ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM
Friday, March 31, 2017
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Activists aim to promote unity despite differences Students across the political sphere hope to create a more inclusive campus CARLY RYAN
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Bentley Historical Library Director Terrence J. McDonald speaks on the importance of University history at the unveiling of the Michigan Daily archive in the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library on Thursday.
Bentley Historical Library unveils digital Michigan Daily archive
New collection compiles over 200,000 pages, 316 volumes spanning 125 years ALEXA ST. JOHN
Managing News Editor
Twelve decades of student reporting, 316 volumes of breaking coverage and 200,000 pages of University of Michigan news were revealed Thursday night as the Bentley Historical Library unveiled 125 years’ worth of digitized archives of The Michigan Daily. The Daily has been a facet on campus since 1890 and has covered both national and local
issues such as politics, social movements, higher education and changing demographics of the University. The event was attended by student journalists, alumni and prominent University leaders — including University President Mark Schlissel and James and Anne Duderstadt, former University president and vice president, respectively. Prior to the digitization, previous issues of the Daily could only be viewed in person at the Bentley or at the Student Publications
Building, where only bound paper copies are available. Now, however, the new database, consisting of digital preservation and online infrastructure of the Daily from 1890 to 2014, eliminates the need to view physical copies and makes all the Daily’s content searchable and browsable for alumni, researchers and historians alike. The financial support of the Kemp Family Foundation is largely responsible for the digitization.
John B. Kemp, who attended the University as both an undergraduate and law student in the ’60s, has vast familial roots at the University and wanted to be able to view his time at the University through digital records of the Daily. The Bentley has archived similarly pertinent materials, particularly historical documents, student records, maps and University intercollegiate athletics documentation. See BENTLEY, Page 3
Public Health student Vikrant Garg, co-organizer of activist group Students4Justice, said he never really felt safe in the Michigan Union until the activist group posed its sit-in there in February. “It really allowed me to imagine what an activist center that centered people of color and marginalized students could look like,” he said. In a different sphere of activism, LSA sophomore Amanda Delekta, the author of the #NotMyCampus petition that received over 300 signatures, penned the letter to alert the University of Michigan that many conservative students didn’t feel at home or included in the political conversation. “I think #NotMyCampus accomplished its main purpose in first identifying there is a significant conservative population on campus and then creating a platform for
conservative students to speak out on following the election,” she said. Though Delekta and Garg differ in their methods of activism, both are examples of students involved with the multiple protests, sit-ins and petitions that cropped up following the incendiary presidential election. Though months have passed since the election, in terms of activism, neither student feels like their job is done. “I think since the election, the University has tried to create forums for students to participate in,” Delekta said. “However, I still think there is a long way to go before we reach a place where students of all ideologies are able to respect one another.” Students4Justice aims to combat oppression and injustice on campus. After the election, the club hosted multiple sit-ins and outlined a list of demands calling for the University to respond to bias incidents on See ACTIVISTS, Page 3
SpringFest fashion show celebrates State house City group set to vote history of art for bicentennial year designated
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The event featured clothing styles from recent decades, centered on vintage
“Good jobs for Michigan” bill passes state senate by 32 - 5 vote on Wednesday
More than 150 students and faculty gathered at the University of Michigan Museum of Art on Thursday evening to attend “The Art of Fashion,” a bicentennial birthday bash event, which featured an exposition displaying fashion throughout recent decades, with a focus on vintage clothing. This event was co-hosted by campus organizations MUSIC Matters, EnspiRED, NOiR Runway Fashion, Bronze Elegance and SHEI Magazine. This is the third annual SpringFest fashion show and the first collective event between these prominent fashion organizations on campus. Ross sophomore Ayla Ahmed, a co-organizer of the event and SpingFest senior producer, introduced the exhibition and spoke about the origins of the show. “It was originally devised by MUSIC Matters as a means to unite the fashion community on campus,” she said. The show featured twenty models half from Bronze Elegance and half from NOiR Runway Fashion. Each of the four themes featured five models. The first part of the show launched into an upbeat Renaissance-inspired theme. Following, an Asian-fusion theme was introduced. This theme inspired by Asian-inspired tradition.
ANDREW HIYAMA Daily Staff Reporter
A pair of bills creating new tax incentives for businesses employing Michigan residents is moving to the Michigan House of Representatives after the state Senate passed it by a 32-5 vote Wednesday. Under the bills, nicknamed the “Good Jobs for Michigan” program, businesses with at least 250 new employees making at least 125 percent of the annual average wage for their region would be able to keep up to 100 percent of the income taxes taken out of their employees’ paychecks for 10 years. Businesses with at least 500 new employees making at least 100 percent of the average wage would receive up to a 50 percent abatement lasting five years. The state is divided into 10 prosperity regions, for which the average wage is calculated independently, but the average salary for the state as a whole is about $45,000. Specifically, the bills authorize the payment of withholding tax capture See TAX, Page 3
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The third theme was represented by exclusively male models, displaying themes of the present, taking on a more modern and simplistic approach. Concluding the exhibition was the finale, “Visions of the Future.” Aaron Pelo, editor-in-chief of SHEI Magazine, expressed his enthusiasm for working collaboratively with the UMMA and the other fashion organizations. “The other fashion organizations are the best of the
best,” he said. “It’s absolutely inspiring to be in their company because they all run such good shows. Working with the UMMA was such a real pleasure for me, and I think for everybody, just because they’re such visionaries here. I think the final show was really a knockout.” Ahmed was also impressed by the final product. “The SpringFest fashion show in the past has always been held in the Diag,” she said. “But this year UMMA approached us
about partnering with them, and I think this has been immensely successful, having it in this artistic space, and being able to have the clothes influenced by the artwork around us.” LSA junior Yiwen Lin said this was her second year attending the fashion show, and she was impressed by the change in scenery. “In the museum, we have a different context,” she said. “It’s really cool. It works very well.”
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LSA student Yara Gayar walks down the runway in a fashion show hosted by EnspiRED, NOiR Runway Fashion, Bronze Elegance and SHEI Magazine at the UMMA on Thursday.
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Vol. CXXVII, No. 57 ©2017 The Michigan Daily
by SPLC as hate group
Deir Yassin Remembered cited for Holocaust denial, weekly synogogue protests ANDREW HIYAMA Daily Staff Reporter
Deir Yassin Remembered, a local group famous for its weekly protests outside Temple Beth Israel in Ann Arbor, has been placed on a list of hate groups compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center under the subcategory of Holocaust denial. According to the Washtenaw Jewish News, Deir Yassin Remembered is “the only sustained action targeting a Jewish house of worship anywhere in the United States.” Mark Potok, editor-inchief of the SPLC’s quarterly journal, explained the addition in a recent interview on Michigan Radio, stating the group defended Nazism. “We list them because over the years they have come to more and more explicitly embrace real-life Holocaust denial,” he said. “The kind of Holocaust denial that these people practice is essentially a defense of Germany and National Socialism.” The group’s name references See GROUP, Page 3
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