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in a situation if it did happen,”
Baum said.
This is the event’s first year,
and organizers said they hope to
make it an annual occurrence.
Wes Vear, LSA senior and
president of the Club Sports
Council, said CPR is an easy
skill to learn, and training
more people could help raise
Michigan’s
8-percent
pre-
hospital cardiac arrest survival
rate.
Neumar agreed with Vear
and said he hopes this event
will create more promising
statistics.
“Our mission here is to raise
awareness of CPR and get as
many people trained as we can
in order to save more lives,” he
said. “Anybody should be able to
save a life.”
experience they discuss most
often is their undergraduate
research experience. Research
is an opportunity to develop
independent
thinking
and
solve problems.”
Six Mentor Awards were
given out during the event to
research scholars, research
students in their second years
who work with undergraduate
students through the UROP
program
from
student
nominations.
The
winners
included
Daniel
Lucas-Alcaraz,
assistant
professor
of
cell
and developmental biology;
Mark
Clague,
associate
professor of music; Elizabeth
Duval, lecturer in psychiatry;
Elizabeth
Goodenough,
lecturer in arts and ideas in the
humanities program; William
Carson,
research
professor
of pathology; and Chithra
Perumalswami,
lecturer
of
internal medicine.
LSA
sophomore
Julia
Kropa, one of the students
who
presented,
discussed
work on the Tel Kedesh
Publication Project in which
she is preparing a manuscript
looking at the findings from
the archaeological excavation
of Tel Kedesh, Israel. The site
featured more than 2,000
clay sealings, which were
used by public officials to
mark documents and featured
artistic
representations
of
different mythological figures
or other symbols or animals.
Kropa’s
work
centered
on organizing the images of
the sealings online in a more
accessible format. She said
this process is key to aiding
future researchers in better
understanding her field.
“The
information
that
it
contains
and
that
the
manuscript
will
detail
is
really
important
to
other
archaeologists
when
they
uncover other research on
Hellenistic archives,” she said.
“If these images are uploaded
in a more accessible format
it will widen the scope of the
audience who will be able
to access it and give other
archeologists a better idea of
how this information can be
used.”
LSA junior Kathryn Zoller
and LSA sophomore Emma
Kinery also talked about their
work, which focuses on the
History of UM Museums and
Collections
project.
Kinery
is also a news editor for The
Michigan Daily.
The research details the
history of the University’s
museum system from 1837 to
1900 and will be published in
a book in 2017 as part of the
bicentennial
presentation,
which funded their project.
Zoller said recent contributions
to the University’s museums
demonstrate
its
continued
prestige.
“The fact that we were
given the Bristol mammoth
— discovered by Jim Bristol
this past year — is important
because they still see us as
a depository for important
specimens,” she said. “These
collections help improve the
prestige
of
the
University
and the University is seen as
important because of all of
these collections.”
LSA junior Victoria Rai
additionally
discussed
her
research into the methods in
transcriptional regulation of
RNA, a step in the process cells
use to make proteins in which
DNA is copied to RNA. Rai
has worked in with the Walter
Lab in the Department of
Chemistry since her freshman
year. Her research aims to
find ways to regulate the
transcription process in order
to combat diseases, which
can occur due to errors in this
stage.
She said her research is
valuable for its ability to
impact the lives of individuals
suffering
from
genetic
disorders.
“My research is important
because there is a lot of genetic
disorders — I have one myself
— and it’s hard to deal with
sometimes,” she said. “It shows
that we are growing as a science
community, and the ability
to grow the technology and
have these advances to impact
people’s lives as a researcher is
really valuable to me.”
UROP
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to CAPS both online and
on North Campus at the
University.
In response, Schlissel said
the University will continue
to address these issues and to
meet as many student needs
as possible.
“We have to find the right
level of staffing, a way to
distribute this resource based
on acuity of need, a way to
assure that the wait is not
beyond
some
reasonable
length of time no matter what
your problem is,” he said.
Schlissel
also
said
the
University
will
print
the
phone number for CAPS on
the back of student ID cards
beginning with next year’s
incoming class and current
students will receive a sticker
with the phone number to
place on their MCards.
