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Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 4:31pm
Demonstrators hold indefinite study-in in Schlissel’s office, call for carbon neutrality by 2030
Demonstrators participate in an indefinite study-in in the Office of the President in the Fleming Administrative Building Thursday.

Demonstrators, acting in solidarity with those who participated in last week’s Climate Strike and subsequent sit-in, began an indefinite study-in at 8 a.m. in the Office of the President in the Fleming Administrative Building Thursday afternoon. Protesters left around 5 p.m.

Friday, March 15, 2019 - 11:09pm
10 arrested and given citations for trespassing following Climate Strike sit-in at Fleming Building
Students were given until 8 p.m. to leave the building without legal consequences after a more than seven hour sit-in in President Mark Schlissel's office.

For previous reporting on the sit-in from inside the Fleming Administration Building, click here.

Friday, March 15, 2019 - 6:14pm
Climate Strike participants occupy President's office after hours, asked to leave by police
Demonstrators occupy President Mark Schlissel's office in the Fleming Administration Building following the Climate Strike.

UPDATE: At approximately 7:15 p.m. three male demonstrators were seen leaving Fleming. While they said the had no issues with the police, they said they heard reports while inside that one demonstrator was arrested while leaving then immediately released. Melissa Overton, deputy chief of police and public information officer for the Division of Public Safety and Security, confirmed this claim in messages with The Daily.

Thursday, March 14, 2019 - 8:10pm
Tornado warning delays some campus activities, services
Dark clouds outside the Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building Thursday evening.

There’s no place like Ann Arbor.

A tornado warning issued for northern Washtenaw County ending at 8 p.m. Thursday night resulted in some University of Michigan exams and academic events being delayed or unfinished, among other issues.

Monday, March 11, 2019 - 7:21pm
Schlissel: “We are very much a confederation of three campuses.”
University President Mark Schlissel discusses events and issues on campus with The Michigan Daily in the Fleming Administration Building Monday.

Each month, The Michigan Daily sits down with University President Mark Schlissel to discuss events and issues on campus. During this month’s interview, Schlissel touched on topics of One University, the Carbon Neutrality Commission, the felony disclosure policy, free speech and ethical food practices.

One University

Thursday, February 28, 2019 - 2:04pm
EMU students who placed black doll in dorm shower will not be prosecuted, according to prosecutors
Washtenaw County denied the request for the EMU students involved with the incident be prosecuted because it did not violate Michigan’s Ethnic Intimidation statute.

Eastern Michigan University students involved in hanging a black doll on a shower rod on campus will not be prosecuted, MLive reported Feb. 27.

Thursday, February 21, 2019 - 9:29pm
Community members comment on tri-campus funding disparities, medical practices, ethical food practices at Regents meeting
LSA research fellow Kimberly Daley speaks about ethical food practices at the regents meeting at the University of Michigan golf course Thursday afternoon.

At the fourth University of Michigan Board of Regents meeting of the 2018-19 school year, 10 speakers addressed the board during the public comments portion. The speakers — who included students, faculty and community members — discussed non-agenda related items, including the One University coalition, ethical food purchasing and claims of inadequate care at Michigan Medicine.

Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 8:39pm
Conversations about diversity take place at ‘U’, around the country as universities are challenged on Title IX policy adherence
Title IX
Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 8:53pm
University of Virginia professor talks Black Twitter, journalism at speaker series event
Meredith Clark, former journalist and current assistant professor at the University of Virginia, gives a talk named "Black Women Tried to Tell Ya'll: Race, Representation and Self-Preservation through Digital Counter-Narratives" Thursday in North Quad.

Meredith Clark, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, spoke to about 30 students and faculty in North Quad on Thursday afternoon as part of the Communication and Media Speaker Series, hosted by the University of Michigan Communication Studies department.

Thursday, January 31, 2019 - 5:33pm
Coalition of faculty, students launch campaign to spread ‘U’ resources to Flint and Dearborn campuses
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The One University Campaign, a coalition of faculty and students, launched last semester across the University of Michigan’s three campuses as an effort to equip the University’s Flint and Dearborn campuses with more resources. A key player in the campaign is sociology lecturer Ian Robinson, president of the Lecturers’ Employee Organization.