In 2018, Engineering senior 
Barry Chen went to his first 
and last career fair to look 
for 
aerospace 
engineering 
internships. Before the fair, he had 
already done research on which 
companies would be willing to 
hire international students.
“When we had a career fair, we 
had a list of companies, and we 
could also check if they want to 
sponsor international students,” 
Chen said. “I checked it, and turns 
out very few of them (sponsor), 
although there are some. Many 
of them give answers like ‘we 

may sponsor,’ but it’s not for sure. 
Maybe it depends on the job 
they want to offer you, maybe it 
depends on the spots available for 
internships.”
Despite the research he had 
done, after spending his day 
talking to multiple companies, 
he realized he wasn’t going to 
receive an offer because of his 
immigration status. Chen looked 
further 
into 
companies 
and 
realized that many jobs require 
a United States citizenship or a 
green card or a higher educational 
degree. 
“I understand it’s not possible 
for me to find intern(ships) while 
I’m still undergrad,” Chen said.
International students have 

a choice of F-1 — or student visa 
— employment options while 
they are at the University. The 
most 
common 
are 
Optional 
Practical Training and Curricular 
Practical Training for short-term 
employment, such as internships.
Currently, 
the 
processing 
time for OPT applications is 
more than 90 days. In the case 
of 
Rackham 
student 
María 
Alejandra Rodríguez Mustafa, 
the processing time caused her to 
lose an internship offer during the 
summer of 2019.
“I got an offer, but I got it very 
late, so it was very hard to do all 
the paperwork,” Mustafa said. 
“So in the end, the timing was not 
great because I could not start and 

be continuing with the company 
for the time they required me. I 
could not go.”
For 
full-time 
jobs 
after 
graduation, companies must be 
willing to sponsor an international 
student and submit an H-1B, or 
visa for temporary workers, on 
their behalf. This visa allows them 
to stay for up to six years. 
However, according to the U.S. 
Citizenship 
and 
Immigration 
Services, there is a congressionally 
mandated cap of 65,000 H-1B 
visas and an additional 20,000 
“advanced degree exemption” for 
the 2020 fiscal year. In addition, 
according 
to 
the 
American 
Immigration 
Council, 
U.S. 
Citizenship 
and 
Immigration 

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Three 
historic 
homes 
located on the corner of 
East Huron Street and Glen 
Avenue, currently owned by 
the University of Michigan, 
may be demolished for a 
new College of Pharmacy, 
according 
to 
November 
2019 advertisement for the 
sale and removal of the 
houses. 
The proposal for a new 
$121 
million, 
130,000 
square foot building was 
approved 
in 
May 
2019. 

According 
to 
a 
project 
proposal, 
the 
current 
College of Pharmacy has 
narrow 
structural 
bays 
and shallow floor-to-floor 
heights which do not allow 
for 
reconfiguration 
into 
modern 
classroom 
and 
laboratory spaces. The new 
building will have more 
space to accommodate for 
academic, 
research 
and 
student needs. 
University spokeswoman 
Kim Broekhuizen said in 
an email to The Daily if the 
houses are not purchased 
and moved from the current 

site, they will be demolished 
in the upcoming summer.
“There 
haven’t 
been 
any 
proposals 
submitted 
to purchase, and if that 
remains to be the case, over 
the summer they would be 
demolished,” Broekhuizen 
said.
Ann 
Arbor 
historian 
Susan Wineberg, who lives 
in the District, said she 
was disappointed with the 
decision to demolish these 
houses. 
“I broke it down to myself 
as being bad for three 
reasons,” Wineberg said. 

“One is, of course, historical 
because of the people who 
occupied those houses. It’s 
important to the University 
of Michigan. The second 
reason 
is 
architectural 
because they’re very good 
representations 
of 
three 
different 
architectural 
styles from 1891 through 
1905 and they’re in very 
good condition. The third 
reason is an environmental 
one because we say the 
greenest building is the one 
that’s already built.”

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The 
Senate 
Advisory 
Committee 
on 
University 
Affairs 
met 
Monday 
to 
discuss 
restructuring 
committees 
and 
the 
upcoming debate. 
The meeting started off 
with members approving the 
notes from their previous 
meeting. Joy Beatty, chair 
of the committee, put forth 
issues 
to 
be 
discussed 
such 
as 
upcoming 
visits 
from the Student Relations 
Advisory 
Committee 
and 
the Edward Ginsberg Center 
for 
Community 
Service 
Learning 
regarding 
civic 
engagement among students. 
Committee 
members 
discussed having Catherine 
Carver, 
the 
operations 
co-lead 
for 
the 
2020 
Presidential 
Debate 
Initiative, 
meet 
with 
members and inform them 
on the presidential debate 
planning at the University of 
Michigan in October 2020. 
“Part of the goal for that 
would be to have Senate 
Assembly members engage 
briefly in how all of us can be 
thinking about how to build 

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One of the historical houses on East Huron street that could be demolished to make way for a new College of Pharmacy building. 