During the event, students
also
asked
Schlissel
and
Harper about ways to foster
a relationship between the
University and Detroit.
In
response,
Schlissel
emphasized
work
already
being done.
“The
University
has
increasingly been doing more
projects with Detroit on an
educational basis,” Schlissel
said
of
Detroit.
“Around
1000
undergraduates
do
year-long engaged learning
and volunteer projects with
communities in the city year
after year.”
When asked to critique
the ways schools within the
University are connecting to
Detroit, Schlissel said he did
not have enough information
to critique specifically what
schools are not doing, but
added that he knows with
certainty many schools are
taking initiative in Detroit.
“The Business School is
involved in Detroit at multiple
levels, as is the School of
Social Work and the School
of Education,” he said. “The
School of Engineering leads
a very active effort in Detroit
high
schools,
specifically
around
robotics,
and
the
Medical School is also doing
work.”
Another
area
for
improvement
Schlissel
addressed was working with
deans
in
various
schools
and cultivating a sense of
community, particularly for
those
who
were
recently
appointed
within
the
University. Nine out of the
University’s 19 deans are
currently new or the position
is currently being filled.
“There is still relatively
new senior leadership and
we’ve come up with new
ideas and directions that we
want to take the campus, so
it’s actually nice to be able to
hire and appoint deans who
are in their skills and have
interests aligned with the
new things we want to do,”
Schlissel said. “So there’s
upsides and downsides to all
that turnaround, but we are
getting great people.”
Schlissel also touched on
the new Munger residence
halls for graduate students
and
students
pursuing
professional degrees, saying
he hoped they would inspire
intellectual
interaction
between students studying
different disciplines. Munger
residents
complained
in
March
about
a
change
in their leases and about
students of different fields
being segregated within the
hall. Several students raised
concerns over recent changes
in th ebuilding, which has
prompted complaints in past
months, which many students
felt inhibited their ability
to continue to live in the
University’s newest residence
hall.
In response, Schlissel cited
logistical
challenges
with
nine-month leases, noting the
purpose of the program.
“It’s specifically designed
to have people from different
disciplines
live
together,”
Schlissel
said.
“I
think
putting people together in
living circumstances allows
them to come together in and
outside the curriculum but a
substantive way that might
enhance whatever it is they’re
pursuing.”
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telephone receiver is removed
from the cradle. Dialing or
conversation is not required
for the alert and the dispatch
of an officer.
LSA
sophomore
Helen
Joa, one of the five students,
said the camera would be the
most useful in identifying
an attacker since sometimes
a student who was attacked
or harassed cannot provide
a good description of the
perpetrator.
“Once
the
camera
is
activated, we’re hoping that
it will help take the pressure
off from the person who
was attacked to identify the
attacker,” Joa said. “Crime
alert (from DPSS) is a fairly
good system … but the only
downfall is that when you
get to the description of the
perpetrator,
it’s
something
like ‘they are wearing a North
Face jacket.’”
Joa added that the cameras
would be important especially
given the light of recent
events such as the anti-Islam
chalking on the Diag last
month.
“People come to U of M to
learn and study,” Joa said.
“This should not have to be a
topic of concern for them. So
anything I can do as a fellow
Wolverine to make someone
else feel safer, I’m going to do
it.”
The
proposed
camera,
outlined in the petition, would
be activated only when the
student pushes the emergency
button, to alleviate concerns
about privacy.
In response to the petition,
DPSS
public
information
officer Diane Brown said there
are
currently
discussions
within the department about
enhancing
the
blue
light
system. She added that in
addition to installing cameras,
DPSS has considered installing
public announcement speakers
on top of the blue light phones.
“We
could
broadcast
outgoing
messages
to
the
community for emergencies,”
Brown
said.
“There
have
been discussions and there
continues to be discussions
about
putting
cameras
at
strategic locations.”
Brown said one strategy
for cameras on campus in
general would be installing
them where infrastructure,
such as data lines and cyber
optic lines, are already in
place. However, she noted that
most of the blue light phones
are too far away from such
infrastructure,
meaning
it
may be difficult to install the
camera on existing phones.
“It wouldn’t be just placing a
camera on a top of a pedestal,”
Brown
said.
