“For those of us who have 
worked with Chief Cox in, 
so far, nearly two months 
on the job, it is evident 
that we have welcomed a 
person of integrity, great 
vision 
and 
tremendous 
leadership abilities to our 
team,” Fournier said. “He 
is a forward-thinking and 
creative 
problem 
solver, 
and has dived head-first 
into the job, with all of the 
joys and complications the 
position may bring.”
After 
Fournier 
and 
Taylor 
spoke, 
Cox 
was 
welcomed to the front of 
the room and officially 
presented with his badge. 
Cox then took his oath of 
office, led by City Clerk 
Jackie Beaudry.
At 
the 
end 
of 
the 
ceremony, 
Chief 
Cox 
addressed the crowd to 

share some of his personal 
goals moving forward.
“I 
believe 
the 
(Ann 
Arbor) Police Department 
is already very good, but 
going forward, we’re going 
to start to do things a little 
differently,” 
Cox 
said. 
“You will be able to see 
men and women out there, 
hopefully, talking amongst 
you … (and) being part of the 
community in a different 
capacity 
than 
just, 
you 
know, 
arresting 
people. 
Arresting people is part of 
the job; however, being a 
part of the community is a 
bigger part of the job.” 
He concluded his speech 
by encouraging Ann Arbor 
citizens to reach out to the 
police department to keep 
an open dialogue.
“Hopefully, you’ll talk 
to us and tell us what you 
expect, 
what 
you 
want 
from us, what you need, 
what you don’t want from 
us, so we can adjust our 

practices, 
tactics 
and 
policies to reflect what the 
community here desires,” 
Cox said. 
Many 
of 
the 
people 
attending 
the 
ceremony 
expressed their support for 
Cox’s intention to bridge 
any existing gaps between 
the Ann Arbor police force 
and the city’s community. 
Lieutenant 
Renee 
Bush 
volunteered 
her 
own 
encouragement on behalf 
of the department.
“We are very excited to 
have Chief Michael Cox 
here,” Bush said. “He came 
from Boston, and he brings 
a lot of experience, and 
knowledge, and skills and 
abilities to the city of Ann 
Arbor. We are especially 
excited about moving the 
department forward with 
some new things for our 
community, and to become 
closer with our community 
partners.”

The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
News
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 — 3A

“It is our responsibility 
as members of Congress to 
protect the United States 
of 
America,” 
Dingell’s 
statement 
on 
Tuesday 
read. “We take an oath to 
protect our Constitution 
and 
to 
protect 
our 
national security. That is 
our moral responsibility. 
It is critical for the future 
of our democracy.”
Senator 
Gary 
Peters 
is 
the 
only 
Michigan 
Democrat 
to 
not 
have 
voiced 
support 
for 
investigations. 
Senator 
Debbie 
Stabenow 
announced her support for 
impeachment in July. In a 
statement, Peters echoed 
concerns 
for 
national 
security, 
while 
still 
maintaining his stance.
“Given 
the 
deeply 
troubling 
allegations 
before 
us, 
the 
administration must turn 
over 
the 
whistleblower 
complaint to Congress so 
we can evaluate the facts,” 

the 
statement 
reads. 
“As a former Lieutenant 
Commander in the U.S. 
Navy Reserve and now 
serving on Senate Armed 
Services 
Committee, 
I 
know 
there’s 
nothing 
more 
important 
than 
protecting 
our 
national 
security. I support the 
House taking actions that 
they deem necessary to get 
the facts and meet their 
constitutional 
oversight 
responsibility.”
The increasing calls for 
impeachment comes after 
Trump has acknowledged 
withholding 
aid 
to 
Ukraine, with allegations 
surfacing it was a move 
to 
investigate 
former 
Vice President Joe Biden. 
House 
Speaker 
Nancy 
Pelosi 
announced 
on 
Tuesday that the House of 
Representatives will begin 
formal 
impeachment 
proceedings.
Camille 
Mancuso, 
communications chair of 
the University’s chapter 
of College Democrats and 
Public Policy junior, said 
the student organization 

