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Tuesday, March 12, 2019
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Students sell Ben Shapiro tickets for as much as $200 With Tuesday’s high profile speaker event reaching admission capacity, community members resell free tickets on Facebook AMARA SHAIKH Daily News Editor
SARAH KUNKEL/Daily American Culture and Native American Studies Prof. Bethany Hughes discusses the history of redface and how it has affected our cultural climate at the Politics of Blackface Talk in North Quad Monday.
Institute for Humanities hosts conversation on impacts of blackface
Event featured discussion of impact of cultural representation and appropriation LIAT WEINSTEIN Daily Staff Reporter
In light of the recent controversy surrounding Virg inia Gov. Ra lph Northa m’s 1984 medica l school yea rbook, in which he a nd a classmate posed in blackface a nd donned a Ku Klux Kla n robe, the Universit y of Michiga n Instit ute for the Huma nities hosted the pa nel discussion titled “The Politics of Blackface Then a nd Now: What ’s in Your Yea rbook?” Monday af ternoon in North Quad Residence Hall.
The event drew a crowd of more tha n 50, though only a ha ndf ul of st udents at tended. The event was pa rt of the High Sta kes Cult ure series hosted by the Instit ute for the Huma nities a nd U-M Huma nities Collaborator y, which brings huma nities professors together for a conversation about releva nt political issues a nd current events. Monday ’s conversation was moderated by A ngela Dilla rd, associate dea n for underg raduate education, focused prima rily on the ra mif ications of blackface
a nd the preva lence of minstrelsy throughout the 19th a nd 20th cent uries. In the ea rly 19th cent ur y, minstrel shows feat uring white actors performing da nces in black ma keup gained popula rit y. Pa nelists a lso discussed redface, or the commercialization of Native A merica n identit y, a nd yellow face, the appropriation of Asia n cult ures. Dilla rd said these conversations about blackface revea l how common expressions of overt racism a re in modern A merica n societ y. “For weeks on end, what was
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Participants discuss sustainability goal to reduce emissions by 25 percent by 2025 EMMA STEIN
The University of Michigan President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality hosted its first town hall Monday night to discuss the goals and responsibilities of the commission and to share the collective ideas of community members with the commission. The commission has scheduled another town hall for April 3. The event, which was open to all students, faculty and community members, was at capacity and had a waitlist of approximately 90 people. Despite the initial interest in the forum, the auditorium had about 60 open seats during the actual event. The town hall featured
presentations from co-chairs of the commission Jennifer Haverkamp, director of the Graham Sustainability Institute, and Stephen Forrest, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, as well as an audience Q&A. In an earlier interview with The Daily, University President Mark Schlissel said he hoped the town hall would provide an opportunity for the commission to listen to concerns from Ann Arbor residents and allow community members community members to be more sympathetic toward the efforts of the University in moving toward carbon neutrality. “I’d love to understand which questions are front of mind for students,” Schlissel said. “In the f lipside, I’d love the students to see
the thoughtfulness and seriousness with which the members of the commission are taking this really important task.” Haverkamp began the event by discussing the University’s history of sustainability and its goal to reduce its carbon emissions by 25 percent by 2025. She noted, initially, carbon emissions went down by approximately 20 percent, but after the University expanded, emissions are currently only down 7.5 percent. “It led to 2025 sustainability goals, which Michigan is still operating under and working toward,” Haverkamp said. “And these were goals on landfill waste, food purchases, land-based chemicals, transportation efficiency, campus culture and, the reason we are
here today, greenhouse gases. And the greenhouse gas goal that was established through that process is to, by 2025, reduce scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by 25 percent below the levels that we had in 2006.” The GHG Protocol Corporate Standard classifies scope 1 emissions as direct emissions from owned or controlled sources and scope 2 emissions as indirect emissions from the generation of purchased energ y. Forrest added the commission aims to move past these goals. He said the commission welcomes community input. However, Forrest said he wants people to know the commission has no actual power to take action.
