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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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DAVID SONG/Daily

 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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Amid calls 
for change, 
survey to 
test climate

Award-winning journalist 
discusses Afghan refugees

Snyder signs 
bill to advance 
road upgrades

SACUA discusses changes 
to Information Tech. policy

Students 
apply for 
rights to 
viral slogan

