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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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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.”

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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. 