“Some
other
infrastructure
enhancement
would have to be part of the
project.”
She added that the cameras
do not necessarily have to
be part of the phone system
given
the
infrastructure
problem, adding that many
crimes don’t occur where the
phones are located. She noted
that the most common form of
crime is stealing unattended
belongings
at
libraries
or
recreational centers, which
aren’t near the lights.
“We
simply
don’t
get
that kind of reports (at the
phones),” she said. “But there
might
be
locations
where
adding
the
camera
would
help.”
Brown emphasized DPSS
is
always
interested
in
enhancing safety and security
for
the
students,
pointing
to several existing services
from DPSS such as using text
messages to report crimes.
“(Students) can send us a
text message with specifics
(of the crime),” Brown said.
“It’s more consistent with
the communication devices
students tend to use regularly.”
LSA
freshman
William
Waters, one of the 233 students
who signed the petition, wrote
in an e-mail that interview
he was motivated to sign the
petition because he believes
feeling safe on campus is
extremely important, adding
that he felt there is a low
number of blue light phones
available on campus.
“I have friends that have
discussed
their
concerns
about walking home at night
alone and have noted their
specific concerns regarding
the amount of blue lights
available on campus,” Waters
wrote. “When visiting other
campuses, there are so many
more lights and they’re more
advanced
with
cameras.
In
residence
halls,
other
campuses have one in each
hallway on each floor, but U
of M does not have a single
blue light in any dorm to my
knowledge.”
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dining hall hours on game days
to improve safety during student
game day tailgating events and
on St. Patrick’s Day, as well as a
change to the Board of Regents
bylaws to reintroduce a provision
eliminated in 2011, Section VII,
which would increase student
voice in University affairs.
The issue of mental health also
saw sustained attention from the
assembly. Beginning with the
class of 2020, all MCards will
have the 24-hour Counseling and
Psychological Services crisis line
printed on the back, in part due
to CSG advocacy. Another mental
health
resolution,
which
was
co-sponsored by Schafer, would
allocate $900 dollars to produce
an informational video aimed to
raise awareness about drug abuse
on campus.
Many of the body’s actions
required a reallocation of funds to
implement the programs. Business
senior Kevin Ziegler, who served
as CSG treasurer, said he thought
financially, the assembly did a good
job.
“The
CSG
Fifth
Assembly,
executives
and
commission
chairs also all did an excellent job
of putting student fees to work,
benefiting both current and future
Wolverines,” Ziegler said.
Schafer cited several initiatives
as strengths of the outgoing
assembly,
saying
he
thought
Charlton and the body succeeded
in advocating for students.
“From stressing the importance
of
student
presence
at
the
highest levels of our university’s
administration to advocating for
the release of course evaluations,
Cooper and his administration
constantly fought to expand the
opportunities and enhance the
voice of students,” Schafer said.
However, Schafer added that
despite the progress made in areas
like mental health awareness,
course evaluations and early dining
hall
hours,
CSG
experienced
difficulty putting their plans into
action in many areas of concern for
University students.
“Some of our initial work has
been, and will continue to be, in the
area of relationship-building with
both University and city officials
to achieve some of the goals of
previous years that might remain
unrealized,” Schafer said. “This
involves sitting down and having
conversations on how to, say,
enhance off-campus safety.”
Campus Safety
Improving off-campus safety
was
one
area
where
Make
Michigan’s campaign plans lost
momentum. One proposed remedy
to off-campus safety concerns
was the installation of more street
lights. This idea was proposed by a
previous administration following
a lift on the moratorium on new city
lighting in February 2014. The new
lighting projects were proposed
to include the areas of Hill Street,
Oxford Road and Geddes Road.
Though this campaign promise
was one that garnered widespread
support, especially from students
who live off campus, CSG was
unable to make progress in this
area.
Charlton cited the lack of
cooperation between CSG and the
city, and the overwhelming costs
of light installation, as reasons the
platform point went unfulfilled.
“Off-campus
lighting
was
probably our most ambitious plan
for this year, but what gave us the
most hope was the lifting of the
moratorium by the city on the
expansion of street lighting so that
we could have at least a conversation
about expansion,” Charlton said.
