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Visiting Lecturer Norhayati Abdullah speaks at the the Hijabi Monologues in Rackham Amphiltheater on Friday.
Hijabi Monologues aim to share experiences of Muslim women
Student speakers share stories of post-election frustration, faith and community MADELEINE GERSON Daily Staff Reporter
“Being a hijabi, I know the sense of betrayal that I felt after this election and I wasn’t probably alone.” Experiencing and witnessing hatred towards Muslim
women during the election and after the recent presidential inauguration, University of Michigan LSA sophomore Fatima Haidar said she felt she had no choice but to act. Haidar, alongside LSA sophomore Alyiah Al-Bonijim, decided to create an avenue for students and community
members to voice their stories, feelings and frustrations about what it means to be a hijabi in America. After less than a month of organizing and planning, the two students revived the Hijabi Monologues: a two-hour series of personal stories, songs, poetry and spoken word. A
crowd of more than 250 packed the Rackham Amphitheatre, reaching full capacity within minutes after doors opened on Friday evening. In their opening statement of their theme, “Halfway Hijabi,” Haidar and Al-Bonijim explained the importance See MONOLOGUES, Page 3A
String of off-campus crime alerts over the weekend alarms students MATT HARMON Daily Staff Reporter
An LSA freshman who requested to remain anonymous was held up when walking back to South Quad Residence Hall from a fraternity party Friday night — he could have called an Uber, but instead, he decided to set out on foot. During the walk back, a car pulled up next to him and an occupant of the car demanded his property. This incident has occurred amidst a series of similar robberies near campus in the past few weeks, something the University of Michigan Division of Public Safety and Security and the Ann Arbor Police Department
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said they are still trying to combat. “(I was) on East (University) and a car pulled up,” the victim said. “I didn’t think anything of it just because I thought it was like a normal car parking and then a guy jumped out. He had a longer gun, like possibly a shotgun kind of thing. He was like, ‘Hold up. Don’t say anything.’ ” The robber, wearing a red bandana, proceeded to take the victim’s wallet and cell phone, and then drove off in his what a police report would later describe as a gray, four-door car. The victim walked back to South Quad, borrowed his roommate’s phone and called the police. This is one of four robberies in downtown Ann Arbor in the See CRIMES, Page 3A
University community works to save DNC holds Travel ban gov. data from presidential transition blocks ‘U’ forum to
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Local archivists join bipartisan preservation effort in tense political climate
National leaders call on local Dems to forge party unity, coalitions
As part of a national movement to preserve various data sets stored on government websites, University of Michigan students, faculty and Ann Arbor community members have begun working together to prevent the loss of important data. Information graduate student Noa Kasman, a member of the University’s Society of American Archivists Student Chapter, helped coordinate a dataarchiving event held by University libraries last weekend, in which 300 attendees gathered at the Undergraduate Library with the same goal — to ensure data is not lost amidst the efforts of President Donald Trump. She said the preservation efforts originally stemmed from the Internet Archive’s End of Term harvest, which started in 2008 in an effort to protect data on government websites that tend to be either removed or overlooked during transitions between presidential administrations. “There’s an understanding that when there are presidential transitions, websites will change, and data that’s available online, especially from government agencies, is quite vulnerable,” she said. Justin Schell, director of the Shapiro Design Lab, said the current political climate lends a sense of urgency to these archival efforts, referencing changes the
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DETROIT — The Democratic National Committee held its third “Future Forum” at Wayne State University to introduce local Democrats to the candidates running for leadership offices at the national level. The event opened with remarks from Democrats such as Rep. Debbie Dingell (D– Mich.) and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. The morning session was devoted to discussing issues considered relevant in Michigan, which would prove to be hot topics as the day progressed. Speeches echoed themes of party unity, demand for labor, the importance of the younger generation and voter rights. Chuck Jones, the president of the United Steelworkers Local 1999, spoke about the demand for work. “For the working-class people, jobs are what we are interested in — we’re not asking for handouts, we’re asking for an opportunity to See DNC, Page 3A
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Trump administration have instituted such as the amount of information on climate change on the Environmental Protection Agency website. “We’re seeing webpages change, we’re seeing different kinds of data under threat,” he said. “The geospatial databases related to the racial disparity in housing is one thing that people are talking about. We’ve had contacts inside the EPA who
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have told us about particular data sets that they’ve heard could go down. So we quickly try to back those up and preserve those, so it is this moment where we have a particular thing to work on and not just the general ‘we’re trying to fix government data.’ ” He said the archiving efforts during their event focused mainly on information from National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration,
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the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy. The Educational Data Governance Initiative and the Data Refuge are two groups that help coordinate the national events and guided the areas of focus for the event to minimize overlap with efforts of other universities. Schell said collaboration both with other See ARCHIVE, Page 3A
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Iranian researcher unable to accept award in U.S. due to Trump legislation MAYA GOLDMAN Daily Staff Reporter
Iranian researcher Hamed Razavi recently received the Sumner Myers Award in January for best mathematics thesis at the University of Michigan. However, the University Ph.D. graduate will not accept the award in person due to President Donald Trump’s recent executive order that barred immigration from citizens of seven Muslimmajority countries, including Iran. Razavi is currently in Switzerland doing his postdoctoral research at the Biorobotics Laboratory of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. According to a public Facebook post from University mathematics Prof. Karen Smith, Razavi’s visa process has been halted. “His visa application process has been suspended by the recent Presidential Executive Order restricting immigration from several countries,” Smith wrote. “Welcome to Trump’s new ‘great’ America, where the See BAN, Page 3A
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