The 
University 
of 
Michigan Central Student 
Government 
convened 
in 
the 
Michigan 
Union 
Tuesday night to discuss 
allocations of Legislative 
Discretionary funding, to 
confirm new roles and to 
amend the election code. 
The 
Assembly 
began 
with 
deliberations 
on 
allocating a fund of $5,645 
for 
performing 
Macbeth 
in the Union courtyard. 
Music, Theatre & Dance 
representative 
Zion 
Jackson advocated for the 
resolution.
“The reason we are doing 
this is because we feel that 
theatre is an integral part 
of the American lifestyle, 
and I feel that theatre 
has power in connecting 
people,” Jackson said. “This 
Shakespeare play does a lot 
of that. It has a lot of themes 
(that) are very political, not 
in a bad sense, but it shines 
a light on different topics of 
today.”
LSA 
representative 
Maddi Walsh, on the other 
hand, was concerned about 
the cost required for this 
production.
“We 
don’t 
have 
any 
way 
of 
really 
knowing 
concretely what the value 
that we are getting out of 
(the production) is,” Walsh 
said. “We don’t really know 
aside from just projections 
from past productions what 
our return on investments 
is going to be and whether 
it is going to be similar or 
not.”
In response to Walsh’s 
concerns, 
Jackson 
recognized the production 
is a risk financially, but 
also creates an opportunity 
for CSG to build a stronger 

relationship 
with 
the 
School of Music, Theatre & 
Dance.
“I know it’s a risk. It’s 
very risky and that we 
don’t 
know 
the 
actual 
return on investment and 
such, but I also feel like 
with something like this 
we won’t know unless we 
try,” Jackson said. “There 
haven’t been any efforts, at 
least to my knowledge, any 
concrete or solid efforts 
for us to try to establish a 
better relationship with the 
School of Music, Theatre & 
Dance, and so I feel like this 
is a method to do that.”
After 
a 
vote, 
the 
resolution 
was 
referred 
to 
the 
Resolutions 
and 
Finances Committee due 
to concerns regarding the 
large fund needed. 
The 
Assembly 
then 
confirmed LSA sophomore 
Brendan Neary as vice-chair 
of the Student Organization 
Funding Committee. Last 
semester, LSA junior and 
SOFC vice-chair Max Jones 
was recalled for application 
misconduct.
LSA 
freshman 
Kyla 
McCallum 
was 
also 
confirmed as chief of staff. 
McCallum 
will 
succeed 
Public 
Policy 
junior 
Amanda 
Kaplan, 
who 
announced her candidacy 
for CSG President with the 
Mobilize 
party 
Monday 
night. 
The Assembly approved 
a resolution to create a 
Student 
Organization 
Committee 
to 
improve 
CSG’s 
relationship 
with 
student 
organizations 
and relieve the workload 
on 
SOFC, 
which 
is 
currently responsible for 
enforcing CSG regulations 
and 
managing 
student 
organization funding. 
The committee will be 
led by a director who will 

manage 
communication 
with student organizations, 
funding and enforcement of 
rules. SOC will also manage 
other student organization 
operations 
that 
are 
not 
related 
to 
funding 
but 
impact student life. 
The 
Assembly 
also 
reached 
a 
decision 
to 
remove the BIT Liaison, 
who 
oversees 
SOFC’s 
Bystander 
Intervention 
Training 
Liaison, 
and 
redirect the responsibilities 
of the liaison to the Sexual 
Misconduct Prevention and 
Survivor 
Empowerment 
Commission. It was also 
decided that the Bystander 
Intervention Training will 
be converted to an online 
course. 
The Assembly discussed 
proposed 
amendments 
to 
the 
election code. Engineering 
representatives 
Zeke 
Majeske and Carla Voigt 
and 
LSA 
representative 
Sam 
Braden 
advocated 
for 
banning 
political 
parties. The group said 
that currently, parties seek 
out 
popular 
candidates 
who have the ability to get 
numbers.
Additionally, the group 
said there is a lack of 
information on ways to 
participate 
in 
CSG 
due 
to the fact that students 
usually learn about CSG 
only 
during 
election 
season. They said the party 
system further discourages 
individual candidates from 
contesting 
party 
picks 
for 
seats 
and 
prevents 
candidates from winning 
because 
of 
their 
party 
affiliation.
They also pointed out 
the 
financial 
burden 
on 
candidates 
who 
run 
without a party, saying they 
are delegated significantly 
lower 
funds 
when 
campaigning. 

