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We’ve got Wolverine Pathways,
the pipeline program, and we’ve got
research programs in collaboration
with community advocates. We’re
embedded in the Mayor’s Office
with the Poverty Solutions Initiative.
So, this is another of a series
of projects we’re doing where we
look for opportunities to fulfill the
University’s mission of research and
teaching in ways that have benefits
to the public we serve and, in this
case, in Detroit. We were invited by
the city and by Steve Ross — one of
our alumni donors — and by Dan
Gilbert, a developer in the city, to
become an anchor tenant of the
project we’re conceiving of, that
you read about. We’re actually not
spending any money building the
building at all. It’s going to be built
by a series of donors and then gifted
to the University. So, although it
may end up costing as much as
$300 million, the University won’t
be paying for it. We’ll be receiving
it, in effect, as a gift. And our role is
to set up educational and research
programs that help drive the
entrepreneurial
and
technology
part of the Detroit economy, so that
new businesses form and existing
companies grow and they don’t leave
Detroit and, ultimately, the economy
does well enough to provide more
jobs for more people.
2020 Presidential Debate
TMD: The University announced
it would be hosting one of the 2020
presidential debates on campus.
What precautions will the school
take to help communities that may
be put at risk, such as communities of
color and undocumented students,
given all the national attention
and heightened law enforcement
presence?
MS: The election will be the
biggest news of the coming year, and
it will affect every one of your lives
without a doubt, for better or for
worse … One of the things that I think
is very important is that students
in your generation feel a sense of
ownership of our democracy, and
feel not just an obligation to vote, but
an excitement to vote, to really learn
about the issues, to try to get past the
invective and the polarized nature
of debate.
In terms of the physical safety,
the event itself will be held down
in the Crisler Center … so it’s away
from the heart of the campus. So,
our day-to-day activities of going to
class, and going to labs, and going
to the library, and going back and
forth to the dorms will be relatively
unaffected, although the city will
be more crowded. I don’t think it’ll
be more crowded than a football
Saturday.
The safety, we’ve got a year
to plan for it … It’s not just our
DPSS, but it’s state police, all the
national security apparatus will
be here. It’ll probably be the safest
place in America, physically. The
issue of psychological threat and
psychological harm, I recognize
that it’s going to be a stressful year
because the body of politics is very
polarized, and there’s a lot of fear
mongering as part of the debate, and
we’re all subject to that. I think that
it may be of more intensity because
everyone is here in town, but I
think it’s going to be pretty intense
no matter what. We have CAPS …
Student Life will convene watching
parties so that we can watch the
debates together.”
Sexual Assault
TMD: Recently the University
released its climate survey on sexual
assault. The data from the campus
climate survey showed decreased
reports of sexual misconduct against
undergraduate women compared
to the survey in 2015. First, do
you believe it is fair to interpret
the findings as fewer instances of
misconduct against undergraduate
women, or could the decrease be
attributed to fear of reporting?
MS: All I can tell you is the survey
was done the same exact way, asking
the same questions with the same
kind of incentives to answer a few
years ago and then very recently. So,
I don’t think it’s due to a change in
comfort reporting. I think there are
some people who aren’t comfortable
reporting no matter what, I think
there are some people that are
uncomfortable making a claim of
misconduct to the University and
having it investigated. I think more
people are probably comfortable
talking or providing results in an
anonymous survey. Whether that
number changes over the course
of years, I don’t know. But I can
tell you, even though our numbers
moved in the right direction, it’s
nowhere close to where we need to
be. It’s still an amazing thing that
such a high percentage of students,
men and women, are subject to all
different types of sexual harassment
and sexual misconduct. So, even if
the frequency has gone down by a
few percent, we’re nowhere close to
where we need to be, and we have
to double down on the things that
we’re doing.
We’ve had to change the way we
investigate and adjudicate sexual
misconduct cases due to the order
of a court of appeals, so lots of things
are changing, and we’re trying
to get it right. The one thing that
really strikes me is that, although
we’re focusing a lot of attention
on this problem of misconduct at
universities, it doesn’t only happen
at universities, and it doesn’t only
happen when you’re 20. It happens
when you’re 15 sometimes or, you
know, really young. So, it’s our
piece of a big societal problem.
And personally, I don’t think that
rules and laws can get rid of sexual
misconduct. And even if we come up
with a much better way to adjudicate
cases, I don’t think that will
eliminate sexual misconduct. It’s so
common and so depressing everyday
that what’s going to get rid of it is you
all looking each other in the eye and
saying, “We’re not going to tolerate
this in our community.” Not just you,
but 46,000 “yous” where you just
say, “Look, this is literally ridiculous.
This will not happen in my house.”
And we don’t have enough police to
sit in every party and every meeting,
and stand next to every man and
woman on the campus and make
sure nobody puts their hands where
somebody doesn’t want to go. That’s
up to all of us as a community to kind
of crowdsource the solution to this,
to really say, “This is not tolerable;
we will not let this happen.” And
if 95 percent of you can say that, it
will stop. And we have to figure out
how to get everyone to embrace a
sense of shared ownership that men
and women in the classroom, in the
dormitory, in the parties, wherever
you are, that as a community, we are
not going to let this happen.
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