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Students gather as part of the #StopSpencer events to protest the University’s consideration to host Richard Spencer on the Diag Wednesday.
Hundreds walk out of class against A2 torn between ‘U’ negotiation of Spencer event free speech, hate
Students protest in march around Central Campus as a part of Week of Action COLIN BERESFORD Daily Staff Reporter
Last week, the University of Michigan administration responded to Richard Spencer’s request to speak on campus, and moved forward to negotiate the event. Today, in protest of the administration refusing to deny the request, students hundreds of walked out of their classes and rallied in the Diag, then marched into other classrooms on campus. A few hundred students and
community members gathered in the University of Michigan Diag at about noon on Wednesday, and after a short rally, marched to the Chemistry Building, Mason Hall and the Fish Bowl in Angell Hall. The rally is part of the #StopSpencer week of action, which includes teach-ins and other forms of protest. “On Wednesday, November 29 2017, Stop Spencer at the University of Michigan is organizing a student walk out at 11:45 AM in response to the failure of University of Michigan
President Mark Schlissel and the Regents to deny white supremacist Richard Spencer’s request to speak on campus,” the Facebook event reads. “We cannot learn in an environment that is constantly disrupting our learning by threatening our safety and dehumanizing us.” On Nov. 21, the University said it was going to proceed with Spencer’s request to speak on campus, given the administration can ensure the safety of students. In an emergency meeting of the University’s Board of
Regents, University President Mark Schlissel laid out “three components” to the decision: the safety of students, protecting free speech in a democratic society, and that denying the request would give more attention to Spencer and his cause. Schlissel repeatedly said safety must be guaranteed in order for the event to take plcae. LSA senior and organizer Hoai An Pham said, however, in a speech to the protesters in the Diag the walk out wasn’t just See WALKOUT, Page 2
After Taylor support, residents resist ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
The prospect of white nationalist Richard Spencer visiting the University of Michigan has raised alarm not only on campus, but also among city residents and community leaders. Just last week, Mayor Christopher Taylor (D) criticized Spencer in a Facebook post, noting Spencer’s white nationalist ideology runs counter to Ann
Arbor’s commitment to diversity and inclusion for people of all backgrounds. “Richard Spencer’s fearful vision of America is an affront to Ann Arbor’s values and we condemn him. He is not welcome here,” Taylor wrote. Nevertheless, Taylor supported University President Mark Schlissel’s decision to consider allowing Spencer to speak.
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Development building in historic area Teach-ins CSG, LSA continue as currently undergoing city approval SG release
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profs. prep for no class
$40 million nine-story infrastructure proposed on site near Medical Campus
Faculty lecture on history of fascism, censorship: ask “are things getting worse?”
A new nine-story development, currently engaged in the City Council approval process, may be built on a currently vacant site next to the University of Michigan’s Medical Campus. At its Nov. 20 meeting, the council unanimously approved the zoning necessary for the development, and Catherine Ann Development, the Bloomfield Hills company responsible for the project, will bring its designs to the council on Dec. 18 for a public hearing and final approval. The development, which is estimated to cost $40 million, will sit atop a half-acre of land that used to be home to a gas station and then a laundromat before a development project was approved in 2005. The project was dropped for financial reasons, and the site has been vacant since then. For the past few years, Catherine Ann Development has been working on a design for the space, and it’s now proposed a mixed-use building with retail and restaurant space. However, its focus will be the building’s hotel — according to Catherine Ann spokesman Tom Shields, the company believe this development will fill a hole in the current Ann Arbor infrastructure. “Ann Arbor is probably one
MOLLY NORRIS Daily Staff Reporter
As part of the #StopSpencer week of action, the Campus Antifacist Network hosted a teach-in Wednesday at the Michigan League. The teach-in featured history lecturer Anne Berg and LaKisha Simmons, an assistant professor of history and women’s studies. Both speakers discussed their areas of study in the context of the possibility for Richard Spencer coming to speak. Simmons spoke about how certain speech gets censored through violence, and Berg discussed the genealogy of white supremacist thought. Berg related the issue to Nazi Germany and talked about the history of national socialism and how Nazi racism has a longer genealogy. She also discussed how violence and use of visuals communicates on a subconscious level, where people learn at an early age to read racial messages.
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of the few major university towns that doesn’t really have a signature hotel,” Shields said. “Even though most people in Ann Arbor are developing apartments and condos, they saw that as a real opportunity. … They thought the location was perfect, and the timing was perfect.” The site is located at Glen Avenue and Ann Street, adjacent to the Medical Campus and
University Hospital. Shields said the company hopes to service people who are coming to town specifically for the hospital, but also to the broader University and city community. “(It’s) a combination — for those people who are coming to Ann Arbor for University events or for business looking for an upscale, boutique type of hotel to stay in, and then combined with people who
are in town to visit patients who are at the University Hospital, combined with also the ability to have conferences and a convention space which could be used by people who are involved in the hospital or medical community,” Shields said.
fall election rep. results
5.365 percent of LSA students voted, marked increase from last year LEAH GRAHAM
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Central Student Government and LSA Student Government have tallied the final results for fall elections, respectively appointing candidates to positions as assembly representatives and elected representatives. The University Elections Commission certified the results of CSG’s fall elections on Nov. 27, naming assembly representatives for eight schools and colleges across campus while Medical student Whit Froehlich was elected to the University of Michigan’s Police Department Oversight Committee. Rackham student Sharon Hu won seats in the Rackham Graduate School’s and the School for Environment and Sustainability’s assemblies, and, according to the Elections Report, the UEC recommended Hu take the Rackham seat and the SES seat be left vacant because students in SES are also technically Rackham students. EMMA RICHTER/Daily
City Council is in the process of approving a nine-story development on a vacant lot next to the medical campus.
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Vol. CXXVII, No. 39 ©2017 The Michigan Daily
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