For many students affiliated
with Fraternity and Sorority
Life across the U.S, a defining
part of their experience is living
in their chapter’s house. Many
sororities even require members
to live in their house for one year.
However, with the University
of
Michigan’s
decision
to
transition to winter recruitment
this school year, many freshmen
intending to join — and current
members with obligations to fill
their chapter’s house each year
— are facing uncertainties about
their housing situation for next
year.
Starting fall 2019, students
must have completed at least
12 credits at the University
and
be
in
good
academic
and
behavioral
standing
to
participate
in
fraternity
or
sorority recruitment, meaning
incoming freshmen are unable
to join the organizations during
their first semester on campus.
The
University
made
the
decision
to
transition
recruitment
to
the
winter
last March as part of the
University’s Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion plan for first-year
students.
following
previous
Interfraternity
Council
suspension of all social activities
for
two
months
following
several cases of alcohol abuse,
as well as multiple hazing and
sexual assault allegations.
Only
freshmen
are
guaranteed on-campus housing
by the University, leaving the
majority of upperclassmen to
live off-campus. The increasing
number of students struggling
to find affordable housing close
to campus has made the housing
search more competitive, often
pushing students to sign leases
by October or November for the
following year.
Imam
Omar
Suleiman,
a
Muslim activist and adjunct
professor of Islamic Studies at
Southern Methodist University,
spoke to a crowded Rackham
Auditorium Tuesday evening
in a talk entitled “Malcolm &
Martin: Intersecting Visions of
Justice.” His lecture touched on
the challenging legacies of the
two Civil Rights Movement’s
leaders and the ways in which
their histories are sometimes
distorted to fit a common
narrative.
The talk was hosted by
the University of Michigan’s
Muslim Students’ Association
and included a post-lecture
panel
featuring
associate
professor
of
American
Culture Su’ad Abdul Khabeer,
and
associate
professor
of
Afroamerican
and
African
Studies Stephen Ward.
While
Suleiman’s
lecture
remained rooted in the history
of the civil rights movement
and the dueling philosophies
of Malcolm X’s, as well as
Martin Luther King Jr.’s, he
also discussed topics such as
imperialism, the importance
of religion and the demands of
modern-day activism.
Suleiman urged the audience
to
challenge
themselves
by
not seeing the men’s legacies
simply through the rigid lens of
“violence” and “nonviolence,”
but
instead
as
complex
ideologies that are still being
interpreted and studied. He
said a photo from Martin Luther
King Jr.’s and Malcolm X’s first
and only meeting on Capitol Hill
in 1964 still “haunts” Americans
because it represents a futile
hope that compromise between
these two leaders would one day
prevail, though it never did.
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At
Ann
Arbor
Friends
Meeting, Ann Arbor residents
gathered to hear a presentation
on
business
corporations’
influence on democracy. The
even was titled “We the People
vs. Corporate Rule: It’s Up
to Us” and was hosted by the
Ann Arbor Friends Peace and
Social Concerns Committee,
Move to Amend and the
Huron
Valley
Democratic
Socialists of America. The
venue
featured
Move
to
Amend’s Outreach Director
Greg Coleridge, as well as
three community activists.
Move to Amend is an
organization
committed
to
building a movement that
will lead to the passing of
their 28th Amendment. The
organization’s
proposed
bill
would
end
corporate
constitutional
rights
and
make clear that money is not
speech.
Coleridge started his talk
with the idea that, though it
may seem corporations are
the only influence on the U.S.
democracy, it does not always
have to be this way. He used
a quotation from meditation
teacher
and
author
Sally
Kempton,
when
speaking
about how much of the battle
is in peoples’ minds.
“It’s hard to fight an enemy
who has outposts in your
head,” Coleridge said. “What
Kempton was trying to get at
is the dominant culture that
defines today in our society
… has so conditioned us into
thinking that, when it comes
to bringing about change,
that’s sort of the arena that we
can operate within.”
Coleridge
went
through
the
extensive
history
of
democracy
in
the
U.S.,
highlighting
the
fact
the
country was originally meant
to benefit white, male property
owners. According to him,
corporations
have
earned
more rights than people as the
country has progressed.
People
for
the
Ethical
Treatment of Animals issued
a press release last week
naming the University of
Michigan as one of the “worst”
universities
for
animal
testing. PETA’s “Failed Tests:
Campus
Cruelty
Report”
investigated
hundreds
of
universities
across
the
country and ranked them as
“bad,” “worse” and “worst.”
PETA ranked U-M as one of
the 93 schools categorized as
“worst,” a distinction given
to only about 14 percent of
the 657 collges investigated.
The
scores
were
determined by a point system
from
three
categories,
which included the number
of animals from regulated
species held in a school’s labs
and the level of funding from
the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), as well as the
number and severity of USDA
violations.
Under the federal Animal
Welfare Act, only specific
animals are required to be
inventoried,
while
others,
such as mice, rats and other
small animals, are not.
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and healthcare, looking to doctors
for advice on insurance policies
when they deal with a completely
different subject matter.
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the
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confusing combination of your
relationship with your doctor
and hospital, your employer,
insurance companies, politics,”
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contract addressing cost, Oh said.
He likened health insurance to a
long-term investment, much like
stocks and bonds.
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Greg Coleridge, outreach director of Move to Amend, speaks about the national movement to pass a 28th amendment concerning the involvement of corporations in
American government at the Ann Arbor Friends Meeting House Tuesday evening.
Scholar of Islam examines struggles
of Malcolm X , Martin Luther King
Lecture by Omar Suleiman details fight for justice during Civil Rights era
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ranks school among
‘worst’ institutions
for its animal testing
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Iman Omar Suleiman, a Muslim activist and professor of Islamic Studies at Southern Methodist University, speaks at the Muslim Students’ Association’s lecture, “Malcolm &
Martin: Intersecting Visions of Justice,” at Rackham auditorium Tuesday evening.
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