CSG 
Speaker 
Whit 
Froehlich 
ruled 
this 
amendment out of order 
on the grounds that it was 
unconstitutional. However, 
the group said even if their 
proposal does not argue the 
unconstitutionality of the 
current system, it is still 
unfair.
The 
Assembly 
then 
engaged 
in 
a 
debate 
regarding the revocation of 
Froehlich’s ruling. Majeske 
withdrew the resolution.
The 
same 
group 
proposed another set of 
amendments 
that 
would 
allow students to campaign 
with other candidates, but 
would prevent them from 
campaigning under a single 
party name and putting a 
party name on the ballot. 
Froehlich ruled this set of 
proposed amendments out 
of order. 
The 
Assembly 
then 
debated the group’s third 
set of amendments. The 
Assembly voted to pass 
the sets of amendments, 
which bans party names 
on the ballot and prevents 
candidates from spending 
money on other candidates.
CSG Vice Speaker Selena 
Bazzi advocated for the 
amendments, 
saying 
she 
felt that candidates running 
with parties have an unfair 
advantage over individual 
candidates.
“When I first ran for CSG 
with MomentUM against 
MVision, I felt like I was 
chasing after everyone to 
vote for me, and even then I 
barely made it,” Bazzi said. 
“When I ran with Engage, 
I barely had to campaign, 
and I was on top. I feel like 
parties matter a lot.”
Reporter 
Navya 
Gupta 
can be reached at itznavya@
umich.edu.

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Feb. 19, 1975: ‘U’ to destroy some student files

The literary college (LSA) plans 
to destroy portions of student 
counseling 
records, 
according 
to 
Charles 
Morris, 
associate 
dean of LSA. The material to be 
removed consists of letters of 
recommendation written mainly 
by high school counselors, which 
have been forwarded from the 
admissions office to the LSA 
counseling office.
Morris 
reported 
that 
Vice 
President for Academic Affairs 
Frank Rhodes told him last week 
that the letters of recommendation 
could not be made available to 
students.
HOWEVER, because the LSA 
Administrative Board, which has 

final decision-making authority 
over LSA counseling offices, had 
earlier declared that all material 
in students’ files should be made 
available to the students, Morris 
said there is no option now 
available to the board except 
removal of the files in question.
Morris stated that “the feeling 
of the board is that if the material 
is not accessible to the student, 
it should not be accessible to 
anyone.” He stressed that the 
decision to destroy the material 
was something that they had been 
forced to do, not something of 
which he personally approved.
Nevertheless, 
Rhodes 
had 
stated last term that he would 

be “appalled” by destruction of 
files, and that the administration 
strongly opposed such a move. 
Rhodes 
was 
unavailable 
for 
comment last night.
HOWEVER, 
Edward 
Dougherty, assistant to Rhodes, 
contends that “the statement last 
term (opposing destruction of the 
records) was not made for ever 
and ever.”
Ernest Zimmerman, another 
assistant toRhodes, stated that 
“we did not ask the Administrative 
Board to do that (destroy files). 
They are at liberty to remove 
them; it’s their decision at this 
point.”
The move to destroy student 

records was prompted by a new 
federal law that allows students to 
see almost all the material in their 
counseling files. However, letters 
of recommendation to admissions 
offices written prior to January 
1, 1974 (with the understanding 
that the contents were to remain 
in confidence), may remain secret.
ZIMMERMAN 
argued 
that 
“the law provides that those 
letters submitted prior to January 
1 are confidential and should 
remain as such.”
However, another clause in the 
law, the Family Education Rights 
and Privacy Act of 1974, also states 
that recommendations used for 
purposes other than their original 

intent – namely admissions – may 
be made available to the subject. 
Morris contended that the 
files should be made available 
for that because of this clause; 
in fact, he had sent a letter last 
month to Zimmerman explaining 
that he intended to make the 
files completely open “unless we 
receive a contrary directive from 
the University.” That directive 
came from Rhodes last week in 
the letter that asked Morris to 
keep the files secret. 
According to Morris, “where 
the LSA administrative board and 
the 
University 
administration 
disagree clearly is in regards to 
their definition of that clause.”

“The University position was 
that making the files available 
would be a violation of the high 
school counselors’ rights,” Morris 
stated.
Morris said that the LSA board 
was then faced with a dilemma 
when Rhodes instructed that the 
letters remain secret – and the 
board was left with no choice but 
destruction of the files. Morris 
said that a consensus decision of 
the board was reached earlier this 
week.
Morris also explained that 
removal of the records would take 
some six months, and could be 
considerably expensive. 

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