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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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