Before
“The
Weinstein
Effect: Breaking the Stories that
Spurred a Movement” event
hosted by the Wallace House,
The Michigan Daily sat down
with journalists Ronan Farrow
and Ken Auletta to discuss their
roles in reporting on Harvey
Weinstein and where they see
the next cultural reckoning
coming from.
The Michigan Daily: When
you first started investigating
Harvey Weinstein, did you ever
envision the magnitude of the
cultural reckoning that would
eventually follow?
Ronan Farrow: I never have
a completely satisfactory answer
to this because obviously, I had
no crystal ball. But for a number
of the reporters working on
this story, the threats and
intimidation — and this was
of course also directed at the
sources — ratchet it up to the
point where you did have to think
about it all those existential
terms that were asking about.
And I wish I could say it was all
heroic instinct but part of it was
a pragmatic judgment call that I
was … I was gambling and it was
worth getting fired and going
through all of this because there
was a chance that it would be a
huge story.
Now, what does a huge story
look like, maybe not this, maybe
not people in industry after
industry doing this incredibly
brave thing?
On
Tuesday,
the
University
of
Michigan
Institute
for
the
Humanities, along with the
Residential
College
and
various other University
departments,
hosted
a
panel
discussing
the
relationship between crime
and the environment.
The
panel,
titled
“Humanities
&
Environments
Faculty
Panel:
‘Criminal
Justice
and
the
Built
Environment’,”
hosted
three University professors
of various disciplines to
explore their perspectives
on the environment around
us
and
how
physical
and
social
structures
contribute to the criminal
justice system.
The event began with
opening
remarks
from
each panelist about their
respective definitions of
the “built environment”
and the role it plays in
policing and the current
criminal justice system.
David
Thacher,
associate
professor
of
public policy and urban
planning,
explained
the
role of shared spaces in
propagating
ineffective
tools
of
policing,
such
as stop and frisk laws,
specifically
in
minority
communities.
“One
consequence
of
urbanization is that people
bump up against each other
a lot more than they did in
less urban environments,”
Thacher said. “We create
shared environments. We
also have to create rules
that regulate how we’re
going to share them. Then
we have to create tools to
enforce those rules.”
He also addressed the
relationship
between
urban
development
and
the increased policing of
personal vices since the
early 19th century.
“In the Western mining
towns
where
the
first
drug laws took shape …
upwards of two-thirds of
the population was born
outside the United States,”
Thacher said. “They were
exposed to the influence of
people with dramatically
different
habits
and
vices. And perhaps more
important, their kids were
exposed to these different
lifestyles.”
The University of Michigan
Central
Student
Government
met Tuesday evening to discuss
a new resolution regarding the
implementation of a well-being
fee. The Student Assembly also
continued debate over a resolution
to advocate for the revision of the
cross-examination model of the
sexual misconduct policy, and Lt.
Bryan Baker, Division of Public
Safety and Security liaison to the
Division of Student Life, spoke to
the Assembly about unfounded
reports of an active shooter on
campus Saturday afternoon.
During a vigil on the Diag
Saturday afternoon honoring the
more than 50 killed and 50 injured
in Friday’s mosque attacks in
New Zealand, reports of an active
shooter in Mason Hall surfaced.
After investigating the situation for
about three hours, police cleared
the area and determined there was
no active threat to the community.
Baker gave a presentation
to the Assembly about active
attacker preparedness and the
University’s
emergency
alert
system.
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
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The Daily
speaks with
Farrow and
Auletta
Reporter recounts experience
uncovering Weinstein’s abuse
See Q&A, Page 3A
KELSEY PEASE/Daily
Ronan Farrow speaks with fellow journalist and author Ken Auletta regarding the breaking news stories that helped spur the #MeToo movement at Rackham Auditorium
Tuesday evening.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Journalists discuss #MeToo movement,
cultural reckoning after Weinstein
Ronan Farrow examines power imbalances, challenges in confronting misconduct
AMARA SHAIKH &
LEAH GRAHAM
Daily News Editors
See CSG, Page 3A
CSG looks
at adding
well-being
tuition fee
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Representatives evaluate
DPSS response to false
reports of active shooter
BARBARA COLLINS
Daily Staff Reporter
MICHAEL BAGAZINSKI/ DAILY
Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize winning author, speaks about the role of society in discussions about prison reform and the development of
humane environments of punishment at the South Thayer Building Tuesday.
Faculty panel considers impacts
of prison construction and crime
Institute for Humanities hosts discussion of criminal justice and the built environment
TAL LIPKIN
Daily Staff Reporter
See FARROW, Page 3A
On Monday, the Ann Arbor/
Ypsilanti
Regional
Chamber
hosted the 2019 Workforce Pipeline
Summit to discuss the future
of the workforce in Michigan.
The summit had a few hundred
attendees, and was a day-long
event with lectures on educational
inequity and hiring practices. Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer and Raffaele
Mautone, CIO and vice president
of Duo Security, presented keynote
speeches. The event took place at
Washtenaw Community College in
the Morris Lawrence Building.
According to Richard Chang,
CEO of the Ann Arbor company
NewFoundry, a local software
developer, and a main organizer of
the event, the summit was created
in order to address workforce issues
that members of the chamber
encounter.
“Workforce issues are one of
the
top
issues/challenges
our
members face and it is our duty as
an organization to help create a
solution,” Chang wrote in an email
to The Daily. “The pipeline summit
was step one in a series to create
solutions.”
See WHITMER, Page 3A
Whitmer
speaks at
WCC about
labor needs
GOVERNMENT
Governor addresses state’s
job market demands at
Workforce Pipeline Summit
ZAYNA SYED
Daily Staff Reporter
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S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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See PANEL, Page 3A
Investigative journalist Ronan
Farrow spoke with reporter
Ken Auletta Tuesday night at
Rackham Auditorium about the
impact of the #MeToo movement
and his role in exposing famed
Hollywood
producer
Harvey
Weinstein’s history of predatory
behavior and sexual assault. The
lecture, entitled “The Weinstein
Effect: Breaking the Stories
That
Spurred
a
Movement”
focused on Farrow’s experience
reporting
on
Weinstein’s
misconduct and the challenges
he faced in getting the story to
print.
Wallace
House
at
the
University of Michigan hosted
the lecture, which drew more
than 600 students, faculty and
Ann Arbor community members.
Farrow, a contributing writer to
The New Yorker, also uncovered
allegations of sexual misconduct
against the former head of CBS
Les
Moonves,
former
New
York Attorney General Eric
Schneiderman
and
Supreme
Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
statement
the
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