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Ford Policy Talk
features panel
on human rights,
Middle East policy
By JOEL GOLDSTEIN
Daily Staff Reporter
The Ford School of Public Poli-
cy kicked off the semester of Ford
Policy Talks with a panel discus-
sion on the refugee crisis in the
Middle East, featuring journalist
Luke Mogelson, NPR editor Joel
Lovell, Public Policy Prof. John
Ciorciari and Public Policy Prof.
Susan Waltz.
Much of the talk featured
Mogelson discussing his 2013
New York Times Magazine arti-
cle, “The Dream Boat,” which
examines his journey across the
Indian Ocean with Middle East-
ern refugees in search of asylum
in Australia.
For
the
article,
Mogelson
won the prestigious Livingston
Award, which is sponsored by
the University. Awarded to top
journalists under 35 years old,
the award’s previous recipients
include
CNN
correspondent
Christiane Amanpour and New
York Times columnist Nicholas
Kristof.
Working in Kabul, Afghani-
stan, for The New York Times
Magazine, Mogelson embarked
on the dangerous trip undertaken
by Afghans trying to escape the
country. He began his journey
in Sarai Shahzada, Kabul’s cur-
rency market. Posing as Georgian
asylum seekers, Mogelson and
his photographer paid smugglers
$4,000 each to transport them to
Australia’s Christmas Island.
“The fact that your smug-
gler could call at any time, day
or night, meant that you were
forever suspended in a state of
high alert,” Mogelson wrote in
the article. “It also meant you
couldn’t venture far. Most of the
asylum seekers, additionally fear-
ful of police, never left the build-
ing.”
Like refugees, the journal-
ists flew to Indonesia and took a
small boat from Jakarta, Indo-
nesia, to Australia. In the arti-
cle, Mogelson explains that a
refugee could wait for months
in Jakarta, drown in the open
Schlissel announces
campus-wide study
on ‘U’ culture,
misconduct policies
By ALLANA AKHTAR
Daily Staff Reporter
University President Mark
Schlissel announced early Mon-
day morning the University’s
plans to conduct a student sur-
vey gauging the climate sur-
rounding sexual misconduct on
campus.
In an e-mail distributed to
the student body, Schlissel said
3,000 randomly selected stu-
dents will receive the roughly
15-minute long survey asking
about their knowledge, percep-
tions and opinions of the Uni-
versity’s resources, policies and
culture related to sexual mis-
conduct.
“Learning about the expe-
riences of students and the
degree to which students feel
safe and respected will help us
better understand how we can
more effectively address and
prevent sexual misconduct,”
Schlissel wrote.
Though the survey data will
be made public, student identi-
ties will remain confidential.
The University will offer par-
ticipating students the choice
of either personal payment or a
donation to United Way, a sup-
port group that promotes edu-
cation, financial stability and
good health for Washtenaw
County citizens, as compensa-
tion for completing the survey.
The University has hired
Ann Arbor firm Survey Science
Group to conduct the survey.
University
spokesperson
Rick Fitzgerald said the Univer-
sity has worked on the survey
for some time based on a recom-
mendation from a White House
task force designed to combat
sexual misconduct on college
campuses nationwide.
“We hope the survey will
give us an initial information on
what students understand about
the policy, what services are
SEXUAL ASSAULT
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Charles Eisendrath, Director of the Knight Wallace Fellows Program speaking at the panel on the Refugee Crisis Monday at the Ford School of Public Policy.
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SACUA meets for their weekly meeting Monday in the Regents Room at the Fleming Administration Building.
IT officials update
faculty body on
changes to University
guidelines
By CARLY NOAH
Daily Staff Reporter
The Senate Advisory Com-
mittee on University Affairs
convened
in
the
Fleming
Administration Building Mon-
day to discuss potential updates
to University Information Tech-
nology Policy.
Alan Levy, IT policy and com-
pliance lead for the University,
and Sol Bermann, the Univer-
sity’s interim chief information
security officer, joined the com-
mittee to review IT-related
revisions to the University’s
Standard Practice Guide, the
document which includes Uni-
versity-wide policies regarding
specific standards and expecta-
tions for University employees.
Levy introduced updates to
three policies that applied spe-
cifically to SACUA and have not
been revised since their initial
implementation, including the
Proper Use Policy, an umbrella
IT policy written for University
employees to abide by in 1990.
