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LSA sophomore Kyle Johnson plays table tennis on the Diag using tables organized by the UM Table Tennis Club on Tuesday.
PING PONG R ALLIES ON
Problems reported
in several areas of
Central Campus
By MICHAEL SUGERMAN
Daily News Editor
Just in time for the first day
of
class,
University
wireless
networks decided not to make an
appearance on Central Campus
Tuesday.
Andy Palms, the executive
director
of
communications
systems and data centers, said
the Wi-Fi problems — which
began at 10 a.m. Tuesday with the
MWireless, MGuest and eduroam
networks all struggling to connect
— should be resolved by early
Wednesday morning.
“It
does
not
impact
the
Health System,” Palms said in
an interview Tuesday about the
intermittent service. “It does
not impact the South Campus.
It also does not impact most of
North Campus. It’s pretty much a
Central Campus issue.”
Tuesday’s
problems,
Palms
explained, arose from a bug in the
Wi-Fi vendor’s code as a result of
heavy wireless use across campus.
“Today,
by
changing
configuration and spreading the
load out across more equipment,
we decreased the impact of the
bug,” Palms wrote.
Earlier, Palms had noted that
the University upgraded roughly
3,000 of its wireless access points
over the summer. Doing so, he
said, was part of accommodating
a yearly increase in network use.
This year’s Wi-Fi use rose by 20
percent from last year, a change
that Palms said is “well within our
specs.”
During
the
day
Tuesday,
the
University’s
information
technology phone line touted an
automated message explaining
that the connectivity issues were
University to hire
35 new faculty
members over
next four years
By TANYA MADHANI
Daily Staff Reporter
The University will invest
$100 million in a new Data
Science Initiative over the
next five years with the aim
of enhancing learning and
research
opportunities
for
students and faculty members.
To support the initiative,
the University will hire 35
new faculty members over the
next four years and launch
the Michigan Institute for
Data Science, which will lead
educational
and
research
opportunities related to big
data. Massive sets of data can
help researchers produce new
insights into a broad spectrum
of topics, from learning and
medicine to transportation and
social media.
“Big
data
can
provide
dramatic insights into the
nature
of
disease,
climate
change,
social
behavior,
business
and
economics,
engineering, and the basic
biological
and
physical
sciences,” University President
Mark
Schlissel
wrote
in
a
statement.
“With
our
widely recognized strengths
across all of these areas and
our
longstanding
culture
of
collaboration
across
disciplines, U-M is in a unique
position
to
leverage
this
investment in data science for
the good of society.”
The initiative also aims
to expand the University’s
computing capacity, support
interdisciplinary
research
on
big
data
and
provide
opportunities
for
students
interested in careers related to
data science.
Engineering
Prof.
Alfred
Hero and Brian Athey, a
professor of psychiatry and
Representatives to
propose resolution
for undocumented
student aid
By JACKIE CHARNIGA
Daily Staff Reporter
At
Central
Student
Government’s inaugural meeting
of the school year Tuesday,
representatives
discussed
priorities for the school year
and confirmed nominations for
executive positions.
Priorities
CSG President Cooper Charlton,
an LSA senior, said his first
priority is to ensure the student
body understands the University’s
Statement of Student Rights and
Responsibilities.
The statement — which details
expectations for student conduct
and outlines suggested sanctions
and disciplinary measures for
violations — is due for revision
this year. Students can suggest
changes to the statement by the
beginning of November, and for
that reason, Charlton said it’s
imperative students understand
the document.
Charlton
also
discussed
drinking
culture
on
campus,
particularly the University’s new
efforts to curb alcohol abuse.
Whether they agree with the
new plans or not, he said CSG
representatives are in a good
position to voice their opinions on
the subject. The University’s new
initiatives include plans to notify
the parents of first-year students
after they incur a second violation,
as well as an effort to expand
the presence of the University of
Michigan Police Department off
campus.
“Welcome
Week,
I’m
sure
everyone had fun, but there’s
definitely a line and we all know
what it is,” Charlton said.
CSG Vice President Steven
Halperin, an LSA junior, also
discussed CSG’s plans to approach
sexual assault, citing a new
program instituted in Greek life for
incoming freshmen pledges.
Each incoming student vying
for a position in a sorority or
fraternity will be subject to a
mandatory meeting about sexual
assault prevention, Halperin said.
The
formulation
of
sexual
Ahead of today’s
session ,
Schlissel discusses
new initiatives
By ALLANA AKHTAR
Daily Staff Reporter
After a year of calls for
increased campus diversity,
University
President
Mark
Schlissel said he expects to see
signs of tangible improvement
as early as this September.
In an interview with The
Michigan Daily last week,
Schlissel said he hopes this
year’s freshman enrollment
figures — typically released
in the fall — will reflect the
impacts of a new University
effort to package the delivery
of financial aid awards and
admissions decisions.
“We should start to see
President says
updates likely
won’t impact
consent definition
By SAM GRINGLAS
Managing News Editor
University President Mark
Schlissel told The Michigan
Daily he hopes to update the
University’s Student Sexual
Misconduct Policy “before the
new year.”
“The goal of making change
is to have the process be as fair
as possible to the complainant
and the respondent to help us
arrive at a decision which is
the right one,” he said in an
interview.
Schlissel
previously
discussed
the
University’s
intentions to consider changes
to the policy at a fireside
chat in April. The policy was
last revised in 2013, when
it was updated based on a
set
of
recommendations
handed down by the U.S.
Department
of
Education.
The updated version changed
the burden of proof applied
when
adjudicating
sexual
misconduct
cases.
Now,
decisions
require
only
a
“preponderance of evidence,”
meaning an incident is more
IT staff troubleshoot issues
with ‘U’ wireless networks
‘Big data’
initiative
to receive
$100M
At first meeting,
CSG discusses
fall priorities
See WIRELESS, Page 2A
See DATA, Page 3A
See CSG, Page 2A
See POLICY, Page 3A
ALLISON FARRAND/Daily
University President Mark Schlissel speaks with Michigan Daily reporters at the Fleming Administration Building
on Septemer 1, 2015.
Sexual misconduct policy
to receive update by Dec.
Enrollment
could show
progress on
diversity
Schlissel talks diversity, sexual misconduct
See DIVERSITY, Page 3A