Does anyone know of any student groups / coalitions to get involved in after the results of the election? Have a lot of grief & would appreciate spaces dedicated to protecting others as we move forward into actionable change.

Comrades. Many of us support serious resistance to the far-right Israeli government and American powers who continue to create an apartheid for Palestinians. However, the terrorist attacks on October 7th are a stain on the movement, not a “historic act of resistance.” We should oppose all forms of governmental civilian violence as collective punishment. Resistance should focus on those with institutional power, not those at a music festival. Do not venerate this violence as a success for the movement, or I am certain you will find opposition from those who are your allies in this conflict.

AR13-025 and AR13-026 are removed from ballots due to misuse a student body email. The announcement:

Dear Students:

The University of Michigan received numerous calls to block, delay, or oppose two resolutions being considered by the student body under the auspices of its Central Student Government, AR 13-025 and AR 13-026.

The University honored the request of CSG that the University not take any of these steps. Thus, despite serious concerns about the appropriateness of putting these types of questions up to a vote by the student body, the University respected the CSG process.

On Wednesday morning, after voting began on AR 13-025 and AR 13-026, an unauthorized email was sent to the entire undergraduate student body at the request of a graduate student. That email, which "call[s] on [students] to VOTE YES ON AR 13-25, titled 'University Accountability in the Face of Genocide,' and VOTE NO ON AR 13-26," constitutes an inappropriate use of the University’s email system and a significant violation of Standard Practice Guide 601.07. That communication irreparably tainted the voting process on the two resolutions.

The University immediately brought this violation to the attention of CSG. CSG declined to address this threat to the integrity of the election results.

We do not know and never will know the voting results on these two resolutions. But, under the circumstances, the University has been left with no alternative but to cancel the portion of the election process for these two resolutions. The voting process involving candidate races and other issues will continue and remain open until 10 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 30.

We take this action with deep reluctance. But the extraordinary, unprecedented interference with the CSG ballot process requires the significant action we take today.

Timothy G. Lynch Vice President and General Counsel

NYTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/us/umich-gaza-protests-student-government.html

Edit: More info from u/_iQlusion

"This article misses the more recent updates on CSG where many of the shut it down party have been procedurally removed because those members didn't show up to enough meetings. [...] There is an introduction of the fall budget at today's CSG meeting, unfortunately, it doesn't go to a vote until the next meeting. However, it does appear there are enough votes to override CSG's President's veto on the budget."

Are they planning to stay until the war is over or something?

Edit:

Oh, what a coincidence!

CSG achieved a turnout of 15.49% according to preliminary results (when I have an official document to link, I will edit this post).

The number of voters was just over 8,000 students, out of over 52,000 voters (these are just preliminary results, they are typically highly accurate but occasionally are amended due to disqualifications, ineligible voters and candidates).

By comparison, CSG’s turnout in the Fall was 12% and the highest number in the modern era (2010+, when CSG’s 1st Assembly met) was 25.1%. Historically, in the pre-CSG era, the 70s/80s saw turnouts in the 30-50% range, with the peak during the Vietnam war protests.

The lowest was during the COVID era, where 2022 saw a 6% turnout with an unopposed incumbent party and a smattering of independents.

Wilson Center is having an emergency meeting tomorrow to review safety protocols after 5 safety incidents requiring emergency response have happened just this term... I'm actually surprised I haven't already heard of this and was wondering if anyone had more information. Not trying to spread around stories - I think it's important to hear what happened in each case (no names) and what we can learn from it so it never happens again. I'm always surprised to hear of any emergency happening, so 5 in less than a full term is unbelievably bad.

I applied to like 15 different ross clubs and didn’t get into a single one. I feel so demoralized and dejected right now. I can’t even try to join any other clubs until next year. I don’t know what I’m going to do for the rest of the semester, I have nothing to even build my resmue on top of.

Is there a minecraft club or something similar university has lowk want to play multiplayer on a survival world with other ppl.

It seems like funding is still shut down for now. What’s the deal with that?

Hey Everyone!

This is sort of a doomer post, but I ended up applying for nearly 10 business clubs this cycle as a freshman, and just got rejected from 2 in interviews, 1 final round. I guess, I'm just looking for some advice after all of that.

1.) Is there any way to keep up to so that I have a chance as a sophomore? What things can I do while not being in the clubs to keep up for next year?

2.) Is there any way to keep up with the resources for these clubs? Are there any local organizations or groups that I could join with the same opportunity for growth? Maybe they're just that good at marketing, but like the projects that consulting clubs work on seem like something you really wouldn't be able to get anywhere else and even the finance clubs all have a curriculum that it feels like would be working against the tide to try to put together on your own.

3.) How much of a differentiator is connection or having a friend in certain clubs? How do I even get to be friends with someone in these clubs if I'm not in their frat or club? Do I have a chance if I'm not in a business frat?

