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The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
NEWS
Lawsuit challenges
sexual assault policy
Student sues U-M
for being biased
against males
accused of assault
By ALICE TRACEY
Summer Daily News Editor
A lawsuit filed in U.S. District
Court by Deborah Gordon Law on
June 4 on behalf of a male University
of Michigan student, claims the
University’s
sexual
misconduct
policy does not provide due process
to males accused of sexual assault
and thereby discriminates against
them on the basis of gender. The
allegation follows a complaint
brought forth by a female student
who approached U-M’s Office of
Institutional Equity on March 12
saying she and the male student had
engaged in non-consensual sexual
activity several months earlier.
In April, the University sent
out a no-contact order against the
male student. The female student
then claimed the male student
violated the directive by staying
in the same dining hall as her, and
the University reprimanded him
via email. According to the lawsuit,
however, the male’s Mcard records
prove he was not in the dining hall
at that time.
Due to the female student’s
accusations
of
assault,
the
University put the male student’s
official
transcript
on
hold,
preventing
him
from
starting
graduate
school
until
further
notice. This disciplinary action
was not warranted, the lawsuit
says, because the University failed
to fairly investigate the situation.
According to the lawsuit, the
students did have sex in his dorm
room in November 2017 but the
interaction was consensual and no
alcohol or drugs were involved. The
male student also claims the two
stayed in touch after having sex,
even eating together in the dining
hall. He says the female student
suggested having sex again, but he
declined.
“Magic Skoolie”
bus becomes
unconventional art
By ZAYNA SYED
Daily Staff Reporter
After spending three weeks
at a farm immersion program in
Ireland, Tori Essex, a 2018 alum of
the University of Michigan School of
Art & Design, said she felt the most
“clear-headed” since she was 8 years
old. She relished the introspective
time
and
human
connections
volunteering on the farm allowed
her and wished she could do
something similar after graduating.
Her wish came true.
However,
while
farming
is
contingent
upon
nurturing
a
certain slice of land, Tori will not be
anchored to any one farm. Instead,
she plans to tour independent,
organic
farms
throughout
the
country via “The Magic Skoolie,”
a school bus she converted into a
living space as part of her senior
capstone project.
“I was farming for three weeks
and I was super isolated and had
a lot of time to think,” Essex said.
“I was loving just being outside
and volunteering and getting to
know people I never would’ve met
otherwise. I was thinking about
how I wish that I could do that after
I graduated, and just kind of float
around like that a little bit. But the
biggest risk in travelling all the time
and volunteering and being posted
is the living situation or the hosting
situation, the accommodations that
you might or might not get. So just
for my own sense of security and
comfort, I was like, ‘It would be
great if I could create something
that I could be comfortable in that I
would be able to take with me from
spot to spot.’”
At first, Essex thought she might
live in a tiny house, hauling it from
farm to farm using a truck. But
after calculating the expenses, she
realized it was costly and might be
difficult to maneuver. Driving a bus
would be much more economical
and easy to handle, if she could
convert one into a home.
While the idea of converting a
school bus into a living space may
seem niche, Essex researched the
idea via internet and Instagram
and discovered others had done it
before. According to Essex’s adviser
for the project, Rebekah Modrak,
an associate professor at the Art &
Design School, it even has precedent
in movements from the ’70s.
“It has a history with the 1970s
earth culture movement,” Modrak
said. “I think a lot of (Tori’s) practices
have this history in the ‘back to the
land’ movement of the ’70s, and even
the idea of transforming vehicles
comes from that period.”
Grad converts bus
into living space
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