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Kevin Leeser bags 3D-printed medical face shield components donated to Operation Face Shield, the organization he created in response to the 
COVID-19 pandemic. 

Information 
sophomore 
Summer 

Nguyen was scrolling through Facebook 

one day in late March when she came 

across another GoFundMe page for 

a small Ann Arbor business. Nguyen, 

realizing the serious implications of 

Whitmer’s executive order for local 

businesses, decided to create a post 

with the links of multiple GoFundMe 

campaigns to spread awareness about the 

calls for donations.

“I realized that there are so many 

more small and local businesses that I 

care about in Ann Arbor that may not be 

seen,” Nguyen said. “It’s kind of hard to 

pinpoint which ones are actually accepting 

donations and are in need of support right 

now. So I thought it would be a good idea 

to just compile the ones that I could find in 

the local downtown Ann Arbor area that 

people knew about and would be willing to 

support.”

Nguyen said stay-at-home orders and 

citywide shutdowns have led students and 

community members to feel powerless 

in the face of a looming economic crisis. 

Turning to fundraising platforms, she said, 

may be one of the only ways to actively 

contribute. 

“It can be kind of a helpless situation,” 

Nguyen said. “There’s not much that we 

can really do since we’re all quarantined 

inside our homes. By donating, I feel like 

it’s one of the best ways to kind of fight 

back and provide a good contribution to 

this entire thing.”

Jessie Lipkowitz, the owner of aUM 

Yoga on South University Avenue and a 

University alum, echoed this feeling of 

helplessness after being forced to shut her 

business’ doors late last month. In an email 

to The Daily, Lipkowitz said business may 

not return to normal even if the studio was 

granted permission to reopen. 

“Even if we were able to re-open 

our doors tomorrow, the University of 

Michigan has cancelled spring term 

classes, and the months of May-August are 

already a gigantic hurdle that Ann Arbor 

businesses face every year,” Lipkowitz 

wrote. “The ripple effects of this pandemic 

will continue for months, if not for years to 

come.”

Like the Gustafsons, Lipkowitz turned 

to GoFundMe in an attempt to preserve 

her business, which opened on North 

University Avenue in September 2013 and 

expanded to a new space in 2015. She said 

she remains thankful for the community’s 

support even as she struggles to keep the 

business operational in preparation for its 

reopening. 

“It is hard to put into words how much 

gratitude we have, knowing that members 

of our community are willing to contribute 

in a time that is undoubtedly difficult for 

everyone,” Lipkowtiz wrote. 

Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor 

said the city has been implementing small 

initiatives to help small businesses feeling 

the impact of COVID-19, such as making 

parking in Ann Arbor free. This allows 

individuals to more easily pick up take-out 

meals and conveniently park outside of 

restaurants, Taylor said.

“The market impact of COVID-19 is 

substantial and continues to spread,” 

Taylor said. “As primarily a municipal 

service-providing organization, we don’t 

have resources to provide grants and 

things like that to enterprises. We do have 

some levers that we’re working on.”

Taylor said most small businesses in 

Ann Arbor are on triple net leases by which 

tenants have property tax responsibility. 

He said the city will continue to provide 

services such as water supply, police 

stations and fire stations during the 

pandemic.

According to the LSA website on 

academic 
misconduct, 
“Academic 

dishonesty may be understood as any 

action or attempted action that may 

result in creating an unfair academic 

advantage for oneself or an unfair 

academic advantage or disadvantage 

for any other member or members of 

the academic community.” 

Examples of academic misconduct 

include 
cheating, 
plagiarism 
and 

unacceptable 
collaboration. 
The 

website also lists among other forms 

of misconduct “aiding and abetting 

dishonesty,” 
or 
when 
students 

deliberately or inadvertently provide 

material or information to another 

person that allows for improper use.

Though the students interviewed by 

The Daily mentioned their concerns 

regarding an increase in cheating 

in the digital classroom, The Daily 

cannot verify the extent to which 

cheating is currently occurring. 

In Said Hannouchi’s Arabic 402 

class, Hannouchi, the Arabic language 

program director, said he shares his 

screen during in-class live quizzes 

to avoid having copies spread out 

and shared with students between 

class sections. He also said sharing 

the screen restricts students from 

consulting 
other 
resources 
while 

taking quizzes.

“I share the screen instead of 

sending them the quiz,” Hannouchi 

said. “They only had to write the 

answers. If they want to go back and 

look at something, they only have 

the answers. They don’t have full 

sentences or the prompts that are 

given to them.” 

However, Hannouchi said he trusts 

his students and said he only wants to 

mirror in-class conditions.

“I know my students,” Hannouchi 

said. “I’m not worried, actually. When 

I did that, I’m not worried about 

cheating. (I’m just) trying to simulate 

what we’re doing in the class.”

Prior to the move towards online 

learning, procedures for resolving 

academic misconduct usually began 

with instructors reporting possible 

violations to the Office of the Assistant 

Dean and informing the student. 

Though instructors may choose to 

handle simple cases on their own, 

the OAD requests a summary to be 

reported after the conclusion of the 

incident and for complex cases to be 

immediately reported. 

The 
OAD 
then 
begins 
an 

investigation and meets with the 

student, where an Honor Council 

representative may attend. The LSA 

Student Honor Council is a student 

organization that promotes integrity 

on campus and provides a student voice 

at academic misconduct hearings. 

Next, the OAD determines the 

outcome and reports to the student 

and instructor. If the student is found 

responsible, the student may have 

college sanctions imposed and will 

have appropriate grade penalties as 

outlined in the course syllabus. If the 

student is found not responsible, the 

instructor should grade the student 

regularly 
and 
no 
sanctions 
are 

imposed. 

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