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Monday, March 13, 2017
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CAMPUS LIFE
Civil rights discussed at ‘Know Our Rights’ event DESIGN BY: MICHELLE PHILLIPS
Freedom House, asylum-seeker resource, to have budget slashed
The DUUD will no longer provide funding for the organization starting March 31 NISA KHAN
Daily News Editor
Freedom House is the only organization in the United States that provides shelter, legal aid and other comprehensive services free of charge to asylum-seekers and victims of human trafficking,
according to TJ Rogers, the Detroit branch’s program manager. The Detroit branch of the organization was founded in 1983 with the growing community of Salvadoran asylum-seekers escaping persecution during the country’s war. Asylum-seekers are individuals who are awaiting decisions on
international protections from a foreign country, while potentially recovering from fear of persecution based on discrimination such as political thought, religion, race or sexual orientation. Refugees — Rogers calls the label essentially an umbrella term — are people who fled a country due to persecution. Upon entering the country, their
applications are considered to be successful, while asylum-seekers are still waiting on a response and working with organizations such as Freedom House in order to have shelter in the meantime. According to first-year Medical student Jack Buchanan, the Freedom House liaison for the See FREEDOM, Page 3A
The series of workshops aimed to educate students about their personal liberties RACHEL LEVY For the Daily
Students were reminded of their rights on Saturday in the School of Social Work Building was centered around personal civil liberties and issues such as rights for protestors, self-care and bystander intervention for sexual assault. “Know Our Rights” was born out of an idea pioneered by seven LSA students, who each met with lawyers, professors and community members over the course of several weeks to figure out what they, as students, could do to make an impact at the University of Michigan. LSA senior ’Dolapo Adeniji, one of the original organizers,
said the community emphasis surrounding the event was core to the mission of the organizers — the education and empowerment of others in an uncertain political environment. “It started as Know Your Rights, but the more we talked about it, we wanted it to be Know Our Rights because it’s very important that it is a community type of thing going on here,” Adeniji said. “It’s not only about me knowing how to assert my rights, but knowing how to assert the rights of others.” Students from all 19 colleges at the University and Ann Arbor community members were in attendance. LSA sophomore Will Krause said he attended because See RIGHTS, Page 3A
University professor leads ice sheet Candidates CSG Party research for insight on climate change for student Movement STUDENT GOVERNMENT
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
seeks unity on campus
The president and vicepresident candidates are outsiders to CSG RHEA CHEETI
Daily Staff Reporter
Despite being outsiders to Central Student Government, LSA juniors Evan Rosen and Dan Sweeney are ready to make waves on the University of Michigan campus as elected leaders. Rosen and Sweeney are running for president and vice president, respectively, with Movement Party. Rosen said he decided to run in order to create a more united campus. “We’re very excited about trying to effect positive change on this campus,” Rosen said. “We have a very detailed and diverse platform that we’re excited to talk about and a lot of people behind us who are trying to make it happen.” The two head Movement, one of the four parties running in this year’s race. Movement’s campaign is based on increasing See MOVEMENT, Page 3A
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Engineering professor Jeremy Bassis is doing his work on sabbatical in California QUINN FALTER For the Daily
Jeremy Bassis, an assistant professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering currently on sabbatical in San Francisco, says he was introduced to glaciology, the focus of his research, by several happy accidents. As an undergraduate studying physics at Pennsylvania State University, he says he discovered climate and environmental research by walking into the wrong classroom. “Penn State is a big campus, kind of like University of Michigan; it’s kind of spread out,” Bassis said. “The first day of class, I was late for my class, and I rushed in at the last minute. And one of the few seats available (in the classroom) was right at the front kind of in the middle. I kind of slinked into that seat and slouched down a little bit. Five or 10 minutes into the class, I realized it was not the class I intended to take.” Bassis says the subject of the class, weather and meteorology, was not something he had thought of before as a point of interest. He approached the professor to ask about research
opportunities on campus in relation to the subject, which he later became involved in. Bassis’s research as an undergrad led to his research as a graduate student at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography as part of the University of California-San Diego. When Bassis arrived on campus, however, the professor under which Bassis wished to study
was on sabbatical. In order to keep himself busy, Bassis began to look for a research project and was offered a research trip to Antarctica to study glaciers, See ICE, Page 3A
N I G H T AT T H E M U S E U M
gov. body to take leap
“Better Than the Rest” look to provide different view on administration JORDYN BAKER Daily Staff Reporter
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Drew Schultz & The Broken Hearts perform at the UMMA After Hours event in the UMMA atrium on Friday.
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INDEX
Vol. CXXVII, No. 43 ©2017 The Michigan Daily
To some, making the decision to run for a Central Student Government office without any prior experience within University of Michigan student governments and without a campaign plan may seem like a pretty big leap. But for Engineering sophomores Alec Beljanski and Nathan Minsk, this sort of feat is something they look forward to. Beljanski, running for CSG president, and Minsk, running for vice president, comprise Better Than The Rest Party, a party looking to provide students with an outsider perspective to CSG. Hoping to serve students as representatives who understand the distance some may feel from student government, they look to create a distinct platform between those who are heavily involved See BETTER, Page 3A
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