LSA junior Stephen Dinka arrived 
at 
the 
Shapiro 
Undergraduate 
Library basement hoping to receive 
help with his Foundations of 
Computer Science course, EECS 376, 
homework at office hours. However, 
even though he arrived early, Dinka 
saw a massive crowd of students 
waiting for the instructional aide.
“That one particular day was 
ridiculous,” Dinka said. “There were 
people standing around, right at the 
front door wondering, ‘Where’s the 
IA?’ When the IA finally showed 

up, you have all these people just 
standing, and there’s no room. 
They literally go across the entire 
basement and take all these chairs 
just to sit around this one guy with a 
tiny whiteboard.”
Students 
told 
The 
Daily 
overcrowding in the UGLi is a 
familiar issue for many students 
of theory-based computer science 
classes. IAs interviewed by The 
Daily said they do not want to be a 
nuisance in public spaces, but they 
need to use them because they do 
not have an official area to host office 
hours. Unlike professors, they do not 
have offices or designated spaces to 

meet.
Engineering sophomore Ryan 
Baker said he tends to arrive early to 
office hours, which IAs hold in the 
UGLi, but has also been in positions 
where he wasn’t early enough and 
there was not enough room in 
the UGLi to accommodate all the 
students who need help.
“I’ve been in positions where 
there are so many people in that 
small space that the IA is trying to 
utilize that you can’t see what he’s 
writing or you can’t hear him at all,” 
Baker said. “It’s just kind of pointless 
going to office hours at that point 
because you can’t get the help you 

need.”
According 
to 
Engineering 
junior Ian Robinson, an EECS 
376 IA, the overcrowding issue 
became 
exacerbated 
once 
the 
class was informally kicked 
out of the UGLi basement. 
For his specific office hours, 
Robinson moved to the Design 
Lab of the UGLi. Even after 
moving, he was still unable to 
fit all the students who needed 
help but had no other options 
as he does not have an office 
on campus.

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The University of Michigan 
International 
Institute 
presented the Conference on 
Migration, attended by about 
50 members of the University 
community, 
on 
Monday 
at 
Weiser Hall. The conference 
consisted of interdisciplinary 
dialogue driven by presentations 
from local and international 

scholars. 
Topics covered include the 
migration of ideas and languages, 
causes and effects of migration, 
the socio-political implications 
of human movement, culture 
production and transferral and 
countering common narratives 
about migration. 
Alyssa Park, professor of 
modern 
Korean 
history 
at 
the University of Iowa, gave a 
talk explaining the history of 

Korean and Chinese migration 
near the Russian border and 
how the rules and norms of 
migration changed over time. 
Due to a lack of land and natural 
disasters such as flooding in 
Korea in the 19th century, Park 
said Korean migrants moved in 
waves to Russia, particularly to 
Vladivostok province. 
“The region (of Vladivostok 
was) newly acquired by Russia, 
not many Russians there,” Park 

said. “So they make do with the 
people who are closest and these 
would be Chinese and Koreans … 
and Vladivostok becomes a hub 
for these people.”
Park also talked about Russia 
then claiming that the Korean 
immigrants 
were 
Russian 
“subjects,” 
the 
equivalent 
of 
modern-day 
citizens. 

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Approximately 
50 
students, 
faculty and community members 
gathered 
in 
the 
Rackham 
Assembly Hall on Monday evening 
to 
attend 
“Gender 
Violence, 
Immigrant Vulnerability and the 
State: A Symposium.” The event 
was designed to educate students 
and the community about how 
increased 
globalization 
and 
migration is affecting how society 
views immigrants in the post-
colonial world. 
Debotri Dhar, women’s studies 
professor at the University of 
Michigan, organized the event 
along with other speakers. 
According to Dhar, residual 
ideals from the colonial era have 
resulted in immigrants of color 
being framed as burdens on 
the state in order to maintain 
hierarchies of race, social class 
and nation present in the colonial 
era. She said this also contributes 
to 
the 
relationship 
between 
immigrant 
vulnerability 
and 
gender violence in today’s post-
colonial era.
“This 
current 
moment 
in 
history is very politically divisive, 
not just for the nation but globally,” 
Dhar said. 

