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Finding his peace After suffering multiple injuries at the beginning of his Michigan career, Chris Bryant has found meaning in a new role off the field.
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Deadline for renewal of DACA draws community KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily
Public Health graduate student Dana Greene is continuing kneeling protests to shed light on racism at the University.
Why I kneel: A conversation with MPH student, activist Dana Greene
Greene garnered national attention by kneeling for 21 hours in protest in the Diag NISA KHAN
Daily News Editor
Public Health student Dana Greene knelt at the block ‘M’ on the Diag for 21 hours. It was not a cool fall day, either — the sun bore down on University of Michigan students
at a peak 91 degrees. Greene, along with dozens of other students, gathered at the Diag to kneel in protest of racism across the country, mirroring former NFL player Colin Kaepernick’s own kneel last year that lost him his job. Food, water and drinks were shared, and a tent was later set up.
People of all varying backgrounds unified together, Greene said, in a way that was surreal to him. For the Michigan vs. Michigan State game Saturday — a rare night game nonetheless — Greene has plans. In hopes of keeping the spirit of last Monday alive, Greene
and his team are calling upon students, faculty and Michigan fans to kneel and sit during national anthem. A letter written by Greene circulated this week explaining his message. “I am no longer looking to administration to take a stand See GREENE, Page 3A
Approximately 100 protesters gathered to lobby the University for more resources RIYAH BASHA Daily News Editor
Thursday marked undocumented immigrants’ last day to submit renewals to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — but undocumented students at the University of Michigan were undeterred. One hundred protesters marched from the Diag to the Fleming Administration Building to lobby University officials for institutional resources and protection for vulnerable students. After President Donald Trump’s successive travel ban orders in January, and again after the repeal of DACA in September, University
President Mark Schlissel stated the University will not disclose students’ immigration statuses voluntarily. Schlissel also formed an Immigration Working Group to monitor and analyze gaps in resources. Thursday’s rally, organized by the Student Community of Progressive Empowerment, centered around four new requests of the administration: fully meeting financial need, extending guidelines to obtain in-state tuition, appointing a central staff liaison between undocumented students and the University and improving accessibility for prospective students.
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One year in: How the University’s DEI DDA to add ‘U’ faculty fences to plan has succeeded, faced difficulties picket C.C.
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The Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority approved fence installation ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
The Ann Arbor Downtown Development Authority approved $150,000 to install chain-link fences around city-owned parking lots at an executive committee meeting Wednesday. The decision came after a string of fatal incidents in the city. On Monday, a 56-yearold man fell from the parking structure at the intersection of Fourth and Williams streets. A 22-year-old man fell from the same parking lot on Sept. 7 and a teenage girl fell from the structure on the intersection of State and Washington streets last year. DDA Director Susan Pollay explained the rooftop of the Fourth and Williams streets structure will be the priority, followed by the Ann and Ashley streets structure, the Fourth and Washington streets structure, the Maynard structure, the Liberty Square structure and the Forest Avenue structure. “(Fourth and Williams is) the first one we’re tackling because it’s the biggest … geographically,” See FENCES, Page 3A
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New aspects of the plan have unfolded recently, including the Go Blue guarantee ANDREW HIYAMA &KAELA THEUT Daily Staff Reporters
In October 2016, the University of Michigan launched its five-year Diversity, Equity and Inclusion plan — an extensive initiative designed to promote a more diverse and inclusive campus through increasing staff diversity, retention of underprivileged students and the assurance of equal compensation for all races, genders and identities. The overall plan comprises 49 unit plans created by all schools, colleges and departments at the University. Two student panels, consisting of 25 undergraduate and graduate students each, convene every month to discuss new strategies and ideas with DEI leaders. Though the plan was created to foster both long- and shortterm change on campus, the first year of DEI has left many on campus eager for more immediate action. Replete with racist incidents — ranging from posters promoting white supremacy to racial slurs written on students’ dorm room doors — the past year has weighed heavily upon both administrators and minority students.
educators strive to create a community inclusive of all identities by hosting educational events, serving as social justice educators and advising their specific community’s multicultural council. LSA senior Jad Elharake, a diversity peer educator for West Quad Residence Hall, has been working over the past nine months to add Middle
Eastern/North African as an ethnicity option on all official University documents. In an email interview, he expressed disappointment in the University for dealing with race issues through traditional identity binaries, especially in the historical context of the Arab communities’ presence on campus. “I know that historically when efforts (target) this
Diversity Peer Educators As part of the DEI plan, student diversity peer
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same issue, our needs are not prioritized and commonly fall victim to binary views of race and identity,” he wrote. “Lack of institutional memory, documentation, and recognition regarding the past mobilization of our community and our historical presence on campus only further the severity of the issue and disempower the Arab See DEI, Page 3A
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Little for solidarity
Faculty members gathered outside of the building and handed out flyers ALEXIS RANKIN Daily Staff Reporter
University of Michigan faculty gathered outside the C.C. Little Building Thursday afternoon to take part in an informational picket in support of recent student activism calling for the renaming of the building. Faculty members distributed f lyers pointing to former University President Clarence Cook Little’s support for eugenic, anti-immigrant and anti-miscegenation movements as reason to change the building’s name. The picket event was an initiative organized by Faculty for Justice, a coalition proposed by three faculty members in a letter addressed to all University faculty earlier this week. As stated in the letter, the group exists to “issue collective public statements, share information about student-led protests, and help initiate and organize faculty action in support of our students.” The letter included a listserv where faculty members could See BUILDING, Page 3A
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