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University Dining ups wages by 22 percent ALLISON FARRAND/Daily
Ann Arbor resident Cheryl Ervin, center, leads a song as marchers arrive at the Second Baptist Church after walking from the Washtenaw County Courthouse on Sunday. The unity march was part of the church’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day program.
Annual march honors MLK, addresses civil rights issues Community unifies in solidarity to discuss current racial climate By DESIREE CHEW Daily Staff Reporter
About 50 people participated in the Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Unity March on Sunday to honor King’s legacy and bring to light current issues of racial inequality.
The event was jointly organized by the Second Baptist Church of Ann Arbor and First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor. The group, consisting mostly of churchgoers, marched from the Washtenaw County Courthouse to the Second Baptist Church. They waved commemorative banners and sang songs like the “Ballad of Martin Luther King” and “We Shall Overcome.” The event’s organizer Ronald Woods, who serves in the Social Concerns Ministry of the Second Baptist Church, explained that
the march is a yearly tradition held on the second Sunday of January. Its purpose is to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, as well as advocate for issues related to racial inequality and social justice. “This is the 34th MLK Unity March Program,” he said. “It was started in 1983, three years before the holiday was federally approved. The march this year is special because it’s 2016 and it is significant to keep forward motion going on issues of justice and race.” Rev. Desmond Martin, an
associate minister at the Second Baptist Church, emphasized the significance of the issues that were on the agenda of the Civil Rights Movement should continue to be advocated for today. “Unfortunately many of the issues that were relevant when the march first started 34 years ago are still very, very relevant today,” he said. “The battle that was being fought was for the soul of America and that is still very resonant today.” Other Black participants at the See MARCH, Page 3A
Understaffing drives move to increase pay from $9 to $11 By BECCA SOLBERG Daily Staff Reporter
In the entrances of all of the University dining halls, signs read: “$11 per hour. Dining Hall jobs. They’re money.” Starting this semester, the wages for dining hall staff increased from $9 to $11 in order to combat the decrease in student applicants and allow the workers to have more flexible schedules, according to Michigan Dining Director Steve Mangan. The 22 percent wage increase comes after a significant decline in student dining hall employees and applicants. Mangan suggested possible factors contributing to this decline including “changing
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CSG’s Detroit Congress aims to connect city and University Sub-commission aims to increase student awareness of opportunities By EMILY MILLER Daily Staff Reporter
A sub-commission of Central Student Government met on Sunday with representatives from student organizations involved in Detroit to foster discussion about the University’s role in the city. CSG and the sub-commission form the Detroit Congress and aim to prompt connections and conversations between student organizations to raise awareness on campus of opportunities for students in Detroit. The CSG Commission on Detroit Engagement has eight members from CSG who have had experiences with Detroit and are passionate about student involvement within the city,
which could be anything from music to entrepreneurship. LSA sophomore Dylan Bennett, co-chair of the CSG Commission on Detroit Engagement, emphasized the importance of student involvement in fostering a strong connection with Detroit. “We can’t have a true relationship with Detroit if we can’t get our students there,” he said. The meeting opened with a discussion of the individual groups, their involvement with Detroit and their goals as organizations. The student organizations that attended included Detroit Partnership, Detroit Revitalization and Business Initiative, JDs in the D and Seven Mile Music. A discussion followed about the needs and opportunities each organization provides to the others. LSA senior Alyssa Setting is a representative from Detroit Partnership, a studentrun organization that encourages See DETROIT, Page 3A
demographics, higher incomes for many of our students and more jobs available in town and campus” as explanations for the drop in employment and consistent dining hall understaffing. According to the Office of Budget and Planning the number of first-year, in-state students with parents’ incomes above $150,000 has decreased from 54 percent to 49 percent, however for out-of-state freshman the number increased from 68 percent to 76 percent. In an interview with the Daily in 2014, E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, said the University’s difficulty finding students to fill campus jobs could be associated with higher-than-average family incomes. School of Education junior Andrew Campbell, a Markley dining employee, said understaffing has been a problem in his experience working at the dining hall prior See WAGES, Page 3A
Protesters file lawsuit in district court against A2 deer cull Plaintiffs argue the current program is public safety risk for residents
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Senior Brent Petway celebrates as the buzzer sounds in Michigan’s tense win over Indiana.
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Michigan legislature lags in sexual assault policy
Across the nation, sharp uptick in bills aimed at curbing the issue By CAITLIN REEDY Daily Staff Reporter
According to a new study done by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the number
of states that considered legislation addressing sexual assault on campus in 2015 rose significantly compared in past years. 26 states considered legislation that addresses sexual assaults on campus in 2015, compared to six states the previous year. Occurrences of sexual assault on college campuses are far from rare: in a Sept. 2015survey conducted by the Association of American Universities,
23.1 percent of female college students reported they had experienced unwanted sexual contact during their college years, whether it be kissing, touching or unwanted penetrative sex. AAU, an association made up of leading public and private universities, is primarily focused on higher education and the research agenda. But two years ago in response to the growing conversation See POLICY, Page 3A
By BRIAN KUANG Daily Staff Reporter
Ann Arbor’s deer cull, which aims to manage the city’s growing deer population by killing a portion of it, may be stopped in its tracks by new legal action against the city. On Friday, plaintiffs of the Sanzotta v. The City of Ann Arbor court case filed a temporary restraining order application against the City of Ann Arbor in the United States District Court in Detroit. The motion attempts to cease all action toward the deer cull, which could begin as early as Jan. 1. The court will hear See CULL, Page 2A
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