Elevation Burger, 
owned by ‘U’ alums, 
unexpectedly closes 
its Ann Arbor shops

JULIA FORREST 
Daily Staff Reporter

See HISTORIC, Page 3

FRANCESCA DUONG 
Daily Staff Reporter

See INTERNSHIP, Page 3

DESIGN BY CHRISTINE JEGARL
International students face issues 
during summer internship search
Graduates, undergraduates discuss roadblocks with finding jobs, 
applying to programs asking about applicants’ citizenship status

Central Student Government hosts 
meeting to address common concerns

Third debate 
town hall talks 
engagement, 
campus safety

See TOWN HALL, Page 3

A2 Burger 
joint shuts 
down two 
locations

This 
past 
week, 
both 
of 

Ann 
Arbor’s 
Elevation 
Burger 

restaurants unexpectedly closed 

permanently. A small sign on the 

door alerted customers to the 

closure and thanked them for their 

business. University of Michigan 

alumni Sarah and Mike Tayter 

opened the organic burger joint in 

downtown Ann Arbor in 2015. 

Elevation was known for its 

100% organic, free-range and grass-

fed beef and offered a selection 

of vegan and vegetarian burgers, 

sandwiches, 
fries, 
milkshakes 

and salads. With one location on 

Washtenaw Avenue and another on 

East Liberty Street, the Virginia-

based chain was accessible to Ann 

Arbor locals and students. 

Hira Khan, LSA junior and 

Elevation 
regular, 
expressed 

disappointment at the restaurant’s 

sudden closing because it is just one 

of many local Ann Arbor businesses 

that has shut its doors in the past 

year. 

“I just thought it was really sad 

in general just to see so many places 

in Ann Arbor closing, especially when 

Elevation Burger was I think family-

owned, so it’s really sad to see that 

happen,” Khan said. 

Khan also elaborated on Elevation’s 

inclusive menu, explaining that it 
See BURGER, Page 3

Committee explores 
lighting pollution, 
new judicial review 
body, 1U campaign

See SACUA, Page 3

Though 
the 
presidential 
debate to be hosted at the 
University of Michigan is nine 
months away, Central Student 
Government 
held 
its 
third 
presidential debate town hall 
Monday 
night 
in 
Pierpont 
Commons to discuss student 
engagement, 
inclusion 
and 
safety. 
Less than half of University 
students voted in the last 
presidential election, a rate 
which 
Catherine 
Carver, 
operations 
co-lead 
of 
the 
2020 Debate Initiative, called 
“extraordinarily low.” Carver 
said 
the 
Debate 
Initiative 
hopes 
to 
increase 
student 
turnout and engagement in the 
democratic process as a whole 
by hosting voter registration 
drives, soliciting student input 
and launching a campus-wide 
theme semester in the fall. 
“A key part of a democratic 
society doesn’t mean just going 
to the voting booths, but that 
there are other things we can 
do to be active and engaged 
citizens,” Carver said. 
Though the Debate Initiative 

wants 
students 
to 
engage 
with the democratic process 
beyond the night of the debate, 
Carver acknowledged student 
frustrations about the limited 
number of seats available to 
students at the debate itself. 
The 
Crisler 
Center 
can 
accommodate close to 13,000, 
but only 800 to 1000 seats will 
be available for the debate 
in 
total. 
The 
Commission 
on Presidential Debates, the 
nonprofit that produces the 
debates, will receive one-third 
of the tickets, and distribute 
a portion to the University to 
allocate. The remaining two-
thirds will be reserved for 
political parties. The Debate 
Initiative will be facilitating 
viewing parties across campus 
for students not selected to 
watch in the Crisler Center.
CSG and the Office of Student 
Life recognized the climate 
surrounding the debate will 
be 
politically 
charged 
and 
may make some students feel 
uncomfortable or unsafe on 
campus. CSG president Ben 
Gerstein, Public Policy junior, 
and Laura Blake Jones, Dean 
of Student Life, created the 
Campus 
Climate 
Advisory 
Council, a standing body that 

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