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Monday, December 11, 2017
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM
Emma Kinery, editor in
chief, The Michigan Daily
Journalism
is
changing
tremendously — which, in some
ways, makes being the editor of a
college paper more difficult than
it has ever been — but it’s also
pretty exciting. The Michigan
Daily operates editorially and
financially independent of the
University of Michigan; coming
into the role of editor in chief, I
didn’t realize there would be such
an emphasis on the business side of
things and on monetizing content,
but that’s a necessary shift. When
I first began at The Daily, we were
discussing whether to prioritize
print or digital, and we had just
launched our new website. Now,
there isn’t a discussion about
whether to put digital first —
it’s a given. It’s about creating
compelling content, as well as
thinking about how students and
the community interact with The
Daily. Newsrooms all over the
country that have much greater
resources and experience than we
do are tackling these same issues,
but the benefit of being a student-
run paper is that there is greater
leeway to take risks and make
mistakes.
The Daily is unique in that
we serve as the only five-day
circulation
paper
in
all
of
The classroom, dorm rooms
and hallways, or even in passing
walking
around
campus:
That’s where University of
Michigan students are most
likely to fall victim to a bias
incident, according to a log of
self-reported data collected by
the University’s Bias Response
Team. The team’s online log
tracked 80 individual bias
incidents since this September,
with 16 additional prior events
occurring over the summer.
Most cases in the log involve
race,
religion
or
national
identity. Encompassed in the
BRT’s scope are any instances
in which a student is targeted
for their identity, including
but not limited to race, color,
ethnicity, national origin, sex,
gender identity or expression,
sexual orientation, disability,
age or religion. At the close
of a semester rocked by high-
profile incidents of racism,
the BRT records illustrate the
majority of bias incidents are
commonplace experiences that
do not always make headlines.
Most of the reports are attacks
expressed
verbally
or
in
written form, either via email
or graffiti.
“Regarding
trends,
there
have been an increase in
reported
bias
incidents
that
occur
on-campus
(vs
off
campus)
since
2014,”
University
spokeswoman
Kim Broekhuizen wrote in an
email. “What you see reported
is a testament to how much
the community cares about
reporting and supporting each
other.”
Results
from
a
campus
climate
sample
survey
administered last year found
one in five students reported
experiencing a discriminatory
incident in the last year, with
Black and Hispanic students
519 percent and 132 percent
more
likely
to
experience
discrimination, respectively.
Out of 21 incidents occurring
in residence halls, West Quad
Residence Hall surpasses all
other residence halls with
four incidents in the last three
months, followed by Bursley
Residence Hall and then Mary
Markley residence hall on
the Hill. A Central Campus
Diversity Peer Educator who
requested to stay anonymous
due to University Housing
policies
explained
dorms
might
be
commonly
cited
locations of bias incidents due
to strict policies in Housing
surrounding
reporting.
DPEs are student residential
staff
members
serving
as
social justice educators and
developers
of
each
hall’s
community
identity.
The
Distinguished author Tiya
Miles, professor of American
Culture and Afroamerican &
African Studies spoke at the
Rackham auditorium Friday to
discuss her new book on racial
history in the city of Detroit.
In “The Dawn of Detroit:
A Chronicle of Slavery and
Freedom in the City of the
Straits,”
Miles
offers
an
alternative origin story of
Detroit. The book, according
to her, “allows us to see
Detroit’s
beginning
and
industrial age ‘progress’ and
recognize Detroit’s invisible
ancestors.”
Miles argued that Detroit,
which has a population that
is over 80 percent Black,
still “feels the aftershocks of
systematic racism and white
supremacy” prevalent in the
18th century. For context, she
presented
African-American
and Native American stories
of
enslavement
as
two
adjacent entities that worked
together to shape the dogma
of the time. She discussed the
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INDEX
Vol. CXXVII, No. 46
©2017 The Michigan Daily
N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 B
Co-founder
of Axios talks
journalism
with Daily
State Theatre reopens after year-
long, $8.5 million renovations
See AXIOS, Page 3A
AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily
CAMPUS LIFE
Mike Allen emphasizes importance of
prioritizing readers and data analytics
EMMA KINERY &
MIKE ALLEN
Daily Editor in Chief &
Axios Co-founder
Transformation effort includes two new screens, elevator, modern seating with leg room
Hours
before
the
State
Theatre
opened
Friday
afternoon after a year-long
renovation,
construction
workers
made
last
minute
adjustments to the double door
entryway and cut holes into red
sheet metal beneath the neon
marquee on State Street.
The
Michigan
Theater
Foundation — a nonprofit that
oversees the operation of both
the
Michigan
Theater
and
State Theatre — managed the
transformation
renovation
effort,
which
included
the
addition of two new screens, an
elevator, modern seating with
increased leg room, new movie
projectors
and
new
sound
systems.
Russ
Collins,
executive
director
of
the
Michigan
Theater Foundation, said the
new State Theatre offers “all of
the bells and whistles of a great
movie experience.”
“The State Theatre has gone
from a kind of quirky, fun but
problematic place to watch a
movie to what we think may
be the best place in town to
watch a movie,” Collins said.
“The decorative flourishes that
LEAH GRAHAM
Daily Staff Reporter
See BOOK, Page 3A
Professor
pens book
on slavery
in Detroit
CAMPUS LIFE
Tiya Miles highlighted
topics from her books
at Rackham on Friday
SAMANTHA SMALL
For the Daily
80 bias incidents reported on campus this semester
1. Verbal 2. Graffiti/Written 3. Online
most frequent incidents:
15 incidents involved a University employee
1% mail
9% off campus
14% classroom building
14% not reported
26% diag/outside on campus
21% residence hall
16% virtual
DESIGN BY MICHELLE PHILLIPS
Bias Incident Report Log illustrates
trends and problems around campus
Most of the 80 cases reported this semester involve race, religion or national identity
RIYAH BASHA
Daily News Editor
michigandaily.com
For more stories and coverage, visit
See BIAS LOG, Page 2A
See THEATRE, Page 3A
Each week, The Michigan
Daily will be publishing a
wrap-up of the most important
bills proposed in Michigan
Legislature over the past seven
days:
HB 5321: State Rep. Triston
Cole, R-Mancelona, introduced
legislation
which
would
prohibit the sterilization of
deer as a method of population
control. Cole told the Detroit
Free Press he believes hunting
is a more humane approach to
the issue, as the tranquilization
process causes stress for the
animal.
“I was a hunting guide,
so I strongly support the
use of sportsmen for this
activity. They pay to help
manage wildlife species and
that’s the direction that I
want to continue to see the
(Department
of
Natural
Resources) use,” Cole said.
“It’s the most cost-effective
and efficient way to manage
wildlife species, particularly
in urban environments.”
In Ann Arbor, the deer cull
See WRAP-UP, Page 3A
Weekly MI
state house
legislative
wrap-up
GOVERNMENT
Bills introduced around
deer culls and municipal
employee retirement plan
LYDIA MURRAY
Daily News Editor
Comeback kids
Despite facing a 15-point
deficit at one point, the
Michigan men’s basketball
team rallied late to force
overtime and then ran past
UCLA in a 78-69 win.
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