On 
Tuesday 
evening, 
the 
University of Michigan Central 
Student 
Government 
held 
its second-to-last meeting of 
the semester in the Michigan 
League to discuss resolutions for 
moving Assembly meetings to 
Thursday evenings and codifying 
Wolverine Consulting Group, a 
free consulting service provided 
by CSG to student organizations. 
The Assembly also approved a 
resolution 
organizing 
healthy 
snack distribution in campus 
libraries during finals week and 
voted on changes to its election 

complaint filing period and its 
operating procedures. 
LSA freshman Sam Braden 
proposed a resolution for first 
reads 
that 
suggested 
CSG 
meetings be held on Thursdays 
starting at 7 p.m. instead of on 
Tuesdays starting at 7:30 p.m. The 
resolution, authored by Braden 
and Engineering freshman Carla 
Voigt, states the current meeting 
time is at a time when students 
may have class. The resolution also 
notes CSG meetings sometimes 
run past midnight, which may 
pose safety concerns as members 
walk home late at night. 
At 
the 
meeting, 
Braden 
explained he looked through 

the LSA Course Guide to find 
how many 8:30 a.m. classes 
were 
offered 
each 
weekday. 
Braden emphasized moving CSG 
meetings to Thursday evenings 
would be beneficial as he claims 
there are more morning classes 
Monday through Thursday than 
on Friday.
“I did the math: There’s more 
than 
2,000 
classes 
Monday, 
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 
morning at 8:30 a.m. … but there’s 
only 700 classes that start at 8:30 
a.m. on Friday,” Braden said. “… 
To me, that’s a pretty compelling 
reason to change the CSG meeting 
day. The most important reason 
any of us are here are academics 
and classes we’re taking.” 
Braden’s 
resolution 
faced 
opposition 
from 
several 
members of the Assembly. 
Some members said the half-
hour time change in Braden’s 
resolution is not significant 
enough 
to 
address 
safety 
concerns related to meetings 
that run late into the night, and 
suggested other measures such 
as walking and ridesharing 
groups. Other members said 
they ran for CSG positions 
knowing meetings would be 
held 
on 
Tuesday 
evenings 
and expressed concern they 
might not be able to attend if 
CSG meetings were held on a 
different day.
LSA freshman Sujin Kim 
noted a similar resolution to 
change the CSG meeting time 
was met with controversy and 
ultimately rejected in the 22nd 
meeting of the Eighth Assembly. 
Kim suggested Braden should 
specifically address concerns 
brought up in discussion of the 
past resolution.
The Assembly then voted 
unanimously 
to 
pass 
a 
resolution for CSG members 

to distribute healthy snacks to 
students 
in 
various 
libraries 
on campus during finals week. 
Authored by Kim and Rackham 
student Hayden Jackson, the 
resolution 
would 
authorize 
CSG to spend $590 on coffee, 
healthy snacks and Green Books. 
These would then be distributed 
to 
students 
in 
the 
Shapiro 
Undergraduate 
Library 
the 
evening of April 22, the Shapiro 
Undergraduate Library and the 
Fishbowl the evening of April 24 
and the Duderstadt Center the 
evening of April 25.
Engineering 
junior 
Zeke 
Majeske, 
previous 
Wolverine 
Consulting Group vice chair for 
external affairs, then introduced 
a resolution he authored to codify 
WCG within CSG. According to 
Majeske, WCG can be useful in 
helping 
student 
organizations 
achieve a variety of initiatives, 
offering 
advice 
on 
member 
recruitment 
and 
retention, 
executive 
board 
structure, 
branding 
and 
marketing, 
fundraising and event planning. 
Majeske expressed WCG services 
are 
in 
demand 
by 
student 
organizations and are a good 
utilization of CSG resources.
“(WCG) is a really good way 
for CSG time and effort and funds 
to be used to really interact with 
the student body,” Majeske said. 
“Everyone who interacts with us 
always tells this is such a great 
service, and I want to get it a little 
more permanent within the CSG 
governing documents. I want to 
grow the group in the next year 
and couple years.”
According to Majeske, current 
demand for WCG services exceeds 
the organization’s capabilities. 
Majeske’s 
resolution 
suggests 
extending WCG by codifying it as 
a commission with a chair elected 
by the Assembly and 12 members 

SPRINGFEST BRINGS MUSIC TO CAMPUS 

ON THE DAILY: ‘STUDENTS OF UMICH’ TO RAISE AWARENESS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT 

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: PROFS CHARGED WITH 
SEXUAL HARASSMENT

