The University of Michigan 
Central Student Government 
convened 
Tuesday 
night 
in the Michigan Union to 
discuss asking the University 
to end their contract with 
Delta Air Lines and to revise 
CSG procedures in light of 
upcoming elections. 
Medical 
student 
Whit 
Froehlich ran the meeting in 
the absence of CSG president 
Ben Gerstein, Public Policy 
junior. 
Delta 
Air 
Lines 
made 
hundreds 
of 
deportation 
flights 
for 
ICE 
in 
2019. 
The 
resolution 
sponsors 
recommend University staff 
fly with airlines that have 
refused 
to 
participate 
in 
deportation flights, including 
American, 
Southwest 
and 
United. 
Delta 
provides 
discounted 
rates 
for 
University staff. 
Rackham student Siddharth 
Singh 
Chaudhari 
raised 

financial 
and 
convenience 
concerns about eliminating 
the contract. He noted Delta 
flights are the primary way to 
get to Europe and Asia from 
Michigan. 
“In proposing to suspend 
the contract with Delta, I 
wonder if, given the reality 
of Delta’s relationship with 
DTW actually, would it allow 
University 
employees 
to 
continue to purchase Delta 
tickets 
paying 
full 
price, 
actually 
give 
them 
more 
money in the long-run instead 
of taking the discount we have 
as a result of the contract,” 
Chaudhari said. 
Social 
Work 
student 
Cecelela Tomi pointed out 
the 
greatest 
discount 
for 
University employees is about 
10 percent. She suggested 
including rate information in 
the resolution. 
“It might help to say that 
we don’t have that much 
of a financial stake in this, 
anyways,” Tomi said. 
Later 
in 
the 
meeting, 
Rackham 
student 
Hayden 

Jackson 
raised 
concerns 
about campaign finance and 
procedures 
ahead 
of 
the 
upcoming March elections. 
Assembly members proposed 
raising finance caps — the 
maximum amount candidates 
for CSG can spend on their 
own campaigns — from $50 
to $150 and removing the 
limit on CSG candidates from 
emailing listservs they do not 
control. 
“A number of the members 
of the committee expressed 
hesitation 
in 
(lifting 
the 
listserv ban), in particular 
because of the impact we 
worry it will have on the 
quality of CSG elections, the 
engagement 
that 
students 
show in CSG elections if one 
CSG candidate can simply 
win elections by emailing as 
many listservs as they have 
access to,” Jackson said. “So, 
we worry about the effects of 
that on CSG’s reputation on 
campus and the good future of 
the organization on campus.” 
Hayden 
also 
proposed 
changing rules surrounding 

campaign speech. He noted 
past CSG rules restricting 
speech have been declared 
unconstitutional, citing Ann 
Arbor’s 15th District Court 
striking down the rule barring 
candidates 
from 
declaring 
false incumbency. 
“We have a responsibility as 
a public institution of higher 
learning to keep restrictions 
on speech at a bare minimum,” 
Jackson said. “I don’t believe 
the rules on campaigning as 
they stand are compatible 
with this principle.” 
All 
resolutions 
were 
returned 
to 
the 
Rules 
Committee after discussion.
The 
Assembly 
also 
confirmed 
Law 
student 
Meghan Patero as Student 
General Counsel. 
Additionally, 
the 
CSG 
Executive 
Nominations 
Committee 
reported 
that 
she desires to stay apolitical 
as Student General Counsel 
and believes in interpreting 
governing 
documents 
regardless of her personal 
opinions.

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Assembly talks terminating partnership with international flight company following ICE deportations

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Feb. 12, 1967: Study guides for those who don’t like to read

As far as her French 232 teacher is 

concerned Connie Brown, ‘70, knows 

“La Femme Savant” cold. Miss Brown 

came through with a flat A in a recent 

exam on the French novel.

Only thing is Miss Brown never 

bothered to read the book in French. 

Instead she simply read an English 

“pony” version.

Miss Brown reflects a long-standing 

college tradition that has suddenly come 

of age. At campuses across the country 

a growing number of students are 

plunking down $1 to $3 for study guides 

on everything from Falstaff to Symbolic 

Logic.

While local book merchants are 

ecstatic about the trend, teachers here 

view the matter with alarm.

The study guide issue has generated 

so much campus controversy that 

the University Activities Center is 

sponsoring a faculty-student panel 

discussion of this issue Saturday, Feb. 

18, at the League.

Teachers fear student creativity is 

stifled by use of study guides. Prof. Bert 

Hornback of the English department 

says “the watered down masterplots are 

crutches, not study guides. They’re just 

things to learn facts from.”

He thinks a better university 

atmosphere would be created if money 

spent on study guides are spent on “beer 

and pizza” for a bull session.

Nonetheless bookstores here do a 

flourishing trade on the study guides. 

One stroe alone stocks 350 study guides 

under eight major titles. The review 

notes are “continuous good sellers” says 

a spokesman for Wahr’s bookstore.

One of the largest companies in 

the field, Monarch Press Inc, sold five 

million study guides and grossed over $3 

million last year. To uphold their claim 

that “shakespeare was never easier,” 

Cliff’s Notes offers a $1 summary, text, 

glossary, and picture book of most of 

Shakespeare’s plays.

