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NEWS BRIEFS
Deaths tied to
Legionnaires’
disease grows to
12 in Flint area
State health officials added
two more counts to the number
of deaths associated with
Legionnaires’ disease — a severe
form of pneumonia — in the
Flint area, bringing the total
to 12, the Detroit Free Press
reported.
During a 17-month period
in 2014 and 2015 there were
91 confirmed cases in Genesee
County where Flint is located.
In previous years, six to 13 cases
generally would be confirmed
each year.
The outbreak has not been
definitively linked to the
water crisis in the area, but
the increase in instances of
the illness began after Flint
switched its water supply to the
Flint River in 2014.
Investigators have been
looking at potential exposure
sites including hospitals, water
and community venues.
McLaren Flint — an area
hospital — tested for the
Legionella bacteria in 2014 while
there was an increase in concern
over the number of cases and
the safety of the water supply.
The hospital found low levels of
the bacteria, but officials said
they responded rapidly with
preventative measures.
The hospital and several
current and former employees
of the Michigan Department of
Environmental Quality are being
sued by families who suffered or
died from the disease.
Michigan nuclear
plant cleans up
following oil spill
There was an investigation
into and a cleanup of an oil spill
at a southwest Michigan nuclear
plant on Monday, the Detroit
Free Press reported.
The spill occurred at the
D.C. Cook nuclear plant on the
shore of Lake Michigan after a
transformer failure resulted in
approximately 25,000 gallons of
oil being released.
Most of the oil released was
contained by a protective berm
surrounding the transfomer, but
approximately 2,000 gallons
escaped to spill onto the ground
outside of it. However, there is
no current radioactive threat.
Oil did not reach the nearby
drains or Lake Michigan, so the
cleanup is limited to the soil,
where the oil will need to be
recaptured.
The cause of the failure is
currently under investigation.
The transformer in question is
relatively new, so it is unknown
why it broke down.
The plant has an additional
transformer unit, so it will
remain operational.
‘U’ to co-sponsor
annual e-waste
recycling event
The University will host a
three-day e-waste recycling
event in coordination with Ann
Arbor Public Schools, working
toward campus sustainability
goals that focus on engaging the
community, according to a press
release.
As a part of the event,
the University will accept
electronics such as laptop and
desktop computers, tablets,
cellular phones and audio and
video equipment to be recycled.
The event will be open to
the public, local businesses and
nonprofit organizations.
E-waste is currently the
fastest growing municipal waste
stream in the country. Rapid
techonology changes and falling
prices have caused surplus
waste as individuals quickly
switch to new devices, according
to the release.
Electronics often contain
toxic materials, which can leak
into ground water resulting in
pollution. Proper recycling of
technology can curb this risk.
—LYDIA MURRAY
the recital of the Litany of
Remembrance.
Brigham was a member of
Chi Phi fraternity who, Jones
said, dreamed of graduating
from the University with a
degree in psychology. She said
he wanted to use his degree to
work with children, which was
one of his greatest passions as a
Special Olympics coach.
Michelle
Leiterman,
Brigham’s mother, spoke about
her son, recalling his great love
for the University. She pointed
to the maize and blue tie he was
photographed in that had been
passed down from his great-
grandfather, and said the day he
was accepted to the University
was the happiest day of his life.
She said the only aspect
of Brigham greater than his
kindness was his smile.
“The only thing bigger than
Joshua’s heart was that grin
he always wore,” she said.
“Looking back it really is a rare
photo where he wasn’t smiling.”
Jones
said
Barthel’s
professors characterized him as
an eager and talented student,
noting his passion for robotics
and computer science, and that
he was a dedicated volunteer at
his church.
Angela Farrehi, director of
the Office of Student Support
and Accountability, spoke about
Barthel by reading an excerpt
from his admission essay for the
College of Engineering. Barthel
wrote he felt most at peace
when using his computer, as it
gave him access to countless
possibilities.
“My desktop is a window into
the larger world,” he wrote.
“There is nowhere that I feel
more content than siting at my
computer. When I’m sitting at
my computer I can do all sorts of
work. I can also have a limitless
source of entertainment.”
Moray was a member of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon — prior
to its disbandment — who
was studying screen arts and
culture. Jones said he dreamed
of one day graduating and rising
to the top of the entertainment
industry.
