State lawmakers 
tout “Yes Means 
Yes” campaign

State Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. 

(D–Meridian Twp.) and State 
Rep. Tom Cochran (D–Mason) 
proposed legislation to require 
schools 
to 
strengthen 
their 

definition of consent in their 
sexual education courses, the 
Detroit Free Press reported. The 
legislation would clarify that sex 
without a verbal “yes” could be 
assault. 

The bill would also clarify 

that individuals can take back 
their consent at any point and 
that just because two individuals 
are in a relationship does not 
mean unwanted sex is not sexual 
assault. 

‘U’ business school 
wins national honor 
for diversity work

The Ross School of Business 

received 
the 
2015 
Higher 

Education 
Excellence 
in 

Diversity award for the school’s 
efforts to integrate diversity 
and inclusion throughout its 
programs.

The award from INSIGHT Into 

Diversity magazine is a national 
honor and the will be featured 
in the November 2015 issue of the 
magazine, along with the 91 other 
winners of the award. 

The magazine commended 

the Business School for its 
efforts in inclusive excellence 
displayed on the school’s 
website. In addition, the school 
has many student-led groups 
and conferences that promote 
diversity. The Business School 
also recently launched a new 
Identity and Diversity and 
Organizations requirement 
for undergraduates this fall, 
providing students with the 
opportunity to gain experience 
working on diverse teams, as 
well as encouraging a positive 
organizational culture. 
School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance 
reopens Moore 
Building 

After a three-year, $29.5 mil-

lion renovation, the School of 
Music, Theatre & Dance’s Earl V. 
Moore Building on North Cam-
pus reopened its doors for stu-
dents to enjoy improved music 
study facilities, the University 
Record reported. 

Originally designed by famed 

architect Eero Saarinen in 1964, 
the building will now feature a 
new entrance and lobby, a large 
rehearsal hall, a music technol-
ogy center, a lecture hall, a suite 
of percussion practice rooms and 
new classrooms. 

dent’s first stop was at Macomb 
County Community College in 
Warren last Wednesday.

In 
Warren, 
Obama 
said 

employers 
are 
increasingly 

requiring some form of higher 
education for new hires, a sen-
timent he echoed in his week-
ly address Saturday. In both 
speeches, the President said 
higher education is the best ticket 
to the middle class.

“By the end of this decade, two 

in three job openings will require 
some higher education,” he said 
Saturday in his weekly address. 
“That’s one reason why a degree 
from a two-year college will earn 
you $10,000 more each year than 
someone who only finished high 
school. One study showed that a 
degree from a four-year universi-
ty earns you $1 million more over 
the course of a lifetime.”

In the weekly address, Obama 

argued that because it is becoming 
a necessity to earn a degree beyond 
a high school diploma to succeed 
in the workforce, it is important 
that prospective students have 
access to the kind of data the Col-
lege Scorecard provides.

“You’ll be able to see how 

much each school’s graduates 
earn, how much debt they gradu-
ate with, and what percentage of 
a school’s students can pay back 
their loans — which will help all 
of us see which schools do the 
best job of preparing America for 
success,” he said.

The White House said in a press 

release Saturday that this data is 
critical because college costs and 
student debt are growing.

“Students struggle to find 

clear, reliable data on critical 
questions of college affordability 
and value, such as whether they 
are likely to graduate, find mid-
dle-class jobs and pay off their 
loans,” the release said.

Susan Dynarski, professor of 

education, public policy and eco-
nomics at the University, said the 
University does a good job pro-
viding funding for its low-income 
students, especially in compari-
son to Ivy League schools.

College 
Scorecard 
reports 

the average annual cost for in-
state students at public univer-
sities who are federal financial 
aid recipients. It also provides a 
cost breakdown based on family 
income and a tool that allows stu-
dents to calculate their personal 
net cost of attendance. Accord-

ing to the scorecard, the average 
annual cost for in-state students 
at the University is $16,287, which 
falls just slightly under the report-
ed national average: $16,789.

The median earnings of Uni-

versity graduates who received 
federal financial aid, 10 years 
after their first year at the school, 
totals $57,900 — more than 
$20,000 higher than the report-
ed national average. Scorecard 
says 78 percent of students who 

attended the University are earn-
ing more than the median high 
school graduate.

The site reports 37 percent 

of students at the University 
receive federal financial aid and 
the median federal debt for stu-
dents who graduated from the 
University is $22,000. Scorecard 
notes that 93 percent of Univer-
sity graduates are in the pro-
cess of paying down their debt 
— almost 30 percent higher than 
the reported national average.

Dynarski said the scorecard is 

useful because it provides pro-
spective students with a more 
comprehensive picture of the 
institutions they may attend.

She also said when the Obama 

administration launched the Col-
lege Scorecard, it released the data 
it contains in raw form, which 
could enable other institution’s to 
find innovative ways to dissemi-
nate the information to students.

“This means that all of the 

nonprofit organizations out there 
that aim to help students navigate 
the college application process 
can take this data and generate 
their own scorecards, their own 
apps for smartphones,” she said. 
“So I think the point is for it to 
leverage the capacity of other 
organizations to help students.”

Dynarski 
cautioned, 
how-

ever, that the comparison the 
site makes between each school-
specific metric and the national 
average is not always the most 
useful tool to look at in determin-
ing the performance of a particu-
lar institution.

To assess whether or not Uni-

versity graduates are success-
ful, she said comparisons should 
be drawn only between the 
University and its peer institu-
tions, such as the University of 
California at Berkeley and the 
University of Virginia. Students 
at these schools, she said, come 
from similar backgrounds and 
have similar educational abilities 

to University students — which 
differ from those of the median 
college student.

