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An audience of 150 gathered 
Friday 
afternoon 
in 
the 
Annenberg Auditorium of the 
Ford School of Public Policy for 
a talk titled “Diplomacy in a New 
Transatlantic Era.” The event 
featured a conversation between 
former National Security Advisor 
Stephen Hadley; former Assistant 
Secretary of State for European 
and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried; 
and President and CEO of the U.S. 
Global Leadership Coalition Liz 
Schrayer.
The speakers examined key 
diplomatic challenges facing the 
United States and the crucial 
role international affairs has in 
fostering the well-being of citizens 
within its borders. 
The discussion was held in 
conjunction with the launch of 
the Weiser Diplomacy Center and 
the Ford School’s Conversations 
Across Difference Initiative, a 
series aimed at fostering fruitful 
conversation across the political 
divide. 
The 
event 
began 
with 
a 
reflection by University Regent 
Ron Weiser (R) on the significance 

of the opening of the Weiser 
Diplomacy center — specifically in 
the Midwest. 
“Diplomacy can help change 
directions, especially for countries 
that are going in the wrong 

direction — sometimes you can 
bring them back around,” Weiser 
said. “Most of the diplomatic 
institutions of higher learning are 
in the east coast and the west coast, 
and there wasn’t anything in the 

central part of the country … and I 
feel the central part of the country 
has a great deal of importance.” 

PUBLIC HEALTH
Former National Security Advisor 
 
discusses current era of diplomacy

Talk also hosts European and Eurasian Affairs rep, CEO of US Global Leadership Coalition

MADELINE MCLAUGHLIN
Daily Staff Reporter

The University of Michigan 
School 
of 
Information, 
in 
collaboration 
with 
the 
Problem 
Solving 
Initiative 
at the Law School and the 
College 
of 
Engineering’s 
Center 
for 
Socially 
Engaged Design, hosted a 
Multidisciplinary Design Jam 
Friday 
afternoon, 
inviting 
over 30 student participants 
to 
collaboratively 
envision 
new 
ideas 
for 
improving 
water safety in the Great 
Lakes. 
The students, mainly from 
the School of Information, 
were split into six teams 
and 
spent 
the 
afternoon 
brainstorming, 
refining 
and presenting their ideas. 

Design jam 
addresses 
Great Lakes 
water safety 

RESEARCH

Collaborative teams 
seek out novel solutions 

ALICE TRACEY 
Daily Staff Reporter

MICHAEL BAGAZINSKI/Daily
Stephen Hadley, former National Security Advisor, speaks about the necessity of diplomacy at the Diplomacy in a New 
Transatlantic Era discussion at Weill Hall Friday.

Parting words
Senior tight end Nick 
Eubanks opened up about 
how his mother’s passing 
impacted his upbringing.
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National 
Sanitation 
Foundation 
International 
commemorated 
its 
75th 
anniversary with a celebratory 
event 
at 
its 
international 
headquarters in Ann Arbor on 
Friday afternoon. 
Eighteen guests spoke at 
the celebration, including Sen. 
Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.; Rep. 
Debbie Dingell, D-Mich.; state 
Rep. Rebekah Warren, D-Ann 
Arbor; and state Sen. Jeff Irwin, 
D-Ann Arbor.
The University of Michigan 
School of Public Health founded 
NSF International in 1944 to 
standardize sanitation and food 
safety requirements. 

Lawmakers celebrate 
NSF’s anniversary

BARBARA COLLINS
Daily Staff Reporter

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Climate strike 
demonstrators 
appear in court
ahead of trial

Protesters charged with trespassing 
at Fleming called for pretrial hearing

Students, activists voice concerns 
during sit-in at Rep. Dingell’s office 

Sunrise Movement pushes Green New Deal, environmental actions 

LIAT WEINSTEIN
Daily Staff Reporter

ALEXIS RANKIN
Daily Staff Reporter

ALEXIS RANKIN/Daily
Leah Skylar, Chair of the Young Democrats of Michigan, speaks during the sit-in at Rep. Debbie Dingell’s Ypsilanti office as part of the Sunrise Movement’s action to demand 
Dingell support the Green New Deal in Ypsilanti Friday afternoon. 

