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JULIA FORREST
Daily Staff Reporter
Wesleyan
University
President
Michael
S.
Roth
visited the Michigan Union
Thursday morning to discuss
controversial college campus
topics, including free speech,
affirmative action and political
correctness.
Approximately
100 administrators, faculty and
graduate and doctoral students
attended the event.
The lecture, “Safe Enough
Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach
to Inclusion, Free Speech, and
Political Correctness on College
Campuses,” was named after
Roth’s newest book. The event
was part of the National Center
for
Institutional
Diversity
Research
and
Scholarship
Seminar
Series
featuring
academics
who
focus
on
historical
and
contemporary
social
issues
surrounding
identity,
representation
and
inequality, and how research
and scholarship can address
these issues.
Alford
Young,
sociology
and African-American studies
professor, introduced Roth and
his new book, praising his ability
to present current issues at
Wesleyan in his books.
More
than
50
Asian
and
Pacific
Islander
American-identifying
students convened for A/
PIA Womxn: Stereotypes
and Double Standards, a
discussion
about
topics
surrounding issues facing
the
A/PIA
identities.
Sponsored by United Asian
Americans
Organizations
and alpha Kappa Delta Phi,
an Asian-interest sorority,
the event was held in the
Yuri Kochiyama Lounge in
South Quad Residence Hall
and featured informational
slides to supplement the
dialogue.
The
use
of
the
word
“womxn” was included to
make the event inclusive
to women who identify as
transgender and non-binary.
Attendees
were
split
up
into six groups and asked
to share their opinions and
experiences
about
A/PIA
identity.
UAAO Co-Chair Cristina
Guytingco, an LSA junior,
said the event was valuable
for creating a safe space for
different perspectives.
Members
of UAAO
challenge
standards
CAMPUS LIFE
JASMIN LEE
Daily Staff Reporter
Lead attorney in Korematsu talks
lasting legacy of SCOTUS case
Defendant’s daughter highlights impact of Japanese discrimination in speech
ADMINISTRATION
A/PIA womxn reflect
on discrimination in
society, stereotypes of
community members
Michael Roth looks
at demonstrations,
free speech on college
campuses nationwide
SONIA LEE
Daily Staff Reporter
See A/PIA, Page 3
See WESLEYAN, Page 3
Wesleyan
president
examines
higher ed
OLIVIA CELL/Daily
Speakers discuss “Continuing Korematsu: Our fight in the Trump era” accompanied by a screening of the documentary “ALTERNATIVE
FACTS” at the Law School Thursday Evening.
SOFIA URBAN
Daily Staff Reporter
Susan M. Collins, former
dean of the Ford School of
Public
Policy,
was
named
acting provost of the University
of
Michigan
Thursday
morning. This announcement
comes after Martin Philbert
was placed on leave last week
following multiple allegations
of sexual misconduct.
Collins,
who
currently
serves as a professor in the
Ford School and LSA, will
assume the post immediately.
In an email to The Daily,
Collins said she was eager to
take on the new role.
“I am grateful for this
opportunity to serve the
university
community,”
Collins
wrote.
“My
immediate
focus
will
be
supporting
the
important
academic-focus of the Office
of the Provost, which touches
the lives of all our students,
members
of
the
faculty
and those who support our
academic enterprise.”
University President Mark
Schlissel told The University
Record he was grateful to
Collins for agreeing to fill the
position.
“I’m incredibly appreciative
of
Dr.
Collins
and
her
willingness
to
accept
this
crucial appointment,” Schlissel
said. “With a decade of service
as the Ford School’s dean and
experience partnering with
the Office of the Provost, she
is well positioned to lead the
office at this challenging time.”
In an interview with The
Daily on Tuesday, Schlissel
noted
the
importance
of
ensuring University hires do
not have a history of sexual
misconduct. He shared a need
to have someone with an
understanding of the role and
previous experience in higher
education.
“In
terms
of
moving
forward, the University, you
know, really has to have a
provost in place,” Schlissel said
on Tuesday. “Right now, I’m in
the process of looking at people
who
have
administrative
experience
and
familiarity,
because they sort of have to
take over all at once, although
I’ll be working with them very
closely.”
Susan Collins takes position after
Martin Philbert placed on leave
Former Ford
Dean named
temporary
‘U’ provost
ALEX HARRING
Daily News Editor
ALEXIS RANKIN/Daily
President Donald Trump speaks at DANA in regard to the new USMCA agreement Thursday afternoon in Warren, Michigan.
