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S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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GOVERNMENT
RACHEL LEUNG
Daily Staff Reporter
Students reflect on campus climate
after Shapiro tickets sell out in minutes
Young Americans for Freedom to host conservative speaker March 12
‘U’ denies
improperly
investigating
SMTD Prof.
ADMINISTRATION
University alleges student
failed to participate in
sexual assault investigation
LEAH GRAHAM &
ELIZABETH LAWRENCE
Daily News Editor & Managing
News Editor
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Whitmer
criticizes
new Title
X changes
Federal family planning
program no longer offers
abortion counseling, referrals
On
Friday,
the
Trump
administration
announced
final changes to Title X
family planning program,
the federal grant program
designed to provide com-
prehensive
family
plan-
ning services to low-income
Americans. The new rule
will prohibit health care
providers who receive Title
X
funding
from
offering
patients abortion counseling
or referrals.
The Trump administra-
tion first proposed changes
to Title X last year, and the
revisions
were
met
with
strong support from conser-
vatives. The changes will
go into effect 60 days after
being formally published to
the Federal Register.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
issued a statement shortly
after the proposed changes
to Title X were announced.
Whitmer
criticized
the
Trump administration for
limiting access to a variety
of a family planning servic-
es.
CALLIE TEITELBAUM
Daily Staff Reporter
In
the
packed
Hill
Auditorium of about 3,500
students, staff and local
Ann Arbor residents, Yo-Yo
Ma walked out dressed in a
black suit matched with a
light pink tie. He looked to
the crowd, glasses perched
on the tip of his nose,
standing adjacent to a $2.5
million dollar cello named
“Petunia.” At least he didn’t
leave it in a taxi this time, he
joked.
The
world
renowned
cellist was not in Ann Arbor
to play a Bach concert suit
or to perform with the
Silk Road Ensemble — he
came to talk about culture,
understanding and survival.
Starting in August 2018,
Ma began his two-year tour
of the Bach Project. Ma
will travel across the globe
to iconic venues like The
Red
Rock
Amphitheatre
in
Colorado,
Washington
National
Cathedral
in
Washington, D.C. and to
Ann Arbor’s very own Hill
Auditorium.
Ma’s
project
stresses in a world which
is constantly changing and
threatened by division, it is
the role of culture and the
arts to shape a better future.
The Bach Project does
not just celebrate art in
its musical form. It also
attempts to analyze and
rejoice
in
the
diverse
ways that art makes each
community,
each
society
and
the
unified
planet
stronger.
Born in Paris, Ma began
playing cello at age four.
By age seven, he had played
for both presidents Dwight
D. Eisenhower and John F.
Kennedy. After graduating
high school at age fifteen,
he studied with Leonard
Rose at Julliard, and then
obtained an anthropology
degree
at
Harvard
University.
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ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM
Yo-Yo Ma
talks future
of art, music
and culture
Sustainable Cultural Indicators
Program releases year five report
CAMPUS LIFE
Renowned cellist visits campus
as part of global “Bach Project”
SAMANTHA SMALL
Daily Staff Reporter
Study findings indicate increased concern for environmental issues in campus community
SAYALI AMIN
Daily News Editor
The Sustainability Cultural Indi-
cators Program recently released its
five-year report, which tracks the cul-
ture surrounding sustainability at the
University of Michigan and how it has
changed over the course of the program.
The findings from SCIP serve to guide
operations on campus and address
environmental issues within the com-
munity.
SCIP began in 2012 and has been
conducting surveys every year and a
half, with the most recent data gathered
from winter 2018. The surveys focus on
three target populations, which encom-
pass students, faculty and staff. Some of
the key findings of the five-year report
include participants are more likely to
believe in climate change, waste preven-
tion practices of undergraduates have
improved and automobiles as a mode of
transportation to work has increased for
staff.
Robert Marans, research professor
at the Institute for Social Research and
a professor emeritus of architecture and
urban planning, and John Callewaert,
integrated assessment center director
of the Graham Institute, are the two co-
principal investigators for the program.
Marans brought survey expertise to
SCIP
, while Callewaert was knowledge-
able of sustainability goals.
