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The University of Michigan
held a groundbreaking for its
new $920-million-dollar hospital
on Friday, featuring remarks
from University President Mark
Schlissel and U.S. Rep. Debbie
Dingell, D-Ann Arbor. Outside
the private event, dozens of
Michigan nurses stood holding
signs and chanting protests such
as “U of M you can’t hide, we can
see your greedy side,” and “U of
M, you’re no good, treat your
workers like you should.”
The nurses were protesting
a lack of sufficient parking
options at Michigan Medicine for
hospital employees. Earlier this
year, over 250 employee parking
spaces were converted to patient-
only parking spots. This made it
increasingly difficult for nurses
and other hospital staff to find
adequate parking and get to work
on time, according to Michigan
Medicine nurses. The nurses
protested at the Board of Regents
meeting on Sept. 18, but said they
do not feel like the University
heard their concerns.
According
to
Katie
Oppenheim,
chair
of
the
University
of
Michigan
Professional Nurse Council, this
parking shortage has existed at
Michigan for decades. While
it’s great the University keeps
building
new
buildings
and
improving its facilities, there is a
need for new parking structures
too, Oppenheim said.
“They
continue
to
build
buildings — the cardiovascular
center, which has very small
parking lot, where only patients
can park in any case, and then
the Children’s and Women’s
Hospital, which added hundreds
of beds with no additional
parking,” Oppenheim said.
Democratic
presidential
candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders
of Vermont talked about jobs,
wages and economic inequality
at a rally in Detroit on Sunday.
More than 2,500 supporters
gathered in the gymnasium of
Detroit’s Cass Technical High
School for the rally. Sanders
was introduced by U.S. House
Representative Rashida Tlaib,
D-Detroit, who later endorsed
the candidate’s campaign for
president.
Tlaib joined fellow freshman
Congresswomen
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar
in endorsing Sanders, as the two
endorsed
Sanders’
campaign
earlier this month.
“We deserve someone who
writes the damn bills,” Tlaib
said.
“We
deserve
Bernie
Sanders.”
Sanders entered the gym to
chants of his name, hundreds
of supporters lining the balcony
overlooking the room. In the
stands, a row of placards reading
“Detroit Loves Bernie” was
complemented by a sea of blue
“Bernie 2020” signs.
Sanders began his address
by reflecting on former Rep.
John Conyers, the late U.S.
Congressman
representing
much of Western Detroit who
passed away Sunday afternoon.
Conyers served Michigan’s 1st,
13th and 14th congressional
districts from 1965 to 2017,
co-founding the Congressional
Black Caucus and continually
advocating
for
the
nation’s
transition
to
a
single-payer
health care system. He resigned
during his 26th term in 2017
following
sexual
harassment
allegations.
Sanders
said
Conyers,
the
longest
serving
Black
congressman
in
American
history, was an unrelenting
fighter for social justice and
economic opportunity, someone
who
inspired
Sanders’
own
legislative agenda.
“Tonight we’re not here just
to mourn John, but to celebrate
a life of enormous achievement,”
Sanders said. “As all of you
know, John was a champion
for civil rights, he was the man
most responsible for having a
national holiday for the great
Martin Luther King Jr., and
long before it was popular,
John Conyers understood that
healthcare is a human right.”
Sanders spent most of his
speech explaining the main
goals of his campaign: to combat
the political establishment and
expand economic opportunity
to all of the American people.
Sanders
said
he
visited
several
neighborhoods
in
Tlaib’s
district,
in
which
voters expressed concern over
tightening economic conditions
for the working class.
“Rashida took me around her
district here in Detroit, and I
met with beautiful young people
who are going to schools in
which they don’t have adequate
textbooks,” Sanders said.
In light of domestic violence
awareness
month,
Students
Demand
Action
and
the
Sexual Assault Prevention and
Awareness Center hosted an
event Friday evening to discuss
the intersection of gun violence
and domestic violence.
LSA senior Taylor King, group
co-lead of Students Demand
Action, and Public Policy junior
Matt Weiner, student volunteer
and outreach chair at SAPAC,
introduced the issue in regard to
Michigan specifically.
“Over one third of women in
Michigan report experiencing
some form of intimate partner
violence in their lifetime; in 2017
alone, there were over 88,000
domestic
violence
incidents,
including over 12,000 aggravated
domestic assaults in Michigan,”
King said.
In Michigan, people convicted
of domestic violence are allowed
to purchase firearms, as long
as their victim was not a live-
in
spouse.
This
“boyfriend
loophole” would be closed with
the passing of House Bill No.
4497.
“HB 4497 is sitting in the
Michigan
State
Judiciary
Committee, where it has been
since April without receiving a
single hearing,” Weiner said.
