Hilary
Clinton
made
history this past presidential
election cycle after securing
the
Democratic
nomination
for the 2016 election as the
first female to ever win a major
party
nomination,
promoting
excitement among many young
voters including on campus.
However, the election of her
opponent,
President-elect
Donald Trump, has sparked
concern over what his presidency
will mean for women’s rights for
many students.
While
Clinton
wasn’t
successful in her bid for the
White House, there is discussion
regarding
the
inspirational
effects Clinton’s campaign will
have on young girls interested in
politics. While her being the first
female nominee wasn’t a center
point of her campaign, it became
a focal point in her concession
speech as she reminded aspiring
female
politicians
to
keep
working toward their goals,
despite her loss.
“To all the little girls who are
watching this, never doubt that
you are valuable and powerful
and deserving of every chance
and opportunity in the world to
pursue and achieve your own
dreams,” she said in her speech.
LSA senior Lauren Gallagher,
president of the University of
Michigan’s chapter of Students
In a testimony before City
Council Thursday night that
silenced the chamber, Khita
Whyatt, lecturer of dance in the
University of Michigan’s School
of Music, Theatre & Dance,
recounted a recent incident
when four men knocked her
to the ground while shouting
epithets last Thursday morning
on Observatory Street.
“I was getting ready to go and
lecture … when I felt something
coming at me and when I looked
up there were four young men
running full-tilt at me with a
full-arm body block, arms out,
and they told me ‘Go home,’
”
Whyatt
said.
“And
they
slammed me, lifted me in the air
and I fell flat on my ass and saw
stars.”
Whyatt said she chose to
reveal her identity by speaking
out publicly in order to bring
attention to a recent spate of
local hate crimes and call for
action. Ted Annis, Whyatt’s
partner, suggested in an email
to
a
neighborhood
watch
association
that
she
was
targeted because she is of dark
complexion due to her Native
American descent.
“I’d like to say this was the
only time I’ve been assaulted
in Ann Arbor and it is not; it
is the fourth time I have been
assaulted in Ann Arbor, and
the second hate crime,” Whyatt
said. “People need to understand
what’s going on. There’s a lot
more hate crimes happening in
recent weeks. There needs to be
a dialogue … so people can come
forward in order to be able to
feel safe.”
Whyatt
explained
in
an
interview after her testimony
that she did not immediately
call the police because she
was
so
shocked,
but
her
department chair contacted the
Department of Public Safety
and Security. Two days after
the incident, Whyatt said she
was interviewed by two DPSS
officers who told her it was
“obviously” a hate crime.
While they both described
DPSS’s
response
as
“great,
initially,” Whyatt and Annis said
they were concerned that an
alert hadn’t yet been sent to the
University community as has
been the case following similar
incidents. The University has
released two crime alerts over
the past two weeks of hate
crimes on campus. It has not
released a crime alert about the
event Whyatt referenced as of
Tuesday evening.
“I laid (the lack of public
alert) off to the (University)
bureaucracy and was willing to
give them a day or two of grace,”
Annis said. “If they are silent 24
hours from now, then I have a
Last week, the University
of
Michigan
announced
a
partnership
with
Chinese
institutions to solve and improve
global problems including the
need for clean water technology
and new transportation methods
for future generations.
Though
some
of
the
agreements are still preliminary,
the partnership has received
an approximate $54 million
to
jumpstart
their
research
projects.
S. Jack Hu, vice president
for research at the University,
and Gov. Rick Snyder have been
working in China for the past
month, collaborating with local
companies to create a plan of
action.
“Over the past month, we
signed two research agreements
and
one
Memorandum
of
understanding,” Hu wrote in an
email interview. “These are three
different partnerships.”
According to Hu, a primary
component
of
the
five-year
partnership is a memorandum
of
understanding
with
the
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KEVIN ZHENG/Daily
University of Michigan president Mark Schlissel at the University Senate Assembly Meeting at Palmer Commons Monday.
GOVERNMENT
About 60 of the 74 voting
members of the University of
Michigan
Senate
Assembly
convened Monday evening to
hear University President Mark
Schlissel speak about the next
steps after University Provost
Martha
Pollack
leaves
her
position later this academic year.
The assembly also decided
who will fill the board for the
recently established tri-campus
task
force,
which
aims
to
reduce miscommunication and
encourage cooperation among the
University’s Flint, Dearborn and
Ann Arbor campuses.
As
was
announced
in
November,
Pollack
will
be
leaving her position early in
April to become president of
Cornell
University.
Schlissel
said an interim candidate will be
decided on soon while a search
committee is being formed to
consider candidates for the role
permanently.
“I would like to do an open
search, which means that we’ll
consider both internal candidates
as well as outstanding external
candidates,”
Schlissel
said.
“We’ll form a search committee
in which the faculty will be
heavily represented … the student
See PARTNERSHIP, Page 3
RESEARCH
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Mayor Christopher Taylor listens as residents discuss local issues at the Ann Arbor City Hall Monday.
‘It’s unreal’
Heading into their final
showdown with Ohio State,
veteran offensive linemen
Erik Magnuson and Kyle
Kalis know they can fulfill
their dreams this weekend
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See CITY COUNCIL, Page 3
See SENATE, Page 3
About
50
students
gathered
in
the
University
of Michigan Union Monday
night
for
Transgender
Day
of
Remembrance,
an
event
organized
to
commemorate
those who have suffered or
died this year as a result of anti-
transgender hatred.
The event, which was part
of
the
Spectrum
Center’s
Transgender Awareness Week
2016, featured a talk by LSA
senior Ini Ubong, one of the
co-chairs of TransForm, who
assisted the Spectrum Center
in organizing the week’s events.
TransForm is an organization
dedicated
to
providing
resources, activism and support
for the transgender community
at the University.
Ubong
emphasized
to
attendees the importance of
being an ally and standing up
for the transgender community
when it faces adversity.
“If you are not affected by
trans misogyny, then what are
you doing for the community,
for the people in your lives that
See REMEMBRANCE, Page 3
CAMPUS LIFE
CAITLIN REEDY
Daily Staff Reporter
WILL FEUER
Daily Staff Reporter
YOSHIKO IWAI
Daily Staff Reporter
BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
NEIL SCHWARTZ
Daily Staff Reporter
Clinton
supporters
hopeful for
progress
Schlissel discusses search for new
provost, response to hate crimes
Students highlight campaign’s strides for
women, but also raise concerns
President also talks tri-campus task force, letter of support for students under DACA
University
to work with
institutions
in China
Partnerships focus
on clean water, new
transportation methods
Ann Arbor City Council hears from
lecturer about assault on ‘U’ campus
Councilmembers discuss recent reported ethnic intimidation incidents
Event talks
lives lost in
transgender
community
Day of Remembrance
aims to honor victims of
violence