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Ford School presents 
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 pricing solutions, case 
study in global economy

LILY GOODING
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Following mishaps with Iowa caucus, 
gov’t employees speak on preparations 

Experts talk impact of 
colonial-era discourse 
on immigrants of color, 
modern-day rhetoric

CS instructional aides struggle to 
find adequate space for office hours
Unlike professors or graduate students, IAs are undergraduates who do 
not have a designated place to teach students, leading to overcrowding in libraries

The Ford School of Public 
Policy hosted a discussion with 
Priti Krishtel, the co-founder 
and co-executive director of the 
Initiative for Medicines, Access 
and 
Knowledge. 
The 
event 
titled, “To Solve Drug Pricing 
We Must Solve the Drug Patent 
Problem,” was a part of the 
Science, Technology and Public 
Policy speaker series at the Public 
Policy School. There were about 
30 people in attendance Monday 
evening.
 Krishtel began to discuss her 
work as an advocate for drug 
patent reform. Throughout her 
career, Krishtel has worked with 
many global organizations and 
agencies such as the Indian NGO 
Lawyers Collective.
 She gave a brief history of 
India’s patent system and spoke 
about how high prescription drug 
prices impacted the community. 
 “The common service we had 
to provide for clients was to draw 
up adoption and documentation 
papers. This was because parents 
knew that they were going to pass 
away and they needed to make 
sure their children were cared 
for,” Krishtel said.

Speaker 
discusses
reform of 
patents

MI officials 
look ahead
to primary 
election day

FRANCESCA DUONG
Daily Staff Reporter

The Iowa caucuses have 
kicked off every presidential 
primary election race since 
1972 and serve to narrow down 
the field of candidates in each 
political party. However, what 
ensued during this year’s Iowa 
caucus left both the importance 
and credibility of the historic 
event in question ahead of 
the remaining caucuses and 
primaries. It ultimately took 
party officials 15 days to get 
100 percent of the votes in, 
with candidates Pete Buttigieg 
and Sen. Bernie, D-Vt., Sanders 
determined as the winners. 
There 
were 
issues 
downloading a new app the 
Iowa Democratic Party rolled 
out, with only 439 people 
ultimately 
submitting 
their 
votes through the app out of 
1,765 precincts. 
The mishaps of the Iowa 
caucus 
left 
many 
voters 
discouraged. LSA senior Jessica 
Kosticak, 
co-president 
for 
Students for Pete, was in Iowa 
as the caucus results unfolded. 
“It was an interesting sight 
to behold. It was just wild,” 
Kosticak 
said. 
“As 
I 
was 

traveling back to Michigan the 
day after (the Iowa caucus), my 
road trip partner was reading 
me poll results and as some of 
the precinct results started 
coming in, I was like, ‘Okay, 
but is it real?’ There was a lot 
of skepticism in person and 
online. There still continues to 
be, I think rightfully so.”
The Michigan primary on 
March 10 is a key moment, 
since the state is considered a 
battleground state in the 2020 
election. Donald Trump won in 
Michigan by over 10,000 votes 
in 2016 where, in previous 
elections, the state had voted 
Democratic, 
and 
since 
has 
voted in a Democratic governor. 
While 
acknowledging 
the 
mishaps 
of 
the 
Iowa 
caucus, Jake Rollow, director 
of 
communications 
at 
the 
Michigan Department of State, 
highlighted 
the 
differences 
between the way each state 
runs their primary elections. 
“I always use the apples to 
oranges 
comparison. 
Iowa’s 
run by caucuses, ours aren’t 
caucuses, they’re primaries,” 
Rollow said.

JULIA FORREST
Daily Staff Reporter

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