General George 
Casey Jr. says 

increase in veteran 
support is necessary

By CALEB CHADWELL

Daily Staff Reporter

At a talk at the Ford School 

Monday, General George Casey 
Jr., former U.S. Army chief of 
staff, said some of the most 
dangerous threats in the world 
today are posed by non-state 
actors such as al-Qaeda and 
ISIS, focusing on the persistent 
existence of world conflict with 
these actors and the subsequent 
mental health impacts war has 

on soldiers and veterans. 

Casey 
began 
his 
Army 

service in 1970, as the senior 
commander of the interantional 
collation created to confract 
forces in Iraq from 2004 to 
2007. He was promoted to chief 
of staff by President George W. 
Bush in 2007 and served in that 
position under President Obama 
until 2011.

“What I want to do is 

give you a soldier’s view of 
the 
international 
security 

environment,” Casey said.

Rather than countries waging 

war against one another as 
was the case with World War 
II or the Vietnam War, Casey 
said 
some 
non-state 
actors 

such as al-Qaeda and ISIS have 
become more dangerous, citing 

a number of recent events. 

Looking back to 9/11, Casey 

pointed to how a non-state 
actor, al-Qaeda, was able to 
inflict catastrophic damage on 
the United States.

“Nineteen terrorists, in an 

hour and 17 minutes, murdered 
2,977 people, inflicted about 
$40 billion of economic damage 
on New York, and when the 
stock market reopened it lost 
$1.4 trillion in value,” he said. 
“That’s a challenge that we need 
to be prepared to deal with.”

Comparing 
the 
current 

ideological 
struggle 
against 

Islamic 
extremism 
to 
the 

struggle against communism 
during the Cold War, Casey 
talked about how conflict is 

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Northwestern prof. 
who wrote contested 

student-faculty 

relations essay speaks

By ISOBEL FUTTER 

Daily Staff Reporter 

Stupid 
sex, 
according 
to 

Northwestern Communications 
Prof. Laura Kipnis, is becoming 
more and more regulated on 
college campuses these days.

Kipnis 
posed 
her 
ideas 

about sexual assault, student-
faculty 
relationships 
and 

sexual repression to faculty 
governances from around the 
country on Monday afternoon.

Kipnis 
received 
national 

attention after she published 
an essay in the Chronicle of 
Higher Education. The essay 
questioned the taboo around 
student-faculty 
relationships 

and 
sexual 
assault. 
Two 

graduate students filed a Title 
IX retaliation complaint against 
Kipnis following the article and 

argued that, in it, she misstated 
facts and created a hostile 
environment following protests 
against the article.

“One of the charges they 

leveled against me was that I 
created a hostile environment 
on campus, or perhaps it was 
a chilling effect,” Kipnis said. 
“I wasn’t entirely sure which 
because I never actually got 
the charges in writing. This 
led me to become interested in 
questions I never thought much 
about previously.”

In 
May 
2015, 
after 
an 

extensive investigation, Kipnis 
was cleared of all charges. 
Since the investigation, Kipnis 
has become a figurehead for 
the 
argument 
against 
the 

high ambiguity and lack of 
due process often associated 
with Title IX investigations. 
Title IX is a set of rules that 
protects students from having a 
comprised education due to any 
form of discrimination. In 2011, 
Title IX was updated to include 
discrimination due to sexual 
assault.

Series aims to raise 

awareness about 
history, culture 
within the city

By LUCAS MAIMAN

For the Daily

Detroit 
Week, 
a 
week 

dedicated to showcasing the 
culture and energy of Detroit, 

kicked off Monday afternoon 
in the Diag, with students 
from The Detroit Partnership 
promoting events happening 
throughout the week.

According 
to 
Public 

Policy 
senior 
Blair 
Sucher, 

the 
celebratory 
week 
aims 

to 
gravitate 
away 
from 

the 
volunteering-based 

relationship the University of 
Michigan currently has with 
Detroit and instead foster a 
relationship in which Detroit is 

viewed in a more positive light.

“When 
the 
University 

interacts with Detroit, it is 
often on the basis of service 
learning,” 
she 
said. 
“It 
is 

important for people to broaden 
their views and to recognize 
that to create a meaningful, 
sustainable partnership with 
the city of Detroit you need to 
see it in other lights.”

