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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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