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Dascola Barbers celebrates 80th anniversary, continuing 220 years of a family tradition Ann Arbor barbershop cultivates community, local culture next to U-M campus MICHAL RUPRECHT For the Daily
Bob Dascola and his family have been in the barbershop business for 220 years. The family barbershop, Dascola Barbers, will celebrate its 80th anniversary in April. Dascola Barbers is located near Ben & Jerry’s and Potbelly Sandwich Shop at 304 1/2 S. State St. Dascola emphasized the importance of family in his business practice. “This is a family business that we
have,” Dascola said. “It’s not just one person. It’s a whole family, and so this is what we’re celebrating in April. Eighty years of a family business in Ann Arbor.” The shop at South State isn’t the only location the family has owned. There have been a total of five different locations, including the current one. The first shop was opened by Dascola’s father in 1939. Dascola began his career in 1965 after he graduated from Detroit Greene’s Barber College. Dascola said he worked
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in his father’s barbershop throughout his education. “I can tell you growing up in the business really made a big difference in how I viewed things,” Dascola said. “One of the things that we’ve always prided ourselves on was having a family member in each one of our businesses to make sure that the people working there were doing good work, because when your name’s on the front of the building, that is your reputation out there.” Dascola said the world of hair has
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lurking in yea rbooks beca me a nationa l obsession,” Dilla rd said. “One that reminds us of issues a round blackface, race, racism a nd va rious forms of cult ural appropriation a re still alive a nd ver y present in our contempora r y la ndscape.” Ma ny pa nelists noted the tendency to dismiss incidents of blackface, redface a nd yellow face as isolated episodes that ig nore the histor y behind cult ural appropriation.
‘U’ Commission hosts town hall on carbon neutrality Daily Staff Reporter
With free student tickets for the Ben Shapiro event on Tuesday evening selling out in under two minutes on Feb. 18, some students are now selling their reserved seats for as much as $200. The event, which is hosted by the University of Michigan’s chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, had initially held 617 of the 1060 tickets for University students. YAF Vice Chair Kate Westa, LSA sophomore, explained while YAF does not support ticket reselling — especially at such an expensive price — the organization does not have control of what happens to tickets once they are in students’ possession. “YAF does a really good job of bringing these high profile speakers at such a low cost to us and we want to ensure that it goes for no money to the people who end up securing tickets for the event,” Westa said. “We don’t condone the reselling, especially at such high prices, but once we get rid of those tickets, it’s out of our hands. It’s unfortunate to see this happen because we want everyone to be
able to go, but that’s just the way the market works sometimes.” LSA junior Sohum Mehta wanted to see Shapiro, but was unable to get one of the free tickets. “I’m still looking, but people are charging like $150 for a ticket,” Mehta said. Numerous students are selling the tickets on University Facebook pages. Though students like Mehta were having trouble finding moderately priced tickets, LSA senior Ben Rappaport was able to buy one for $40. Rappaport wanted to attend the event to learn more about Shapiro’s beliefs, which are different from his own. “From what I heard I got it for a steal,” Rappaport wrote in a message to The Daily. “I think it’ll be good for me to hear the views of someone whom I disagree with almost everything on.” LSA junior Amar Srinivasan was one of the students selling his ticket to see Shapiro on the “University of Michigan Class of 2020” page on Facebook. He sold his ticket for $45, but reported that he saw a range of prices from $20 to $60.
changed since he first started in the business. He said his own hairstyle helped him get on the map and gain popularity. “People would walk by and say, ‘Well, look, there’s a guy with a long hair cut. He must know what he’s doing,’ which sure put me on the map and I actually put two places out of business on South U because those guys didn’t have a clue
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ALEC COHEN/Daily University President Mark Schlissel speaks with The Daily about campus issues at the Fleming Building Monday.
Schlissel talks felony disclosure policy, free speech, One University
“We are very much a confederation of three campuses,” the University president said in monthly sitdown with The Michigan Daily AMARA SHAIKH, ALEX HARRING & ATTICUS RAASCH
Daily News Editor & Daily Staff Reporters Each month, The Michigan Daily sits down with University President Mark Schlissel to discuss events and issues on campus. During this month’s interview, Schlissel touched on topics of One University, the Carbon Neutrality Commission, the felony disclosure policy, free speech and ethical food practices. One University The One University Campaign was created as an effort to equip the University of Michigan’s Flint and Dearborn campuses with more resources. Schlissel said while all three University campuses share the same overarching goals, they are separate campuses under one university umbrella. “We have distinct missions and distinct priorities, and we employ and serve distinct communities of people,” Schlissel said. “We’re very much a confederation of three campuses.” Members of the 1U campaign have said all three campuses operate under
one president and one board of regents. Representatives from the campaign — which is run by a coalition of students and faculty across the three campus — spoke at the most recent University Board of Regents meeting and has garnered the support of the Lecturer Employees’ Organization. Specifically, 1U is asking the University and state of Michigan to dictate more funding to the U-M Dearborn and Flint campuses and claims the University inhibits these campuses through the use of a “silo system” budget model created by University administration. Schlissel said the autonomy of each campus allows the campuses to serve their individual student populations. He noted differences in the socioeconomic and geographic diversity among the three campuses as some factors that would create different student populations and ultimately different uses of funding. “Each campus has the flexibility to serve its student community by making its own choices and priorities and policies,” Schlissel said. “Each of the campuses makes up its own budget based on how to best serve its constituency.”
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