Thursday, June 6, 2019

INDEX

Vol. CXXVIII, No. 108
 © 2019 The Michigan Daily 

NEWS ....................................
OPINION ............................... 
ARTS/NEWS..........................
MiC.........................................
SPORTS................................

MICHIGAN IN COLOR
Pride Month

Dierra Barlow reflects on 

queer indentity, person 

journey in during world-

wide LGBTQ+ celebration 

 
 >> SEE PAGE 9

NEWS
2020

Democratic presidential 

candidates make campaign 

stops in Detroit

>> SEE PAGE 8

OPINION

Abortion rights 

Ramisa Rob addresses 

considerations for pro-life 

conservatives

 
 >> SEE PAGE 4

ARTS
Governor’s Ball

The 1975 and Florence 

+ the Machine rock the 

annual New York City 

music festival
 >> SEE PAGE 7

SPORTS
New leadership

Michigan basketball coach 

Juwan Howard was intro-

duced on Thursday

 
 >> SEE PAGE 11

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Researchers hope 
work sheds light 
on experiences of 
LGBT workers

LGBT 
federal 
workers 
reported worse experiences at 
their offices compared to their 
non-LGBT colleagues, reports 
a study conducted by assistant 
professor of sociology Erin Cech 
and Rackham student William 
Rothwell. This disparity tends 
to lead to higher turnover 
intentions, Cech and Rothwell 
claim.
In an email to The Daily, 
Rothwell said he and Cech 
started 
the 
study 
in 
2014 
because they were inspired by 
data from the Federal Employee 
Viewpoint 
Survey. 
Rothwell 
hoped 
their 
work 
would 
bring light to the unobserved 
discrimination 
of 
LGBT 
individuals.
“We knew that there were 
likely important and interesting 
stories that we could tell with 
this data,” Rothwell wrote. “I 
think that these findings, in 
general, are especially daunting 

given that federal agencies and 
workers are actually protected 
under 
non-discrimination 
legislation meaning that these 
results may provide a somewhat 
conservative estimate of the 
extent 
of 
LGBT 
workplace 
inequality more broadly.”
According to the Federal 
Trade Commission, the Equal 
Employment 
Opportunity 
Commission enforces laws that 
make it unlawful for federal 
agencies to discriminate against 
employees and job applicants.
Rothwell said it is rare to 
come across data on LGBT 
populations, 
but 
they 
were 
able to work with the FEVS 
data of 300,000 respondents 
because about 11,000 of those 
respondents identified as LGBT. 
Cech also noted their study uses 
the “LGBT” acronym because 
the FEVS survey contained 
questions that captured LGBT 
status. She added the “LGBTQ+” 
acronym is more fully inclusive 
of gender nonbinary and queer 
persons and was disappointed 
these 
identities 
were 
not 
accounted for.
The researchers also found 
LGBT workers reported feeling 
their work was less respected by 
their supervisors and non
LGBT 
peers. 
Cech 
and 
Rothwell 
concluded 
these 
processes 
are 
intersectional 

with LGBT women and people 
of 
color, 
as 
they 
reported 
significantly 
more 
negative 
experiences than LGBT men 
and white workers.
Although 
equality 
for 
LGBT-identifying persons has 
increased over the last three 
decades, Cech said she has 
seen greater instances of hate 
speech toward LGBT persons 
within the last five years. She 
added this study took place in 
a federal workforce with non-
discrimination policies in place, 
so their conclusions may have 
been equal or worse in other 
employment sectors.
“Little research, up until 
this point, has been able to 
systematically document how 
LGBT persons are impacted 
by 
more 
subtle 
day-to-day 
experiences of devaluation and 
marginalization at work,” Cech 
said. “We hope this study gives 
visibility to these issues and 
voice to LGBT persons who 
encounter these issues at work.”
LSA and Music, Theatre & 
Dance senior Dylan Genouw, 
a 
member 
of 
the 
LGBT 
community, said in an email to 
The Daily he noticed gender and 
sexuality-based discrimination 
in his restaurant job.

Former priest 
 
charged with 
sexual assault 
of minor in A2

Ex-St. Thomas priest 
Timothy Crowley
faces up to life in
prison if convicted 

Timothy M. Crowley, a former priest at St. 
Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Ann 
Arbor, was arrested on May 23 in Tempe, AZ, 
according to Maricopa County jail records. 
The next day, Michigan Attorney General 
Dana Nessel announced Crowley was one 
of five Michigan Catholic priests her office 
charged with criminal sexual misconduct.
Crowley, 69, was charged in Washtenaw 
County with four felony counts of first-
degree criminal sexual conduct, with a 
maximum sentence of life in prison, and four 
counts of second-degree criminal sexual 
conduct, with a maximum sentence of 15 
years in prison. He is accused of assaulting 
a minor boy for about eight years while at St. 
Thomas from 1987 to 1990.
The charges come after months of 
investigation into sexual abuse by Michigan 
clergy inside the Catholic Church. The 
investigation was started in August 2018 
by Nessel’s predecessor, former Attorney 
General Bill Schuette, following a report 
exposing widespread sexual abuse in the 
Pennsylvania Catholic Church.
All charges against Crowley fall within 
the statute of limitations because he 
has not been a Michigan resident since 
1995. Prosecutors will move ahead with 
proceedings.
According to Nessel, all five cases began 
as tips from the Attorney General’s sexual 
abuse hotline, which she said has received 
more than 450 tips. The tips were then 
corroborated by interviews with victims 
and information found in the hundreds 
of thousands of documents seized from 
Michigan’s seven Catholic dioceses last 
October.

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