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Lieutenant Governor Gilchrist addresses Kessler Scholar winners
Elected official shares insight to first-generation award recipients at ceremony
BUSINESS
Sophomores in Business discuss early recruitment Students secure summer 2020 internships separate from school on accelerated track CALLIE TEITELBAUM & MADELINE MCLAUGHLIN Daily Staff Reporters
Zachary Goldsmith/Daily Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II speaks on his own education at the Kessler Scholars Banquet in the Michigan League Thursday evening.
ALYSSA MCMURTRY Daily Staff Reporter
Thursday night, about 100 Kessler Scholars gathered to listen to Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II in the Michigan League Ballroom for their annual banquet. The banquet serves as a final celebration of the scholars’ hard work throughout the year. In his address, Gilchrist discussed his path from engineer to politician and the resilience he learned along the way. The Kessler Presidential Scholarship Program was
created by Fred Wilpon and Judy Kessler Wilpon in 2007 for first generation students. Starting in 2017, the program is undergoing an expansion, which includes the addition of a first-year seminar, professional workshops and an enrichment fund to provide aid with tutoring or other minor costs. LSA freshman Lance Schwiderson said the program eased his transition from high school to college. Schwiderson said he did not feel much support from the University of Michigan in navigating academics, and that he would
have been lost without the program’s guidance. “Sometimes I feel like the University at large’s issue is people tell you to do things, but they don’t tell you how to do it,” Schwiderson said. “In regards to all first-generation students, I don’t really feel a connection to that community; I feel more of a connection to the Kessler community.” LSA sophomore Kendra Beaudoin echoed this sentiment, noting that in the wider University community first-generation students are scattered.
“I do a lot of work with firstgens on campus and there’s a huge disconnect between what the University expects from first-gen students and what they think of it and then what first-gen students actually feel,” Beaudoin said. “I know plenty of first-gen students that are on campus and don’t know anybody else but me that’s first-gen.” During Gilchrist’s address, he mentioned how a scholarship is an investment for the future. “Yes, a scholarship is a check that somebody writes,” Gilchrist said. See GILCHRIST, Page 3
While many University of Michigan students are scrambling to secure an internship for the quickly approaching summer, some Business students have already been recruited for the summer of 2020. In an effort to land prestigious internships at top finance and banking firms, many Business sophomores have undergone an accelerated recruiting process for positions, which started winter semester. Official recruitment, consisting of interviews for jobs at banking and finance firms and facilitated by the Business School’s Career Development Office, typically takes place in the fall of junior year. However, many banks have taken the initiative to start recruiting in the winter of students’ sophomore year. And companies have moved formal recruitment interviews off campus, bypassing the Business career center, in order
to expedite their recruitment process. Maria Hayes, industry manager and associate director in the Business Career Development Office, said the Business School does not permit banks to hold on-campus interviews with sophomores. “(Accelerated recruitment) is against our guidelines and our timing,” Hayes said. “Banks come to us and ask if they can host interviews during that time and we tell them no. My guess is that student worked directly with that company to coordinate that interview — they didn’t coordinate it through our office … There are interviews taking place outside of Ross for these students, but that’s something we wouldn’t encourage and we wouldn’t host here.” The Daily reached out to multiple banks and firms for comment on why they participate in early recruitment, but did not receive any responses in time for publication. See RECRUITMENT, Page 3
Multimedia event highlights importance Panel talks ‘U’ coding treatment of individual testimony in refugee crisis team wins CAMPUS LIFE
RESEARCH
of Uighurs in China
Speakers aim to showcase stories of displaced persons within University community
Experts examine ongoing issues of ethnic minority internment, discrimination
More than 80 students gathered in Palmer Commons on Thursday evening for the Michigan Refugee Assistance Program’s third annual capstone event, titled “Record Keeping: The Power of Stories in the Refugee Crisis.” Consisting of a photo exhibit, short film and panel, the event aimed to showcase the stories of refugees in the University of Michigan community and
MARIA SOBRINO Daily Staff Reporter
Since the late months of 2017, news media has increasingly published more information about the detainment of ethnic minority groups in China’s “re-education” camps. These internment camps have been in operation since 2014, and the number and size of the camps have increased dramatically since 2017. Four speakers and a moderator gathered on Thursday evening at the Ford School of Public Policy to participate in a panel titled “The Human Rights Crisis in Xinjiang,” with dozens of students filling the audience of Annenberg Auditorium. The Weiser Diplomacy Center hosted the single-night conference, which aimed to discuss the detainment of Uighur Muslims in East Turkestan. Chinese authorities recognize East Turkestan as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China, or XUAR. The detainment of Muslim ethnic minorities in China primarily targets Uighurs, a group that primarily practices Islam and has experience a long history of severe religious and cultural suppression under the Communist Party of China. See UIGHURS, Page 3
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generate discussion about the power of individual testimony in the refugee crisis. For the first portion of the event, attendees were invited to mingle over finger food and view the photo exhibit, which featured the headshots and narratives of six University students and staff. Each blurb had a quote from the individual and information such as their title, year, major, hobbies and information about their immigration process. Among the individuals included was Knight
Wallace Fellow Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, a Mexican journalist who was denied asylum this February after fleeing from Mexico in 2008 following death threats for his reporting on corruption in the Mexican military. In an interview with The Daily, LSA junior Said Al-Jazaeri, one of the students in the exhibit, explained he came to United States from Syria in 2013. Al-Jazaeri expressed it was initially difficult assimilating to a different culture and is still
difficult being away from his family, who he hasn’t seen in six years. “This was a great experience sharing my story for the first time,” Al-Jazaeri said. “It’s important to share my story, as it will help people in the future to learn from my experience… about what refugees and immigrants face when they move to the United States… It’s not always that we want to leave our country, but we are forced to leave sometimes.” See REFUGEES, Page 3
MADELINE HINKLEY/Daily LSA sophomore Aumaya Tabbah speaks at the Michigan Refugee Assistance Program’s capstone project “The Power of Stories in the Refugee Crisis” in Palmer Commons Thursday evening.
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second in competion
Group competes against 40 teams in Midwestern collegiate tournament ANGELINA LITTLE Daily Staff Reporter
This past weekend, four students from the University of Michigan won second place at the University of Chicago’s Midwest Trading Competition. The students were among 100 competitors across 40 teams selected from universities across the country to participate. Teams developed algorithms to make automatic trading decisions for three different trading cases. The first case focused on uncovering the relationship between prices of assets; the second on making an algorithm that is able to adjust to various market conditions; and the third on managing a portfolio in a hypothetical stock market. Each case was scored according to profits and losses. The University’s team placed second in the third case and second overall in the competition as runner-up to the University of Texas at Austin. The team earned a total of $5,000 in prize money. The event also provided networking opportunities with a number of corporate sponsors of the competition. Four platinum sponsors — Citadel, DRW, IMC and Optiver — hosted unique receptions to get to know competitors. See CODING, Page 3
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