Two groups staged protests

Monday night outside Ann
Arbor City Hall, calling on
City Council to take action
on
disparate
issues:
the

reopening of a piercing shop

with a racist owner and the
annual deer cull in Ann Arbor.

Protesters
from
BAMN

and Stop Trump Ann Arbor
demanded
City
Council

take
action
against
the

reopening of Pangea Piercing,
which closed in August after
its owner, J.C. Potts, was
accused white supremacism,

sexism
and
inappropriate

behavior by clients.

BAMN
organizer
Kate

Stenvig,
a
University
of

Michigan
alum,
said
she

wanted to increase awareness
about Potts, especially now
that he had reopened his
store.

“The first thing that we’re

trying to do is spread the
word that he’s back,” Stenvig
said. “We’ve been passing out
flyers outside of his place, we
did a picket on Saturday and
overwhelmingly people who
come by are like, ‘Oh, my god,
he’s back.’ On campus, too,
people have heard about it

The
Senate
Advisory

Committee
on
University

Affairs
at
the
University

of
Michigan
met
Monday

afternoon to discuss student
efforts to reduce the effects of
climate change on campus and
hear several guest speakers
including University President
Schlissel.

The meeting opened as the

assembly addressed Central
Student Government’s recent
resolution regarding climate
change and their request for
SACUA to support the goals of
the resolution. The resolution
calls for carbon neutrality by
2035, intermediate emission
reduction
goals,
increased

funding
and
a
Carbon

Neutrality Commission made
up of students, faculty and
community
members.
The

assembly discussed whether or
not to agree with the resolution
as a whole, or simply the goals
CSG is putting forth with this
legislation. Subsequently, the
assembly voted unanimously
in support of the principles

Each month, The Michigan

Daily
Administration
Beat

sits down with University
President Mark Schlissel to
discuss important questions
about
University
policy,

commitments and challenges.
This
transcript
has
been

abbreviated and reordered for
reader clarity.

The
Michigan
Daily:

In recent coverage, The Daily
has highlighted the stories
of people at the University
who
have
had
less
than

favorable experiences with
the Office for Institutional
Equity and the Title IX sexual
misconduct reporting process
as a whole. Do you believe the
current Title IX reporting
process is effective given
these stories and, if so, will
the Sixth Circuit ruling make
it
less
effective
in
your

opinion?

President Mark Schlissel:

I think the OIE has a very
difficult job to do across a
very challenging landscape
… I think they do a very
good job in aggregate. I
think our investigations and
adjudications often take too
long. That’s a problem we
have to work hard to correct.
We’re going to have to adjust
to the implications of the
Sixth ruling, which is a pretty
significant
change.
We’re

pretty close to having a new
approach
that’s
consistent

with the Sixth Circuit ruling
that we’re going to roll out
in the beginning of the new
semester,
and
recognize

that we’ve done this in an
accelerated way with some
consulting but not as much
as we normally do because
in effect we’re under a court
order … The biggest thing I’m
worried about is we know
misconduct is underreported,
and what we’re concerned
about is changes we make in

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ADMINISTRATION
‘U’ president
claims OIE
reviews take
“too long”

Comment writing event responds
to Title IX regulation proposals

KEEMYA ESMAEL/Daily

Kamaria Porter, Research Assistant and Doctoral Candidate, discusses the new Title XI and campus sexual violence regulations proposed by the Department of
Education at Hutchins Hall Monday evening.

President Schlissel discusses misconduct
reporting, letters of rec panel diversity

SAYALI AMIN

& MATT HARMON

Daily Staff Reporter
& Daily News Editor

About 50 students, professors attended event to write comments for Dept. of Education

In response to concerns with

new Title IX regulations, about
50 students and professors from
the University of Michigan’s
Institute
for
Research
on

Women and Gender, Law School
and Department of Sociology
hosted a Title IX comment
writing event Monday night in
Hutchins Hall Monday night.

Title IX of the Education

Amendments of 1972 to the 1964
Civil Rights Act was created to
abolish discrimination based
on sex in federally funded
education
programs.
This

policy is applied to public
universities in order to prevent
gender-based discrimination.

In
2017,
Secretary

of
Education
Betsy

DeVos withdrew much of the
guidelines created to uphold
the requirements of Title IX set
by President Barack Obama’s
administration. This fall, new

regulations were proposed by
the Department of Education.
The comment writing event
was held in order to highlight
the
regulatory
changes
as

well as encourage students to
participate in the notice and
comment process.

Nina Mendelson, a University

Law
School
professor

specializing in administrative
law, said the comment writing
process has a large impact on
Title IX regulation decisions.
According
to
Mendelson,

educational departments set
standards
of
conduct
that

institutions who receive federal
funding must comply with. Such
standards are most often in the
form of a regulatory proposal.
The law requires agencies to
give notice to the public about
what the proposal is and allow
them to comment on it. Then,
they have a legal obligation
to review all comments and
respond if there is a significant
issue raised — they may decide
to change the regulation in

NIKKI KIM
For the Daily

The Michigan Prison Doula

Initiative
hosted
a
panel

made up of seven formerly
incarcerated
people,
health

care professionals and MPDI
staff Monday night to discuss
insights on the intersections of
reproductive justice and mass
incarceration.

According to LSA junior

Sitara Murali, the director
for Community Outreach and
Activism of the University
of Michigan’s Prison Birth
Project, as well as one of the
organizers of the event, the
purpose of the event was
to bring the experiences of
those exposed to the prison
system to light and increase
communication
about
the

system as a whole.

“Tonight’s
event
was

basically a way for our student
org, the Prison Birth Project,
to highlight the experiences
of people that have firsthand
been involved in the prison
systems,” Murali said. “Either
they were incarcerated, or

Panel talks
issues with
pregnancy
in prisons

CAMPUS LIFE

Former prisoners, health
care workers examine
effects of mass detention

PARNIA MAZHAR

Daily Staff Reporter

NATALIE STEPHENS/Daily

Protestors stand outside of the Ann Arbor City Council meeting protesting the shooting of deer Monday evening.

Dual protests urge action from Council
on Pangea reopening and deer cull

Piercing shop owner accused of white supremacy, sexism announces his return

LEAH GRAHAM
Daily Staff Reporter

Assembly
urges CO2
neutrality
in 17 years

ACADEMICS

President Schlissel met
with SACUA to discuss
sexual misconduct reports

DANIELLE PASEKOFF

Daily Staff Reporter

See SACUA, Page 3
See PANEL, Page 2

See TITLE IX, Page 2
See SCHLISSEL, Page 3

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