Michael Cox, Ann Arbor’s 
new chief of police, was officially 
sworn in on Tuesday afternoon. 
The ceremony took place. in 
the 
City 
Council 
chambers 
and the audience consisted of 
several citizens, police officials, 
government officials and Cox’s 
close family and friends.
At the start of the ceremony, 
Mayor 
Christopher 
Taylor 
welcomed the crowd and shared 
opening remarks. He began his 
speech by addressing the goals 
of the Ann Arbor municipal 
department in general.
“It is at this time in this political 
environment, and this social 
and cultural environment, that 
policing receives an incredible 
amount of scrutiny,” Taylor said. 
“That scrutiny is appropriate … 
 
because of the intimacy and force 
of this service (and) because of 
the need of the service … We in 

the municipal organization are 
delighted to tell people more 
about what we’re doing and why 
we’re doing it, because we have 
a department that is professional 
and disciplined and staffed by 
people who come to work every 
day to do their best to provide 
law enforcement safety services 
without bias or favor.”
After 
explaining 
the 
overarching goals of the Ann 
Arbor 
municipal 
department, 
Taylor expressed his enthusiasm 
for Cox’s new role.
“I am particularly delighted 
that we have Chief Cox coming 
and joining us,” Taylor said. “I 
know and am confident that 
policing in Ann Arbor is in good 
hands when Chief Cox comes on 
board.”
Taylor then invited Assistant 
City Administrator John Fournier 
to the podium. Fournier mirrored 
many of Taylor’s sentiments and 
spoke highly of Cox’s work ethic 
and character.

Ben Gerstein, Central Student 
Government 
president 
and 
Public Policy junior, addressed 
the Assembly Tuesday in his 
Fall 2019 State of Students 
Address. Gerstein highlighted 
his administration’s focus on 
increasing 
Counseling 
and 
Psychological Services support 
throughout campus, as well as 

expanding wellness resources 
for students on North Campus.
In 
the 
address, 
Gerstein 
described how he and CSG Vice 
President Isabelle Blanchard, 
LSA senior, have created two 
new executive positions thus 
far. The new roles include 
Director of Outreach, which will 
serve as a facilitator between 
CSG 
and 
student 
groups, 
as well as the Government 
Relations Coordinator. The role 
of the Government Relations 

Coordinator 
is 
intended 
to 
ensure student voices are heard 
on the local, state and federal 
level. 
The 
Assembly 
approved 
LSA junior Evelyn Winter as 
the Director of Outreach in 
today’s meeting but has yet to 
fill the position for Government 
Relations 
Coordinator. 
According to Gerstein, this 
position is crucial, as it bridges 
the policy gap between students 
at the University and state and 

national government.
In 
their 
administration, 
Gerstein 
and 
Blanchard 
have chosen to focus on nine 
issue areas: accessibility and 
affordability, academic affairs, 
sustainability, diversity, equity, 
inclusion, sexual misconduct 
prevention 
and 
awareness, 
survivor empowerment, student 
health and wellness, student 
support/resources and internal 
CSG improvements. 

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The 
Institute 
for 
the 
Humanities 
hosted 
“The 
Power of Pronouns” as part 
of their High Stakes Culture 
series 
Tuesday 
evening. 
Panelists spoke about the 
linguistics behind gendered 
pronouns 
and 
what 
language may be used in 
the future. However, some 
students in attendance took 
issue with the framing of 
the discussion and felt the 

academic 
language 
used 
shrouded more important 
human 
elements 
of 
the 
subject, 
with 
the 
event 
failing 
to 
disclose 
why 
pronouns were so important 
in the first place. 
According 
to 
Kristin 
Hass, faculty coordinator 
of 
the 
Humanities 
Collaboratory, 
the 
event 
was intended to discuss 
linguistic 
and 
historical 
research of pronouns. 
“We 
were 
asked 
by 
undergraduates 
for 

a 
conversation 
about 
pronouns that turned on 
research of faculty who are 
interested in the linguistic 
and the historical nature 
of 
pronouns 
that, 
kind 
of, bring us to where we 
are in this moment on the 
question of pronouns, and 
how they get used, and why 
they are high stakes to all of 
us,” Hass said. 
Panelists 
American 
culture 
professor 
Scott 
Larson, 
who 
identifies 
as a trans person, and 

linguistics professor Robin 
Queen, who identifies as 
a cis person — or someone 
who identifies with the 
gender they were assigned 
at birth — and a lesbian, 
talked about the history 
of pronouns in the United 
States, 
the 
evolution 
of 
language, the linguistics 
behind 
gender 
neutral 
pronouns and how future 
generations might approach 
pronouns. 

As of Tuesday, all of Michigan’s 
House Democrats have supported 
calls for an impeachment inquiry 
for President Donald Trump.
Michigan U.S. Reps. Haley 
Stevens, Elissa Slotkin and Debbie 
Dingell 
joined 
the 
growing 
contingent of House Democrats 
calling 
for 
the 
President’s 
impeachment Tuesday.
In a statement, Stevens, who 
was the last of the seven to 
announce her support, said an 
investigation into the president is 
important for national security.
“I urge both the Judiciary 
Committee 
and 
Intelligence 
Committee to act quickly to 
independently investigate these 
matters as part of ongoing 
efforts to investigate numerous 
unethical and potentially illegal 
acts by the president and his 
administration,” the statement 
read. “I do not make this request 
lightly but rather out of a sober 
obligation to stand up for the rule 
of law and our national security.”
Dingell 
announced 
her 
stance Monday evening, citing 
similar reasons and adding 
a moral responsibility to the 
decision in a statement released 
Tuesday.

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University 
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LSA senior Jacob Chludzinski 
and Michigan alum Grant 
Strobl launched ThinkRight 
Strategies over the summer 
with one simple goal: “two 
advance 
conservative 
principles of free enterprise.” 
Their 
political 
consulting 
firm 
provides 
counsel 
to 
conservative 
politicians, 
lawmakers 
and 
special 
interest groups.
However, their intention 
to provide political counsel 
to 
conservative 
actors 
quickly progressed into a 
legal conflict in July, after 
the Chludzinski and Strobl 
sued the city in federal court 
over 
Ann 
Arbor’s 
public 
accommodations laws. 
Ann Arbor’s city ordinance 
stipulates 
businesses 
cannot 
discriminate 
based 
on political beliefs. Strobl 
and 
Chludzinski, 
aiming 
to establish a conservative 
firm, were concerned the 
law would force them to 
promote political viewpoints 
and support clients who held 
views antithetical to their 
own. 

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firm sues 
A2 for bill 
exemption

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Conservative consulting 
group earns a special 
status from the city

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about power of gender pronouns

Panel covers lingustics of identifying language, faces student backlash

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