that time. He added that of the 
129 reported sexual misconduct 
cases, 68 of which were classified 
as sexual assault and 34 as sexual 
harassment. There were 14 cases 
of stalking, 11 violations for other 
matters and two for retaliation.

“There 
were 
a 
significant 

amount of cases that were report-
ed where the survivor did not 
wish to pursue matters further,” 
Potter said.

The second item of note — the 

creation of an honor code — is 
also under consideration by Cen-
tral Student Government. In 
February, CSG President Bobby 
Dishell, a Public Policy senior, 
commissioned a task force to 
consider writing an honor code, 
which would cover topics such as 
academic integrity and student 
rights.

“The aim of the task force, and 

eventually the honor code, will be 
to encourage and motivate stu-
dents to hold ourselves to a higher 
standard,” Dishell wrote in a Feb-
ruary press release. “Currently 
there is not one place where stu-
dents can turn to in order to know 
what our community stands for. 
It’s important that, as students 
at Michigan, we understand our 
roles as the leaders and best both 
on and off campus.”

At the luncheon, Potter said 

attendees suggested that any new 
honor code also provide proce-
dures for handling violations of 
the code.

He also noted the strength in a 

single Statement of Student Rights 
and Responsibilities governing all 
of the University’s schools and col-
leges. At the luncheon, Potter said 
OSCR officials clarified that it is 
important to maintain this con-
sistency. Though all units are gov-
erned by the current Statement 
of Student Rights and Responsi-
bilities, not all have honor codes 
that provide clear expectations of 
behavior for members of the Uni-
versity community.

The body also adopted a new 

SACUA Guidance on Grievabil-
ity, which is designed to provide 
resources for faculty filing a com-
plaint through the University’s 
grievance procedures.

After 
reviewing 
the 
final 

guidance, SACUA member John 
Lehman, a professor of biology, 
made a motion to adopt the docu-
ment and revisit it annually. The 
motion was passed unanimously.

“If the hearing board decides 

that the complaint is not griev-
able, the grievant can appeal 
the decision to SACUA,” SACUA 
Chair Scott Masten, a professor 
of business economics and public 
policy, wrote in an e-mail inter-
view after the meeting. “After 
receiving such an appeal last fall 
and overruling the grievance 
board, we decided that it would 
be useful if grievance boards had 
a document that explained how 
we interpret the grievance pro-
cedures so that they would be less 
likely to make an error. The docu-
ment that we approved today is 
that document.”

During the meeting, Masten 

said he plans to give an update on 
SACUA’s report on the Universi-
ty’s Office of Institutional Equity 
when the full Senate Assembly 
meets next week. Masten said 
the decision making process will 
carry over into May because of 
the provost’s schedule.

A report filed by SACUA last 

month pointed to several flaws 
SACUA found within OIE. The 
report’s central concerns were 
the adequacy of due process pro-
tections in OIE procedures and 
OIE’s application of those proce-
dures in the specific cases of three 
faculty members who submitted 
complaints to SACUA.

The last SACUA meeting of the 

2014-2015 academic year is sched-
uled for April 27.

whole also does not attempt 
to increase enrollment for 
specific majors. Rather, she 
said, it is the department’s 
responsibility 
to 
market 

their majors through their 
course listings and presence 
at the Major/Minor Expo.

Biggs said many students 

do not enroll in the Ancient 
Greek or Modern Greek pro-
grams because the majors 
are difficult and the lan-
guage is not usually taught 
at high schools. She also said 
students often do not rec-
ognize the versatility of the 
programs.

“It’s a good preparation 

for things not just in aca-
demia,” Biggs said.

Though the number of 

students majoring in the 
programs is low, the depart-
ments are not impacted 
financially 
since 
Greek 

classes 
offered 
by 
the 

department are filled with 
graduate students as well 
as non-majors, according to 
Biggs.

LSA senior Joseph Jozlin 

said he chose to study Mod-
ern Greek because of the 
major’s lack of popularity 
with most students.

“Most people study lan-

guages like Spanish and Chi-
nese,” Jozlin said. “I wanted 
to do something different.”

LSA junior Constantinos 

Demetral said he decided 
to major in Modern Greek 
because it allows him to con-

nect to his cultural roots. He 
also chose to study the sub-
ject because of the quality of 
the department and its pro-
fessors.

