According 
to 
the 
organization’s 
website, 
the 
Order of Angell is made up 
of “leaders from the many 
diverse corners of campus” 
and 
seeks 
to 
“promote 
interconnectedness 
at 
Michigan, develop leadership 
and engage in short and long-
term leadership projects.” 
At 
the 
meeting, 
NASA 
asked the University to take 
appropriate action by renaming 
the lounge and designating it 
as a space for NASA to gather 
and exclusively reserve for 
community 
events. 
Bowen 
said she believes the new 
Union 
renovation 
presents 
an 
important 
opportunity 
for the University to begin to 
repair the harm done over the 
years to the Native American 
community by the Order of 
Angell. 
“What we are asking is for 
the same level of permanence 
and priority that has been 
placed on James Angell and the 

Order over the years,” Bowen 
said.
In addition to Angell Hall 
named after Angell, a plaque 
outside the Union’s entrance 
commemorates 
the 
former 
University president. However, 
there is no place on campus 
dedicated 
solely 
to 
Native 
American students. 
Bowen discussed initiatives 
of 
other 
universities 
to 
acknowledge 
their 
Native 
American student population. 
Colleges including Michigan 
State University, University of 
California Berkeley, University 
of Minnesota and others all 
have spaces dedicated to the 
Native American community. 
“Clearly, it is not irregular 
to have a physical space for 
native and indigenous students 
on campus, especially at a 
university as large and as 
endowed 
as 
Michigan 
is,” 
Bowen said. 
Bowen 
also 
spoke 
about 
how Native Americans were 
instrumental in founding the 
University. In the 1817 Treaty 
of Fort Meigs, also called 
the Treaty of Fort Rapids, 

Native American tribes ceded 
their land to the University 
of 
Michigan. 
According 
to 
Bowen, this treaty was the 
beginning of University and 
Native American relations. 
By 
renaming 
the 
south 
lounge, 
Bowen 
said 
she 
believes the University could 
take an important, relatively 
simple 
and 
cost-free 
first 
step 
in 
recognizing 
and 
appreciating the role Native 
Americans played in allowing 
the University to exist. 
“We are more than just 
our histories but we have to 
actually 
make 
changes 
so 
that these histories are not 
forgotten,” Bowen said. “This is 
in no way an easy presentation 
to give. Nobody, no student 
and no student organization 
should ever feel like they have 
to justify their place on this 
campus or in the Union.” 
In the following Q&A portion 
of the event, Bowen addressed 
the logistics of the proposal. 
Since 
the 
Union 
closed 
for 
renovation, 
NASA 
has 
struggled to secure a regular 
meeting space. According to 

Bowen, multicultural rooms 
meant 
for 
many 
student 
organizations 
to 
use 
are 
often full and dominated by 
larger groups that meet more 
frequently. With the exception 
of November, which is Native 
American 
Heritage 
Month, 
NASA only books a meeting 
space a couple of times a month 
and doesn’t withhold study 
spaces from students. 
One 
question 
from 
the 
audience was geared towards 
the Board. In anticipation of 
the Union’s opening day in 
January, the Board invited 
NASA to be present at the 
ceremony. Later, the Board 
offered NASA the opportunity 
to present on what the Union 
could do to make NASA feel 
more included and represented. 
Amy White, director of the 
Union, 
said 
they 
invited 
NASA based on the need to 
recognize the history of racial 
discrimination associated with 
the Union. 
“Knowing the history of 
Michigamua in this space, and 
the harm that has been done 
over the years … that was what 

was behind the invitation — to 
acknowledge that a great deal 
of harm had been done to the 
community,” White said. 
Audience 
member 
Alan 
Haber also spoke up at the 
event. Haber, who enrolled 
in the University in 1954, is 
an activist and was the first 
president of Students for a 
Democratic Society which first 
met in Ann Arbor in 1960. 
Haber 
said 
the 
act 
of 
renaming 
would 
be 
representative of a restorative 
deed.
“Land 
that 
belonged 
to 
other people was taken as 
our own, us being settlers,” 
Haber said, referencing early 
colonization in America. “It 
seems 
important 
not 
only 
restoratively, but symbolically 
in the future to have some 
piece of land ceded back to the 
Native American community.”
Haber 
reiterated 
Bowen, 
stressing the need for a place 
on 
campus 
where 
Native 
Americans can celebrate their 
culture and be recognized by 
the University. 
White 
closed 
the 
event, 

