Yassmine El-Rewini

Yassmine El-Rewini is a Design Illustrator and can be reached at yrewini@umich.edu. Please consider donating to The Michigan Daily Suggested articles

The Safe Patient Care Act, a bipartisan plan to support registered nurses and ensure quality care for patients, has recently been introduced in the Michigan legislature. The plan, made up of three bills, will set a limit on the nurse-to-patient ratio in hospitals, restrict forced overtime hours and require hospitals to be transparent with what these ratios are. The first bill aims to ensure hospitals maintain a sufficient number of nurses on duty for the number of patients.

Take a short walk across the University of Michigan’s campus and you will see no shortage of Canada Goose jackets, Hermès bracelets or Gucci sneakers. These aren’t objects that the average college student — let alone the average adult in the United States — can easily afford, but based on our campus, you’d think they were. Wearing designer clothes isn’t an issue in and of itself, but it does become an issue when it is the result of unchecked privilege. Mar.