“I am Greek and I’ve 

always wanted to brush up 
on my Greek,” Demetral said. 
“There are also great profes-
sors who are willing to help 
and the department is very 
supportive.”

Demetral also cited the 

difficulty of the upper-level 
classes as a reason for why 
students may not want to 
pursue a major in Modern 
Greek.

“The 300-level classes are 

very hard and the grammar 
is very difficult; it’s noth-
ing like English grammar,” 
Demetral said.

LSA 
sophomore 
Jonas 

Sese 
initially 
considered 

majoring in Ancient Greek 
but later chose to major in 
Classical 
Languages 
and 

Literature instead because 
he wanted to study both 
Ancient Greek and Latin.

Sese 
said 
he 
believes 

the low enrollment in the 
Ancient Greek program is 
due to more students turn-
ing to science, technology, 
engineering and mathemat-
ics majors.

“I think it has to do with 

the shift of focus in univer-
sities from the humanities 
to STEM fields,” Sese said. 
“Ancient Greek is as far into 
the humanities as you can 
get. I think a lot of people 
entering into university want 
a major that has a lot of prac-
tical applications.”

The project, which is estimat-
ed to cost $3.2 million, will be 
funded by internal investment 
proceeds and is scheduled for 
completion in fall 2015.

The board will also consider 

a budget revision for the Earl V. 
Moore Building renovation and 
Brehm Pavillion project. The 
project, which was approved 
by the Board in December 2013, 
was initially estimated to cost 
$24.32 million. According to 
the original proposal, approxi-
mately 28,000 square feet of the 
existing building will be reno-
vated and 34,000 square feet of 
shelled space will be added.

The 
proposal 
asks 
the 

regents to increase the budget 
to $29.5 million to allow for a 
music technology room, a stu-
dent commons room and mis-
cellaneous furnishings.

Central Student 

Government in review
CSG 
president 
Bobby 

Dishell, a Public Policy senior, 
will give his final address to 
the board — a portion of which 
will focus on the pending, CSG-
generated student honor code.

In February, Dishell created 

a student task force charged 
with designing the central-
ized student honor code — and 
Thursday, he will report on its 
progress.

The honor code follow-up 

comes as the Office of Student 
Life reviews the Statement of 
Student Rights and Respon-
sibilities as part of its regular 
amendment cycle.

In an e-mail to the Univer-

sity community on April 9, E. 
Royster Harper, vice president 
for student life, announced the 
statement was up for revisions 
and noted that CSG, the Senate 

Advisory Committee on Uni-
versity Affairs, and the Uni-
versity’s administration are the 
three bodies that can propose 
amendments.

On 
this 
subject, 
Dishell 

wrote, “Currently, there is no 
student ownership or input 
over the process and rules that 
govern student behavior and 
hold students accountable.”

Subsequently, he said, the 

honor code is to work parallel 
to the Statement.

“I encourage students to 

work with the administration, 
take the honor pledge, and 
hold each other and ourselves 
accountable,” Dishell wrote in 
his report.

In a February interview with 

the Daily, Harper said she felt 
that the potential of an addi-
tional academic honor code 
could have significant overlap 
and even clash with the exist-
ing Statement. However, she 
agreed it would be beneficial to 
hold students accountable for 
their behavior in a more rigid 
and well-known way.

“What I think is fabulous 

about it is, I think having the 
conversation about that (is 
important),” 
Harper 
said. 

“What does it mean in our 
community to have an honor 
code? What does it mean to be 
honorable? And then, what do 
you do about it when someone 
is behaving in a dishonorable 
way?”

Dishell will also speak to the 

board about the need for a con-
tinued focus on mental health, 
a topic which he discussed on 
a personal level at last month’s 
meeting.

CSG has emphasized the 

need for improved mental 
health facilities on campus; this 
year’s efforts have included the 
launch of Wolverine Support 
Network in September.

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News 
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 — 3

ROCKWOOD, Mich.
New partnership 
seeks to improve 
habitats for ducks 

A partnership is working to 

improve the habitat for ducks at 
Pointe Mouillee State Game Area 
in southeastern Michigan.

