Event aims to 
highlight need 
for continued 

advocacy

By LYDIA MURRAY

Daily Staff Reporter

A panel in the Wolverine 

Room of the Michigan Union 
Thursday night discussd the 
rights of LGBTQ+ individuals, 
highlighting political and social 
changes over time and the 
continued need for advocacy to 
fight against discrimination.

The panel, hosted by the 

University 
of 
Michigan’s 

chapter of College Democrats, 
consisted of Jim Toy, founder 
of the Spectrum Center and 
Jim Toy Community Center; 
Kelly 
Maxwell, 
academic 

co-director and lecturer of 
Intergroup 
Relations; 
Rose 

Maxwell, 
systems 
engineer 

at the Ford Motor Company; 
and Jason Morgan, director of 
government and community 
relations 
at 
Washtenaw 

Community College.

Business 
junior 
Paul 

Guilfoyle, 
chair 
of 
the 

Stonewall Committee within 
College Democrats, said the 
event’s purpose was to support 
the LGBTQ+ community and 
identify the issues they face.

“A lot of people think that 

after the same-sex marriage 
ban was overturned the LGBTQ 
community’s work was done,” 
he said. “We feel it’s really 
important to address the other 
issues still remaining that the 
community faces at this time.”

The panel discussed how 

pushes for civil rights within 
the community were sparked 
following 
the 
Stonewall 

Riots, a series of spontaneous 
demonstrations 
in 
New 

York City in June 1969, and 
culminated in the Supreme 
Court decision to legalize same-
sex marriage in June 2015.

Kelly said she has seen a 

massive difference in rights 
even during her lifetime.

“From the 1990s to the 

present, it is a huge cultural 
shift,” she said.

State, 
city 
and 
campus 

policies on preventing LGBTQ 
discrimination 
are 
mixed. 

Under current Michigan law, 
the Elliott Larsen Act prohibits 
discrimination 
based 
on 
a 

variety of factors including sex, 
race and religion in the state of 
Michigan but does not account 
for sexual orientation or gender 
expression. In December 1972, 
Ann Arbor stepped beyond 
state law and amended its 
anti-discrimination ordinance 
to 
include 
protections 
for 

sexual orientation, which Toy 
co-authored. The provision was 
further expanded in October 
2014 to include provisions for 
gender expression and identity, 
survivors of domestic violence, 
political 
beliefs, 
genetic 

information, arrest record and 
familial status.

At 
the 
University, 
the 

Board 
of 
Regents 
adopted 

an 
amendment 
including 

protection on the basis of 
gender identity and gender 
expression in the University’s 
bylaws’ 
non-discrimination 

clause in September 2007.

During 
the 
panel, 
Toy 

recounted his attendance at the 
Board of Regents meeting when 
they voted on the amendment, 

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TEDxUofM 

WHAT: TEDxUofM is 
having its seventh annual 
conference. The day-long 
event will have talks focused 
on inspiration and discovery to 
spread ideas across the campus 
community. Besides talks, 
there will be performances 
and interactive labs.
WHO: TEDx Foundation
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 
WHERE: Power Center for 
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Groove show

WHAT: Groove, an 
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hosting their showcase 
called “Make America 
Groove Again!” The group 
will use both traditional and 
non-traditional instruments.
WHO: University Activities 
Center
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. 
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WHAT: LHSP will host 
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illuminated sculptures 
carried by dancing 
teams. Participants 
will enjoy free food, 
performances and other 
activities. 
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UMix Star Wars

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Jason Morgan, director of government and community Relations at Washtenaw Community College, speaks about 
his experiences being openly gay in the workplace at an event sponsored by the University of Michigan’s chapter of 
College Democrats in the Michigan Union Thursday.

See LGBTQ, Page 3

received in 2015 were investigated, 
66 were referred to the Review 
Panel and 78 did not fall within the 
scope of the policy.

Walesby 
wrote 
that 
the 

broadened scope of the new policy 
aims to create an environment 
in 
which 
more 
students 
feel 

comfortable 
to 
report 
such 

experiences.

