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At about 4:15 p.m. Tuesday,
12 people traveled to U.S. Rep.
Debbie Dingell’s Dearborn office
to continue protests to urge
Dingell to sign the Green New
Deal. They were met with police
blocking them from entering the
building.
After occupying U.S. Rep.
Debbie Dingell’s, D-Ann Arbor,
Ypsilanti
office
for
nearly
24 hours this past weekend,
Sunrise Movement Ann Arbor
activists continue to attempt
sit-ins as they urge Dingell to
sign the Green New Deal. About
15 protesters hoping to stage
another sit-in showed up to
her office in Ypsilanti, Monday
afternoon to find it closed for
the week.
Sunrise Movement Ann Arbor
has been pressuring Dingell to
sponsor the Green New Deal
— legislation fighting climate
change and economic inequality
— since February. Dingell has
not been present at any of the
previous sit-ins staged by the
group in April, September, or
this past week, when three
activists were arrested after
refusing to leave her office.
After finding Dingell’s Ypsilanti
office closed on Monday, the
group posted a Facebook event
advertising their plans to stage
an “office takeover” at Dingell’s
Dearborn office.
Although Sunrise activists
were not allowed to enter the
building, they stood outside,
sang and recorded statements
urging Dingell to respond to
their
repeated
attempts
to
convince her to sign the Green
New Deal.
Naina
Agrawal-Hardin,
Sunrise hub coordinator and
Washtenaw International High
School student, referenced the
UN’s most recent Emissions
Gap Report, which compares
projected
greenhouse
gas
emissions for 2030 to the goals
of the Paris Agreement.
“We have to treat this crisis
with the urgency it deserves,”
Agrawal-Hardin
said.
“Just
today,
the
United
Nations
released a new report stating
that if we don’t seriously get our
act together, then it’s over for
us.”
Allie
Lindstrom,
Sunrise
activist
and
Washington
University in St. Louis senior,
urged for action beyond the
100%
Clean
Economy
Act
Dingell introduced on Friday,
which sets 2050 as a goal for an
economy which produces net
zero pollution.
“It’s not enough just to do the
bare minimum and to set 2050
as a deadline,” Lindstrom said.
“We have to make substantive
changes to our economy so
that it fights for our lives,
and it fights inequality, and it
addresses the ways in which we
are experiencing climate change
here in Michigan.”
The
University
of
Michigan’s
Department
of
Nuclear
Engineering
and
Radiological Sciences and the
Energy Institute partnered
with a D.C.-based research
institute, the Energy Impact
Center, to create the first
inaugural energy competition.
The competition is called
the Nuclear Energy Grand
Challenge and is open to all
students. Co-director Todd
Allen, who is the chair and a
professor in NERS, said one
objective of the competition
is to create a space for
interdisciplinary learning.
“A
lot
of
Engineering
students
work
on
their
engineering degree and don’t
get enough interactions with
people
from
the
Business
School or people from the
School of Public Policy,” Allen
said. “I’m hoping that another
thing we do is help with
that connectivity in a way
that it makes the students’
educational
experience
impactful.”
The
competition
began
on Sept. 27 with a series of
workshops
hosted
by
the
Center for Entrepreneurship.
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Earlier
this
month,
the
Washtenaw
County
Health
Department
debuted
a
new website to serve as a
centralized hub for data on
the health of county residents.
The Health For All Washtenaw
website features information
from nine different census
locations about approximately
250 different topics, including
demographics, mental health,
poverty and public safety.
In a Nov. 18 press release,
Washtenaw
County
Health
Department Communications
Coordinator Kayla Steinberg
explained the purpose of the
website and how it is meant to
benefit the community.
“Healthforallwashtenaw.
org is a central location for
information,
stories
and
action items on what impacts
our health,” Steinberg said.
“Think of it as an online health
record for all of Washtenaw
County.”
In each set of data, users
are able to compare the data of
the county to that of the entire
state of Michigan, as well as
the country. They can also see
how the measurements have
changed in the location over
time.
New site
looks to
track info
on health
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University
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Protesters from the Sunrise Movement held a sit-in at Debbie Dingell’s office on Friday.
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Washtenaw County
launches new website
with interactive data
Department of Nuclear
Engineering partners
with DC-based institute
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After a decade of serving
students and Ann Arbor
locals, South U Pizza is
shutting its doors for good in
mid-December. Located at
1110 S. University Ave., the
local eatery has been a pizza
staple since opening in 2009.
South U Pizza, along with
several other businesses on the
block, will be replaced with
new luxury student housing,
known as Vic Village South.
Manager
of
South
U
Pizza
Karim
Ghussani
explained the developer,
Hughes
Properties,
is
planning on tearing down
South U Pizza along with
most of the block to build
the new high rise.
“The
main
reason
is
because the building is going
to be torn down to put a high
rise instead there,” Ghussani
said. “That company, the Vic
Village company … they’re
going to tear down the whole
block, and they’re going to
build another high rise.”
Hughes
Properties
has
already begun advertising
the new development just
steps
from
campus
as
luxury student housing. The
same company completed
construction of Vic Village
North
earlier
this
year.
The apartment complex is
located directly across the
street from South U Pizza,
and will be 12 stories tall
with over 57 apartments and
261 beds.
In a previous Daily article,
Sean Havera, vice president
of construction at Hughes
Properties, spoke about the
addition of Vic Village North
and soon to be Vic Village
South on South University
Ave.
“When you look at the area
where Vic Village North is at
and where Vic Village South
is at, those are probably the
best student housing locations
anywhere
in
downtown,”
Havera said. “So, the projects
will actually complement each
other.”
As a result of this new
development, other businesses
including
Underground
Printing, PNC Bank and Oasis
Grill will be relocating or
closing.
About 30 people attended a
local event Tuesday titled “What
is Queer Fashion? Millennials,
Gen
Z,
and
Gender
Equal
Clothing” at the Ann Arbor
District
Library.
The
event
focused on a push for an increase
in inclusivity within the fashion
industry.
Abby Sugar, CEO of Play
Out Apparel, LLC, a company
centered around creating gender
equal underwear and athleisure,
began by speaking about what
the words “fashion” and “queer”
mean both technically and in
terms of the fashion industry.
According to Sugar, “queer”
means “something that breaks
heteronormative
assumptions
of gender and sexuality and
challenges and redefine gender
binaries
and
traditional
expressions
of
masculinity
and femininity.” She defines
“fashion” as “the intersection of
commerce, social and cultural
expectations with the expression
of individual identity.”
However, in the context of
the industry, these terms have a
much more realizable meaning,
Sugar said.
“When we’re talking about
queer fashion, we’re talking
about how the multiplicities of
gender and the multiplicities of
gender identity are performed
through fashion and clothing,
and also how LGBTQ designers
are bringing their point of view
to fashion,” Sugar said.
Sugar continued to discuss
how
fashion
is
a
way
of
expressing oneself. She said even
if society does not identify as
“fashionable,” the clothes worn
and the styles embodied are
very indicative of personalities
and
perceptions
of
oneself.
She
explained
how
clothes
not only communicate mood
and perspective to others, but
also express social and gender
expressions.
Planned development of Vic Village
forces restaurant out of business
South U Pizza
to shut down
to make room
for high rise
Founder of Play Out Apparel talks
rise of androgynous fashion trends
Designer discusses increased popularity of gender equal clothing
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Abby Sugar, the Founder of Play Out Apparel, discusses what queer fashion is at the Downtown Ann Arbor District Library Tuesday evening.
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