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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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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