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ADMINISTRATION
LEO cancels strike plans, bargaining progresses
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Union president says administration beginning to move in right direction
Panelists at MRAP’s capstone event, Making Home, discuss refugee difficulties at Rackham Saturday.
As crisis rages on, refugees share experiences at “Making Home”
Michigan Refugee Assistance Program hosts panel of experts, refugees RACHEL CUNNINGHAM Daily Staff Reporter
Washtenaw Community College student Anwar Mawli is from Syria, but he lived as a refugee in Lebanon after the Syrian conflict proved too unsafe for him and his family to stay in
the country. He arrived in the United States in June 2017. “We don’t need money. We don’t need food. We need solutions,” Mawli said when asked how Americans can help Syrian refugees. Mawli’s story served as part of a four-person panel at the
“Making Home” discussion event Saturday evening held at Rackham Graduate School. The event was presented by the Michigan Refugee Assistance Program, with about 40 students, faculty and community members in attendance. LSA senior Zoe Proegler,
co-president of MRAP, opened the event by explaining her favorite moment of last week’s exhibit demonstrating life in the refugee camp tents on the Diag.
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LEAH GRAHAM Daily Staff Reporter
The leadership of the Lecturers’ Employee Organization has postponed a walkout planned for Monday and Tuesday after the University of Michigan bargaining team began to “move in the right direction” at a last ditch bargaining session Sunday morning, LEO announced in a tweet Sunday night. The eight-member LEO Union Council decided to call off the job action after reviewing bargaining progress and consulting with the union bargaining team. According to LEO President Ian Robinson, more than 2,000
people, including students, had signed up for picket shifts in the event that the union called for members to strike. Robinson said Friday that even if the University did not fully meet LEO’s demands, if they presented offers that showed progress, union leadership would continue negotiating. “If they don’t come to table with an adequate offer but it shows enough progress that we can call off the strike in good faith, we would call of the strike and continue bargaining,” Robinson said.
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Yes Means Fest raises awareness for SAPAC art Ross class show gives bystander intervention and consent provides
CAMPUS LIFE
survivors a platform
“rEVOLUTION” art show displays work from 45 students, staff SHANNON ORS
Daily Staff Reporter
Visual and written art expressions created by about 45 University of Michigan students and faculty were displayed in Rackham Graduate School Friday evening for the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center’s art exhibition “rEVOLUTION: Making Art for Change.” The event was founded by a former SAPAC volunteer in 2006 as part of her senior honors thesis. Years later, SAPAC’s Survivor Empowerment and Ally Support Program continues to organize the art show as a platform for the University community to address issues including sexual violence, gender and sexism. The SEAS Program is one of the three volunteer groups housed within SAPAC. SEAS focuses efforts on educating the community on prevention, selfcare and how to be supportive of sexual violence survivors.
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BUSINESS
Fifth annual event feature performances, interactive artwork on the Diag RHEA CHEETI
Daily Staff Reporter
Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center held its fifth annual Yes Means Fest on the Diag Sunday afternoon to raise awareness of bystander intervention and consent. The event was organized by SAPAC’s Bystander Intervention and Community Engagement volunteer program. The event inspired conversations surrounding the problem of sexual violence on campus, and featured several student groups, musicians and artists in a series of performances. Proceeds from the event went toward SafeHouse Center, which supports people impacted by sexual assault or domestic violence. LSA seniors Julia Berg and Bonnie Cheng, who served as co-coordinators of the BICE program, spoke about the event’s focus on the intersection of consent and bystander intervention. “April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and we’ve already had SAPAC on the Diag, which was organized by (Consent, Outreach and Relationship Engagement) and was very primary prevention oriented,” Berg said. “We wanted to make sure that this was very distinct and more geared towards Check out the Daily’s News podcast, The Daily Weekly
secondary prevention and bystander intervention.” Yes Means Fest featured several student groups including Wolverine Support Network, Students for Choice, HeForShe, Expect Respect, SafeHouse and the Office of Student Conflict Resolution. Berg spoke further about how the event served as a way for student groups to raise
awareness on the importance of bystander proactiveness and showcase how their specific organization could help people resolve related issues. “In years past it’s been held in the Trotter Multicultural Center, but we really wanted to bring it to the Diag to just make it a bigger event that’s more accessible to people,” Berg said. “We wanted to bring out
the community engagement aspect of BICE, so we wanted to partner with all these orgs and work with them.” Cheng said holding the event on the Diag also allowed them to expand the range of people hearing their message.
real-world experience
“Living Business” soon in third semester, helps students problem solve JULIA FORD
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Daily Staff Reporter
This fall, the Ross School of Business will offer its third semester of the Living Business Leadership Experience, a class that immerses undergraduate and graduate students in reallife business projects. The class is part of the Business School’s Real Experience in ActionBased Learning initiative, a new curriculum philosophy that emphasizes problem-solving surrounded by the complexities and ambiguities of the business world. Mike Barger, executive director for the Business School’s Office of Strategy and Academic Innovation was the vice president of fleet operations for JetBlue Airways’ former vice when he was approached ten years ago by Business School Dean Scott DeRue. The Business school was looking to utilize a team of University of Michigan Business students to help develop some of JetBlue’s projects.
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Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center held its fifth annual Yes Mean Fest on the Diag Sunday afternoon.
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INDEX
Vol. CXXVII, No. 107 ©2018 The Michigan Daily
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