the panel how institutions should 
address such problems without 
alienating students or faculty.

The speakers commented on the 

role of administration in responding 
to discriminatory actions. DeGioia 
stated universities cannot use the 
protection of the First Amendment 
as justification for remaining silent 
on hateful behavior. Espinosa 
agreed, saying universities can 
implement 
strategies 
such 
as 

counterprogramming, 
which 

is the scheduling of alternative 
activities for students during other, 
potentially upsetting events on 
campus. She said administrations 
need to be proactive and anticipate 
speech 
and 
identity-related 

conflicts.

“We’ve all been in such a 

reactive state over these last few 

years,” 
Espinosa 
said. 
“We’re 

trying to really hone in on what it 
means to be ready, and that really 
does come down, in a lot of ways, to 
institutional policy on a whole host 
of levels.”

Kevin 
McDonald, 
chief 

diversity officer and interim 
vice chancellor for Inclusion, 
Diversity and Equity at the 
University 
of 
Missouri, 

contributed to the panel by 
sharing an example initiative at 
the University of Missouri. The 
university uses music to create 
safe spaces in which students 
can discuss their experiences 
with discrimination and racial 
identity. McDonald also noted 
students have been instrumental 
in creating conversation about 
hate speech on the University of 
Missouri campus.

“It’s students who say, ‘No, 

this is the reality of the world 
we live in, this is what is shaping 
our national and global context, 
and we need to be aware of that 

and have hard conversations,’” 
McDonald said.

Continuing on the subject of 

hate speech and propaganda, 
the panelists discussed how 
many 
universities 
emphasize 

the 
importance 
of 
valuing 

“diverse 
perspectives,” 
but 

issues arise when those “diverse 
perspectives” are discriminatory 
or 
even 
challenge 
certain 

students’ humanity.

Panelist 
Sanford 
Ungar, 

director of Georgetown’s Free 
Speech Project, brought up white 
supremacist Richard Spencer, 
whose visits to college campuses 
have inspired multiple protests 
and who only recently suspended 
his college tours. Ungar said 
though speakers like Spencer do 
have First Amendment rights, 
universities are morally obliged 
to condemn hate speech.

“I’m just so troubled by this 

notion that a certain purist 
interpretation 
would 
say 

everyone must sit and listen to 

Richard Spencer and engage 
his ideas, as if there were no 
line, no limit, no anything,” 
Ungar 
said. 
“We 
have 
a 

responsibility to tell him that 
yes, of course, you have free 
speech rights, but we have 
a right to confront you and 
to tell you how heinous your 
ideas are.”

Lastly, Chavous asked the 

panelists for their thoughts on 
social media and its role in the 
debate on diversity, inclusion 
and free speech.

Chavous said social media 

can be problematic because 
institutions 
can’t 
regulate 

what students post online, 
but students who experience 
discrimination 
over 
social 

media may still associate the 
negativity with their college 
or university.

The panelists raised some 

of the other issues with social 
media, such as the fact that 
it 
often 
amplifies 
hurtful 

speech. Still, the panelists 
agreed 
social 
media 
does 

have the potential to provide 
a 
platform 
for 
productive 

community dialogue.

After about an hour of panel 

comments, the discussion was 
opened to the audience. Several 
university administrators asked 
questions of the panel. Meredith 
Raimondo, Dean of Students 
at Oberlin College, asked the 
panel how universities should 
respond to microaggressions 
and 
discriminatory 
actions 

which are below the threshold 
of formal discrimination or 
hate speech, but still harm 
students.

DeGioia said the Georgetown 

University administration is 
currently considering ways to 
match its harassment policies 
with 
hate 
speech 
policies. 

Historically, 
DeGioia 
said, 

the two have not been linked, 
but the administration wants 
to 
discuss 
a 
protocol 
for 

responding to more nuanced 
instances of harassment.