supports 
of 
the 
seven 
House 
Democrats 
who 
have come out in favor of 
impeachment. 
“We stand with Nancy 
Pelosi and our Michigan 
Delegation 
— 
including 
Elissa 
Slokin, 
Debie 
Dingell, Andy Levin, Haley 
Stevens, 
Rashida 
Tlaib 
and Dan Kildee — calling 
for 
an 
impeachment 
inquiry,” Mancuso wrote 
in an email to The Daily. 
“The president must be 
held 
accountable 
for 
his actions. The job of 
Congress is to hold the 
president 
accountable 
for his unlawful actions 
and 
vote 
in 
the 
best 
interest of the American 
people. 
Congress 
needs 
to 
move 
forward 
with 
an 
investigation 
into 
these crimes and protect 
the laws that we are all 
expected to follow.”
The Daily reached out to 
the University’s chapter 
of 
College 
Republicans, 
but the organization did 
not respond in time for 
publication.

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POLICE
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“Part of what makes 
it hard is that pronouns 
aren’t like other nouns,” 
Queen 
said. 
“Pronouns 
are of a particular class of 
word that’s what’s called 
‘closed.’ You can’t 
just add to it. We 
can add all day 
long to nouns and 
verbs, we can have 
new 
verbs 
and 
new nouns and we 
do it all the time. 
But that’s because 
those 
types 
of 
words 
are 
open, 
they’re in an open 
class. 
But 
what 
we’re seeing is that 
you 
can 
change 
(pronouns). 
And 
that’s 
happening 
right now.”
After 
the 
panelists 
spoke, 
Associate 
Dean 
Angela 
Dillard 
invited 
audience 
members, 
consisting of around 40 
students, 
faculty 
and 
staff, to ask questions or 
raise comments. That’s 
when LSA junior Jordan 
Furr, who identifies as 
a trans person, stood in 
front of the room and 
voiced his concerns. 
“The title is ‘The Power 
of 
the 
Pronoun,’ 
and 
I 
think 
it’s 
ridiculous 
that we got into so much 
stress about grammatical 
issues, when the power 
of the pronoun should be 
about how powerful it 
is, how much pronouns 
used matter when you 
use 
them 
for 
people, 
and 
how 
misgendering 
someone can be very, very 
harmful,” Furr said.

His comment earned a 
few snaps and claps from 
the audience. After the 
event, Queen responded 
to 
Furr’s 
comment, 
saying 
her 
intent 
was 
not to ignore the human 
consequences of pronoun 
usage.
“I’m sort of a nerdy, 
language geek, and I think 

it’s really fascinating to 
see how this works within 
the grammatical system,” 
Queen 
said. 
“Perhaps 
it 
was 
misguided 
on 
my part not to be more 
specific about the ways in 
which that has political 
consequences for all kinds 
of people … I apologize 
for 
that, 
because 
that 
was not at all my intent, 
and it is also not what 
I believe personally or 
academically.”
“Furr said he believes 
trans 
issues, 
such 
as 
pronoun 
usage, 
should 
be represented by trans-
identifying 
individuals 
who 
are 
personally 
affected. 
While 
one 
speaker at the event did 

identify as trans, no one 
on the panel used “they/
them” pronouns. 
“I also would just like 
to say I think that if 
you’re going to have a sort 
of debate on they/them 
pronouns, it’s ridiculous 
to not have someone who 
uses they/them pronouns 
to speak about why they 
use them and how 
they 
feel 
about 
that,” Furr said. 
“You 
tokenize 
Scott as a trans 
person 
to 
give 
the 
rest 
of 
you 
credibility. But at 
the end of the day, 
only trans people 
should be talking 
about 
this. 
And 
yes, 
whatever, 
linguistics, 
academia, 
but 
overall 
I 
think 
that the University 
of 
Michigan 

that claims to be 
liberal could do a 
lot better.”
However, 
both 
Furr 
and 
LSA 
senior 
Katrina 
Stalcup, who identifies as 
cisgender, believe Queen 
was 
symptomatic 
of 
a 
system that privileges cis 
identity and perspective.
“It’s not about just one 
individual person doing 
something 
transphobic, 
it’s 
about 
cis 
people 
getting away with doing 
that,” 
Stalcup 
said. 
“Everything she did isn’t 
uniquely something that 
only 
she 
does. 
That’s 
quantified 
by 
all 
the 
questions 
that 
came 
afterwards where a cis 
man 
reiterated 
what 
Jordan said, and just 
completely 
invalidated 
the thing that he had 
said.”

