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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