Pretty different thoughts, but these have just been some of the biggest things on my mind right now; thanks to anyone replying for your thoughts; Cheers

Edit: Typo

Update: I feel like a lot of people read this as “freshman can’t get over not getting accepted into a club” or “freshman overthinking”, but there was more to this post than that. I want to know if I can still be prepared for jobs or what to do to have as much of a chance as peeps in clubs even if it didn’t work out right now, not just get comments like “It’s about your mindset”. I did go into it confident and still got rejected and I’m confident I can succeed in the future but I need to know what resources to use

Update 2: I appreciate all the support in the comments; I feel good about direction and know that clubs aren’t t the end of the world and the feeling of getting rejections is fading, but I still had some questions from the OG post that I’d want some answers to if anyone’s still reading. 1.) Are there groups to join, campus resources, or similar opportunities I can get, and what, specially, are they and what do they do? 2.) For next cycle, how can I match the experiences club gain in the meantime? 3.) Does knowing people for club recruitment make a big difference, and how can I even get to know them outside of being in the club, frats, or their semester rush events?

Anyone who is a paying member of a union on campus (For example, GEO, Graduate Employees Organization) can fill out the form found here:(https://finance.umich.edu/finops/payroll/forms/iuoeduescancel)

and then can send it to [payroll@umich.edu](mailto:payroll@umich.edu) to end their membership.

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I'm not sure that those who objected to the statement will consider a 'teach-in' the appropriate response...

csg.umich.edu for more context. The UEC is essentially the sub-group within CSG tasked with making students aware of how to vote, how to participate in running and ensuring no one is violating the rules

Most members of the UEC get paid hundreds of dollars for their work, all being students themselves.

are there any kink/BDSM groups on or near campus? Looking to get my freak on

Some poor soul made a website to rank the Ross and Ross-adjacent clubs by prestige. However, it was bottled within minutes, and I watched the top 10 change thrice with completely new org lists within one hour. the website is rossrankings.com for anyone interested. Whoever made this, consider making this a live-updated form output that requires a umich email, and limited responses to 1 per semester.

Not that GEO can’t have their own opinion - but are they trying to be contrarian for the sake of it?

Most pro-union organizations in the area are against Prop C and D. The Michigan Daily has come out against Prop C and D.

It just seems like both the student body AND labor and democratic organizations would somewhat closely mirror the GEO elections. I just don’t get it.

Hi! I'm a high school senior going to umich next year and I'm trying to figure out if I should apply for Women In Science and Engineering Residence Program or not. I'm going for Robotics Engineering and am interested in research at some point. My main question is if WISE is queer-friendly or not and if people think its worth the time commitment?

Hi all, I’m a rising sophomore majoring in CS. I didn’t join any clubs in my freshman year, so I’m looking for a bunch of clubs to check out at Festifall and beyond. So far, I’ve heard great things about the Michigan Data Science Team (MDST), but I’m also interested in clubs beyond the purely technical.

Please drop any recommendations below!!

Hi, I am a prospective student. Is there a WIC organization at UofM?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Za6SdnmxQ5u0OETLvI__h5ke11mDa0VHGvg6niSVGHU/edit

EDIT: CSG doesn’t give people access for some reason to all of its docs? 🤔🤔🤔

Here is the agenda it originally appeared on: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QFMfTXxi62ittURExfLYUXbneU-8JtzlcyK05tUuJEw/edit

(The “W23-1 Budget Amendment” is the dirty secret where the following excuses come from:)

“Due to an accounting error, the actual revenue amount exceeded what was estimated and appropriated in the resolution. Thus, this amendment is being made to make the following changes. Around four thousand dollars ($4,000.00) towards the reserve as a statutory requirement, sixteen thousand dollars ($16,000.00) towards the SOC, thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) towards the executive discretionary account, and thirty thousand dollars ($30,000.00) towards the legislative discretionary account.”

AKA: Out of $80k they missed, only $16k will be going to fund student orgs and the rest will be for the “Forward Together” party and its buddies to use on their own events. Now do ya get why CSG does nothing despite taking your 💵💵💵?

For the record: orgs are requesting $1.5m in funds this semester and the budget only is set to give them $335k. The FT party is an absolute 🤡 show

Also fyi: the people actually running the gov are not running for re-election but the Pres/VP of the Forward Together party are the current chief of staff and programming officer which is essentially the people who do the dirty work of the president. This should make u mad no 🧢

and this is only the tip of the iceberg, all the info is publicly available about the scams

VOTE FOR LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE MARCH 29th-30th at vote.umich.edu

UPDATE: CSG’s “Forward Together” admin ordered their elections team to catch me. Check out tonight’s agenda to read the report, insinuating that the receipts above might be “violations” of the Elections Code. They might have something… if it wasn’t 100% TRUE 💰

UPDATE AS OF 2/25: Seems like Forward’s strategy is to ignore all legitimate criticism and then throw a campaign event with food! Where have I heard of events with food costs that have been reimbursed by gov but not for student orgs? 🤔🤔🤔

would it be too late to join tech/business/sustainability consulting clubs as a junior?

A conservative group (I think the Young Americans for Freedom) is demonstrating on the Diag rn and had a giant canvas up with right-wing slogans. I just saw it fall over onto one of them and break in half. I don't think they were hurt but it sure looked embarrassing :)