This article is part of an ongoing series of articles outlining specific initiatives of Central Student Government on campus.
Rhea Cheeti
Daily Staff Reporter
Student Government
University of Michigan Central Student Government representatives, along with representatives from other universities such as Michigan State University, Wayne State University, and Grand Valley State University, traveled to Lansing on Wednesday to meet with legislators to talk about the issue of
LSA Student Government hosted a meeting Wednesday evening to discuss resolutions relating to the Sexual Assault and Awareness Center and increasing resources for transfer students.
During Central Student Government’s Tuesday meeting, a resolution to support the creation of a Middle Eastern and North African racial category on University of Michigan documents passed unanimously.
Members of eMerge, a student-run political party campaigning for Central Student Government, kicked its campaign off with a meet-and-greet for interested students to learn more about the party’s core team members and platform.
A resolution to fund lunches to strengthen the dialogue between pro-Palestine and pro-Israel students on campus was
Anushka Sarkar walked out early from the first Central Student Government mass meeting she attended freshman year. None of the faces in the room, she found, looked like hers. No representative present shared her Indian-American heritage, and barely any attendees were students of color at all.
With the current administration nearing its end, the first campaign for the University of Michigan’s Central Student Government launched Monday night.
LSA senior David Schafer, Central Student Government president, vetoed the Israeli-Palestinian lunch resolution, which sparked a heated debate within the student government, Monday afternoon.
