Hillary
Clinton,
former
U.S. Secretary of State and
2016 Democratic presidential
nominee, spoke at Rackham
Auditorium
Thursday
afternoon to an audience of
more than 1,000 students and
community members, including
U.S.
Rep.
Debbie
Dingell,
D-Mich., and Michigan state
Rep. Rebekah Warren, D-Ann
Arbor.
Clinton has spent decades
in public service, serving as
first lady from 1993 to 2001,
U.S. senator from 2001 to
2009 and secretary of state
from 2009 to 2013 under the
Obama administration. After a
presidential campaign loss in
2016, Clinton still has a large
political influence.
Michael S. Barr, dean of the
Ford School of Public Policy,
moderated the talk, and the
subsequent
student
Q&A
session was the inaugural event
of the University of Michigan’s
Weiser
Diplomacy
Center’s
lecture series on diplomacy and
foreign affairs. During the talk,
Clinton
answered
questions
about global affairs, her career
experience and her opinions on
contemporary foreign policy
issues.
Clinton began by discussing
the
changing
role
of
multinational institutions in
shaping international affairs,
emphasizing
the
need
to
work with allies and rely on
institutions such as the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
In evaluating when to use
different modes of diplomacy,
she referenced the example of
President
Donald
Trump’s
recent withdrawal of troops
from northern Syria, clearing
the way for a Turkish military
operation against U.S.-allied
Kurdish forces. According to
Clinton, Turkey’s membership
in
NATO
could
help
ease
diplomatic negotiations.
“There are ways of working
on really thorny — what are
called wicked — problems,”
Clinton said. “But they take
thought
and
deliberation
and diplomacy. Yes, we have
the common bond of NATO
membership, we could have
used that, and now we have
a situation with all kinds of
consequences, both predictable
and unintended.”
Referring
specifically
to
NATO, Clinton acknowledged
the
existence
of
problems
within
international
and
domestic
institutions,
but
emphasized the importance of
maintaining and using them for
the public good. Clinton noted
the work of various leaders
during a post-World War II
period of international order;
leaders who upheld standards
of peace and democracy. In
the
face
of
interests
that
want to disrupt faith in these
institutions, she emphasized
standing by this institutions
while trying to reform them.
“There is also a concerted
effort to undermine our faith in
these international institutions.
There is a real effort by some
to try to create dislocation and
disruption,” Clinton said. “We
should be standing up for the
success of the last 75 years, not
throwing it on the trash heap of
history. We need to engage now
in a new process of trying to
restore and renew and, where
necessary, reform and replace
institutions that are not serving
us well.”
Public Policy junior Nick
Silk was one of a select group
of students who attended a
talk with Clinton before the
main
event,
during
which
students were able to ask
questions
of
Clinton
about
developing leadership skills for
careers in public policy. Silk
was impressed by Clinton’s
personal experience working in
diplomacy.
Silk said Clinton’s advice
and remarks to public policy
students fit in with the Public
Policy
School’s
mission
of
developing leaders who make a
positive difference in the world.
“The
school’s
theme
of
leadership is making a positive
impact upon others,” Silk said.
“So she really honed in on that
aspect of using empathy to
build relationships with other
people, and also building trust
with other people, relying on
others and, at the same time,
kind of cultivating this culture
that’s
responsive
to
other
people, and building teams
rather than being divisive.”
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Friday, October 11, 2019
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Japanese
artist
Mari
Katayama
came
to
the
Michigan Theater Thursday
evening as part of the Penny
Stamps Speaker Series to
discuss
living
with
her
disabilities
and
the
art
they have inspired. This
event was one of the many
scheduled
for
Disability
Community Month at the
University
of
Michigan.
About 500 students and Ann
Arbor residents attended to
listen to Katayama open up
about the thought process
behind her most provocative
pieces.
Before
the
discussion,
Natsu Oyobe, the curator
of Katayama’s exhibit at
the
UMMA,
introduced
Katayama
and
gave
a
background of her work.
Katayama was born with a
developmental condition and
had both her legs amputated
at nine years old. She has
had a long artistic career
in multimedia that started
when she was a teenager.
Her first solo exhibition in
the United States is coming
to UMMA later this month.
“Mari started making art
to fill the deep gap between
her own understanding of
self and society,” Oyobe said.
“She explores her identity
by objectifying her body
through art.”
Katayama
explored
these ideas further during
her
talk
by
giving
her
own
perspective
through
translator Megumi Segawa.
The
final
pretrial
for
a
lawsuit
against
eight
climate
demonstrators
charged
with
trespassing
on
University
of
Michigan
property took place Thursday
morning in the Washtenaw
County
Courthouse.
The
demonstrators were arrested in
March after a climate-focused
sit-in at University President
Mark Schlissel’s office, which
followed
the
Washtenaw
County Climate Strike on the
same day.
The
demonstrators’
chief
demand at the sit-in 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, which resulted
in the arrests of 10 individuals
on charges of trespassing — two
of whom were minors, though
the prosecutor’s office is only
charging people over 18.
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The University of Michigan
Campus
Bus
System,
run
by
the
Office
of
Logistics,
Transportation
&
Parking,
announced a series of detours on
Monday. Effective on Wednesday,
the detours affect the routes of
the Bursley-Baits, Northwood,
Commuter
North,
Commuter
South, Crisler Express, Diag-to-
Diag, Med Express, North-East
Shuttle, Northwood Express and
Oxford Shuttle lines.
From Oct. 11 to Oct. 19,
additional
detours
will
be
implemented
for
the
Wall
Street-NIB
and
Wall
Street
Express lines. According to the
announcement, all bus routes will
return to normal by Nov. 18.
According to Lisa Solomon,
planning and communications
manager for LTP, the detours
are due to a variety of utility
work and construction projects
surrounding campus.
“For the detours, our transit
team is working to keep the routes
as much on time as possible,”
Solomon said.
Students
frustrated
by busing
detours
TRANSPORTATION
Alternate bus routes
cause campus transit
passengers to complain
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discusses life with disabilities
Speaker addresses developmental condition, using her body to create art
Protestors
face final
pretrial for
trespassing
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Japanese artist Mari Katayama speaks about her art and her process of creating art with her own body at the Penny Stamps Speaker Series at the Michigan Theater
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Clinton talks foreign policy, impeachment
Former U.S. Secretary of State, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee reflects on international conflict
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks on current political events and related policy issues at Rackham Auditorium Thursday afternoon.
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LSA student Tiahna Pantovich interacts with supporters of President Donald Trump outside Hillary Clinton’s event in Rackham
Auditorium Thursday afternoon.