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NEWS

‘U’ hosts STEM 
diversity plenary

SEISMIC 
conference holds 
first annual summer 
meeting

SEISMIC, 
a 
coalition 
of 
American research institutions 
striving 
to 
create 
more 
accessible STEM curriculum to 
underrepresented minorities, held 
its first annual summer meeting 
this week on the University of 
Michigan campus. Funded by a 
grant from the Alfred P. Sloan 
foundation in November, the 
project’s emergence culminated 
this week in a conference, uniting 
all participants for the first time.
Over four days, nearly 40 
representatives 
from 
the 
10 
participating universities, which 
collectively enroll about 350,000 
students, gathered to discuss 
how to foster a mindset in which 
STEM is a viable course of study 

for anyone who wishes to pursue 
it.
SEISMIC 
director 
Tim 
McKay, University professor of 
physics and associate chair for 
the 
undergraduate 
program, 
welcomed the group Tuesday 
evening at the Michigan League. 
McKay explained he and others 
had been traveling since February 
to nine of the 10 participating 
schools, 
meeting 
with 
representatives and introducing 
the project to administrators and 
students.
“The most important goal of 
this … in-person meeting, is to 
make this collaboration real,” 
McKay said. “To form the kinds 
of 
personal 
connections 
and 
commitments to one another 
which will let us accomplish some 
of our most ambitious dreams.”
McKay said he realized over the 
course of his travels how difficult 
STEM 
diversity 
improvement 
would be to achieve. 

Community 
members congregate 
on Diag Saturday 
afternoon 

On 
Saturday 
afternoon, 
about 50 people gathered in 
front of the Federal Building 
in Ann Arbor for the Rally to 
Impeach 
Trump. 
The 
event 
was part of a nationwide day, 
titled #ImpeachTrump: Act to 
Defend 
Democracy, 
planned 
by Move On, By the People and 
other organizations including 
Women’s March.
P. Deisha Myles, community 
activist 
and 
anti-fracking 
advocate, acted as lead organizer 
of the rally.
“I’m hoping that we can 
persuade 
Debbie 
Dingell 
to 
support 
the 
impeachment 
inquiry begun by Rashida Tlaib,” 
Myles told the Daily. “The longer 
(Donald Trump is) in office, the 
more people are being genuinely 
hurt.”
Before the event, attendees 
gathered 
to 
make 
signs. 
Afterwards, they stood by the 
street holding up their signs. 
Attendees took turns using a 
megaphone to lead chants, such 
as “Call Pelosi, impeach Trump,” 
and “Trump is not above the 
law.”
The 
event 
then 
officially 
began 
with 
a 
speech 
from 

Eli Savit, a professor at the 
University of Michigan Law 
School and a 2020 Washtenaw 
Prosecutor 
candidate. 
He 
discussed Trump’s past actions 
and controversies, like “Trump 
University,” before calling for 
Trump’s impeachment.
“It is crucial for the rule of law 
that we do this,” Savit said. “If we 
do not impeach Donald Trump, 
we are sending the message not 
just today, but for generations 
that if you are rich, and if you are 
powerful ... then you are above 
the law. That you won’t be held 
to account. And not only that — 
that nobody will even try.”
He 
concluded 
by 
urging 
Congress to take action.
“Donald Trump took an oath 
to faithfully execute the laws of 
the United States. So did every 
member of Congress,” Savit said. 
“Donald Trump has failed that 
oath. Congress needs to abide it.”
Myles 
spoke 
about 
her 
advocacy work for immigration 
and indigenous rights before 
reading from a speech she had 
previously presented to State 
Rep. Laurie Pohutsky, D-Livonia.
“I’m the granddaughter of a 
survivor of an Indian boarding 
school 
and 
I 
see 
alarming 
parallels to that time and today 
… Going after the children to 
break the spirits of the adults 
forced them to comply to a U.S. 
nationalistic 
agenda,” 
Myles 
said. 
“It’s 
history 
repeating 
itself.”

Activists rally to 
#ImpeachTrump

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