Pointing to pictures of her 
childhood displayed on the 
screen behind her, Katayama 
talked 
about 
how 
she 
struggled with the physical 
differences between her and 
other children her age. 
“I 
thought 
once 
I 
amputated my legs, I could 
wear the same shoes other 
people wore,” Katayama said 
through a translator. “Once 
my legs were amputated, 
what I had was a reality that 
was different from what I 
thought. So, there was a gap 
between my ideal situation 
and my real situation.” 
Katayama said it is this 
difference 
that 
fueled 
her art. When she was a 
teenager, Katayama began 
painting 
her 
prosthetic 

legs with intricate flower 
designs. At this age, she was 
also a model in student-run 
fashion shows as well as her 
own photography. Later, she 
turned to sewing as a form 
of artistic expression. She 
explained that her process 
began by first taking her 
own picture, then uploading 
it to a computer and editing 
it, then printing it on to 
fabric 
and 
then 
sewing 
the 
fabric 
together. 
In 
some of her earlier pieces, 
Katayama posed with her 
sewn creations in self-taken 
photographs. 
“The reason why I did 
everything myself is because 
I just didn’t want anybody 
to see me like this, I was too 
shy,” Katayama said.
In a Q&A segment during 
the presentation, Katayama 
was asked about her courage 
in showing her body in the 

era of social media and 
Photoshop. Katayama said 
she views her body as a 
material in her art.
“Maybe because I don’t 
consider these images as 
myself,” Katayama said. “I’m 
objectifying my own body 
and using it as a material. … 
I’m actually not accepting 
the way I am, my daughter 
loves my body, but to me, I 
still pursue a perfect body.” 
Art & Design freshman 
Nehema Kariuki attended 
the event and enjoyed seeing 
the artist behind the work, 
which she said she does not 
get to experience often.
“In a lot of artists’ art, you 
see the art but you don’t see 
the artists themselves — you 
don’t see who they are, you 
don’t see their emotion,” 
Kariuki 
said. 
“It’s 
nice 
seeing her in her work and 
her emotion tied into it.” 

“Unfortunately, we cannot 
control some of the construction 
traffic. But for students, keeping 
a little bit of extra time to get to 
where they need to go is a good 
strategy.”
LSA senior Selene Yang has 
lived on North Campus all 
four years at the University. 
Especially 
in 
the 
morning, 
Yang said the detours have 
lengthened her commute from 
about 15 minutes to about 30 to 
45 minutes. 
“Today 
and 
Tuesday, 
I 
was really late to my 9 a.m. 
class because all the buses 
are getting stuck on Central 
Campus, and they can’t get up 
to North Campus,” Yang said. 
“There’s a lot of traffic, and a 
lot of people trying to get down 
to Central.”
Engineering junior Zachary 
Wernet said he often has 
to 
travel 
between 
Central 
and North Campuses for his 
classes. Though he believes 
construction benefits the city 

overall, Wernet said he thinks 
the projects should have been 
more spread out over time. 
“I just think it’s excessive 
how many different routes have 
changed in all these different 
ways,” Wernet said. “(The city) 
could’ve 
done 
construction 
to affect one or two routes at 
a time, rather than an entire 
dictionary of changes.” 
Solomon 
explained 
that 
LTP notifies the University 
community of route changes 
with transit alerts on their 
website. 
The 
transit 
live-
tracking app DoubleMap, which 
shows bus routes and locations, 
has also been updated to reflect 
the detours. 
Yang said the route detours 
announcement, 
which 
was 
formatted 
as 
a 
list, 
could 
be hard to understand. She 
wondered 
whether 
a 
map 
showing all the detours would 
be more effective.
“The post they made was just 
about (the detours) was just a 
huge block of text instead of 
maybe showing it on a map,” 
Yang said. “That could visually 
show which stops might’ve 

