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Curriculum group to
gather feedback from
students, intergroup
relations facilitators
By TANAZ AHMED
Daily Staff Reporter
The LSA Curriculum Committee
is planning to review the college’s
Race and Ethnicity requirement
during the next academic year.
Currently, the Race and Ethnicity
committee, a subcommittee of the
Curriculum Committee, is working
on a plan to consider a framework
for reviewing the requirement.
Angela Dillard, the LSA associ-
ate dean for undergraduate edu-
cation, is spearheading the effort.
According to Dillard, LSA Dean
Andrew Martin has requested a
plan to address the requirement no
later than July 1.
The final proposal will need to
gain the approval of the Curricu-
lum Committee, which approves
any changes to the college’s under-
graduate curriculum, including
concentration proposals, course
listings and degree requirements.
LSA officials have been work-
ing on the requirement since last
year. In October 2013, Public Pol-
icy senior Carly Manes, a former
LSA representative in the Central
Student
Government
assembly,
met with University administra-
tors and discussed reforms to the
requirement.
Dillard made it clear that the
LSA Executive Committee is not
currently considering structural
changes to the requirement.
“Recommendations to alter the
requirement in whole or in part is
one possible outcome of the review,”
she said. “But speculation of this
possibility is a little premature.”
Dillard plans to consult with LSA
Student Government, Intergroup
Relations, learning analytics spe-
cialists and others in the college.
“One of the things that we hope
to do in the review process is to
make sense of student feedback
and opinion about the require-
ment,” Dillard said. “It’s really
hard because LSA has a lot of stu-
dents and you all don’t agree.”
She also stated she is keeping
campus climate and student activ-
ism in mind while evaluating the
requirement, citing Twitter cam-
paigns like #BBUM and #Black-
LivesMatter that have spurred
ACADEMICS
Interim athletic
director engages
with students in
fireside conversation
By MAX COHEN
Managing Sports Editor
As a University alumnus and
former Michigan football play-
er, Interim Athletic Director
Jim Hackett had been watching
the events of the 2014 football
season transpire from afar in
Grand Rapids.
But then came a call from
University
President
Mark
Schlissel, asking him to take
over the Athletic Department
on an interim basis after Dave
Brandon’s resignation on Oct.
31. Hackett did not even know
what Schlissel looked like until
he arrived on campus for the
announcement of his hiring.
Suddenly, he was thrust into the
role of Athletic Director.
He spent the early portion of
his tenure evaluating the state
of the football program, his
department’s most crucial sport.
Now, after firing former coach
Brady Hoke on Dec. 2 and hiring
Jim Harbaugh to replace him on
Dec. 30, the status of the pro-
gram has settled down to a point
where Hackett feels comfort-
able looking toward the future
of Michigan athletics as a whole.
Wednesday evening, Hack-
ett met with about 20 students
in the Hussey Room in the
Michigan League for a fireside
chat to discuss the most perti-
nent issues in Michigan athlet-
ics. The chat was the result of a
combined effort by CSG Presi-
dent Bobby Dishell and the Ath-
letic Department.
Hackett engaged in dialogue
with the students for an hour,
looking relaxed and at ease. In
his introduction, Hackett told
the students that he “went from
building seats to selling seats,” a
reference to his former position
as the Chief Executive Officer of
Steelcase Furniture. By taking
on his new role, Hackett put his
retirement on hold.
Hackett held the fireside chat
to engage the student body of
Michigan to ensure that their
experience with athletics is as
fan-friendly as possible.
One such way to accomplish
this goal was brought to his
attention by the owner of the
NFL’s Seattle Seahawks, Paul
ALLISON FARRAND/Daily
Interim Athletic Director Jim Hackett speaks with randomly selected students at an Athletic Department town hall at the Michigan League on Wednesday.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Make Michigan,
The Team both
found not guilty in
UEC cases
By SAMI WINTNER
Daily Staff Reporter
After the final Central Stu-
dent
Government
election
hearings Monday evening, the
University Election Commis-
sion
announced
Wednesday
morning that it had found both
Make Michigan and The Team
not guilty of harvesting e-mails.
While the hearing results
signify that neither party will
be disqualified, both parties
have 24 hours to file an appeal
to the Central Student Judi-
ciary. When the appeal process
concludes, the UEC must then
vote to certify the final results.
If that process concludes with-
out appeal, Make Michigan will
retain its hold on the presidency
and vice presidency.
Since
unofficial
election
results released last week that
announced Make Michigan beat
The Team by five votes, there
have been a total of nine com-
plaints filed among both parties.
The election was the closest CSG
race in the last decade.
Law student Paige Becker, the
University’s elections director,
said the UEC found that neither
Make Michigan nor The Team
committed any of the pending
election code violations the UEC
had yet to rule on. As a result, the
UEC assessed no demerits.
The CSG Compiled Code
states that an election code vio-
lation may warrant a specified
number of demerits, depending
on the severity of the violation,
to either a responsible individu-
al or an entire party.
An individual is disquali-
fied if he or she receives five
demerits, and an entire party
is disqualified if it receives 10
demerits. The Team had previ-
DELANEY RYAN/Daily
Michel Martin, a journalist and correspondent for NPR and ABC News, discusses women and minorities in the media
at an event sponsored by the Center for the Education of Women at Kahn Auditorium on Wednesday.
Michel Martin
explores giving
a voice to the
voiceless
By TANAZ AHMED
Daily Staff Reporter
Michel Martin, the National
Public Radio correspondent best
known for her coverage of issues
related to race and identity, deliv-
ered the 20th Mullin Welch Lec-
ture at the Biomedical Science
Research Building on Wednes-
day.
Martin is not the first influ-
ential journalist to deliver the
lecture, which is hosted by the
University’s Center for the Edu-
cation of Women. Jill Abramson,
the former executive editor of the
New York Times, gave the speech
in 2013.
In previous years, Barbara
Ehrenreich, the author of “Nickel
and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By
in America” and Attorney Sarah
Weddington, who argued to
legalize abortion in the landmark
case Roe v. Wade, were the select-
ed speakers.
At the event, CEW also award-
ed the Carol Hollenshead Award
to Obstetrics and Gynecology
PUBLIC SAFETY
‘U’ employs its own
emergency response
protocols, per Clery
Act regulations
By ISOBEL FUTTER
Daily Staff Reporter
Early Saturday morning, many
students woke up to a 5 a.m.
alarm they did not set. The alert
was no accident; it was an Amber
Alert for a missing 6-year-old girl.
The Michigan State Police
issued the Amber Alert as part
of an ongoing search for Hailey
Betts, who was potentially in
danger at the time. This was
the first time the state police
had used a system to deliver the
alert through mobile phones.
Though Michigan State Police
Lt. David Kaiser told MLive
he has heard some complaints
about the early morning alert,
he said it was crucial to spread
See HACKETT, Page 3A
See REQUIREMENT, Page 3A
See ALERT, Page 3A
See NPR, Page 3A
See CSG, Page 3A
LSA plans
to review
college R&E
requirement
Jim Hackett talks future,
fan experience during chat
Litigation not
likely to change
CSG results
In annual lecture, NPR host
discusses future of media
New Amber
Alert system
piloted by
state police
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