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Martha S. Jones
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Standing against
Islamophobia tonight on the
#UMich Diag. #GoBlue
Kayla
@_lovelanaee
college @ UMich is when you
look around and you’re the
only person in the room with
a cheap HP instead of a mac
book.
timberlee
@_Timberlee
If y’all really mad at Schlissel..
leave the University. Gonna
be doing more good than
harm. It’s not gonna hurt us.
Maddie Daugherty
@mdaugh04
Current aesthetic: the
michigan football player
wandering around east
quad dining hall looking
completely lost
with questions asked could be
errors present in both surveys.
Despite
the
differences
between
the
two
surveys,
multiple female students like
Aptowitz have voiced concerns
for their safety at night, and
attributed some of that to specific
areas of campus where lighting is
insufficient.
Much like Aptowitz, LSA
sophomore Vianney Flores said
she has taken steps during her
time at the University to avoid
vulnerable situations, especially
when she lived in Baits II
Residence Hall dorms on North
Campus her freshman year. She
said she only left at night if it
couldn’t be avoided because she
was weary of the nearby wooded
areas, which do not have much
surrounding lighting.
This year, she lives in Alice
Lloyd Residence Hall, a location
closer than North Campus, but
still a 10-minute walk from the
Diag.
“Especially if it’s dark, I don’t
really feel comfortable walking
by myself,” Flores said. “I do
it, but I’m always extremely
cautious when I do. If there’s
anyone walking behind me, I
have no problems checking if it’s
a guy or a girl — if you think I’m
being suspicious of you, I am,
because it’s my safety.”
Originally
from
Chicago,
Flores said she is used to living
in a big city environment and,
though she feels more secure in
Ann Arbor, she is still cautious.
“I’m super aware of bushes
when
I’m
walking
around,”
Flores said. “If someone just put
their hand over my mouth and
hid me in the bush, no one would
know I was there if someone
was walking around. I’m always
aware of that.”
Call for action
Though Aptowitz said she
appreciated the quick action
from DPSS and AAPD following
her incident, it led to her start
carrying pepper spray and a small
sharp object for the remainder of
her freshman year.
Because Aptowitz said she
does not believe there has
not been enough effort put
toward campus safety from the
University, she thinks increased
lighting would make her feel
more at ease.
“Ever since this (incident),
I will stand at blue lights and
you’re supposed to see blue lights
from every blue light and that’s
just actively untrue on campus,”
Aptowitz said. “But the thing is,
we tell people that on our tours,
and that’s what’s frustrating. If
we’re going to advertise that we’re
a campus that has that safety, we
should have that safety.”
Despite
efforts
last
year,
Central
Student
Government
ultimately was unable to make
headway in initiatives aimed at
increasing off-campus security
measures through the installation
of more streetlights.
In an April CSG meeting,
then-CSG
President
Cooper
Charlton attributed the failure in
installation and improvement to
both the cost as well as a lack of
relationship between the city of
Ann Arbor and CSG.
“We ran into two issues: the
first problem is that it can cost as
much as $400,000 to $600,000
per corridor for installation, so
assessing the finances of the
operation was a hurdle that
we were unable to overcome,”
Charlton said at the meeting.
“The other problem that we faced
was with cooperation from the
city.”
In addition to these efforts, last
April about five students started
a petition to install cameras on
the blue light phones located
throughout campus. More than
200 students eventually signed
the position, noting concern for
identifying a potential attacker.
However, the city of Ann
Arbor has come up with a plan
to spend $200,000 on new street
lights near Nixon and Dhu Varren
Roads, Washtenaw Avenue and
Division and East University
Streets, following a lift on a
moratorium on new streetlights
last year by City Council.
CSG also outlined goals last
year to develop another campus
safety
app
in
conjunction
with previous projects such as
SafeRide — a free service that
transports students, faculty and
staff within a one-mile radius of
campus — and Night Owl, yet they
were unable to follow through,
again due to lack of resources.
However, other organizations
and students started to take
on these projects themselves,
including five Ross School of
Business students who developed
the
now-internationally
recognized Companion app.
For LSA freshman Alexis
Aulepp — though she uses some
of the same cautionary measures
as Aptowitz and Flores — the
availability of these applications
is not necessarily needed, as she
said she has not experienced
anything since coming to the
University that would be cause
for concern.
Unlike Aptowitz, both Flores
and Aulepp — who lives in
Alice Lloyd — said they have
not
experienced
any
issues
warranting their fears and do not
carry any protective device, such
as a whistle, pepper spray or a
weapon, while they walk around
campus.
“Had nobody said anything,
I would have felt just fine, but
because people say don’t walk
alone, that has made me be a little
more self-conscious about those
types of things,” Aulepp said.
“Multiple people have told me
‘don’t walk alone.’ ”
Even still, neither Aulepp
nor Flores have used University
resources — primarily because
they are unaware of how to use
them — calling for the University
to provide better education for
the services.
University response
University
Police
spokeswoman Diane Brown said,
while the University of Michigan
Police
Department
preferred
not to comment about gendered
security measures, there are
reasons behind there being less
lighting in certain areas beyond
the Diag. Brown noted that she
has spoken with engineers who
look into optimizing lighting
precisely about this issue.
