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HANLON
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mouth, the college's student
newspaper, the next president
would need to be someone who
would not only emphasize aca-
demia to a greater degree than
former presidents, but also some-
one who's willing to address some
of the problems plaguingthe cam-
pus social scene.
Some expressed disappoint-
ment with Kim's lack of will-
ingness to address the more
negative aspects of the school's
social scene. Some blamed the
Greek system, in part, for the
binge drinking, sexual assault
and hazing that are reportedly
common on Dartmouth's campus,
but all agree that the previous
two presidents have not done an
adequate job of addressing these
problems.
Dartmouth English Prof. Ivy
Schweitzer told The Dartmouth
that the next president must be
willing to encourage faculty to
address the campus social scene.
"We have this kind of negative
legacyfrom Kim about bystanders
and the idea that we can't do any-
thing about it and can't change
the culture," she said. "The presi-
dent will have to deal with that
because it just has to be changed
on campus."
Faculty also spoke to a desire
' for a president who would empha-
size academia in a way previous
presidents have not.
"I think Kim left a bad taste
in a lot of people's mouths about
the corporatization of the institu-
tion," Schweitzer said. "We seem
to pay more attention to how the
endowment is doing, how compa-
rable our salaries are."
This sentiment was reinforced
in an e-mail sent to Dartmouth
students on Thursday by Stephen
Mandel, the chair of Dartmouth's
Board of Trustees, announcing
the board's selection of Hanlon
for the presidency.
"Phil's impressive experience
as provost of the University of
Michigan - with 95 departments
in the top 10 nationally and $L27
billion in annual research spend-
ing, second among all universities
- means that Dartmouth will be
in very capable hands," Mandel
wrote in the e-mail. "Phil truly
understands how great scholar-
ship and research are essential to
an undergraduate learning expe-
rience that produces leaders who
can shape and change a world that
is increasingly complex, diverse
and interdisciplinary."
There seemed to be a consen-
sus among faculty that the next
president would need to under-
stand the school's idiosyncrasies,
though they did not expect the
president to come from within.
Faculty also emphasized their
interest in a president with experi-
ence in academia.
Hanlon fit the bill as an alum
familiar with the college, but com-
ing from a different institution,
he has the potential to bring fresh
ideas. His experience in academia
and with administration also
made him an attractive candidate
to the board.
Hanlon acknowledged he will
need to familiarize himself with
"what's going on with the Dart-
mouth campus," but added he has
a sense of what his job will be once
he arrives.
"As with any college or univer-
sity, there are two core pieces of
the mission," Hanlon said. "One
is preparing leaders to go out and
change the world and the other
is to advance knowledge to try to
better people's lives. I'll be want-
ing to work to advance both of
those at Dartmouth."
Former University President
James Duderstadt said in an inter-
view that Hanlon's broad range of
experiences made him a good fit
for Dartmouth.
"Beyond the fact that he's the
alumnus, he's had a very deep
commitment to undergraduate
education, particularly in the lib-
eral arts, which is characteristic of
Dartmouth College," Duderstadt
said. "He'll also bring to the insti-
tution, which calls itself a college
but it has many of the same attri-
butes as the University of Michi-
gan, with significant research
activities, a major medical cen-
ter and so forth, experience both
from leading his department, and
then beinga senior associate dean
of LSA and then finally as provost.
Duderstadt added that he
expects aprimary responsibility of
Hanlon's to be fundraising, which
will be somewhat of a change from
his role as the University's chief
academic and budgetary officer.
"I'm sure that Dartmouth, like
most universities, face significant
financial challenges, although
nothing at the level that Michigan
faces right now," Duderstadt said.
"Most of his activity will be work-
ingwith alumni, major donors and
so forth.
Hanlon, too, noted that he
expects his responsibilities to
shift as he transitions from Uni-
versity provost to president of
Dartmouth.
"One of the big roles of the pres-
ident at any college or university is
fundraising, so that'll be a big part
of my job, I'm sure," Hanlon said.
University Vice-Provost Mar-
tha Pollack said in an interview
that while she will "miss him ter-
ribly," Hanlon will thrive in his
new role.
"Phil is a very skilled leader,"
Pollack said. "He can lead people
to shared goals, he can foster in
excellence and outstanding work,
he has been able to implement fis-
cal discipline, and I think all of
those skills will transfer perfectly
to Dartmouth."
Pollack noted that in his time as
provost, Hanlon has successfully
navigated the University through
difficult financial times.
"He's implemented a real fiscal
discipline that's very important
across universities," Pollack said.
Hanlon has been described
by Pollack and others, includ-
ing University Regent Katherine
White (D-Ann Arbor), as passion-
ate about undergraduate teach-
ing and other academic pursuits.
