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Thursday morning, hundreds
of students, faculty, alumni
and community members filled
the new home of the Trotter
Multicultural Center on South
State
Street.
University
of
Michigan
President
Mark
Schlissel, Regent Ron Weiser
and Cynthia Stephens, the 1st
District Court of Appeals judge,
were among the speakers at
the Trotter Center’s opening
ceremony.
Alphonse Pitawanakwat, a
lecturer in the Native American

Ojibwe language, opened up the
ceremony, acknowledging the
new Trotter Center’s location
on land previously inhabited
by the Ojibwe, Odawa and
Potawatomi tribes.
In
his
opening
remarks,
Schlissel
spoke
about
the
importance of the new center’s
establishment.
“This is a historic occasion,
not just for the University of
Michigan, but for our students
and graduates, the society we
serve, and really, the shared
future that we’re all hoping to
create,” Schlissel said. “The
Trotter Multicultural Center is

a new home for many personal
and shared identities, for unity,
for learning, for reflection and
for hope.”
The new Trotter Center’s
opening
was
the
result
of
decades of petitioning from
student
activist
groups,
specifically the Black Student
Union. At the beginning of
2014, as part of a greater list
of
demands
for
expanded
scholarships,
more
student
diversity and more equitable
housing
opportunities,
the
student group petitioned the
University to move the Trotter
Center
from
its
previous

location,
a
15-minute
walk
to
Central
Campus
from
Washtenaw Avenue, to a more
accessible location on Central
Campus.
In late 2013, members of
BSU popularized the hashtag
#BBUM, or “Being Black at
the University of Michigan,”
prompting
a
campus-wide
movement to increase equity
in admissions, resources and
student
opportunities,
as
well as offering a space for
Black students to share their
experiences on campus.

The Matthaei Botanical
Gardens
hosted
a
photography
exhibit
Thursday titled “Finding the
Strength to Heal: A Journey
of
Rebuilding
Amongst
Violence.” The exhibit, a
product of Rackham student
Laura Sinko’s dissertation,
told the stories of women
who survived sexual violence
as undergraduates through

pictures, quotes and videos.
Attendees
perused
different
rooms
of
the
building,
each
with
a
different focus. One room
played a video on a loop
highlighting
the
journeys
of four participants in the
project, while another, titled
the
self-care
room,
held
crafts and stress balls. The
conservatory itself was used
as the resource room, where
information
booths
from
various University resources

including
Sexual
Assault
Prevention and Awareness
Center,
Counseling
and
Psychological
Services,
U-M
Police
Department
Special Victims Unit, Office
of Institutional Equity and
University Health Services
sexual
assault
nurse
examiners
were
stationed
throughout the plants.
Attendees followed arrows
in a winding path in the main
photography exhibit room,
accented by twinkling lights

and calm music. Photographs
and quotes from survivors
were organized on a series of
panels, each corresponding
to a different theme. The
first row was made up of
general themes of the healing
process,
the
second
row
focused on darker and more
vulnerable moments within
the process and the final row
consisted of more specific
day-to-day ups and downs.
University of Michigan students
and
faculty
discussed
legacy
admissions and their Constitutional
implications in Hutchins Hall on
Thursday afternoon. The Education
Law and Policy Society hosted the
event to focus on admissions from
an equal protection standpoint.
The discussion began with
the panel addressing the ubiquity
of legacy admissions in highly
selective
institutions.
Michael
Bastedo,
School
of
Education
professor, specializes in higher
education admissions research. He
said legacy commonly plays a role in
undergraduate admissions.
“Primarily at the undergraduate
level, it’s pretty common,” Bastedo
said. “It’s more unusual not to
practice legacies than it is to
practice legacies.”
The question was then directed
to Margo Schlanger, the panel’s
legal expert and University Law
School
professor,
on
whether
legacy admits violated the equal
protection clause of the U.S.
Constitution.

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Sankofa:
Trotter looks
towards new
beginnings

Central location just one step in a
larger journey to equity on campus

Approximately
150
students,
faculty and community members
were in attendance for a series of
performances in an event titled
“Young, Latinx and Proud” hosted
by
the
Latin@
Culture
Show
and sponsored by Department of
American Culture and Latino/a
Studies on Thursday night. The
event featured several groups that
presented dances and songs from
different Latinx cultures.
LSA senior Karen Garcia, one of
the organizers, said the show takes a
lot of careful planning beginning in
the fall.
“It’s a lot of work,” Garcia said.
“The day of, we get here early, make
sure everyone is ready, everyone is
in positions, make sure we have a
backup plan if we have a hiccup, so it’s
a lot of work throughout the year, but
it’s also very rewarding.”
The performers ranged from
elementary schoolers to college
students, and included songs and
dances inspired by the traditional
styles from Mexico, Peru, the
Dominican Republic and more.

Latinx orgs
feature art

from many
countries

CAMPUS LIFE

Latin@ Culture Show
hosts its annual event
including dance, song

ATTICUS RAASCH
Daily Staff Reporter

“Finding the Strength to Heal” shares
stories of sexual assault survivors

Photography exhibit at Matthaei Botanical Gardens raises awareness with multimedia

Law school
panel talks
legality of
admissions

CAMPUS LIFE

Students, faculty look
at the constitutionality
of legacy acceptances

NIKKI KIM
Daily Staff Reporter

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See TROTTER, Page 3
See BEGINNINGS, Page 3

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On Thursday, generations
of students and alumni joined
in unity to welcome the grand
opening of the new Trotter
Multicultural
Center
on
Central Campus. Forged from
decades’ worth of student
activism, largely spearheaded
by the Black Student Union,
Trotter opened its doors to
the public and community
during a historic community
gathering. Students, alumni,
faculty and staff lined the
basement from wall-to-wall,
nearly reaching capacity. The
space, amalgamating the past
and the present, produced a
tangible reward for all the
blood, sweat and tears poured
into making the new Trotter
Center a reality.
The Trotter Center’s new
space,
placed
on
Central
Campus’ South State Street,

is a direct result of Black
student activism on campus,
dating all the way back to the
1970s with the Black Action
Movement . Since then, the
Black Student Union has
continued these efforts with
various social movements,
a focal point being its 2013
#BBUM (Being Black at the
University
of
Michigan)
Twitter
movement.
In
addition to launching the
viral social media campaign,
BSU
released
a
list
of
demands, one of them being
an opportunity to congregate
at a new Trotter Center on
Central Campus.
Tyrell Collier, speaker of
Black Student Union during
#BBUM, spoke at the ribbon-
cutting about the persistence
of Black student activists on
campus and paid homage
to organizations like BAM
and the Students of Color
Coalition that came before
him.

NA’KIA CHANNEY &
DIERRA BARLOW
MiC Managing Editor & Assistant
MiC Editor

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ANGELINA LITTLE
Daily Staff Reporter

DANYEL THARAKAN/Daily
Attendees view the “Finding the Strength to Heal: A Journey of Rebuilding Amongst Violence” photography exhibit at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens Thursday.

After decades of activism, new
Trotter Multicultural Center opens


Community members reflect on BSU’s role in the building’s move to State St.

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Courtesy of Na’kia Channey & Alec Cohen/Daily
Students, faculty, alumni, and community members join together for the grand opening of the new location for Trotter Multicultural Center Thursday afternoon.

BEN ROSENFELD
Daily Staff Reporter

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