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Monday, October 28, 2019

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Daily Staff Reporter ASHA LEWIS/Daily Senator Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., shares his campaign goals during a rally at Cass Technical High School in Detroit Sunday night.

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont talked about jobs, wages and economic inequality at a rally in Detroit on Sunday. More than 2,500 supporters gathered in the gymnasium of Detroit’s Cass Technical High School for the rally. Sanders was introduced by U.S. House Representative Rashida Tlaib, D-Detroit, who later endorsed the candidate’s campaign for president. Tlaib joined fellow freshman Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar in endorsing Sanders, as the two endorsed Sanders’ campaign earlier this month.

“We deserve someone who writes the damn bills,” Tlaib said. “We deserve Bernie Sanders.” Sanders entered the gym to chants of his name, hundreds of supporters lining the balcony overlooking the room. In the stands, a row of placards reading “Detroit Loves Bernie” was complemented by a sea of blue “Bernie 2020” signs. Sanders began his address by reflecting on former Rep. John Conyers, the late U.S. Congressman representing much of Western Detroit who passed away Sunday afternoon. Conyers served Michigan’s 1st, 13th and 14th congressional districts from 1965 to 2017, co-founding the Congressional Black Caucus and continually

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Society for Professional Journalists hosts panel Event discusses nuances of sports reporting, careers through speaker experiences SUNSKRITI PARANJPE For The Daily

The Ann Arbor chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists organized a panel discussion titled “Scoring in Sports Journalism” on Friday, to discuss the nuances of sports reporting. The event began with a keynote speech by Ketra L. Armstrong, an award winning freelance sports-journalist and professor of sport management at the School of Kinesiology. Armstrong emphasized the need for entities like the SPJ, and listed the power of media in framing a narrative, the need for diverse perspectives and the importance of creativity as three things she has learned during her career. “The world needs sports,” she said. “But sports need journalists who have the ability and the willingness to do this job with civility, with dignity and with social responsibility. The sports industry needs journalists who will embrace their social responsibility to make a difference.” Jason Beck, Tigers beat reporter for MLB.com, reflected on the way the nature of his job as a beat reporter has changed.

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advocating for the nation’s transition to a single-payer health care system. He resigned during his 26th term in 2017 following sexual harassment allegations. Sanders said Conyers, the longest serving Black congressman in American history, was an unrelenting fighter for social justice and economic opportunity, someone who inspired Sanders’ own legislative agenda. “Tonight we’re not here just to mourn John, but to celebrate a life of enormous achievement,” Sanders said. “As all of you know, John was a champion for civil rights, he was the man most responsible for having a national holiday for the great Martin Luther King Jr., and

long before it was popular, John Conyers understood that healthcare is a human right.” Sanders spent most of his speech explaining the main goals of his campaign: to combat the political establishment and expand economic opportunity to all of the American people. Sanders said he visited several neighborhoods in Tlaib’s district, in which voters expressed concern over tightening economic conditions for the working class. “Rashida took me around her district here in Detroit, and I met with beautiful young people who are going to schools in which they don’t have adequate textbooks,” Sanders said. See SANDERS, Page 2A

The University of Michigan held a groundbreaking for its new $920-million-dollar hospital on Friday, featuring remarks from University President Mark Schlissel and U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Ann Arbor. Outside the private event, dozens of Michigan nurses stood holding signs and chanting protests such as “U of M you can’t hide, we can see your greedy side,” and “U of M, you’re no good, treat your workers like you should.” The nurses were protesting a lack of sufficient parking options at Michigan Medicine for hospital employees. Earlier this year, over 250 employee parking spaces were converted to patientonly parking spots. This made it increasingly difficult for nurses and other hospital staff to find adequate parking and get to work on time, according to Michigan

Students Demand Action, SAPAC present discussion on domestic violence Congresswoman, researcher and survivor share perspectives on gun use ABBY TAKAS

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In light of domestic violence awareness month, Students Demand Action and the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center hosted an event Friday evening to discuss the intersection of gun violence and domestic violence. LSA senior Taylor King, group co-lead of Students Demand Action, and Public Policy junior Matt Weiner, student volunteer and outreach chair at SAPAC, introduced the issue in regard to Michigan specifically. “Over one third of women in Michigan report experiencing some form of intimate partner violence in their lifetime; in 2017 alone, there were over 88,000 domestic violence incidents, including over 12,000 aggravated domestic assaults in Michigan,” King said. In Michigan, people convicted of domestic violence are allowed to purchase firearms, as long as their victim was not a livein spouse. This “boyfriend loophole” would be closed with the passing of House Bill No. 4497. “HB 4497 is sitting in the Michigan State Judiciary Committee, where it has been since April without receiving a single hearing,” Weiner said. U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Ann Arbor, began the panel by discussing her personal experience growing up in a home with domestic violence and detailing how this violence affected her and her sister. She recalled feelings of shame when

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the police dismissed their calls and would not show up when her and her sister were worried about their safety and hiding in a closet. The first time Dingell told her story was on the House floor. “I got up and gave a speech from my heart, that was one of the hardest things I ever did, but this is so important to me that women need to be safe and that people who shouldn’t have guns need to be kept from buying them,” Dingell said. Quyen Ngo, research assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, discussed her research, which focuses on understanding the motivations behind perpetrators of domestic violence. She said children exposed to violence

are more likely to become aggressors of domestic violence in adulthood, and she studies these intergenerational issues to address the cycle of domestic violence from both sides. “I believe we cannot fix this problem unless we deal with the social and contextual factors that lead people to perpetrate and become aggressors,” Ngo said. Jackie Jones, a survivor of gun violence and a member of Moms Demand Action, became an advocate for preventing gun violence when her son and nephew were murdered in Saginaw by men that grew up with domestic violence in the home. As a Black woman, she highlighted the misconception

that every person killed by gun violence in a Black community is deserving in some way; she said her son and nephew were simply sitting in a car when they were shot. “I got to say something; I can no longer just not do anything … even though I was afraid, I had to,” Jones said. The moderators and panelists advocated for the Violence Against Women Act, which was passed in the House seven months ago and is awaiting Senate action. Ngo said this dialogue can be bipartisan, and proponents of gun policy reform are advocating for safety.