thanking Bowen and NASA for 
the presentation and working 
with the Union to establish 
better relations. 
The Daily spoke with Bowen 
following 
the 
presentation. 
Overall, Bowen said she was 
pleased with how engaged 
and invested the Board was in 
creating a better environment 
where every student can feel 
represented. 
Bowen 
also 
thanked 
the 
students 
and 
community 
members 
that 
came to support her and NASA. 
“I’m glad that we had so 
much 
community 
support,” 
Bowen said. “This is an issue 
that is incredibly important to 
so many people and I’m glad 
that (the Board) seemed to hear 
it and take it very seriously. I’m 
looking forward to working 
with them to get this done.”
At 
the 
end 
of 
the 
presentation, the Board did 
not give a final verdict and did 
not address when they would 
release a decision.
Reporter Lily Gooding can be 
reached at goodingl@umich.
edu

The 
One 
University 
Campaign 
(1U) 
launched 
in 2018 by a coalition of 
faculty and students to equip 
the 
U-M 
Flint 
and 
U-M 
Dearborn 
campuses 
with 
more resources. Achieving 
on-campus medical services 
in 
U-M 
Flint 
and 
U-M 
Dearborn 
is 
one 
of 
the 
campaign’s 
seven 
goals, 
which also include equalizing 
the Michigan Legislature’s 
per-student 
allocations 
and extending the Go Blue 
Guarantee to U-M Dearborn 
and U-M Flint campuses. 
Members of 1U from all 
three 
campuses 
continue 
to 
put 
pressure 
on 
the 
University’s 
administration 
to address these issues. At 
the Dec. 5, 2019 Regents 
meeting, 1U organizers and 
students 
involved 
in 
the 
Climate 
Action 
Movement 
addressed 
the 
Board 
of 
Regents 
about 
perceived 
inadequacies in funding and 
healthcare coverage, among 
other 
issues. 
The 
groups 
ultimately 
blockaded 
the 
entrances to the University 
Golf Course in protest against 
the University’s actions until 
they were moved by police.
Tyrice Denson, a recent 
U-M Flint graduate and 1U 
organizer, said socioeconomic 
disparities 
between 
the 
campuses 
put 
U-M 
Flint 
students in a tough position 
when most of them work jobs 
to cover tuition costs and 
often have to choose between 
going to class or going to the 
doctor.
“That can really burden 
students, even if, like, they 
have a really bad cold and 
probably shouldn’t be going to 
class,” Denson said. “Students 
have to decide whether they 
want to take a hit on their 
grade, force themselves to 
go to class sick or go to the 
doctor, get that doctor’s note 

and now have to deal with the 
medical bill.”
With 
median 
family 
incomes around half that of 
U-M Ann Arbor students, 
Darwish 
said 
the 
lack 
of 
University-sponsored 
healthcare on the U-M Flint 
and U-M Dearborn campuses 
is hard on many students. 
“In Dearborn, everybody is 
trying to support themselves 
and 
when 
it 
comes 
to 
healthcare issues, money just 
gets in the way,” Darwish said. 
“In Ann Arbor, not 
only do students 
have easy access 
to 
on-campus 
healthcare, but the 
population is a lot 
more 
wealthy 
so 
it’s a lot easier for 
them to get access 
and probably not 
work 
a 
job 
and 
focus more on their 
education.”
Denson 
connected 
the 
demand for more 
equitable 
health 
resources 
to 
the 
campaign’s broader 
mission. 
“One University 
as a whole is about providing 
more equitable resources for 
all University of Michigan 
students,” 
Denson 
said. 
“We are one of the most 
prestigious universities in the 
world, and there are certain 
things we should just provide 
for our students. If students in 
Ann Arbor are provided these 
resources, then students in 
Dearborn and Flint should be 
as well.”
On Jan. 31, U-M Dearborn’s 
student 
government 
unanimously 
passed 
a 
resolution supporting the 1U 
campaign and its platform, 
including 
a 
demand 
for 
student 
medical 
services. 
Amanda Saleh, vice president 
of U-M Dearborn Student 
Government, wrote to The 
Daily that students at U-M 
Dearborn do not have access 

