On
Friday
afternoon,
Chicago
Mayor
Rahm
Emanuel
spoke
to
a
full
house
of
University
of
Michigan
students
and
community
members
at
Stamps Auditorium. As part
of the class Entrepreneurship
407:
Entrepreneurship
Hour,
Emanuel
discussed
entrepreneurship
and
innovation,
drawing
both
on
his
past
and
present
experience in politics.
Emanuel was elected as
mayor in 2011, and before
served in Congress and as
Chief of Staff to President
Barack Obama. He explained
that during his time in the
White House, there was never a
shortage of crises, specifically
within the financial sector
and automotive industry. But
he noted with each challenge
came a new lesson in his role
as a politician.
Pink pussy hats, bubbles and
handmade
signs
flooded
the
University of Michigan Diag
Saturday, signs that the Women’s
March in Ann Arbor had returned
for its second annual rally.
The first march in Washington,
D.C., occurring the day after
President
Donald
Trump’s
inauguration last year, protested
Trump’s
sexist
rhetoric
and
policies. The theme of this year’s
local march, according to vice
chair of the Washtenaw County
Board of Commissions Michelle
Deatrick, who is also running
for Michigan State Senate in Ann
Arbor, is “power to the polls,”
to encourage people to get and
stay engaged as the November
elections approach.
Approximately 4,000 students,
faculty and community members
assembled on the Diag for the
rally. As one of hundreds of
women’s
marches
occurring
nationwide, this year’s gathering
included
voter
registration
and poster-making tables, as
well as outreach stations from
organizations.
LSA
sophomore
Amanda
Wasserman
was
nearly
in
tears as she hit the submit
button.
A
stressful
and
overwhelming
process
had
led up to this moment —
she had just submitted her
application
to
pursue
an
undergraduate degree in the
School of Public Health. After
taking a public health class
and learning about various
health
crises,
Wasserman
dismissed thoughts of going
into medicine and instead was
sold on the broader impact of
public health. But not everyone
is accepted into the program.
Wasserman is one of many
University
of
Michigan
students
applying
into
a
major or program for their
upper
level
coursework.
Students must apply to get into
undergraduate
programs
in
more than nine schools at the
University.
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Larry Nassar, the former doctor
for US Gymnastics and Michigan
State University, is the defendant
in three criminal cases –– two
in state courts and one in federal
court –– for possession of child
pornography and sexual abuse
of over one hundred athletes
whose medical treatment he was
responsible for. Nassar received
a degree in kinesiology from the
University of Michigan in 1985,
and worked with the University’s
football and track and field teams
while he was a student. The dates
of the assaults span decades, with
the earliest occurring in 1992,
when Nassar was still a medical
student at MSU, and the latest
occurring in 2016.
Several of the lawsuits against
Nassar also include MSU as a
defendant. MSU employees were
notified of Nassar’s abuse as
early as 1999, but largely either
dismissed or suppressed the
complaints. MSU President Lou
Anna Simon was notified of a Title
IX complaint and a police report
against Nassar in 2014, which she
said were reported to her as being
“against an unnamed physician.”
Ingham County criminal case
One of the cases, a criminal
case in Ingham County, has
drawn widespread attention with
120 women and girls accusing him
of sexual assault, many of whom
are Olympic gold medalists.
Nassar has pleaded guilty to 7
counts of sexual assault, though
over one hundred girls have been
able to speak on their experiences
of assault.
Though not a part of the
Ingham County case, Olympic
gymnasts Aly Raisman, McKayla
Maroney and Jamie Dantzscher
also spoke on their abuse by
Nassar.
The sentencing hearing began
Jan. 16 and will last at least 5 days.
Judge Rosemarie Aquilina set
aside time for survivors to share
statements in front of Nassar.
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Twenty-one more survivors
rose to stand in the Ingham
County courthouse to share
their experience of sexual
abuse at the hands of former
Michigan
State
University
doctor Larry Nassar on Friday.
Nearly every seat in the
courtroom
was
filled
by
survivors and their families,
and at the conclusion of each
impact statement the room
erupted in applause.
Nassar, the former doctor for
USA Gymnastics and MSU, has
pled guilty to seven counts of
first degree sexual misconduct
in Ingham County and three
counts
in
Eaton
county,
including sexual assault and
abuse of girls as young as six
years old.
Survivors testifying Friday
morning recounted years of
abuse along with the life-long
mental and physical suffering
which followed.
Trenea Gonzcar identified
herself as one of “the originals”
who has known Nassar for 31 of
37 years and stood by his side
through most of it.
“I remember thinking that if
no one could fix me, you could,”
Gonzcar said.
It was not until recently
Gonzcar identified herself as
a survivor. Calculating the
amount of times she saw Nassar
for “treatment” through her
life, she estimates she was
assaulted nearly 800 times.
During
her
statement,
Nassar broke down shaking
in tears as Gonzcar told him
she was done defending him,
choosing to stand alongside the
other survivors.
Day Four of
Nassar trial,
calls for action
from MSU
Second Women’s March rallies
around #MeToo, voting efforts
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March, themed “Power to the Polls,” draws crowd of over 4,000 to Ann Arbor
As list of speakers continues to grow,
another day expected until sentencing
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