The 
University 
of 
Michigan 
recently 
conducted 
an 
internal 
investigation 
into 
sexual 
harassment 
in 
Michigan 
Medicine, 
termed #MedToo, per the 
recommendations of a 2018 
National Academies study.
The National Academies 
report investigated how 
women 
are 
treated 
in 
science, 
technology, 
engineering 
and 
math 
fields, 
now 
that 
more 
women 
are 
entering 
historically 
male-
dominated 
spaces. 
The 
report 
found 
that 
the 
field 
of 
medicine 
has 
a higher rate of sexual 
harassment 
across 
academic disciplines, with 
female medical students 
experiencing 
sexual 
harassment from faculty 
and staff at a rate 220 
percent higher than female 
students in any non-STEM 
field. The report concluded 
by calling on universities 
to examine the prevelance 
of 
sexual 
harassment 

within their own health 
care institutions.
One of the Michigan 
study’s 
authors, 
Dr. 
Reshma Jagsi, is deputy 
chair of radiation oncology 
at 
Michigan 
Medicine 
and also a co-founder of 
the 
national 
movement, 
Time’s 
Up 
Healthcare. 
In 
an 
interview 
with 
The Daily, Jagsi recalled 
initial conversations with 
the Medical School deans 
regarding the University’s 
response to the national 
study. 
Jagsi explained to the 
administration the risk of 
being the first university 
to 
collect 
and 
publish 
these results; because no 
other 
universities 
had 
conducted 
investigations 
following 
the 
National 
Academies report, readers 
may incorrectly assume 
the issue is specific to 
Michigan Medicine.
“When I talked to our 
deans, Marschall Runge 
and 
Carol 
Bradford, 
they were so incredibly 
supportive of this,” Jagsi 
said. 

Lieutenant 
General 
James Clapper, Lieutenant 
General Michael K. Nagata 
and Rep. Elissa Slotkin, 
D-Lansing, participated in 
a panel at the Ford School 
of Public Policy Monday 
night on national security, 
public service and foreign 
policy.
In an auditorium packed 
with more than 200 people, 
the 
national 
security 
experts honored Veteran’s 
Day 
by 
discussing 
the 
value of service and the 
greatest 
challenges 
the 
U.S. 
national 
security 

apparatus faces today. 
According to Lt. Gen. 
Nagata, 
his 
decades 
of 
service had a profound 
impact on the ways in 
which 
he 
approached 
policy challenges over the 
course of his intelligence 
career 
at 
the 
National 
Counterterrorism Center. 
In 
facing 
constantly 
changing 
global 
and 
political dynamics, Nagata 
says today’s intelligence 
and elected officials should 
modify the ways in which 
they view the very concept 
of service.
“How 
I 
defined 
that 
word, service, when I first 
joined the military in 1981 is 
not the same way in which 
I view that word today,” 

Nagata said. “My view of 
that word now is much 
larger. It’s subordinating 
what 
I 
may 
wish 
for 
personally, or what my 
family and loved ones may 
need, for a purpose that is 
more important than me or 
even my family.” 
In an interview with 
The 
Daily, 
Nagata 
explained 
changing 
domestic politics — namely 
political polarization and 
increased partisanship — 
have complicated public 
servants’ ability to work 
together 
and 
problem-
solve in order to respond to 
shifting global dynamics. 
“Our ability to do things 
effectively internationally 
requires 
both 
sides 
of 

the political spectrum of 
the U.S. government to 
find ways to compromise 
enough that they can work 
together,” 
Nagata 
said. 
“Our ability to compromise 
politically 
has 
been 
steadily eroding for a very 
long time.”
Both Nagata and Clapper 
agreed that the current 
political atmosphere has 
also made the job of public 
servants 
difficult, 
as 
political pressures applied 
by 
the 
president 
and 
other partisan forces have 
attempted 
to 
politicize 
the jobs of intelligence 
officials.
“There’s always been an 

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The 
Senate 
Advisory 
Committee on University 
Affairs 
representatives 
met 
in 
the 
Fleming 
Administrative 
Building 
to discuss University of 
Michigan 
funding 
and 
challenges 
facing 
the 
University library system 
and the University Press on 
Monday afternoon.
James Hilton, University 
librarian 
and 
dean 
of 
libraries, 
and 
Charles 
Watkinson, director of the 
U-M Press, both attended 

the meeting to offer insights 
and answer questions from 
faculty representatives.
The 
first 
topic 
of 
discussion was open access, 
or the ability for University 
faculty and students to get 
access to research materials 
and e-books without facing 
a paywall.
“The way that I think 
people here have tended 
to talk about open access 
— and (the way) people in 
library communities tend 
to talk about open access 
— is as almost a moral right 
of readers to have access to 
information,” Hilton said.

