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University investigates harassment in #MedToo
Study finds medicine has higher rate of sexual misbehavior than other fields ABIGAIL TAKAS
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U.S. Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-Lansing) answers audience questions on national security, service, and policy at an event held in Weill Hall Monday afternoon.
Lt. Generals, Rep. Stolkin discuss military service, national security
Veterans analyze foreign policy, intelligence through lens of experiences JULIA RUBIN & BEN ROSENFELD Daily Staff Reporters
Lieutenant General James Clapper, Lieutenant General Michael K. Nagata and Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Lansing, participated in a panel at the Ford School of Public Policy Monday night on national security, public service and foreign policy. In an auditorium packed with more than 200 people, the national security experts honored Veteran’s Day by discussing the value of service and the greatest challenges the U.S. national security
apparatus faces today. According to Lt. Gen. Nagata, his decades of service had a profound impact on the ways in which he approached policy challenges over the course of his intelligence career at the National Counterterrorism Center. In facing constantly changing global and political dynamics, Nagata says today’s intelligence and elected officials should modify the ways in which they view the very concept of service. “How I defined that word, service, when I first joined the military in 1981 is not the same way in which I view that word today,”
Nagata said. “My view of that word now is much larger. It’s subordinating what I may wish for personally, or what my family and loved ones may need, for a purpose that is more important than me or even my family.” In an interview with The Daily, Nagata explained changing domestic politics — namely political polarization and increased partisanship — have complicated public servants’ ability to work together and problemsolve in order to respond to shifting global dynamics. “Our ability to do things effectively internationally requires both sides of
the political spectrum of the U.S. government to find ways to compromise enough that they can work together,” Nagata said. “Our ability to compromise politically has been steadily eroding for a very long time.” Both Nagata and Clapper agreed that the current political atmosphere has also made the job of public servants difficult, as political pressures applied by the president and other partisan forces have attempted to politicize the jobs of intelligence officials. “There’s always been an See VETERANS, Page 3
The University of Michigan recently conducted an internal investigation into sexual harassment in Michigan Medicine, termed #MedToo, per the recommendations of a 2018 National Academies study. The National Academies report investigated how women are treated in science, technolog y, engineering and math fields, now that more women are entering historically maledominated spaces. The report found that the field of medicine has a higher rate of sexual harassment across academic disciplines, with female medical students experiencing sexual harassment from faculty and staff at a rate 220 percent higher than female students in any non-STEM field. The report concluded by calling on universities to examine the prevelance of sexual harassment
within their own health care institutions. One of the Michigan study’s authors, Dr. Reshma Jagsi, is deputy chair of radiation oncolog y at Michigan Medicine and also a co-founder of the national movement, Time’s Up Healthcare. In an interview with The Daily, Jagsi recalled initial conversations with the Medical School deans regarding the University’s response to the national study. Jagsi explained to the administration the risk of being the first university to collect and publish these results; because no other universities had conducted investigations following the National Academies report, readers may incorrectly assume the issue is specific to Michigan Medicine. “When I talked to our deans, Marschall Runge and Carol Bradford, they were so incredibly supportive of this,” Jagsi said. See MEDTOO, Page 3
SACUA discusses challenges OIE releases two facing U-M press, library system reports on ‘U’ Representatives also talk issues regarding University funding ADMINISTRATION
sexual misconduct Disclosed information reveals decrease in submitted claims from students, faculty LIAT WEINSTEIN Daily Staff Reporter
The Office of Institutional Equity released two annual reports related to faculty and staff sexual misconduct and prohibited student conduct Monday. Both reports reveal decreased numbers of sexual misconduct claims submitted to OIE. Since 2013, OIE has published annual reports on student sexual misconduct to disclose information about how many instances of sexual misconduct are reported to the University each year. Last year, OIE began releasing an additional annual report on instances of sexual misconduct perpetrated by faculty, staff and third parties. The University’s sexual misconduct policy, and OIE’s handling of sexual misconduct cases, have been under debate for more than a year. This past January, the University amended its sexual misconduct policy to incorporate an in-person hearing after the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a student must be given an opportunity to cross-examine the accuser. The University has also spent $1.6 million defending against the Doe v. Baum lawsuit, which alleges the University’s policies violate due process of those accused of sexual misconduct.
The report on prohibited student conduct found that between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019, OIE received 272 reports of actions labelled “prohibited conduct” — 126 of which were sexual assault claims. According to the University Record, this is 23 fewer sexual assault claims than were reported last year. In total, the number of reports decreased slightly from 277 last year to 272 this year. In October, the results of a campus climate survey and a Division of Public Safety and Security report found differences in rates of sexual misconduct for minority students, women, members of the LGBTQ+ community and students with disabilities. The DPSS report also noted the number of reported on-campus sexual assaults increased in 2018 from previous years. In the report, OIE also discusses how reports were addressed and offers educational and preventative measures to counter sexual misconduct. Jeffery Frumkin, associate vice provost and interim senior director of OIE, told the University Record more information about how to report instances of misconduct have changed reporting patterns in the past few years.
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BEN ROSENFELD Daily Staff Reporter
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs representatives met in the Fleming Administrative Building to discuss University of Michigan funding and challenges facing the University library system and the University Press on Monday afternoon. James Hilton, University librarian and dean of libraries, and Charles Watkinson, director of the U-M Press, both attended
the meeting to offer insights and answer questions from faculty representatives. The first topic of discussion was open access, or the ability for University faculty and students to get access to research materials and e-books without facing a paywall. “The way that I think people here have tended to talk about open access — and (the way) people in library communities tend to talk about open access — is as almost a moral right of readers to have access to information,” Hilton said.
According to Hilton, the issue of copyrights is related to open access. Copyrights can often hinder the ability of the University to gain access to potential library resources. Hilton says the issue of copyrights is something all universities must contend with in developing their library systems, and one that is more complex than many would assume. “Lots of people think that the only things that are copywritten are things that are formally published, or things that
you attach a copyright notice to, or something like that,” Hilton said. “That is not true. If I sit down right now and take that piece of paper and write some new creative expression, it is protected by copyright from the moment that I write it.” Hilton also addressed a recent push to enter into an agreement with the other 13 Big Ten universities which could reduce the costs of publishing and purchasing library resources like e-books. See SACUA , Page 3
ASHA LEWIS/Daily University Librarian and Dean of Libraries James Hilton speaks about library open access at a SACUA meeting in the Fleming Administration Building Monday afternoon.
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Vol. CXXIX, No. 27 ©2019 The Michigan Daily
NEWS.........................2 OPINION.....................4 CLASSIFIEDS................6
SUDOKU.....................2 ARTS...................5 SPORTS.................7