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City to review ordinance on Jan.18
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Arbor City Council Member Sabra
Briere (D-Ward 1), who played a
significant role in proposing the
revisions, explained the coun-
cil's reasoning behind the three
most significant revisions. Briere
said she supports the increase in
the number of dispensaries and
cultivation facilities since they
can result in economic growth
throughout the city.
"There's a lot of economic
potential in this business," Briere
said.
The second revision involves
removing a section from the ordi-
nance that would have required
home growers to register with the
city.
Briere said this requirement
would likely have done more
harm than good, since it would
have deterred home growers from
applying for city inspections for
fear of having their information
recorded on an official list.
"We felt making it possible
for people to be inspected by city
building inspectors but not have
their name appear on a list ... was
agood idea," Briere said.
The final revision would make
it possible for people charged
with drug-related misdemeanors
to open a dispensary. This change
was especially important, Briere
said, since she expects some peo-
ple who will be qualified to open
dispensaries won't have spotless
legal records.
"We are talking about some-
thing that isn't 100 percent legal,"
Briere said. "We can't expect the
people doing it to be 100 percent
law-abiding."
However, the proposed ordi-
nance still prohibits people
charged with any felony from
operating a cultivation facility or
dispensary. They also wouldn't be
able to serve as home growers.
The current ordinance also
states that all cultivation facilities
and dispensaries must have secu-
rity cameras and alarms in the
areas, in addition to an overnight
system that secures .the medical
marijuana. In adherence to the
guidelines in the current ordi-
nance, the cultivation facilities
would have to prove there is a ven-
tilation system in place that deters
marijuana fumes.
The revised ordinance will
appear before City Council for a
first reading at its Jan. 18 meeting,
Briere said.
If approved at that meetifig, the
ordinance will advance to a pub-
lic hearing and a second reading
before being voted on. If passed,
the ordinance will followa tempo-
rary moratorium expiring Jan. 31
that regulates medical marijuana
in the city, according to a Dec. 7,
2010 Michigan Daily article.
As of last night Ric
Rodriguez still coach
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than three hours on Tuesday after-
noon, according to reports, to dis-
cuss Rodriguez's future with the
program. But no official announce-
ment came down from Brandon.
According to the AP, the two will
meet again today.
Their first meeting came just
three days after the worst bowl loss
in Michigan history - the 52-14
throttling at the hands of Mis-
sissippi State on New Year's Day.
Leading up to the game, Rodriguez
didn't mention the elephant in the
room - his uncertain status as
head coach - until the day before
the Gator Bowl. Junior defensive
tackle Mike Martin said he really
hasn't seen it wear it on Rodriguez.
"He never mentioned it or talked
about it because he felt that we as
a team, we were working," Mar-
tin said after the Gator Bowl. "It
didn't seem like it was affecting
us in practice and things like that.
But he's a human. He's a man. Put-
ting constant stress on someone is
going to naturally wear down on'
someone. He's such a strong man.
All of these coaches are strong
people. That wasn't something we
could see. ... They've been in the
fire. I give it to them."
By yesterday evening, the Uni-
versity's Athletic Department
released a statement deflecting any
of the reports about Rodriguez's
status and deferred to Brandon's
forthcoming official announce-
ment.
"Everything that is being
reported is media speculation
at this point," Michigan Associ-
ate Athletic Director Dave Ablauf
wrote in the statement. "The
definitive voice on this matter is
Dave Brandon and he has not and
will not speak publicly until a final
decision has been made. I will let
you know when Dave is prepared
to comment."
Sources, who wished to remain
anonymous, told the Daily that a
team meeting originally scheduled
for 7 p.m. yesterday was re-sched-
uled to 4 p.m. today. Any deci-
sion regarding Rodriguez's future
could be announced during the
meeting with the entire team.
Former Michigan quarterback
and current Stanford coach Jim
Harbaugh may be out of the run-
ning to replace Rodriguez if he
is fired. Multiple reports said
Harbaugh would prefer to stay at
Stanford or bolt to the NFL before
returning to his alma mater. And,
John Harbaugh - who coaches the
Baltimore Ravens - doesn't think
his brother will coach the Wolver-
ines if a spot is open.
"I don't know what he's going
to do," John Harbaugh said on his
radio show on WBAL yesterday. "I
think the Michigan thing is done
now. I don't think he's interested
in doing that, which is hard for him
because he loves Michigan. But it
says a lot about Stanford and we'll
just see what happens.