been changed or how the route 
looks now as compared to how 
it used to be.”
Solomon explained some of 
the detours will last a relatively 
short amount of time, so LTP 
did not think a visual aid was 
needed. 
“So, sometimes we do this, it 
just depends on the length and 
nature of the detour,” Solomon 
said. “Some of the detours are 
less complicated or pretty short, 
and so we may not do it for that. 
But if they are about to take a 
route, and if operating, they can 
definitely pull it up in the live 
app.”
Prior to Solomon speaking 
with The Daily, none of the 
recent transit alerts included 
any maps. Since then, a map has 
been attached in the Washtenaw 
Avenue lane closures alert for 
the Bursley-Baits, Northwood 
Express, 
Commuter 
North, 
Diag-to-Diag 
Express 
and 
Oxford Shuttle routes. 
Overall, Yang said the detours 
have exacerbated an already-
frustrating morning commute. 
“Billy Magic didn’t warn me 
for this,” Yang said.

Ann Arbor attorney Angie 
Martell 
is 
representing 
all 
trespassers in the case. Two of 
the defendants were excused 
from Thursday’s hearing due to 
travel.
Approximately 90 people sat 
in the audience. Many attendees 
wore green in solidarity with 
the Washtenaw County Climate 
Action Movement, which was 
responsible for organizing the 
climate strike and sit-in.
Martell began by stating she 
only received five out of the 
seven compact disks containing 
footage 
she 
expected 
to 
receive. She said the disks she 
did receive did not have audio, 
which she said does not align 
with what she was told in 
discovery. Martell also noted 
the potential information from 
the additional CDs and audio 
could impact how she presents 
her case.
Additionally, 
Martell 
described 
the 
lawsuit 
against her clients as a “civil 
disobedience” case, in which 
people disobey the law to 
prevent greater harm. In this 
instance, 
Martell 
said 
the 
demonstrators were trespassing 
to avoid climate change-related 
harm in the future.
“We feel that without this 
information — which is only in 
the hands of the University — 
we are hampered in having a 
fair trial in this case,” Martell 
said. “This case is not just about 
the trespass; it’s about one day 
in which, across the globe, 1.4 
million young people came out 
to talk about bringing light 
to the current situation and 
the threat of climate change 
inaction. And it’s the belief 
of many of the defendants 
in this case, or members of 
the University at large, that 
the University been slow and 
reluctant to address some of 
these issues.”
However, 
Joseph 
Simon, 
an Ann Arbor-based criminal 
attorney 
representing 
the 
University, said the power of 
discovery in a criminal case is 
not the same as in other cases. 
He said attorneys do not have 
vehicles of discovery in any 

criminal case, so it would be 
unfair to allow the defense to 
obtain evidence in this lawsuit.
Washtenaw County Assistant 
Prosecutor, 
Ashley 
Londy, 
brought all the disks in her 
possession 
to 
the 
pretrial 
and said she could provide 
additional copies if Martell was 
missing any of them. Londy said 
there was no bad faith displayed 
in her team’s handling of the 
footage.
“No one is editing any of 
these 
videos,” 
Londy 
said. 
“We’ve turned over everything 
that we have, and if we haven’t, 
we absolutely will. We are in 
a pretrial phase in this case — 
it is not the morning of trial. 
We’re not ambushing anyone, 
because we don’t believe in trial 
by ambush.” 
Martell responded by saying 
she 
was 
not 
accusing 
the 
prosecution of editing footage, 
but rather making sure the 
University had disclosed all the 
evidence.
After both sides spoke, Judge 
Karen 
Quinlan 
Valvo 
said 
she did not feel Martell acted 
maliciously in her requests and 
was not placing sanctions on 
her. However, she said Martell’s 
requests for evidence would not 
be completed. 
There was a short break 
for 
attorneys 
to 
check 
in 
with their clients. Once back 
on the record, one of the 
demonstrators took a plea deal 
that was made available to all 
defendants charged.
The settlement conference 
was 
scheduled 
for 
Jan. 
2 
and the trial for Jan. 13 at 9 
a.m. Valvo said the trial will 
continue on Jan. 14 at 10 a.m. 
if necessary.
The defense pleaded not 
guilty 
and 
were 
arraigned 
during the first pretrial on 
June 17. A trespassing charge 
bears a maximum charge of a 
$250 fine with a potential of 
30 days in jail. At this hearing, 
demonstrators were released 
on a personal recognizance 
bond, meaning they did not 
have to pay bail. They were told 
they cannot enter the Fleming 
Administration Building, leave 
the state without permission 
of the court or use alcohol or 
marijuana. 
However, 
Valvo 
lifted the ban for defendants 
over 21 to accommodate for the 