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Six 
demonstrators 
who 
were 
charged 
with 
trespassing during a sit-in at 
the Fleming Administration 
Building following the March 
Climate 
Strike 
appeared 
in court for their pretrial 
hearing 
Friday 
morning. 
The hearing was meant to 
simplify the facts of the case 
and discuss the evidence 
presented before Oct. 10, 
when the official motion is 
scheduled to take place. 
According to Ann Arbor 
attorney 
Angie 
Martell, 
who 
is 
representing 
all 
demonstrators, two of those 
charged were out of state at 
the time of the hearing. 
On 
June 
17, 
six 
demonstrators 
appeared 
in court for the first time. 
They were arraigned and 
pleaded not guilty to the 
trespassing charges, which 
bear a maximum charge of a 
$250 fine with or without 30 
days in jail. During the June 
hearing, the demonstrators 
were released on a personal 
recognizance bond, meaning 
they did not have to pay bail. 
They were told they cannot 
enter the Fleming building; 
use alcohol, marijuana or 
other illegal drugs; or leave 

the state without permission 
of the court.
In light of the upcoming 
Jewish 
holidays, 
Circuit 
Court Judge Karen Quinlan 
Valvo, who presided over 
Friday’s 
hearing, 
lifted 
the ban on alcohol for the 
demonstrators who are over 
21. 
After the Climate Strike 
on March 15, during which 
an 
estimated 
2,500-3,000 
students, 
faculty 
and 
community members rallied 
on 
the 
Diag 
in 
protest 
against inaction relating to 
matters of climate change, 
demonstrators 
flooded 
University President Mark 
Schlissel’s 
office 
in 
the 
Fleming building for a seven-
and-a-half-hour sit-in. The 
demonstrators’ chief demand 
was a one-hour meeting with 
Schlissel and other members 
of 
the 
administration 
to 
discuss the University’s plan 
to achieve carbon neutrality. 
A group of demonstrators 
refused to leave until the 
University addressed their 
demands, 
leading 
to 
the 
arrests of 10 individuals on 
charges of trespassing — two 
of whom were minors. 

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Students and activists of the 
Sunrise Movement held a sit-in 
at the Ypsilanti office of U.S. 
Rep Debbie Dingell, D-Mich, 
where they shared stories, 
sang, chanted and expressed 
their 
concerns 
about 
the 
impact of climate change to 
her staffers present in the 
office, occupying the space 
past business hours.
Sunrise, 
a 
movement 
of 
predominantly young people 
whose goal is to stop climate 
change and create green jobs, 
has chapters across the nation 
and is a champion of the Green 
New Deal, introduced by Rep. 
Alexandria 
Ocasio-Cortez, 
D-N.Y. The Ann Arbor hub 
of Sunrise has been trying to 

convince Dingell to co-sponsor 
the Green New Deal since 
February, but has not yet been 
successful. 
LSA 
junior 
Preston 
VanAlstine, one of the Ann 
Arbor Hub coordinators, said 
Dingell has been opposed to 
the idea of co-sponsoring the 
bill, and Sunrise has responded 
accordingly. 
“She’s been really resistant, 
so we’ve been slowly escalating 
in terms of our actions over the 
past few months,” VanAlstine 
said. “This election season 
alone she’s taken over $10,000 
from DTE, which gets two-
thirds of its energy from coal. 
So we want her to stop taking 
money from them as well.”
The group of about 30 
protesters, 
which 
included 
University of Michigan and 

high 
school 
students 
and 
community 
members 
from 
across 
Washtenaw 
County, 
marched to her office holding 
signs 
saying 
“We 
Demand 
a Future” and “Green Jobs 
for All” where they filled up 
the lobby of the office while 
three of her staffers watched 
and listened to the different 
stories, demands, songs and 
chants. 
Many of those who spoke 
during the sit-in cited the 
economic 
benefits 
of 
the 
Green New Deal as something 
important to them, connecting 
it to their own experiences 
and 
how 
they 
have 
been 
impacted by climate change. 
LSA sophomore Arya Kale, an 
active member of the Sunrise 
Movement, spoke about his 
time volunteering in a soup 

kitchen where he met a young 
girl whose father had lost his 
job at General Motors Corp. 
Kale felt an instant connection 
because 
GM 
employed 
his 
father as well. 
“I don’t believe that people 
of Black or Brown communities 
should have to suffer without 
having a job,” Kale said. “I 
don’t believe that children 
should not know where their 
next meal is coming from 
because their parents don’t 
have work. And with the Green 
New Deal, with the federal job 
guarantee that’s written in it 
— Representative Dingell, have 
you read that part? — that’s 
important, that’s why we need 
a Green New Deal.”

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National 
Sanitation 
Foundation 
turns 75 