Proposal use policies are
intended to stipulate the ways in
which networks or websites are
used.
The second program, a sub-
set of the Proper Use Policy, was
written in the mid-1990s and
has also never received revi-
sion. Levy said the IT depart-
ment wishes to add a paragraph
to clarify that the program will
apply to students.
“We want to represent the
culture and ethos of this insti-
tution,” Levy said. “We have
written drafts that we hope and
believe are the U-M way of doing
things.”
The third proposal was to
implement a new software-
licensing standard to replace the
previous versions, which were
developed in 1979 and 1993.
“We have not done a good job
with keeping up with what is
going on in the software world,”
Levy said.
SACUA also discussed the
election process for LSA’s exec-
utive committee, which includes
several
faculty
members
ANN ARBAUGH
GOVERNMENT
Students sell
apparel following
appointment of
new football coach
By LINDSEY SCULLEN
Daily Staff Reporter
Since
the
departure
of
Brady Hoke, former Michigan
football coach, LSA juniors
Zachary Bruch and Ryan Luck
have been eager to welcome
Michigan coach Jim Har-
baugh to Ann Arbor — or as
they call it, “Ann Arbaugh.”
Bruch and Luck filed to
trademark the phrase “Ann
Arbaugh” on the day of the
press conference announcing
Harbaugh’s arrival Dec. 30.
They started selling affiliated
products the day before.
“Before the press confer-
ence, we went ahead and
decided to file for the trade-
mark. We kind of just took the
risk,” Luck said.
With the help of Luck’s
friend Benjamin Frost, owner
of Frostees Apparel, a Talla-
hassee-based screen-printing
T-shirt company, Luck and
Bruch designed apparel, most
of which reads “Ann Arbaugh”
across the front.
“We
wanted
that
‘Ann
Arbaugh’ name on the chest,”
Luck said. “Everyone’s been
proud to rep that.”
Bruch and Luck now sell a
variety of products through
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Funding plan could
impact higher
education funding
allocations
By JACK TURMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
Republican Gov. Rick Sny-
der signed legislation Monday
afternoon to advance a plan for
funding upgrades to Michigan’s
aging roads and bridges.
The plan will remove the
current sales tax on fuel, which
currently supports schools and
local governments, and replace
it with a wholesale tax on motor
fuels, such as gas and diesel, ear-
marked for funding transporta-
tion.
The plan is expected to result
in a 20-percent drop in yearly
appropriations from the School
Aid Fund to public universities,
though the legislation includes
provisions to offset the losses
with General Fund dollars.
To protect schools and local
governments from losing rev-
enue as a result of these altera-
tions to the fuel sales tax, a
proposal will go before the
electorate in May that includes
a 1-percent increase in the sales
tax to 7 percent. The result from
this 1-percent increase would be
an additional $300 million per
year for schools and $94 million
per year for local governments.
The legislature would raise
approximately $1.3 billion per
year for transportation. Approx-
imately $1.2 billion would go
to restoring the roads and $127
million would be allocated for
public transportation after two
years of debt reduction.
“This is a solution that takes
care of our roads in terms of a bil-
lion dollar plus investment, does
it in a way that does not harm
other parties,” Snyder said. “In
fact, it actually provides more
resources for our schools, for our
local governments, for our mass
transit, mass public transporta-
tion.”
Gretchen Whitmer, former
State Senate Democratic leader,
said there were tough negotia-
tions in determining the legisla-
tive package, but she noted she
was proud of being a part of this
process.
“This represents an invest-
ment in critical things, like our
infrastructure, our roads, our
bridges, which translates into
the safety of our people, but it
also represents a real investment
in our schools, which I think is
something that is going to be
critical as we go to the ballot in
May. That is something I think
we are all invested in making
sure we’re successful,” she said.
In an interview with The
Michigan Daily on Dec. 18, Sny-
der Press Secretary Sara Wurfel
confirmed that if the proposal is
approved, General Fund dollars
will be allocated to substitute
higher education funding no
longer provided by the School
Aid Fund, though it is unclear if
this funding will fully make up
for anticipated losses.
In an e-mail interview on
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for change,
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test climate
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discusses Afghan refugees
Snyder signs
bill to advance
road upgrades
SACUA discusses changes
to Information Tech. policy
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