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Chludzinski 
explained 
they decided to sue the city 
as a preventative measure, 
to protect their consulting 
firm from the threat of 
legal action on the part of 
the city. 
“Every American should 
be free to choose which 
political beliefs they will 
promote,” 
Chludzinski 
said. “So, instead of waiting 
to be punished, we decided 
to take a stand for freedom 
for ourselves and others — 
even those whose political 
views we oppose.” 
In 
response 
to 
the 
lawsuit, 
the 
city 
ruled 
that 
ThinkRight 
be 
categorized as a special 
interest consulting group, 
exempting 
it 
from 
the 
public 
accommodations 
law. As a result, the court 
dismissed the case. 
Chludzinski 
expressed 
appreciation for the city’s 
decision, citing it allowed 
him 
and 
his 
business 
partner the freedom to 
tailor their firm in the way 
they saw fit.
“Grant 
and 
I 
are 
selective about the causes 
and 
messages 
we 
will 
promote 
through 
our 
services,” 
Chludzinski 
said. “That means that we 
are now free to promote 
our 
conservative 
beliefs 
without the government 
forcing us to also promote 
political 
beliefs 
we 
oppose.”

In the lawsuit, it was 
established 
ThinkRight 
“cannot accept a project 
that 
requires 
it 
to 
promote messages, causes 
or 
political 
platforms 
that violate its faith or 
contradict its conservative 
political beliefs.” 
City Attorney Stephen 
Postema represented the 
city of Ann Arbor on the 
case. In an interview with 
The Daily, he explained 
ThinkRight’s 
case 
was 
unnecessary, as the city had 
never argued they would 
be 
forced 
to 
represent 
individuals holding views 
in opposition to them. 
“The city never believed 
that the ordinance would 
apply to the plaintiffs or 
that they were in violation 
of the ordinance,” Postema 
said. “There was not any 
city 
enforcement 
action 
against them or even any 
threatened 
enforcement 
against 
them. 
In 
fact, 
the city had never heard 
about 
the 
plaintiffs’ 
claims until the city was 
served with a lawsuit … 
In the end, there was no 
actual 
legal 
controversy 
to burden the court with. 
So, the plaintiffs correctly 
dismissed their case.”
Ann 
Arbor 
Mayor 
Christopher Taylor echoed 
Postema’s 
assertion, 
explaining 
city 
officials 
were caught off guard by 
the lawsuit being filed in 
the first place. Taylor said 
neither he nor Postema had 
received any contact from 
ThinkRight 
Strategies 

before 
the 
consulting 
group took legal action.
“There 
was 
no 
interaction prior to the 
lawsuit,” 
Taylor 
said. 
“There was absolutely no 
enforcement action against 
them. There was, as far as 
I know, no knowledge of 
their existence prior to the 
lawsuit. No cease and desist 
letter, no communication 
threatening one thing or 
another.”
According to the website 
of the Alliance Defending 
Freedom, 
a 
Christian 
conservative group which 
funded ThinkRight’s case, 
the lawsuit was filed in 
response to Ann Arbor’s 
city ordinance. However, 
after the lawsuit was filed, 
there was little, if any, legal 
pushback by the city based 
on the non-discrimination 
ordinance, Taylor said. 
“There was never any 
threat 
of 
enforcement 
against the group,” he told 
The Daily.
Taylor also referenced 
the 57-page lawsuit itself, 
which includes extensive 
background 
on 
the 
origins of both Strobl and 
Chludzinski’s conservative 
beliefs, as well as on their 
creation 
of 
ThinkRight 
itself.
“If 
you 
read 
the 
complaint, 
it 
sounds 
a 
lot more like somebody’s 
‘About Us’ page on the 
website than a complaint 
actually seeking remedy 
against 
actual 
harm,” 
Taylor said.

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From Page 1A

“I also would just like 
to say I think that if 
you’re going to have a 
sort of debate on they/
them pronouns, it’s 
ridiculous to not have 
someone who uses they/
them pronouns to speak 
about why they use 
them and how they feel 
about that.”

