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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.”

See MA, Page 3

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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