About 20 students, faculty 

and local activists convened 
on the University of Michigan 
Diag Monday afternoon for 
an anti-gun violence rally 
jointly hosted by Shattering 
the Silence, an organization 
dedicated to increased gun 
control measures, and the 
advocacy nonprofit NextGen 
America. The rally served to 
commemorate the 58 lives 
lost in Las Vegas a year ago — 
the deadliest mass shooting 
in American history — and 
urge 
people 
to 
demand 

stricter gun control policies. 

The rally signaled the 

beginning 
of 
a 
37-day 

campaign 
of 
activism 

and voter registration by 
NextGen 
leading 
up 
to 

the 
midterm 
elections. 

According 
to 
NextGen 

Field 
Organizer 
Hudson 

Villeneuve, the organization 
has already registered 35,000 

people in the state and hopes 
to increase that number even 
more before election day.

Similarly, 
the 

University joined the Big 
Ten Voting Challenge in 
September 2017 to try and 
register the most voters of 
all 14 schools in the Big Ten 
conference in the upcoming 
year. The results will be 
tallied after the midterm 
elections this November.

Student 
organizer 
Jen 

Chalom, a Northville High 
School junior, emphasized 
how imperative it is for 
younger generations to get 
involved in causes they care 
about. Chalom, who began 
organizing the rally in mid-
August after coordinating 
her school’s walkout the 
previous year, also stressed 
how 
registering 
people 

to vote should be one of 
the main objectives of the 
campaign.

“These are people who 

wouldn’t have voted if we 
didn’t come here,” Chalom 
said. “Because of something 

I did, someone will be going 
to the polls and voting. That 
just seems like a huge impact, 
even if I get five people 
registered to vote. Three 
percent of young people who 
can vote, do. That just seems 
crazy — you see all these 
problems 
and 
watch 
the 

news and hear about these 
things but no one seems to be 
doing anything about them.”

Chalom said she and other 

student 
activists 
reached 

out to organizations like 
Moms Demand Action to 
recruit speakers such as 
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, 
D-Mich., and Medical School 
student 
Solomon 
Rajput. 

Rajput highlighted how a 
lack of focus on statewide 
issues causes so few people 
to 
routinely 
call 
their 

representatives to demand 
change.

“People 
feel 
like 
the 

national stuff is sometimes 
more 
important, 
more 

worthy of their attention,” 
Rajput said. “But the state 
level 
stuff 
really, 
really 

makes a huge difference 
in terms of our lives in the 
state. Sometimes it’s hard 
for people to remember that. 
It’s definitely less sexy, and 
there’s less media attention, 
but it’s so important.”

LSA 
freshman 
Josie 

Graham 
said 
she 
was 

especially 
impressed 
by 

the 
high 
school 
student 

organizers 
of 
the 
rally 

who have inspired younger 
generations 
to 
pursue 

activism, even though many 
of them cannot yet vote. 
Graham said her experience 
attending 
a 
gun 
control 

walkout in high school left 
her empowered to support 
that kind of activism at the 
University.

“It 
gave 
students 
the 

ability to do something on 
a larger scale and gain the 
community’s attention and 
tell them how we feel because 
at that age we couldn’t vote 
yet,” Graham said. “It’s a 
way to express ourselves and 
finally have a voice that is 
amplified.”

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“Our engineering colleagues 

across the country, including 
some colleagues of mine here 
at Michigan engineering, are 
being demeaned, victimized, 
hurt,” Gallimore said. “They’re 
being treated wickedly. I stand 
before you to say that that is 
unequivocally unacceptable.”

Psychology Professor Lilia 

Cortina, 
associate 
director 

of the ADVANCE Program, 

followed 
Gallimore’s 

statement with the highlights 
of the National Academies 
of Science, Engineering and 
Medicine report on sexual 
harassment. 
Cortina, 
who 

worked on the report, outlined 
the three main types of sexual 
harassment: sexual coercion, 
unwanted 
sexual 
attention 

and 
gender 
harassment. 

The report argues Title IX 
legislation has done little to 
reduce 
the 
incidence 
rate 

of 
sexual 
harassment 
in 

academia. 

Cortina’s research reports 

63 
percent 
of 
women 
in 

academia 
had 
experienced 

some 
type 
of 
sexual 

harassment. 
Additionally, 

she found that one in five 
sexually 
harassed 
women 

meet criteria for depressive 
disorders and one in 10 meet 
criteria for PTSD. Cortina said 
dozens of studies have shown 
sexual 
harassment 
derails 

victims 
professional 
lives 

disengage from their work, 
and sometimes they leave 
their institutions or the field 

entirely.

“There is no evidence 

that 
current 
policies, 

procedures, 
and 

approaches 
— 
which 

often focus on symbolic 
compliance with the law 
and on avoiding liability 
— have resulted in a 
significant reduction in 
sexual harassment,” the 
report reads. 

Cortina noted sexual 

coercion is the most 
widely publicized form 
of harassment, and the 
type 
of 
misconduct 

addressed 
by 
the 

most 
legislation. 
She 

maintained, 
however, 

gender harassment was 
by far the most common 
and pressing form.

“More often than not, 

sexual harassment is a 
put down, not a come 
on,” Cortina said. “So 
the bulk of the iceberg 
is gender harassment, 
and this is conduct that 
demeans, 
denigrates, 

humiliates people based 
on gender.”

Cortina stressed that even 

when 
sexual 
harassment 

contains nothing but sexist 
insults, with no unwanted 
sexual attention, it takes a toll 
on victims. For this reason, 
Cortina says, a lot of the 
regulations in place targeting 
sex do not help the issue.

“Gender 
harassment 
is 

less about sex and more 
about contempt, so rules and 
regulations policing sex are 
not a solution here,” Cortina 
said. 
“When 
women 
are 

sexually 
harassed, 
women 

leave, their coworkers leave 
— even the men leave. They 
don’t stick around to watch 
their valued colleagues be 
disparaged, and they certainly 
don’t want to be the next 
victims.”

Panelists 
were 
later 

asked what they found most 
surprising about the findings. 
Allison 
Steiner, 
associate 

professor in Department of 
Climate and Space Sciences 
and 
Engineering 
and 
one 

of the panelists, responded 
that her only surprise was 
the number of women who 
reported having been sexually 
harassed.

“I was surprised that the 

harassment numbers were as 
low as they are,” Steiner said. 
“I expected them to be like, 90 
percent.”

Panelist 
Gilda 
Barabino, 

dean of the Grove School 
of Engineering at The City 
College of New York, said 
while she was not shocked 
by the results of the report, 
she was pleasantly surprised 

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