“Those are main issue areas 
that we thought we could 
effectively categorize certain 
issues on campus into, and 
they’re pretty straight forward 
but also holistic in the issues 
that they cover,” Gerstein said. 
“But also, the work that we’re 
going to be doing is not just 
limited to those areas. So, as 
matters arise and students voice 
specific concerns, just because 
they might not fall in one of our 
categories, that doesn’t mean 
we’re not going to address them.”
One of the projects the 
administration 
has 
worked 
to implement with regard to 
affordability is the installation 
of microwaves across campus 
in non-residential areas such 
as the Michigan League, the 
new Michigan Union and the 
Shapiro Undergraduate Library. 
According 
to 
Gerstein, 
in 
collaboration with University 
Unions and University Library, 
CSG has been working to 
implement these microwaves 
as soon as possible and develop 
a map of where the microwaves 
will be installed. 
“The microwaves are not yet 
up and running, but we know 
that it’s a small, minute change 
and by no means does that 
address food insecurity, which 
is a much larger, epidemic-like 
issue on campus,” Gerstein said. 
“But we receive email inquiries 
from students asking about 
microwaves a bunch … so the 

addition of those in commonly 
used spaces like the League 
and the new Union will help 
accommodate a lot of students.” 
In his address, Gerstein also 
discussed the lack of CAPS 
resources on campus. According 
to Gerstein, in just the first 
month of this school year, CAPS 
has already seen 20 percent of 
the total number of students it 
saw in the entirety of last year. 
As a result, CSG is looking at 
different ways it can increase 
funding so the University can 
hire more CAPS counselors 
across campus.
“There 
is 
a 
continuous 
increase in demand for students 
seeking counseling and mental 
health 
resources,” 
Gerstein 
said. “With the new union, 
with increased space for CAPS 
and with more of a demand for 
the services, I think we can at 
least do our part to add more 
counselors and take away less of 
the burden.”
The lack of wellness resources 
are 
especially 
prevalent 
on 
North Campus, where students 
have to commute in order to visit 
the University Health Center or 
the Sexual Assault Prevention 
and Awareness Center. 
His administration therefore 
hopes 
to 
create 
locations 
on North for these wellness 
resources. They also would like 
to ensure students on North are 
directly playing a role in terms 
of how these decisions are made. 
“North 
Campus 
is 
very 
resource-deficient in terms of 
the University in that students 
on North Campus who can’t 
find access into the embedded 

counselor model, or need other 
wellness resources like SAPAC 
or UHS, are forced to go to 
central campus,” Gerstein said. 
“When buses are crowded, when 
buses are running limited routes 
on weekends and when it’s bad 
weather, there are large barriers 
created for those students to 
have access to those resources.”
During 
the 
community 
concerns 
portion 
of 
the 
meeting, the Coalition to Defend 
Affirmative Action, Integration, 
and Immigrant Rights and Fight 
for Equality By Any Means 
Necessary (BAMN) addressed 
the Assembly. Michigan alum 
and BAMN organizer Kate 
Stenvig asked CSG to consider 
making 
the 
University 
of 
Michigan a sanctuary campus 
for 
immigrants, 
especially 
those who may be at risk of 
deportation.
“Something that CSG has 
taken a position on before is to 
make U-M a sanctuary campus 
for immigrants,” Stenvig said. 
“We think that right now, that is 
really the number one thing that 
the University can do to make 
clear that the University defends 
its immigrants and can take a 
stand against racism on this 
campus and improve campus 
climate.”
Considering 
the 
policies 
the University already has in 
place for immigrants, Selena 
Bazzi, LSA junior and CSG vice 
speaker, questioned Stenvig on 
the purpose of taking the next 
step in making the University a 
sanctuary.
“You said the University has 
some regulations that are set so 
that undocumented students are 
protected,” Bazzi said. “So, what 
would be the point of making the 
entire campus itself a sanctuary 
campus if the students are 
already protected?”
Stenvig 
responded 
by 
describing how the University 
plays an integral role in Ann 
Arbor, and if it becomes a 
sanctuary, 
then 
ideally 
the 
community 
will 
follow 
its 
footsteps 
with 
immigrant-
friendly policies.
“In terms of ICE, they have 
come to businesses around the 
area,” Stenvig said. “I think if 
the University itself, since it’s so 
much a part of what this whole 
community is, if they’re saying 
‘we’re a sanctuary campus,’ it 
really protects the community, 
and this community is so much 
more than just the students, so it 
would make a big example for so 
many other places.”
The Assembly also voted to 
approve the CSG budget for fall 
2019. Gerstein has one week to 
sign the budget, which would 
officially put it into effect.

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