to 
an 
exclusive 
medical 
professional 
or 
a 
nurse 
practitioner, 
which 
limits 
access to mental health and 
sexual health services like 
those available to students at 
the Ann Arbor campus. 
Saleh also wrote in an email 
that the resolution is a step 
in the right direction given 
U-M Dearborn’s “history of 
being shy when it comes to 
demands.” 
“We 
hope 
that 
this 
resolution 
urges 
the 

conversation 
within 
administration 
to 
look 
further into the need of health 
services for our students,” 
Saleh wrote. “With health 
care services on our campus, 
students will not only have 
access 
to 
much-needed 
resources, but they will be 
able to do so independently 
of their parents’ insurance, 
which is crucial for folks who 
would not be able to receive 
help otherwise.”
University 
spokeswoman 
Kim Broekhuizen responded 
to The Daily’s request for 
comment on 1U’s medical 
services 
with 
information 
from the University website. 
The 
University’s 
website 
says the student fees charged 
to each student on the Ann 
Arbor campus support UHS.
“It’s 
not 
clear 
that 

students at UM-Flint and 
UM-Dearborn 
experience 
the same level of need on 
their campuses to support 
these efforts through added 
fees 
they 
would 
incur,” 
Broekhuizen wrote.
Broekhuizen 
also 
highlighted 
differences 
between the campus’s student 
bodies. 
She 
noted 
that 
Ann Arbor is a residential 
educational community with 
nearly 100 percent of its 
freshmen living in campus 

housing, while U-M Flint 
and 
U-M 
Dearborn 
are 
mostly commuter campuses. 
Broekhuizen also wrote that 
given the high percentage of 
commuter students compared 
to the Ann Arbor campus, 
“most 
regional 
campus 
students already have well-
established relationships with 
local health care providers 
and receive their care in that 
manner.”
In 
a 
November 
2019 
interview with The Daily, 
University President Mark 
Schlissel said the U-M Flint 
and U-M Dearborn campuses 
receive 
less 
money 
from 
the state and their students 
compared 
to 
the 
Ann 
Arbor campus, leading to 
fewer available campus-wide 
resources.
“I don’t think Flint and 

Dearborn have less funding 
because their students come 
from 
lower 
socioeconomic 
communities,” 
Schlissel 
said. “I think they have less 
funding because they get 
less money from the state, 
they collect less tuition from 
their students, they don’t 
have nearly the philanthropy 
Ann Arbor has and instead 
of being 200 years old, with 
hundreds of years to develop 
the support that and the 
infrastructure the University 
has, they’re 50 years 
old.”
Students 
on 
all 
three 
campuses, 
however, 
voiced 
concern 
about 
the lack of health 
resources 
on 
the 
U-M Flint and U-M 
Dearborn campuses. 
Darwish said many of 
his friends are out-of-
state or international 
students, 
which 
means they cannot 
always 
rely 
on 
healthcare providers 
in the immediate area 
to receive care. 
“Just because it’s 
a 
smaller 
school 
with a higher percent of 
people from the area, you 
can’t 
just 
generalize 
and 
exclude that other population 
of people that don’t have 
access,” 
Darwish 
said. 
“I 
couldn’t imagine being an 
international 
student 
and 
having an easy time finding 
health care here.”
LSA senior Tyler Ziel, a 
transfer student from U- M 
Dearborn, 
researched 
the 
health disparities between 
the campuses last summer. 
According to Ziel, both U-M 
Dearborn 
and 
U-M 
Flint 
used to have formal referral 
partnerships 
with 
local 
healthcare 
providers, 
but 
they were discontinued due 
to low usage. As a student on 
both the U-M Ann Arbor and 
U-M 
Dearborn 
campuses, 
Ziel reflected on the impact 