The state Department of Natu-

ral Resources says a group of vol-
unteers recently participated in 
the On the Ground project. They 
worked the DNR staff to install 10 
new nesting structures for mal-
lards and cleaned and maintained 
20 existing mallard nest struc-
tures.

The work took place in the 

game area’s Vermet, Humphries 
and Long Pond units.

They 
also 
spread 
cattail 

seed heads in the Vermet Unit to 
increase cover for ducks. And they 
cleaned and maintained 30 wood 
duck nest boxes.

Volunteers came from a number 

of groups. The project is part of a 
partnership between the DNR and 
Michigan United Conservation 
Clubs to improve fish and wildlife 
habitat.

EDINBURGH, Ind.
Man arrested after 
Megabus crash

A Megabus bringing passen-

gers back to Chicago after anoth-
er bus was involved in a crash 
was stopped by Indiana State 
Police so a passenger wanted on a 
warrant out of Michigan could be 
arrested.

Trooper John Perrine says the 

arrest was made without incident 
shortly before noon Monday. He 
didn’t know what the man was 
charged with or how Michigan 
authorities knew he was on the 
bus.

Perrine says the man was not 

among the 19 passengers injured 
when the other Megabus crashed 
about 5:30 a.m. Monday in Johnson 
County near Edinburgh.

The second bus was allowed 

to continue to Chicago after the 
arrest.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. 
Storm clouds stall 
space grocery run

SpaceX will have to wait anoth-

er day to deliver groceries and an 
espresso maker to the Internation-
al Space Station.

Fast-approaching storm clouds 

prevented the unmanned rocket 
from blasting off Monday after-
noon. The company will try again 
Tuesday afternoon, but more bad 
weather is forecast. The odds of 
acceptable conditions are just 
50-50.

SpaceX halted the countdown at 

the 2½-minute mark as a menac-
ing storm system moved into the 
11-mile keep-out zone surrounding 
the Falcon rocket. The company 
had a single second to get off the 
ground.

“We were in a race, but we didn’t 

quite make it today,” a SpaceX 
launch commentator said.

BEIJING
China releases five 
women activists

Chinese 
authorities 
released 

five women’s rights campaigners 
Monday whose detentions sparked 
an international outcry and under-
scored the government’s tight 
restrictions on independent social 
activism, lawyers said.

Lawyer Liang Xiaojun said the 

five were let go after more than a 
month in detention under a form 
of conditional release that still 
allows charges to be brought later. 
As of late Monday night, all had 
either returned or were on their 
way to their homes in Beijing and 
elsewhere in China, including the 
southern metropolis of Guangzhou 
and the eastern resort city of Hang-
zhou.

Other lawyers could not be 

reached by phone, but posted mes-
sages on social media saying their 
clients had been freed. Calls to the 
Haidian District Detention Center 
in western Beijing where they had 
been held rang unanswered Mon-
day night.

—Compiled from 
Daily wire reports 

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training necessary to step in 
and make a difference,” Carlson 
said. “They want to empower 
other students on this campus 
to step in and make a difference 
when situations happen. They 
were faced with a situation 
where they felt like they didn’t 
have the tools yet.”

The 
University’s 
state-

ment deemed SDT’s members 
bystanders during a trip where 
members of the Sigma Alpha 
Mu fraternity committed more 
than $250,000 in property 
damage to a Gaylord ski resort.

“Members of the Sigma Delta 

Tau sorority stood by at Treetops 
Resort and allowed others to 
vandalize the facility,” the Uni-
versity’s statement read. “This 

lack of action is unacceptable.”

The discussion began with 

the recitation of a 20-line creed, 
which began and ended with 
the words, “I am courageous 
leadership.” Courageous lead-
ership was defined by Dilbeck 
as going beyond fear and stand-
ing up, stepping in and speaking 
out against the injustice present 
on campus and in the everyday 
lives of people everywhere.

Dilbeck also shared a person-

al story of his experience found-
ing the Sigma Nu fraternity at 
Texas 
Christian 
University, 

a chapter that was ultimately 
shut down in 2002. During 
his speech, Dilbeck discussed 
recalled his own failure to 
intervene in several situations.

“I am deeply ashamed for 

what I didn’t do,” he said.

LSA sophomore Allie Lisner, 

a member of the SDT executive 
board, said SDT members have 

met with the Dean of Students to 
discuss implementing a bystand-
er intervention program on cam-
pus. She said the sorority hopes 
to provide programs and spark 
conversation about speaking up 
in difficult situations.