In an interview, White pointed
to classes Hanlon taught this
fall - including Calculus I and a
course on the University's budget
process titled "The Challenge of
College Affordability: Financing
the University," which he taught
with Pollack - to demonstrate his
commitment to improving under-
graduate coursework.
"He's very focused on the
undergraduate educational expe-
rience and how to take that expe-
rience into the next century and
make sure that the classroom is a
place where students and faculty
are engaged in discussions and
problem solving in ways that are
different from their standard lec-
ture format," White said.
White added that Hanlon has
lived up to expectations.
"I'm very grateful for all the
work Phil Hanlon has done for this
University," she said. "I wish him
the best. Dartmouth is very lucky
to have him. He inspires people.
He has great integrity. That's all
you can ask for someone."
In a campus-wide e-mail, Uni-
versity President Mary Sue Cole-
man praised Hanlon for his work
in multiple roles at the University.
"As a teacher and Thurnau
professor, his passion for under-
graduate education is palpable,"
Coleman wrote. "As provost since
2010, he has steered the Univer-
sity through some of its most fis-
cally challenging years, all the
while advancing our academic
excellence and impact."
Coleman wrote that she will
name an interim provost in
"upcoming weeks."
In his capacity as chief aca-
demic officer, Hanlon worked
closely with the Senate Advisory
Committee on University Affairs,
and developed a particularly close
relationship with the Provost's
Advisory Committee on Budget-
ary Affairs, according to SACUA
chair Kimberly Kearfott. Kear-
fott said Hanlon would prepare
materials for the committee to
help them understand University
financial issues.
She said the working relation-
ship between SACUA and Hanlon
has been excellent.
"He's been totally open, very
transparent and very accommo-
dating during my term," Kear-
fott said. "It would be very hard
to match Phil Hanlon's activities
during this academic year in that
regard. The new provost should
definitely be an academic com-
mitted to both the research and
teaching enterprises who strongly
supports faculty governance."
Though Kearfott expressed
content with her working rela-
tionship with Hanlon during her
term .as SACUA chair, the rela-
tionship between SACUA and
Hanlon wasn't without disagree-
ment during his time as provost.
In April 2011, the body was
outwardly opposed to Han-
lon's recommendation to extend
the faculty tenure probation-
ary period from eight years to 10
years. The change was ultimately
approved by the University's
Board of Regents.
In addition to earning an
undergraduate degree from Dart-
mouth, Hanlon graduated Phi
Beta Kappa from the institution.
He went on to earn a doctoral
degree from the California Insti-
tute of Technology in 1981, before
teaching applied mathematics at
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and serving as the
Bantrell Fellow at CIT.
Hanlon made his way to the
University in 1986, serving first as
an associate professor, and then
making his way up to professor in
1990, ArthurF. Thurnau professor
in 1992 and D.J. Lewis Professor of
Mathematics in 2001. Then from
2001-2004, Hanlon served as LSA
associate dean for planning and
finance before becoming vice pro-
vost for academic and budgetary
affairs from 2004-2010.
He took on the position of
provost in 2010, and as such has
served as the chief academic offi-
cer and chief budgetary officer for
the University.
Hanlon's transition to Dart-
mouth will be informed by some
significant differences between
the two institutions. The Univer-
sity, known as a leading public
research university, spent $1.28
billion on research in 2011, while
Dartmouth expended about
$202.7 million on research for the
same fiscal year.
Dartmouth College was found-
ed in 1769 and is a member of the
Ivy League. The school has 4,194
undergraduates and 1,950 gradu-
ate students, numbers that pale
in comparison to the University
of Michigan's 27,407 undergradu-
ates and 15,447 graduate students.
However, both schools have
performed well with respect to
their endowments. Dartmouth's
endowment is valued at $3.4 bil-
lion, and it yielded a higher return
on investment than any other
school in the Ivy League for the
2012 fiscal year. The University
of Michigan, meanwhile, with
an endowment of $7.57 billion,
ranked seventh in the nation for
largest endowment, and ranked
third among public institutions.
Hanlon said he is prepared to
face the vast differences between
the two institutions.
"Remember that I know Dart-
mouth," he said. "I've been there,
I've been part of that community.
I know it'll be different but I've
always liked learning things. I'm
always happiest when I'm learn-
ing new things. So I'll be learning
a new place, a new kind of envi-
ronment and I'm kind of looking
forward to that."
-Editor in Chief Joseph
Lichterman and Daily Staff
Reporter Peter Shahin
contributed to this report.
PROVOST
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announced she would leave to
become president at the Univer-
sity of Virginia.
James Duderstadt, the Uni-
versity's president from 1988 to
1996 who also served as provost,
said it's critical for the provost
and president to have a strong
working relationship.
