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Kumi Naidoo talks US role in opposing “affluenza” Amnesty International Secretary General addresses global justice at Ford lecture SONIA LEE
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Jerome M. Adams, M.D., M.P.H. Surgeon General of the United States speaks on the topic of “Better Health Through Better Partnerships” at the IHPI Director’s Lecture in Robertson Auditorium Thursday.
US Surgeon General emphasizes parternship to boost public health
Jerome Adams sits down with University leaders to discuss health care, opioid crisis MAYA GOLDMAN Daily News Editor
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams came to the University of Michigan campus Thursday to meet with University and community leaders and deliver the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation’s Director’s Lecture. About 400 people attended the talk at the Roberston Auditorium in the Ross School
of Business, titled “Better Health Through Better Partnerships” — a nod to what Adams has called his top priority as surgeon general. Before the talk, Adams met with University students for a roundtable discussion. Medical student Raymond Strobel told The Daily in an email interview he enjoyed the opportunity to talk with Adams. The surgeon general’s thoughts resonated with him. “The roundtable was a terrific opportunity to meet
and hear from the Surgeon General,” Strobel wrote. “His points on health policy advocacy were great: in today’s society, we need to work hard to “widen our tent” – choosing to be inclusive and diplomatic when seeking common ground on health priorities with others – and remember our role as servant leaders in healthcare. His thoughts on students’ roles in advocacy were also timely; he urged not to think of ourselves (students) as the future, but the now.”
Following a morning of meetings and discussions with campus leaders, Adams began his lecture in conversation with IHPI director John Ayanian. Adams highlighted the need to create partnerships in health care, something he learned while serving as state health commissioner of Indiana under then-Governor Mike Pence. He said he could have picked a disease or condition to focus on, but instead, is hoping to look at the bigger picture of health See IMPACT, Page 2
Kumi Naidoo, newlyappointed secretary general of Amnesty International, gave a talk at the Ford School of Public Policy Thursday afternoon on economic inequality, climate change and the role the U.S. plays in global justice. Naidoo, a South African human rights activist, will succeed Salil Shetty in August 2018, who has been secretary general since 2010. Naidoo began his talk by addressing the concept of creative maladjustment, an idea that was also emphasized by civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. After showing a clip of King’s 1963 speech on the concept, Naidoo suggested humans have become too well-adjusted to economic inequality across the world, and maladjustment would be necessary to push global change. “One of the challenges for
public leadership and public policy is whether we have the courage to analyze the problems without sanitizing what the problems actually are,” Naidoo said. “And speaking true to power, whether it makes some in power lose that power.” Naidoo returned to the issue of income inequality, giving a personal example of how easy it can be to become well-adjusted to inequality. Naidoo had been heavily involved in antiapartheid activities in South Africa, and after apartheid ended, many organizations offered positions and equity to well-educated Black South Africans out of pressure to be inclusive and provide equal opportunity. Several of Naidoo’s friends accepted these positions, rocketing into higher socioeconomic class levels, while Naidoo turned down offers, trying instead to direct equity given to nonprofits. “We looked at them and said, ‘Hang on, if you give us that 10 percent equity, that’s not See NAIDOO, Page 3
La Casa demands get administration Panel talks Anti-hate methods of attention, receive gradual response org marks
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La Casa members fear lack of urgency, potential loss of steam after summer
Bias Incident Prevention Response Team outlines incident reporting process
Nearly two months after the Latinx Alliance for Community Action, Support and Advocacy released a list of demands for the University of Michigan to take to ensure a more supportive environment for the Latinx community, students see gradual progress on certain demands but encounter an overall lack of urgency in support of institutional change. The Latinx community is the University’s fastestgrowing student minority group, growing from 4.75 percent to 6 percent between 2012 and 2016. The majority of La Casa’s demands called for more Latinx representation in University staff, faculty and administration as well as more services for Latinx students and an overall acknowledgment of the community on campus. After the list was released, E. Royster Harper, vice president for Student Life, Chief Diversity Officer Robert Sellers and Julio Cardona, interim assistant dean of students, met with La Casa in order to discuss what steps needed to be taken to move forward. Since then, the administration has continued meeting with La Casa to work toward solutions. In an interview with The Daily on Wednesday, Harper explained the University administration has been
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The Bias Response Team, Center for Campus Involvement and the Expect Respect community gathered Thursday afternoon in the Michigan League to discuss the impact of bias incidents on the University of Michigan campus, and effective responses that students and administration can take after bias incidents occur. According to BRT, the term “bias incident” refers to any conduct that discriminates, excludes or harasses anyone based on an identity. Currently, students can report bias incidents anonymously online and by phone. Many students who attended the event specifically mentioned the recent incident in which University student, Lauren Fokken, an LSA sophomore, posted a Snapchat in a black face mask, and captioned it “#blacklivesmatter.” LSA senior Jordan Jackson, Fokken’s co-worker at Victors cafe in Mosher-Jordan Residence Hall, reported Fokken to See BIAS, Page 3
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helping La Casa make contact with various department members to assist with the University’s efforts to respond to the demands. “We have been meeting with La Casa members and faculty members of the community, I would say for maybe at least a month, and sometimes twice a day,” Harper said. “Going through what the concerns are and, in some cases bringing people in to help us understand what we’re currently doing.” LSA junior Yezeñia Sandoval, external director
for La Casa, highlighted the administration’s timely response to the list of demands and lauded the administration’s plan to get La Casa representatives communicating with directors from different departments. “After we released the demands, the University was quick to set up meetings, especially Royster and Sellers,” Sandoval said. “The meeting was just kind of to get a better understanding of what the demands actually meant, what details were in them, and set up
a series of demands that would follow them up. We also would get people from those actual offices and departments to sit in a room with us.” Harper explained another aspect of these meetings was to look at the Campus Climate survey by Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in order to better understand what challenges Latinx students face on campus. Sandoval touched on some of the positive outcomes from conversations with See DEMANDS, Page 3
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Vol. CXXVII, No. 97 ©2018 The Michigan Daily
its second anniversary
Islamophobic Working Group hosts discussion on progress. struggles REFAEL KUBERSKY Daily Staff Reporter
In November 2016, during the 2016 presidential election campaign, Muslim Americans and the mosques in which they worshipped were victims to dozens of attacks, followed by Islamophobic rhetoric from then-Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson and Donald Trump. These events helped ignite a firestorm of Islamophobic rhetoric nationwide, leading to the formation of the Islamophobia Working Group on the University of Michigan campus. On Thursday, the Islamophobia Working Group celebrated their second anniversary with the event, “Restructuring Academia and Student Life” at the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery. Prof. Evelyn Alsultany, director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program, mediated the event. The same harmful rhetoric affected the University’s campus, Alsultany noted. She recounted the experience of LSA senior Jad Elharake, a panelist at the event, See WORKING GROUP, Page 3
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