About 
100 
students, 
faculty 
and 
community 
members came to Rackham 
Auditorium 
on 
Wednesday 
afternoon to hear Charles 
W. 
Mills, 
a 
distinguished 
philosophy professor at the 
City University of New York, 
speak on the concept of racial 
justice and why it has been 
historically ignored within 
the field of philosophy.
Mills was featured as the 
guest speaker of the 2019-
2020 
Tanner 
Lecture 
on 
Human Values sponsored by 

the University of Michigan 
Department 
of 
Philosophy. 
The 
Tanner 
Lectures 
are 
funded by Obert Clark Tanner, 
a late philosophy professor 
who hoped the series would 
contribute 
to 
an 
ongoing 
dialogue on human morality. 
The University was the first 
to host a Tanner Lecture and 
is one of nine institutions 
worldwide to participate in 
the tradition.
University President Mark 
Schlissel lauded the lecture 
series as an opportunity to 
consider 
important 
issues 
demanding our intellectual 
attention. 

“With Dr. Mills, we have a 
pioneering scholar who has 
added 
new 
dimensions 
of 
thought to the examination of 
human values,” Schlissel said. 
Mills opened by framing his 
lecture with the question of 
why racial justice has been so 
rarely addressed in Western, 
and particularly American, 
political 
philosophy 
when 
justice is a main idea of 
debate within the discipline. 
To lay the groundwork of his 
argument, 
Mills 
explained 
the 
theories 
of 
classical 
liberalism, a set of ideals 
from the Enlightenment era 
advocating for free markets, 

rule of law, private property, 
individual 
freedom 
and 
equality based on free trade.
As Mills explained, classical 
liberalism was the dominant 
political ideology of modern 
Western 
countries 
including 
the United States prior to the 
20th century. Classical liberals 
claimed to break from oppressive, 
undemocratic political systems 
such as feudalism, a hierarchical 
medieval-era system in which 
peasants worked on the lands of 
nobility, and absolutism, a belief 
in the absolute power of a king 
who owned by divine right. 

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Volunteering in a clinical 
setting 
is 
an 
important 
part of pre-med students’ 
medical school applications. 
Each semester, there is a 
high demand for positions at 
the University of Michigan 
Hospital, the biggest and 
most 
accessible 
hospital 
on campus, with slots for 
attending 
an 
information 
session filling up within five 
minutes. 
After 
attending 
an 
information 
session, 

students 
are 
offered 
an 
interview 
on 
a 
lottery 
basis and then assigned a 
volunteer 
position 
based 
on their top three choices 
and time availability. Some 
students told The Daily they 
have found this process to 
be too long and sometimes 
frustrating. 
LSA 
sophomore 
Sadie 
Mauger said she has applied 
twice to volunteer through 
Michigan 
Medicine, 
but 
did not get an interview 
despite 
attending 
an 
information 
session. 
According 
to 
Mauger, 

the problem lies not only 
with capacity but with the 
process itself. She said the 
hospital was unclear when 
sharing 
interview 
times 
over the past year and was 
assigning time slots before 
people had finalized their 
schedules. 
“I 
think 
the 
most 
frustrating thing is that 
there 
is 
no 
seniority 
in 
terms 
of 
volunteer 
preference,” Mauger said. 
“I am applying to medical 
school, and I need that 
experience to apply, and I 
know that there are a lot of 

freshmen that are already 
volunteering, so seniority 
is something that would 
help the process.”
Though 
first-semester 
freshmen are not eligible 
to apply, the hospital does 
not 
have 
a 
preference 
among the other students 
during the hiring process. 
Returning 
volunteers 
have first pick at available 
positions at the beginning 
of each semester before 
new 
volunteers 
are 
registered. 

