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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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

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speaks with 
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Reporter recounts experience 
uncovering Weinstein’s abuse

See Q&A, Page 3A

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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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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. 

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