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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

GOVERNMENT

Sunrise Movement activists protest 
at Dingell’s Dearborn, Ypsi offices
Demonstrators return to call on congresswoman to support Green New Deal

University 
launches
1st energy 
challenge 

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Protesters from the Sunrise Movement held a sit-in at Debbie Dingell’s office on Friday.

ANGELINA LITTLE
Daily Staff Reporter

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EMMA RUBERG
Daily Staff Reporter

Washtenaw County 
launches new website 
with interactive data 

Department of Nuclear 
Engineering partners 
with DC-based institute

MICHAL RUPRECHT
Daily Staff Reporter

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

CLAIRE MEINGAST/Daily
Abby Sugar, the Founder of Play Out Apparel, discusses what queer fashion is at the Downtown Ann Arbor District Library Tuesday evening.

 NEETI BHUTADA 
For The Daily

HANNAH MACKAY
Daily Staff Reporter 

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