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Back to the Future event talks market strategies
Local commission responds to deportations in Washtenaw County Activist group addresses issues of immigration enforcement through advocacy and support ALICE TRACEY
Daily Staff Reporter
As immigration status has become an increasingly divisive political topic in recent years, student organizations and local activists are working to advocate undocumented students and Washtenaw County residents. Local activist organization, Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, has addressed issues of immigration enforcement by advocating for and providing support to the families of undocumented individuals who have experienced raids or deportation orders by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. WICIR was founded in 2008
in response to a mobile home raid in Washtenaw County. Since then, ICE and local authorities have conducted several raids and local authorities, including a 2013 raid that displaced at least 15 individuals in Ypsilanti Township and a 2017 raid during which three employees at Sava’s in Ann Arbor were detained. William Lopez, WICIR volunteer and Public Health professor, said the organization engages in anti-deportation campaigns, locates missing individuals and has implemented an urgent-response system for immigration-related issues. WICIR’s website also says the organization helps educate immigrants about their rights and resources.
According to Lopez, another main component of WICIR’s work is assisting the families of detained individuals. He said the families of detainees have basic needs that are often overlooked. “People most often need food, they need diapers, they just need the stuff of everyday life,” Lopez said. “We focused so much attention on deportation that we forget the deeply human element.” Immigration policies have shifted over the course of WICIR’s existence. Lopez said the Postville, Iowa raid of 2008, which led to the deportation of almost 400 workers, elicited such a negative public reaction that ICE began moving away from large-scale work raids. The
Obama administration favored smaller raids and collaboration with local law enforcement officers, a decision that Lopez said decreased trust of police and led to a record number of removals. Under the Trump administration, Lopez said, coordination between immigration officials and local police has continued. There has also been an uptick in workplace raids.
Retired MSU professor presents five propositions to improve economic system BARBARA COLLINS Daily Staff Reporter
Lawrence Busch, professor emeritus of sociology at Michigan State University, spoke to University of Michigan students and faculty Monday evening about markets from an economic perspective in his presentation sponsored by the University’s Science, Technology and Society Program. Busch began his presentation, titled “Back to the Future: An STS Approach to Markets,” by explaining three different ways of examining markets. He said markets can be examined as an economic transaction, as a place where politics are enacted and as an institution. According to Busch, mainstream economics firms focus on the economic transaction approach and ignore political and institutional examinations. “(Mainstream economics) simply says those approaches aren’t economical. What this allows economics to do, I will argue, is to remove the political from markets,” Busch said. “At the same time, however, as economics does this, is that economics
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is performative. We need to examine how the theoretical treatment of markets actually inf luences actual markets.” Busch discussed five propositions throughout the presentation. In his first proposition, “Markets are impure distributive systems,” Busch described the perfect image of markets. He said in actual markets, corruption is to be found and wages are typically biased in respect to race, ethnicity, gender and class. “I want to argue that actual markets are always in perfect distributive systems, and that untethered markets lead to massive inequality,” Busch said. “I want to emphasize the point that the vast majority of the population still buy into the idea that markets are a pretty good distributive system.” In the second proposition, “Markets do not differ in kind from other institutions,” Busch said economists are solely concerned with the efficiency of markets and are inf luenced by both human and non-human actions. See MARKET, Page 3
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GOVERNMENT
ACADEMICS
Community Cafe Shapiro hosts 22nd annual poetry reflects on and short story reading in Bert’s Cafe legacy of Fifty-five instructor-nominated writers share original pieces aloud at UgLi Rep Dingell
SACUA talks new initiatives and policies
Congressman’s efforts throughout the years and presence on U-M campus remembered
Provost Martin Philbert discusses biosciences plans and felony charge self-reporting practice
RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Reporter
Nearly every retrospective memorializing the late U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., remembered the 92-year-old as a man of another era. Dingell, first elected to the House of Representatives in 1955, served in Congress for 59 years in a political career that spanned 11 presidencies. Dingell, the longest serving member of Congress in U.S. history, passed away in his Dearborn home Thursday evening after he entered hospice care just the day before. He was diagnosed with cancer earlier in 2018, yet remained a force to be reckoned with, often going viral on his Twitter account with sharp political quips and commentary. A host of family and friends, political allies and adversaries, journalists and commentators are painting the congressman as more than a memory. Dingell’s life and death, they say, is of utmost importance for our politics today. See DINGELL, Page 3
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EMMA STEIN
Daily Staff Reporter
Approximately 25 students and faculty members gathered at Bert’s Cafe Monday night for the University of Michigan Library Cafe Shapiro’s first night of a weeklong poetry and short story reading event. The event has been happening annually for more than 20 years, and this year
there are a total of 55 student writers speaking over the course of 6 nights. Students are invited to participate in the event after they’ve been nominated by their professors. Student Engagement Librarian Amanda Peters, a host of the event, said the event began in 1997 and has only grown since. She said one of the goals of the series is to expand the impact of creative writing on campus.
“It’s been going on for 22 years, and it started as part of the University’s Year of the Humanities and Arts, so that was kind of a special thing that had happened that particular year,” Peters said. “It had a goal to explore the role of arts and humanities in civic and community life. It’s just become so much more than that over the years. It has become this really amazing event for students to come and share their work
in this informal way, but it’s just really cool to see how it keeps growing and growing and we get more nominations every year from our faculty.” Peters said the event is a great opportunity for undergraduate writers to gain confidence reading their work aloud to an audience and a chance for attendees to learn more about the University community through student voices. See SHAPIRO, Page 3
JIALIN ZHANG For the Daily
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs held its weekly meeting Monday afternoon, discussing recent changes to the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guide and the introduction of electronic voting into Senate Assembly. SACUA also hosted University Provost Martin Philibert to speak on the new Biosciences Initiative. SACUA Chair Neil Marsh, professor of chemistry, urged committee members to help with the nomination of candidates for SACUA in the upcoming election. According to the committee, only three out of the six needed nominations have been made. “One engineering,” Director Tom Schneider said. “And two LS&A’s.”
CLAIRE MEINGAST/Daily School of Social Work freshman Abbey Phillipson reads her short story at Cafe Shapiro at the Undergraduate Library Monday night.
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INDEX
Vol. CXXVIII, No. 70 ©2019 The Michigan Daily
NEWS.........................2 OPINION.....................4 CLASSIFIEDS................6
See SACUA , Page 3
SUDOKU.....................2 ARTS...................5 SPORTS.................7