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STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Students try to revise CSG budget guide post fallout ‘Being Not-Rich at UM’ crowdsourced doc seeks to be more inclusive, realistic KATHERINA SOURINE Daily Staff Reporter
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City-county initiative works to re-educate officials on racial equity
Effort highlights current, past policies creating unequal outcomes for residents GRACE KAY
Daily Staff Reporter
While Ann Arbor is consistently named the bestplace to live and known as the most educatedcity in the United States, the surrounding areas of Washtenaw County know a different reality. Washtenaw County is the eighth most economically segregated metropolitan region in the country, according to a city press release. Moreover, 60
percent of African-American residents live in “lowopportunity areas with limited job growth” and there is a 10-year life expectancy gap between African-American and white residents –– 16 years between Latino and white residents. Those statistics come from “One Community: Advancing Racial Equity in Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County,” an initiative launched Monday. The numbers reveal segregation and a racial divide in health, job opportunities, income
and education throughout the community. In an effort to address these inequities, One Community integrates government officials from both the city of Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County to discuss education and public policy reformation. The initiative is a joint effort with the Government Alliance on Race and Equity –– a nationwide network of governments that strives to achieve equity for all. GARE led a session Monday on anti-racism training for about
80 elected officials and staff members from the city and county, and focused on educating officials and providing them with tools to begin to address inequity in Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County. City Administrator Howard Lazarus said the city plans to continue educating officials and move the discussion from the philosophy of equity to the implementation of equitable practices in Ann Arbor and countywide. See EQUITY, Page 3
In the midst of criticism regarding its Campus Affordability Guide, Central Student Government has undertaken the challenge to rework the manual to be more inclusive and realistic for low-income students at the University of Michigan. Updates include a town hall to be convened Monday evening and a revised guide. The Affordability Guide, which has since been taken off line after its release last week, received many critiques from the student body. Many claimed it to be unrealistic for those who come from a lower socioeconomic status — the individuals who would most likely use this type of guide. Suggestions within the guide included reducing spending on eating out, laundry services and impulse spending. LSA junior Griffin St. Onge, a first-generation student,
voiced her dissatisfaction with the guide, despite a general feeling CSG has made valid efforts to alleviate the wealth inequality on campus. According to a report from the Equality of Opportunity Project, 66 percent of students at the University are in the top 20 percent of the income distribution. This reality is mirrored in CSG’s representation — in its 2016 self-survey assessing demographic background, 74.4 percent of its members have household incomes over $100,000 a year, and 37.2 percent of these households make over $250,000. “There are a lot of really good parts in the second half that outline the housing crisis in Ann Arbor and the available resources for finding more affordable housing and things like that. But I think that in the first half, they tried to make it a kind of thing that’s useful or applicable to the ‘average Michigan student’,” See GUIDE, Page 3
No Layovers: Sports management prof. Students at Updates to MSU reject flies to Ann Arbor every week to teach ‘U’ conduct
GOVERNMENT
ADMINISTRATION
installation of interim
Adidas exec David Cho says he makes the weekly trek to give back to students
Faculty, students worried former Gov. Engler won’t be tough on sexual assault
Each Wednesday, Lecturer David Cho f lies from his home in Portland, Oregon to Ann Arbor to teach his Thursday sports management course in the Kinesiology Department. A little over 24 hours later, he f lies back to Portland Friday morning. “What inspires me is my connection to this place,” Cho said. “I am a law school and business school grad, I met my wife here and I have such strong ties to the University that the opportunity to teach my first class at Michigan far outweighs the time and travel to get here. For me, I always thought that if I did have the opportunity to teach it would start at a smaller university or a less prestigious university. I never thought I would get my first opportunity at a place like Michigan.” Cho earned a J.D./M.B.A. at the University of Michigan in 2006 after graduating from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry. Cho is currently the director of partnership activation and event retail at adidas America. In this role, Cho manages a team that operates adidas retail programs outside of the approximately 200 traditional adidas retail stores. His team manages the NHL New York
REMY FARKAS
Daily Staff Reporter
Michigan State University students interrupted an MSU Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday night, protesting the appointment of former Michigan Gov. John Engler as interim university president. Faculty liaisons to the board as well as the university’s chapter of College Democrats called for a vote of no confidence in the board, the State News reported. The appointment follows the resignation of former University President Lou Anna Simon amid the sentencing of Larry Nassar, renowned physician for MSU and USA Gymnastics, for the sexual assault of more than 250 girls. The MSU Board of Trustees unanimously voted in the former governor Wednesday. At the meeting, one student said the decision does not align with the values of the students at MSU. Another protested by sitting on the conference room table. The vote has received widespread criticism for what See ENGLER, Page 3
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City store and partners with events including ComplexCon, the U.S. Open and the Boston Marathon. Cho felt teaching was a natural progression in his career and something he had always wanted to do. He even thought of a course and created a rough draft of a syllabus before he met with a University representative. The course Sports Marketing, Sponsorship, and Branding: Leveraging
Athletes, Teams and Leagues in Today’s Dynamic Sports Landscape is divided into two halves. The first half is an evaluation of sports marketing assets such as athletes, teams and leagues. The second half focuses on athletic footwear and apparel business and how the product is put into market and consumer communication. The course culminates in a final project in
which students identify a hypothetical issue faced by an athlete, team, brand or league and use their knowledge from the class to devise a way to address the issue. During his time at the University, Cho completed this same project and he said it was this project that propelled him into his sports management career, beginning with a position at Nike. See FLYING, Page 3
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Professor David Cho speaks to his sports marketing class at the Undergraduate Science Building on Thursday evening.
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INDEX
Vol. CXXVII, No. 68 ©2018 The Michigan Daily
policies on sex. assault
Revised misconduct policy changes sanctioning process, some definitions RACHEL LEUNG Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan is updating their policy and procedures on Student Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct and Other Forms of Interpersonal Violence in accordance with the policy’s annual review. E. Royster Harper, vice president for Student Life, announced the policy changes via email to students and faculty Thursday. According to the email, the University is required to hold the annual review to consider existing policies and make revisions as needed. The University and representatives from the Office of Student Conflict Resolution, the Office for Institutional Equity, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center and the Office of the Vice President and General Counsel conducted the review. The definition of gender-based harassment will be changed to include the resolution of harassment cases that intersect with other federally protected identities such as race, national origin, disability or veteran status. The definition of intimate partner See MISCONDUCT, Page 3
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