To 
commemorate 
Sexual 
Assault 
Awareness 
Month, 
Students of UMich will post a 
series of stories about sexual 
assault 
on 
Instagram. 
The 
student 
organization 
was 
founded by Information junior 
Somya Bhagwagar and has almost 
4,500 followers on Instagram. 
The account seeks to “act as a 

microphone,” allowing students 
to share their stories without 
censorship. 
Bhagwagar decided to feature 
stories about sexual assault after 
a number of people brought up 
the issue in interviews for her 
blog.
“Honestly, 
it 
wasn’t 
on 
purpose,” Bhagwagar said. “I 
started doing my usual Students 
of UMich, and it kind of just 
came out. Surprisingly, I found 

that a lot of people were starting 
to talk about it, and I questioned 
why they were talking about it, 
and I realized that it was Sexual 
Assault Awareness Month. And 
then I reordered the stories for 
it to be in the same month, but it 
wasn’t intentional.”
Bhagwagar said she hopes the 
stories will allow her audience to 
empathize with the survivors.
“A 
lot 
of 
people 
don’t 
understand or don’t care about 

it because they’ve never been in 
the shoes of someone who has 
been 
assaulted,” 
Bhagwagar 
said. “A lot of women have been 
in that place, but the thing about 
stories is they’re so unique, but 
so relatable at the same time. So 
putting yourself in someone else’s 
shoes … who has gone through 
that is a really scary process, and 
it’s a way for you to feel those 
struggles that you once thought 
were unfathomable.”

April 16, 1983
Charges of sexual harassment 
this year have led to the resignations 
of two University faculty members 
and formal disciplinary hearings for 
two other professors, according to 
University officials.
Virginia Nordby, director of the 
Office of Affirmative Action, said 
her office also is looking into about 
10 other cases of harassment which 

she terms
“Serious.”
IN ONE CASE pending in 
Rackham 
Graduate 
School, 
a 
medical school professor “did in 
the laboratory sometimes refer 
to women as [expletive]... did on 
occasion grab or twist the arms of 
(a female student) did make sexually 
suggestive gestures, and did write 
instructions to (the student) on a 

notepad picturing female genitalia,” 
according to the confidential report 
of a faculty review committee.
The professor admitted, according 
to the report, that he “twice caused 
the release of potentially dangerous 
nitrogen tetroxide, once squirted (the 
student) in the eyes with acetone, 
and on one or more occasions left 
radioactive materials about in ways 
that were potentially dangerous.”

The 
three-member 
Rackham 
Appeals Board concluded that the 
medical school professor, who was 
advising the female student on her 
doctoral dissertation when the 
alleged incidents occurred, “should 
be removed from the roles of the 
graduate faculty for five years,” 
which would keep him off research 
committees and ban him from 
working with Rackham students.

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selected 
through 
application, 
and alloting $2,500 to $3,500 
to WCG per a semester. Under 
Majeske’s proposed resolution, 
WCG leadership can unanimously 
decide to transfer funds to student 
organizations 
receiving 
WCG 
services. 
Students 
voiced 
concerns 
with 
Majeske’s 
resolution, 
stating they preferred to keep 
all student organization funding 
through the Student Organization 
Funding 
Committee, 
a 
CSG 
program 
granting 
funds 
to 
student organizations through an 
application process. 
In addition, CSG discussed, 
voted 
on 
and 
passed 
three 
resolutions written by Rackham 
student Austin Glass to improve 
CSG’s administrative procedures 
and internal operations. Glass’ 
suggestions for change include 
electing candidates through a 
ranked choice runoff system, 
clarifying voting rights of the 
speaker and committee chairs 
and regulating when resolution 

authors may edit their resolutions, 
among several others. 
The Assembly also approved 
a resolution limiting the election 
complaint filing period to only 
before election results are released 
for all positions except the special 
prosecutor. According to Glass, 
the author of this resolution, the 
change would prevent complaints 
by those upset with the election 
results from undermining them.
During 
the 
announcements 
and matters arising portion of 
the meeting, Glass thanked the 
Assembly for their time and 
reaffirmed 
his 
dedication 
to 
improve CSG.
“I freely am willingly debted 
to everyone here for taking 
advantage of your time this 
evening,” Glass said. “I appreciate 
your valuable contributions and 
I also do not intend nor do I take 
for granted your support … I will 
continue to act responsibly and 
responsively with that authority, 
and we will continue to have these 
productive conversations.”

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