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Laura Kipnis, professor at Northwestern University, delivers a lecture on present day sex culture in higher education environments as a part of the Faculty Governance
Conference in the UMMA Auditorium Monday.
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counties that we called where
(the information) was completely
wrong, or they denied that the
law existed,” Kirkland said.
The study found 43 percent
of all Michigan counties were
providing litter, incorrect or no
information about the law in
2010, demonstrating a surplus of
unqualified court personnel in
answering questions regarding
the bypass procedure.
In an e-mail interview, Taryn
Gal,
outreach
coordinator
for MOASH, wrote the new
study found court clerks and
clerical workers were especially
unhelpful to teenagers.
“We found that the entire
process
was
not
youth-
friendly, especially in terms
of privacy, accessibility and
court personnel comfort and
confidence
with
information
they were providing,” she wrote.
“Because of the work done in the
original 2010 study, we were able
to then go further and identify
additional barriers that minors
would likely face when looking
for information.”
MOASH decided to replicate
the
initial
study
to
begin
their Michigan Youth Rights
project, or MY Rights, funded
by the National Institute for
Reproductive Health, Gal said.
The project focuses on the rights
of pregnant minors.
While the 2010 study only
had 46 percent of counties
considered
“in
the
green,”
the MOASH replication study
held 74 percent of counties in
the green, nearly a 30-percent
increase in improvement. The
study found court personnel
were able to provide better
information in 2015 in response
to the same questions asked in
2010.
“However, once we delved
further, we learned that many
would not provide information
unless the specific question was
asked,” Gal wrote. “Therefore,
a minor not knowing what to
ask would not be provided with
necessary information and that,
beyond those specific answers,
oftentimes read from an info
sheet, most could not provide
additional
information
or
support.”
Both
Gal
and
Kirkland
attributed
much
of
the
improvements
in
availability
of
information
regarding
reproductive health laws to the
study conducted in 2010.
“Some court supervisors were
really angry that their employees
had been so unprofessional and
unprepared, and they were very
embarrassed,” Kirkland said. “It
uncovered some embarrassing
problems that they went on to
fix.”
First-year
law
student
Laura Cohen, co-president of
the Michigan chapter of Law
Students
for
Reproductive
Justice, said though she was not
surprised to learn that court
systems are giving inaccurate
information
to
minors,
the
lack of information and lack of
education is a legal issue.
“Putting yourself in the shoes
of someone who is a teenager in
a very difficult situation who is
scared, who doesn’t know what
to do, who doesn’t think they
can go to their parents, has no
way to get around this,” Cohen
said, “and then you call the court
and they tell you inaccurately
that there’s nothing to be done,
you can see how that can lead to
some unfortunate results.”
Despite
statewide
improvement in the recent study,
Washtenaw
County’s
score
decreased in the 2015 study with
the lowest rating, contradicting
the high rating in 2010.
With 21.4 percent of the
population under the age of 18,
this indicates Washtenaw is
still among the less-prepared
counties when it comes to the
judicial bypass procedure, and
demonstrates a need for court
personnel to be more educated
and objective on the topic,
Cohen said.
Gal
echoed
Cohen’s
statement, and said she hopes
courts studied in the research
will use her findings to make
improvements
on
how
they
disseminate
information
regarding reproductive health
laws to minors.
“There is still a need for
further education and awareness
raising in order for minors to
be able to fully exercise their
rights,” Gal wrote. “If minors are
not given complete and accurate
information, they do not have
full access to the judicial bypass
process. Less subjectivity and
inconsistency is needed.”
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with the aim of strengthening
shared
governance.
The
Regents’ Bylaws allow for the
Senate Assembly to establish
standing
committees
that
serve
to
advise
the
vice
presidents of the University
with
nominations
from
SACUA.
Weineck’s
letter
points
out, however, that some vice
presidents
fail
to
consult
with SACUA, resulting in
variability,
inefficiency
and “duplication of effort.”
She is proposing a plan to
streamline
and
centralize
the
process,
envisioning
the SACUA chair asking the
University
vice
presidents
for
advisory
committee
nominations
each
April.
