About 50 people gathered
Friday night in the Forum
Hall of Palmer Commons
for the 2019 Mental Health
Monologues,
sponsored
by
the
University
of
Michigan’s
chapter
of
Active Minds. This is the
fourth year Active Minds,
an
organization
dedicated
to raising awareness about
mental health among college
students, has put on the
show. Students and alumni
prepared monologues about
their personal struggles with
mental health.
Nursing
junior
Laura
Halprin was an organizer
of the event. She said the
purpose of the event was to
humanize to the broad issue
of mental health by allowing
people to share their stories.
“It’s supposed to put real
faces behind real stories,”
Halprin said. “As students I
think it’s really empowering
to put faces to what we maybe
just hear in the media.”
Halprin hoped the event
would
educate
people
on
what mental health looks like
and help get rid of the stigma
often associated with it.
“It
makes
things
more
personalized and normalized
for
the
experiences
that
many people have,” Halprin
said. “For people who don’t
necessarily identify as having
a mental illness, it really
helps open their eyes to what
others around them may be
experiencing and how they
could potentially play a role
in helping that.”
LSA junior Jessica Kolbe
also organized the event,
and was one of the speakers.
She wrote an eight-minute
monologue and performed
it for the audience, and said
she wanted her story to help
normalize her illness.
“I’m just hoping to educate
people,
because
with
my
disorder,
I
have
bipolar
disorder, it’s very stigmatized
and people fear it a lot,” Kolbe
said. “So if I can like help
normalize it, it would just be
really great. And it’s also just
empowering to like be there,
standing in front of other
people and be like, ‘Yeah, I do
have this, and I’m a perfectly
functioning human being.’”
In her monologue, Kolbe
recounted the details of her
journey with mental illness
that led her to where she is
today. She reflected on how
far she has come.
“There are no cures for my
struggles so I will have to
fight my disorders for the rest
of my life,” Kolbe said. “But I
know I will be okay. Life gets
worse, but it also gets better.
I have the tools to persevere
and I will use them.”
Kolbe
finished
her
monologue by discussing her
hope for the future.
“Although
there
is
no
happily ever after in this
story, there are happy times
in store for me, and I will
continue to live so I can
experience them,” Kolbe said.
Engineering freshman Ben
Firstenberg
attended
the
event to support his friend,
LSA freshman Jordy Garcia,
who was one of the speakers.
Firstenberg hopes the event
will showcase the seriousness
of mental illness, as well as
how it can affect a person’s
overall health.
“I also think it’s important
because
mental
health
is
an important issue today,”
Firstenberg said. “And I think
a lot of people should be aware
of how their mental health
can
affect
their
physical
health and their overall well-
being.”
Democratic
lawmakers
in
both chambers of the Michigan
Legislature proposed a series of
bills Wednesday that would enact
protections for LGBT couples when
adopting children.
The lawmakers behind House
Bills 4469-4472 and Senate Bills
272-275 hope to allow same-sex
parents to adopt their partner’s
biological or adoptive child, further
protect same-sex couples from
discrimination when adopting and
hold adoption agencies accountable
for discrimination.
State Sen. Jeff Irwin, D-Ann
Arbor, told The Daily he and his
colleagues proposed the package
of bills because former Gov. Rick
Snyder
signed
bills
allowing
faith-based
adoption
agencies
to
discriminate
against
LGBT
individuals.
“In
some
cases,
(adoption
agencies) were using their religious
beliefs as a rationale to deny adoption
to certain parents, particularly
LGBT parents … and parents who
may be out of the mainstream in any
number of other ways,” Irwin said.
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Members of the Washtenaw
Area
Coffee
Workers
Association are finalizing an
agreement with the owners of
Mighty Good Coffee as the local
chain prepares to shutter its
retail operations by the end of
the summer.
Workers
celebrated
the
forthcoming agreement at a
meeting with customers and
supporters at The Grotto in
downtown
Ann
Arbor
on
Friday. Alec Hershman worked
as a barista at Mighty Good’s
Main Street store, which closed
Friday. He clarified that the
agreement between the two
parties is still in the works.
“Currently we’re negotiating
for a cessation contract, so that’s
still in process and we hope
that we’re coming close to an
agreement,”
Hershman
said.
“The employer and our union
are negotiating in good faith
to try and find a reasonable
solution for the workers that
have been laid off.”
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When Taubman junior Juan
Muñoz graduated high school
in 2013, he was unsure how
to navigate higher education
financially. Although he resides
in Michigan, his status as an
undocumented individual has
made — and continues to make
— his ascent into public higher
education rocky.
The University of Michigan
has a route for students who
do not meet the traditional
residency guidelines to receive
in-state tuition, according to
University
spokesperson
Kim
Broekhuizen. In an email to The
Daily, she wrote that the policy,
which is called the Attendance
and Veterans pathways, was
added in 2014. It allows students
who
attend
middle
school
in Michigan for two years, a
Michigan accredited high school
for three years and enroll in the
University within 28 months of
high school graduation to receive
in-state tuition.
This pathway was the result
of advocacy by the Coalition
for
Tuition
Equality,
which
fought for the right of resident
undocumented
students
to
receive in-state tuition since
October 2011. The Board of
Regents
approved
the
new
guidelines in July 2013, and they
were put into place in 2014.
Broekhuizen wrote the 28
month transition time may have
been the standard amount of time
students waited to apply to the
University in 2014.
SCOPE looks
at ‘U’ tuition
appeals steps,
policy impact
Students, faculty discuss nature of
imposter syndrome at the University
Undocumented students reveal issues with
paths for meeting in-state residency
ALEX HARRING
Daily Staff Reporter
Daily surveys 400 undergrads, finds most compare their academic ability to peers
This past semester, The Mich-
igan Daily conducted a survey
which received close to 400
responses about the nature of
imposter syndrome at the Uni-
versity of Michigan. Imposter
syndrome refers to a psychologi-
cal pattern in which an individual
dismisses their accomplishments
and fears being exposed as lack-
ing or just simply a “fraud.” The
survey included questions that
asked students to self-report
their demographics. Demo-
graphics questions that had the
most significant results included
income and gender, while oth-
ers such as race did not provide
conclusive data. The survey was
intended to gauge how students
perceived themselves in relation
to the rest of their peers at the
University in their respective
fields of study.
Originally, LSA senior Ciara
Hancock wanted to attend Alma
College to train as a cheerlead-
er. In her rural, predominantly
white, hometown of Charlotte,
Michigan, Hancock outlined
two distinct post-high school
paths: either belonging to the
top 10 percent that transition
to college, or falling within the
other 90 percent that attend a
trade school.
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