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell,
D-Ann Arbor, began the panel
by
discussing
her
personal
experience growing up in a
home with domestic violence
and detailing how this violence
affected her and her sister. She
recalled feelings of shame when
the police dismissed their calls
and would not show up when
her and her sister were worried
about their safety and hiding in a
closet. The first time Dingell told
her story was on the House floor.
“I got up and gave a speech
from my heart, that was one of
the hardest things I ever did, but
this is so important to me that
women need to be safe and that
people who shouldn’t have guns
need to be kept from buying
them,” Dingell said.
Quyen Ngo, research assistant
professor in the Department
of
Emergency
Medicine,
discussed her research, which
focuses on understanding the
motivations behind perpetrators
of domestic violence. She said
children exposed to violence
are more likely to become
aggressors of domestic violence
in adulthood, and she studies
these intergenerational issues
to address the cycle of domestic
violence from both sides.
“I believe we cannot fix this
problem unless we deal with the
social and contextual factors
that lead people to perpetrate
and become aggressors,” Ngo
said.
Jackie Jones, a survivor of
gun violence and a member of
Moms Demand Action, became
an
advocate
for
preventing
gun violence when her son
and nephew were murdered in
Saginaw by men that grew up
with domestic violence in the
home. As a Black woman, she
highlighted the misconception
that every person killed by gun
violence in a Black community is
deserving in some way; she said
her son and nephew were simply
sitting in a car when they were
shot.
“I got to say something; I can
no longer just not do anything …
even though I was afraid, I had
to,” Jones said.
The moderators and panelists
advocated
for
the
Violence
Against Women Act, which
was passed in the House seven
months ago and is awaiting
Senate action. Ngo said this
dialogue can be bipartisan, and
proponents of gun policy reform
are advocating for safety.
CAMPUS LIFE
Students Demand Action, SAPAC
present discussion on domestic violence
Congresswoman, researcher and survivor share perspectives on gun use
ABBY TAKAS
Daily Staff Reporter
Local bakery Milk + Honey
held an opening for its pop-up
at Bløm Meadworks, an Ann
Arbor cidery and meadery on
S. Fourth Ave., after a month-
long soft opening. The event,
held Saturday, featured an
extensive menu of sweet and
savory
baked
goods
along
with
drink
pairings
from
Bløm, flowers from Bhakti
Flowers and pumpkins and fall
vegetables from Slow Farm.
Milk + Honey is open on
Fridays and Saturdays at Bløm
with a new weekly menu. In
addition to the baked goods,
Milk + Honey serves loose leaf
tea from TeaHaus and drip
coffee from Anthology, a coffee
shop in Detroit. The bakery
was started two years ago by
Rachel Liu Martindale to help
fund a homeless ministry she
and her husband were helping
in downtown Ann Arbor.
“Every
week
we
were
feeding the homeless, and it
was coming out of our own
pocket so we were just like,
‘Oh, we should probably have
a different way of helping out
with that,’” Liu Martindale
said.
New pop-up
bakery holds
launch with
broad menu
GOVERNMENT
Milk+Honey grand opening
features baked goods,
drinks and fall vegetables
SONIA LEE
Daily Staff Reporter
RYAN LITTLE/Daily
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, Jackie Jones and Quyen Ngo discuss the effects gun violence can have on society and
how to treat victims of gun violence with respect Friday evening.
The Ann Arbor chapter of
the
Society
of
Professional
Journalists organized a panel
discussion titled “Scoring in
Sports Journalism” on Friday,
to discuss the nuances of sports
reporting.
The event began with a keynote
speech by Ketra L. Armstrong,
an award winning freelance
sports-journalist and professor
of sport management at the
School of Kinesiology. Armstrong
emphasized the need for entities
like the SPJ, and listed the power
of media in framing a narrative,
the need for diverse perspectives
and the importance of creativity
as three things she has learned
during her career.
“The world needs sports,”
she
said.
“But
sports
need
journalists who have the ability
and the willingness to do this
job with civility, with dignity
and with social responsibility.
The
sports
industry
needs
journalists who will embrace
their social responsibility to make
a difference.”
Jason
Beck,
Tigers
beat
reporter for MLB.com, reflected
on the way the nature of his job as
a beat reporter has changed.
Event discusses nuances
of sports reporting, careers
through speaker experiences
SUNSKRITI PARANJPE
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Nurses protest
lack of parking
at new building
groundbreaking
Hospital employees call for adequate
vehicle facilities amidst construction
EMMA STEIN
Daily Staff Reporter
ASHA LEWIS/Daily
Senator Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., shares his campaign goals during a rally at Cass Technical High School in Detroit Sunday night.
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