More than 300 students,
faculty,
and
community
members
attended
a
lecture
by
former
U.S.
Ambassador to the United
Nations, Samantha Power
at the Ford School of Public
Policy this Wednesday. As a
distinguished guest of the
Public Policy School’s third
annual Vandenberg Lecture,
Power discussed her career
in
diplomacy
and
began
her talk with a reflection
on her intentions behind
writing
her
most
recent
memoir, “The Education of
an Idealist”.
“I have written a book
in a very personal way,”
Power
said,
“appealing
to young people, and the
young at heart – those who
are feeling, right now, more
of a pull to try to make a
difference than they have
ever felt in their lives.”
Power served as the 28th
U.S. representative to the
United Nations from 2013 to
2017, and was a member of
President Barack Obama’s
cabinet. Some of her most
notable
work
included
imposing sanctions on North
Korea,
opposing
Russian
aggression in Ukraine and
Syria,
and
lobbying
the
release of political prisoners.
President
Obama
praised
her as one of the “foremost
thinkers in public policy.”
Powers immigrated from
Ireland with her mother
as a child. She specifically
discussed
how
her
background informed her
worldview from a young age
and impacted her career in
public service later in life.
“Having come to America
as an immigrant back in
the day... I really felt like
going into government was
something
similar,”
she
said. “You had to suspend
certain parts of who you
were, or at least leave them
at the door when you went
in in the morning, and then
master this new way of being
and doing in order to be
effective.”
Public
Policy
junior
Bennett Neuhoff attended
both this discussion and the
talk with Stephen Biegun,
U.S. Representative to North
Korea, earlier this month.
After the event, he discussed
in an interview with The
Daily
how
both
events
left
him
hopeful
about
the outlook of America’s
influence abroad.
“There is a very big sector
of the United States that
is not ready to necessarily
surrender the United States’
influence
abroad
despite
what some of the actions of
the current administration
have been,” Neuhoff said.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Thursday, September 26, 2019
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM
Ann
Arbor
rent
has
skyrocketed in the last
year, according to recent
reports. And while the
cost of living in the city
continues to rise, local
businesses
are
having
trouble filling positions
and keeping employees, as
some residents feel unable
to keep up with the rapidly
increasing rent rate.
Since the demand for
housing continues to be
a concern in Ann Arbor,
property
management
owners have built more
housing structures, most
of which are luxury high-
rise
apartments
with
expensive rent rates — the
newly built Vic Village, for
example, has an average
rent of $1300 per person
per month for a 4 bedroom,
4 bathroom unit.
But
as
demand
rises
higher than supply, access
to affordable housing has
become
less
available.
To navigate this issue,
many people working in
the city resort to living
in areas outside of Ann
Arbor, such as Ypsilanti.
This poses another barrier
to employment, as some
residents
may
not
be
able to afford the added
costs of a commute or
have no reliable means
of transportation of their
own.
There are many factors
an Ann Arbor employee
must
consider
when
looking for jobs, including
the ease of their commute
and
certain
employee
benefits
to
determine
if working in such an
expensive city is worth
it,
said
Jennifer
Hall,
executive
director
of
the Ann Arbor Housing
Commission.
“People
are
finding
housing and then looking
for jobs based on the
distance,
commute
and
ease of getting to work
… and if they do not offer
benefits like health care
and paid sick time,” Hall
said. “When workers are
transient, it is harder to
attract or keep them if they
have a hard time getting to
and from work.”
Phillis Engelbert, owner
of local restaurants The
Lunch
Room
on
Fifth
Avenue
and
Detroit
Street Filling Station in
Kerrytown,
said
many
of her employees cannot
afford to live in central
Ann Arbor due to high rent
prices.
Each month, The Michigan
Daily’s Administration Beat
sits down with University
President Mark Schlissel to
discuss important questions
about
University
policy,
commitments and challenges.