"One of the challenges, of
course, is the president and pro-
vost form a very important team,
and typically you want the presi-
dent to have a significant influ-
ence over the provost that she
or he will work with," Duder-
stadt said in an interview. "Since
(Coleman) is approaching the
end of her tenure at Michigan,
she'll probably appoint an inter-
im provost. The next permanent
provost will most likely be cho-
sen by the next president."
While the president's main
focus is generally promoting
the University externally - to
donors, government officials,
alumni and others - the provost
typically works internally and
is responsible for the Univer-
sity's academic budget and the
University's dean's report to the
provost.
"It takes a very intimate rela-
tionship between the provost
and the president to balance the
inside and the outside and to
make sure the university stays
on a stable course," Duderstadt
said. "That's why the decision of
picking a provost is very much a
decision that needs to be made
by the president."
Working in an interim capac-
ity before becoming the Uni-
versity's provost from 2002 to
2005, Paul Courant, now the
dean of libraries, said he helped
Coleman adjust to the presi-
dency when she first arrived in
Ann Arbor from the University
of Iowa in 2002.
"I was able to introduce her,
as it were, to the campus and
introduce the campus to her,"
Courant said. "I think that was
useful to her."
Courant said he had no direct
knowledge of -the search pro-
cess, but noted the candidate for
interim provost would "certain-
ly be an insider" as opposed to
someone hired from outside the
University in order to ease the
transition.
Historically, the Univer-
sity has promoted from within
whenever it chooses, a new pro-
vost. Sullivan, who came to the
University in 2006 from the
University of Texas, was the
first provost hired from outside
the University since at least the
1940s, Duderstadt said.
Because provosts at the Uni-
versity have many responsibili-
ties - serving as both the chief
academic and budgetary officer
- it's often helpful to appoint
someone to the position who
already has an understanding of
how the institution works, Dud-
erstadt said.
"(Sullivan) demonstrated
in a very convincing way that
you can come from outside and
provide able leadership," Dud-
erstadt said. "So, you certainly
don't want to rule out outside
candidates, although the tradi-
tion is that people typically look
inside for those candidates."
The nature of the provost
position at the University has
also resulted in a long history
of University provosts moving
onto presidencies, either at the
University or elsewhere.
Before Sullivan left for Vir-
ginia, former Provost Nancy
Cantor, who held the post from
1997-2001, left the University to
assume the chancellor position
at the University of Illinois and
then the presidency at Syracuse
University. Her predecessor,
Bernard Machen, left the Uni-
versity in 1997 after a tenure of
two years to become the Univer-
sity of Utah's president. After a
little more than a year as provost,
Charles Vest became president of
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1990.
Dudersdadt and former
University President Harold
Shapiro, who later served as
Princeton University's president,
are also former provosts.
While it's still unknown who
will succeed Hanlon at the Uni-
versity, the person will likely
possess skills that will make
them an attractive candidate for
an eventual presidency. How-
ever, in order to be successful as
provost, both on an interim and
permanent basis, they must have
a similar level of understanding
to Hanlon regarding the Uni-
versity's nuanced academic and
budgetary cultures, officials
said.
Ilitch praised Hanlon's atten-
tion to the University's budget:
Despite cost-cutting efforts,
Hanlon effectively kept cuts
away from most of the Univer-
sity's academic enterprises.
Similarly, Ilitch said the next
provost needs to be "a person
that has a kind of zealous com-
mitment to the quality of the
academia at the University -
quality of professors, quality of
the deans, being a strong people
person, being very disciplined
about the budget, knowing how
to balance it properly so that
quality doesn't suffer."
White emphasized Hanlon's
commitment to undergraduate
education, and said she expects
his successor to also make an
effort to improve the undergrad-
uate experience. He has taught
introductory calculus classes
and a class about the University's
budgetary process during his
time at the University."
"He's very focused on the
undergraduate educational
experience and how to take that
experience into the next century
and make sure that the classroom
is a place where students and fac-
ulty are engaged in discussions
and problem solving in ways that
are different from their standard
lecture format," White said.
- Daily Staff Reporter Peter
Shahin contributed to this report.
TAUBMAN
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the grievances to his supervi-
sor, Kevin Malloey, Taubman's
executive assistant. Neither were
"able to do anything to diminish,
curb or in any way change" Taub-
man's conduct, according to the
lawsuit.
Rock reportedly rejected
Taubman's actions regularly,
telling him "no," "stop," "you're
making me upset, nervous and
scared" and "you're hurting
me" along with other objections
detailed in the suit.
In 2009, Rock informed Taub-
man she was pregnant, and
he allegedly proceeded to ask
"numerous inappropriate and
unacceptable questions" regard-
ing her pregnancy. He also told
her she was gaining weight and
should have gotten an abortion,
according to the suit.
