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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
Recent redevelopment
is
prompting
tough
questions in Detroit.
Adam Theisen explores the
city’s changing narratives as
Detroit grapples with ongoing
challenges and revitalization.
FOR MORE, SEE THE B-SIDE, PG. 1B
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Data mining
WHAT: Electrical
engineering and computer
science prof. H.V. Jagadish
will give a lecture on the
various directions data
collection can go.
WHO: Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute
WHEN: Today from 10 a.m
to 11:30 a.m
WHERE: Rave Cinema,
Yipsilanti
Diversity
conversation
WHAT: Through the usage
of art, speakers will discuss
how diversity functions
through creative outlets.
WHO: Program in Creativity
and Consciousness Studies
WHEN: Today from
4 p.m to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Dental & W.K.
Kellogg Institute, Room G322
Museum talk
WHAT: The Smithsonian’s
founding director will
discuss the challenges
behind building a museum.
WHO: Museum Studies
Program
WHEN: Today from 7 p.m
to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Museum of Art —
Stern Auditorium
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At
least
17
foreign
tourists died following
a hostage situation, BBC
News reported. The incident
took place in Tunisia’s Bardo
Museum
in
the
capital.
Prime Minister Habib Essid
called the event a “cowardly
terrorist operation.”
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Parisian maps
WHAT: Visiting Prof. Jean
Boutier will discuss his work
as a catrographic historian. A
discussion of Paris maps and
atlases will also take place.
Boutier will use selected
maps from the Clark Library
collections during his
presentation.
WHO: University Library
WHEN: Today from 4 p.m to
7 p.m.
WHERE: Hatcher Graduate
Library, Gallery
Caroline
Kennedy,
the U.S. ambassador
to
Japan,
reportedly
received several death
threats last month, The New
York Times reported. First
Lady Michelle Obama is set
to begin a trip to Japan.
3
Jazz standards
WHAT: The winner of
five Detroit Music Awards,
Ann Arbor local Paul
VornHagen, will perform
a program of choice jazz
standards. He will be
playing alongside his trio.
WHO: Gifts of Art
WHEN: Today from 12:10
p.m to 1 p.m
WHERE: University
Hospitals
Black feminism
symposium
WHAT: Participants in this
event are encouraged to ask
key questions and partake
in debate centered around
Black feminism.
WHO: Department for
Afroamerican and African
Studies
WHEN: Today from 5:30
p.m to 7 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
League, Hussey Room
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Students write postcards of thanks to alumni donors at the
Michigan Union Wednesday afternoon.
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Flipped
classroom
WHAT: Four University
faculty members will host
a panel where they will dis-
cuss how to ensure a flipped
classroom is productive.
WHO: CRLT-Engin
WHEN: Today from
11:30 a.m to 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: Lurie Robert H.
Engin. Ctr, Johnson Room
Advanced
French
WHAT: A class held for
those over 50, oral speaking
skills will be honed
through free conversation
and prepared dialogues.
Participants will also read a
play as a way to practice their
French-speaking skills.
WHO: Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute
WHEN: Today at 12:30 p.m
WHERE: Turner Senior
Resource Center
Research explores birth
control, policy and religion
Snyder requests $500,000
for sexual assault prevention
Governor’s budget
proposal awaits
approval from
state legislature
By EMMA KINERY
Daily Staff Reporter
In this year’s budget proposal,
Gov. Rick Snyder (R) included
a
one-time
appropriation
of
$500,000 for improving efforts
to prevent sexual assault on
college campuses in Michigan.
The proposal for exactly how
the funds will be used has not
totally been made clear. The plan
for the funds reads: “The sexual
assault prevention and education
initiative will provide a system-
wide
approach
to
develop
comprehensive prevention best
practices, assessment strategies,
and effective response efforts.”
So far, the only action that
has been discussed is a potential
forum
between
the
Snyder
administration
and
officials
from
Michigan
universities.
Cynthia Wilbanks, vice president
of government relations at the
University, said the University
has been contacted about the
forum.
“We don’t have a lot of details
on the specific uses for the
$500,000, but I can tell you that
the governor’s wife has reached
out to universities to help think
about a forum that would be
focused on sexual assault and
prevention, and in this early
discussion, I think the focus will
be really around education and
awareness,” she said.
Dave Murray, deputy press
secretary
for
the
Snyder
administration,
confirmed
such a forum is currently up for
discussion, but said it is just in
the planning stages.
“Right now there are just no
details,” Murray said. “They have
not begun to put together the
plan for those events.”
Mike
Boulus,
executive
director
for
the
President’s
Council of the State Universities
of Michigan, spoke on behalf
of the university presidents of
Michigan, saying they were all
willing to work with Snyder on
his proposed initiative.
