Wednesday, May 17, 1995 - The Michigan Daily -9
'U' denies appeal in
harassment case

By Ronnie Glassberg
Daily Editor In Chief
The University has denied an appeal
under the Statement of Student Rights
and Responsibilities by American culture
doctoral student Melanie Welch, who
was found responsible in January of ha-
rassing a neighbor.
Welch's case was the first open hear-
ing under the University's code of non-
academic conduct.
David Cahill, the attorney who ad-
vised Welch,criticizedthe three-member
appeals board for its decision. "Ihaven't
any idea what they did, which is a due
process problemin itself,"he said.
Mary Lou Antieau, judicial adviser
for the code, said the appeals board had a
significant discussion before reaching its
decision.
"Imet with them at the beginning of
their meeting and advised them that they
had the responsibility to deal with the ap-

peal, and there were no specific questions,"
she said.
The code provides for no further ap-
peals beyond the board. Welch said she
would like pursue the matter in the courts,
but does not have the money to continue the
case.
The local chapter ofthe American Civil
Liberties Union had referred Welch's case
to the state ACLU. An official with the state
ACLU said yesterday that they had decided
not to take Welch's case.
Under the Michigan Freedom of Infor-
mation Act, Cahill requested copies of all
materials the appeals board used inconsid-
ering Welch's case, excluding the official
hearing file, which they already received.
The University granted the request and pto-
vided aone-page letter from the board.
"They didn't do their job. They were
supposed to analyze the errors that were
made in the hearing, and they didn't do it,"
Welch said.


WOMEN
Continued from page 1
promotions to women is encouraging,
units like Engineering and Medicine
continue to lack a significant female
presence.
"Medicine is having a lot of diffi-
culty and has always been a problem.
We have had problems in the past in the
physical sciences, but we're starting to

see a change there," Duderstadt said.
Whitaker said he hopes the number of
women promoted will soon reflect the
growing number of women in the aca-
demic workplace.
"As the pool of women candidates
grows, we should at least be roughly pro-
portionate to that number. I think it'll
continue to rise, considering the number
of women in the population is much
higher than 30 percent," Whitaker said.

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