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In the weeks leading up 
to the Ohio State University 
football game, University of 
Michigan staff and students are 
participating in the 38th annual 
campus-wide “Blood Battle” 
blood drive to out-donate OSU. 
Though the University suffered 
a defeat against the Buckeyes 

on the field last year, Michigan 
students secured their seventh 
Blood Battle win in 11 years. 
With just over two weeks until 
the game, University students 
aim to repeat that victory.
Nursing senior Alex Zeto, 
executive board member of 
Blood Drives United, explained 
that to her and many others, 
the competition is only one 
part of the Battle’s purpose. 

She said she enjoys how the 
Battle’s rivalry-driven success 
is supplemented by the fact 
each pint of blood is used to 
help a person in need.
Zeto 
first 
attempted 
to 
donate blood in high school, 
but she was turned away 
due to Red Cross’s eligibility 
requirements. 
But 
she 
got 
to campus and saw a drive 
at her dorm freshman year 

and decided to try again. She 
joined Blood Drives United 
the following year and has 
helped the organization plan 
the Blood Battle annually since 
then.
“Since high school, I just 
thought it seemed like a really 
easy way to give back with 
people who need my blood 
more than I do,” Zeto said.
The 
University 
of 

Michigan 
Veteran 

and 
Military 
Services 
organized the “Diversity 
in the Military” panel on 
Monday to discuss equity 
and 
inclusion 
in 
the 
United States Military. 
The 
panel 
was 
moderated 
by 
Philip 
Larson, program director 
of Veteran and Military 
Services. The audience 
consisted 
of 
about 
15 
students and veterans.
Larson 
began 
the 
panel’s 
conversation 
by asking the panelists 
about 
their 
decisions 
to 
join 
the 
military. 
Rackham student Jacob 
Granzow 
ref lected 
on 
how 9/11 impacted him 
and encouraged him to 
join the military.
“I was 13 when 9/11 
happened, and I guess 
those images that were 
on the news just stuck 
with me,” said Granzow. 
“I 
joined 
because 
it 
just affected me, and I 
wanted to help in any 
way I could.”

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A panel of LGBTQ military 
veterans discussed the political 
and social issues faced by past and 
present veterans who identify as 
LGBTQ in the Michigan League 
Tuesday. 
Three veterans of various 
military ranks and branches 
were present, including Captain 
Michelle Yi, a Business graduate 
student, Staff Sergeant Lacy 
Jones, 
Dentistry 
junior, 
and 
Specialist Necko Fanning, an LSA 
senior who moderated the panel.
Fanning asked the panelists 
what can be done to make society 
more welcoming to members of 
the LGBTQ community.
Jones said she came from the 
deep South and was a Southern 
Baptist Christian. She explained 
the community was not very 
accepting of LGBTQ people. 
“I would like to see a safe 
space for individuals that may 
be struggling with any form of 
spirituality and accepting their 
identity, which can be a really 
challenging thing in and of itself,” 
Jones said. “Finding a Christian 
organization that is accepting 
of the LGBTQ+ community and 
doesn’t consider gay people to be 
an abomination can be a battle.” 

Veterans 
 
examine 
LGBTQ+ 
inclusion 

CAMPUS LIFE
Blood Battle ramps up as football 
game against OSU approaches

Students participate in blood drive, work to out-donate rival school

Panelists 
reflect on 
diversity 
in military

VETERANS WEEK

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Students decorated the Rock to advertise the annual Blood Drive Battle with Ohio State University.

MELANIE TAYLOR
Daily Staff Reporter

statement

See DIVERSITY, Page 3A

DELANEY DAHLSTROM
For The Daily

Former service members 
discuss discrimination, 
experiences in military

Veterans highlight 
need to increase equity 
in the armed services

NAVYA GUPTA
For The Daily

The 
University 
of 
Michigan Central Student 
Government met Tuesday 
to discuss the University 
budget, Giving Blueday 2019 
and to debate the recall of 
two members of the Student 
Organization 
Funding 
Committee for misconduct 
during 
their 
membership 
application 
process. 
One 
member has been removed 
and 
the 
second 
will 
be 
debated next week.
Vice Provost for Academic 
and Budgetary Affairs Amy 
Dittmar presented on the 
University budget, including 
composition, allocation and 
budgetary models. Dittmar’s 
presentation 
included 
several 
comparisons 
between how the University 
collects and disperses funds 
versus 
other 
public 
and 
private universities. 

Topics Dittmar discussed 
included 
appropriations 
and 
how 
University’s 
affordability 
compares 
to 
other 
public 
universities. 
According to Dittmar, recent 
tuition increases have helped 
achieve 
affordability 
for 
many students on campus.
“We also have increasing 
costs because we invest in 
it being more affordable,” 
Dittmar said. “So, now this 
is a little counterintuitive, 
because 
we’re 
increasing 
tuition to pay for the cost, 
and then we have to make it 
more affordable. So, what it 
comes down to is that there’s 
a difference in what the 
sticker price is and what in 
any individual student might 
pay, and that’s purposeful. 
That’s purposeful for us 
to be able to help with the 
affordability.”

Sharon 
Waxman, 
president and CEO of the 
Fair 
Labor 
Association, 
gave a presentation Tuesday 
night on the importance of 
transparency and enforcing 
human 
rights 
mandates 
in 
big 
corporations. 
The 
discussion took place in the 
Ross School of Business and 
drew in a crowd of about 40 

community members.
Ravi Anupindi, chair of 
the 
President’s 
Advisory 
Committee 
on 
Labor 
Standards and Human Rights 
at the University, began by 
explaining the University’s 
role in supporting fair labor 
practices. 
“Anything that you buy 
that has a Michigan logo, as 
a University we care about 
the 
labor 
standards 
and 
human rights and the supply 
chains that produce these 

products,” 
Anupindi 
said. 
“There 
is 
an 
operational 
mandate 
to 
ensure 
that 
companies that we license 
our logo to actually meet the 
labor standards of human 
rights.”
Waxman 
began 
her 
presentation by discussing a 
past trend in large industries 
to 
prioritize 
profit 
over 
the well-being of workers. 
However, 
she 
said 
that 
rhetoric has begun to change 
in recent years. 

“For decades, the premise 
that companies exist for the 
benefit of shareholders has 
driven a lot of CEOs and 
boards of directors to make 
decisions based primarily on 
profitability,” Waxman said. 
“Although not entirely new, 
the concept that companies 
have a role to play in society, 
for the good of society, has 
emerged as a focal point in 
recent years.”

CSG considers removing committee 
heads over admissions misconduct

SOFC chairs 
face recall for 
mishandling 
applications

Fair Labor Association president 
talks fair wages, workers’ rights

Sharon Waxman explains how companies prioritize profits over employees

See CSG, Page 3A

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Sharon Waxman, president and CEO of The Fair Labor Association, speaks to students and faculty at Ross Tuesday evening.

See LABOR, Page 3A

 EMMA STEIN 
Daily Staff Reporter

ATTICUS RAASCH
Daily Staff Reporter 

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See BLOOD, Page 3A

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