“Governor
Snyder’s
commitment to this issue is to
be commended,” Boulus wrote
in an e-mail. “He mentioned that
it was a priority during a recent
meeting with presidents — and
they all agree.”
University
President
Mark
Schlissel has also said he wants
to better address sexual assault
on campus.
In
January,
Schlissel
announced plans to release a
survey to gauge campus climate
around sexual misconduct.
State Rep. Adam Zemke (D–
Ann Arbor) said he did not have
enough information to comment
on the proposal at this time.
Murray said the forum and
other
brainstorming
sessions
will likely initiate ideas for new
programs and policies.
He said there hasn’t been a
lot planning to date because
the governor’s proposal still
needs to achieve passage in the
legislature, he said.
“Right now we’re in the
appropriations part, and the
legislature could accept that,
or they could change it, or they
could eliminate it,” he said.
“We’re working with them on
the budget now, it’s a process that
won’t be determined fully until
likely the end of June, that’s the
goal. So there’s a lot of things that
could happen between now and
then.”
Murray
said
the
Snyder
administration is hopeful the
legislature
would
choose
to
appropriate the $500,000 when
deciding what to pass in the
budget plan.
Religious women
support employer
contraceptive
coverage, study finds
By COLLEEN HARRISON
Daily Staff Reporter
Religion may play less of a
role in predicting a woman’s
positions on reproductive health
policy than previously thought.
A new study led by Elizabeth
Patton,
clinical
lecturer
of
obstetrics
and
gynecology,
randomly
selected
2,520
English-speaking women ages
18 to 55 on their views around
several
policies
related
to
reproductive health. Of those,
1,028 women responded to the
survey.
The study found more than
60 percent of women strongly
affiliated
with
Protestant
and Catholic religious groups
supported
employee
health
insurance plans that cover birth
control.
Religious
affiliation
was
determined by the women’s self-
identification and the frequency
of “religious attendance.”
Patton
said
the
study’s
authors
were
motivated
in
part by the recent controversy
around contraception coverage
and religious discourse. They
noted the recent debate was
largely
fueled
by
the
U.S.
Supreme
Court
decision
in
Hobby
Lobby
v.
Burwell
,
which challenged an Affordable
Care Act provision requiring
employer health insurance plans
cover contraception.
The ruling gave employers
the right to deny contraceptive
health
care
coverage
to
employees if they deemed it
against their religious beliefs.
“Common
narratives,
which
have
often
featured
a limited number of voices
from within religious groups,
have
generalized
opposition
to the ACA’s provisions on
reproductive health care across
religious affiliations,” the paper
stated.
Patton said she hoped to
debunk the notion that religious
affiliation can be used as a
reason for opposing certain
types of coverage.
She said religion impacts
women’s views in complex ways,
and it’s important to include the
full spectrum of women’s voices
on the matter.
“To
effectively
develop
reproductive
health
policies
in this country that serve all
women, we need to understand
women’s — including religious
women’s — perspectives on
reproductive
health
care,”
Patton said.
The study reported that those
who self-identified as either
Protestant or Catholic tended
to believe employer health plans
should be required to cover
contraception.
Additionally,
66
percent
of Protestant women and 63
percent
of
Catholic
women
surveyed supported the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care
Act’s coverage of reproductive
health care in general.
“We
found
that
women
had overwhelmingly positive
attitudes
towards
employer
coverage
of
contraception,
regardless
of
religious
affiliation,” she said.
According
to
Benjamin
Hawley, priest at St. Mary’s
Student Parish in Ann Arbor, the
Catholic tradition opposes birth
control because it blocks the
possibility of new life. Even so,
he said he said the issue should
rest in the hands of the courts.
“Whether
religiously-
affiliated organizations in this
country may deny birth control
options
for
employees
and
their families is a legal matter,”
Hawley wrote in an e-mail.
“Whether birth control could
be called a legal right, restricted
or open to all, or part of health
insurance packages is similarly a
matter for our political and legal
processes. “
Abagael Adair, a master’s
student in the School of Social
Work, is the core organizer of
Feminist Tables, a campus group
that meets regularly to discuss
relevant social issues through a
feminist lens.
Adair said she sees denying
birth
control
and
birth
control coverage to women is
discriminatory.
“All women should have equal
access to birth control coverage
regardless of others’ religions,”
Adair wrote in an e-mail.
Of those surveyed, less than
a quarter of women believed
that
religiously
affiliated
employers should be exempt
from ACA provisions based on
their religious beliefs. Adair
said exemptions deny women,
especially
those
of
lower
socioeconomic status, access to
basic health care services.
“It is solely the choice of each
woman whether she wants to
utilize birth control or not,”
Adair said. “By denying her
coverage, the U.S. government
is allowing women to subsidize
their employer’s practice of
religion.”
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