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University 
of 
Michigan 

President 
Mark 
Schlissel 

highlighted the importance of 
free speech and open discourse 
that 
respects 
all 
viewpoints 

in a statement to the campus 
community Wednesday.

 “The conflict of discordant 

ideas and opinions — even when 
it makes us uncomfortable — is an 
essential feature of an academic 
community,” Schlissel said.

 He also emphasized that 

when challenging ideas, students 
should treat each other with 
respect and equality, and that 
hate speech or threats diminish 
learning by inhibiting discussion.

 Schlissel’s statement comes 

two weeks after a controversial 
letter written by Jay Ellison, dean 
of students at the University of 
Chicago, to incoming students 
which articulated a policy not to 
support teacher-issued “trigger 

warnings.”

 
Trigger 
warnings 
are 

statements provided before a text, 
performance or event that alert 
viewers to potentially distressing 
material.

 Like the University of Chicago 

letter, 
Schlissel’s 
statement 

emphasized the importance of 
being intellectually challenged 
by different opinions as a key 
tenant of a college education. 

He said disagreement among 
diverse perspectives is often 
inevitable, 
but 
allows 
for 

problem solving and positive 
change. 
Schlissel 
did 
not 

specifically mention trigger 
warnings.

 He has taken similar 

positions on the issue of 
campus free speech in the 
past, especially in response 
to incidents around the issue. 
Last April, Schlissel authored 
an essay which was published 
on the Huffington Post in 
response to the anti-Islamic 
messages written on the UM 
Diag, which warned against 
visceral aversion to conflicting 
opinions.

 “It is pointless — perhaps 

hypocritical — to extoll the 
virtues of the marketplace of 
ideas if some members of our 
community feel excluded from 
it,” Schlissel wrote in April. “It 
is contradictory to celebrate 
the power of words but deny 
their capacity to wound and 
marginalize.”

 Despite arguing that the 

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The Michigan Senate introduced 

and voted Wednesday on the passage 
of a bill that will allow dogs in outdoor 
restaurants and patios. However, for cat 
lovers, felines are not included in the 
new legislation and must be left at home.

State 
Senator 
Margaret 
O’Brien 

(R-Portage) is sponsoring the bill. 
O’Brien said she decided to draft this 
bill following many requests from 
restaurant owners hoping to make their 
establishments pet-friendly.

Current Michigan law only permits 

service or seeing-eye dogs in restaurants. 
If passed, Senate Bill 727 would allow 
dogs to the outside areas of restaurants, 
though wouldn’t permit them inside. The 
legislation would require restaurants to 
keep a designated outdoor area where 
dogs are not allowed — thereby avoiding 
the issues of hair and bodily waste.

Ishani Mathur, an LSA sophomore 

and dog owner, said she believes the bill 
will have a positive impact on restaurant 
environments.

“I really think it’s a great idea,” she 

said according to the Detroit Free Press. 
“I feel like a lot of times dogs are such 

a huge part of what we do as society. I 
think it really makes the atmosphere so 
much better.”

The bill gives businesses the freedom 

to prohibit dogs on their patios if they so 
chose. It also makes dog owners liable 
for any injuries or damages their pets 
may make at the restaurant.

The bill will now go to the House 

where it will either be rejected or voted 
into law.

At downtown Ann Arbor restaurant 

The Blue Tractor, manager Brett Oliver 
said the restaurant has always been 
welcoming to dogs.

“We welcome it. We’ve always 

welcomed it. We will even bring out 
bowls of water for the dogs,” he said. “I 
think (the bill) just makes it an actual 
thing, but people have being doing it 
since I’ve been here.”

Courtney Oliver, manager of Mani 

Osteria on Liberty St., repeated this 
sentiment, saying her establishment 
already allows dogs to be seated with 
customers in patios areas, so this 
legislation would not change anything 
for the restaurant.

-LYDIA MURRAY

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