The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 3A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 3A PHARMACY From Page 1A to raise $20 million during the campaign. Patel is the chairman of the school's board dedicated to fundraising development. "It's a small college, and so the $20 million is quite sig- nificant, and I think we have enough people helping us that we should be able to meet our target," Patel said. "I am pleased to be a part of the col- lege and do whatever we can." Patel said he hopes to main- tain a cycle of donations through graduate students receiving his scholarships. "We're just hoping that the most deserving students will get it and that, at some point, once they are successful, they will pay back to the college," he said. Patel was born and raised in Africa and completed his undergraduate degree in India. He then finished his studies at the University's Pharmacy School, where he received his doctorate in 1979. He currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah, and works as a venture capital- ist with his company, vSpring Capital. Patel said he has fond memo- ries of his time spent in Ann Arbor and appreciated the wealth of activities available to him along with the unique educational experience that the University offered. "Without going to Michigan I would not have been able to get where I am, so I feel it's impor- tant to help other students to get their education," he said.. Peter Niedbala, the college's director of pharmacy advance- ment and external relations, said Patel's contributions were to the school have been incred- ibly generous. "He is really contributing not only resources but also time as chairman of our campaign efforts, and it's very humbling that he has made this time com- mitment to the college," Nied- bala said. "He is helping focus our volunteer board on iden- tifying prospects and helping create enthusiasm for helping the college achieve its goal." In addition, Patel has been recognized in the past with the University's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009 and the Willem J. Kolff Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013. Pharmacy student Ronak Shah said the Patel Fellow- ships are currently funding his tuition and other college expenses. "This will help the Universi- ty to go ahead in the future and truly becoming one of the lead- ers in the field of research and academia," Shah said. BioUtah president and CEO Kimball Thomson, who knows Patel through his membership on BioUtah's board of directors, praised his contributions to the community. "...He is a giver and a genu- ine great man," Thomson said. "He gives so much of himself to others and to the community. He really is one of the modern fathers of biotechnology here in the Western states." HOLIDAY From Page 1A Harry Belafonte will give one keynote memorial lecture in Hill Auditorium. Belafonte worked with King himself, as well as President John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela on justice issues. Belafonte is also the recipient of an Emmy Award, a Tony Award and a Grammy Award. Motivational speaker Albert Mensah is scheduled to give a lecture at Rackham Auditorium later in the day. Phyllis Meadows, associate dean for practice and clinical professor of health man- agement and policy at the School of Public Health, will also give a speech about community health at the Dow Auditorium in the Towsley Center. In the Modern Languages Building, the MLK Children and Youth Program will target a younger audience with storytell- ing and musical performances. Studentsinthe Schoolof Music, Theatre and Dance will perform at the Power Center as well. The performance will revolve around this year's themes. The Michigan Community Scholars Circle of Unity will perform on the Diag as they sing in honor of King and his legacy. Finally, an art exhibit in the Hatcher Graduate Library Gal- lery will be open starting Monday and continuing through Feb. 28 - documenting the history of race at the University from its found- ing to the present. CELEBRATE From Page 1A regarding having parents as students since many women were returning to the class- room almost immediately after having children. Achieving tenure was difficult for women whose careers were interrupt- ed by starting a family, as the time requirement for attaining tenure did not allow extended maternity leave. The University changed these policies in the 1990s, a time when few other universities were taking steps to accommodate these situa- tions, according to Hollens- head. But Hollenshead said those changes took much longer than she had hoped. "If you had asked me then, in 1970, 'Where will you be in 2013?' I would've said 'Oh, it'll all be solved!" she said. CEW's current director, Glo- ria Thomas, said it is obvious that gains for women have not been equal across the board. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics between 1979 and 2012, white women's earnings rose 31 percent while earnings for Black and His- panic women only rose 20 and 13 percent, respectively. Data from the 2012 Current Popula- tion Survey showed that women with children earned less than their childless counterparts, while men with children earned significantly more than their peers. Consequently, the CEW's constituency has diversified tremendously since its incep- tion when it served mostly white, middle-class women, Thomas said. Today, the CEW offers career counseling and networking help to a demo- graphic that includes many women of color, women living in low-income situations, single parents and some men. "There is still a need - maybe not as much need for white, middle-class women - but still a need for those who are strug- gling to get to where they want to be in their careers and in their education," Thomas said. She added that the CEW's role today is to help those who still face barriers to higher edu- cation make sure they are not "doomed to a low-income job." As tuition rates steadily climb, financial realities often make a college education unattainable for many women and men. In response, the CEW gives away $300,000 per year in scholarships to "non-tradition- al students," including parents, those who are transferring from community college or are not financially supported by their family. "Not all women live the tra- ditional lives where they come right out of high school and get their education and have 2.5 children and all that," Thomas said. The CEW Scholarship Pro- gram awards aid to 50 students across the three University campuses every year. "It's not just needing the money," Thomas added. "It's connecting them to a network of individuals who will sup- port their efforts as they pursue their career interests." It's that network that drew Thomas back to Ann Arbor when she took the CEW direc- torship in 2008. She originally started working at the Center in 1995 as a graduate student at the School of Education. "It was, in many respects, a home away from home for me when I was a grad student here," she said. The CEW will continue to celebrate its semicentennial throughout the year with a conference focused on eco- nomic security and mobility for women in poverty in May and an event to bring together past and current scholarship recipi- ents in the fall. The center originally invited Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Color Purple," to speak at one of the anniversary's events, but later rescinded the invitation. The center decided Walker was "not the premium choice" for the event, according to Thomas. The author posted a letter allegedly written by her agent that said funding was cut