According 
to 
Hilton, 
the 
issue 
of 
copyrights 
is related to open access. 
Copyrights 
can 
often 
hinder the ability of the 
University to gain access to 
potential library resources. 
Hilton says the issue of 
copyrights is something all 
universities must contend 
with in developing their 
library systems, and one 
that is more complex than 
many would assume. 
“Lots of people think 
that the only things that 
are 
copywritten 
are 
things that are formally 
published, or things that 

you 
attach 
a 
copyright 
notice to, or something like 
that,” Hilton said. “That is 
not true. If I sit down right 
now and take that piece 
of paper and write some 
new creative expression, it 
is protected by copyright 
from the moment that I 
write it.”
Hilton also addressed a 
recent push to enter into an 
agreement with the other 13 
Big Ten universities which 
could reduce the costs of 
publishing and purchasing 
library 
resources 
like 
e-books. 

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Study finds medicine has higher rate of 
sexual misbehavior than other fields 

The Office of Institutional 
Equity released two annual 
reports related to faculty and 
staff sexual misconduct and 
prohibited 
student 
conduct 
Monday. Both reports reveal 
decreased numbers of sexual 
misconduct claims submitted 
to OIE.
Since 2013, OIE has published 
annual 
reports 
on 
student 
sexual misconduct to disclose 
information about how many 
instances of sexual misconduct 
are reported to the University 
each year. Last year, OIE began 
releasing an additional annual 
report on instances of sexual 
misconduct 
perpetrated 
by 
faculty, staff and third parties. 
The 
University’s 
sexual 
misconduct policy, and OIE’s 
handling of sexual misconduct 
cases, have been under debate 
for more than a year. This 
past January, the University 
amended its sexual misconduct 
policy 
to 
incorporate 
an 
in-person hearing after the 
U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of 
Appeals ruled that a student 
must be given an opportunity 
to cross-examine the accuser. 
The University has also spent 
$1.6 million defending against 
the Doe v. Baum lawsuit, which 
alleges the University’s policies 
violate due process of those 
accused of sexual misconduct. 

The report on prohibited 
student conduct found that 
between July 1, 2018 and June 
30, 2019, OIE received 272 
reports 
of 
actions 
labelled 
“prohibited conduct” — 126 
of which were sexual assault 
claims. 
According 
to 
the 
University Record, this is 23 
fewer sexual assault claims 
than were reported last year. 
In total, the number of reports 
decreased slightly from 277 last 
year to 272 this year.
In October, the results of 
a campus climate survey and 
a Division of Public Safety 
and 
Security 
report 
found 
differences in rates of sexual 
misconduct 
for 
minority 
students, women, members of 
the LGBTQ+ community and 
students with disabilities. The 
DPSS report also noted the 
number of reported on-campus 
sexual assaults increased in 
2018 from previous years.
In 
the 
report, 
OIE 
also 
discusses 
how 
reports 
were 
addressed 
and 
offers 
educational and preventative 
measures to counter sexual 
misconduct. Jeffery Frumkin, 
associate 
vice 
provost 
and 
interim senior director of OIE, 
told 
the 
University 
Record 
more information about how to 
report instances of misconduct 
have 
changed 
reporting 
patterns in the past few years.

OIE releases two 
reports on ‘U’
sexual misconduct 

ADMINISTRATION 

Disclosed information reveals decrease in 
submitted claims from students, faculty

SACUA discusses challenges 
facing U-M press, library system

Representatives also talk issues regarding University funding 

University 
investigates
harassment 
in #MedToo

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University Librarian and Dean of Libraries James Hilton speaks about library open access at a SACUA meeting in the Fleming Administration Building Monday afternoon.

Lt. Generals, Rep. Stolkin discuss 
military service, national security

Veterans analyze foreign policy, intelligence through lens of experiences

See MEDTOO, Page 3

OLIVIA CELL/Daily
U.S. Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-Lansing) answers audience questions on national security, service, and policy at an event held in Weill Hall Monday afternoon.

See VETERANS, Page 3

See OIE, Page 3

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Daily Staff Reporter 

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BEN ROSENFELD 
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