After spending the winter semester of 2017 campaigning for Central Student Government leadership on the three pillars of voice, opportunity and momentum, the eMerge party led by President Anushka Sarkar, an LSA senior, and Vice President Nadine Jawad, a Public Policy senior, has taken several steps this semester in fulfilling their promises of last spring, including passing a number of resolutions and initiatives.
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Michigan Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley announced Tuesday morning he will be running for governor in 2018. According to the Detroit Free Press, this is a position Calley has been hinting at for months, and the announcement follows a statement made to reporters on Monday in which Calley said “stay tuned for some big news.”
Updated with comments from SAFE.
University of Michigan Central Student Government President Anushka Sarkar, an LSA senior, signed the assembly’s resolution AR 7-019 that calls for the University to investigate possible divestment from companies that violate Palestinian human rights.
U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich, has been accused of secretly making a $27,000 settlement for a sexual harassment claim by an employee in 2015, according to a BuzzFeed News report. In the article, BuzzFeed reported they have received affidavits from four former congressional employees who claim they had seen Conyers making sexual advances toward female employees.
During Tuesday night’s Central Student Government meeting, which extended into early Wednesday morning, the resolution to call for a committee within the University of Michigan’s Board of Regents to investigate and consider divesting from companies allegedly involved in Palestinian human rights violations passed for the first time in the University's Ann Arbor campus history.
#UMDivest's resolution — for the first time in the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor’s history — passed in Central Student Government early Wednesday morning with 23 voting in favor, 17 against, and 5 abstained.
“We feel like we finally were given a voice on this campus,” a SAFE student tearily said to the audience.
On Tuesday, University of Michigan Central Student Government will vote on its divestment resolution. Tensions have been ramping up, as it has in mid-Novembers over the past decade. The resolution aims to gain support from CSG on divestment from companies operating in Israel due to possible human rights violations of Palestinians.
University Council met Monday evening for its biweekly meeting in the Michigan Union, discussing the possibility of a resolution to support and provide a greater awareness toward student caregivers, as well as other topics such as Central Student Government’s meeting Tuesday on the Diag and this week’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion summit.
Business senior Grace Nasr proposed an idea for the resolution to raise awareness of student caregivers — students who have children on campus — specifically through modifying syllabus language.
The Meijer grocery shuttle, a Central Student Government initiative that last year provided students with a weekly bus shuttle to Meijer, has been discontinued for future use. The service was launched in fall 2016 under former CSG President David Schafer’s administration, which worked closely on the issue of food insecurity on campus.
Former Eastern Michigan University student Eddie Curlin has been arrested as a suspect for the series of racist graffiti found on EMU’s campus last year. The suspect, while currently serving a sentence involving stolen property, has been charged with three counts of identity theft and one count for use of computers in order to commit a crime, according to WEMU.