The #MeToo movement has
focused primarily on high status
figures — women speaking out
against
Hollywood
moguls,
powerful bosses and even our
current president. Journalist
Bernice
Yeung’s
recently
published work, after years of
investigation, focuses instead
on the experiences of women
in
particularly
vulnerable
workplaces, such as janitors,
farmers and domestic workers.
Each
year,
the
Wallace
House at the University of
Michigan recognizes a Knight-
Wallace journalist to give the
prestigious
Graham
Hovey
Lecture. Hovey was a New York
Times journalist and served as
the director of the fellowship
program from 1980 to 1986.
The fellowship program offers
journalists the opportunity to
study at the University for an
academic year to collaborate on
learning and create strategies to
improve the field of journalism.
ProPublica reporter Bernice
Yeung
was chosen
as
this
year’s
featured
fellow
for
her investigative work in the
seemingly unheard voices of
the #MeToo movement. Yeung
has investigated the sexual
assault of immigrant workers
as a member of the “Rape in
the Fields” reporting team and
the sexual abuse of janitorial
women through “Rape on the
Night Shift.” Yeung published
“In a Day’s Work: The Fight to
End Sexual Violence Against
America’s
Most
Vulnerable
Workers”
in
March
2018.
Yeung’s
investigation
into
the
abuse
of
low-income
women began years before the
movement but has highlighted a
sector of people previously left
in the dark.
Yeung was originally learned
about this issue after hearing
the experience of one low-
income woman and the sexual
harassment she endured.
“Is this a terrible but isolated
event, or part of a larger
problem that requires attention
and reform?” she asked.
Yeung’s lecture focused on
the experiences exclusive to
low-income workers, explaining
how this work environment is
conducive to ongoing sexual
harassment.
Particularly
in
contrast to many famous faces
of #MeToo, these women have
limited options when it comes
to abuse. There are language
barriers, and in some cases the
abusers are the sole interpreters
for filing a report, resulting in
reports of abuse getting “lost in
translation.” These women face
the threat of losing their jobs,
being deported or receiving
retaliation for speaking out.
“Low-wage
immigrants,
laboring
in
isolation,
are
at a unique risk for sexual
harassment and assault,” Yeung
said.
According
to
Yeung,
our
judicial system relies on the
assumption that survivors will
speak out, leaving many low-
income
women
unprotected.
Domestic workers have also
The city of Ann Arbor has
impounded almost two dozen
Bird scooters for violating city
ordinances.
City Communications Director
Lisa Wondrash said the scooters
were
improperly
parked
on
sidewalks, streets or bike lanes,
adding that the scooters also
violate an ordinance mandating
motorized vehicles not impede
the public right-of-way.
“The
company
has
been
notified that their equipment
has
been
collected
by
the
city
and
is
being
securely
stored at our Public Works
Facility,” Wondrash wrote in
an email to MLive. “The city
welcomes
alternative
modes
of transportation for residents
and visitors, and city staff are
actively working with Bird on a
licensing agreement.”
In an interview with the
Detroit Free Press, Wondrash
said finding appropriate places to
park the scooters was “a question
for Bird Scooter to answer.”
The University of Michigan’s
Division of Public Safety and
Security, however, advised users
of the scooters park them at bike
racks or in moped parking areas.
“When you are finished riding
Last
month’s
Michigan
state primary election saw a
higher voter turnout rate than
any primary election since
1978. The nearly 30 percent
statewide voter turnout was
up 6.7 percentage points since
2010, indicating Michiganders
are more engaged with the
midterm elections than in
recent years.
This jump in voter turnout
was not isolated to Michigan
but swept across the country
this summer. According to
the Pew Research Center,
nearly half of registered voters
report being more enthusiastic
than usual about voting. As of
late July, overall turnout in
U.S. House of Representatives,
U.S.
Senate
and
state
gubernatorial races outpaced
2014 levels.
For House primaries, both
Republican
and
Democrat
turnout has increased, though
Democrat turnout has risen
more significantly. As of late
July, the number of votes
cast in Democratic House
primaries is 84 percent higher
than at the same point in 2014.
Turnout for the Republican
House primaries rose too by
24 percent.
Michigan also witnessed
this partisan trend. Across the
state, the turnout rate spiked
the most in counties former
Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton won in the 2016
presidential
election.
In
Washtenaw County, where 68
percent of the 2016 vote went
to Clinton, voter turnout is up
12.8 percentage points since
2010.
Michael Traugott, research
professor at the University
of
Michigan’s
Center
for
Political
Studies,
said
the
higher
turnout
among
Democrats
can
be
partly
attributed to the outcome of
the 2016 presidential election
and a response to the current
administration.
“There’s a lot of angst still
among the Democrats about
the
outcome
of
the
2016
election,” Traugott said. “And
then concern I think about
the
behavior
of
President
Trump, so in anticipation of
the general election in the
fall, Democrats are motivated
to select good candidates,
which is what happens in the
primary.”
As for the Republican side,
higher national turnout may
be a result of competing forces
within the party.
“In both parties, actually,
there are some issues about
some
of
the
new
party
candidates
and
old
party
candidate,”
Traugott
said.
“On
the
Republican
side,
there’s
a
contest
between
a particular kind of reform
Trump candidate, and more
traditional Republicans.”
The high primary voter
turnout provides promise for
large voter turn out in this
November’s midtermelection.
Erin Byrnes heads the Big Ten
Voting Challenge on campus,
an
initiative
among
the
fourteen Big Ten Conference
schools to increase student
turnout through competition.
Byrnes finds the voter turnout
rates in August encouraging
and
believes
they
are
harbingers of high turnout
rates in November.
“Voters across our state are
energized, paying attention
and
voting,”
Byrnes
said.
“Primaries are often seen
as forgotten elections, with
voters more focused on the
general in November. That
was not the case this year, and
we can likely look forward to a
great increase in turnout this
fall.”
Madison
McKenzie,
graduate assistant at the U-M
Ginsberg Center, agrees more
students across the country
are
becoming
politically
engaged and motivated to vote.
“I think we hit really a
lull, or actually a peak in
terms of apathy across the
country
especially
among
young
people,”
Mckenzie
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Washtenaw County sees highest surge
in voter turnout across Michigan
Voter turnout up 12.8 percentage points since 2010, with 34.4 percent participating
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went on to lead the modern
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Mark Hoeltzel, a former pediatric
doctor
at
Michigan
Medicine,
accepted a plea deal amid allegations
of child sex and pornography in
federal court last Thursday, MLive
reported. Hoeltzel pleaded guilty to
one felony count of enticement of a
minor.
Upon
knowledge
of
the
ongoing
investigation
last
December,
Michigan
Medicine
immediately terminated Hoeltzel,
who was later stripped of his
medical license. Hoeltzel admitted
to creating a fake Facebook account
in 2017 under the name Ryan
Gardner. Hoeltzel used the account
to pretend to be a teenage boy,
talking to minor girls and engaging
in sexual conversations.
Police
executed
a
search
warrant in Hoeltzel’s home in Ann
Arbor, finding a flash drive that
contained more than 200 images of
child pornography. They also found
Facebook conversation history with
a 14-year-old girl from Colorado,
Hoeltzel pleads guilty
to enticement of minor
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Former Michigan Medicine pediatrician used
fake Facebook for sexting with young girls
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Ann Arbor impounds
two dozen Bird scooters
City officials say scooters were improperly
parked on sidewalks, streets or bike lanes
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