But for now, Rodriguez is still
the coachofthe Wolverines despite
conflicting reports as to whether
Brandon has already made his
decision.
SALARY REPORT
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and deans declined merit-based
salary increases. At the time, fac-
ulty wages increased on average
by 2.3 percent and staff wages
increased by 0.7 percent, which
was reported by a 2009 University
press release on the salary report
as one of the lowest increases in
the past decade. However, from
2008-2009, faculty and staff not
belonging to a union earned wages
that increased by 4.4 percent and
,3.2 percent, respectively.
The increases are detailed
in the University's Faculty and
Staff Disclosure Report, which is
released on a yearly basis, and was
made public for the 2010-2011 aca-
demic year on Dec. 20, 2010.
The University's salary report
listed Ora Pescovitz, executive
vice president for medical affairs
at the University, as having the
highest base compensation for the
second year in a row. Pescovitz
will earn $721,000 for 2010-2011,
which is a 3-percent increase
'from her previous year's salary of
$700,000. She could also receive
$100,000 in deferred compensa-
tion each year, in addition to a
performance bonus, according to
a Dec. 24, 2009 Michigan Daily
article.
Douglas Strong, chief execu-
tive officer of the University's
Hospitals and Health Centers,
now holds the second highest base
salary at the University. Strong
received a raise of 9.8 percent
over his salary last year to earn
$600,000, according to the salary
DREAM ACT
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University Consortium for
Political and Social Research,
said the DREAM Act is one part
of immigration reform that would
allow people to see the issue as
having a larger scope than border
security and law enforcement.
The bill would permit illegal
immigrants who graduate from
U.S. high schools to stay in the
country if they complete two
years of military service or two
years at a higher education insti-
tution. In order for the DREAM
Act to apply, they would have had
to enter the U.S. before the age of
16 and reside here for five years.
Garcia said in late December
that he believes the DREAM Act
will now be difficult to pass since
Republicans take the House this
month and there were few con-
servative representatives who
voted for the bill on Dec. 8. Eight
Republicans voted in support of
the bill when it went for a vote
in the House on that date, and 20
chose not to vote, according to a
Dec. 9 Michigan Daily article.
Garcia said in an interview in
late November that the DREAM
Act should be passed because it
would produce a new generation
of workers and highly-educated
citizens to fill vacant jobs as the
current workforce moves toward
retirement.
Citing America's history as a
nation comprised of immigrants,
Garcia said the nation relies on
immigrant workers in service
jobs like agriculture as well as in
the high-tech worlds of science
and engineering.
Lynn Shotwell, executive
director of the American Council
on International Personnel and
a University Law School alum,
echoed Garcia's sentiments. She
said the future workforce needs
access to all the talent available,
which may come from people
who were born outside the U.S.
According to Shotwell, more
than 50 percent of graduates at
the masters and doctoral levels
are from foreign nations. How-
ever, because green cards are lim-.
ited, she said it is vital to promise
green cards to people who are
report.
Staff at the University of Michi-
gan Health System - a finan-
cially independent institution
- received a 3.3-percent salary
increase in 2010-2011, accord-
ing to the press release. The year
before, they didn't receive a base
salary increase.
"These staff have helped us
maintain stable financial health
despite a highly challenging
health care environment over the
past two years," Strong wrote in
the press release.
Erik Lundberg, the University's
chief investment officer, formerly
earned the second-highest base
salary but lost the position this
year after a 0.7-percent decline in
his base salary. He is currently the
fourth-highest paid at the Univer-
sity with a salary of $575,000. Last
year Lundberg had the largest sal-
ary increase at 18 percent, accord-
ing to the Daily article.
Royster Harper, the Univer-
sity's vice president for student
affairs, is the executive officer
with the highest salary increase
for 2010-2011 with a 16.2-percent
raise -2.8 percent of this increase
is based on merit. The difference
represents a salary adjustment,
accordingto the salaryreport. Her
base salary is currently $293,822.
With $577,360, Athletic.Direc-
tor David Brandon has the third-
highest base salary, earning a
52-percent increase over what his
predecessor Bill Martin earned.
After accepting her 3-percent
raise this fall, University Presi-
dent Mary Sue Coleman now
receivesabasesalaryof $570,105-
not including other bonuses and
compensations. Coleman's salary
is the fifth highest of University
employees, according to the sal-
ary report.
