Women’s fraternity 

faced multiple 

disciplinary sanctions 

over past months

By ALYSSA BRANDON

Daily News Editor

The Eta Chapter of Kappa 

Alpha Theta women’sfraternity 
at the University of Michigan was 
disbanded Monday.

A letter obtained by The 

Michigan Daily from Theta’s 
national president Laura Doerre 
to chapter members states the 
decision was made in a unanimous 
vote by the fraternity’s grand 
council on Sunday.

In the letter, Doerre said the 

decision to disband the chapter 
came after several suspensions 
and disciplinary action from both 
the University and the national 
chapter, 
including 
a 
recent 

suspension effective during the 
spring semester. The letter didn’t 
specify what events prompted 
the 
disciplinary 
actions 
or 

suspensions.

Doerre also wrote that the 

fraternity 
recently 
violated 

University sanctions that were 
administered during the Spring 
semester.

“On February 10, Vice-President 

Mandy Wushinske and I visited 
campus and met with members 
of your cabinet and university 
administrators including the dean 
of students,” Doerre wrote. “At 
that time it was clearly stated that 
all members and new members of 

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Joint faculty and 

student committees 

await approval of 
reccomendations 

By ISOBEL FUTTER

Daily Staff Reporter

Silke-Maria Weineck, chair of 

the Senate Advisory Committee 
on University Affairs, discussed 
student course evaluations at 
Monday’s 
Senate 
Assembly 

meeting, updating the assembly 
on their initiatives to create 
policies 
for 
the 
release 
of 

evaluations.

Last fall, the Faculty Senate 

voted to defer releasing course 
evaluations until policies on the 
release were in place and there 
were changes in the structure 
of the evaluations to be viewed. 
Two committees, composed of 
faculty and representatives from 
Central 
Student 
Government 

were charged with performing 
these tasks.

The 
recommendations 

have been sent to University 
of Michigan Provost Martha 
Pollack for review, Weineck said. 
If approved, course evaluations 
will be released starting fall 2016.

The policies suggested include 

a stipulation that allows course 
evaluations to only be released 
to students, preventing their 
release to other UM community 
members 
or 
the 
public. 

Additionally, course evaluations 
would only be released if one 
of two thresholds are met: a 50 
percent participation rate for the 
class overall or a minimum of 30 
evaluations total per class.

“We 
decided 
to 
put 
the 

threshold 
in 
to 
encourage 

participation,” 
Weineck 
said. 

“The students told us they 
wanted this information, so it 
seemed a good idea to say, ‘OK, 
you can have this, but you need to 
provide the information as well.’”

Another 
suggestion 
made 

by the committee was to allow 
faculty 
facing 
difficult 
life 

situations or emergencies to opt 
out of release of evaluations for 
that year.

See SACUA, Page 3

Chris Hughes gives 

advice to young 
entrepreneurs at 
Business school

By REBECCA SOLBERG

Daily Staff Reporter

Audience members browsed 

Facebook 
on 
their 
phones 

while waiting for one of the 

social media site’s creators 
to speak in the Robertson 
Auditorium Monday evening.

Allison Davis-Blake, dean of 

the Stephen M. Ross School of 
Business, moderated the event. 
She asked Chris Hughes about 
a number of topics, including 
his journey as one of five people 
co-founding 
Facebook, 
his 

work for the Obama campaign 
in 2008 and the advice he 
had for young entrepreneurs. 
Facebook was founded in 2004 

by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin 
Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, 
Andrew 
McCullum 
and 

Hughes. The social media site 
now has more than 1 billion 
users in 19 countries.

Hughes 
began 
the 

discussion with a disclaimer: 
the 
Facebook 
story 
was 

different from that portrayed 
in the popular 2010 film “The 
Social Network.” Rather, he 
said, 
a 
few 
undergraduate 

students at Harvard University 

had the idea for a social media 
site and with the right spark 
and motivation, Facebook was 
able to become the massive 
network it is today.

He 
told 
attendees 
that 

a small idea can have a 
significant impact on making 
a huge difference in the world: 
Facebook, he said, began with 
the simple idea to connect 
friends and family and 12 years 
later, the site has evolved into 

See FACEBOOK, Page 2

Body also discusses 
solutions for high 
number of retiring 

police officers

By MARLEE BREAKSTONE

Daily Staff Reporter

Monday evening, Ann Arbor 

City Council convened for its 
first work session on the city’s 
fiscal year 2017 budget, which 
is slated to be passed in May. 
Staff retention in the Ann 
Arbor Police Department and 
funding for the city’s ongoing 
deer cull were among the most 
contentious budgeting factors 
discussed at the meeting.

