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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Students and members of the public gather in the Diag for the second annual Women’s March Saturday. 

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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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