About half the committee
would be comprised of these
individuals, and SACUA will
nominate
the
remaining
members.
She
also
suggested
positioning
certain
committees
under
specific
offices
that
are
currently
not under the leadership of a
particular vice president, with
the goal of enhancing shared
governance
and
increasing
collaboration
between
administrators
and
faculty
members. One of the letter’s
recommendations
includes
assigning
the
Senate’s
Committee for an Inclusive
University to advise the vice
provost for Equity, Inclusion
and Academic Affairs.
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to Bert’s Jazz Club in Detroit.
On Friday from 12 p.m. to 1
p.m., Addell Austin Anderson
and Feodies Shipp of the
University’s
Detroit
Center
will hold a workshop that
shares the best practices and
resources
for
engagement
with Detroit’s citizens and
organizations.
Nursing junior Matt Bozzo,
an alum of the Semester in
Detroit
program,
echoed
Sucher’s statements, and said
his experiences participating
in
a
longer-term
program
past a day of volunteering
helped him look at the city life
through a new lens.
“My semester in Detroit
was eye-opening,” he said.
“I learned a lot about myself
and the city and its historical
context. It was very fun,
experiential learning.”
The University’s Semester
in Detroit program is one of
the many entities sponsoring
Detroit Week. Alana Hoey
Moore, a staff member of
Semester in Detroit, stressed
the importance of recognizing
Detroit
as
more
than
a
struggling city.
“We on the campus really
buy into this narrative of
Detroit that it’s devastated
and blighted, and while the
city certainly struggles, there
is so much life happening in
Detroit,” she said. “(Detroit
Week) gives students who
might not normally make a
whole trip down to Detroit an
opportunity to engage in the
city and get a view of some
things happening there.”
Detroit
Week
will
also
feature “The SOUP,” which
aims to capture a sense of
Detroit
without
actually
making a trip to the city.
According to their website,
the
SOUP’s
crowd-funding
intiative
aims
to
promote
Detroit-based
funding,
creativity and collaboration.
The SOUP will hold a $5 soup
fundraising dinner held in the
Trotter Multicultural Center
on Wednesday night during
which attendees will listen and
vote on several presentations
about Detroit-based projects
led by individuals affiliated
with the University.
According to their website,
the event aims to create long-
lasting relationships between
Detroit and the University. The
winning project will receive
all the money contributed from
donors at the event.
Hoey
Moore
said
she
thought many positive things
that happen in Detroit, such
as the projects that will be
featured
and
Wednesday’s
“The SOUP” event, don’t get
the recognition they deserve.
“There’s so much happening
in
Detroit
that’s
been
happening for a long time that
we largely ignore,” she said.
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likely to persist for decades to
come. He noted that ideological
conflict tends to last longer,
pointing to how the Cold War
lasted about 45 years and noting
it has been 15 years since the
United States began fighting
Islamic extremism after 9/11.
“However, this is not a struggle
like the Cold War that we can
win by ourselves, it’s a struggle
that can only be won within
Islam,” Casey said. “You see that
struggle taking place between
moderate and extremist Islam,
but by virtue of that fact that it is
an ideological struggle, it’s going
to take a long time to resolve.”
Casey
also
discussed
his
experiences and the challenges
of his time Iraq. He said while
the United States needs to stay
engaged
in
the
ideological
conflict that is taking place in
the Middle East, it also needs to
better understand its military
power and unite diverse groups
to lead collaboratively.
“We are the indispensable
catalyst, we bring unmatched
economic, military and moral
power,” Casey said. “We can
create coalitions to deal with a
lot of these challenges.”
Casey
also
discussed
the
treatment
of
veterans
and
improving soldiers and veterans’
mental health.
“We
cannot
and
should
not expect the government to
do
everything
themselves,”
Casey said. “I worked for the
government for 41 years, it is a
huge inefficient bureaucracy, and
it will never be able to deal with
the individual challenges facing
our veterans and their families as
well as private efforts can.”
