University of Michigan leaders 
met at the Ross School of Business 
Robertson 
Auditorium 
Monday 
morning 
to 
hear 
University 
President Santa Ono’s Leadership 
Welcome address. Ono outlined 
his priorities for the University, 
including building a collaborative 
university 
environment 
and 
repairing community relationships. 
Ono 
also 
announced 
the 
University’s approach in reforming 
their approach to Diversity, Equity 
and Inclusion (DEI) and announced 
the University’s search for a director 
of sustainability. 
University 
Regent 
Sarah 
Hubbard (R) opened the Leadership 
Welcome by remarking on Ono’s 
qualifications as the new president. 
“We set the bar high and we 
looked for the best,” Hubbard said. 
“(President Ono) could champion 
our public mission, educational 
excellence 
and 
(support) 
transformative research in carbon 
neutrality and sustainability and in 

diversity, inclusion and equity.” 
Ono began his talk by giving his 
thanks to those watching online, the 
board for their faith in his leadership 
and Hubbard for opening. He 
spoke of the honor to serve as the 
University’s 15th president. 
“I started as president on Oct. 
14, and every day since has been 
an opportunity to immerse myself 
in the energy and vitality of this 
remarkable institution that I’ve 
already grown to love,” Ono said.

Throughout 
his 
talk, 
Ono 
emphasized the theme of “strategic 
visioning” and creating University 
goals as a process of discussion. 
“I’d like us to come together as 
one community to spend the coming 
months in conversation and through 
dialogue to develop a strategic 
vision that will be in place for this 
university in 2024,” Ono said.
Ono went on to discuss the 
importance of rebuilding trust 
in the campus community. Ono’s 

tenure follows a tumultuous year 
for the University’s administration 
after former University President 
Mark Schlissel was fired. Ono 
said 
rebuilding 
trust 
in 
the 
administration 
entails 
working 
towards a more stable administrative 
culture. He particularly encouraged 
students, staff and faculty to help 
him in creating that culture. 
“Restoring trust in this university 
to all stakeholders is my job as 
president,” Ono said. “But it is also 
your job as university citizens, every 
single member of this community, to 
earn the trust of those who support 
us.” 
At the October Board of Regents 
meeting, 
Ono 
announced 
his 
intent to establish a central ethics, 
integrity and compliance office 
to restore trust in the University’s 
administration. In his address, 
Ono emphasized a collaboration 
with student and faculty groups to 
achieve this goal and noted that he 
would not be making a “task force,” 
which he sees as inefficient and 
exclusionary to the actual groups 
they affect.

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Ahead of the 2023-2026 contract 
negotiation with the University of 
Michigan Human Resources, the 
Graduate Employees’ Organization 
(GEO) held a rally on the Diag to 
raise awareness for their demands 
and gain support from community 
members. With over 100 people in 
attendance, the rally highlighted key 
demands the union hopes to address 
in their upcoming negotiations.
GEO’s 
bargaining 
campaign 
coincided 
with 
multiple 
labor 
protests 
across 
the 
country, 
including a labor strike in the 
University 
of 
California 
(UC) 
system 
involving 
more 
than 
48,000 workers — the largest work 
stoppage by University workers in 
the United States’ history. The GEO 
rally also occurred as thousands 
of Starbucks workers across the 
nation, including employees at the 
locations at Glencoe Crossing, Main 

and Liberty and Jackson and Zeeb 
in Ann Arbor, went on strike during 
“Red Cup Day.”
One of GEO’s key demands in 
their new contract campaign is 
an increase in the minimum full-
time equivalent salary on the Ann 
Arbor campus from $24,053.32 
to $38,537 — according to a press 
release. The organization arrived 
at the new salary demand using 
the 
Massachusetts 
Institute 
of 
Technology 
Living 
Wage 
Calculator’s estimation for a living 
wage in Ann Arbor. GEO’s other 
demands 
included 
eliminating 
copay 
for 
mental 
healthcare, 
establishing an “accommodations-
first” model and establishing an 
unarmed emergency response team 
on campus. 
In an interview with The 
Michigan 
Daily 
prior 
to 
the 
rally, GEO President Jared Eno 
said this was the third time he 
has participated in the triennial 
bargaining. He hopes the perceived 
accessibility of Ono could help 

to improve the administration 
and labor relationship during the 
negotiation. 
Thursday’s 
protest 
was the first bargaining campaign 
hosted by GEO since University 
President Santa Ono took office. 
“The past couple of presidents 
were not particularly labor friendly 
and did not particularly seem to be 

interested in the working conditions 
of their workers,” Eno said. “Ono 
seems to really care about people 
on campus, so we’re excited to work 
with the administration to solve 
this crisis of affordability that grad 
workers are facing.”

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Students protest with signs in solidarity with GEO’s demands for higher pay on the Diag 
Thursday morning. 

NEWS

Chants 
rang 
through 
the 
University 
of 
Michigan 
Diag 
Saturday as students from local 
universities and members of the 
Ann 
Arbor 
community 
came 
together to protest in solidarity 
with the protesters in Iran and to 
commemorate Bloody November, 
also known as Bloody Aban. 
During Bloody November, the 
internet was shut down across Iran 
and activists were arrested.
The 
death 
of 
22-year-old 
Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also 
known as Jina Amini, sparked the 
protests in September. The Iranian 

morality police arrested Amini for 
not wearing her hijab correctly 
and for wearing skinny jeans. She 
was struck in the head several 
times while in custody and died in 
the hospital on Sept. 16. Reform-
minded activists took to the streets 
in the country and around the 
world, including the U.S.
The protest started at 1 p.m. 
Saturday. Music in both Farsi and 
English blared from the speakers. 
People also wore shirts emblazoned 
with red and black slogans, and 
some brought ropes and scarves 
to symbolize those who have been 
hanged for protesting during both 
Bloody Aban and the current 
Iranian protests. Many came with 
signs, too, with the words “women, 

life, freedom” in bold letters — the 
main slogan of this protest. 
Though many Iranians and 
those of Iranian descent attended 
the protest, students of other 
backgrounds also came to the Diag 
to promote progressive causes. 
Public health student Andrew 
Yang attended the protest and said 
he came to show solidarity.
“I (attended the protest), to 
show that there’s someone other 
than Iranians (alone) that supports 
(the protesters’) cause,” Yang said. 
The event began with the 
playing of the Iranian national 
anthem. People showed their 
respect by facing the Iranian flag 
held by one of the protesters. Once 
the song ended, speakers took the 

microphone and spoke in both 
Farsi and English, emphasizing 
that it has been over 60 days since 
the protests started in September 
and that the protesters want the 
international community to stand 
with the Iranian people. They also 
said the protest promoted not only 
regime change in Iran but also the 
empowerment of women in the 
country and beyond.
After the speakers finished, 
they led the crowd through chants 
demanding rights for the Iranian 
people. 
Protesters 
shouted, 
“freedom for Iran,” and called for 
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s 
removal.

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