Thursday, June 27, 2019

INDEX

Vol. CXXVIII, No. 115
 © 2019 The Michigan Daily 

NEWS ....................................
OPINION ............................... 
ARTS......................................
MiC.........................................
SPORTS................................

MICHIGAN IN COLOR
Guava Island

Devak Nanua writes about 

the significance of the Donald 

Glover’s Film, writes to his 

brother

 
 >> SEE PAGE 9

NEWS
Katie Bouman

The ‘U’ alum talks her time 

on campus, capturing 

picture of black hole

>> SEE PAGE 8

OPINION
From the Daily

The Michigan Daily 

Editorial board addresses 

‘U’ proceedings in Doe v. 

University of Michigan

 
 >> SEE PAGE 4

ARTS
Childish Gambino 

Tracking the trajectory and 

musical evolution of the 

Bonnaroo headliner

 >> SEE PAGE 6 

SPORTS
Baseball

Michigan loses game 

three of College World 

Series final, 8-2 

 
 >> SEE PAGE 12

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Community 
shows support for 
Sudanese people 
Sunday afternoon

In the wake of a violent 
attack in Sudan leading to at 
least 30 deaths, students and 
activists packed the Diag on 
Sunday to demand action and to 
show support for the Sudanese 
people. The rally consisted of a 
recapitulation of the events, a 
prayer and an open discussion 
which followed shortly after in 
North Quad Residence Hall.
The 
humanitarian 
crisis 
in 
Sudan 
first 
began 
when 
protesters 
demanded 
long-
time president of Sudan, Omar 
al-Bashir, be removed from office 
after remaining in power for 
more than 30 years. Protests were 
first provoked when President 
Bashir’s 
government 
imposed 
emergency austerity measures in 
an attempt to save the Country’s 
failing economy in December 
2018. Protesters succeeded in 
forcing Bashir out of the office, 
and a seven-member Transitional 
Military Council replaced him. 

Despite the removal of the 
president, the TMC struggled 
to appease the tension in Sudan. 
Protesters continued to demand 
a civilian-led government, in 
response, the TMC launched a 
violent attack on protesters on 
June 3, resulting in at least 30 
deaths. 
Khadega Mohammed, Wayne 
State University junior and one of 
the organizers of the event, said 
her goal is to help the community 
become aware of the current 
situation in the country and the 
severity of the crisis.
“I 
think 
it 
is 
especially 
important 
that 
we 
organize 
something 
like 
this 
because 
what is happening in Sudan 
is not just a Sudanese cause, 
it is a humanitarian cause,” 
Mohammed said. “I’ve noticed 
that a lot of people are silent 
about this, there is nothing 
happening in Michigan, there is 
no awareness event for it.”
Because 
of 
her 
Sudanese 
heritage, 
the 
situation 
was 
personal for Mohammed. With 
this connection, she felt the 
obligation to spread awareness. 
“If nobody is going to do it, 
then I’m going to have to do it,” 
Mohammed said. “This is my 
people, this is my country that 
I care about. So I’m going to do 
an event to raise awareness and 
to echo the scream of Sudanese 

people.” 
During the rally, Mohammed 
led the chanting of phrases such 
as “Who are we? Sudanese. What 
do we want? Justice. When do 
we want it? Right now” and “No 
justice, no peace” to voice the 
struggle for justice in Sudan.
Zaynab Elkolaly, an incoming 
freshman to the University, said 
she believes regardless of race 
and ethnicity, everyone should 
feel obligated to show their 
support for those affected. 
“You don’t have to be Sudanese 
to care about a humanitarian 
crisis,” Elkolaly said. “People are 
too motivated by the fact that it 
would be their family or someone 
they care personally involved, 
but I don’t think that should be 
a factor, it should be the people 
who need help, and we need to 
respond to that.”
Elkolaly also criticized what 
she believes to be the ignorance 
and stereotypical assumptions 
Americans tend to have when it 
comes to crisis in underdeveloped 
nations. 
“In this region of the world, 
Middle East and Africa, there 
is this tendency for people to 
believe that, ‘Oh, it’s a third world 
developing country, there is going 
to be violence,’” Elkolaly said. 

Faculty assist 
in victorious 
project design

Three professors, ‘U’ 
alum win competiton 
with proposal 
‘Detroit Square’

Over the past two years, the DIA 
Plaza/Midtown Cultural Connections 
international 
design 
competition 
accepted project proposals that could 
transform the Midtown district of 
Detroit. The goal of the competition 
is to unite 12 cultural institutions, 
including the Charles H. Wright 
Museum of African American History, 
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Public 
Library and University of Michigan. 
More than forty project submissions 
were narrowed down to three finalists 
and a winner titled “Detroit Square.” 
The project has a core team of Olivier 
Phillippe from Agence Ter (based in 
Paris, France); Anya Sirota and Jean 
Louis Farges from Akoaki (Detroit); 
Cezanne Charles and John Marshall 
from rootoftwo (Detroit); and Harley 
Etienne, an assistant professor of 
urban and regional planning at the 
University 
Taubman 
College 
of 
Architecture and Urban Planning. 
In addition to Etienne, three other 
of these team members have ties to 
the University. Sirota is an associate 
professor 
of 
architecture 
at 
the 
Taubman College, Marshall is an 
associate professor at the School of 
Art & Design and Taubman College 
and Charles is an alum of the School of 
Public Policy. 
Sirota said she believes her team’s 
key to success was their plan being 
more fluid and adaptable instead of 
concrete and decisive. 
“It is not a finished plan; it is not 
a masterplan in and of itself,” Sirota 
said. “It is a framework to engage the 
12 institutions. It proceeds with a very 
clear, strong diagram of its shared 
parts, but then assumes they will 
need to be adjusted to conform to the 
material reality of the institutions’ 
needs.”

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Students and activists gather on 
Diag, demand peace for Sudan

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Community members raise awareness for the victims of the attack in Sudan on the Diag Sunday.