The
more
than
400,000
organizations around the United
States that support veterans are
the ones making a real difference,
Casey said.
“They send a signal to the men
and women involved in the armed
forces that America cares,” Casey
said. “That is hugely important.”
Speaking on the health of
current soldiers, Casey said when
he was preparing to assume his
position as chief of staff in 2007,
he reviewed an Army personnel
survey that found 90 percent
of
soldiers
would
not
seek
treatment for a behavioral health
issue because they thought that it
would affect their career.
“We began working to reduce
the stigma of getting behavioral
health care,” he said. “After
banging away at it for my four
years, we had reduced the
number who would not get help
from 90 percent to 50 percent.”
According
to
Casey,
that
number has now decreased to
approximately 35 percent since
he left his position as chief of
staff, but he reiterated that
efforts need to continue to reduce
that further.
Brian
Garcia,
a
Business
and
Public
Policy
graduate
student who served as a field
artillery captain in the Army in
Afghanistan in 2011 and 2012,
said it was an honor to hear and
have the opportunity to interact
with Casey.
“Hearing
him
speak
was
awesome,” Garcia said. “I think
that he and I view a lot of the
same issues that soldiers face
and that the U.S. faces on foreign
policy pretty similarly. He’s an
incredibly well-spoken and well-
thought-out individual, and I
hope that his influence is still felt
in national foreign policy.”
Garcia added that he thought
the talk helped attendees be more
informed about military issues.
“Overall I think it was a very
enlightening conversation that
we had, and I think that a lot
of people are going to walk
away from this with a greater
understanding of the nuances
that the military and U.S. faces
on foreign policy issues,” Garcia
said.
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“Sex has always been messy,
which is what is both appealing
and stressing about it,” Kipnis
said. “But compounding the
messiness on campus now is
the dismal fact that there’s a
long list of things you’re not
supposed to say about this
mess. It’s far more impossible
to have an intellectually honest
discussion about sex on campus
on the American campus than
off these days.”
Comparative
Literature
Prof.
Silke-Maria
Weineck,
chair
of
Senate
Advisory
Committee
on
University
Affairs, said these issues have
recently been prevalent at the
University.
“We have spent a lot of
time debating questions of
both sexual assault and due
process at the University over
the last two years,” Weineck
said.
“I
thought
(Kipnis’
speech) brought together so
many themes that we’ve been
discussing on campus and at
the University as a whole.”
Kipnis
argued
that
the
recent influx in regulation on
sex is shifting the connotation
of sex from fun to dangerous.
“Shifting the stress from
pleasure to danger not only
changes
the
prevailing
narrative, but changing the
narrative changes the way sex
is experienced,” Kipnis said.
“We’re social creatures after
all, and narrative is how we
make sense of the world.”
She
also
joked
about
university
administrators
who
try
to
criminalize
sexual activity after alcohol
consumption.
“Among the new regulations
administrators have foisted on
campus is criminalizing sex
when either party has been
drinking, so all sex in other
words,” she said.
Kipnis said she believes
there are a fair share of cases
that deserve legal attention,
particularly when it comes to
sexual assault between faculty
and students. However, she
pointed out that many cases are
blown out of proportion.
“No doubt a fair number
of such professors deserve
to be picked off and some
accusations
are
justified,”
Kipnis said. “Yes, there are
people who should lose their
jobs. But too many of these
accusations
are
overblown,
hysterical, self-dramatized or
self-exonerating.”
Colin
Campbell,
Pharmacology
professor
at
the University of Minnesota,
said he attended the event
after reading her article in the
Chronicle.
“I
was
looking
forward
to meeting her, she’s very
refreshing,” Campbell said.
He said though students
shouldn’t
be
blamed
for
the
recent
crackdown
on
sexual regulation, they will
experience dissonance such as
this in their college careers and
beyond.
“You came to college to
get exposed to things that
you wouldn’t necessarily get
exposed to,” Campbell said.
“You don’t know what it’s going
to be and you’re not going to
like all of it.”