Ann 
Arbor’s 
budget 
is 

determined over a two-year 
process, and this is the second 
year in that process. However, 
City 
Treasurer 
Matthew 

Horning said there are still 
many important new factors to 
consider.

“It’s a much easier process 

than last year, but we still 
have some decisions to make,” 
Horning said at the start of the 
meeting.

Larry Collins, Ann Arbor’s 

interim 
community 
services 

area administrator, discussed 
funding for the city’s ongoing 
deer cull.

The deer cull was initially 

budgeted as a one-time cost of 
$20,000 for 2017, but Collins 
said the actual cost of the 
project will be around $35,000.

Collins said no current bill 

exists to account for the total 

costs of the cull. Before the cull 
began, the city agreed in its 
contract with the United States 
Department 
of 
Agriculture 

Animal 
and 
Plant 
Health 

Inspection Service to receive 
a bill at the end of the first 
quarter of the process. The cull 
began Jan. 2, 2016.

Collins said he was unsure 

how much the culling activities 
will cost in the upcoming 
years. A city meeting to discuss 
potentially 
using 
nonlethal 

methods for the cull will be held 
with city residents on Friday.

“We just don’t have the data 

yet … we’re not done,” Collins 
said. “My hope and my belief 
is that $35,000 won’t be needed 
for the cull in the upcoming 
year.”

Ann Arbor residents have 

complained since the summer 
of 2015 about the lack of 
transparency from city officials 
regarding the cull’s costs and 
the details and effects of the 
cull.

Councilmember 
Sabra 

Briere (D–Ward 1) said she 
disapproved of Collins’ inability 
to provide clear parameters of 
the cost of the cull. Collins said 
he does not know at this time 
the amount of funding required 
to complete the deer cull.

City 
Administrator 
Tom 

Crawford 
promised 
to 

provide Briere and other city 
councilmembers with written 
updates containing information 
about the costs of the deer cull. 
He did not specify when those 
updates would be distributed.

Along with the cull, Robin 

During event, 

speakers emphasize 

problem solving, 
community equity

By KEVIN BIGLIN

Daily Staff Reporter

At the Ford School of Public 

Policy 
Monday 
evening, 

panelists discussed ways police 
reform in Cincinnati can serve 
as a model for cities across the 
United States to adopt a more 
community-based 
approach 

to issues of police brutality, 
touching 
on 
collective 

experience in the field.

The event, “21st Century 

Policing: 
Lessons 
from 

Cincinnati,” was hosted as part 
of the University of Michigan 
2016 Martin Luther King Jr. 
Symposium 
and 
moderated 

by David Thacher, assistant 
professor of Public Policy and 
Urban Planning and Reuben 
Miller, assistant professor of 
Social Work.

In his remarks, Thacher 

emphasized that opportunities 
to implement police reform 
are made possible through the 
work of social activists.

“We’re at a really important 

moment in American policing 
right now,” Thacher said. “We 

have a level of social attention 
to policing and scrutiny in 
policing that we haven’t seen 
in probably about 50 years. We 
have a window of opportunity 
in policing for real and lasting 
change, and we have that 
window because of the passion 
and commitment of so many 
civil 
rights 
activists 
over 

the past two years who have 
put policing in the national 
spotlight so successfully.”

Participants in the talk were 

key members involved in the 
process of Cincinnati’s police 
reform after a series of deaths 
prompted 
a 
lawsuit 
from 

the Cincinnati Black United 

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Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, discusses the important role of entrepreneurship in the future of Detroit in Robertson Auditorium on Monday.

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University of Cincinnati professor John Eck shares his opinions and ideas about police issues at the 21st Century 
Policing meeting held in Weil Hall on Monday. 

ACADEMICS
Assembly 
discusses
release of 
evaluations

Facebook co-creator talks 
impact of social media site 

BUDGET
A2 City Council
examines 2017
deer cull funds

Panel on police reform cites 
Cincinnati as model city

CAMPUS LIFE
‘U’ chapter 
of Kappa 
Alpha Theta 
disbanded

