2-The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, June 28, 1995
Dental School dean appointed interim provost
By Amy Klein
Daily News Editor
Since Gilbert R. Whitaker's announcement six
months ago that he would step down as provost and
executive vice president for academic affairs in Au-
gust, the University has been searching for a replace-
ment - but now they might not make the deadline.
As a result, the University Board of Regents ap-
proved Dentistry School Dean J. Bernard Machen
as the interim provost, to serve from Sept.1 through
Dec. 31, if necessary.
"I am delighted he will accept this position with
the regents' vote," said Regent Laurence Deitch (D-
Bloomfield Hills) before the approval. "We're very
happy to have him at U-M."
Machen said he is not under consideration for
the permanent position.
"I'm delighted that the regents supported this so
enthusiastically, and I intend to maintain the job that
(Whitaker's) doing," he said. "I like the job I have
now. I have committed myself to the Dental School,
and I'm not quite ready to leave."
The nomination, however, brought up past con-
cerns over the addition of sexual orientation to Re-
gents' Bylaw 14.06, the University's non-discrimi-
natory clause, which was opposed by Regent Deane
Baker (R-Ann Arbor).
Machen headed a task force that recommended a
plan for complying with the change. The committee
recommended in May 1994 that the University ex-
tend health care benefits to gay and lesbian couples.
At this month's regents meeting, Baker said he
had not received complete answers from Machen,
and he opposed his nomination for interim provost.
"I asked him a lot of questions and I felt the an-
swers were inadequate. Any question that a regent
asks should be answered," Baker said. "This was
just a reminder as he is elevated to a higher status
that he does have to answer any regent questions."
Machen said he agrees that all questions from
the regents must be answered, but he said that
Baker's remarks were confusing.
"I don't understand (Baker's comments) fully,
but I agree that the provost has to be fully responsive
to any of the regents' questions," Machen said.
Regent Rebecca McGowan said she thought
Machen had answered the regents' questions ad-
equately and that Baker was punishing Machen for
his views.
"I think clearly (Baker) was holding Dean
Machen's answers to his question as a qualification
or a lack of qualification for his position as interim
provost. I think that was clear as day," she said.
President James J. Duderstadt said that while
Baker opposed the amended bylaw, he was entitled
to voice his opinion.
"Regent Baker always seems to have been a bit
preoccupied by his concerns of -
sexual orientation and how the
University responds to these is-
sues. ... Deane Baker is free to
say and think whathe wants and
he did. I don'tthink this is a ma-
jor faction," Duderstadt said. l
Regent Philip Power (D-
Ann Arbor) also denouced any
opposition based on Machen's
recommendations. Machen
"In this University we ask
members to take on extra duties and their willingness
to do so is one of the things that make this place a won-
derful university," Power said. "The fact that members
disagree with a decision should not be an excuse to
carry out a vendetta against those that brought it."
Duderstadt said he anticipates the search for a
permanent provost to be completed by early fall.
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By Patience Atkin
Daily News Editor
The man known to the scientific re-
search community as "a symbol of great
hope for mankind" died on Friday at the
age of 80.
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Hospital of the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla,
Calif. from heart failure.
On April 12, 1955, the announce-
ment that field trials of the polio vaccine
had been effective was made at the
University's Rackham Auditorium.
"What had the most profound effect
was the freedom from fear," Salk said at
the ceremony in April that celebrated
the 40th anniversary of the announce-
ment.
Salk had been recently trying to de-
vise a cure for AIDS. In 1987, he co-
founded the Immune Response Corpora-
tion in Carlsbad, Calif. to search for an
AIDS vaccine.
Salk had promised to be among the
first uninfected people to be injected
with the experimental AIDS vaccine
when it reached the testing stage.
"There have to be people who are
ahead of their time," Salk once said.
"And that is my fate."
Born in New York City on October
28, 1914, Salk earned his undergraduate
degree at the City College of New York
in 1934 and his medical degree from
New York University in 1939.
From 1939-1940, Salk interned at
Mount Sinai Hos-
pital in New York
before taking his
first research posi-
tion at the Univer-
sity of Michigan,
where he helped
develop flu vac-
cines.
Salk became
director of the virus
research lab at the Salk
University of Pittsburgh School of Medi-
cine in 1949, when he began his search
for the polio vaccine.
In 1960, Salk established the Salk
Institute for Biological Studies in La
Jolla.
Proving to himself to be a man of
many talents, Salk wrote three books
his philosophy - "Man Unfolding" in
1972, "The Survival of the Wisest" in
1973, and "Anatomy of Reality" in 1983.
Salk is survived by his wife,
Francoise Gilot, and his sons, Peter,
Jonathon and Darrell.
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