Topics
discussed
at
the
interview included the search
for a new Vice President of
Student Life, the President’s
Commission
on
Carbon
Neutrality, Title IX policy
and more. This transcript
has been abbreviated and
reordered for reader clarity.
Search for new VP of
Student Life
The Michigan Daily: Given
the
recent
announcement
that Vice President E. Royster
Harper will be retiring, what
will the process to select a
new VP of student life look
like?
President Mark Schlissel:
In the next week, we’ll have
an announcement, but we’re
putting together a search
committee that will have on
the committee faculty, staff
and several students — not
just one student.
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Federal Court
vacates past
ruling on Bias
Response Team
Judge decides group infringes on First
Amendment rights of free speech
Of the University of Michigan’s
over 30,000 undergrad students,
about 230 students are from the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The
University’s new U.P. Scholars
Program aims to increase this
number by building a community for
some of these students that provides
them with transitional support.
The first cohort in fall 2020 will
consist of seven to 10 students from
the U.P., according to Cheyenne
Marlin, U.P. Scholars Program
assistant director. Each student will
be given financial assistance of up to
$15,000 each year for four years.
In addition to financial support,
Marlin said the program will
offer students in the program any
academic, social and professional
assistance they may need during
their time at the University.
“We know that the numbers for
students from the Upper Peninsula
are lower, and so we’re striving to
support students from every corner
of Michigan,” Marlin said. “With
the distance being a huge barrier
for students coming from the U.P.,
we think that something like this
could really help students be
successful here at Michigan.”
Program
to assist
students
from U.P.
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retention as housing costs rise
Ann Arbor employees find new jobs or commute due to high rent prices
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important’
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A federal appeals court
voided a ruling in favor of the
University of Michigan’s Bias
Response Team on Monday,
arguing the group infringes
upon First Amendment rights
and suppresses freedom of
speech across campus. The
decision sent the case back to
the U.S. District Court and
reversed the August 2018
ruling by district court Judge
Linda V. Parker, who ruled in
favor of the University and the
BRT.
The role of the University’s
BRT is to investigate claims
of racism, sexism and other
forms
of
discrimination
put forth by those at the
University.
The
lawsuit
alleges the BRT, which allows
students, faculty and others
at the University to report
incidents of bias, violates the
First Amendment because
the claims quell freedom
of speech and may not be
completely legitimate.
In May 2018, the University
became the first university
in the country to receive a
federal lawsuit related to
freedom of speech when
Speech First, an organization
dedicated to promoting and
upholding free speech on
American college campuses,
filed
a
lawsuit
alleging
the BRT violates the First
Amendment. A month later,
on June 11, the Department of
Justice submitted a statement
of interest in support of
Speech First and the lawsuit.
When contacted by The
Daily, Speech First president
Nicole
Neily
declined
to
comment
specifically
on
the federal appeals court’s
decision to vacate the U.S.
district
court’s
ruling.
Instead, Neily referred to a
statement put out by Speech
First in response to Monday’s
decision.
“We are gratified that the
court of appeals restored our
case against the University
of Michigan and ordered
it to proceed in the district
court,” the statement reads.
“We continue to believe that
the
University’s
policies,
including the ones it tried
to abandon after we filed
suit, are blatant violations of
the First Amendment. We
look forward to vindicating
our members’ rights as this
litigation progresses.”
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Samantha Power presents new
memoir on her journey to diplomacy
Former UN ambassador combines personal story & policy analysis in book
See SCHLISSEL, Page 3
LIAT WEINSTEIN
Daily Staff Reporter
University President
talks carbon & Title
IX policy in interview
MADELINE MCLAUGHLIN
Daily Staff Reporter
ANGELINA BREDE
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Samantha Power, former United States Ambassador to the United States, discusses her role in shaping foreign policy in the Obama Administration as well as her new book,
“The Education of an Idealist,” at Weill Hall Wednesday afternoon.
See FREE SPEECH, Page 3
New scholarship hopes
to increase population
from the peninsula
See RETENTION, Page 3
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