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International students draw value from U.S. election CAROLYN GEARIG/Daily
Wayne State Prof. Saeed A. Khan speaks at Islamophobia: Politics, Priorities and Prejudice in 2016 at the Hatcher Graduate Library Tuesday.
Nonprofit urges Muslim-Americans to participate in political process
Researchers present data on low voter registration, high Islamophobic sentiments KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporter
With the presidential election less than a week away, about 50 people gathered Tuesday at Hatcher Graduate Library to listen to researchers Saeed Khan and Sarrah Buageila discuss data
on how everyone, but especially those from marginalized communities, can affect the political process at both the local and national level. The event — Islamophobia: Politics, Priorities and Prejudice in 2016 — was organized by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a nonprofit
founded in 2002 that conducts research aimed at empowering American Muslims to increase community involvement and participation in democracy in the United States. Buageila, the project manager for ISPU’s research department, began the talk by detailing the results of two polls on American
Muslims. She said the ISPU found 61 percent of Americans hold an unfavorable view of Islam, roughly half of all Americans do not know a Muslim and 80 percent of U.S. media coverage of Islam is negative. Furthermore, she said only 60 percent of Muslims are registered to vote in the United See LECTURE, Page 3A
Presidential race sparks intrigue, concern outside the United States CALEB CHADWELL Daily Staff Reporter
Though campus is abuzz about the presidential election, international students, many of whom have never experienced the American political process firsthand, are bringing a new perspective to the contentious race. Noting political discourse among students has been tense at times during the election season, Business sophomore Jonathan Cheng, who is from Hong Kong, said he thinks Americans should first recognize what a privilege it is for them to be able to democratically elect their leader. “I think it is pretty impressive
for Americans to vote for their president,” Cheng said. “Voters should treasure this opportunity where this is not a certainty for people in many other countries.” Cheng said he decided to pursue his college studies in the United States, both because American universities are consistently ranked highest in the world, and because he valued the more relaxed learning environment and relationship between professors and students. “The relationship between students and faculty are more ‘equal’ and friendly,” Cheng said. “I remembered in my accounting class, while a student dropped his notes on the floor, the lecturer See INTERNATIONAL, Page 3A
Central Student Government hosts Diag Stanford Lecturer Lipsey, ‘U’ event to gather feedback from students links data
CAMPUS LIFE
STATE
alum, dies at age 89
Participant concerns center on University diversity, access to North Campus
Former Buffalo News editor was significant donor to student groups
The University of Michigan Central Student Government launched a new campaign, “It Starts With Me,” at an event on the Diag Tuesday. The initiative aims to bring awareness to racism and discrimination on campus. As part of the event, students were also encouraged to submit feedback to the body about their initiatives and plans this semester. For the event, representatives from the general assembly, as well as CSG commissions, were posted near Mason Hall with 600 donuts, CSG handouts and a suggestions board for students to write on. As of Tuesday afternoon, the suggestions on the board primarily centered around transportation to North Campus, as well as expressions of solidarity for minority students on campus. LSA junior Zena Shunnar, deputy programming officer for CSG, said the event was organized in part because leaders in the organization believe the body needs to be more accessible to students. Increasing transparency of the assembly’s initiatives was part of the platform of newMICH, the political party led by CSG President David Schafer and CSG Vice President Micah
CALEB CHADWELL Daily Staff Reporter
University of Michigan alum Stanford Lipsey, the longtime publisher of The Buffalo News and a significant donor to several initiatives and groups on campus, including student publications, died Tuesday morning at the age of 89. Lipsey was a native of Omaha, Nebraska and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1948 with a B.A. in Economics. While a student, he was a photographer for The Michigan Daily and a photography editor for the Michiganensian yearbook. In 2005, Lipsey donated $3 million for the renovation of the Student Publications Building, which houses several campus publications including the Daily. The Board of Regents then renamed the Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building in his honor. Lipsey also established a series of annual scholarships and prizes in 2007 for See LIPSEY, Page 3A
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Griggs, LSA seniors. “I think it’s important to show students what we’re doing, to actually have interaction,” Shunnar said at the event. “The main reason we chose Diag Day (was) just to show face and to not be behind a door so much.” “One trend that I’ve noticed is about more frequent buses on weekend, like the timing of buses,” Shunnar said.
“And then just, like, a lot of people who have been feeling discrimination on campus, supporting different causes and minorities on campus.” In the past few months, several incidents targeting minority students have sparked controversy on campus. In September, posters were hung in Mason and Haven Halls bearing slogans like “denying your heritage … be white.” In
response to the slogans, more than 200 students marched through campus, chanting “No justice, no peace” to express solidarity. By the end of the day, the suggestion board was covered with more than 300 different suggestions, ranging from “No more meatless Monday” to “Fight racism,” and CSG representatives said they See DIAG, Page 3A
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University of Michigan students write suggestions for Central Student Government as part of a campaign to increase inclusivity and tolerance on campus through an event on the Diag Tuesday.
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and maps in Detroit
Alex Hill discusses project to create cartographies of city MARGOT SHERIDAN Daily Staff Reporter
Alex Hill, data and design coordinator for the city of Detroit’s Health Department, spoke at the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Tuesday on the importance of contextualizing data Hill heads Detroitography, a project designed to document how Detroit’s history has changed its geography, economy and society. The project, launched by Hill shortly after he moved to Detroit in 2009, emphasizes how residents tie their identities to the spaces and places where they live. “When I first moved to the city, I had a lot of questions about where things were and what was going on, so in my free time, I started pulling data and creating my own maps to understand it,” Hill said. “In that process, I was connecting with a lot of other people in Detroit who were making maps and they were creating some great work.” For Hill, a love of maps started at an early age. As a former See MAP, Page 3A
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