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CRIME
Student was attacked by roommates for sexuality Student alleges after he came out as gay, his roommates became hostile, violent RHEA CHEETI
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Students protested the speech of Charles Murray, earlier this semester. Many are now concerned at the prospect of Richard Spencer coming to campus.
Campus asks University admin to reconsider potential Spencer visit
After Richard Spencer made a request to speak, campus concerned for safety CARLY RYAN & COLIN BERESFORD Daily Staff Reporters
After confirmation that prominent white supremacist Richard Spencer requested to speak at the University of Michigan, the NAACP and Black Student Union released statements requesting action to bar Spencer from speaking. The Black Student Union sent a letter to University President Mark Schlissel and the Board of Regents
Tuesday night that demanded Schlissel deny Spencer’s request, especially in light of recent racist events on campus. “Allowing such a person to speak on this campus is a threat to the physical and emotional safety of many students on campus,” the letter read. “Too many times already have students of color been placed under emotional distress due to racist campus climate.” With the University set to take part in a weeklong summit to examine the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion plan, the letter explained
the hypocrisy in advocating for a welcome and secure environment yet allowing speakers like Charles Murray and potentially Spencer on campus. Furthermore, the letter explained worries about potential violence if Spencer were to speak — schools including the University of Florida and Michigan State University have denied Spencer’s request to speak in order to protect their students’ safety. “Richard Spencer is a violent white supremacist who advocates ethnic cleansing, and while he may deny promoting physical violence,
his supporters engage in violence against marginalized people with the intent of protecting white supremacy,” the letter continued. “His rally in Charlottesville this summer drew hundreds of armed protesters that resulted in the murder of a Ms. Heyer. His rhetoric is nothing less than hate speech and goes against everything the University claims has no place on this campus.”
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Business senior Matthew Mansour has reported to the Ann Arbor Police Department and University of Michigan authorities that he has been harassed and discriminated against by his roommates after coming out as gay several weeks ago on social media. Mansour, who lives in Landmark, said his roommates had been threatening him and his therapy dog ever since they’d discovered they would be living with the emotional support animal, and this manifested in them urinating in the dog’s water bowl and verbally abusing it. “I came out on social media on National Coming Out Day, and it was kind of difficult, but I had a lot of support from my community and friends.” Mansour said. “But the next day I was packing for Fall Break, (my roommate) came home, started banging on the wall and
screaming, ‘All gays go to hell.’ He was using gay slurs and made some disgusting, homophobic comments. This happened that night and I was really afraid, and I left to Denver for fall break.” While Mansour was away he had a friend come in to pick something up from the apartment, where she found $680 worth of his belongings — including his kitchenware and his dog supplies — were missing. “Everything was gone,” Mansour said. “We found out that it had been thrown out the window. My bedroom door had knife marks all over it. He had a knife and he was trying to get into my room by stabbing the door and stabbing the handle.” Mansour believes one of his roommates was the main perpetrator, though there were co-conspirators. That roommate says his friend caused most of the damage and was the one who destroyed Mansour’s belongings.
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MCubed event hosts National Institutes A guide to MGoView the A2 City of Health director, highlights research app shows
CITY COUNCIL
Council 2017 race
The Daily interviewed each of the candidates up for election on Tuesday MAYA GOLDMAN & ISHI MORI Daily Staff Reporters
Ann Arbor’s last odd-year City Council elections will take place this upcoming Tuesday, Nov. 7. The Michigan Daily sat down with six of the eight candidates to discuss platforms and how local races impact University students. Ward 2 Jared Hoffert (D) I think one of the biggest issues facing Ann Arbor for the future is that supply and demand issue. It affects everyone: it affects residents, it affects students … the best possible solution for this right now is that you have to develop and redevelop. You need to make units available because keeping it constant where it’s at will just affect the supply and demand and cost because if there’s nothing there, the rents or costs of buying a house will keep just skyrocketing and make it less and less affordable.
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CAMPUS LIFE
250 interdisciplinary teams presented projects at the symposium dedicated to innovation LIZZY LAWRENCE Daily Staff Reporter
The University already offers countless research opportunities in its 19 schools and colleges. But on Wednesday, over 250 of the University’s interdisciplinary research teams, were able to showcase this work. The MCubed Symposium consisted of teams referred to as “cubes” as they are headed by three faculty members from at least two different disciplines. Launched in 2012, MCubed has an online system that streamlines the process of professors securing funding. This platform, and its multidisciplinary approach, allows for groundbreaking, innovative research. During the symposium’s opening remarks, University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel discussed the importance of using different fields in crafting solutions to problems. “The biggest problems we face in society don’t conveniently set themselves up to be knocked down by one-source solutions,” Schlissel said. “Problems don’t know what disciplines they’re supposed to fall under. They’re just problems.” The keynote speaker was Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health. He discussed new NIH programs, including one called
“All of Us” that aims to engage diverse participants in making discoveries in medical research. Collins applauded MCubed for incentivizing researchers from different fields to work together. “One of the challenges we all have in medical research is that it often feels like herding cats,” he said. “The MCubed program can get the cats moving.” The symposium featured
several “cubes,” with members of each team describing their research. One of these cubes was “Digitizing Orson Welles’ Heart of Darkness.” Orson Welles proposed a movie to production company RKO Pictures to be based on Joseph Conrad’s novel “Heart of Darkness.” This project was ultimately shelved and adapted into “Citizen Kane,” one of Welles’s most famous movies.
This cube’s purpose was to make the historical materials behind the unmade “Heart of Darkness” movie available to the public by digitizing them. Rackham student Vincent Longo, a member of the “cube,” discussed the goals of the team’s research.
‘U’ history in new way
Augmented reality app showcases 200 years of University history, change KATE JENKINS
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During the Bicentennial celebrations, students, staff and alumni caught a glimpse into the University of Michigan’s past quite literally with the augmented reality application MGoView. The app’s users toured 30 historic sites around campus, spotting flying cars, woolly mammoths and even former President John F. Kennedy. MGoView’s project manager, Evan Hoye, described the way in which the application, released in May 2017, relates to the Bicentennial. “The University is looking toward its third century as it discusses the past two,” he explained. MGoView offers users detailed historical tours of the University while incorporating cutting-edge technology. “(The) goal was to focus on the future and to look at what’s on these borderlands of technology and how we can bring that to a mainstream audience.” JOHN YAEGER/Daily
Rackham student Vincent Longo speaks at the M Cubed Symposium “Hail to the Cube” at Rackham Wednesday.
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INDEX
Vol. CXXVII, No. 22 ©2017 The Michigan Daily
NEWS.........................2 OPINION.....................4 ARTS......................6
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SUDOKU.....................2 CLASSIFIEDS...............6 SPORTS....................7