Martha 
Pollack, 
provost 

and executive vice president 
for academic affairs at the 
University 
of 
Michigan, 

has been appointed Cornell 
University’s 14th president, 
according to a Cornell press 
release 
published 
Monday 

afternoon.

Pollack has served as the 

University’s 
provost 
since 

2013, acting as the chief 
budgetary 
and 
academic 

officer overseeing all teaching 
and research in each of the 
University’s 19 schools and 
colleges. Her term at Cornell 
is slated to begin on April 

17, 2017, though her current 
contract, approved by the 
Board of Regents in December 
2014, extends through the 
summer of 2018.

“I am humbled and honored 

to 
have 
been 
elected 
to 

lead this great university,” 
Pollack said in the Cornell 
press release. “As a private 
university 
with 
a 
public 

mission, 
Cornell 
is 
the 

embodiment of my own deeply 
held belief in the ability of 
knowledge to improve the 
human condition.”

University 
of 
Michigan 

President 
Mark 
Schlissel 

congratulated Pollack in an 
email sent to faculty Monday 
afternoon, and applauded her 

About 
300 
students 
and 

faculty gathered Monday night 
in the Diag for a group Isha 
prayers, or the fifth and final 
daily Islamic prayer, held by the 
University of Michigan Muslim 
Students’ Association following 
threats against Muslim women 
on campus this week.

On Friday night, a female 

student wearing a hijab was 
approached by a man who 
threatened to light her on fire 
if she did not remove her head 
covering. Another female student 
was approached by two men who 
referenced her religion, yelled at 
her for being in the United States 
and pushed her down a hill on 
Saturday night. Both crimes have 
been classified as intimidation 
crimes, with the latter classified 
as ethnic intimidation.

Also on Friday, a student 

found a swastika and hateful 
message written on the door of 
his apartment.

MSA President Farhan Ali, an 

LSA junior, said he was surprised 
by the large number of people 
who attended. He noted that to 
show solidarity with the female 
Muslim students on campus, 
male Muslims have been wearing 
the kufi, a traditional hat for 
Muslim men.

“People have these myths 

about Islam, and that’s how 
Islamophobia occurs,” Ali said. 
“We’re trying to figure out ways 
we can see to make this campus 

safer and we’re trying to talk to 
DPSS.”

University 
President 

Mark 
Schlissel 
and 
other 

administrators 
sent 
out 
an 

email Sunday night condemning 
incidents of intimidation and 
calling for unity on campus 
across political ideologies.

“We hope all members of 

our community can agree that 
we must not stand silent while 
facing expressions of bigotry, 

discrimination or hate that have 
become part of our national 
political 
discourse,” 
Schlissel 

wrote in the email.

The 
incidents 
follow 
the 

election of Donald Trump to 
the presidency on Nov. 8, who 
proposed a ban on all Muslim 
immigration 
during 
the 

campaign.

Organizers 
said 
Monday 

night’s 
gathering 
— 
which 

was open to Muslims and non-

Muslim allies of the organization 
— aimed to give voice to those 
in fear following the election, as 
well as to initiate unity among all 
students on campus.

Public Policy junior Stephen 

Wallace said he attended the 
event with other Black students 
to show solidarity with Muslims. 
Wallace said he would like to 
see further action from the 
University 
administration 
on 

More 
than 
100 
students, 

faculty 
members 
and 
Ann 

Arbor 
residents 
discussed 

tensions in the campus climate 
at the University of Michigan 
and elsewhere in the country 
following President-elect Donald 
Trump’s controversial victory at 
an LSA event Monday evening.

Since the election last Tuesday, 

students have held a number 
of protests and vigils on the 
University of Michigan’s campus 
to address fear and feelings 
of 
isolation 
from 
Trump’s 

rhetoric, which protestors have 
characterized as racially divisive 
and discriminatory. In the last 
three days, two hate crimes have 
occurred on campus according 
to crime alerts sent by the 
University of Michigan Division 
of Public Safety.

