Hot three-point o shooting carried ' the men's hoops team over Iowa in an overtime thriller last night. PAGE 8A L7bIe ,1kii an 40aig Ann Arbor, Michigan Wednesday, February 17,2010 michigandaily.com IT1E [J)UATIONAL EXPERIENCE Lecturer pool size outaces increasesIn tenure faculty Provost says greater BY THE NUMBERS increase in lecturers Hiring instructors at the University hasn't hurt 9% classroom experience increase in the numberottenuredand tenure-trackfaculty at the University By JOSEPH LICHTERMAN over the last five years. Daily Staff Reporter 40 % The number of lecturers working at the University increased 40 per- The Uncrese in the number of lecturers at cent over the lastfive years - a num- ber that far outpaces the 9-percent increase in the number of tenured and tenure-track University faculty Number of undergraduates and graduate over that same period of time. students enrolled in thefall 2000. But Provost Teresa Sullivan says that discrepancy hasn't hurt the education experience offered by the 41r674 University, arguing instead that lec- Number of undergraduates and graduate turers are often in unique positions students enrolled in fall 2009. to better teach underclassmen in lower-level classes. members whose primary occupa, According to the Integrated Post- tional responsibility is teaching; secondary Education Data System, Individualswith courtesytitles wh an internal system for keeping Uni- are unpaid or faculty whose primary versity data, the number of Univer- appointment is administrative, but sity professors - including those still have some teaching responsi- who have tenure and those on the bilities, are not counted in the data. tenure track - increased about 9 Likewise, the University's percent, from 1,263 in 2004 to 1,373 Human Resources department has last year. Meanwhile, the number of compileddata that shows a similar lecturers increased by about 40 per- trend. But, unlike the IPEDS study, cent, from 546 lecturers in 2004 to the Human Resources data includes 766 in 2009. all faculty members, regardless of IPEDS data only counts faculty See HIRES, Page 7A JAKE FROMM/Da itsMore photos at Members of the men's soccer team perform at Hill Audtorium last night as part of Murk tRk 2010. The fundraiser features skits phto a performed by Michigan varsity athletes. The women's cross country and track teams won the talent competition. MICH IGAN STUDENT ASSEMBLY MSA bA MSAbegins process of picking student health in1,1surance lvendor Aetna plan is the frontrunner for MSA endorsement By ELYANA TWIGGS Daily StaffReporter At last night's Michigan Stu- dent Assembly meeting, the assembly began the process of choosing a student health insur- ance vendor to endorse. This year is a bid year, which means differ- ent insurance NOTEBOOK providers will be bidding for the opportunity to provide studenthealthinsurance. MSA will have the opportunity to endorse one of the companies. Four members of University Health Service's Student Insur- ance Committee lobbied for their proposed insurance provider option to MSA at last night's meeting. The Student Insurance Committee includes Chief Health Officer Robert Winfield, students and other parties. At the meet- ing, the committee introduced Aetna Student Health - the same health plan that has been avail- able to University students for the last 10 years - as the most compatible option for students. Karen Klever, student insur- ance manager at UHS, said Aetna Student Health was the best option out of 14 potential compa- nies. "Our choice (was) determined by what other schools in the Big Ten are doing in terms of insur- ance plans," Klever said. Mahanti said the assembly See MSA, Page 7A MICHIGAN PROMISE SCHOLARSHIP 'U' students skeptical of revamped Promise grant In proposed budget, scholarship would 0 become $4,000 tax credit By TORREY ARMSTRONG Daily StaffReporter After the fate of the Michigan Promise Scholarship experienced a rollercoaster ride of ups and downs before ultimately being cut in the state's final budget for the 2010 fiscal year, the fate of the grant program has now taken another turn. Democratic Gov. Jennifer Gra- nholm unveiled a plan to restore the Promise Scholarship in a new form in her budget proposal released Thursday. Under Gra- nholm's plan, the scholarship would reappear in the 2011 fiscal year budget, but this time as a tax credit given to graduates of state universities who stay in Michigan to work for a year or longer after completing their education. Students interviewed over the last week said that while Gran- holm's plan to reinstate the Prom- ise Scholarship is a good initiative, some expressed skepticism as to whether legislators will actually follow through with the proposal since it's in the form of a tax cred- it. In addition, students voiced concern that a $4,000 tax credit may not be enough of an incentive to keep graduates in Michigan. The original Promise Schol- arship program - which 6,096 University students were eligible for this academic year, accord- See PROMISE, Page 7A CAMPUS SAFETY Greek community uses workshops to battle sexual assault statistics EMILY CH iU/Dai Dr. Tachi Yamada spoke yesterday about child health care in developing nations in the Biomedical Science Research Building. Global Health Program pres. talks health care in developing nations Official: One-in-five students will be a victim of sexual assault at college By VERONICA MENALDI Daily StaffReporter In an effort to combat the prev- alence of sexual assault on cam- WEATHER HI 32 TOMORROW LO: 25 pus, the Greek community has been holding chapter workshops with the Sexual Assault Preven- tion and Awareness Center and campus organizations to inform fraternities and sororities about sexual assault and discuss ways to prevent it. Aimee Nimeh, SAPAC assistant director for education and train- ing, said there are no statistics regarding sexual assaults at the University and within the Greek GOT A NEWS TIP? Call 734-763-2459 or e-mail newssmichigandaily.com and let us community. However, according to the Department of Justice, 10.3 percent of sexual assaults take place in fraternity houses across the country. In addition, nearly 60 percent of sexual assaults occur in a victim's living quarters. Nimeh said one-in-five students will be a victim of a completed or attempted sexual assault during his or her time at a university. Nimeh added that, with those See SEXUAL ASSAULT, Page 7A At campus event, Dr. Yamada challenges University students By CAITLIN HUSTON Daily StaffReporter Tachi Yamada, president of the Bill and Melinda Gates Founda- tion's Global Health Program, encouraged students and faculty to think ofuniversities as the place to solve tomorrow's health care problems, at a speech he delivered on campus yesterday. Addressing a crowd of about 250 physicians, medical students and undergraduates in the Bio- medical Science Research Build- ing's Kahn Auditorium, Yamada spoke about the program's pri- mary goal, "to reduce the number of unwanted deaths among chil- dren." The Global Health Program has several grant initiatives like Grand Challenges Explorations, which provides $100,000 to pro- fessional researchers or students who come up with a new idea for treating health conditions in developing nations. Yamada said one invention that came out of this program was the Kangaroo Mother's Care, a strap that a human mother can wear so that she has skin-to-skin contact with her baby. This allows low- birthweight infants to be warmer, promotes bonding and provides protection against infections. He added that ideas for the Global Health Program' could come from University students, adding that he noticed,. "young See GLOBAL HEALTH, Page 7A NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM Check out pictures of a Fat Tuesday favorite. MICHIGANDAILY.COM/BLOGS/THE TABLE INDEX NEWS Vol.CXX,No.96 OPINION..................... (02 The Michigan Daily ARTS .................... michigondoily.com " " ..2A CLASSIFIEDS....................6A .4A SPORTS. . .... .....8A .5A THESTATEMENT........1B i