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KEEMYA ESMAEL/Daily LSA program associate Elizabeth James speaks to the audience about discrimination and stereotypes at the Beyond Black and White panel in the Tauber Colloquium Wednesday evening.
Beyond Black and White event looks at identities on campus
Student organizations collaborate on discussing interplay of power, privilege NIKKI KIM
Daily Staff Reporter
On Wednesday night, around 80 students gathered in the Tauber Colloquium to discuss the history of power, privilege and stereotypes as a person of color. Spearheaded by the United Asian American Organization, the panel
was a coalition of four POC organizations on campus: UAAO, Black Student Union, La Casa and Arab Student Association. The panel featured faculty advisors and staff in multicultural leadership roles throughout campus. Titled “Beyond Black and White: Marginalized Identities in Academia”, Business senior Chandra
Sahu told The Daily after the event that she thinks it’s unique to campus. “I haven’t seen a collaboration with organizations of these identities in all of my four years,” Sahu said. “I think it’s easy to feel that there is a divisiveness between different kinds of students of color so it’s nice to have a reminder. Because coalition build-
ing is how change happens.” Robert Sellers, Chief Diversity Officer and vice provost for Equity and Inclusion, served as the moderator and began the event by discussing the need for solidarity among people of color.
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Survivor Empowerment forum offers perspective on Sixth Circuit Court ruling ANGELINA BREDE Daily Staff Reporter
At the “Empowering Survivors: A Forum on Sexual Misconduct Policy” panel Wednesday night about 100 students gathered at the Ford School to discuss the new sexual misconduct policy at the University of Michigan. The panel was held by Central Student Government and guests from the Office for Institutional Equity, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, the Office of Student Conflict Resolution, the department of sociology and Kroll Experts, a risk management team. During the event, the
panelists outlined the new policy and answered audience questions regarding the Sixth Circuit Court ruling, recent Department of Education Title IX regulation changes and campus issues relating to sexual misconduct and survivor empowerment. CSG Vice President Isabel Baer, an LSA junior, highlighted the findings from the campus climate survey on sexual misconduct, which found 11.4 percent of students, 22.5 percent of undergraduate females and 6.8 percent of undergraduate males were survivors of sexual assault at the University.
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Campus resources help students Roundtable ‘U’ student discusses combat seasonal affective disorder caters to CAMPUS LIFE
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Panelists talk experience with suppression and violence in SE Asia ATTICUS RAASCH Daily Staff Reporter
Around 30 people showed up to the Perspectives on the State of Journalism panel Wednesday evening to hear three panelists, each representing different Southeast Asian countries, speak on their experiences as journalists. The event started with each speaker talking about their career and works focusing on Southeast Asia before moving into a Q&A session with the audience. Documentary filmmaker Orlando de Guzman explained his work in the Philippines, describing his experience filming police violence and civilian murders following the election of President Rodrigo Duterte in 2016. “Soon after he was elected, I went immediately back to the Philippines because I felt it would be a rather big change in society,” de Guzman said. “The usual night beat reporters who cover crime would go out and there would be at least two dozen killings a night we wouldn’t even spend time in one place before we’d have to run off to another.” See JOURNALISM, Page 3A
CAMPUS LIFE
Employees at CAPS work to mitigate negative consequences of SAD SONIA LEE
Daily Staff Reporter
During the winter months many students can face the possibility of seasonal affective disorder, a mood disorder causing depression to occur at the same time every year. While most people experiencing SAD feel the effects from late fall to the end of winter, in a rarer form, people can experience SAD from late spring to early fall. Vicki Hays, senior associate director of the University of Michigan’s Counseling and Psychological Services, says CAPS treats SAD as a facet of depression. “Seasonal affective disorder is considered a part of the
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overall umbrella of depression,” Hays said. “Primarily, I think you would notice that unlike your normal state of being, you’d feel more lethargic, less interested in things, maybe not able to concentrate as well, lots of our basic symptoms of depression. And it’s not a great combination to have that and have all the school stuff going on this time of year.” Jim Dolan, the clinical director of CAPS, said although there may be an increase in students with SAD during the winter months, CAPS does not keep track of SAD-specific changes. “I can tell you that about 22 percent of our students report depression as their primary presenting concern,” Dolan said.
“But we really don’t differentiate between types of depression.” Hays echoed his statement, saying depression is the second largest most common reason students go to CAPS for help, with anxiety being the first. Hays could not confirm if there is an increase in students going to CAPS during the winter. “I don’t think so,” Hays said. “I have to say we’re fortunate that the students find us to be helpful and we have tons of students who come in. So we don’t necessarily track that data.” Dolan also stressed the importance of understanding the difference between when someone may have depression and when the weather is just
affecting their mood. “It’s important for people to understand there’s a difference between the weather just kind of affecting your mood and the normal things we feel as human beings when the season changes, versus when something becomes depression, which is a more serious matter,” Dolan said. “It’s pretty normal for people to want to stay in bed a little more, or to raise carbohydrate foods and things like that. But it’s when it starts to interfere with your life — like you can’t get out of bed or you stop attending events or you don’t go to classes — that’s when depression can be a real problem.” See SAD, Page 3A
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cosmetic demands
Undergraduate provides threading services to others out of her house JULIETTE SIBLEY Daily Staff Reporter
On top of attending classes and fulfilling other typical college related responsibilities, Engineering junior Sara Bashir runs and operates her own minibusiness. Using her Ann Arbor apartment as a makeshift salon, Bashir provides lip and eyebrow threading services to students. Her prices range from approximately $2-$10, depending on the treatment. Eyebrow threading is the most expensive service she provides. Bashir’s interest in threading began long before she launched her business, back when she was in middle school. “My mom knew of the concept (of threading) because it’s kind of cultural for Desi people and people from South Asia to thread … so I just tried it,” she said. “In middle school, I started by threading my leg or my arm or my mom’s arm and then I did their faces and then when I got more confident I started doing other people.” See THREADING, Page 3A
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