s
project promotes work,
perspectives of artists
MELANIE TAYLOR
Daily Staff Reporter
If a University of Michigan
student looks at their online
ballot for Central Student
Government today, they’ll
see Engineering sophomore
Dylan Haugh-Ewald’s name
listed as a candidate under
the category of Executive
Ticket.
But
Haugh-Ewald
said he was not aware of
his candidacy status until
the ballot was released to
University students at 12:00
am on Wednesday.
Haugh-Ewald
said
he
did
originally
intend
on
running for CSG president.
He
decided
to
attend
a
meeting
regarding
CSG
elections when he received
an email from the University
Electionsw
Commission.
Haugh-Ewald said he saw
the opportunity to run for
CSG president as an avenue
to pursue goals he had for
the University, specifically
regarding
open-sourcing
more
course
material
through
public
online
platforms available to non-
university-enrolled students.
“I see Central Student
Government
involvement
as one avenue that could
work for the goals that I
want to achieve within the
University and any influence
I want to have,” Haugh-
Ewald said.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Thursday, March 28, 2019
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM
Candidate
surprised to
see name on
CSG ballot
Town hall examines effects of
DEI initiative on ‘U’ community
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Haugh-Ewald included on executive ticket
after miscommunication with committee
PARNIA MAZHAR &
BARBARA COLLINS
Daily Staff Reporters
Students, staff offer input on strategic plan to increase diversity and inclusion on campus
ALEX HARRING
Daily Staff Reporter
On
Wednesday
night,
approximately 40 students and
faculty met in Couzens Resi-
dence Hall for the University of
Michigan Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion Town Hall.
Jad Elharake, a program lead
in the Health Equity & Inclu-
sion and DEI offices, started
the event by thanking Diversity
Peer Educators for acting as
hosts and explaining the goal
of these events.
“We wanted to be very
intentional in hearing your
experiences
as
students,”
Elharake said. “It’s an oppor-
tunity for you all to give your
big ideas.”
The University is in the
middle of its five-year DEI
Strategic Plan, which was
launched in October 2016.
The plan was created in part
as a response to student
activism, specifically the
#BBUM movement on Twitter
and 2013 protests by the Black
Student Union. The initiative
promised $85 million over five
years and included campus cli-
mate-related training, the cre-
ation of the re-located Trotter
Multicultural Center and new
recruitment strategies.
The DEI plan’s language
made connections to histori-
cal social movements on cam-
pus, including Black Action
Movement and debates over
affirmative action in the last
decade.
Student
activists
protested the plan at a DEI
keynote as part of the launch
because they felt the stu-
dent voice was not properly
accounted for.
KEEMYA ESMAEL/Daily
Jad Elharake, Graduate Intern at the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, gives introductory remarks at the second DEI Town Hall in
Couzens Hall Wednesday.
On
Wednesday
afternoon,
about 15 students and faculty
gathered in the Harlan Hatcher
Graduate Library Gallery Lab for
a talk by Luciane Ramos Silva,
co-editor of O Menelick 2o Ato, an
editorial project in Brazil aiming
to highlight Afro-Brazilian artists,
thinkers and perspectives. In her
talk, titled “Voices of the Black
Press in Times of Social Cleavage
in Contemporary Brazil,” Silva
discussed racial disparities and
the importance of a platform for
Black creators in Brazil.
Silva began by describing Brazil
demographically,
explaining
Brazil faces many issues of
inequality
despite
its
racial
diversity.
“54
percent
of
Brazil’s
population is Black, but it has one
of the worst statistics in racial
disparities in terms of education,
employment, living conditions,”
Silva said. “It has some of the
worst statistics in terms of death
of young Black men, of mass
incarceration against Black men,
of sexual violence against Black
women, opportunities for Black
students in universities, et cetera.”
See CSG, Page 3A
See DEI, Page 3A
Wednesday night, the Univer-
sity of Michigan’s Central Student
Government and Division of Public
Safety and Security collaborated
to host a town hall regarding plans
to improve emergency safety pro-
tocol following an active shooter
scare on March 16. A small group
of community members voiced
concerns about accommodations
for disabled students and possible
improvements to the emergency
alert system.
CSG President Daniel Greene,
Public Policy senior, said he was
glad the entire University commu-
nity was given a place to express
their
opinions
regarding
the
events.
“We were concerned that non-
student leaders — so the major-
ity of campus — didn’t have the
opportunity or platform to voice
their concerns and ask questions,”
Greene said. “We wanted to make
sure that although CSG already
has the connections and was able
to have this kind of dialogue that
other community members were
able to have the same opportunity
to do so.”
Greene said he wanted to pro-
vide ample opportunity for all
community members to engage
in a dialogue about how DPSS will
adjust moving forward.
“Although tonight’s attendance
was a bit more intimate in style, I
think it was still an opportunity
for the students that did show up
to be able to ask the questions that
otherwise fall by the wayside,”
Greene said.
DPSS Executive Director Eddie
Washington fielded many of the
students’ questions. He reiterated
multiple times his gratitude for the
feedback he has received from the
campus community.
“You have expectations, high
expectations,” Washington said.
“We share the ‘leaders and the
best’ philosophy, and we don’t
believe we can be that if we’re
not constantly looking at ways to
improve.”
Washington
reassured
the
group that DPSS is putting togeth-
er an “after-action briefing,” a
process which requires an inter-
nal and external review of the
situation and how it was handled.
Washington said the briefing
requires different facets of DPSS
to convene and agree, so the offi-
cial document is not yet published
but soon will be.
“That will be transparent, and
that will be something that we
make
available,”
Washington
said. This briefing will address
concerns brought up by students,
staff, faculty and other commu-
nity members who were affected
by the active shooter scare: action
taken by officers on the scene, use
of the emergency alert system and
areas where improvement is pos-
sible or necessary. Washington
said his primary takeaway from
the conversations he has had with
students is that DPSS needs to
be “doing more than what we’re
doing today.”
See SCARE , Page 3A
See LEADERSHIP , Page 3A
RUCHITA IYER/Daily
DPSS Executive Director Eddie Washington Jr. and DPSS Lieutenant Bryan Baker discuss improving campus emergency response systems
during a town hall held in the Michigan League Wednesday evening.
Inside:
The Fake B-Side
As
part
of
the
Trotter
Distinguished Leadership Series,
the Trotter Multicultural Center
hosted University of Michigan Law
Professor Barbara McQuade and
Kathryn Dominguez, public policy
and economics professor, for a
discussion on Women in Leadership
on Wednesday night. About a
dozen students gathered in Palmer
Commons for the second event
of the speaker series focusing on
political issues and public service.
McQuade previously served as
the U.S. attorney for the Eastern
District of Michigan after being
appointed by President Barack
Obama and was the first woman
to hold the position. Dominguez
is a published author, research
associate at the National Bureau of
Economic Research and director
of the Honors Program in the
Department of Economics.
Moderator
Arnessa
Garrett,
assistant business editor of the
Dallas Morning News, began the
discussion by asking the women
about what sparked their interest in
public service and what advice they
would give to women interested in
entering this field.