2018-10-29 by The Michigan Daily

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Bounce Back

After a lackluster start to the season, the Michigan hockey team got back on track with two wins over St. Lawrence this weekend.

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“It’s 2018 and it took so long for us to get to this point,” said Ciera Sivels

The first Black woman to receive doctoral degree in Nuclear Engineering from U-M talks experience ASHA LEWIS/Daily

A student lights a candle at the vigil honoring the victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in the Law Quad Sunday evening.

Students, community members hold vigil for Tree of Life synagogue

Eleven people were killed during the Saturday morning Shabbat service in Pittsburgh, PA RACHEL CUNNINGHAM Daily Staff Reporter

About 300 students and community members gathered Sunday afternoon on the Diag to host a community vigil following a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue over the weekend.

Eleven people were killed while attending the Saturday morning Shabbat service at the Tree of Life Congregation in city’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Four police officers and two others were also injured. According to the New York Times, the shooting is considered the deadliest attack

against the Jewish community in U.S. history. Engineering senior Jonathan Schermer, whose family attends the Tree of Life Congregation, spoke about his family’s connection to Squirrel Hill and encouraged solidarity among the Jewish community to empathize with those who were impacted

by the shooting. “My family is a member of the Tree of Life Synagogue,” Shermer said. “I was Bar Mitzvah’d at Tree of Life. My brother was Bar Mitzvah’d at Tree of Life. Every Jew here and every Jew around the world stands together and symbolically; we are all members See VIGIL, Page 2A

SAM SMALL

Daily Staff Reporter

Throughout much of her life, Ciara Sivels had dreams of becoming a chef. Now she is the first Black woman to get a doctoral degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan. “I really had no idea (about engineering) until my junior year of high school,” Sivels said. “I had a teacher suggest I look into engineering because I had always been at good at chemistry and math, and I constantly excelled in all my classes.” Sivels attended Hickory High School in Chesapeake, Va. As a student, she was busy working to balance multiple Advanced

Placement credits and afterschool programs, such as her school’s Scholastic Bowl. She was also highly active within her church community. As senior year progressed she started applying to different engineering schools. Though the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was her “reach school,” she was accepted. When she arrived at MIT, Sivels had a heavy background in chemistry. But one of her mentors suggested she look into the nuclear field as she became interested in energy, antimatter and the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.

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Barack Obama campaigns for Michigan Researcher Republican talks plight Democrats at rally, urges people to vote incumbent

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of working immigrants

Days away from the election, the former president endorsed Whitmer, criticized GOP

Muñoz focused on the negative way domestic work affects families

With the election only 11 days away, President Barack Obama addressed thousands of citizens at Cass Technical High School in Detroit Friday night, highlighting the importance of voting blue and once again voicing his support for Democratic Candidates U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow and Gubernatorial Candidate Gretchen Whitmer. Obama emphasized the stakes in the upcoming election are higher than ever. “The main reason I am here is to make sure all of you vote in what I believe might be the most important election of our lifetime,” Obama said. “The stakes in this election are really high. Most importantly, the character of our country is on the ballot.” Obama called out the GOP, pointing to corruption in Washington D.C. “The outrages just piles up and you just forget stuff, so remember they promised to tackle corruption in Washington but turns out in Washington they’ve now have racked up enough indictments to field a football team,” Obama said. “You know what. I didn’t have folks in my administration get indicted. It’s not that hard.” Obama said the only way to recover government as it should be, is to hold politicians

TAL LIPKIN

Daily Staff Reporter

Lorena Muñoz, an assistant professor of gender, women and sexuality studies at the University of Minnesota, discussed her research focusing on comparative work between Zimbabwean and Hispanic immigrant domestic workers and their relationships with their families Friday at a talk hosted by the University of Michigan departments of Latina/o Studies and Women’s Studies. Muñoz focused on the emotional effects economic failures have on immigrant workers as well as related resentment from their children at the talk, called “Mothering Across Borders and the Children Left Behind.” “For some domestic immigrant workers in transnational motherhood, the poverty wages they receive in their home communities are not enough to sustain their families and communities,” she said.

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accountable. “When words stop meaning anything, when truth doesn’t matter, when people can just make up things, then democracy it doesn’t work.” Obama went on to say, “The only check on bad behavior is you and your vote.” Obama and several other speakers at the event called attention to the fact that Michigan no longer has a straight ticket ballot. Democratic Candidate for Michigan

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said voters need to actively vote, not just for big ticket items but for every office. “We need you to fill in every bubble,” Benson said. “If you don’t tell the story of all of us we may not win. We need you to tell the story.” Obama says he sees the movement away from a straight ticket as just another step by Republican parties to repress Democratic votes. He advised

the audience to remember 2008. “A decade ago, we had just lived through one of those periods of Republican retrenchment,” Obama said. “The Democrats had to come and clean it up.” He explained the fear surrounding the 2018 elections is no different than the fears that have surrounded previous elections. “Right before the election See OBAMA, Page 2A

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talks ideas for Regents

Andrew Richner says focus is on academic quality, affordability RILEY LANGEFELD Daily Staff Reporter

The Michigan Daily Administration Beat will be conducting interviews with the incumbent and challenging candidates for University of Michigan Board of Regents prior to the November midterm election. This interview is with Republican incumbent candidate and Board Chair Andrew Richner. Richner is a University alum, having attended the University for his undergraduate degree and a law degree. After serving three terms in the Michigan House of Representatives, he was elected to the Board of Regents in 2002 and re-elected in 2010. In addition to his position on the Board of Regents, Richner works at Clark Hill PLC, an international law firm. He lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, and his two children both graduated from the University. The Michigan Daily: You’ve been elected twice before, so you have some campaign experience as a regent.

Former President Barack Obama holds hands with Michigan gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer and Senator Debbie Stabenow during the Michigan Get Out The Vote Rally by the Michigan Democratic Party at Cass Technical High Schol in Detroit Friday evening.

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