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STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Schafer and Griggs say goodbye to Student Gov. With the end of the year nearing, the President and VP reflect on their term JACQUELINE CHARNIGA & NISA KHAN Daily Staff Reporter & Daily News Editor
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LSA professor Edward Cho gives a lecture titled, “The Unexpected Benefits of Pain, Passion, and Pets” before he is awarded the Golden Apple Award at Rackham on Monday.
Edward Cho accepts Golden Apple with lecture on benefits of passion
Economics professor also discusses relationship with cat, chronic illness and teaching MAYA GOLDMAN Daily Staff Reporter
As the winner of the Golden Apple Award, an award given to one outstanding University of Michigan professor each year, Economics Prof. Edward Cho took the stage of Rackham Auditorium on Monday night to tell a crowd of adoring students and community members about his upbringing, his struggle with a repetitive strain injury and his legendary cat, Munchy.
The award, which is the only student-selected teaching award at the University, is in its 27th year. Every professor who receives the distinction gets the opportunity to give a “last lecture” — their ideal class. According to LSA senior Allisa Newman, one of the co-chairs of the award committee, the award is inspired by the teachings of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrkanos, and celebrates teachers who give every lecture like it’s their final one. “It’s based on an old teaching
from the Rabbi … he advocated that you should get your life in order one day before you die, and this is for outstanding teachers who teach every lecture like it was their last,” Newman said. The audience was made up largely of Cho’s students, like LSA senior Sindhu Devineni, who wanted to hear more about his life — and his cat. “He has such a great energy that I really felt compelled to come,” Devineni said. “I just really want to hear more about his positive outlook on life. And
he’s going to talk about his cat, Munchy, and she’s his world, so that’s really the highlight for a lot of people.” Cho found out he had won the award when the committee burst into his Economics 102 lecture in March. He said before Monday’s lecture that the reality of the award didn’t sink in until a few days later, but he had put a lot of thought into what to say since then. “It didn’t really hit me until a few days later,” Cho said. “At See CHO, Page 3
Stumbling Blocks display Citizens protected showcases lost diversity at ‘U’
CITY
by new city ordinance
Installation dedicates itself to students of color after Prop 2
City Council ordinance to prevent police from asking about immigration status
The sea of over 950 maize and blue chairs in the Diag and the ticker-tape sign above the Michigan Union’s doors are just two of the seven installations of Stumbling Blocks that will have students walking through history on campus for the next week.
ALON SAMUEL
Daily Staff Reporter
Following weeks of activism and pressure on the part of Ann Arbor residents, City Council passed an ordinance Monday evening intended to protect undocumented residents from federal involvement. The Solicitation of Immigrant Status ordinance, which prevents local police and city officials from asking residents about immigration status, passed with an 8-1 vote, with only Councilmember Jane Lumm (I¬¬¬–Ward 2) opposing the ordinance. The ordinance was originally crafted in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order, signed in January, that aimed to cut funding for jurisdictions that do not cooperate with federal agencies in identifying and detaining undocumented immigrants. The city was urged by residents over phone, email and in public hearings to support those in danger of deportation and to resist cooperation with federal agencies like the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. “This ordinance isn’t perfect,” See CITY, Page 3
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ANNA HARITOS Daily Staff Reporter
These pop-up art exhibits are scattered throughout Central, Medical and North Campuses and were created by the Future University Community to commemorate some challenging aspects of the University of Michigan’s history as part of the bicentennial celebration. The exhibits are designed to attract attention to sensitive issues surrounding
the University’s history that could otherwise be overlooked during the bicentennial celebration. These include: the Native American land gift of 1817 that served as a source of income for the University’s endowment, equity for women on campus, Proposal 2 — the state’s ban on race- and gender-based affirmative action — and See DISPLAY, Page 3
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The University sets up 950 empty maize and blue chairs as part of the President’s Bicentennial Colloquium movement Stumbling Blocks to help imagine minority students who did not attend the University after Affirmative Action was deemed unconstitutional at the Diag on Monday.
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Q: You guys ran on a platform of diversity, having very specific experience with the ramifications of a lack of diversity can have on mental health. How do you see this play out over the course of your administration, particularly following this November presidential election? David Schafer: To start, I’m just extraordinarily proud of the strides that we’ve made in working to ensure that CSG (Central Student Government) is more inclusive and representative of the student body. We commissioned the firstever demographic report in September, which showed how much work we really needed to commit ourselves to in the future. I think it’s a commitment that all future CSG administrations need to make, as well as the University (of Michigan) administration to enhancing the diversity of our school as well as the inclusivity and equitability. I think a public college education is the best vehicle for personal and professional advancement in the world and everyone deserves an equal opportunity to realize the ability to achieve a college degree and a college education. And I think it’s the responsibility for each and every member of the Michigan community, regardless of what our identities are and what our background is to stand up in support for each and every member of our community. And to never forget that an offense against one is an offense against all. Q: One thing I want to talk about is the Bystander Intervention Training through SAPAC (Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center), I just want to know, so you planned this for leaders
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seeking funding of — I believe — over $1,000, so what were the concrete benefits you’ve seen so far? Schafer: I am so unbelievably proud of the work of everyone involved in the Bystander Intervention Training policy. I think special credit and honor is deserved to the folks at the SAPAC Bystander Intervention and Community Engagement Cohort Program, folks in Wolverine Wellness, specifically PULSE, all of SOFC (Student Organization Funding Commission), the Student Health and Safety Commission within CSG and all of the members who volunteered their time and gave their energies and deeply believed in this program and helped the staff throughout this past semester, and it personally exceeded my wildest expectations about how successful and impactful it would be. We reached more than 315 students from more than 205 student organizations across the campus community, many of whom had never gone through a SAPAC or Wolverine Wellness training around sexual violence prevention, around mitigation of alcohol and other drug hard reduction and general risk. Being a student leader at the University of Michigan is a responsibility and it’s a privilege and we need to set the example for every student on this campus, especially younger students, right? The way in which we act, in many ways will guide their future at Michigan and will either inspire them or will turn them off, so this training imparted to a lot of student leaders the importance of their role and the importance of serving as good role models to every member of the Michigan community, as well as the importance of relaying information about consent education, about best policies and practices to reduce alcohol and other drug risk to members of their See INTERVIEW, Page 3
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