April 14, 2008 (vol. 118, iss. 133) • Page Image 4
…40 4A - Monday, April 14, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com fy iiigan Bat*1 Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109…
… University must be proactive in creating a welcoming, progres- sive environment for transgender students. 've run out of columns. Here's what's left in my notebook: 1.The University adminis- tration still…
… (could invite dangerous legal scrutiny), or is there another reason administra- tors are lying? 2. Tony Vuljaj - who as a freshman was blamed for a denial-of-service attack on a rival student government…
…- ings are used as substitutes for real research into a college choice, and it's not enough to ask students and parents to use them as a supplement, because their indirect effect is stronger than their…
… request for trans- gender students, demonstrating its initial commitment to the cause. But nine schools across the country have decided that being welcoming requires more than minimal accommodations and are…
… now offering gen- der-neutral housing. The University's justification for hold- ing out is that there is not enough student demand for gender-neutral housingto merit a change in its policies. But it is…
… likely that incoming freshmen are not even aware that there could be such an option, and older students often opt to move out of the dorms instead of trying to change the system. To break out of this cycle…
…, the University must actively promote gender-neutral housing to give incoming students more - and bet- ter - options. The University already gives students options with its learning commu- nities like…
… the Lloyd Hall Scholars Program, and this would be a change in that spirit. Naturally, taking gender out of the hous- ing equation offers transgender students an equal opportunity of finding a comfort…