“But we ran into two issues: the
first problem is that it can cost as
much as $400,000 to $600,000
per corridor for installation, so
assessing the finances of the
operation was a hurdle that we
were unable to overcome. The
other problem that we faced was
with cooperation from the city. Ann
Arbor city officials were not very
open to collaboration, and I don’t
think that our relationship with the
city was nearly strong enough.”
CSG also made little headway
in the past year on another
campus safety proposal — the
development of a campus-safety
app. The assembly from the year
before, under alum and former
CSG President Bobby Dishell,
launched several projects in this
area, including SafeRide and Night
Owl apps.
LSA
sophomore
Anushka
Sarkar, the CSG chief programming
officer,
noted
that
Charlton’s
administration
did
nonetheless
address
multiple
campaign
promises succesfully while in office
Sarkar
was
newMICH’s
campaign
manager
and
a
member of Charlton’s Executive
Committee. She emphasized CSG’s
work on mental health issues in
particular as an area of success this
past year.
“The work that has been done
over the past year is impressive
— between the expansion of the
Wolverine Support Network, the
availability of course evaluation
data and the Race & Ethnicity
Requirement hearings that were
held, Cooper, Steven and this
administration have a lot to be
proud of,” she said.
Campus Life
Objectives like the expansion of
the Wolverine Support Network
— a student-led mental health
resource — and the implementation
of the honor code were also all
campaign platform points for
Charlton and Halperin during the
2015 CSG elections.
Last November, CSG proposals
for the University’s Statement of
Student Rights and Responsibilities
were presented to the Student
Relations Advisory Committee.
Among the proposed changes to
the rights and responsibilities
statement
was
the
proposed
formalization of a student honor
code.
The code was an area of
particular importance to CSG this
past year after the destruction
of a ski lodge by members of the
Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity in
January 2015. The proposal to
introduce an honor code to the
Statement of Student Rights and
Responsibilities was endorsed by
both CSG and by SRAC chairman,
Statistics Prof. Edward Rothman,
who acknowledged the importance
of building awareness about the
causes of student misconduct.
Charlton said the proposal failed
because of dilution by SRAC.
“SRAC was extremely out of
touch with the student body, which
left us fighting with them rather
than working together,” Charlton
said. “And because of this, the
honor code that we brought into the
process, by the time that it made it
through the process, had essentially
been disassembled, deconstructed
into a shadow of what it once was.
Therefore, it was no surprise that
once the honor code was brought to
President Schlissel, he was not able
to approve it because it lost many of
the key elements that were initially
featured.”
Academics
Another
area
CSG
heavily
emphasized this past year was
the strengthening of the Race
& Ethnicity course certification
process.
Last
November,
CSG
members heard from students
about their concerns with the
requirement.
In January, Angela Dillard, the
associate dean for undergraduate
education, and members of CSG
conducted a review of the course
certification
process
and
the
necessary requirements for course
designation.
Following the review, CSG Chief
of Staff Sean Pitt, an LSA junior,
called for Race & Ethnicity classes
to be smaller in an effort facilitate
more discussion and dialogue
on sensitive issues, implement
required
Intergroup
Relations
training for GSIs teaching Race
& Ethnicity classes and to create
a support network similar to the
Sweetland Writing Center for
Race & Ethnicity classes.
One of CSG’s most contentious
battles this year was over the
publication of course evaluations
for student course selections.
When
CSG
faced
opposition
from the administration over
the release of course evaluation
data, CSG filed a Freedom of
Information Act request.
“Our
biggest
source
of
opposition for course evaluations
came from the faculty,” Charlton
said.
“We
didn’t
want
to
simply tell the University, the
professionals who are in charge
of our education, to do what
we want them to do. And there
definitely were collisions and
conflicts, but because we were
honest with each other we were
able to come to a compromise that
will benefit students, and in time,
the faculty too.”
As a result of the FOIA
request and the compromise
made between CSG and the
administration to not release
course
evaluations
in
their
entirety, some course evaluation
data will be available under the
University’s stipulations for the
fall 2016 semester with Provost
Martha Pollack’s approval.
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