See TRUMP, Page 3
President Trump promotes trade
agreement at Warren MI auto-plant
Trump boasts of newly signed USMCA at Dana Corporation warehouse
See PROVOST, Page 3
See KOREMATSU, Page 3
Fred
Korematsu
Day
commemorates
Fred
Korematsu,
a
Japanese
American who was one of the
many victims of anti-Japanese
sentiments during and after
World
War
II.
In
honor
of this day, the Michigan
Asian
Pacific
American
Affairs Commission and Stop
Repeating History organized a
screening of the documentary,
“Alternative Facts: The Lies
of Executive Order 9066,”
and a panel at the University
of
Michigan
Law
School
Thursday evening. About 75
people attended the event.
President Roosevelt signed
Executive
Order
9066
in
1942, which authorized the
incarceration of more than
120,000 Japanese Americans
in internment camps. The
basis of that order was partial
evidence
that
Japanese
Americans were committing
espionage to benefit wartime
enemies,
which
was
later
proven false.
Fred
Korematsu
was
arrested
after
resisting
incarceration. He appealed
his case in the Supreme Court.
While he originally lost his
case,
his
conviction
was
overturned in 1983.
On Thursday, Gov. Gretchen
Whitmer declared Jan. 30,
2020 Fred Korematsu Day
in Michigan, following the
example of other states.
Donald Tamaki, a partner
at Minami Tamaki LLP and
attorney for Fred Korematsu
during the hearings, explained
in an interview with The
Daily that events leading up
to the Korematsu case mirror
modern-day events, such as
Trump’s Muslim Ban and the
border crisis.
“If
no
one
will
check
the president … then (the
president) can do anything
it wants with respect to
immigration
by
invoking
national
security,”
Tamaki
said. “Whether it is separating
children from their families
or locking people for an
indeterminate
sentence,
refusing to consider valid
asylum claims.”
Karen Korematsu, founder
and
executive
director
of the Fred T. Korematsu
Institute and daughter of Fred
Korematsu, said it’s important
to
hold
the
government
accountable to end the cycle
of fear that has led to so
many instances of targeted
discrimination.
“These are the kind of issues
we want the general public to
be aware of,” Korematsu said.
“If people do not participate
in making a change in this
country by not voting and
not being a part of the census
then we are going to still keep
making the same mistakes.”
Chants of “Four more years”
and “U-S-A” filled the warehouse
of Dana Incorporated, an auto
parts manufacturing company
located in Warren, Mich., from
hundreds of employees and
Trump supporters. The crowd
gathered to hear President
Donald Trump discuss trade in
his second visit to Michigan in
the last two months.
Trump’s
visit
to
the
manufacturing plant comes a
day after signing the United
States-Mexico-Canada
Agreement
into
law.
The
deal is considered a revised
and updated version of the
North American Free Trade
Agreement, and its passing
fulfills one of Trump’s biggest
2016 campaign promises. The
newly signed deal was the
main reason for Trump’s visit
to Dana Incorporated, he said.
“The USMCA is the most
fairest, balanced and beneficial
trade deal we’ve ever signed
into law,” Trump said in his
speech
to
the
warehouse.
“We’re bringing jobs back to
America, better jobs are coming
back, and they’re coming back
fast and they’re coming right
here to Michigan.”
A revision in the updated
pact requires that 75 percent
of a vehicle must be made in
North America, in an effort
to help the U.S. automotive
industry. This is an increase
from 62.5 percent in NAFTA.
. The deal also contains a
provision that mandates 70
percent of a vehicle’s metal
and aluminum to come from a
country in North America.
Trump’s visit to Dana Inc.
in Warren is his first visit to
the state in 2020, and the first
since holding a rally in Battle
Creek on Dec. 18. Warren is in
Macomb County, Michigan’s
third-largest county and an
area Trump won in 2016.
Dana Inc. is a manufacturing
company that supplies various
parts for conventional, hybrid
and electric-powered vehicles,
including axles, transmissions,
sealing and digital equipment
among other products geared
towards
the
production
of
electric-powered vehicles.
The
event
opened
with
remarks from Dana Inc. CEO
James Kamsickas, who talked
about
Dana’s
long
history
of producing auto parts for
various types of cars and U.S.
military tanks.