“There’s 
nothing 
for 
if 

you’re in a disaster or this cri-
ses when someone is damag-
ing something, like how could 
you intervene?” Lisner said. 
“People 
should 
learn 
this 

when they come to Michigan 
or when they join Greek life or 
any other organization rather 
than after they’ve already made 
the mistake of not being the 
best bystander they could have 
been.”

Dilbeck invited students to 

anonymously text his iPod on 
stage with their own stories 
about difficult situations they 
had been in. He read a few of 
the stories submitted by stu-

dents from other campuses as 
well, some of which addressed 
hazing and discrimination.

Lisner said SDT is looking 

to include the entire campus 
community in the Speak Up! 
Michigan program and not just 
members of Greek life.

“Bystander intervention is 

important in any setting across 
this country,” Delbick said. “We 
have such an opportunity to 
empower the people who are 
not standing up to the wrong of 
the world.”

LSA 
freshman 
Maggie 

Brockmeyer-Bernard 
com-

mented on the importance of 
continuing education on the 
topic.

“We are constantly put in 

situations where it is useful so 
it’s really good to be educated 
on this type of thing.”

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“Included in this is a specific 

focus on perception change,” 
Barnes said. “In many ways it 
is the thorniest and knottiest of 
all of the problems that we have, 
and it sits at the base of so many 
of the other challenges that 
we’re trying to address.”

The Aspen Institute launched 

an advertising campaign to 
attempt to target this challenge, 
according to Barnes. During the 
lecture, Barnes showed a com-
mercial in which a girl explains 
to her interviewer the skills she 
has gained and can contribute to 
her job despite the fact that she 
has not attained a college degree.

“This is one of the things that 

I see over and over and over 
again,” Barnes said. “People are 
willing to believe that there’s 
that one exceptional person 
… But 6,000,000 exceptional 

people? Society seems to be 
unwilling to believe that that’s 
possible, but it is.”

For example, Barnes recalled 

working with Obama to rep-
licate an educational achieve-
ment model employed by the 
non-profit organization Strive 
Together. The Strive Network 
found graduation rates were 
dropping in the region and 
worked with other public and 
private institutions to create a 
network to solve the problem.

“Then they decided, ulti-

mately, to take their work and 
say we’re not just going to do 
that here,” Barnes said. “But we 
can replicate this all over the 
country, and now that work is 
taking place in over 34 different 
cities and the District of Colum-
bia. We’re seeing that kind of 
progress everywhere we turn.”

The Aspen Institute works in 

conjunction with the collective 
impact of the federal govern-
ment and private institutions. 

They work to create a collabora-
tive effort by having members 
of companies and philanthropic 
organizations to ensure that all 
parties are working together 
and not just providing funding. 
In addition, they include the 
opportunity youth in the panels.

“You have to bring the very 

people in the communities that 
you want to work with to the 
table to understand what the 
challenge of the problems is so 
you can understand that you 
can go about with their support 
and their assistance with them 
as partners to actually fix it,” 
she said. “Who’s a better expert 
on the life of an opportunity 
youth here than an opportunity 
youth?”

She said the Aspen Institute 

ultimately wants to create a 
nationwide network between 
government, 
philanthropic 

organizations, private business-
es and opportunity youth.

“To create a learning com-

munity, to create a hub, where 
communities that are doing this 
work can talk to one another,” 
Barnes said. “What we have 
found is that literally commu-
nities 50 miles apart, 100 miles 
apart, didn’t know what they 
were doing, and, as a result of 
that, communities were mak-
ing the same mistakes over and 
over. We could leap all part 
that if people are talking to one 
another.”

Barnes concluded her discus-

sion by highlighting the potential 
for students to make a lasting 
impact on the community.

“We can have the kind of suc-

cess that we want and that we 
need,” she said. “We can solve 
these problems if we work col-
laboratively, and with the ben-
efit of the kind of education that 
many of you are getting here 
today, you will be the initial fuel 
in each of those sectors to make 
sure that get it.”

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HISTORY FACT:

ABRAHAM 
LINCOLN WAS
ASSASSINATED
ON THIS DAY
IN 1865

