Faculty members can still opt
to complete the interview during
this first meeting.
Another addition: A standard-
ized e-mail template will be used
when OIE contacts the subject
of a complaint and is designed to
ensure proper communication of
all the necessary information. For
the first time, a faculty member
can also review the statements
they’ve made to OIE before the
investigation report is finalized.
SACUA first began examin-
ing OIE’s policy in 2012, when
the faculty grievance monitor
— who is responsible for moni-
toring
complaint
procedures
but has no power to impact the
process — raised concerns about
OIE’s procedures. After several
formal complaints were filed
about OIE by faculty members,
SACUA’s Faculty Hearing Com-
mittee began an examination of
the OIE’s procedures.
SACUA chair Silke Maria-Wei-
neck, professor of comparative lit-
erature, said in an interview with
the Daily on Wednesday that,
overall, Pollack and OIE were
receptive of the report.
She said she’d still like to
see several additional changes,
including the right for faculty to
appeal decisions.
“The thing we’re still talking
about is students have the right
to appeal OIE reports,” she said.
“But for faculty there’s no such
right to appeal, so we would like
to see that. So we’re talking about
that. At this point this is not an
adversarial thing — this is peo-
ple sitting together and trying to
work it out.”
Weineck also said she’d like to
see changes to departmental pol-
icy so that if an OIE investigation
doesn’t find any misconduct, the
subject of the investigation can-
not then be sanctioned by his or
her department or dean.
“That seems to me a very, very
basic principle — that if you’ve
basically been found innocent,
then you cannot be punished for
whatever it is you have done or
are alleged to have done,” she
said. “And that has not been the
case. Faculty have been disci-
plined in the wake of reports of
no findings and that troubles me
rather deeply.”
According to a description of
the OIE process on the University
Human Resources website, even
if an investigation finds no dis-
crimination or harassment, the
University may still take action
against an individual if they are
“found to have engaged in inap-
propriate workplace behavior.”
SACUA’s report also asked for
the verdicts in the three cases
cited in the report to be over-
turned, a request that Weineck
said was denied and the body
wouldn’t pursue further.
“It doesn’t mean I’m happy
about it,” Weineck said. “But I
think sometimes you know when
you will not get anywhere.”
Daily Staff Reporter Genevieve
Hummer contributed to this report.
special adviser to Detroit Mayor
Mike Duggan, and several start-
up founders, many of them Uni-
versity alums.
Kay presented her speech as
a fireside chat, and emphasized
the importance of raising girls
to take risks, which she said play
a major role in successful entre-
preneurship.
“I had to be pushed out of
my comfort zone, into some-
thing that felt like a risk for me,
in order to learn that I had the
ability to learn,” Kay said. “Our
young women are such stars
and they’re working so hard
and they’re being so perfect, but
they’re kind of missing out on
some skill-learning that would
actually equip them better.”
Reflecting on her own experi-
ence, Kay urged the next genera-
tion of women to not let gender
stereotypes confine them.
“Let’s encourage our girls to
be bad girls,” she said. “Rather,
not to be inherently good girls all
the time. This stereotype — girls
who are good girls, who are per-
fect — is not healthy.”
After her speech, Kay said she
is particularly interested in find-
ing ways to “get more women to
the top” — not only in business,
but in politics, the military and
other organizations.
“What an event like this does
is encouraging women to take
risks, to set up ventures, to be
prepared to fail at them,” Kay
said. “And that’s really a lot of
what we’re doing is with con-
fidence. How do we encourage
women to go as far as their tal-
ents mean they deserve to go, but
that they perhaps don’t have that
self-belief?”
During his talk later in the
day, Dworkin discussed diver-
sity in the arts and emphasized
educational opportunities where
students can make tangible con-
tributions to their fields of study.
“We need to educate and train
our students to be relevant to
their field of study, which means
having a demonstrable, sig-
nificant impact on their field of
study.”
Dworkin also underlined the
importance of helping students
find work they’re enjoy and find
fulfilling.
“Our graduates will be excit-
ed, they will get jobs, they will
be well paid,” he said. “But most
importantly, they will wake up
every day doing the work that
we helped empower them to feel
passionately about.”
Tommy Jakubiec, an Eastern
Michigan University freshman
who attended Friday’s event,
said he appreciated the oppor-
tunity to learn from experienced
entrepreneurs,
particularly
because he can use their advice
in running the online business
he created several years ago.
“I want to get some more
inspiration,” he said. “Sitting
in keynotes of people that have
been through the same thing
that I’m trying to pursue, they
always offer goals and tips and
techniques.”
that numerous opinions from the
Michigan Supreme Court and
the Michigan Court of Appeals
indicated the administration has
expansive authority over its affairs
and property. Because carrying a
gun would directly relate to Univer-
sity operations, the lawyers argue,
the issue falls under the University
administration’s jurisdiction.
Wade’s attorney, Steven Dulan,
filed a brief last week denying the
University’s right to ignore the open
carry law and arguing the Universi-
ty’s Board of Regents has no author-
ity to dismiss laws enacted by the
state legislature.
“The
Michigan
Constitution
vests the power to legislate with the
state legislature, not with the state
universities,” Dulan wrote.
“The
university
will
vigor-
ously defend its right to regulate
weapons on campus to ensure the
safety of students, faculty, staff,
patients, health-care providers and
hundreds of thousands of visitors,
and to foster a supportive learning
environment where students and
faculty can feel free to explore chal-
lenging topics without fear of vio-
lence,” University spokesman Rick
Fitzgerald wrote in a July e-mail to
the Detroit Free Press. “We expect
to file a response to the lawsuit in
accordance with the deadline estab-
lished by the Court of Claims.”
