ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM
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DPSS alerts seen as too delayed by community MAITREYI ANANTHARAMAN/Daily
Political groups and figures talk goals, focus points for rest of 2018
DACA, economic policy, transparency important for politicians, students this year MAEVE O’BRIEN & RILEY LANGEFELD Daily Staff Reporters
As the year begins to kick into gear, activist groups and politicians are starting to implement goals for 2018. It will no doubt prove to be another tumultuous year in U.S.
politics, as the federal government will likely tackle immigration and entitlement reform — two long-standing and particularly contentious issues that tend to arouse high passions on either side of the political spectrum. Midterm elections in November will certainly be equally hardfought, as Democrats attempt to
retake control of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Michigan political world may prove just as exciting, as the federal in 2018. Members of the legislature will be working to pass a budget during the first several months, with likely Republican victories in store. Michigan Democrats will use
their comparatively smaller, but vocal, caucus to bring new issues into the statewide debate. Voters will choose a new governor on Nov. 6, bringing an end to current Governor Rick Snyder’s two terms in office. The Michigan Daily contacted a number of local politicians and See GOALS, Page 3A
After West Quad robbery, students ask for continuous emergency updates RACHEL LEUNG & ZAYNA SYED
Daily Staff Reporters
In the first hours of the University of Michigan’s West Quad Residence Hall’s armed robbery in early December, residents and staff grew concerned with the sudden unexplained presence of police vehicles outside of the dorm and officers in the building. Many residents turned to social media and their friends to make sense of the situation, and very rapidly, a rumor about an active shooter spread through campus. Fortunately for residents, the matter was determined to be a robbery — not an active shooter
situation — but the incident has students calling for a notification system that will advise the community about developing stories. For many college campuses across the U.S., recent incidents have community members asking if relaying important information to students, faculty and community members as it develops should take precedence over communicating developed crime alerts hours after the crime has occurred. The verification process is lengthy and police departments are often afraid of spreading misinformation by reporting facts unless they are absolutely certain. There are tips on the DPSS See ALERTS, Page 3A
Privacy@Michigan symposium covers Ex-official Resolution talks Iran internet privacy, security, censorship addresses
CAMPUS LIFE
Deal future and impact
Michael Rubin says no “magic formula” to solve problems in Middle East CORY ZAYANCE Daily Staff Reporter
On Tuesday, the American Enterprise Institute Executive Council at the University of Michigan — the University’s branch of a conversative leaning think tank based in Washington D.C. — held a talk on the Iran Deal and its consequences for Iran and the United States. Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and former Pentagon official, led the talk. Rubin’s talk focused on the specifics of the Iran Deal and Iran protests and how the U.S. has reacted to the deal and its effects in the past. “Rather than simply engage in the political fight between Democrats and Republicans about whether or not this deal is a good thing, the fact of the matter is we also need to be forward-looking in regard to our policy,” Rubin said. One of the key points of the talk centered on the premise of the Iran Deal. The main focus of this deal was to ensure Iran reduced its nuclear facilities; See IRAN, Page 3A
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Panelists highlight their individual research, ponder the future of privacy SAYALI AMIN & MARIE HIGH
Daily Staff Reporter & For the Daily
In honor of International Data Privacy Day, the University of Michigan’s School of Information and the Office of Information Assurance hosted Privacy@Michigan, a series of interdisciplinary panels on internet privacy Tuesday in North Quad Residence Hall. Approximately 100 faculty and community members attended. The first panel, “Privacy in a Connected World: An Oxymoron?” dealt with generational privacy differences and online personal privacy. Sol Bermann, interim Chief Information Security Officer, moderated the event. Each speaker discussed their personal privacy research as well as their common observances of privacy in today’s world. Prior to a question and answer session, each speaker gave a brief overview of their research. Susan Gelman, a professor of psychology and linguistics, spoke about her research on people’s feelings regarding a stranger tracking their personal items. She found a divide between the children and undergraduate students she studied. According to Gelman, children, up to about age six, did not have an issue with — and sometimes even liked — when a stranger was able Check out the Daily’s News podcast, The Daily Weekly
to track the number of items they owned. However, undergraduate students were almost entirely opposed to strangers having the ability to track their items, citing an invasion of their privacy as the main reason for the opposition. She wrapped up her section of the panel by pondering why this division occurs and what is significant about its timing. The second speaker, Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck, an assistant
professor in the School of Information, spoke on issues of privacy in social media. She showed the extensive range of ways parents have started to share everything by citing the specific nature of some parenting blogs. This opened up her main question of why parents post so much information online, to which she responded, “They feel validated as a good parent.” “For the first time in history,
children are growing up with this online (presence) established without their permission or consent often started before they’re even born,” Schoenebeck said. The second part of Schoenebeck’s talk focused on older childrens’ comments about their past online posts. She said most undergraduate students on social media tend to keep their See PRIVACY, Page 3A
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J Alex Halderman, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, speaks about privacy and security in celebration of International Data Privacy Day at the Privacy@Michigan panel in North Quad Tuesday.
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State of Campus speech focuses on sexual assault, current campus climate HALEY MCLAUGHLIN For the Daily
Tuesday night, the University of Michigan’s Central Student Government met to hear the “State of the Campus” address from CSG President Anushka Sarkar, an LSA senior, and discuss critiques of the recent Campus Affordability Guide. The assembly also hosted guest speakers from the Michigan Refugee Assistance Programand concerned campus bus-riders, and concluded with passing resolutions to ensure the transparency of CSG and to help fund the Career Center Suit Up event. The evening began with a presentation from LSA junior Courtney Caulkins, an education advocacy chair for the Michigan Refugee Assistance Program, who seeks to get refugees resettled in the Washtenaw County area. After summarizing the extensive refugee process in the U.S., Caulkins went on to discuss changes in the refugee resettlement process under the Trump administration. “The president does decide every year the ceiling for how many refugees will come into the See CSG, Page 3A
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