Thursday night, about 100
Kessler
Scholars
gathered
to listen to Lt. Gov. Garlin
Gilchrist II in the Michigan
League
Ballroom
for
their
annual banquet. The banquet
serves as a final celebration
of the scholars’ hard work
throughout the year. In his
address, Gilchrist discussed his
path from engineer to politician
and the resilience he learned
along the way.
The
Kessler
Presidential
Scholarship
Program
was
created by Fred Wilpon and
Judy Kessler Wilpon in 2007
for first generation students.
Starting in 2017, the program
is undergoing an expansion,
which includes the addition of a
first-year seminar, professional
workshops and an enrichment
fund
to
provide
aid
with
tutoring or other minor costs.
LSA
freshman
Lance
Schwiderson said the program
eased his transition from high
school to college. Schwiderson
said he did not feel much
support from the University
of
Michigan
in
navigating
academics, and that he would
have been lost without the
program’s guidance.
“Sometimes I feel like the
University at large’s issue is
people tell you to do things, but
they don’t tell you how to do it,”
Schwiderson said. “In regards
to all first-generation students,
I don’t really feel a connection
to that community; I feel more
of a connection to the Kessler
community.”
LSA
sophomore
Kendra
Beaudoin
echoed
this
sentiment, noting that in the
wider University community
first-generation
students
are
scattered.
“I do a lot of work with first-
gens on campus and there’s a
huge disconnect between what
the University expects from
first-gen students and what
they think of it and then what
first-gen students actually feel,”
Beaudoin said. “I know plenty
of first-gen students that are on
campus and don’t know anybody
else but me that’s first-gen.”
During Gilchrist’s address, he
mentioned how a scholarship is
an investment for the future.
“Yes,
a
scholarship
is
a
check that somebody writes,”
Gilchrist said.
More than 80 students gathered
in Palmer Commons on Thursday
evening for the Michigan Refugee
Assistance
Program’s
third
annual capstone event, titled
“Record Keeping: The Power of
Stories in the Refugee Crisis.”
Consisting of a photo exhibit,
short film and panel, the event
aimed to showcase the stories
of refugees in the University
of Michigan community and
generate discussion about the
power of individual testimony in
the refugee crisis.
For the first portion of the
event, attendees were invited to
mingle over finger food and view
the photo exhibit, which featured
the headshots and narratives of
six University students and staff.
Each blurb had a quote from the
individual and information such
as their title, year, major, hobbies
and information about their
immigration process. Among the
individuals included was Knight
Wallace Fellow Emilio Gutiérrez
Soto, a Mexican journalist who
was denied asylum this February
after fleeing from Mexico in 2008
following death threats for his
reporting on corruption in the
Mexican military.
In an interview with The Daily,
LSA junior Said Al-Jazaeri, one
of the students in the exhibit,
explained he came to United
States
from
Syria
in
2013.
Al-Jazaeri
expressed
it
was
initially
difficult
assimilating
to a different culture and is still
difficult being away from his
family, who he hasn’t seen in six
years.
“This was a great experience
sharing my story for the first
time,”
Al-Jazaeri
said.
“It’s
important to share my story, as it
will help people in the future to
learn from my experience… about
what refugees and immigrants
face when they move to the United
States… It’s not always that we
want to leave our country, but we
are forced to leave sometimes.”
This past weekend, four students
from the University of Michigan
won second place at the University
of Chicago’s Midwest Trading
Competition. The students were
among 100 competitors across 40
teams selected from universities
across the country to participate.
Teams developed algorithms to
make automatic trading decisions
for three different trading cases.
The first case focused on uncovering
the relationship between prices of
assets; the second on making an
algorithm that is able to adjust to
various market conditions; and the
third on managing a portfolio in a
hypothetical stock market. Each
case was scored according to profits
and losses. The University’s team
placed second in the third case and
second overall in the competition as
runner-up to the University of Texas
at Austin. The team earned a total of
$5,000 in prize money.
The
event
also
provided
networking opportunities with a
number of corporate sponsors of
the competition. Four platinum
sponsors — Citadel, DRW, IMC and
Optiver — hosted unique receptions
to get to know competitors.
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Sophomores
in Business
discuss early
recruitment
Students secure summer 2020 internships
separate from school on accelerated track
Since the late months of 2017,
news
media
has
increasingly
published more information about
the detainment of ethnic minority
groups in China’s “re-education”
camps. These internment camps
have been in operation since 2014,
and the number and size of the
camps have increased dramatically
since 2017. Four speakers and a
moderator gathered on Thursday
evening at the Ford School of Public
Policy to participate in a panel
titled “The Human Rights Crisis in
Xinjiang,” with dozens of students
filling the audience of Annenberg
Auditorium.
The Weiser Diplomacy Center
hosted the single-night conference,
which
aimed
to
discuss
the
detainment of Uighur Muslims in
East Turkestan. Chinese authorities
recognize East Turkestan as the
Xinjiang
Uyghur
Autonomous
Region of China, or XUAR.
The detainment of Muslim ethnic
minorities in China primarily targets
Uighurs, a group that primarily
practices Islam and has experience
a long history of severe religious
and cultural suppression under the
Communist Party of China.
Panel talks
treatment
of Uighurs
in China
CAMPUS LIFE
Experts examine ongoing
issues of ethnic minority
internment, discrimination
MARIA SOBRINO
Daily Staff Reporter
Multimedia event highlights importance
of individual testimony in refugee crisis
Speakers aim to showcase stories of displaced persons within University community
‘U’ coding
team wins
second in
competion
RESEARCH
Group competes against
40 teams in Midwestern
collegiate tournament
ANGELINA LITTLE
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While
many
University
of
Michigan
students
are
scrambling
to
secure
an
internship
for
the
quickly
approaching
summer,
some
Business students have already
been recruited for the summer
of 2020. In an effort to land
prestigious internships at top
finance and banking firms,
many
Business
sophomores
have undergone an accelerated
recruiting process for positions,
which started winter semester.
Official
recruitment,
consisting of interviews for
jobs at banking and finance
firms and facilitated by the
Business
School’s
Career
Development Office, typically
takes place in the fall of junior
year. However, many banks
have taken the initiative to
start recruiting in the winter
of students’ sophomore year.
And companies have moved
formal recruitment interviews
off
campus,
bypassing
the
Business career center, in order
to expedite their recruitment
process.
Maria
Hayes,
industry
manager
and
associate
director
in
the
Business
Career
Development
Office,
said the Business School does
not permit banks to hold
on-campus
interviews
with
sophomores.
“(Accelerated
recruitment)
is against our guidelines and
our timing,” Hayes said. “Banks
come to us and ask if they can
host interviews during that
time and we tell them no. My
guess is that student worked
directly with that company
to coordinate that interview
— they didn’t coordinate it
through our office … There are
interviews taking place outside
of Ross for these students, but
that’s something we wouldn’t
encourage and we wouldn’t
host here.”
The
Daily
reached
out
to
multiple
banks
and
firms for comment on why
they
participate
in
early
recruitment, but did not receive
any responses in time for
publication.
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MADELINE MCLAUGHLIN
Daily Staff Reporters
CLAIRE HAO
Daily Staff Reporter
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LSA sophomore Aumaya Tabbah speaks at the Michigan Refugee Assistance Program’s capstone project “The Power of Stories in the Refugee Crisis” in Palmer
Commons Thursday evening.
Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist
addresses Kessler Scholar winners
Elected official shares insight to first-generation award recipients at ceremony
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Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II speaks on his own education at the Kessler Scholars Banquet in the Michigan League Thursday evening.
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