New companies regularly join the 

field. Hornback recently received an 

offer for a new series “complete with 

display rack” that promised 50 percent 

profit to the retailer.

Hornback says the study guides 

reflect “an absurd insistence on 

research” which “destroys the goal of 

the university.”

But a junior coed laments, “It’s the 

only way” to manage work. Linda Lot, 

‘68, complains that in history “you 

don’t get an overview when you have 

to read ten paperbacks a semester,” 

without some outline to follow. One 

freshman honors student uses the notes 

exclusively in Great Books 192 and feels 

he is able to do at least as well, if not 

better than, the students who read the 

texts.

However, many courses are being 

structured to decrease the possibility of 

this occurring. Prof. L. McNamara of the 

English department “unconsciously” 

constructs his exams so that a student 

cannot get a good mark if he relies solely 

on study aids.

Prof. Marvin Felheim of the English 

department 
realizes 
students 
can 

manage to get a ‘C’ by reading study 

guides, but he is confident that, by the 

nature of his assignments, he outsmarts 

the notes. History 101 and 102 teaching 

fellow Ronald Huch said essay exams 

limited the advantages that a purely 

factual study outline could provide.

The reliability of factual material 

presented in study guides is also 

questioned. Since the notes are often 

written by grad students for small 

fees, the information is sometimes 

inadequate or inaccurate. Rather than 

see students use Study Masters or Cliff’s 

Notes, which he feels are inadequate, 

Hornabck recommends 15-cent Classics 

Illustrated comic books.

For a “quick, factual reference” for 

a student with a poor background in 

a subject, Huch often suggests use of 

Littlefield Notes, which he feels are 

written by “reputable scholars.” But 

Huch fears that about one-third of his 

class probably use notes in place of the 

text.

McNamara “pities” students who 

spend money on courses and then buy 

notes to “do their thinking for them.” 

Of study guides he states simply, “I wish 

there weren’t any.”

On the other hand, Asst. Prof. Walter 

CLark of the English department feels 

it is somewhat “comic” for a student to 

cheat himself by using a study guide 

independently of the text and pretend 

he is getting away with something.

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See ORDER, Page 3

“Uncertainty 
is 
what 
makes 
intellectual 
life 
exciting,” Lieberman wrote. 
“Unfortunately the tolerance 
that 
was 
on 
display 
on 
November 14 is part of the 
growing climate of intolerance 
that has led to the shutting 
down of speakers on college 
campuses across the country. 
Irony of ironies: while student 
representatives spoke in favor 
of silencing me, UMDivest 
supporters in the audience 
waved signs that read ‘Do Not 
Silence Me.’”
People 
have 
previously 
accused 
faculty 
members 
claiming 
academic 
freedom 
in their criticism of Israel 

of 
anti-Semitism. 
In 
2018, 
American Culture Professor 
John 
Cheney-Lippold 
and 
Graduate Student Instructor 
Lucy Peterson refused to write 
letters 
of 
recommendation 
for students studying abroad 
in Israel as part of a boycott 
against the alleged human 
rights 
abuses 
occurring 
in 
Palestine. 
The 
move 
garnered 
national attention, including 
accusations of anti-Semitism 
and multiple death threats 
against Cheney-Lippold. The 
University issued disciplinary 
action, 
withholding 
his 
sabbatical 
eligibility 
and 
credits until the Fall 2020 
semester. 
In an email to The Daily, 
Cheney-Lippold 
stressed 
the importance of viewing 
the order in its geopolitical 

context, 
citing 
the 
Trump 
administration’s relocation of 
the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem 
and recognition of the Golan 
Heights as a part of Israel. 
He also described the order 
as a push to silence pro-BDS 
conversations.
“Trump 
is 
using 
this 
re-definition of anti-Semitism, 
fairly explicitly, as a means 
to 
silence 
political 
speech 
that seeks to draw attention 
to human rights violations in 
Israel,” Cheney-Lippold wrote. 
“Critique of a state — indeed, 
any state — must be protected 
and not be seen as a critique of 
the people of that state.”
New 
definition 
elicits 
national response, criticism
The executive order sparked 
outcry 
from 
professors 
at 
higher education institutions 
across the country. The Jewish 

Studies 
Activist 
Network, 
an organization that speaks 
out 
against 
policies 
that 
run counter to its members’ 
values 
as 
Jewish 
studies 
scholars, issued a letter on 
Dec. 19 detailing the concerns 
surrounding Trump’s executive 
order. The letter explained the 
dangers of adopting a definition 
that includes all “targeting” of 
Israel as anti-Semitic. 
The executive order codifies 
the International Holocaust 
Remembrance 
Alliance’s 
definition 
of 
anti-Semitism, 
but JSAN’s letter points out 
that the lead author of the 
definition, 
Kenneth 
Stern, 
publicly 
declared 
that 
the 
government should not adopt 
it, as using such definitions as 
a matter of U.S. policy was not 
the original intention.

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Gavriel D. Rosenfeld of Fairfield University discusses alternative timelines in Jewish history at the What Ifs of Jewish History lecture at 202 S Thayer Tuesday afternoon.

