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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. 

