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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Tuesday, Februrary 17, 2015

CELEBRATING OUR ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM

Kevin Hegarty,

UT-Austin official,
to succeed interim
chief Doug Strong

By MICHAEL SUGERMAN

Daily News Editor

In April 2014, Tim Slottow,

who served as executive vice
president and chief financial offi-
cer, left the University to become
the president of University of
Phoenix. Ten months later, his
official replacement has been
chosen.

Kevin Hegarty, the University

of Texas at Austin’s current vice
president and chief financial offi-
cer, will be Slottow’s successor,
also replacing interim executive
vice president and CFO Douglas
Strong, according to a release on
the UTA website. Hegarty has
served as UTA’s CFO for 14 years.

“My recommendation of Mr.

Hegarty follows a successful and
competitive search process,” Uni-

versity President Mark Schlissel
wrote in an e-mail to faculty and
staff Monday. “I thank the mem-
bers of the search committee for
their thorough efforts leading to
this outstanding recommenda-
tion.”

Schlissel also thanked Strong

for his work as interim CFO in the
e-mail, adding that the Univer-
sity Health System would “look
forward to welcoming him back.”
Strong previously served as the
chief executive officer of the Uni-
versity of Michigan Hospitals and
Health Centers, and will return
to this position when Hegarty
takes office.

Hegarty will leave his post

at UTA on Feb. 26 and begin his
position at the University on
April 6. The University’s Board of
Regents will vote to approve his
appointment at their regularly
scheduled monthly meeting this
Thursday, according to their Feb-
ruary agenda. The contract will
run through 2020.

In a release, UTA President

Bill Powers thanked Hegarty

Research suggests
connection between

social standing

and sexual assault

By RACHEL PREMACK

Daily Staff Reporter

Sociology
Prof.
Elizabeth

Armstrong
said
Whitney,
a

pretty sorority girl, snubbed her.
This incident was not during
Armstrong’s college years, but 10

years ago when she was studying
peer culture among freshman
girls at Indiana University.

“I always said, ‘I feel like the

biggest loser around Whitney,’ ”
Armstrong said with a smile. “In
general I felt totally over feeling
intimidated by the popular girl I
never was, but she is something
else. It was very disconcerting
for me to feel like I was right
back in that space.”

If Armstrong, then an assis-

tant professor at Indiana Univer-
sity, felt ostracized by the pretty
rich girls during the course of

her research, it is hardly a shock
that her study’s findings reflect-
ed how social status in college
drives student choices on party-
ing. Status even plays a role in
sexual assault on campus, she
said.

Armstrong’s talk in a small

room in the LSA Building Mon-
day concerned the influence of
“status anxiety” on drinking,
hooking up and sexual assault
among undergraduates.

Indiana University is a large

Midwestern college with a tradi-
tion of sports and Greek life. She

and her research partner, Laura
Hamilton, studied interactions
at a women’s hall in a freshmen
dorm. They observed the young
women study together, talk and
drink before parties, and con-
ducted interviews with many of
these women in the four years
following their dorm experience.

What she found is detailed

in her 2013 book, “Paying for
the Party.” Wealthy freshman
women were able to rush Greek
life and pursue academic success;
after college, they could thrive

Local officials,
councilmembers
consider options to
alleviate challenges

By LARA MOEHLMAN

Daily Staff Reporter

For the city’s homeless, staying

warm has higher stakes as wind-
chills dip well below zero.

Last week, a 39-year-old man

was found dead in a tent near the
Amtrak station on Depot Street,
according to the Ann Arbor Police
Department.

In an e-mail to Ann Arbor City

Council members, Police Chief
John Seto said the Washtenaw
County medical examiner has
not yet determined the cause of
death.

“Although the medical exam-

iner has not yet released a final
determination
for
the
cause

of death, it does not appear at
this time that exposure was the
cause,” he wrote.

Police said the man did not

have a house, and was living in a
tent west of the long-term parking
lot and north across the tracks in
the woods near the river. Though
police said there was a heating
source in the tent, the heat was
not turned on.

This incident sheds light on the

challenges for Ann Arbor’s home-
less population during the winter
season.

In recent weeks, homeless-

ness has sparked debate at several
Council meetings.

There have been efforts to

recall Councilmember Stephen
Kunselman (D–Ward 3) from his
position in response to comments
he made last year calling for the
eviction of a homeless tent com-
munity near Burton Road.