from her lecture due to controversial statements she made about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, the University later invited Walker to speak at the biennial Zora Neale Hurston Lecture for the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, to be held in November 2014. Walker accepted the invita- tion on her blog and forgave the University for the uncertain circumstances. "I believe we have all learned something from our efforts to reach out to one another, and I believe also that - if solar flares or deeply unintelligent wars haven't carried us off - it will be a good time," Walker wrote. APPLICANTS From Page 1A "This sometimes generates more choices and variables to take into account than in previous years." Erica Sanders, manag- ing director of undergraduate admissions, said in an e-mail interview last year that the increasing magnitude of appli- cants might yield more Early Action deferrals. While some students, like Boland, opened e-mails welcom- ingthem to the University's class of 2018, others were not as fortu- nate. "Our high application volume, coupled with the very strong credentials of our applicants in recent years, has contributed to an increasingly competitive admissions process," the deferral letter reads. "As a result, we are writing to inform you that your application is currently being deferred for further review." According to the letter, all final admissions decisions will be released no later than April. DIVERSITY From Page 1A don, who worked in DPE as a students, shared stories from his time at the Univer- sity as a gay man of color and working with students in the Oxford Residence Hall. Gor- don stressed the importance of cherishing others in one's origi- nality and building friendships when trying to create a safe community. Gordon described his peers in the DPE as "a group so fierce even Beyonce would be jeal- ous," and added how impor- tant the friendships within this community are to being suc- cessful in their mission. "One day you soon you'll come to realize how powerful this program really is," he said. "Created in the image of the great Robbie Ransom, the DPE is bold and unapologetic in its pursuit of social justice." Gordon said the DPE is one of the only programs on campus that gives positions of power to typically marginalized groups such as LGBTQ students, people of color and international stu- dents. He added that students should realize the importance of being good to yourself, to respecting the work you do and to being willing to compromise. Trey Boynton, director of diversity and inclusion, also spoke of the DPE's significance and impact in the program, adding that the group saves lives and sends a strong mes- sage to members in the Univer- sity community. "We need it more than ever," Boynton said. "DPE is housing's manifestation of our commit- ment to diversity." Robbie Ransom, former director of cultural awareness and diversity education, also spoke after receiving recogni- tion from current DPE mem- bers. Ransom encouraged the DPE members to keep on fight- ing for social justice, even after graduation. CSG proposes new system for honor code revision process HELP SAVE A DYING INDUSTRY, JOIN THE MICHIGAN DAILY! COME BY ONE OUR MASS MEET- INGS AT 7PM ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 16 MONDAY JANUARY 20 AT 420 MAYNARD STREET WRITE FOR THE DAILY'S NEW BLOG: MICHIGAN IN COLOR WANT TO BE A PART OFA NEW AND EXCITING PROJECT? 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The resolution will now go to the Student Relations Advisory Committee for approval. The SRAC will hold a formal vote on each of the resolution's stated recommendations in February. The measures approved by SRAC will then be sent to E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, who - if all goes according to plan - will pass them to the University's Office of General Counsel, and ultimately to University Presi- dent Mary Sue Coleman for final consent. Law student Jeremy Keeney, CSG student general counsel, said the proposed modifica- tions would begin to fix the cur- rent system, which allows the office of Student Conflict Reso- lution and faculty to propose amendments to the Statement of Student Rights and Respon- sibilities without CSG approval. This process could allow for changes to be made to the stu- dent Code of Conduct without students' consent or input. "I'm hoping (the resolution) will be successful," Keeney said. "We provided Royster and the chair of SRAC a copy of this in December. They did reach out with some clarifying ques- tions, but not with concerns." The CSG resolutions com- mittee will now consider sub- stantive changes to the Code of Conduct itself, targeting poten- tial discrepancies between the CSG Bill of Student Rights and the statement's list of rights and responsibilities. A new resolution proposing amendments to students' rights will go up for vote in the assem- bly by February 4, Keeney said. "The combination of these (resolutions) will be one of the biggest amendments that have been passed in a while," he added. The efforts to standard- ize the Code of Conduct are not CSG's only initiatives to increase administration trans- parency. Keeney and Chris Stevens, Chief Justice of the Central Student Judiciary, have also been working to improve University honor codes since last semester. The two have met with administrators - including Harper and University Provost Martha Pollack - to address code inconsistencies. Right now, each unit within the Uni- versity has its own honor code with varying levels of detail among the University's schools and colleges. Although Kee- ney and Stevens do not wish to change the organization of codes by school, they agreed that they want to increase transparency and consistency among the codes. Keeney said he recently sat in on two LSA honor code hear- ings with the permission of Esrold Nurse, assistant dean for undergraduate education. He was impressed with the impar- tiality with which the dean conducted himself, but he felt the students weren't aware they could have an advocate present to help present their cases. "It's not clear what the rights are and what the process should be," Stevens said. The College of Engineering, for instance, has a procedural manual for its hearings - but Stevens said it is not published. "Personally, I found the sys- tem to be unfair, at least at the student-peer level," he said. "It just seems that the cards are stacked (against students)." Keeney and Stevens said honor code reform would also benefit the administration by preventing any litigation stem- ming from wrongful expulsions or suspensions. The pair researched the honor codes of the University of California, Berkeley, Princeton, Yale and Stanford, and has four principal changes they think should be adopted. First, they recommend that honor code hearings should include written opinions by the administration. Additionally, they said they believe students should have access to both advocates and hearing procedures, including appellate rules. They added that all honor codes should be easily available online. As per Pollack's recommen- dation, Keeney and Stevens will meet with a group comprised of all the University's associ- ate deans and vice provosts next week to initiate discussion of reform, and to potentially establish a working relationship with the group for the rest of the year. The meeting will be the first of its kind. "Academic integrity is extremely important, and I welcome the fact CSG is think- ing about our policies," Pollack wrote in a statement. "I will be interested to see how their work progresses."