Business
senior
Anthony
Clewlow spoke about Moray,
who was his fraternity brother
and roommate. He said Moray
was one of the happiest people
he knew and had more friends
than he could count. Moray
was the pledge-class president
for Sigma Alpha Epsilon their
freshman year. Clewlow said
Moray’s confidence and fearless
leadership created a strong
bond within their pledge class.
“Although he only lived a
short 22 years, he did more than
most people do in a lifetime,”
he said. “As a leader he was
fearless and above all confident.
He turned a random group of 20
guys into friends.”
Both
Barthel
and
Moray
will be awarded posthumous
degrees during the upcoming
spring commencement.
LSA junior Joel Battsek,
a friend of Moray, said he
appreciated
the
University
hosting the event to create a
space for the community to
come together to remember
those who have left it.
“I think it was really nice
that they do this for you,” he
said. “It was really touching
to hear from everyone, and it’s
very important to reflect not
just in the moment but at a later
date.”
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as to how the selection goes,”
Petrie said. “Some years there’s
going to be the person who has
the most in number as far as
nominations. And some years
it’s not, because there are going
to be some comments that seem
very heartfelt and long.”
Originally an engineer by
trade, Ball said credited his
success as a professor to his
wife’s decision to return to
school
and
his
accounting
professor
who
drove
him
to enroll in MBA and Ph.D.
programs at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“In my first accounting class
I took, my instructor made a
blanket offer to the class,” Ball
said. “And he said, ‘Hey, there’s
a real shortage of accounting in
academics. I would like any of
you to come talk to me about a
Ph.D.’ So I took him up on the
offer and the rest is history.”
Speaking to his decision to
transition from engineering
to business, Ball highlighted
the human interaction aspect
of business that may not be as
large a part of engineering.
“Engineering tends to be
focused on the known aspect,
you design stuff the way you
know it,” Ball said. “Whereas
in business it’s about human
interactions with real financial
models and financial markets.
It’s got a little bit of everything
having to do with the human
race.”
Concerning the classroom,
Ball said he likes to bring a
sense of importance, energy
and compassion to both his
work and interactions with
students.
“It’s about bringing energy
and enthusiasm and just a little
bit of compassion and caring
to the classroom that I think
goes a heck of a long way,” Ball
said. “I think that’s important
in
today’s
environment
where business schools are
always at the leading edge of
innovation.”
Attesting to these qualities,
Business
master’s
student
Celia Boren, one of Ball’s
accounting students, said she
enjoys the way Ball makes more
convoluted material become
straightforward.
“He
makes
the
topic
(of
accounting)
extremely
approachable,”
Boren
said.
“And something that is complex
makes sense to people with a
wide variety of experiences.”
Ball
also
cited
taking
feedback seriously as a vital
part of classroom learning. To
demonstrate his commitment
to it, he asks students to voice
that feedback through his
own form at the start of the
semester.
“I
distribute
my
own,
personal mid-course feedback
form three weeks in,” he said.
“And a lot of time, there are
things in there that I can do to
change (the class).”
Through placing importance
on hearing what his students
have to say about, Ball said
he strives to create a unique
dynamic in each of his classes.
“Every class is different, so
every class requires a different
approach,” Ball said. “It’s not
that I’m trying to find the one
size fits all. What works for
one class may not work for next
year’s class. It’s always about
adjusting and adapting.”
Business master’s student
Abbey Maglaris, another of
Ball’s accounting students, said
she now feels more confident in
applying accounting material to
real life situations.
“I think Ryan and his
class
have
given
me
the
ability and the confidence
to understand what’s in the
content,” Maglaris said. “(I)
feel comfortable looking at it
on my own or taking a stab at
interpreting something that I
wouldn’t have felt comfortable
doing before.”
Maglaris
and
Boren
both
compared
Ball
to
a
dolphin, saying he is fluid,
energetic, intelligent and very
approachable.
“He sets the bar high,” Boren
said. “But he also never doubts
that you can get there.”
we could do with faculty.”
Pollack added that faculty
sexual
harassment
policies
are much more complex than
student policies.
“You can’t just cut and paste
because student issues usually
don’t have a power imbalance
for the most part,” Pollack
said. “Technically, faculty are
employees so there are a whole
bunch of different laws.”
In a recent interview with
The Michigan Daily, Pollack
said Weineck and SACUA were
aware the University intended
to focus on student sexual
misconduct
policies
before
revising policies for faculty and
other employees.