The event, which was part
of the Faculty Governance
Conference
hosted
by
the Faculty Senate at the
University,
hosted
faculty
governances from Big Ten
schools:
the
University
of
Virginia, the University of
North Carolina, the University
of California, Los Angeles and
the University of California,
Berkeley.
The
conference
features a series of speakers,
panels and discussions, and
will be concluding Tuesday
afternoon.
The event is the first of
its kind at the University
of Michigan, and Weineck
said the conference has been
fascinating.
“It’s so interesting to see
how
different
the
faculty
government structures are at
other universities,” Weineck
said. “I think what’s becoming
increasingly clear to Michigan
faculty here is that Michigan
has one of the weakest faculty
governance systems in the
country, and that is something
we would actually like to
change.”
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with young people because now
all you need is a computer and a
microphone and you can create
a really awesome album,” Reyes
said.
Benito Vasquez, a breakdancer,
dance instructor and community
leader
in
southwest
Detroit
also known as Mav-One, said
the work that he and the other
speakers are doing is based on
the principle “each one teach
one.”
“We have such a small culture
as far as actual beat boys and
beat girls go, anytime you’re out
there you should be teaching, you
should be engaging, you should
be talking to people,” he said.
LSA freshman Jason Young,
who is participating in Semester
in Detroit in the fall, said he
thought Monday evening’s event
better prepared him to explore
the city firsthand in September.
“I am just really excited to, one,
be in Detroit in a few months,”
he said. “I am then going to be
able to get a better look at these
things
and
hopefully
check
out the actual culture, that is
hopefully still there.”
Alana Hoey Moore, program
coordinator
for
Semester
in
Detroit, said she was very pleased
with how the event turned out.
“I am just really glad we can
have an engaging conversation,”
she said. “I don’t really care
how many people are present
as long as those who are there
are making real connections
with one another and having
transformative experiences, so I
think it was a great kickoff to the
week.”
to them winning the Big Ten
Tournament, but those hopes
disappeared
when
Iowa
handed Michigan a first-round
loss in Indianapolis — the
second year in a row that the
Wolverines were sent packing
on day one.
Michigan is now in the
postseason
with
another
opportunity
to
win
a
championship. Last season,
the Wolverines made a run
into the WNIT semifinals
with
then-freshman
guard
Katelynn
Flaherty
leading
the team in points and former
forwards Cyesha Goree and
Nicole Elmblad and former
guard
Shannon
Smith
collecting 59 percent of the
team’s boards.
Michigan hosted UCLA at
Crisler Center last spring and
nearly pulled off a win to play
in the championship, but the
team made a few critical errors
down the stretch to lose by just
four points.
This
year,
though,
the
Wolverines may be in an even
better position to win the
WNIT. Michigan coach Kim
Barnes Arico, the only coach
in program history to be in
the postseason in each of her
first four seasons, is more than
equipped to take her team all
the way to the finish.
Barnes Arico helped Team
USA win the gold medal at
the FIBA U19 Championship
in Russia this summer, and
worked with some of the top
talent in the country. When she
got back to the United States,
she was still working with
top talent in Flaherty, who is
averaging 22.6 points a game,
and freshman center Hallie
Thome, who is dominating
under the basket.
Success from the dynamic
duo of Flaherty and Thome
will be key for the Wolverines
to make a run as deep, or
deeper, as they did last season
in the WNIT.
As for the fate of Michigan’s
Big
Ten
opponents,
Iowa,
Minnesota,
Nebraska,
Northwestern
and
Rutgers
made
the
WNIT.
Eastern
Michigan also earned a spot
in the field, which brings the
Wolverines’
record
against
WNIT teams they’ve faced
this season to 4-5.
The
women’s
NCAA
Tournament bracket was also
released Monday night, and
six of Michigan’s previous
opponents got in: No. 2 seed
Maryland, No. 3 seed Ohio
Sate, No. 4 seed Michigan
State, No. 9 seed Indiana,
No. 11 seed Purdue and No. 11
seed Princeton. Against those
teams, the Wolverines went 1-7
in the regular season.
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