healthcare can have on the 
student body.
“Since 
we 
are 
a 
state 
university, 
our 
job 
is 
to 
provide 
for 
the 
local 
community and for students’ 
educations,” Ziel said. “But 
the students need to be able 
to survive and be healthy 
in order to actually get that 
education … There’s a moral 
duty aspect to provide for 
your fellow students because 
we’re all Wolverines.” 
Sara Alqaragholy, recent 
graduate of U-M Dearborn 
and organizer of 1U, said 
U-M 
Dearborn 
Student 
Government Representatives 
met with Amy Finley, dean 
of students at U-M Dearborn, 
last fall to present data on the 
need for medical services.
“I’m very hopeful that if 
(the) administration thinks 
in 
numbers 
and 
we’re 
providing the data around our 
demographics and funding, 
and we display a need (of 
medical services), then they 
should be listening to us,” 
Alqaragholy said. “If so many 
students are in need of them, 
it just makes sense.”
When 
asked 
about 
the 
low usage of past healthcare 
partnerships, 
Ziel 
and 
Denson 
pointed 
to 
poor 
advertising at both U-M Flint 
and U-M Dearborn. Denison 
said most students were not 
aware of the partnerships and 
the administration should not 
rely on low usage rates in the 
past when evaluating how to 
best provide health services 
for the future. 
“Regardless of what the 
numbers show how often 
something is used, it is clear 
to anyone that there’s a need 
here 
for 
Flint 
students,” 
Denison said. “The University 
really does have an obligation 
for services better than they 
currently are.”
Reporter Calder Lewis can 
be reached at calderll@umich.
edu

LSA senior Sage Renstrom-
Richards is a computer science 
major who left the RC because 
she 
couldn’t 
fit 
the 
extra 
requirements into her schedule. 
She said it was difficult to 
handle the RC requirements 
since she had to fulfill LSA 
distribution requirements and 
the requirements for her major. 
“I wanted to have the freedom 
just to choose other classes that 
I was interested in,” Renstrom-
Richards said. “Even if people 
have the room in their schedules 
to fit it in, just having a longer 
list of requirements makes the 
flexibility a lot more constrained.” 
The RC offers five intensive 
programs: 
Spanish, 
French, 
German, Russian and Japanese. 
However, students may choose a 
different language through LSA 
as long as it is not already offered 
by the RC. 
On top of meeting the LSA 
language 
requirement, 
RC 
students 
must 
complete 
an 
advanced readings course in 
that language. All RC intensive 
languages meet twice a day four 

days per week to provide students 
with an immersive experience, 
including mandatory language 
lunch tables to help students build 
their communication skills. 
According to Badgley, students 
may choose to leave the program 
early primarily due to the cost 
of housing and the intensive 
language program requirements. 
“The folks leaving after the first 
year are often leaving because the 
residency requirement requires 
an expensive commitment to 
both the housing and the meal 
plan,” 
Badgley 
said. 
“That’s 
difficult for people depending 
on 
their 
family 
budgets. 
Some students do not wish to 
complete the intensive language 
requirement, although LSA also 
has a language requirement, but 
it’s not as intensive as it is here in 
the Residential College.”
Badgley also said graduating 
seniors often forget about or 
decide not to complete the four 
course requirements for non-RC 
majors. 
Badgley 
noted 
many 
RC 
classes satisfy the distribution 
requirements for LSA. For that 
reason, she said she doesn’t 
consider it a heavy burden. 
However, Badgley said finishing 

