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John Tanton, Nativist Next Door A Michigan-trained doctor went on to lead the modern anti-immigration movement. What story do his papers tell?
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Journalist honored for #MeToo research ABBY TAKAS
Daily Staff Reporter
The #MeToo movement has focused primarily on high status figures — women speaking out against Hollywood moguls, powerful bosses and even our current president. Journalist Bernice Yeung’s recently published work, after years of investigation, focuses instead on the experiences of women in particularly vulnerable workplaces, such as janitors, farmers and domestic workers. Each year, the Wallace House at the University of Michigan recognizes a KnightWallace journalist to give the prestigious Graham Hovey Lecture. Hovey was a New York Times journalist and served as the director of the fellowship program from 1980 to 1986. The fellowship program offers journalists the opportunity to study at the University for an academic year to collaborate on learning and create strategies to improve the field of journalism. ProPublica reporter Bernice Yeung was chosen as this year’s featured fellow for her investigative work in the seemingly unheard voices of
the #MeToo movement. Yeung has investigated the sexual assault of immigrant workers as a member of the “Rape in the Fields” reporting team and the sexual abuse of janitorial women through “Rape on the Night Shift.” Yeung published “In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers” in March 2018. Yeung’s investigation into the abuse of low-income women began years before the movement but has highlighted a sector of people previously left in the dark. Yeung was originally learned about this issue after hearing the experience of one lowincome woman and the sexual harassment she endured. “Is this a terrible but isolated event, or part of a larger problem that requires attention and reform?” she asked. Yeung’s lecture focused on the experiences exclusive to low-income workers, explaining how this work environment is conducive to ongoing sexual harassment. Particularly in contrast to many famous faces of #MeToo, these women have limited options when it comes to abuse. There are language
Event hosted by the Knight-Wallace house discusses overlooked impacts of movement barriers, and in some cases the abusers are the sole interpreters for filing a report, resulting in reports of abuse getting “lost in translation.” These women face
the threat of losing their jobs, being deported or receiving retaliation for speaking out. “Low-wage immigrants, laboring in isolation, are
at a unique risk for sexual harassment and assault,” Yeung said. According to Yeung, our judicial system relies on the
assumption that survivors will speak out, leaving many lowincome women unprotected. Domestic workers have also See #METOO, Page 3A
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Director of Wallace House Lynette Clemetson presents Knight Wallace Fellow Bernice Yeung with the honor of delivering the Graham Hovey Lecture at Wallace House Tuesday night.
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Washtenaw County sees highest surge Ann Arbor impounds two dozen Bird scooters in voter turnout across Michigan City officials say scooters were improperly Voter turnout up 12.8 percentage points since 2010, with 34.4 percent participating MAEVE O’BRIEN Daily Staff Reporter
Last month’s Michigan state primary election saw a higher voter turnout rate than any primary election since 1978. The nearly 30 percent statewide voter turnout was up 6.7 percentage points since 2010, indicating Michiganders are more engaged with the midterm elections than in recent years. This jump in voter turnout was not isolated to Michigan but swept across the country this summer. According to the Pew Research Center, nearly half of registered voters report being more enthusiastic than usual about voting. As of late July, overall turnout in U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate and state gubernatorial races outpaced 2014 levels. For House primaries, both Republican and Democrat turnout has increased, though Democrat turnout has risen more significantly. As of late July, the number of votes cast in Democratic House primaries is 84 percent higher than at the same point in 2014. Turnout for the Republican House primaries rose too by 24 percent. Michigan also witnessed this partisan trend. Across the state, the turnout rate spiked the most in counties former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won in the 2016 presidential election. In Washtenaw County, where 68
percent of the 2016 vote went to Clinton, voter turnout is up 12.8 percentage points since 2010. Michael Traugott, research professor at the University of Michigan’s Center for Political Studies, said the higher turnout among Democrats can be partly attributed to the outcome of the 2016 presidential election and a response to the current administration. “There’s a lot of angst still among the Democrats about the outcome of the 2016 election,” Traugott said. “And then concern I think about the behavior of President Trump, so in anticipation of the general election in the fall, Democrats are motivated to select good candidates, which is what happens in the primary.”
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As for the Republican side, higher national turnout may be a result of competing forces within the party. “In both parties, actually, there are some issues about some of the new party candidates and old party candidate,” Traugott said. “On the Republican side, there’s a contest between a particular kind of reform Trump candidate, and more traditional Republicans.” The high primary voter turnout provides promise for large voter turn out in this November’s midtermelection. Erin Byrnes heads the Big Ten Voting Challenge on campus, an initiative among the fourteen Big Ten Conference schools to increase student turnout through competition. Byrnes finds the voter turnout rates in August encouraging
and believes they are harbingers of high turnout rates in November. “Voters across our state are energized, paying attention and voting,” Byrnes said. “Primaries are often seen as forgotten elections, with voters more focused on the general in November. That was not the case this year, and we can likely look forward to a great increase in turnout this fall.” Madison McKenzie, graduate assistant at the U-M Ginsberg Center, agrees more students across the country are becoming politically engaged and motivated to vote. “I think we hit really a lull, or actually a peak in terms of apathy across the country especially among young people,” Mckenzie See VOTING, Page 3A
parked on sidewalks, streets or bike lanes RILEY LANGEFELD Daily Staff Reporter
The city of Ann Arbor has impounded almost two dozen Bird scooters for violating city ordinances. City Communications Director Lisa Wondrash said the scooters were improperly parked on sidewalks, streets or bike lanes, adding that the scooters also violate an ordinance mandating motorized vehicles not impede the public right-of-way. “The company has been notified that their equipment has been collected by the city and is being securely
stored at our Public Works Facility,” Wondrash wrote in an email to MLive. “The city welcomes alternative modes of transportation for residents and visitors, and city staff are actively working with Bird on a licensing agreement.” In an interview with the Detroit Free Press, Wondrash said finding appropriate places to park the scooters was “a question for Bird Scooter to answer.” The University of Michigan’s Division of Public Safety and Security, however, advised users of the scooters park them at bike racks or in moped parking areas. “When you are finished riding See BIRD, Page 3A
Hoeltzel pleads guilty to enticement of minor Former Michigan Medicine pediatrician used fake Facebook for sexting with young girls KATHERINA SOURINE Daily Staff Reporter
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Mark Hoeltzel, a former pediatric doctor at Michigan Medicine, accepted a plea deal amid allegations of child sex and pornography in federal court last Thursday, MLive reported. Hoeltzel pleaded guilty to one felony count of enticement of a minor. Upon knowledge of the ongoing investigation last December, Michigan Medicine immediately terminated Hoeltzel,
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who was later stripped of his medical license. Hoeltzel admitted to creating a fake Facebook account in 2017 under the name Ryan Gardner. Hoeltzel used the account to pretend to be a teenage boy, talking to minor girls and engaging in sexual conversations. Police executed a search warrant in Hoeltzel’s home in Ann Arbor, finding a flash drive that contained more than 200 images of child pornography. They also found Facebook conversation history with a 14-year-old girl from Colorado, See HOELTZEL, Page 3A
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