Suzanne 
Goldberg, 
an 

administrator and law school 
professor 
from 
Columbia 

University, asked the panel 
what classroom initiatives have 
been effective in addressing 
diversity 
and 
inclusion 
on 

college campuses. McDonald 
gave an example from the 
University of Missouri, where 
he spearheaded an initiative 
offering 
faculty 
$1,000 

stipends in exchange for their 
participation in a year-long 
professional 
development 

program centered on inclusion. 
According to McDonald, the 
administration was “floored” 
by faculty response.

A final question was posed by 

G. Christine Taylor, University 
of Alabama administrator, who 
asked the panelists what kind 
of actions universities can take 
to address discrimination on 
the interpersonal level. She said 
students have reported feeling 
deeply affected by small-scale 
aggressions that accumulate 
over time.

It is Wednesday, and there 

will be at least three University 
of 
Michigan 
graduates 

wearing 
pink. 
Ashley 
Park, 

Taylor Louderman and Erika 
Henningsen, all graduates from 
the School of Music, Theatre 
& Dance, are starring in the 
Broadway musical adaptation 
of the hit 2004 teenage comedy 

“Mean Girls.”

Louderman 
was 
cast 
as 

Regina George, the leader of 
the popular girl group known 
as “The Plastics.” She is joined 
onstage 
by 
loyal 
sidekick 

Gretchen Weiner played by Park. 
When “The Plastics” welcome 
new 
student 
Cady 
Stanton, 

played by Henningsen, a plot of 
gossip, blackmailing and high 
school antics ensue.

“Mean Girls” is not the first 

time any of these leading ladies 

have 
performed 
underneath 

the lights of Broadway. Park 
has starred in three shows 
on Broadway, most recently 
appearing in “Sunday in the 
Park with George” alongside 
Jack Gyllenhaal. Louderman’s 
Broadway 
credits 
include 

“Kinky Boots” and “Bring it 
On: The Musical.” Henningsen 
previously appeared in “Les 
Miserables” as Fantine.

The show premiered Sunday 

night at the August Wilson 

Theater in New York City 
after a two-month trial run in 
Washington, D.C. Tina Fey, 
who penned the iconic lines of 
the film version, also wrote the 
script for the musical. 

As Park, Henningsen and 

Louderman lead the cast of 
“Mean Girls” into the summer 
months, they will be making 
“fetch happen” and furthering 
the legacy of the “Michigan 
Mafia” on Broadway.

Fleming, Blacks Agree to 

Talks 

Demonstrators List Griev-

ances: Others March to Support 
Action 

By Marcia Abramson 
More than 100 black students 

yesterday locked the minis-
tration Bldg. from inside and 
refused entry for nearly five 
hours. The lockout ended when 
University President Robben W. 
Fleming met with the students 
and agreed to discuss their 

grievances next Monday. 

The students demands were 

duplicated and distributed to 
passers-by. They called for: 

Immediate appointment of a 

black man as assistant director 
of admissions.

Appointment of black men to 

the athletic staff. 

A Martin Luther King Schol-

arship fund and an endowed 
chair to be filled by a black 
man. 

Immediate implementa-

tion of the suggestions of the 
Defense Department Greene 
report, which labeled the 
University a place for “rich, 
white students” and called 
for measures to ensure more 
employment of black and non-
academic and academic staff. 

“University activity in the 

community” 

The statement did not 

elaborate on what was meant by 
“University activity.” 

The grievances concluded, 

“We the black students of this 
University do believe that un-
less these grievances are met, 
we will continue to live in a 
basically racist university. Im-
mediate restitution is necessary. 

The students entered the 

building at 7:15 a.m. and se-
cured all the doors with chains 
before most of the office and 
administrative staff arrived. 

Only Fleming and Dr. ALbert 
H. Wheeler, chairman of the 
Michigan NAACP, were allowed 
inside. The students left shortly 
after noon. 

A picket line of white stu-

dents began forming around 
8:30 a.m. in support of the 
protest. Some 20 or 30 students 
carried signs reading “Sup-
port Our Black Brothers” and 
“Ann Arbor- All-American City 
for All.” Supporters collected 
enough money to buy the pro-
testers’ lunch which was passed 
through a briefly unchained 
door. 

Fleming termed the demands 

“very reasonable and construc-
tive proposals” in a general 
statement.

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