Central Student Government met Tuesday night to discuss their Black History Month social media initiative, ongoing disciplinary proceedings against a U-M law professor and a proposal for a $15/hr minimum wage for student workers.
The assembly began by unanimously confirming Sarah Salino as Deputy Commissioner for Outreach and Caroline Theuerkauf as Deputy Commissioner for Events and Finance.
Engineering junior Zaynab Elkolaly began the community concerns segment of the meeting by updating the assembly on resolution drafts. Among the drafts currently underway is a resolution to form an undergraduate student workers’ union. Elkolaly also discussed the initiative to add “Middle Eastern” and “North African” as self-identification options on all University forms and documents.
Law student Deborah Rookey discussed the ongoing disciplinary proceedings against Professor Laura N. Beny. Rookey said she believes these proceedings unfairly discriminated against Beny, who is one of only two tenured Black women at the Law School and a single mother.
“She’s made statements that make us believe that she has been forced to bring her child to school when the child had a COVID exposure, that she’d been punished for teaching classes on Zoom when there are multiple professors that have taught all their classes on Zoom due to health concerns, and that she is no longer comfortable on the U of M campus,” Rookey said. “We don’t know exactly what’s happening but that is because the administration...
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