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Vol. CXXI, No. 136 | © 2013 The Michigan Daily 
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NEWS ....................................
OPINION ............................... 
ARTS ......................................
CLASSIFIEDS.........................
CROSSWORD........................
SPORTS..................................

NEWS
Research Grants

The University granted 

more than $6.4 million to 

several projects on education

>> SEE PAGE 2

NEWS
City Council

City Council members dis-

cussed amendments to the 

2015-2016 budget 

>> SEE PAGE 2

OPINION
Modifying the MIP

Legislation would 

transform the MIP into a 

civil infraction

>> SEE PAGE 4

ARTS
Ashley-Brooke 
Sandall

University alum talks about 

building her fashion career

>> SEE PAGE 6

SPORTS
‘Sauce’ returns

Nik Stauskus comes back 

to Ann Arbor this summer 

with a new nickname

>> SEE PAGE 8

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Davis-Blake 

says she plans to 
focus on broader 
educational issues

By ALYSSA BRANDON and 

LAURA SCHINAGLE
Summer Managing News Editor 

and Summer Editor in Chief

In an e-mail to Ross School 

of Business students Monday, 
Business School Dean Alison 
Davis-Blake announced she is 
stepping down.

“... I will step down from the 

deanship at the completion of my 
term on June 30, 2016,” Davis-
Blake said in the e-mail. “The 
Provost’s Office will convene a 
search committee to select the 
next dean. I am confident that, 
with your help and support, Pro-
vost Pollack and President Schlis-
sel will be able to conduct a very 
successful search.”

The University’s Board of 

Regents approved Davis-Blake’s 
five-year term in 2011. Davis-
Blake came to the University 

after serving as dean of the Carl-
son School of Management at the 
University of Minnesota since 
2006. She was the first female 
dean in both schools’ histories.

Davis-Blake’s term coincided 

with real estate mogul Stephen 
Ross’s 
$200-million 
donation 

to the University. The donation, 
which was split between the 
Business School and the Athletic 
Department, was the largest in 
the University’s history. Davis-
Blake was among administrators 
involved in discussion regarding 
the donation’s beneficiaries.

During her tenure, Davis-

Blake helped create the Master 
of Management program, expand 
the Executive MBA program to 
Los Angeles and reorganize the 
undergraduate BBA curriculum.

Business 
senior 
Madeline 

Walsh, who was the Central Stu-
dent Government representative 
for the Business School during 
the 2014-2015 academic year 
and will serve in the upcoming 
academic year as well, said the 
Business School’s curriculum has 
undergone positive change under 
Davis-Blake’s leadership.

“As a rising senior, my entire 

Ross experience has been under 
the leadership of Dean Davis-
Blake,” Walsh said. “In just four 
years, I’ve been impressed and 
inspired by her initiatives to chal-
lenge the process of what a busi-
ness education looks like.”

Walsh 
said 
the 
programs 

Davis-Blake helped create have 
diversified 
opportunities 
for 

undergraduate Business students 
to prepare for the increasingly 
global workforce.

“She has lead a complete 

revamp of the BBA program to 
allow for more flexibility, the 
option for a longer global expe-
rience, and further exploration 
beyond the core classes with 
increased electives,” she said. 
“I’m especially excited by the 
Sanger 
Leadership 
Initiative 

which is arising from a ($200-mil-
lion donation) she helped secure.”

Davis-Blake said she values 

how her deanship allowed her to 
help find solutions for challenges 
faced in the Business School, but 
wants to shift her focus to broad-
er issues in professional and lib-
eral education.

“I find myself eager to contrib-

AMANDA ALLEN/Daily

Alison Davis-Blake, dean of the Ross School of Business, announces the graduation of business students at Spring Com-
mencement at Michigan Stadium on May 2.

See DEAN, Page 3

Students request 

meeting in response 
to Harbaugh’s tweet 
supporting the film

By LAURA SCHINAGLE

Summer Editor in Chief

Michigan football coach Jim 

Harbaugh met with Middle East-
ern, North African, Muslim and 
South Asian students in a private 
meeting in the Michigan Union on 
Wednesday to discuss the Univer-
sity’s April screening of the movie 
“American Sniper,” a film based on 
the autobiography of former U.S. 
Navy Seal Chris Kyle.

E-mails obtained by the Daily 

sent Tuesday to listservs for various 
student organizations — including 
Students Allied for Freedom and 
Equality, the Middle East and Arab 
Network, the Arab Students Asso-
ciation, the South Asian Awareness 
Network, 
Michigan 
Pakistanis, 

and Muslim, Lebanese, Malaysian 
and Persian students — announced 
plans for the meeting. The e-mails 
said several students requested 
the meeting in response to a tweet 
Harbaugh sent April 8 regarding 
the movie.

“Michigan Football will watch 

‘American Sniper’! Proud of Chris 
Kyle & Proud to be an American & 
if that offends anybody then so be 
it!” the tweet read.

Harbaugh’s tweet came amid 

national media coverage of the Cen-
ter for Campus Involvement’s April 
7 announcement that it would can-

Business School dean to 
step down in June 2016

Coach Jim 
Harbaugh 
meets with 
students on 
‘American 
Sniper’

CAMPUS LIFE

See MEETING, Page 3

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