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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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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MICHAEL BAGAZINSKI/Daily
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.