all of the RC requirements can be 
difficult for students who try to 
complete more than one major.
According 
to 
statistics 
provided to The Daily by Charlie 
Murphy, director of RC Academic 
Services, 47 percent of students 
of the 2018 RC graduating class 
completed more than one major. 
“One trend that we have 
seen is that more and more 
students are either doing double 
majors or are doing majors plus 
a minor,” Badgley said. “That 
means they have many more 
course requirements in their 
concentration, and that may be 
putting 
pressure 
on 
the 
four 
course 
requirement for the Residential 
College if those courses are not 
in some way contributing to their 
concentrations.”
Badgley 
also 
noted 
other 
professional 
schools 
at 
the 
University of Michigan have 
increased their undergraduate 
program 
offerings. 
Many 
of 
these programs, such as the 
Ford School of Public Policy, 
students are accepted during as 
sophomores and begin taking 
classes as juniors, and this could 
be another reason students drop 
the program.
LSA senior Brandon Bond 

plans to graduate with an RC 
degree. He said some people have 
beliefs about the RC that could 
make it a less attractive option for 
incoming students. 
“We have the reputation for 
being the ‘weird’ kids,” Bond 
said. “That goes a lot into the 
recruitment 
(and) 
retention. 
People don’t want to be associated 
with being the ‘other crowd’ or 
the ‘other community.’”
LSA senior Kate Puca also 
plans on graduating with an RC 
degree and said she has heard 
of this stigma. She said the 
stereotype is often brought up 
when she introduces herself.
“There is definitely that stigma 
that RC people are weird, and 
I think that discourages a lot of 
people from continuing with it,” 
Puca said. “Ross has a stigma, 
Engineering has a stigma to it. 
Depending on what your path 
is, people are going to label and 
stereotype you in a certain way.”
Bond and Puca both disagree 
with this stereotype. Bond said 
he is extremely grateful for the 
RC program and he loves the 
community the program has 
built. 
“From my perspective, it’s just 
people who want to be as true 

to themselves, and as honest 
and open about themselves as 
possible,” Bond said. “The RC 
does an amazing job at creating 
a 
community 
where 
people 
do genuinely feel comfortable 
expressing that.”
Bond also said East Quad is a 
prime location for many students. 
According to Bond, many people 
choose to participate in the RC 
program because students know 
they are guaranteed Central 
Campus housing for their first 
two years. 
Puca said proximity to campus 
was one of the reasons she 
initially joined the RC program. 
However, she stayed because 
she found the intensive language 
program helpful towards her 
Spanish minor and enjoyed the 
community. 
“That’s why I originally did it 
too, to be honest … I know a lot of 
people (who did it for housing),” 
Puca said, “It’s just that East Quad 
is so close to campus, and they 
were afraid of being put on North 
Campus that they opted into RC 
and then dropped it.”
Badgley said RC staff is working 
to fight the attrition rate by 
making some of the requirements 
more flexible.

“We are aware of students 
needing support within the 
language program, and we’ve 
increased the number of peer 
tutors 
who 
help 
students 
during 
these 
intensive 
languages,” Badgley said. “As 
far as the live-in requirement 
for the second year, there is 
a petition waiver, so it’s not 
an absolute. When a petition 
is submitted to waive that 
second-year 
requirement, 
the deciding body takes a 
close look at the student’s 
financial needs and other 
considerations. We’re trying 
to make it flexible.”
Even though many students 
do 
not 
complete 
the 
RC 
program, Badgley said the RC 
program is still thriving.
“The students who declare 
an interest in the Residential 
College 
and 
who 
actually 
arrive here have increased in 
the last two years, and they 
show every sign, this year, 
of increasing even further,” 
Badgley said. 
Reporter 
Francesca 
Duong 
can be reached at fduong@
umich.edu

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“In Dearborn, everybody is trying to support 
themselves and when it comes to healthcare issues, 
money just gets in the way. In Ann Arbor, not 
only do students have easy access to on-campus 
healthcare, but the population is a lot more wealthy 
so it’s a lot easier for them to get access and 
probably not work a job and focus more on their 

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