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CAMPUS LIFE
Schlissel: ‘U’ response to fliers aims to be proactive KEVIN ZHENG/Daily
Dr. Amir Ganjavie talks about censorship and portrayal of sexuality in Iranian filmography in a lecture on campus Monday.
Lecture explores censorship and portrayl of women in Iranian film
Female cinematic roles have shifted as government regimes altered over time TYLER COADY
Daily Staff Reporter
The portrayal of women in Iranian cinema is limited, Amir Ganjavie, a communication and culture Ph.D. student at York University in Toronto, said at a talk Monday night on love,
intimacy and eroticism in the genre. At its first lecture series of the semester, the Department of Near Eastern Studies hosted Ganjavie, a cultural critic and Iranian film connoisseur who has written for publications such as BBC Persian and Senses of Cinema and Cameron
GOVERNMENT
Higher ed a focus at ‘U’ before VP debate Kaine, Pence both tout policy on topic during campaign CALEB CHADWELL Daily Staff Reporter
Ahead of Tuesday’s vice presidential debate between Sen. Tim Kaine (D–Va.) and Gov. Mike Pence (R–Ind.), education stands out in the records of both running mates and could draw student interest in the event. In a Michigan Daily poll of University of Michigan students, higher education reform was recognized as an important issue for voters, with 26 percent of respondents citing higher education reform as being “extremely important” to them and 35.1 percent responding it is “very important.” 59.7 percent of respondents also said they prefer a “debt-free” college reform plan and another 18.8 percent said they prefer a “tuition-free” plan. On the campaign trail, Pence has cited his yearly budget investments in education as the largest ever in his home state of Indiana, while Kaine has highlighted his continued work in the Senate to secure $9.5 million in education funding in his home state of Virginia, as well as his wife Anne Holton’s work in See DEBATE, Page 3
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Cross, Iranian Studies Prof. at the University of Michigan to discuss Ganjavie’s work on the utopic visions of national cinema and how intimacy is portrayed in Iranian films. Ganjavie began his lecture with a brief history of how women came to be depicted in Iranian films noting this the
Pahlavi Dynasty, which ruled Iran until 1979, encouraged filmmakers to make women objects of affection. However, after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, a whole new range of restrictions were levied on the Iranian film industry by the government, with women See FILM, Page 3
Amid discovery of new alt right posters, president meets with student leaders ALEXA ST. JOHN Daily Staff Reporter
After meeting with a group of student government leaders at the Cube Monday, University of Michigan president Mark Schlissel discussed his administration’s response to anti-Black, anti-Muslim and anti-LGBTQ posters discovered over the past week. Last Monday, anti-Black and anti-women posters were found in University buildings. Today, more offensive posters were found posted around campus from the white-supremacist group alt-right. Speaking specifically to the meeting that was occurring,
Schlissel told The Michigan Daily he wanted to bring together student leaders in an effort to continue the actions the University is taking in response to last week’s incidents. “We were struck by another round of these terrible, racist, hateful posters, and I’m trying to look for proactive things that we can do together as a community to speak out against hate,” Schlissel said. “It’s really important to me that the student body as a whole pays attention to this and appreciates what’s going on and steps up to support students that feel like their place here is being attacked.” Over the past week, students have initiated a series of protests See SCHLISSEL, Page 3
Bill Clinton emphasizes economic Faculty policy points in Flint campaign stop discusses ACADEMICS
Speech highlights need for college affordability LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
Former President Bill Clinton visited Flint Monday afternoon to campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, highlighting her policy proposals on the economy and college affordability. Approximately 500 people filled the University of MichiganFlint’s Northbank Center to hear Clinton speak. Michigan has received a fair amount of attention from both campaigns this election with recent visits from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Chelsea Clinton, Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine and Anne Holton, former Virginia secretary of education and wife of Kaine. In his remarks, Bill Clinton said the most significant item to emerge from the Democratic National Convention this year were updates to Hillary Clinton’s higher education reform plan, the New College Compact, influenced by her primary opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I–Vt.). “You’ve got to make college affordable,” he said. “The most important thing that happened at the Democratic Convention was the new plan that was agreed upon by Senator Sanders and Hillary Clinton.” The new plan incorporates aspects of Sanders’ higher
education plan by making public universities tuition-free for students from families who make less than $125,000 per year. He also dedicated much of his speech to outlining the various aspects of Hillary Clinton’s economic plan, including her focus on small businesses and manufacturing. He charged that Trump’s plan would serve to only benefit the rich.
“Her opponent wants to go back to trickle-down economics on steroids,” he said. “It’s the same old story with tax cuts for billionaires.” For many attendees, the fact that Clinton had visited the city was the most important aspect of his speech. On the Republican side, some attention has also been paid to Flint. Trump visited the city in September; however, he encountered a
colder reception. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette also spoke at the Republican National Convention in July where he stated his goal of obtaining justice for Flint. The Flint water crisis has been an issue that Hillary Clinton has repeatedly said to be of high importance to her. She first highlighted the issue during a Democratic debate in See FLINT, Page 3
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President Bill Clinton speaks at the Michigan Democratic Party Stronger Together Rally in Flint Monday.
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tri-campus resolution Committee also talks ways to address controversies online MATT HARMON Daily Staff Reporter
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs met Monday evening to discuss how the committee responded to campus controversies, as well as review edits made by the University of Michigan’s Dearborn and Flint representatives to a resolution from a previous SACUA meeting on a tri-campus governance investigation requested by UM-Dearborn and UM-Flint. In response to the recent postings of racially charged f lyers around campus, SACUA members said they saw the speed of other student organizations and University representatives’ reactions to the event as a sign that they should examine the efficacy of their own statements and social media strategies. William Schultz, chair of both SACUA and Senate Assembly, said their recent social media efforts, including a tweet that went out addressing the f lyers, were See SACUA, Page 3
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