Kunselman
responded
to

these efforts at a review hearing
in early January, explaining the
need for a long-term approach to
housing the homeless during cold
weather.

“No one in the city of Ann

Arbor, in the county of Washt-
enaw, should be left out in the
cold or should be encouraged to
live in the cold, to be given a tent
and a sleeping bag and told to
rough it and try to survive in the
subzero, harsh Michigan winter,”
he said.

Council has since revised legis-

lation in response to the conver-
sations. A resolution now states
that, though humane displace-
ment of homeless camps on both
private and public property is an
appropriate response to private
property and resident complaints,
“it is not the practice of the City
of Ann Arbor to proactively seek
out homeless camps for removal,
nor to broadly deploy strategies
to render areas used as campsites
unusable.”

Amanda Carlisle, executive

director of the Washtenaw Hous-
ing Alliance, said the prevalence
of tent communities in Ann Arbor
is not a result of a lack of resourc-
es for the homeless, but rather a
reflection of the homeless’ resis-
tance to entering shelters.

“We’ve put a lot of resources

actually into shelter and specifi-
cally warming centers so that we

RITA MORRIS/Daily

SACUA Chair Scott Masten, a professor of business economics and public policy, runs
the Senate Assembly meeting at Palmer Commons Monday. The assembly agreed to
restructure its committees to increase productivity.

‘The Team’ selects
two LSA students
to appear on ballot
for top positions

By EMILIE PLESSET
and TANAZ AHMED

Daily News Editor

and Daily Staff Reporter

With Central Student Gov-

ernment
elections
nearly
a

month away, campaign organiz-
ers announced on Monday the
formation of The Team, a new
political party.

LSA junior Will Royster will

head the ticket as the party’s
presidential
candidate.
LSA

sophomore Matt Fidel, a current
LSA representative, will serve as
Royster’s running mate and The

Team’s vice presidential candi-
date.

LSA junior Jacob Abudaram,

The Team’s campaign manager,
said the new party is composed
of several current representa-
tives from the parties forUM,
which will fold at the end of the
academic year, and Make Michi-
gan, as well as students with
no prior student government
involvement.

Royster is currently academic

concerns chair for the Black
Student Union and has no prior
experience on CSG. He said The
Team is trying to represent stu-
dents from all parts of campus
to ensure an inclusive campus
environment.

“I wanted to use my voice

and my talent to help the cam-
pus on another scale,” Royster
said. “Really a place like CSG is
a place where you have a number

of opportunities to help people.”

Abudaram said several cur-

rent Make Michigan members
are now involved with The
Team.

LSA junior Meagan Shokar,

who ran for CSG vice president
on last year’s Make Michigan
ticket with CSG President Bobby
Dishell, a Public Policy senior,
has departed that party for The
Team. She will serve as The
Team’s outreach chair.

Though Make Michigan cap-

tured the top two executive
offices, Shokar stepped down
in August, citing an injury and
subsequent medical treatment.
CSG later appointed LSA senior
Emily Lustig to assume the vice
presidency after Shokar’s depar-
ture.

Shokar explained her decision

to leave Make Michigan for The

More than 4,000
signatures logged
to protest dates
for winter break

By MICHAEL SUGERMAN

Daily News Editor

More than 4,000 peo-

ple have signed a petition
demanding the University to
change its 2015-2016 academ-
ic calendar, which currently
schedules Fall 2015 exams to
end Dec. 23 and the Winter
2016 semester to begin Jan. 6.

The
petition,
posted

through the Central Student
Government’s
UPetition

website, says in its descrip-
tion that the current sched-
ule would inconvenience the
University’s out-of-state stu-
dents.

“For out-of-state students,

this would require flying
home on Christmas Eve, not
only causing an obstruction
of a religious holiday, but also
causing an extreme increase
in flight prices — most by hun-
dreds of dollars,” the petition
reads.

By contrast, the Fall 2014

semester ended Dec. 19, with
Winter 2015 classes com-
mencing Jan. 7. The 2015-
2016 Winter Break will be
shorter than the 2014-2015
Winter Break by five days if
the academic calendar goes
unchanged.

LSA freshman Lauren Sie-

See STATUS, Page 3
See CFO, Page 3

See PETITION, Page 3
See CANDIDATES, Page 3
See COLD, Page 3

VIRGINIA LOZANO/Daily

Rackham student Hyo Rim Han plays the violin during her first dissertation recital at the Walgreen Drama Center Monday.

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