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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