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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