Coleman's total compensa-
tion last year was $783,850. Like
the University's deans and other
executive officers, Coleman
abstained from receiving a merit-
based increase for the 2009-2010
academic year. Coleman's salary
increased by 4 percent, or about
$21,000, in 2008-2009, according
to a Nov. 17, 2008 Michigan Daily
article.
The Chronicle of Higher Edu-
cation listed Coleman as the
sixth-highest paid public univer-
sity president in 2009.
University Provost Philip Han-
Ion wrote in the press release
that he thinks this year's staff
and faculty salary increases are
necessary incentives to keep
"high-performing" faculty at the
University.
"It is important that we work
hard to retain our high-perform-
ing and internationally competi-
tive faculty and staff members,"
Hanlon wrote in the press release.
Hanlon added that budget-
ary decisions are made with the
University's relationship with
the state and Southeast Michigan
area in mind.
"The budget choices we make
are tied to important princi-
ples, including maintaining and
enhancing our ability to contrib-
ute to the state and the region,"
Hanlon said. '"We continue to
make reasonable investments in
our extraordinary faculty and
staff so we can fulfill this respon-
sibility."
SALAM RIDA/
Researchers working at the University's Comprehensive Cancer Research Center on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011
With10. million grant U
cancer center to research
colon and pancreatic cancers
graduating in order to guarantee
a solid workforce.
If changes aren't put into
place, Shotwell said America will
be forced to further outsource
domestic work.
"If the United States doesn't
adapt to immigration polices that
facilitate international business
that allow global companies to
move people around the world
expeditiously, then companies
are going to be forced to find
other ways to get that business
done - whether that means open-
ing facilities abroad or moving
workers abroad," Shotwell said.
Silvia Pedraza, a University
professor of sociology and Ameri-
can culture, said the DREAM
Act would reduce the need for
people to come to America ille-
gally, which is vital for progress
on immigration reform.
Immigration allows the U.S.
to "benefit from the talent that
comes from the rest of the world,"
Pedraza said.
But LSA sophomore Brian
Koziara, vice chair of external
relations for the University's
chapter of College Republicans,
said the DREAM Act provides an
incentive for illegal immigration
by promising citizenship to the
children of illegal immigrants if
they fit the criteria.
"The purpose and intent of the
act is good ... (but) the way (the
DREAM Act) goes about it is fun-
damentally flawed,"Ktiziara said.
Koziara added that he's glad
the legislation didn't pass in
its current state, as he said he
thinks the federal government
needs to enforce and strengthen
the nation's current immigration
laws before implementing the
DREAM Act.
Sherrie Kossoudji, an associ-
ate professor in the University's
School of Social Work, said the
DREAM Act does have its ben-
efits, but also said the country's
immigration policy should be
changed generally because peo-
ple who live their whole lives in
the country can still be deported.
"Someone can grow up in the
United States, go all the way
through college in the United
States, only know the United
States as home, and be deported
because they were brought here
without papers as a baby," Kos-
soudji said.
Garcia said he believes oppo-
nents of immigration reform
often have hostile arguments
because the issue is often tied to
domestic concerns like competi-
tion for American jobs and ter-
rorism.
"When we think about terror-
ism, we think about people who
may be immigrants who are com-
ing from other parts of the world,
so immigration and terrorism
gets intertwined," he said.
Garcia said he would like to
see the United States reform its
immigration policy by allowing
people from other countries to
fill the allocation of nations that
don't have as many people apply-
ing to live in America. For exam-
ple, countries like Switzerland
have fewer immigrants to the
U.S. than the reserved capacity
allowed - leaving unused spots
that could be given to other immi-
grants.
Garcia acknowledged that
immigration reform is a tough
issue for politicians like President
Barack Obama, but criticized
the president for putting more
emphasis on enforcement, secu-
rity and workplace raids rather
than worker programs and other
similar initiatives.
"He's getting hit on both
sides," Garcia said. "It's a no-win
situation."
Immigrants applying to
become legal U.S. citizens may
wait 10 to 12 years after they file
their initial petition. Given this
wait time, Garcia said he would
like to see the United States
implement a naturalization pol-
icy for people who have become
established in America and are
paying taxes and supporting their
communities.
Garcia continued by saying
that this would be a more rational
approach to the matter because
even if illegal immigrants are
caught, the deportation pro-
cess isn't solving all the current
issues. In 2008, only 390,000
immigrants were deported out of
the 10 to 12 million who lived in
America, he said.
