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Author talks how policy perpetuates racist ideas BRIAN KOSASIH/Daily
Kendi is know for his award winning book “Stamped from the Beginning”
James Morrow, professor of world politics, talks about the impact of the Trump administration at the Jack L. Walker Conference on Tuesday.
Panel discusses negative aspects of Trump’s first 100 days in office
The group considered the President’s legislative actions, current political climate ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
University of Michigan students and faculty gathered Tuesday evening in the Michigan Union to discuss President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office for the annual Jack L. Walker Conference, hosted
by the Undergraduate Political Science Association and sponsored by the Political Science Department. The conference, named after Jack L. Walker, the late University professor of political science, explores different topics in politics every winter semester with experts and professionals in government and academia.
This year’s conference featured five professors specializing in a wide range of political science subfields, including feminist political theory, international trade and the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. LSA sophomore Eve Hillman, a co-president of UPSA, explained holding panels like these allow students to interact with professors
in a way they rarely have an opportunity to in class. “UPSA really focuses on building a relationship between political science students and faculty because so many of the political science classes are really big,” Hillman said. “So if you can get events and get professors to come to events where See TRUMP, Page 3A
KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporter
Ibram X. Kendi — author of “Stamped from the Beginning,” the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction winner — conveyed to a crowd of 50 his thoughts on how government policy has perpetuated racist ideologies throughout U.S. history. An assistant professor of African-American history at the University of Florida, Kendi has published work in publications such as The New York Times, The Huffington Post and Black Perspectives. Kendi began his talk Tuesday night by stating the United States has experienced two narratives:
one of racial progress and one of increased racism in society. He said understanding this duality can reorient how one thinks about racism throughout history. “We’ve actually had a dueling history of race,” he said. “What I mean by that is we’ve had a history of racial progress, but we’ve also had a simultaneous progression of racism. We’ve actually experienced, as a nation, two historical forces.” A key component of Kendi’s discussion was that racist ideas stem from policy enacted by selfinterested politicians, rather than the commonly assumed falsehood that ideas lead to policy. He cited historical instances where political parties, unhappy with See BOOK, Page 3A
Panel debates merits of C.C. Little’s Prototype Prevention promising legacy as ‘U’ president, eugenicist of species
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Discussed pros and cons of renaming the building with his name following controversy
Five students built a more effective, cost-efficient and fast-paced medical device
Months after the University of Michigan’s release of a new policy on building renaming, the LSA History Department convened a bicentennial panel Tuesday afternoon on the potential renaming of the C.C. Little Building, which has been named after former University of Michigan President Clarence Cook “C.C.” Little since 1968. About 50 people attended the discussion on the many factors involved with the process of name-changing and examples of other universities’ actions in similar cases. Though he was a renowned genetics, cancer and tobacco researcher, Little has recently come under fire for his support of policies such as compulsory sterilization of the “unfit” and immigration restriction. American Culture Prof. Alexandra Minna Stern opened the panel by reflecting on the nuances of building names. “We’re going to think about the arguments for removing his name and what are some of the arguments for retaining his name,” she said. “There is a high bar for renaming. If we just take his name off the building, we erase the past.” Panelists referenced the notion that Little’s associations with ideas and practices are antagonistic to the values of diversity, inclusion and
ALEXA ST. JOHN
Managing News Editor
The engineering and medical fields came together when five University of Michigan undergraduates teamed up to contribute to modern medicine with a device that can give the same data as a $30,000 machine in one-fifth of the time. Sanguis Diagnostics, also called Team 805, is a group of students who have developed the product HeRM — hemoretractometer — a device that can measure a patient’s pretreatment hemostasis, or natural blood-clotting abilities. Recent prototype development by these students has recognized current demand for a low-cost, fast-paced, technologically savvy and informative device for diagnostic blood testing. The ability to maintain hemostasis is crucial for normal life function, as clotting too much or not enough could have serious implications for a patient’s health. The device, however, could be used for providing high-tech medical care to those who do not have access to it, See DEVICE, Page 3A
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nondiscrimination the University is pushing toward today. Stern said one line of reasoning for preserving Little’s name is that the name causes little harm, as not many students know who he was or
what he did. LSA junior Joshua Hasler countered those reasons by arguing Little’s interests in eugenics cannot be separated from his tenure as University president. He found it hard to believe Little became president
of the American Eugenics Society after leaving the University in 1929. “Like many students here at the University, I’ve had a class in the C.C. Little building,” Hasler said. After discovering See LITTLE, Page 3A
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Author and journalist Elizabeth Kolbert talked elimination of species COLIN BEREFORD Daily Staff Reporter
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LSA student Josh Hasler speaks at The Power of Place-Naming: C.C. Little, Eugenics, and the University of Michigan event in Hatcher on Tuesday.
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Author and journalist Elizabeth Kolbert discussed species extinction and how individuals are combatting certain climatic changes in a talk sponsored by the University of Michigan Erb Institute as a part of the Purpose to Impact Speaker series on Tuesday night. Kolbert has published a number of books, including her most recent, “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,” which details how the Earth is on course for a sixth, unprecedented mass extinction. Kolbert is also known for her pieces in The New Yorker, including a three-part awardwinning series about climate change published in 2005. Though Kolbert has extensively researched the issues she writes about and discusses, she emphasized she does not have the solutions necessary to solve these problems. However, she shared several stories of people around the world fighting extinction. Kolbert discussed the work of Sam Wasser, the director for the Center for Conservation Biology See SPECIES, Page 3A
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