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LGBTQ activist Tiq Milan speaks at the Transgender Awareness Week kickoff event at the Michigan Union Monday.
Transgender Awareness Week keynote emphasizes resistance
Tiq Milan discusses recent campus, national climate following presidential election EMILY MIILLER Daily Staff Reporter
At the University’s Transgender Awareness Week’s kickoff event Monday, keynote speaker Tiq Milan shared his story and encouraged resistance in the face of hate on campus and nationally.
The gathering, sponsored by the Spectrum Center, drew 60 students, faculty and community members filled the Kuenzel Room in the Michigan Union. Milan, an LGBTQ advocate and writer, described his experiences as a Black transgender man, how his family reacted to his transition and how current events such as
the rules aiming to control use of bathrooms by transgender people and the election of Donald Trump as president impact transgender people. Milan said his advocacy work is possible because he is comfortable with his identity and through this work he hopes to educate others about the variety within the trans experience.
“I’ll stand up here, talk about my surgeries and hormones and my mother and all these things so that other guys don’t have to, so other guys can just have the space to live their life,” he said. Speaking specifically to recent instances of hate on campus, including ethnic intimidation and See AWARENESS, Page 3
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Martha Pollack, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, has been appointed Cornell University’s 14th president, according to a Cornell press release published Monday afternoon. Pollack has served as the University’s provost since 2013, acting as the chief budgetary and academic officer overseeing all teaching and research in each of the University’s 19 schools and colleges. Her term at Cornell is slated to begin on April
17, 2017, though her current contract, approved by the Board of Regents in December 2014, extends through the summer of 2018. “I am humbled and honored to have been elected to lead this great university,” Pollack said in the Cornell press release. “As a private university with a public mission, Cornell is the embodiment of my own deeply held belief in the ability of knowledge to improve the human condition.” University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel congratulated Pollack in an email sent to faculty Monday afternoon, and applauded her See POLLACK, Page 3
Prayer gathering hosted by Muslim LSA holds University discussion Students’ Association draws hundreds student is
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Demonstration aims to create coalition on campus following hate crimes
Dean Andrew Martin moderates event with focus on inclusivity
About 300 students and faculty gathered Monday night in the Diag for a group Isha prayers, or the fifth and final daily Islamic prayer, held by the University of Michigan Muslim Students’ Association following threats against Muslim women on campus this week. On Friday night, a female student wearing a hijab was approached by a man who threatened to light her on fire if she did not remove her head covering. Another female student was approached by two men who referenced her religion, yelled at her for being in the United States and pushed her down a hill on Saturday night. Both crimes have been classified as intimidation crimes, with the latter classified as ethnic intimidation. Also on Friday, a student found a swastika and hateful message written on the door of his apartment. MSA President Farhan Ali, an LSA junior, said he was surprised by the large number of people who attended. He noted that to show solidarity with the female Muslim students on campus, male Muslims have been wearing the kufi, a traditional hat for Muslim men. “People have these myths about Islam, and that’s how Islamophobia occurs,” Ali said. “We’re trying to figure out ways we can see to make this campus
ETHAN LEVIN
Daily Staff Reporter
More than 100 students, faculty members and Ann Arbor residents discussed tensions in the campus climate at the University of Michigan and elsewhere in the country following President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial victory at an LSA event Monday evening. Since the election last Tuesday, students have held a number of protests and vigils on the University of Michigan’s campus to address fear and feelings of isolation from Trump’s rhetoric, which protestors have characterized as racially divisive and discriminatory. In the last three days, two hate crimes have occurred on campus according to crime alerts sent by the University of Michigan Division of Public Safety. The event was hosted and moderated by LSA Dean Andrew Martin and several other LSA faculty members. Martin, who noted that the discussion was organized a month ago, said he believes much of the recent outrages can be attributed to See AFTERMATH, Page 3
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safer and we’re trying to talk to DPSS.” University President Mark Schlissel and other administrators sent out an email Sunday night condemning incidents of intimidation and calling for unity on campus across political ideologies. “We hope all members of our community can agree that we must not stand silent while facing expressions of bigotry,
discrimination or hate that have become part of our national political discourse,” Schlissel wrote in the email. The incidents follow the election of Donald Trump to the presidency on Nov. 8, who proposed a ban on all Muslim immigration during the campaign. Organizers said Monday night’s gathering — which was open to Muslims and non-
Muslim allies of the organization — aimed to give voice to those in fear following the election, as well as to initiate unity among all students on campus. Public Policy junior Stephen Wallace said he attended the event with other Black students to show solidarity with Muslims. Wallace said he would like to see further action from the University administration on See PRAYER, Page 3
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Students hold Isha prayers at the University of Michigan Diag Monday.
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Woman approached by two men and pushed down hill near South U. KEVIN BIGLIN
Daily Staff Reporter
Saturday night between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., a student was approached near South University Avenue and Washtenaw Avenue by two men who yelled at her for being in America. They then referenced her religion and pushed her down a hill, according to the University of Michigan Division of Public Safety and Security. A University crime alert sent out to students and faculty in an email Monday classified the incident as ethnic intimidation and urged students to look assertive and be aware of their surroundings. When contacted Monday, University Police Department spokesperson Diane Brown had no additional information to provide and said the incident was being investigated by Ann Arbor Police Department. No additional information from AAPD was immediately available. This is the third reported incident of this nature on campus in the wake of last week’s presidential election. Friday, a female student was forced to remove her hijab and threatened she would be set on fire See CRIME, Page 3
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