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Social Work lecturer, 
AADL board president 
announces city council 
 
bid ahead of election

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Dr. Charles Mills discusses racial justice at Rackham Auditorium Wedneday afternoon. 
NY philosophy professor lectures on 
racial justice, historical prejudice

Charles W. Mills highlights issues of oppression inherent in classical liberalism

More than 20 women have filed 
allegations of sexual misconduct

Librarian 
declares 
Ward Two
candidacy

Adrienne Harris speaks 
on fintech developments, 
accessbility of newer 
start-up technology

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Admin was aware of 
Philbert complaints, 
Free Press reports

University of Michigan 
administrators and faculty 
were 
aware 
of 
several 
complaints about Provost 
Martin Philbert while he 
served 
in 
various 
roles 
within 
the 
School 
of 
Public Health, according 
to The Detroit Free Press. 
Philbert 
was 
placed 
on 
paid 
administrative 
leave 
on 
Wednesday, 
Jan. 22 following several 
allegations 
of 
sexual 
misconduct.
Thomas Komorowski, a 
former research associate 
for 
the 
University 
who 
worked in Philbert’s lab at 
the School of Public Health 
in 2003, claimed in a 2004 
lawsuit he was wrongfully 
terminated because of an 
inappropriate relationship 
between Philbert and a 
female researcher. Philbert 
denied that Komorowski 
was laid off due to his 
relationship 
with 
the 
female 
researcher 
and 
claimed 
Komorowski’s 
grant aid had run out.
In 2005, the University 

settled the lawsuit for an 
unknown amount.
The Detroit Free Press 
reported that more than 
20 
women 
have 
filed 
complaints 
of 
sexual 

misconduct 
against 

Philbert, 
according 
to 
anonymous 
sources. 
In 
2009, when Philbert was 
leading research at the 
School of Public Health, 
an 
anonymous 
woman 
notified 
her 
supervisor 
in the dean’s office that 
Philbert 
had 
sexually 
harassed her. 
Philbert 
was 
one 
of 
several 
candidates 
who 
applied 
to 
be 
dean 
of 
the 
School 
of 
Public 
Health in 2010. When the 
search committee moved 
Philbert’s 
candidacy 
forward, 
an 
anonymous 
email 
accusing 
the 
committee of manipulating 
the process was sent to the 
leader of the committee 
and copied to the entire 
school. Then-Provost Phil 
Hanlon replied with an 
email to the school.
“This kind of vicious, 

personalized 
and 

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Daily Staff Reporter

Linh 
Song, 
board 
president 
of 
Ann 
Arbor 
District Library, announced 
her 
bid 
for 
Ann 
Arbor 
City Council on Monday. 
She will run in Ward 2 as 
a Democrat for the seat 
that Councilmember Jane 
Lumm, 
an 
Independent, 
currently holds. 
Lumm has represented 
Ward 2 since November 
2011 and has been the only 
non-Democrat 
on 
City 
Council for several years. 
She also served as Ward 
2 
Councilmember 
from 
1993 through 1997 as a 
Republican. 
Lumm 
has 
said 
she 
does 
not 
plan 
to 
run 
again in 2020, citing her 
slim chances of winning 
with many people voting 
straight-ticket when filling 
out their ballot, particularly 
in a Democratic stronghold 
like Ann Arbor. Both Lumm 
and Song did not respond to 
multiple phone calls seeking 
comment.

The Ross School of Business’s 
+Impact Studio and the MBA 
Finance Club co-hosted Adrienne 
Harris, 
Towsley 
Foundation 
Policymaker in Residence at the 
Ford School of Public Policy, at the 
Business School for a discussion on 
financial technology, or fintech, and 
financial inclusion in the U.S. About 
90 people attended the event on 
Monday. 
Harris is currently a Gates 
Foundation 
Research 
Fellow 
and advises fintech companies, 
incumbent financial institutions 
and venture capital firms. Harris 
has worked in the government 
and corporate realms developing 
strategies to address financial 
inclusion and fintech availability 
to underserved populations. Most 
recently, she worked with a San 
Francisco-based inter-tech startup.
Harris shared her expertise 
on fintech and engaged in a Q&A 
dialogue with Business professor 
Jeffrey 
Sanchez-Burks, 
faculty 
director of the +Impact Studio 
and Business graduate student 
Gabrielle Alves, the vice president 
of diversity and inclusion for the 
MBA Finance Club. 

CLAIRE HAO
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HANNAH MACKAY
Daily Staff Reporter

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