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Presenter discusses
significant historical
events in the 1970s
to current day
By ANDREW HIYAMA
Daily Staff Reporter
The year 1973 represented
a great leap forward toward
equal rights for the gay and
feminist
communities
in
America
—
including
the
landmark Roe v. Wade decision,
which legalized abortion, and
the removal of homosexuality
from the American Psychiatric
Association’s Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual as a mental
disorder.
However,
the
year
also
marked a regression in trans
rights, exemplified by gay
and feminist protests of trans
speakers and performers at
gay liberation events. Susan
Stryker, associate professor of
gender and women’s studies
at the University of Arizona,
said in a lecture at Rackham
Building on Tuesday.
Stryker’s address focused
on how the trans community
is in a similar oppositional
position
currently,
and
examined transgender history
in
an
attempt
to
better
understand
the
community
today. The lecture is part of
a Year of Conversions series
of events that aim to engage
Deer cull
continues to be
contested issue at
Tuesday meeting
By BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
At their Tuesday meeting,
Ann
Arbor
City
Council
members
unanimously
appointed current Interim
Police Chief James Baird as
police chief, concluding the
city’s nationwide search to
fill the role=
Baird will officially assume
the role on Feb. 22.
The search for a new
police chief has been ongoing
over past months. Council
initiallyconfirmed
James
White,
assistant
police
chief of the Detroit Police
Department, in November
2015.
White
unexpectedly
turned down the appointment
to remain in Detroit.
Baird has been serving as
the city’s interim police chief
LeVert sits as
Michigan falls
at Ohio State
MEN’S BASKETBALL
UHS says over 20
students confirmed
ill with similar
symptoms
By ANNA HARITOS
Daily Staff Reporter
University officials said Tues-
day that they are looking into a
spated illness on campus.
“We have seen approximately
20 to 25 individuals in the emer-
gency room and health service
building combined who have had
a vomiting illnesssometimes with
diarrhea,” Dr. Robert Winfield,
executive director of UHS, said.
“This began sometime last eve-
ning, and people continued to be
sick through the night, and the
morning — some people showing
improvement.”
In an effort to find the cause
of the outbreak, Dr. Winfield
has partnered up with the chief
of the University Hospital’s ER,
the head of infection control and
Laura Bauman, an epidemiologist
at the Washtenaw County Health
Department.
“We have tested a number of
people who are sick by taking
stool cultures and sending them
to Michigan Department of Com-
munity Health in Lansing,” Win-
field said. “It takes about three to
five days to receive results back
for norovirus testing.”
Winfield said the final count of
students who have been affected
will not be known for a few days.
Of those individuals who became
ill and sought out help, they tend-
ed to live in either South Quad
Residence Hall or West Quad
Residence Hall. However, there
were four cases that had no affili-
ation with either facility in the
last few days, UHS reported.
“There are three ways an out-
break can occur,” Dr. Winfield
said. “This is a season where
the norovirus, or the cruise ship
virus, infections can become
prevalent — it’s a very contagious
virus and it’s harder to kill with
regular cleaning supplies. The
See SICKNESS, Page 3A
Presidential
candidate holds
town hall at GOP
Livonia office
By SAM GRINGLAS
Daily Staff Reporter
LIVONIA — After departing
New Hampshire with a much-
needed second place finish last
week, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) is
now banking on an equally strong
turnout in Michigan to sustain his
path to the presidency.
The two-term Republican gov-
ernor wrapped up a two-day swing
through Michigan on Tuesday,
which included stops at two col-
leges, Michigan State University
in East Lansing and Grand Valley
State University outside of Grand
Rapids, in advance of the state’s
March 8 primary. During a Tues-
day town hall of a couple hundred
people held at a local GOP office in
Livonia, Kasich emphasized both
his eagerness to promote a conser-
vative agenda — including items
like securing the border, increasing
defense spending, passing a bal-
anced budget amendment, cutting
taxes and regulations — and his
willingness to work with Demo-
crats to get things done.
“If you think we’re going to fix
social security by the Republicans
ramming
something
through,
when you go to bed tonight, check
under the pillow for the tooth fairy.
It doesn’t work that way,” he said.
“If I win the White House, we’re
going to have a conservative agen-
da, and I’m going to be the orches-
tra leader, but I want everybody to
play in the orchestra, so we can get
these things accomplished.”
Kasich is currently polling at an
average of 6 percent in Michigan in
the most recent poll compiled by
RealClearPolitics. That leaves him
in fifth place, ahead only of for-
mer Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Trump
is currently leading the polls in
Michigan at 38 percent.
However, that limited polling
See KASICH, Page 3A
DAVID SONG/Daily
Ohio Governor John Kasich (R) speaks about his accomplishments as governor and how that translates into good experience for the position as president at the
GOP Field Office in Livonia on Tuesday.
Wolverines can’t
rally from down
eight at halftime
in Columbus
By LEV FACHER
Daily Sports Writer
COLUMBUS — As Ohio State
honored former standout Evan
Turner with a halftime cer-
emony Tuesday night, Michi-
gan’s fans and coaches alike
might have winced at the mem-
ory of Turner’s buzzer-beating
3-pointer six years ago.
That shot gave Ohio State a
stunning win in the 2010 Big
Ten Tournament and ended the
Wolverines’ season in the blink
of an eye. No such heroics were
necessary Tuesday, however, as
the Buckeyes (9-5 Big Ten, 17-10
overall) jumped out to an eight-
point lead at halftime and never
relinquished it in a 76-66 win
against Michigan (9-5, 19-8).
The Wolverines have now
won in Columbus only once in
the last 14 seasons and came
out sputtering in the rivals’ only
regular-season
matchup
this
season. Michigan missed its
first five attempts from the field
and quickly fell victim to foul
trouble, with sophomore guard
Muhammad-Ali
Abdur-Rahk-
man spending the middle part of
the first half on the bench after
picking up two quick fouls.
Michigan coach John Beilein,
who has long refused to send
players back into games with
two fouls before halftime, didn’t
break from tradition, even as
Michigan failed to generate
offense with junior Andrew
Dakich playing point guard.
“Very,” said Michigan coach
John Beilein, asked how tempt-
ed he was to break his own rule
by
sending
Abdur-Rahkman
back in to spell Dakich. “But
again, (the margin) was like two
or three points with two minutes
to go. … There’s no reason to say,
‘OK, the sky is falling. And then
they scored the last five points to
make it an eight-point game.’ ”
The Wolverines’ options in
the backcourt were limited to
begin with, as senior guard
Caris LeVert did not play after
making his return Saturday
ANDREW COHEN/Daily
Susan Stryker, director of the Institute for LGBT Studies at the University of Arizona, delivers the 2016 Jean Yokes
Woodhead Lecture on gay liberation, the women’s movement and transgender activism at Rackham on Tuesday.
See LECTURE, Page 3A
See POLICE, Page 3A
See BASKETBALL, Page 8A
CITY
‘U’ receives
reports of
sicknesses
on campus
Kasich looks to Michigan
after New Hampshire win
Lecture examines progress
in transgender movement
A2 Council
approves
police chief
Jim Baird
HEALTH