February 2, 2019
Daily Staff Reporters Emma Stein, Parnia Mazhar and Arjun Thakkar sat down with Schlissel this Tuesday for their monthly interview with questions inspired from community input.
Topics of discussion included the sexual misconduct allegations against University Provost Martin Philbert, divestment from fossil fuels, the Presidentâs Commission on Carbon Neutrality and more.
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This week, our reporters interview University President Mark Schlissel, the Big 10 student body demands divestment and President Trump hosts a rally in Warren, MI.
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The University of Michigan Central Student Government passed a resolution demanding that the University freeze all fossil fuel investments and commits to divestment by 2020, according to a statement released Jan. 26.
The resolution was brought up at the Association of Big 10 Students conference in front of student representatives from every Big 10 school.
Trump visited Warren, MI this Thursday to give a rally to hundreds of people at Dana Incorporated, an auto-parts manufacturing company.
In his second visit to Michigan in the past 2 months, President Trump talked trade, the newly signed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and more.
This Tuesday, the Wallace House hosted domestic correspondent for the New York Times magazine and creator of the 1619 project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, at Rackham Auditorium.
In the lecture, Hannah-Jones discussed the 1619 project, an ongoing initiative by the New York Times to discuss the history and legacy of slavery in the United States.
Vividly depicting the early career of Mel Pearson, head coach of Michigan Menâs Hockey, Daily Sports Writer Tien Le describes Pearsonâs experience living with a billet family for his high school hockey years.
Pearsonâs experience living, studying and playing away from home drastically shaped his future.
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