“Bob (Marans) and I got involved
together,” Callewaert said. “I was
bringing the specific knowledge of
sustainability goals’ areas along with
Bob’s knowledge of survey research,
so it was a good partnership.”
Marans said the goal of SCIP is to
measure how the University’s cul-
ture aligns in certain areas related to
the environment and sustainability.
“SCIP is really an attempt to eval-
uate and see how we’re doing in all
these areas,” Marans said. “They’re
all related to the big goals set up by
the University in terms of climate
action and waste reduction and
healthy environments and commu-
nity awareness.”
Callewaert added that SCIP has
also led pilot programs, such as a
composting initiative in Bursley, to
test whether a certain project could
be applied to the larger campus com-
munity as a whole.
“The value of what SCIP can do
is we are asking people what they
know about composting and if they
are doing it, just kind of baseline
data,” Callewaert said. “Then you
can go into a place like Bursley —
there’s enough students in Bursley
that we can pull out their responses
and see if it makes any difference
and to kind of evaluate the pilot test
before saying we want to do this in
every residence hall.”
The biggest finding from the
recent report, according to Marans,
is the increased likelihood that a par-
ticipant believes in climate change
and the increased concern for the
environment.
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The University of Michigan
denied allegations it mishandled
sexual assault claims against
School of Music, Theatre &
Dance professor David Daniels
in court documents filed Friday.
An attorney for the University
said Andrew Lipian, a Music,
Theatre
&
Dance
graduate
student who alleges Daniels
sexually assaulted him, declined
to participate in investigations
conducted by the Office for
Institutional Equity and the
Division of Public Safety and
Security.
Lipian filed a lawsuit in
October accusing Daniels of
drugging and sexually assaulting
him on March 24, 2017. He also
alleged the University failed to
investigate Daniels after being
made
aware
of
complaints
against the professor, claiming
“OIE did nothing” and “No file
was opened.”
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Tickets to hear conservative
political commentator Ben Sha-
piro sold out in under two min-
utes, according to Kate Westa,
vice president of the University
of Michigan’s chapter of Young
Americans for Freedom.
Shapiro is the Editor in Chief
of the conservative news and
opinion website The Daily Wire
and hosts his own conservative
podcast, The Ben Shapiro Show.
YAF, a student organization
advocating conservative princi-
ples, will be hosting Shapiro on
March 12 in Rackham Auditori-
um. Previous speakers hosted by
YAF this year were conservative
commentators Steven Crowder
and Michael Knowles.
According to Westa, 617 of
1060 tickets sold were registered
under University student emails.
Tickets reserved for University
students sold out in less than
two minutes and tickets for the
public sold out in less than 60
seconds with more than 4,200
people on the waitlist, Westa
said in an email statement.
Westa attributed the high
demand for student tickets to
what she believes is a desire
among the student body for
more conservative speakers.
“Clearly,
these
conserva-
tive voices are in high demand
on campus,” Westa said in the
email. “I think because so few
conservatives are brought to
speak on campus, students are
taking full advantage of these
opportunities and are really
craving intellectual diversity.”
University
spokeswoman
Kim Broekhuizen wrote in an
email statement 13 percent of
first-year students self-reported
as conservative and far right in
a voluntary survey over sum-
mer orientation. In the 2018
orientation, 4,833 student took
the survey, 32 percent reported
they identified as “middle of the
road,” 43 percent were “liberal”
and 13 percent did not select an
option.
LSA sophomore Taylor Smith
said she got tickets to hear Sha-
piro in order to expose herself to
more alternative political views.
“I think he’s a very interesting
speaker,” Smith said. “I definite-
ly don’t agree with everything
he says, but I still think it’s a
great opportunity to go and hear
different viewpoints than my
own.”
Smith said she identifies as
a moderate and wants to take
advantage of an opportunity to
hear from a conservative speak-
er.
“I definitely identify as a
moderate,” Smith said. “It can
go either way depending on the
issue. I grew up being surround-
ed by tons of different opinions
across the political spectrum. So
it’s definitely given me apprecia-
tion for all views. And that’s why
I want to go to this. I’ve never
really
heard
a
conservative
speaker come and talk.”
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