Around December 2009,
Rock's doctor told her it was
unsafe to be airborne while in
her seventh month of pregnancy.
The Taubman Company's human
resources department approved
Rock's maternity leave, which
Taubman referred to as a "long
vacation," the suit states.
After giving birth in February,
Rock was scheduled to return
to work in April 2010, but was
forced back in March. Upon her
return, Taubman allegedly told
Rock she was "selfish" to have
a baby, stressing again that she
should have had an abortion.
In February 2011, Rock went
on short-term disability leave
due to "extreme stress, anxiety,
fearfulness and depression due to
unlawful working conditions that
she was being forced to endure,"
according to the suit. During that
time, she was forced to resign,
and she currently remains out of
work.
This is not Taubman's first run
in with the law. In 2002, he was
accused of price fixing between
rival British auction houses
Christie's and 'Sotheby's, which
Taubman owned until 2005. He
was fined $7.5 million and impris-
oned for anti-trust violations for
10 months. In his autobiography
"Threshold Resistance," Taub-
man maintained his innocence,
stating his accuser lied-under
oath.
Taubman's financial contribu-
tions to the University total '$142
million, including $100 million
toward the A. Alfred Taubman
Medical Research Institute and
$30milliontotheA.Alfred Taub-
man College of Architecture and
Urban Planning. He has also
funded institutes and centers at
Harvard University, Brown Uni-
versity, Lawrence Technological
University and the College for
Creative Studies.
Forbes estimates that Taub-
man, who resides in Bloomfield
Hills, is worth $2.9 billion -
which was primarily procured
through his success in developing
the modern shopping mall.
Taubman attended the Univer-
sity of Michigan and Lawrence
Technological Institute, but did
not graduate from either school.
PROP. 2
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The constitution was approved
by 58 percent of Michigan voters
in Nov. 2006, according to the
statement.
In his petition, Schuette said
the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
decision eradicates the choice
made by the majority of Michigan
voters.
"More than two million Michi-
gan voters have now have been
disenfranchised of their choice
to eliminate considerations of
race in education by a one-vote
margin en banc decision that
misapplies this Court's equal-
protection precedents in several
ways," Schuette said.
Schuette added that though
the issue of affirmative action is
controversial, a court has never
denied a state the right to deter-
mine its role independently.
"This Court has said just the
opposite, holding that all racial
classification by government
entities are presumptively invalid
and subject to the strictest scru-
tiny," Schuette said.
University Law Prof. Mark
Rosenbaum, who helped argue
the 6th Circuit Court's ruling on
behalf of the plaintiffs, said he
believes the ruling should stay
in place. He said Schuette's peti-
tion to the U.S. Supreme Court is
"a disservice to the people of the
state of Michigan."
He added that the U.S.
Supreme Court should deal sole-
ly with issues that apply to the
whole country.
"The Supreme Court exists to
hear cases that are in the national
scope, and the point is that there
isn't a single other case anywhere
in the U.S. that is now going for-
ward with the issues related to
this case," Rosenbaum said.
Rosenbaum said that if Pro-
posal 2 were reinstated, diversity
at the University would suffer.
"I would set Michigan apart
from virtually every other state
throughout the country in not
being permitted to argue the fact
that race is a part of the American
mosaic," Rosenbaum said. "There
is the capacity for the political
process being open to make the
case that diversity should include
racial identity. That would be
shut down and that would be an
American tragedy."
Residential College Prof. Carl
Cohen wrote in an e-mail that
he supports Schuette because he
believes affirmative action is a
violation of the Equal Protection
Clause and the Civil RightsAct of
1964.
He added that choosing
applicants based on race would
enhance pre-existing stereotypes
and is hurtful to everyone.
"Applicants enrolled partly
because of their race will, as a
statistical matter, almost invari-
ably perform less well than those
admitted without preference,"
Cohen wrote. "The consequence
is that skin color, because of such
preference is regularly associated
with inferior performance - and
thus the old and nasty stereotype
of racial inferiority is reinforced
by preference."
He wrote that residents should
be proud that this form of racial
discrimination was eliminated in
Michigan.
LSA senior Brian Koziara, the
senior adviser to the University's
Chapter of College Republicans,
said Schuette's actions are nec-
essary to protect Michigan resi-
dents, adding that universities
should pick students based on
merit, not race.
"We should focus on filling
universities with the leaders and
the best and educating the best
minds possible so we can remain
the most competitive place in
the world," Koziara said. "Simply
cherry-picking certain demo-
graphics because we want diversi-
ty is not what we shouldbe doing."
He added that he believes the
Supreme Court will strike down
the 6th Court Circuit's ruling.
"Law is useless unless it's
applied equally to everyone,"
Koziara said. "I'm fully confident
the Supreme Court will strike it
down."
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