“I have said to SACUA all
along — and Silke knows this,
she’s on board with this — that
we were updating the student
sexual misconduct policy, and
when that was done, we would
revisit the appealing processes
for faculty,” she said.
During the interview, Pollack
declined
to
discuss
what
processes for amending current
policies for faculty and staff
would entail.
SACUA also raised questions
about a possible social media
policy for faculty during their
conversation with Pollack. The
University does not currently
have a social media policy for
faculty to follow.
Pollack said she would
consider the idea, though
she
noted
many
issues
stemming
from
social
media could apply to other
policies.
“You
could
imagine
cases that could fall under
other
policies,”
Pollack
said. “For example, if you
were threatening a student
directly, that would fall
under another category.”
John Lehmanm SACUA
member and Professor of
Biology, said governing OIE
and SPG go hand-in-hand
and
said
administration
should address the issues
together.
“There’s going to have
to be some dovetailing of
SPG and OIE discussions,”
Lehman said.
The
committee
also
addressed
recent
anti-
Islam chalkings on the Diag
which University President
Mark Schlissel and Central
Student
Government
President
Cooper
Charlton responded to in a
University-wide e-mail last
week.
“You have to respect free
speech no matter how heinous,
and also be respectful of the
fact some students feel very,
very hurt,” Pollack said.
Ishop, SACUA’s other guest,
the enrollment manager at the
University answered questions
largely about admissions, as
well explained how faculty is
involved in admissions. She
also addressed financial aid,
diversity on campus and how
each of the schools differ in
admissions processes.
“The faculty engagement is
done at a committee level about
helping us make decisions about
students we admit,” Ishop said.
During her remarks, Ishop
highlighted how the University
has increased its yield over
the last year — meaning a
higher number of the students
accepted are committing to the
University.
“What you would have seen
prior to the last couple years
was a little bit of a decline,”
Ishop said. “What we’ve seen
in the last two years is a steady
uptake.”
SACUA
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SACUA Chair Silke-Maria Weineck, professor of comparative literature, discusses the effectiveness of the administration’s
reactions to recent Diag chalkings in the Fleming Building Monday.
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Accounting Prof. Ryan Ball discusses winning the 2016 Golden Apple award in his office at the Ross School of
Business Sunday.
and stop the stigma that mental
health issues are a bad thing,”
Giacomini said. “Because a lot
of people suffer from them.”
Giacomini noted that she
and other student government
students are also currently
working on initiatives to get
CAPS
extended
to
North
Campus. She also stressed that
given the prevalence of mental
health issues on campus, it’s
important for students to know
they are not alone and have a
large student support system
available.
LSA
freshman
Michael
Sacchetti, current chair of the
health committee, said the
event was meant to create a
welcoming
environment
for
students battling mental health
issues.
“It’s
really
important
especially to make it aware
that students do battle mental
health
issues
on
campus,”
Sacchetti said.
At the event, many students
were hesitant to share their
stories at first, but eventually
one by one — even those who
said initially they were not
planning to speak — shared
stories expressing the need for
compassion,
awareness,
and
increased resources for those
with mental health issues.
In
her
remarks,
LSA
sophomore
Lauren
Matson
expressed frustration with the
University’s response to student
demands for more resources,
though she also acknowledged
the work administrators are
doing in an interview after the
speak out.
“Mental health stigma on
this campus and on any college
campus
is
so
prevalent,”
Matson said. “And, because it
has been something that I have
been constantly dealing with, I
really wanted to come and just
encourage others that they’re
not alone in this.”
Marjorie
Horton,
LSA
assistant
dean
for
undergraduate education, said
she attended the event because
she believes faculty support was
crucial to supporting students
with mental health problems.
“The
event
was
really
valuable both in terms of giving
students a safe space to share
their stories and also inform
other students here about the
range of resources and how
important it is to support
friends
who
are
suffering
from mental health concerns,”
Horton said.
LSA
senior
Marlee
Beckering, who also attended
the event, is a part of the
“Help
CAPS
Catch
Up”
project, an initiative centered
around collecting names from
students to later use in letters
to
administrators
regarding
requests for increased mental
health resources on campus.
Beckering
said
the
largest
demand “Help CAPS Catch Up”
is pursuing is to increase the
budget for CAPS, echoing some
of the concerns of speak out
participants.
“(We will be) asking for
specific things that we want to
see enacted on campus in terms
of mental health resources,”
Beckering said. “Right now, we
are not covering the entirety of
our campus.”
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