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
the Performing Arts
Groove show
WHAT: Groove, an
energetic percussion group
here at the University, is
hosting their showcase
called “Make America
Groove Again!” The group
will use both traditional and
non-traditional instruments.
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Center
WHEN: 7:30 p.m.
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WHAT: LHSP will host
a moonlight display
of community-made,
illuminated sculptures
carried by dancing
teams. Participants
will enjoy free food,
performances and other
activities.
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this time centered on
“Star Wars.” There will
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Awakens.”
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Great Project”
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Osanna is one of the
leaders of the Pompeii
Archaeological sites. He
will speak of his most
current project, working
to restore Pompeii.
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Archaeology
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p.m.
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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.
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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