2018-09-10 by The Michigan Daily

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CAMPUS LIFE

U-M system of sex assault investigation overturned Judge rules University must allow crossexamination in court hearings KAELA THEUT Daily News Editor

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University of Michigan CFO Kevin Hegarty, IT Vice President Ravi Pendse, Universiy President Mark Schlissel and CSG President Daniel Greene attend the Wi-fi on the Diag ribbon cutting ceremony at Hatcher Friday.

Ribbon cutting ceremony launches new Campus Wi-fi Upgrade project

On the first day of classes, about 106,000 devices connected to University Wi-fi SAYALI AMIN

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After a heavily anticipated upgrade, students will now be able to get connected at the heart of campus. University and Student Government leaders gathered at the steps of

the Hatcher Graduate Library last Friday to cut the ribbon and officially completion of the Campus WiFi Upgrade. The project brings wireless internet access to the Diag and upgrades internet connection in more than 250 buildings on campus.

RESEARCH

University touches on hot button research Scholars make strides on gun violence, fake news and autonomous vehicles

Ravi Pendse, vice president of the University’s Information and Technology Services, opened the ceremony by sharing details of the project. “We upgraded Wi-Fi coverage for close to 16 million square feet,” Pendse

said. “If you want to think in terms of football, that’s about 300 football fields, or if we’re thinking Big House, maybe 275.” Tuesday, on the first day of classes, about 106,000 devices were connected to the See WI-FI, Page 2A

NCID Network, supports studies on DEI issues University faculty works with over 200 institutions nationally, connects scholars LIZZY LAWRENCE Daily News Editor

The work of Naomi André, a women’s studies and Afroamerican and African studies professor at the University of Michigan, in

the humanities and the work Matthew Diemer, a U-M education and psychology professor, is in the social sciences, but both professors’ work relate to the pressing issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. That’s no coincidence. André and Diemer

are both part of the Diversity Scholars Network, a network of professions dedicated to researching social issues and their consequences.

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The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the University of Michigan’s sexual assault investigation model Friday, saying that universities “must give the accused student or his agent an opportunity to cross-examine the accuser.” The current U-M sexual misconduct policy does not require a hearing or cross-examination of the student making the accusation. This decision is an appeal of U.S. District Judge David Lawson’s ruling in the 2017 court case Doe vs. Baum. In this case, Lawson dismissed a lawsuit filed by Deborah Gordan Law on behalf of a former University student who violated the University’s Student Sexual Misconduct Policy

yet argued his due process was denied. According to the court opinion, the University of Michigan, as a public university, failed to comply with the holding that accused students must have the opportunity to cross-examine their accuser when credibility is in question. “Thirteen years ago, this court suggested that cross-examination may be required in school disciplinary proceedings where the case hinged on a question of credibility. Flaim v. Med. Coll. of Ohio, 418 F.3d 629, 641 (6th Cir. 2005),” the opinion read. “Just last year, we encountered the credibility contest that we contemplated in Flaim and

“When I was your age, I was very conscious of myself as a Vietnamese American and Asian American, and I knew I was a refugee but I didn’t like go around calling myself that because I knew that there weren’t a lot of stories about any of these populations that I was a part of.” Michigan in Color had the opportunity to sit down with the Pulitzer Prize winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen to discuss his work and his upcoming lecture at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m about his Vietnamese heritage and history. The conversation turned toward the complexities of the Asian American and Asian identity as well as its place in the greater

discussion about self-perception and belonging in the United States and the world. Nguyen specifically identifies as a refugee, rather than an immigrant, acknowledging the label makes many uncomfortable because it challenges the standard expectation of arriving to the country to pursue the American Dream. His work is slowly expanding the notion of what it means to be Asian in the United States. Nguyen is the author of the New York Times bestseller “The Sympathizer” and is a prominent figurehead and scholar for AsianAmerican studies. Currently, he is a professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California

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