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Inside: The Fake B-Side STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Candidate surprised to see name on CSG ballot KEEMYA ESMAEL/Daily Jad Elharake, Graduate Intern at the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, gives introductory remarks at the second DEI Town Hall in Couzens Hall Wednesday.
Town hall examines effects of DEI initiative on ‘U’ community
Students, staff offer input on strategic plan to increase diversity and inclusion on campus ALEX HARRING Daily Staff Reporter
On Wednesday night, approximately 40 students and faculty met in Couzens Residence Hall for the University of Michigan Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Town Hall. Jad Elharake, a program lead in the Health Equity & Inclusion and DEI offices, started
the event by thanking Diversity Peer Educators for acting as hosts and explaining the goal of these events. “We wanted to be very intentional in hearing your experiences as students,” Elharake said. “It’s an opportunity for you all to give your big ideas.” The University is in the middle of its five-year DEI Strategic Plan, which was
launched in October 2016. The plan was created in part as a response to student activism, specifically the #BBUM movement on Twitter and 2013 protests by the Black Student Union. The initiative promised $85 million over five years and included campus climate-related training, the creation of the re-located Trotter Multicultural Center and new recruitment strategies.
The DEI plan’s language made connections to historical social movements on campus, including Black Action Movement and debates over affirmative action in the last decade. Student activists protested the plan at a DEI keynote as part of the launch because they felt the student voice was not properly accounted for. See DEI, Page 3A
Haugh-Ewald included on executive ticket after miscommunication with committee PARNIA MAZHAR & BARBARA COLLINS Daily Staff Reporters
If a University of Michigan student looks at their online ballot for Central Student Government today, they’ll see Engineering sophomore Dylan Haugh-Ewald’s name listed as a candidate under the category of Executive Ticket. But Haugh-Ewald said he was not aware of his candidacy status until the ballot was released to University students at 12:00 am on Wednesday. Haugh-Ewald said he did originally intend on running for CSG president. He decided to attend a
meeting regarding CSG elections when he received an email from the University Electionsw Commission. Haugh-Ewald said he saw the opportunity to run for CSG president as an avenue to pursue goals he had for the University, specifically regarding open-sourcing more course material through public online platforms available to nonuniversity-enrolled students. “I see Central Student Government involvement as one avenue that could work for the goals that I want to achieve within the University and any inf luence I want to have,” HaughEwald said. See CSG, Page 3A
CSG, DPSS host town hall to address Brazilian Professors magazine concerns after active shooter scare discuss role CAMPUS LIFE
editor talks Black press Luciane Ramos Silva’s project promotes work, perspectives of artists CLAIRE HAO
Daily Staff Reporter
On Wednesday afternoon, about 15 students and faculty gathered in the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery Lab for a talk by Luciane Ramos Silva, co-editor of O Menelick 2o Ato, an editorial project in Brazil aiming to highlight Afro-Brazilian artists, thinkers and perspectives. In her talk, titled “Voices of the Black Press in Times of Social Cleavage in Contemporary Brazil,” Silva discussed racial disparities and the importance of a platform for Black creators in Brazil. Silva began by describing Brazil Design by Sherry Chen demographically, explaining Brazil faces many issues of inequality despite its racial diversity. “54 percent of Brazil’s population is Black, but it has one of the worst statistics in racial disparities in terms of education, employment, living conditions,” Silva said. “It has some of the worst statistics in terms of death of young Black men, of mass incarceration against Black men, of sexual violence against Black women, opportunities for Black students in universities, et cetera.” See PRESS , Page 3A
CAMPUS LIFE
Officers promise internal and external reviews following complaints about response MELANIE TAYLOR Daily Staff Reporter
Wednesday night, the University of Michigan’s Central Student Government and Division of Public Safety and Security collaborated to host a town hall regarding plans to improve emergency safety protocol following an active shooter scare on March 16. A small group of community members voiced concerns about accommodations for disabled students and possible improvements to the emergency alert system. CSG President Daniel Greene, Public Policy senior, said he was glad the entire University community was given a place to express their opinions regarding the events.
“We were concerned that nonstudent leaders — so the majority of campus — didn’t have the opportunity or platform to voice their concerns and ask questions,” Greene said. “We wanted to make sure that although CSG already has the connections and was able to have this kind of dialogue that other community members were able to have the same opportunity to do so.” Greene said he wanted to provide ample opportunity for all community members to engage in a dialogue about how DPSS will adjust moving forward. “Although tonight’s attendance was a bit more intimate in style, I think it was still an opportunity for the students that did show up to be able to ask the questions that
otherwise fall by the wayside,” Greene said. DPSS Executive Director Eddie Washington fielded many of the students’ questions. He reiterated multiple times his gratitude for the feedback he has received from the campus community. “You have expectations, high expectations,” Washington said. “We share the ‘leaders and the best’ philosophy, and we don’t believe we can be that if we’re not constantly looking at ways to improve.” Washington reassured the group that DPSS is putting together an “after-action briefing,” a process which requires an internal and external review of the situation and how it was handled. Washington said the briefing
requires different facets of DPSS to convene and agree, so the official document is not yet published but soon will be. “That will be transparent, and that will be something that we make available,” Washington said. This briefing will address concerns brought up by students, staff, faculty and other community members who were affected by the active shooter scare: action taken by officers on the scene, use of the emergency alert system and areas where improvement is possible or necessary. Washington said his primary takeaway from the conversations he has had with students is that DPSS needs to be “doing more than what we’re doing today.” See SCARE , Page 3A
RUCHITA IYER/Daily DPSS Executive Director Eddie Washington Jr. and DPSS Lieutenant Bryan Baker discuss improving campus emergency response systems during a town hall held in the Michigan League Wednesday evening.
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INDEX
Vol. CXXVIII, No. 95 ©2019 The Michigan Daily
of women in leadership
Lecture series at Trotter looks at challenges female authority figures face STELLA HACKETT For The Daily
As part of the Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series, the Trotter Multicultural Center hosted University of Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade and Kathryn Dominguez, public policy and economics professor, for a discussion on Women in Leadership on Wednesday night. About a dozen students gathered in Palmer Commons for the second event of the speaker series focusing on political issues and public service. McQuade previously served as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan after being appointed by President Barack Obama and was the first woman to hold the position. Dominguez is a published author, research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and director of the Honors Program in the Department of Economics. Moderator Arnessa Garrett, assistant business editor of the Dallas Morning News, began the discussion by asking the women about what sparked their interest in public service and what advice they would give to women interested in entering this field. See LEADERSHIP , Page 3A
NEWS.........................2 OPINION.....................4 SPORTS......................6
SUDOKU.....................2 CLASSIFIEDS...............5 ARTS...................1B