Jewish holiday.
Groups such as the Huron 
Valley Area Labor Federation 
and 
Young 
Democratic 
Socialists of America, as well 
as politicians including former 
gubernatorial 
candidate 
Abdul El-Sayed and current 
candidate 
for 
Washtenaw 
County prosecutor Eli Savit, 
have expressed support for the 
defendants. 
On 
April 
9, 
Schlissel 
and other members of the 
President’s 
Commission 
on 
Carbon Neutrality held a public 
session to discuss some of 
the demonstrators’ concerns 
and strategies to move the 
University closer to carbon 
neutrality. 
The 
Commision 
also held a forum on Sept. 25 
to address concerns about the 
University’s progress in this 
area. 
In a September interview 
with The Daily, Schlissel said 
the Commission on Carbon 
Neutrality is still working on 
solutions on how to achieve 
carbon 
neutrality 
while 
maintaining 
the 
magnitude 
of 
the 
University’s 
heating 
system and building plans. He 
acknowledged, though, that in 
the long term carbon neutrality 
must happen. 
“It costs more money, so 
it’ll slow down some of our 
ambitions, but we’re going to 
try to strike the right balance 
between continuing to be a 
great place to go to school and 
a research university and a 
great health system, and then 
being proper stewards of the 
environment,” Schlissel said. 
“So, in the short term, I can’t 
envision a way to get out of 
fossil fuel use entirely, but 
longer term I think we have to, 
and the challenge is, how long 
it’s going to take and what the 
options are to get there.”
After the hearing, LSA senior 
Kristen Hayden told The Daily 
she attended the pretrial in 
solidarity 
with 
the 
people 
charged. 
Hayden 
also 
said 
she felt the University should 
acknowledge its role in the trial 
and withdraw so the prosecutor 
does not have a strong case 
against the defendants.

Later in the conversation, 
Clinton 
weighed 
in 
on 
current 
impeachment 
proceedings against Trump, 
describing 
the 
role 
of 
Ukraine’s “growing pains” 
to modernize their economy 
and stabilize politically. She 
explained how Ukraine is in 
a difficult position, needing 
to deter Russian aggression 
while relying on U.S. aid. She 
believes 
the 
impeachment 
proceedings are justified but 
must be thorough.
“The 
whole 
Ukrainian 
scandal in the midst of the 
impeachment 
inquiry, 
in 
and of itself, is troubling 
because of what it shows 
about abuse of power and 
the 
use 
of 
threats 
and 
extortion by the President 
of the United States,” she 
said. “Withholding military 
aid that they so desperately 
need to defend themselves. 
So, it’s a scandal, it’s an 
absolutely 
inappropriate 
scandal and it should trigger 
an impeachment inquiry.”
Sen. Gary Peters is the 
only Michigan Democrat not 
to have voiced support for 
impeachment investigations. 
Senator 
Debbie 
Stabenow, 
D-Mich., 
announced 
her 
support 
for 
beginning 
proceedings in July. In a 
statement, 
Peters 
echoed 
concerns 
for 
national 
security.
Clinton also shared her 

