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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