After a recent change in the
University of Michigan’s School
of Nursing curriculum, Nursing
students were offering to buy
other students’ clinical shifts
for as much $400 in order to
switch their assigned times
and locations throughout the
Fall 2019 semester.
According
to
University
spokeswoman
Kim
Broekhuizen,
the
change
began in Fall 2019 and allows
students to select their own
clinical shifts based on their
registration date instead of
being assigned them.
Nursing
students
have
the opportunity to work in
a variety of clinical areas,
including
positions
at
the
University Hospital, Veterans
Affairs and St. Joseph Mercy
Hospital. These opportunities
allow
students
to
develop
basic nursing skills related to
delivering nursing care.
Nursing sophomore Alissa
Elanjian is currently completing
her clinical shifts at the VA on
Thursday nights. She explained
to The Daily how particular
times and locations were more
favorable compared to others.
“We
have
a
nursing
GroupMe,
and
for
clinical
times,
people
really,
really
like Michigan Medicine, and
they really wanted Thursday
morning,” Elanjian said. “A lot
of the people are in sororities or
frats, and their formals or semi-
formals are on Thursday nights
or Friday nights, and so I think
that’s a huge reason why.”
Nursing sophomore Moriah
Lewis
said
some
students
wanted to switch times because
they had jobs to help pay for
their tuition and needed to
accommodate for those times.
The Literature, Science and
the Arts Building opened its
new attachment and renovated
the first floor earlier this month.
The new area includes multiple
study spaces, conference rooms
and offices for University of
Michigan programs. The new
addition will house the LSA
Opportunity
Hub,
Transfer
Student Center, LSA Student
Government and Technology
Services.
All
these
groups
were
involved in the planning of the
LSA Building renovation. Lisa
Reiher, the manager of Capital
Projects, the architecture firm
hired for the renovation, told
The Daily that each section of
the new addition was a reflection
of student needs.
“We actually met with each
one of the groups: Student
Government,
the
student
recruitment for the Transfer
Student
Center,
the
Hub,”
Reiher said. “We discussed with
them their needs and we had an
interior designer, and she came
up with options to best suit their
needs.”
Architecture
and
Study
Spaces
The LSA Building additions
include
study
spaces
with
plenty of outlets and spaces for
collaboration
and
individual
work. A second level was added
that includes Brody study desks
and conference rooms.
The Scholarship Office will
also be housed in the LSA
Building and is expected to be
completed in Fall 2020.
The back wall of the building
is
comprised
of
windows,
allowing natural sunlight to
enter the building. As it gets
sunnier throughout the day, the
lights are designed to dim in
order to reduce electricity use.
The construction team took
initiatives to make the LSA
Building
environmentally
friendly during the process.
The trees that were cut down
in
the
process
of
creating
additional
space
were
then
reused as tables in the building,
according to Reiher. Many parts
of the building are also made of
lead silver, an energy efficient
building material.
Opportunity Hub
The
Opportunity
Hub
is
located on the first floor of
the LSA Building. It has five
interview rooms with seven
more in the process of being
built on the second level.
Members
of
Michigan’s
private and public sectors are
uniting to propose a new civil
rights protection petition for
LGBTQ+ citizens. The Fair
and Equal Michigan initiative
aims
to
explicitly
prohibit
discrimination on the basis
of
sexual
orientation
and
gender identity in the state’s
legislation.
An
interpretation
of
the
Michigan
Elliott-Larsen
Civil Rights Act of 1976 by
the
Michigan
Civil
Rights
Commission in 2018 previously
defined such discrimination
as “sex” bias. The act protects
people
from
discrimination
based on 10 factors, including
religion; however, there are
currently
no
protections
for
LGBTQ+
individuals
in
employment
and
public
accommodations.
Kalamazoo
County
Commissioner Tracy Hall said
the protections must be granted
now.
“We are one of too many
states where people can be
fired for who they love and how
they identify,” Hall said. “And
it’s time to change that.”
After a group of students in the
School of Social Work penned an op-ed
criticizing the curriculum taught
in a mandatory course, the school
is working to address the authors’
concerns.
Social Work students Justin Woods,
Samuel Rentschler and the students of
Social Work 504, Section 4 submitted
the op-ed to The Daily on Dec. 4, 2019.
The op-ed highlights three main
gaps: the structure of topics of Social
Work 504, the ways Social Work
504 chooses to discuss and present
racism and an assigned reading on the
effectiveness of diversity courses.
“Instead of unequivocally and
substantively
interrogating
the
systemic white supremacy that allows
for incoming graduate students to
be unaware of the social privilege of
whiteness, we engage in a cursory
and trepidatious overview of the
uncomfortable
topic,”
the
op-ed
stated. “It would appear as the course
is developed with the white student
majority in mind.”
The authors suggested four courses
of action to placate the situation, and
they started a petition for the cause.
They called for the addition of a
mandatory class on race and ethnicity
in social work using a critical race
theory lens, as well as a course on “anti-
oppressive practices in social work.”
In the wake of an executive
order
targeting
what
President Donald Trump has
described as anti-Semitism at
colleges across the country,
student
activist
groups
on campus are concerned
about possible implications
for University students and
free speech surrounding the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Dec. 11 executive order
effectively adds a provision
to Title VI of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, which allows
the government to withhold
federal financial assistance
from public institutions that
do not protect against various
forms of discrimination on
the basis of race, color and
national origin.
As a result of the executive
order, Title VI will now
protect
against,
as
the
official White House briefing
stated,
“prohibited
forms
of discrimination rooted in
anti-Semitism as vigorously
as against all other forms of
discrimination prohibited by
Title VI.”
The final order did not
specify
whether
Judaism
would be interpreted as a
race or nationality. Instead, it
instructed the Department of
Education to use a particular
definition in combating anti-
Semitism.
Jeffrey
Veidlinger,
Director of the University’s
Frankel Center for Judaic
Studies, explained what the
definition
and
the
order
mean.
“All it did was say the
Department
of
Education
should
use
the
working
definition of anti-Semitism
in
evaluation
Title
VI
programs,” Veidlinger said.
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