“What
good
lighting
infrastructure placement looks
toward is how to keep someone
from becoming suddenly, if
you will, blinded,” Brown said.
“Good lighting placement says
that lighting should be fairly
significant just outside the door
of (popular) facilities and then
get a little less as you go farther
away from the building because
that lighting works with (the
way your pupils are changing).
You want this gradual change
in the lighting system outside as
well.”
Brown added that lighting
should be better at places with
high
nighttime
traffic,
and
dimmer in more deserted areas
near buildings where people are
sleeping, so as to detract people
from
congregating
in
areas
intended to be quieter.
UMPD Police Chief Robert
Neumann said part of the
University’s
improvements
in overall safety on campus
have been related to increasing
properly working lighting, noting
the
department
encourages
student input.
“I don’t think too many people
are seeing lights that aren’t
working, and that’s something
years ago that used to be a
common problem,” Neumann
said. “If there are areas that
students think should be better
lighted, I certainly want to hear
about it.”
In addition, there are several
other measures currently in place
to address student concerns,
particularly through Neumann’s
collaboration with CSG and
safety committees.
Public Policy junior Stephanie
Gusching, current chair of CSG
Community
and
Outreach
Commission,
attested
to
Neumann’s efforts and said CSG
wants to initiate partnerships
between the University and the
city to continue to try to improve
off-campus lighting and increase
sexual assault resources for
women this year.
“We want to look into more
crime statistics in the area to
see where off-campus lighting
is lacking to see if improving
lighting would end up actually
affecting the safety in the area,”
Gusching said. “If we can find
a correlation, I think that that
would be a strong argument in
our case in improving off-campus
lighting.”
WOMEN
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know about it. I made a sign. I am
very upset.”
Rakochi’s sign read, “The only
thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good people to do
nothing.”
LSA senior Louisa Kane held
up a poster that read, “You belong
here,” in both English and Arabic.
She said she felt that all students
on campus should be speaking up
at events like this.
“Why should anyone feel like
they don’t belong here?” she said.
“It’s absurd. Everyone should be
here right now, saying that they
love and support every part of this
community, regardless of whether
or not they identify with that
religion or ethnicity. Everyone
should be here.”
During the protest, the ‘M’
in the Diag was outlined with
candles, and protesters gathered
to hear one another speak.
Art & Design senior Keysha
Wall addressed the crowd on
the election results, saying she
was
concerned
about
people
who support the marginalizing
rhetoric of Donald Trump.
“You saw all of this happening
before
Donald
Trump
even
became
president,”
she
said.
“When I saw that he had gotten
elected, he wasn’t the first thing
I was afraid of. The first thing I
was afraid of were the people who
are like that who are emboldened
by that, who are emboldened by
his actions, him being on TV, him
being able to say those things, who
had already felt like they could get
away with that sort of thing on this
campus for years.”
Moving forward, she said,
the most important thing the
community can do is unite and
fight back against prejudicial
sentiment and violence.
“We must turn our solemnity
into power and love for one
another, into action, into strength,
because that is our strength.”
Also in regard to the election
results, Music, Theatre & Dance
junior Keem Avraham said it is
important to talk to others in the
campus community and educate
people who have different beliefs.
“You
know
people
who
voted for Donald Trump, and
what Donald Trump does is
endorse the idea that being
racist — discriminating against
marginalized identities — is OK,”
he said. “He has endorsed that idea
as a human American practice. As
a friend of this community, this
progressive-minded community,
it is your job to change someone,
so that they can positively affect
somebody else.”
Multiple campus events have
occurred since Trump’s election.
On Wednesday, a vigil took place
in the Diag to protest President-
elect Trump’s controversial win.
University of Michigan President
Mark Schlissel spoke of the need
to support threatened minorities
and called for University-wide
support in action.
LSA senior Arielle Chen told
the crowd she thought it was
important for students to speak
out and show up at activism events
even if they are speaking from a
place of privilege as an ally.
“I am so tired of hearing people
say, ‘I’m sorry this is happening.
I’m so sorry,’ ” she said. “Silence
means that you are allowing it,
that you are supporting it. Silence
means ism is OK. If you do
nothing, if you say nothing,
you are supporting it. People
need you to show up now. If
this is the first time you have
ever stood at a protest, we
need you to continue showing
up. I ask you to show up for
your friends, for the person
standing next to you, for the
person across the circle that
you have never talked to.”
LSA
sophomore
Ilina
Krishen said she thought
there is a certain danger in
being a bystander.
“Being a bystander is the
worst thing you can do, even
worse than being the bully,”
she said. “Looking away from
a crime does not hide the
crime. I’m asking everyone
who has privilege to use that
privilege to speak up for those
who are in a tough situation.”
Beyond the event itself,
University alum Jessica Hicks
added a link to the Facebook
event for a Google Doc sign-
up sheet so that individuals
could walk anyone home who
felt uncomfortable after the
protest.
PROTEST
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