personal views on U.S. policy 
in the Middle East, reflecting 
on 
the 
role 
of 
former 
President 
Barack 
Obama’s 
administration in the Syrian 
war. According to Clinton, 
current 
international 
relations could lead to a 
possible 
ISIS 
resurgence, 
and the multitude of national 
interests complicate the path 
toward a diplomatic solution. 
“This is going to be a 
difficult 
period, 
and 
it 
requires intense, intelligent 
diplomacy. And right now, 
we have very little of that,” 
Clinton said. 
The event was not without 
controversy. Half a dozen 
demonstrators, 
voicing 
support for Trump, protested 
outside of Rackham during 
Clinton’s talk. The protestors 
held signs reading “TRUMP 
2020” 
and 
wore 
“Make 
America Great Again” hats as 
a crowd of counter-protestors 
surrounded them.
One of the protestors, who 
chose to remain nameless, 
stated she was protesting in 
order to show support for 
President Trump. 
“I 
was 
supporting 
my 
president, 
didn’t 
you 
see 
that?” the protester said. “I 
support my president all the 
time.”
About 50 students and 
community members urged 
the 
protestors 
to 
leave 
campus 
and 
yelled 
they 
were not “on the right side 
of history.” LSA sophomore 
Tiahna Pantovich took part in 
the counter-protest, calling 
out to the protestors holding 

Trump signs on campus. 
“Nobody’s 
really 
on 
your side,” Pantovich said, 
pointing at the protestors. “I 
hope you know that.”
Throughout the protest, 
the demonstrators remained 
silent 
aside 
from 
a 
few 
remarks in response to the 
counter-protestors’ yelling. 
Ann Arbor resident Robin 
Wonder also attended the 
counter-protest. 
After 
the 
incident, Wonder said he 
was protesting in response 
to 
Trump’s 
policies 
on 
immigration, which he said 
are oppressive and inhumane. 
“Guess 
what?” 
Wonder 
said. “They’re not welcome 
here, right? I’m not OK with 
Trump. Trump deported my 
mom, and she did nothing 
wrong. Nothing. She just 
came here for a better life. 
They’re just trying to get 
everybody out for no fucking 
reason.” 
After Clinton spoke, LSA 
junior 
Brianna 
Morigney 
told The Daily she came to 
the event to learn more about 
Clinton’s 
perspective 
on 
international policy. 
“I think the biggest thing 
that stuck with me is when 
she said we need to help 
people abroad to make our 
borders safer, which is an 
interesting 
perspective 
because usually you hear 
border safety coming from 
the other side,” Morigney 
said. “It’s important to have 
that view of, ‘We’re not 
helping who we need to help, 
and that’s why our borders 
are at risk.’”

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Guest 
speakers 
from 
South Africa, Colombia and 
Michigan State University 
discussed 
transitional 
justice in their communities 
on 
Thursday 
afternoon 
in 
Weill 
Hall. 
About 
65 
students attended the event, 
titled “Critical Engagement 
with 
Transitional 
Justice: 
Perspectives from Africa and 
Latin America.” 
The 
Center 
for 
Latin 
American 
and 
Caribbean 
Studies, the African Studies 
Center, the Donia Human 
Rights Center and the Ford 
School 
of 
Public 
Policy 
sponsored the event.
Yazier Henry, lecturer of 
public policy in the Public 
Policy School, moderated the 
event. Henry and the speakers 
had 
met 
previously 
at 
a 
conference in Berlin, and this 
was the first time they had 
reunited since that encounter. 
Henry 
said 
transitional 
justice 
— 
how 
countries 
address large-scale human 
rights abuses — played a role 
in his decision to become a 
lecturer at the Public Policy 
School.
“From the engagement — 
past, present, future — in the 
context of societies building 
peace, 
that 
the 
things 
through this promise of what 
(it means to have) greater 
democracy, what it means to 
have greater social justice, 

