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ADMINISTRATION

 Under proposed 
changes, external 
party would handle 

appeals process

By GENEVIEVE HUMMER

Daily Staff Reporter

A draft of updates to the 

University’s 
Student 
Sexual 

Misconduct 
Policy 
released 

Thursday 
proposes 
revised 

investigation 
procedures 
that 

would allow students to appeal 
investigation 
findings 
to 
an 

external party.

Currently, 
appeals 
of 
an 

investigation 
finding 
are 

reviewed by the same board that 
handles appeals of sanction.

The 
release 
of 
the 
draft 

comes in advance of a series of 
roundtables aimed at gathering 
student feedback on potential 
changes to the policy.

University 
President 
Mark 

Schlissel said in September that 
an updated policy would be 
released “before the new year.”

“The 
External 
Reviewer 

will be a neutral party outside 
of the University, usually an 
attorney, with knowledge of 
sexual misconduct cases, as well 
as the University’s policies and 
procedures,” the draft policy 
reads. “The External Reviewer 
must also be impartial and free 
from bias or conflict of interest.”

The University would also 

move to identify all witnesses by 
name in investigative reports.

Additionally, 
a 
resolution 

officer 
— 
who 
previously 

resolved appeals to sanctions or 
resolutions handed down by the 
resolution coordinator — will no 
longer be involved in the process. 
An appeals board composed of 
one student appointed by Central 
Student Government and at least 
two faculty members, including 
one from the Law School, would 
make those determinations.

The 
policy 
would 
also 

explicitly state the instances 
when the sexual history of 
either party would be used in the 
investigation.

The 
draft 
version 
also 

includes a section dedicated to 
detailing the policy’s definition 

See POLICY, Page 3A

ALLISON FARRAND/Daily

Research Assistant Katrina Lewandowski and Research Lab Specialist Scott Beld carefully clean mud off a mammoth skull at the Ruthven Museum of Natural 
History on Thursday. The remains arrived at the museum yesterday after they were discovered beneath Jim Bristle’s soybean farm in Lima Township last week. 

Scientifically 

significant discovery 
to reside on campus 

permanently

By NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT

Daily Staff Reporter

A 
mammoth 
of 
a 
fossil 

display may be on its way to 
the University’s Museum of 

Paleontology — as soon as 
paleontologists conduct further 
research and prepare the newly 
discovered bones for exhibition.

A 
team 
of 
University 

researchers 
excavated 
the 

remains of a prehistoric woolly 
mammoth last week at a dig site 
near Chelsea, Mich. The owner 
of the site, Chelsea farmer James 
Bristle, donated the bones to the 
Museum of Paleontology and the 
specimens began arriving in Ann 
Arbor this week.

Led 
by 
Daniel 
Fisher, 
a 

professor 
of 
ecology 
and 

evolutionary biology and director 
of the Museum of Paleontology, 
the team uncovered nearly 20 
percent of the animal’s skeleton, 
including a complete skull with 
tusks and teeth, vertebrae, ribs, 
pelvis and shoulder blades.

The mammoth is estimated 

to be an adult male that lived 
between 11,700 and 15,000 
years ago.

Bristle came across part of the 

pelvis bone when trying to install 
a drainage pipe in his field. He 
contacted the University team, 
who excavated what they could 
in a day, though they noted that 
there might still be some parts 
they may have missed.

Fisher 
said 
the 
find 
is 

significant because it may alter 
the date when paleontologists 
and historians believe humans 
first lived in North America.

“We know that humans were 

Artists convene for 
‘basketball-playing 

robot music’ at 
TomorrowWorld

By ARIANA ASSAF

Daily Arts Writer

Last weekend, Sunshine Sachs 

was presented with a nightmare. 
The New York-based PR firm was 
tasked with saving face for an 
already dying company that was 
being held responsible for one of the 
most talked about music debacles 
this year.