According 
to 
Detroit 

Week’s website, The Detroit 
partinership is hosting events 

and workshops every day from 
March 13 to March 18 in an effort 
to promote the rich history and 
life of the city. Events include a 
“Know Your Rights” discussion 
facilitated by the American 
Civil Liberties Union and the 
National Association for the 
Advancement of Colored People 
at Weill Hall, a workshop for 
student 
organizations 
who 

are interested in becoming 
involved in Detroit and a trip 

HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily

Alana Hoey-Moore, Semester in Detroit program coordinator, Ford senior Blair Sucher and Ford junior Thomas Hislop discuss Detroit Week on the Diag Monday. 

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‘U’ research shows 
progress in how 

courts communicate 

abortion law info 

By ALEXA ST. JOHN

Daily Staff Reporter 

A recent recreation of a 

University study has showed 
that court systems in Michigan 
are 
now 
providing 
more 

accurate 
information 
to 

minors regarding Michigan’s 
reproductive health laws for 
young women seeking to have 
an abortion without parental 
consent, according to a study by

The study, originally done 

by Anna Kirkland, associate 
director of the Institute for 
Research 
on 
Women 
and 

Gender and recreated by the 
Michigan 
Organization 
on 

Adolescent 
Sexual 
Health, 

revealed that since 2010, nearly 
all 83 of Michigan’s counties 
improved on the ways in which 
information about the Parental 
Rights Restoration Act of 1990. 
The original study found almost 
all of the courts were providing 
inacccurate information.

The 
law 
requires 
young 

women seeking an abortion 
to give their own consent and 
the consent of at least one 
parent or guardian to receive 
the procedure. However, if the 
minor opts not to involve their 
parent or guardian, she has 
the right to a judicial bypass 
hearing in which she has to 
prove to a judge she is mature 

and educated on the topic 
enough to have an abortion 
without additional consent.

According 
to 
Kirkland, 

in 
the 
original 
study 
her 

students made phone calls to 
each county’s court using a 
standardized script, asking how 
someone under the age of 18 
could get a judge’s permission 
to have an abortion without 
informing 
their 
parents. 

Kirkland’s students found many 
counties were unprepared to 
provide the proper information 
for 
minors 
seeking 
bypass 

hearings, 
and, 
oftentimes, 

factors 
such 
as 
regional 

difference, demographics and 
county size would affect the 
performance of the county.

“It’s a right that every girl has 

to be able to seek this judicial 
bypass procedure,” Kirkland 
said. “We shouldn’t have court 
employees lying about the law 
or claiming that a law doesn’t 
exist when it does.”

According 
to 
a 
paper 

summarizing the results of the 
study, the students often found 
they 
were 
inappropriately 

referred to other unhelpful 
employees, and were ridiculed 
or verbally abused while asking 
for 
information. 
Kirkland 

said 
employees 
seemed 

uncooperative and uninformed, 
indicating that not only were 
court 
employees 
unable 
to 

provide accurate information, 
but they were also allowing 
their personal political and 
religious beliefs to influence 
their responses.

“We had large numbers of 

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CLAIRE ABDO/Daily

General George W. Casey Jr. speaks at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy about his military experience and his 
views on current military issues Monday.

Michigan will 

host Wright State 
at Crisler Center 
on Wednesday

By BRAD WHIPPLE

Daily Sports Editor

Though 
the 
Michigan 

women’s 
basketball 
team 

will miss the Big Dance for 
the third year in a row, the 
Wolverines won’t end their 
season without a chance to 
hang their first banner.

Monday night, Michigan 

earned a spot in the 64-team 
field of the Women’s National 
Invitation Tournament for 
the third year in a row. The 
Wolverines will host Wright 
State on Wednesday night at 
Crisler Center.

With a win, Michigan 

(9-9 Big Ten, 17-13 overall) 
would move onto the second 
round this weekend to face 
the 
winner 
of 
Bucknell 

and Akron, which will be 
decided Thursday. 

The 
2016 
WNIT 
bid 

marks 
the 
Wolverines’ 

seventh straight berth into 
the postseason, a program 
record. Michigan ended the 
regular season by winning 
five of seven games with 
its two losses coming at 
then-No. 6 Maryland and at 
Rutgers.

The 
Wolverines’ 
best 

chance at making the NCAA 
Tournament 
came 
down 

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ACADEMICS

Week of Detroit-centered 
 

events kicks off on the Diag

Study finds rise 
in health advice 
given to minors

SCIENCE

Former Army chief of staff 
talks military mental health

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Wolverines 
earn third 
straight bid 
to WNIT

Faculty gov. 
conference
talks Title 
IX policies

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