A person on break used the spool rope, which is usually used in surgical procedures, to practice tying a knot used in fishing called a “Uni Knot,” according to the University of Michigan’s Division of Public Safety and Security. The person then returned the spool to a storage area, where an employee discovered it the next day.
“It was a case of [the rope] getting moved by several different people,” said Heather Young, director of strategic communications for DPSS.
A Michigan Medicine employee reported finding the rope on a shared desk June 20. At the time, University of Michigan Medical School dean Marschall S. Runge, MD, PhD, called the rope a “symbol of hate and discrimination.”
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