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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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 
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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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