“With the additional definitions 

of prohibited conduct in the policy, 
our hope is that students will come 
forward to express concerns,” he 
wrote.

In a February meeting with 

the Daily, E. Royster Harper, the 
University’s 
vice 
president 
for 

student life, expressed concern 
about potential discourse that 
stigmatizes and dismisses sexual 
misconduct, 
as 
evidenced 
by 

campus climate surveys showing 
that many students may not 
report sexual assault. She said she 
thought education, training and 
transparency are key to combating 
such unawareness.

In a 2015 campus climate 

survey, only 6.3 percent of students 

considered 
themselves 
“very 

likely” to report an incident of 
sexual assault to OIE, while 12.8 
percent reported themselves to be 
“somewhat likely” to do so. The 
survey found 22.5 percent of female 
students have experienced sexual 
assault during their time at the 
University.

“That’s what I saw in the 

survey, a kind of normalizing of 
inappropriate behavior, and we 
have to interrupt that,” Harper said. 
“I think we reshape our thinking 
about the issue.”

LSA 
senior 
Laura 
Meyer, 

volunteer co-coordinator for the 
Networking, Publicity and Activism 
Program at SAPAC, said she thought 
the revision was a natural addition 
to the current policy.

“I think it’s important to have it 

in the policy because a lot of violence 
based on gender or on perceived 
gender or perceived sexual identity 
or sexuality, occurs at the same 
time or concurrently with sexual 
misconduct or sexual violence,” 
Meyer said. “And so I think it’s 
really important to have it together.”

However, she noted that she 

had several concerns about how 
changes in the new policy could 
impact reporting. She pointed in 

particular to a “Sexual History 
of the Parties” clause, which 
allows prior sexual history to be 
considered when there was a “prior 
or ongoing relationship between 
the Claimant and Respondent” or 
“to establish a pattern or practice 
of conduct similar in nature by the 
respondent,” as concerning.

According to the clause, the sexual 

history will never be considered 
evidence, but could be used in certain 
limited number of cases to assess the 
nature of communication between 
both the claimant and respondent, 
according to the policy, and establish 
intent or motive.

Meyer said she thought that 

kind of clause is the product of an 
even larger, underlying issue — how 
consent is defined — noting that 
she would like to see a definition 
of consent that relies on “verbal, 
enthusiastic, 
affirmative, 
sober, 

coercion-free consent” instead of 
one that also requires trying to 
understand body language as well.

“My concern with that is that the 

whole concept of using that sexual 
history is based on what I think is 
a very weak definition of consent,” 
she said.

The updated policy modifies the 

enforced definition of consent to 
clarify instances of incapacitation 
and coercion, and also aims to 
increase 
awareness 
and 
thus 

reporting on campus through 
changing how another issue, 
stalking, is treated. While it was 
also prohibited in the previous 
policy, it will now be listed as a 
separate category.

Walesby wrote that OIE has 

reviewed several instances of 
stalking that related to Title IX 
since the 2011 interim policy, with 
the Office of Student Conflict 
Resolution 
addressing 
other 

cases that did not violate federal 
guidelines. He wrote that by 
addressing stalking as a distinct 
category, OIE hopes to highlight 
the issue.

“It’s meant to help educate 

our campus and remind our 
community 
that 
stalking 
is 

prohibited by university policy,” he 
wrote.

In an interview with the Daily 

last week, University President 
Mark Schlissel said he hopes 
to engage the entire campus in 
creating reform around the issue.

“Our overarching goal is to 

make campus as safe as possible.” 

MISCONDUCT
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PHOTOS OF THE WEEK

MAZIE HYAMS /Daily

Mairead Small Staid reads a selection of her work at Literati Bookstore 
during the bookstore’s third birthday party on Thursday.

 
 
AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily

Michigan Izzat performs at the That Brown Show at the Michigan Theater Saturday. 

Panelists discuss ways LGBTQ 
civil rights have evolved over time