Well, in my world it’s one of the 

most talked about music debacles 
this year, but that might have some-
thing to do with Facebook algo-
rithms. Let’s back up: on the final 
day of TomorrowWorld, a three-
day, three-year-old music festival 
in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, 
thousands of attendees were told 
they would not be allowed entry 
due to rainfall limiting “capacity 
of the parking lots, entrance roads 
and drop off locations.” The night 
before, tons of people were essen-

tially stranded in the forest after 
shuttles that were supposed to take 
them back to their cars, almost 10 
or so miles away, were cancelled for 
the same weather-related reasons.

Due to the beautifully mystical 

workings of the universe, I actu-
ally got to camp and attend the 
festival every day, and, let me tell 
you, it was wacky in all the best 
ways. I’m talking fire-breathing 
fish, trippy tapestries that pulsed 
under the influence of color chang-
ing light and maybe some other 
things (shoutout to BLVisuals — 
they’re based in Michigan! Go go 
go! ), and a huge rainbow marking 
the entrance to the campground 
that really made me feel as though 
I was walking into the best dream 
ever. I didn’t even care about having 
to slosh and ooze my way through 
mud for 10 minutes every time I 
wanted to leave my tent to pee.

I arrived on Friday morning 

and was immediately assisted by 
some very friendly staff in carry-
ing my stuff to an open spot. The 
campground known as Dreamville 
was buzzing with energy; people 
walked around blowing bubbles 
and getting to know each other and 

 Noted civil rights 
organizer dies at 

age 100

By JACKIE CHARNIGA

Daily Staff Reporter

At 100 years old, human 

rights 
activist, 
feminist, 

environmentalist and author 
Grace Lee Boggs died at her 
home in Detroit on Monday.

Her death was announced 

by the James & Grace Boggs 
Center to Nurture Community 
Leadership, an organization 
Boggs established in 1993 after 
the death of her husband.

Boggs had maintained a 

long-standing 
relationship 

with the University over the 
course of her lifetime. In 
2003, she was the University’s 
keynote speaker at the Martin 
Luther King Jr. Symposium. In 
2009, she received an honorary 

Doctorate of Humane Letters 
degree from the University.

Additionally, she influenced 

the launch of Semester in 
Detroit, a University program 
that allows students to live and 
study in the city.

Stephen 
Ward, 
assistant 

professor in the Residential 
College and in the Department 
of Afroamerican and African 
Studies, features Grace Lee 
Boggs 
prominently 
in 
his 

See FOSSILS, Page 3A

See TOMORROW, Page 5A
See BOGGS, Page 3A
See CURRICULUM, Page 3A

A passion-filled 
EDM weekend 
in rural Georgia

DELANEY RYAN/Daily

University alums Darren Criss and Joey Richter performed at “A Very Starkid Reunion” in honor of the 100th 
anniversary of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the Power Center on Thursday. 

A VE RY STARKID REUNION

IN REMEMBRANCE

ARTS
ACADEMICS

Changes to 

emphasize clinical 
experiences during 
program’s first years

By SANJAY REDDY

Daily Staff Reporter

Two years ago, the American 

Medical 
Association 
awarded 

a $1.1 million grant to the 
University’s 
Medical 
School 

to 
implement 
comprehensive 

curricular changes. This year, the 
changes are going into effect.

Rajesh Mangrulkar, associate 

dean 
for 
medical 
student 

education at the University, is 
leading the way in implementing 
the changes.

The new curriculum exposes 

students to the clinical setting 
as early as their first year and 
teaches them to have a greater 
understanding of the sociology 
and 
humanitarian 
side 
of 

medicine.

Mangrulkar said these changes 

represent an initiative to improve 
the traditional medical school 

University 
distributes 
draft sexual 
assault policy

‘Mammoth’ find arrives at 
Natural History Museum

Detroit activist Grace Lee 
Boggs left legacy at the ‘U’

For medical 
students, new 
curriculum 
takes effect

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