“I don’t think it would be accu-

rate or helpful to focus on, ‘Look: 
University of Michigan graduates 
make more money than the typi-
cal college student,’ because the 
typical college student is going 
to a non-selective institution and 
they weren’t at the top of their 
high school classes,” she said. 
“Michigan can’t get credit for 
how smart (its students) are com-
ing into Michigan.”

According to the scorecard, the 

University of California at Berke-
ley has a graduation rate similar 
to the University’s, and its median 
graduate earns about $5,000 more 
a year than the University’s. The 
University of Virginia also has a 
similar graduation rate to both 
schools, and its median graduate 
earns very close to its counterpart 
at the University.

In an e-mail interview Tues-

day, Stephen DesJardins, profes-
sor of education and public policy 
at the University, said he likes the 
scorecard because it acknowl-
edges that prospective students 
are consumers of information, 
and provides them with the 
information they need, based on 
“official” government data.

He said it would be most useful 

to what he called “traditional stu-
dents:” those looking to attend a 
four-year institution straight out 
of high school. DesJardins said 
the scorecard would be of limited 
use for non-traditional students.

He noted that while the tool 

is helpful, it does not necessarily 
meet all of the Obama adminis-
tration’s goals regarding the pro-
vision of higher education data. 
He said the administration has 
stated its goal to hold higher edu-
cation institutions more account-
able, and added that this tool does 
little in that regard.

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Dean of Students Laura Jones describes her position to new and returning Central Student Council members and urges 
them to use her as a resource during the CSG meeting at the Union on Tuesday.

small and can be implanted in 
the patient’s body. It acts as a 
“scaffold” by trapping metastat-
ic cancer cells from the patient’s 
bloodstream during the early 
stages of cancer.

Jeruss said the device could 

be extremely useful because it 
would serve as an early warn-
ing system for metastasis. Once 
the cancer is detected, early 
chemotherapy could prevent the 
spread of cancer to other organs.

“We may be able to preserve the 

integrity of the organs and ensure 
longer survival,” Jeruss said.

In addition to detecting meta-

static breast cancer, the device 
can prevent its spread. When 
tested in mice, 88 percent fewer 
cancer cells spread to the lungs 
of animals with the scaffold 
as compared to those without. 
Jeruss said this ability to offset 
cancer spread came as a surprise.

“The original intent of the 

work was to examine an inter-

vention that could be used for 
early detection,” Jeruss said. 
“But we then came to find 
that we were able to offset the 
advancement in metastasis with 
the device. That was a striking 
finding for us.”

Jeruss said the device will 

next need to be tested in human 
breast cancer patients through a 
clinical trial. She added that the 
device may be useful for former 
breast cancer patients who need 
to watch for a recurrence, or for 
high-risk healthy patients.

So far, the device has only 

been tested for breast cancer 
cells. Jeruss said researchers are 
examining the device’s potential 
usefulness in treating other can-
cers, including ovarian, prostate 
and pancreatic cancer.

Shea said the device is not 

only useful for diagnostic and 
therapeutic purposes, but also 
for uncovering how metasta-
sis occurs.

“This device is useful for try-

ing to understand the system,” 
Shea said. “We can design an 
implant and investigate the 

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“We were able to, in my opin-

ion, prevent some trips to the 
hospital because students had 
food in their stomachs,” Charl-
ton said.

Between the hours of 7:15 and 

10:30 a.m. on Saturday, 1,394 stu-
dents swiped into South Quad, 
compared to the 114 that arrived 
after the traditional opening 
time. Hill and Bursley dining 
centers also had an increase of 
student diners during game day’s 
early hours.

Though CSG made efforts to 

increase the frequency of buses 
to North Campus on Saturday, 
Charlton said a higher concen-
tration of buses will be required 
on future game days to meet the 
demand of large groups heading 
to central campus.

CSG 
also 
addressed 
the 

upcoming revision period for the 
University’s Statement of Stu-

dent Rights and Responsibilities.

Public 
Policy 
sophomore 

Jacob Pearlman, CSG chief of 
student general council, request-
ed the assembly’s participation in 
the amendment processes. The 
document is amended once every 
three years, and he requested 
assembly members take advan-
tage of the opportunity and pro-
pose amendments.

Jones addressed the assembly 

about how a close relationship 
between CSG and the Dean of 
Students Office may improve the 
various services and programs 
they offer.

Jones spoke of initiatives new 

to campus since her appointment 
such as the Expect Respect cam-
paign, which aims to promote an 
inclusive campus environment, 
and the Beyond the Diag pro-
gram, which provides an exten-
sion of University resources for 
off-campus students.

“Seven years ago when I 

arrived on campus, we did not 
have anything in place to meet 

the needs of off-campus students 
in a formal sort of way,” Jones 
said. “I worked hand-in-hand 
with the Central Student Gov-
ernment at the time and students 
on the then-safety commission 
who conceived of what Beyond 
the Diag should be.”

Jones said she hopes through-

out the next year, her office and 
CSG can work together to ensure 
these programs continue to grow 
and evolve.

Much of the meeting was 

spent 
allocating 
responsibili-

ties and community initiatives 
to specific committees. Several 
new members of CSG stressed 
the importance of keeping their 
campaign promises, specifically 
their goal to increase the assem-
bly’s transparency.

Initiatives discussed include 

plans 
to 
increase 
outreach 

through social media, as well as 
implement regular coffee cart 
conversations where CSG repre-
sentatives are positioned around 
campus to interact with students 

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