what it means to have human 
rights systems as accepted,” 
Henry said. 
Henry asked the panelists 
about their experiences with 
transitional justice. 
Within 
the 
idea 
of 
transitional justice, much of 
the conversation surrounded 
the Truth and Reconciliation 
Committee that formed in 
South Africa after the end of 
Apartheid.
The 
Truth 
and 
Reconciliation 
Committee 
was 
created 
for 
victims 
of 
Apartheid 
to 
express 
their 
grievances 
toward 
the 
victimizers 
in 
order 
to receive justice for the 
crimes 
committed 
under 
the regime. When Henry 
asked the speakers about the 
disappointments 
they 
had 
with transitional justice in 
their own countries, panelist 
Litheko Modisane of South 
Africa spoke to the flaws of 
the Truth and Reconciliation 
Committee.
“Now the South African 
case 
is 
quite 
complex, 
because on the one hand, the 
truth, whatever you may call 
that truth, it was exposed 
during the TRC,” Modisane 
said. “There are other larger 
questions that still remain. 
For instance, part of the 
mechanism of the TRC was 
that there will be reparations 
for the victims of violence 
and human rights abuses. 
However, to this day, that has 
not really happened.”
Castillejo-Cuellar, who is a 

professor at the Universidad 
de 
los 
Andes, 
went 
to 
graduate school in Colombia 
and 
published 
“Memories 
and 
Violence: 
Problems 
and Debates in a Global 
Perspective,” a book about 
memory and displacement in 
an international context. His 
initial research was about 
the effects of violence in 
Colombia.
Panelist 
Alejandro 
Castillejo-Cuellar discussed 
how his work in Colombia 
inspired his first book and 
research interests.
“As an anthropologist, I 
was interested in fieldwork, 
and try to understand how 
actual 
people 
reconstruct 
the 
world 
with 
a 
world 
that is broken by violence,” 
Castillejo-Cuellar said. 
Rackham 
student 
Tim 
Berke 
said 
he 
found 
it 
interesting to hear about 
the role of colonialism in 
restorative justice.
“I 
think 
hearing 
some 
of the questions from the 
group and the response from 
some of those was really 
interesting and to think about 
restorative justice, in a sense, 
and about colonialism,” Berke 
said. “And how that applies 
really opened my mind up 
to what that can imply and 
how far back we think about 
transitional 
justice 
and 
restorative justice.”

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LSA senior Molly Mearn, an 
executive board member for the 
Squirrel Club, said she thought 
the research was great, as long 
as it did not pose a threat to the 
safety of the squirrels.
“If there’s a valid scientific 
motivation 
to 
the 
tagging, 
and the tagging is done in a 
way that minimizes harm to 
the squirrels, I think it’s not 
too bad,” Mearns said. “But if 
there isn’t really a benefit to 
it and it harms the squirrels, 
then I don’t see a reason for it. 
I think, compared to previous 
years, there are slightly fewer 
squirrels around campus and 
in the Diag in particular, so I’m 
not sure if there is a population 
control 
issue 
right 
now. 

Additionally, I haven’t really 
noticed any aggression from 
squirrels, so I hope that isn’t 
part of the concern.”
In terms of work being done 
to ensure the safety of the 
squirrels, Dantzer said wild 
animal researchers must follow 
a set of rules that govern how 
invasive tagging can be. The 
rules state that a tag or monitor 
can be no more than 5 percent 
of the animal’s body weight. 
He and Devits adhere to this 
strictly. 
He said that a great deal of 
research has been conducted on 
how squirrels are affected by 
being tagged and collared, and 
so far, no studies have indicated 
any sort of negative outcomes 
from human intervention.
Dantzer said he has big 
plans for the future of squirrel 
research, 
as 
he 
plans 
to 

hopefully use microchips to 
track squirrels’ heart rates 
and brain activity in order to 
determine sleep patterns. This 
information 
will 
hopefully 
give scientists insight into 
why 
humans 
and 
animals 
need sleep in order to survive. 
However, Dantzer said he is 
hesitant to do this now, as he 
would not want to introduce a 
more invasive tracking device 
that would negatively impact 
the campus squirrels.
“We’re not yet going to do 
these implants in the squirrels 
(on campus), and part of it is 
because I think that, for most 
people, each day the only 
wildlife they ever interact with 
is these squirrels, and that’s 
a very valuable thing for us to 
have because it maintains some 
sense of awareness of nature,” 
Dantzer said.

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