LSA senior Daisy Belden, presi-
dent of the University’s chapter
of Young Americans for Liberty,
a group comprised of libertarian-
leaning students, says the Univer-
sity is not exempt from the laws
dictated by the state constitution.
Belden says students and commu-
nity members have a right to carry
arms on campus with a permit “to
protect themselves and others.”
“The state constitution recog-
nizes the right to carry arms and
the University is bound by the con-
stitution,” Belden said in an e-mail.
“It cannot and should not infringe
on that right, or any other right, just
because they dislike it.”
She says at the very least, the
University should let the case play
out in the Court of Claims because
it has legitimate grounds.
Wade previously openly carried a
handgun into a choir concert at Pio-
neer High School in Ann Arbor in
March, drawing community back-
lash and generating debate over
open carry laws.
A hearing date to vote on dis-
missing the lawsuit has not been set.
ment to their diets.
Tom Schmidt, professor of
ecology and evolutionary biol-
ogy, was one of the founders of
the new section. He said he saw
the need for a more research-
oriented option for beginning
science students.
“We want to provide every-
one with the chance to see how
real research is conducted and
how conclusions are drawn from
research,” Schmidt said.
He added that it is a chal-
lenge for many science students
to find jobs in professors’ labs at
the University, so the curriculum
may offer skills taught in those
highly sought after lab positions.
LSA sophomore John Klein
said he applied to take the class
because it sounded more inter-
esting than the normal Biology
173.
“It’s going to be more work for
sure, but I think it’s going to be
worth it for me in the long run,”
Klein said.
To fund the project, Schmidt
received a $1.5 million grant
through the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute. The grant also
allows for a parallel section in
the Chemistry 125/126 course.
The students who were inter-
ested in taking the class submit-
ted a short application and were
randomly selected through a lot-
tery system. The section began
last winter with 40 students. In
its second semester, the section
doubled to 80 students.
Even with the larger class
size, Schmidt said there were
still more students hoping to
take the class than there were
available spots, which were lim-
ited by the number of microbi-
ome samples the lab’s equipment
could process.
The data obtained from the
students
will
contribute
to
Schmidt’s
own
microbiome
research, allowing students to
feel like they impacted a larger
scientific discovery.
Schmidt said he hopes under-
graduates in the section will dis-
cover if they have a passion for
research.
“We want to provide under-
graduates with an authentic
research experience that they
can use to determine wheth-
er they want to continue in
research,” he said.
Arvind Venkataraman, pro-
fessor of internal medicine and
microbiology and immunology
in the Medical School and pro-
fessor of ecology and evolution-
ary biology in LSA, is another
instructor of the course. In an
e-mail to The Michigan Daily,
he wrote the research could help
children facing malnutrition.
“Malnutrition causes 45 per-
cent of child deaths worldwide,”
Venkataraman wrote. “Recently,
it has emerged that persistence
of malnutrition is strongly relat-
ed to deficiencies in functions
normally provided by the gut
microbiome.”
ter.
The Cougars threatened on
their next possession, getting
the ball as deep as the Michigan
36-yard line, but redshirt junior
defensive
end
Willie
Henry
sacked BYU quarterback Tanner
Mangum to stall the drive. At that
point, the Wolverines’ suddenly
efficient offense went back to
work. Rudock led them down the
field and, after BYU jumped off-
side on an important 4th-and-1,
grabbed a 14-0 lead on a touch-
down pass to Darboh.
From there, Michigan’s defense
grew stingy. Beginning with the
Cougars’ first possession of the
second quarter, the Wolverines
held BYU to six straight three-
and-out drives, suffocating any
slim chance for a comeback. It was
Michigan’s first shutout against
a ranked opponent since 2003,
when it beat Notre Dame, 38-0.
“You almost get into that rhythm
where you get on the field and you
expect three and out,” said senior
defensive end Mario Ojemudia.
“You’ve got to focus on what your
assignment is, and I think that no
one is getting too relaxed because
we keep playing well.”
Through four games, the Wol-
verines have given up just 38
points, an average of 9.5 per game.
And while the defense has been
the team’s anchor, Michigan’s
offense will end up on highlight
reels.
Perhaps the game’s biggest play
came on Michigan’s fourth drive.
Smith ran up the middle and disap-
peared into the trenches for what
looked like a three- or four-yard
gain. But seemingly out of nowhere,
he emerged from the scrum and
sprinted 60 yards for a touchdown,
toying with and carrying BYU’s
would-be tackler, Michael Davis,
for the last 35. His touchdown
stretched the lead to 21-0.
Rudock tacked on another
touchdown, and by the end of the
first half, the Wolverines led, 31-0.
While the Cougars stayed
within one point of No. 9 UCLA
last week, they appeared to run
out of gas against Michigan. After
taking a big lead, the Wolverines
did the same thing in the second
half as they did in their previous
blowout wins over Oregon State
and UNLV, pounding the ball and
finishing off another quick game.
“I don’t think we were really sur-
prised,” Darboh said. “Before the
game, Coach Harbaugh said, ‘Do
whatever it takes to win.’ And then I
think that got everyone pumped up,
and we went out there, and I think
we had a dominant win.”
There was only one worri-
some outcome for Michigan all
game. Smith went down with 7:36
remaining in the third quarter
and had to be carted off with a
right ankle injury. Smith was put
in a walking boot, but a Michigan
spokesman said it was precau-
tionary. After the game, Smith
said he expected to play next
week against Maryland, and his
focus was squarely on the win.
“It feels good to finally beat a
ranked team,” Smith said. “We have
to keep the momentum going and
keep making statements ... to show
that we don’t fear ranked teams.”
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