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University of Michigan president Mark Schlissel at the University Senate Assembly Meeting at Palmer Commons Monday.
Schlissel discusses search for new provost, response to hate crimes
President also talks tri-campus task force, letter of support for students under DACA WILL FEUER
Daily Staff Reporter
About 60 of the 74 voting members of the University of Michigan Senate Assembly convened Monday evening to hear University President Mark Schlissel speak about the next
steps after University Provost Martha Pollack leaves her position later this academic year. The assembly also decided who will fill the board for the recently established tri-campus task force, which aims to reduce miscommunication and encourage cooperation among the University’s Flint, Dearborn and
RESEARCH
University to work with institutions in China Partnerships focus on clean water, new transportation methods YOSHIKO IWAI
Daily Staff Reporter
Last week, the University of Michigan announced a partnership with Chinese institutions to solve and improve global problems including the need for clean water technology and new transportation methods for future generations. Though some of the agreements are still preliminary, the partnership has received an approximate $54 million to jumpstart their research projects. S. Jack Hu, vice president for research at the University, and Gov. Rick Snyder have been working in China for the past month, collaborating with local companies to create a plan of action. “Over the past month, we signed two research agreements and one Memorandum of understanding,” Hu wrote in an email interview. “These are three different partnerships.” According to Hu, a primary component of the five-year partnership is a memorandum of understanding with the See PARTNERSHIP, Page 3
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Ann Arbor campuses. As was announced in November, Pollack will be leaving her position early in April to become president of Cornell University. Schlissel said an interim candidate will be decided on soon while a search committee is being formed to consider candidates for the role
permanently. “I would like to do an open search, which means that we’ll consider both internal candidates as well as outstanding external candidates,” Schlissel said. “We’ll form a search committee in which the faculty will be heavily represented … the student See SENATE, Page 3
Students highlight campaign’s strides for women, but also raise concerns CAITLIN REEDY Daily Staff Reporter
Hilary Clinton made history this past presidential election cycle after securing the Democratic nomination for the 2016 election as the first female to ever win a major party nomination, promoting excitement among many young voters including on campus. However, the election of her opponent, President-elect Donald Trump, has sparked concern over what his presidency will mean for women’s rights for many students. While Clinton wasn’t successful in her bid for the White House, there is discussion
Ann Arbor City Council hears from lecturer about assault on ‘U’ campus Councilmembers discuss recent reported ethnic intimidation incidents BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
In a testimony before City Council Thursday night that silenced the chamber, Khita Whyatt, lecturer of dance in the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance, recounted a recent incident when four men knocked her to the ground while shouting epithets last Thursday morning on Observatory Street. “I was getting ready to go and lecture … when I felt something coming at me and when I looked up there were four young men running full-tilt at me with a full-arm body block, arms out, and they told me ‘Go home,’ ” Whyatt said. “And they slammed me, lifted me in the air and I fell flat on my ass and saw stars.” Whyatt said she chose to reveal her identity by speaking out publicly in order to bring attention to a recent spate of local hate crimes and call for action. Ted Annis, Whyatt’s partner, suggested in an email to a neighborhood watch association that she was targeted because she is of dark complexion due to her Native American descent. “I’d like to say this was the only time I’ve been assaulted in Ann Arbor and it is not; it is the fourth time I have been assaulted in Ann Arbor, and the second hate crime,” Whyatt said. “People need to understand
what’s going on. There’s a lot more hate crimes happening in recent weeks. There needs to be a dialogue … so people can come forward in order to be able to feel safe.” Whyatt explained in an interview after her testimony that she did not immediately call the police because she was so shocked, but her department chair contacted the Department of Public Safety
and Security. Two days after the incident, Whyatt said she was interviewed by two DPSS officers who told her it was “obviously” a hate crime. While they both described DPSS’s response as “great, initially,” Whyatt and Annis said they were concerned that an alert hadn’t yet been sent to the University community as has been the case following similar incidents. The University has
released two crime alerts over the past two weeks of hate crimes on campus. It has not released a crime alert about the event Whyatt referenced as of Tuesday evening. “I laid (the lack of public alert) off to the (University) bureaucracy and was willing to give them a day or two of grace,” Annis said. “If they are silent 24 hours from now, then I have a See CITY COUNCIL, Page 3
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Mayor Christopher Taylor listens as residents discuss local issues at the Ann Arbor City Hall Monday.
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regarding the inspirational effects Clinton’s campaign will have on young girls interested in politics. While her being the first female nominee wasn’t a center point of her campaign, it became a focal point in her concession speech as she reminded aspiring female politicians to keep working toward their goals, despite her loss. “To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams,” she said in her speech. LSA senior Lauren Gallagher, president of the University of Michigan’s chapter of Students See CLINTON, Page 3
CAMPUS LIFE
Event talks lives lost in transgender community Day of Remembrance aims to honor victims of violence NEIL SCHWARTZ Daily Staff Reporter
About 50 students gathered in the University of Michigan Union Monday night for Transgender Day of Remembrance, an event organized to commemorate those who have suffered or died this year as a result of antitransgender hatred. The event, which was part of the Spectrum Center’s Transgender Awareness Week 2016, featured a talk by LSA senior Ini Ubong, one of the co-chairs of TransForm, who assisted the Spectrum Center in organizing the week’s events. TransForm is an organization dedicated to providing resources, activism and support for the transgender community at the University. Ubong emphasized to attendees the importance of being an ally and standing up for the transgender community when it faces adversity. “If you are not affected by trans misogyny, then what are you doing for the community, for the people in your lives that See REMEMBRANCE, Page 3
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