- The Associated Press
contributed to this report.
Funds will help effort to bridge the basic science
to the clinic," he wrote in the press
transfer research to release.,
Diane Simeone, a professor and
clinic setting associate chair of research at the
Medical School and the principal
By CLAIRE GOSCICKI investigator on a project that will
Daily StaffReporter investigate therapies for treat-
ing pancreatic cancer, echoed
Researchers at the University's Brenner's sentiments and said in an
Comprehensive Cancer Center may interview Monday that the oppor-
be one step closer to understanding tunity to work with other experts is
the mechanisms of colorectal and a benefit of the grant.
pancreatic cancers due to a $10.7 "I'm most excited about the fact
million grant it recently received. that we have this unifying grant
The Specialized Programs of that really cements us all together,
Research Excellence (SPORE) gives us a great reason to meet
grant for gastrointestinal cancers, regularly and enhances our overall
provided by the National Cancer research program," Simeone, said.
Institute, will provide the Cancer . She continued, "Having the
Center with five years of funding to grant and working together to exe-
be used toward four separate proj- cute it is really the highlight of the
ects. whole process."
The grant was initially awarded Simeone said she hopes the
last August, but the researchers department will sustain its funding
received the funds and started their and continue to address the prob-
work last month. lems involved with colon and pan-
Investigators from the Univer- creatic cancer.
sity's Medical School and School of She added that due to the aggres-
Public Health will collaborate on sive nature of both cancers, finding
researching prevention and detec- a way to decrease mortality rates
tion measures for colorectal and hasbeen"avery tough nut to crack."
pancreatic cancers as well as new The focus of the Translational
and improved treatments for pan- Research Program, the NCI sector
creatic cancer. that deals with SPORE grants, on
Dean Brenner, who is the princi- clinical trials and the funding ofup-
pal investigator of the SPORE grant and-coming investigators may spur
and a professor of internal medicine- progress, Simeone said.
and pharmacology at the Medical "A huge positive (of the grant) is
School, wrote in a Dec. 22, 2010 havingtheopportunitytooffer aset
University of Michigan Health Sys- of funds to help young investigators
tem press release that it is essential get their research into the field of
to apply new findings toward clini- gastrointestinal oncology," Sime-
cal settings. one said.
"This grant represents a major The University Hospital, which
is the only institution in the state
receiving SPORE funding, cur-
rently holds two additional SPORE
grants in the departments of inter-
nal medicine and otolaryngology
- the study of the ears, nose and
throat.
The objective of the SPORE
grants, according to the NCI web-
site, is "to reduce cancer incidence
and mortality, and to improve sur-
vival and quality of life for cancer
patients."
The NCI website states that
funding can be applied toward
researching17 different organ sites,
including the brain, lungs, skin
and, in the case of the University's
department of otolaryngology, the
head and neck.
Toby Hecht, the associate direc-
tor of the NCI's Translational
Research Program, said anywhere
between 35 and 40 medical depart-
ments across the country apply for
SPORE grants each year. Currently,
there are 67 active grants distrib-
uted to academic institutions across
23 states, according to the NCI's
website.
Hecht added that the selec-
tion process for grant applicants is
based on determining which insti-
tutions will perform the best scien-
tific work with the funding.
"We don't particularly try to bal-
ance the organ sites," Hecht said.
"We do it based on science - the
best science rules."
Once the funding for the Uni-
versity's gastroenterology SPORE
grants ceases in 2015, the Medical
School will have the opportunity to
apply for another if it wishes, Hecht
said.
SUCCESSORS
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around the post-Carr head coach-
ing job in 2007, the one that ulti-
mately went to Rodriguez. Fans
were disappointed when Michigan
didn't hire Miles; Miles has been a
head coach in two of the nation's
top BCS conferences since 2001,
and he's won a national title. He
hasn't had a team that lost more
than eight games in a season since
his first season at Oklahoma State
in 2001.
Miles, whose late-game clock
mismanagement and grass-eating
talents have been well-document-
ed, might be a little risky or eccen-
tric for Ann Arbor, but fans would
enjoy a proven winner. Miles's
name is popping up less frequently
than Harbaugh or Hoke, but he's
worth keeping in mind.
Other names being tossed
around: Gary Patterson (current
TCU football coach), Chris Peter-
son (current Boise State football
coach), Kyle Whittingham (cur-
rent Utah head coach) and Jon
Gruden (current NFL Monday
Night Football analyst).
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