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B E HIND THE STORY
Every Friday, one Daily staffer will give a behind the scenes look
at one of this week’s stories. This week, LSA sophomore Parnia
Mazhar on her story “Hundreds gather for ‘No War On Iran’
demonstration”:
“I think the most powerful aspect of the event was hearing the different
speakers. It ranged from students to veterans to faculty members, and
each of them had personal experiences relating to war with the U.S.
and the Middle Eastern region and you could definitely see the reaction
of the attendees and the demonstrators and how much they resonated
with the speakers.”
“It was really cool to see the hundreds, almost a thousand, people that
were there, especially because it was very cold outside. It was in the
afternoon/early evening so I’m sure that everyone had other things
that they could have been doing so the fact that they chose to stand
out there and support a cause they’re really passionate about was
really cool to see and it definitely shows the power that people can
have regarding issues, even if it is on an international scale, you can
always exercise your right to protest.”
Annie Klusendorf/Daily
QUOTE OF THE WE E K
“
I think that working-class people in the United States
have more in common with Iranian working-class people
than they do American billionaires. We should be standing in
solidarity with the families, the innocent people who are
living in Iran, who will die due to our government’s actions in
their nation — our illegal actions in their nation.”
LSA sophomore Noah Streng at the ‘No War On Iran’ demonstration
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maintain statistics on the
number of student parents
on campus — many choose
to not self-report, Ellard
said, and the most recent
survey information that is
publicly available is from
2005. The Center for the
Education of Women has
estimated student parents
make up about 1.5 percent
of the student body, with
the majority at the graduate
level, according to CEW
Director Tiffany Marra.
Nationally,
student
parents
make
up
a
significant
population
of
college
students,
representing more than 1
in every 5 undergraduates.
About
70
percent
of
those
student
parents
are mothers. Of the 3.8
million
undergraduate
student
parents
in
the
country,
approximately
17 percent attend public,
4-year universities like the
University of Michigan.
“Certainly
there’s
a
large enough population,
at the undergraduate level,
even, where it shouldn’t be
ignored,” Marra said.
Marra
said
student
parents
face
large-scale,
systemic
challenges
on
campus,
and
their
lack
of
visibility
influences
the
way
the
University
allocates its resources and
offers support.
“There seems to be a
perception on campus that
students here, their life is
committed to just school,
and that they don’t have
responsibility
outside
of
school, which just isn’t true
for students with children,”
Marra
said.
“They’re
a
hidden population. Being
hidden, people don’t think
about you first. They expect
you to accommodate to the
system that’s been built for
the majority.”
According to Anderson,
the University has been
reluctant to take action
on
behalf
of
student
parents, in part because
the
administration
has
little
idea
how
many
student parents attend the
University and hasn’t taken
many steps to find out.
“They
want
evidence-
based programs, which is
a good idea in general, but
they don’t know how many
there are and they aren’t
being very innovative in
finding out how many there
are, so it’s kind of like you
run around in a circle,”
Anderson said. “They need
to think about it more
seriously.”
Anderson
added
the
University has been active
with its Diversity, Equity,
and
Inclusion
efforts
but tends to talk about
identities students hold as
separate from one another.
“A lot of the problems
and challenges people face
are
all
interconnected,”
Anderson
said.
“They’re
related to older students,
they’re related to students
who
have
gone
back
to
school,
they’re
sometimes
related
to
race,
and
they
are
related
to
low
socioeconomic
status.
You
can’t
effectively
talk
about
all
these
things in isolation.”
CEW works closely
with student parents,
offering
confidential
counseling
and
advocating for students
with
children.
In
supporting
student
parents,
one
issue
CEW
focuses
on
is
affordability.
For
the
last 50 years, the center
has offered a scholarship
to students who have
gaps in their education
or
have
dependent
children. According to
Marra, CEW gave out
about
half
a
million
dollars
through
the
scholarship
last
year,
and expects to disburse
$600,000 this coming
year.
She
estimates
more than 40 percent
of qualified applicants
receive
the
scholarship,
with an average award of
$7,000 each.
LSA
student
Kerrigan
Fitzpatrick,
who
will
graduate in May with a
degree in psychology and
lives with her daughter
in Ann Arbor, said she’s
generally
impressed
by
the University’s financial
resources, though she is
unable to account for her
dependent
child
in
her
financial aid applications.
Fitzpatrick
said
one
helpful scholarship is the
Office of Financial Aid’s
child care subsidy. With
the high cost of child care
in Ann Arbor, however, the
subsidy doesn’t quite make
ends meet.
“It’s such a huge help, but
the only thing is it covers
half a semester’s worth of
day care, and for a day care
that’s the cheapest I found
in Ann Arbor,” Fitzpatrick
said.
Child care is a central
concern
for
student
parents,
and
isn’t
easy
to find. Ellard noted the
Towsley Children’s House
on Central Campus has a
two-year waitlist and gives
preference
to
graduate
students. She agreed the
child care subsidy has been
a big help with paying for
day care for her son, though
she said last semester the
funds
were
delivered
a
month late.
The Office of the Provost
also allocates “emergency
funds”
to
CEW,
which
can be used to support
student parents. Ellard said
labeling these scholarships
“emergency funds” on the
Students
with
Children
website
is
misleading,
because
many
students
might not realize it applies
to them.
“The biggest problem is
that financial aid for student
parents is categorized as
emergency aid,” Ellard said.
“If I’m a freshman, and I’m
a parent, I had a kid in high
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