The event was hosted and 

moderated by LSA Dean Andrew 
Martin and several other LSA 
faculty members. Martin, who 
noted that the discussion was 
organized a month ago, said 
he believes much of the recent 
outrages can be attributed to 

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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

See POLLACK, Page 3

KEVIN ZHENG/Daily

LGBTQ activist Tiq Milan speaks at the Transgender Awareness Week kickoff event at the Michigan Union Monday. 

At the University’s Transgender 

Awareness Week’s kickoff event 
Monday, keynote speaker Tiq Milan 
shared his story and encouraged 
resistance in the face of hate on 
campus and nationally.

The gathering, sponsored by the 

Spectrum Center, drew 60 students, 
faculty and community members 
filled the Kuenzel Room in the 
Michigan Union.

Milan, an LGBTQ advocate and 

writer, described his experiences 
as a Black transgender man, how 
his family reacted to his transition 
and how current events such as 

the rules aiming to control use of 
bathrooms by transgender people 
and the election of Donald Trump 
as president impact transgender 
people. Milan said his advocacy 
work is possible because he is 
comfortable with his identity and 
through this work he hopes to 
educate others about the variety 
within the trans experience.

“I’ll stand up here, talk about my 

surgeries and hormones and my 
mother and all these things so that 
other guys don’t have to, so other 
guys can just have the space to live 
their life,” he said.

Speaking specifically to recent 

instances of hate on campus, 
including ethnic intimidation and 

See AFTERMATH, Page 3

AARON BAKER/Daily

Students hold Isha prayers at the University of Michigan Diag Monday.

Injury to insult

A shoulder injury to starting 
quarterback Wilton Speight 

has put the Michigan football 
team in a tough spot heading 
into the last two games of the 

regular season

» Page 7

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See PRAYER, Page 3

See AWARENESS, Page 3

Saturday 
night 
between 
9 

p.m. and 10 p.m., a student was 
approached near South University 
Avenue and Washtenaw Avenue by 
two men who yelled at her for being 
in America. They then referenced 
her religion and pushed her down 
a hill, according to the University of 
Michigan Division of Public Safety 
and Security.

A University crime alert sent out 

to students and faculty in an email 
Monday classified the incident 
as ethnic intimidation and urged 
students to look assertive and be 
aware of their surroundings.

 
When 
contacted 
Monday, 

University 
Police 
Department 

spokesperson Diane Brown had 
no 
additional 
information 
to 

provide and said the incident was 
being investigated by Ann Arbor 
Police Department. No additional 
information 
from 
AAPD 
was 

immediately available.

 This is the third reported 

incident of this nature on campus in 
the wake of last week’s presidential 
election. Friday, a female student 
was forced to remove her hijab and 
threatened she would be set on fire 

See CRIME, Page 3

LSA SG candidates 
talk at forum 
Students discuss platforms 
for upcoming student 
government election
» Online at michigandaily.

com

‘U’ provost 
selected to 
be president 
of Cornell

Transgender Awareness Week 
keynote emphasizes resistance

ADMINISTRATION

Schlissel to begin search for 
permanent replacement in January

RIYAH BASHA 
Daily Staff Reporter

Tiq Milan discusses recent campus, national climate following presidential election

EMILY MIILLER
Daily Staff Reporter

LSA holds 
discussion 
on election 
reactions

ELECTION

Dean Andrew Martin 
moderates event with 
focus on inclusivity

ETHAN LEVIN
Daily Staff Reporter

Prayer gathering hosted by Muslim 
Students’ Association draws hundreds

Demonstration aims to create coalition on campus following hate crimes

ALEXA ST. JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter

University 
student is 
targeted in 
hate crime

POLICE

Woman approached by 
two men and pushed 
down hill near South U.

KEVIN BIGLIN
Daily Staff Reporter

