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2A — Monday, April 18, 2016
News
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

‘Beyond America’ 

event marks Wallace 

House head’s 
retirement 

By EMMA KERR

Managing News Editor

Several 
of 
the 
nation’s 
top 

names in journalism came to the 
University of Michigan Friday to 
discuss how foreign journalism has 
evolved in recent years and why it 
has significance in today’s media 
landscape.

The event was held to mark the 

retirement of Charles Eisendrath, 
who announced in October he 
would step down as director of 
University’s Knight-Wallace house 
after 30 years. The Knight-Wallace 
House aims to promote journalism 

in several ways, including hosting 
mid-career journalists as fellows on 
campus each year. Eisendrath will 
be replaced by Lynette Clemetson, 
current senior director of strategy 
and content initiatives at National 
Public Radio.

In making the case for the 

importance of foreign news, all 
three panelists — CNN’s Christiane 
Amanpour, Dean Baquet, executive 
editor of the New York Times, and 
founder of Politico John Harris— 
and 
moderator 
David 
Greene, 

co-host of NPR’s Morning Edition, 
advocated for impactful, thoughtful 
and unrelenting foreign coverage, 
despite the many risks that kind of 
coverage can entail.

Greene 
began 
the 
night 
by 

speaking on the challenges he faced 
covering the Gaddafi government 
amid violence in Libya, saying that 
foreign reporting is essential not 
despite these conditions, but because 

of them. He pointed in particular 
to a situation in which he covered 
an alleged funeral for victims of 
airstrikes in Libya, though he 
suspected the event was orchestrated 
by government officials.

“We were in an oppressive 

reporting environment where we 
were being fed propaganda, we felt 
we could not report on the truth 
and it was really an uncomfortable 
environment 
for 
journalists 
to 

being in.” he said. “The Gaddafi
 

government wouldn’t answer and 
questions about where the airstrikes 
were or how this happened, it almost 
seemed like there was a show. There 
were people firing guns in the air on 
the shores of the Mediterranean but 
where those bullets were going, I 
had no idea — though I’m glad they 
weren’t falling on any of us. ”

In conjunction with the physical 

risks and factual challenges of 
reporting on foreign news, panelists 

also 
highlighted 
another, 
more 

logistical 
concern 
— 
resource 

allocation between foreign and 
domestic coverage. Baquet said 
before the September 11 attacks, 
foreign news was seen by many 
publications as not worth the fiscal 
risks, but this mentality has been 
changing in recent years.

“If you take your eye off the 

ball of covering the world, you 
miss gigantic stories and you miss 
transformational 
moments,” 
he 

said. “It’s our highest mission, 
especially for the news organization 
that are fortunate enough to have 
the resources to cover the world — 
and there are fewer of those — and 
finally, I think that the dirty secret 
is that people always wanted foreign 
news.”

Citing the recent launch of Politico 

Europe, Harris said in recent years, 
foreign coverage has highlighted a 

See WALLACE, Page 3A

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 AMANDA ALLEN/Daily

Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, speaks with audience members after the event “Beyond America: The Case for Foreign News” at Rackham Auditorium Friday.

Decision comes 

after year of 
faculty, staff 
discussion 

By ISOBEL FUTTER

Daily Staff Reporter

In the fall of 2016, a new tool will 

be available for students choosing 
their courses and professors. 
Based on guidance from the 
Senate Advisory Committee on 
University Affairs and Central 
Student Government, University 
Provost 
Martha 
Pollack 
has 

approved the release of course 

evaluations for the upcoming fall 
semester.

The 
release 
of 
course 

evaluations has been a heavily 
debated topic at SACUA, Senate 
Assembly — the full faculty 
governing body — and CSG over 
the last academic year.

In an interview, Pollack said 

the initiative was largely student-
driven.

“It was the students who 

really pushed to have it released,” 
Pollack said. “We asked student 
and 
faculty 
committees 

representing student government 
and faculty government to get 
together. They came up with what 
I thought were very thoughtful 
recommendations and a set of 

questions that are particularly 
tailored to student needs, and 
we’re gonna release it.”

Several 
policies 
will 

accompany the release, upon 
recommendation of two faculty 
and student committees. Only 
students with University e-mail 
accounts will be able to access and 
use the student evaluations, per 
committee request.

Several of the recommended 

policies also outline circumstances 
under which evaluations would 
not be released. Evaluations will 
only be released if one of two 
thresholds is met: A 50 percent 
participation rate or a minimum 
total of 30 evaluations per class. In 

See EVALUATIONS, Page 3A

More than 480 
condemn Diag 

messages, applaud 
campus response

By TIM COHN

Daily Staff Reporter

Thursday, a letter condemning 

the anti-Islamic chalkings on 
the Diag and applauding the 
University’s response to it was 
sent to University President 
Mark 
Schlissel, 
University 

Provost Martha Pollack and 
LSA Dean Andrew Martin.

The letter received signatures 

from 
480 
faculty 
members 

within two days of it being 
written by professors in the 
American Culture department.

One 
of 
the 
collaborators 

on the letter, Prof. Evelyn 
Alsultany, Director of the Arab 

and Muslim American Studies 
Program, said the letter quickly 
gained traction.

“The letter was first sent to 

History department, and then 
it was sent to the American 
Culture department, and then 
professors kept sending it along 
to different friends and their 
other 
colleagues.” 
Alsultany 

said. “Within 48 hours there 
were nearly 500 signatures.”

Faculty 
from 
both 

undergraduate and graduate units, 
including LSA, Medical School, 
Law School, Engineering, Art & 
Design and Public Policy, all signed 
the letter in a display of solidarity 
with Muslim students. 

The 
letter 
emphasizes 

the faculty’s support for the 
response to the chalkings a week 
ago, and explicitly opposes the 
nature of the messages written 
on the Diag.

“We stand with our friends/

students/colleagues and with 

the Central Student Government 
(CSG), 
Senate 
Advisory 

Committee on University Affairs 
(SACUA), and Senate Assembly 
in condemning the recent anti-
Muslim, 
anti-immigrant, 
and 

anti-activist chalkings on the 
Diag,” the letter read.“Whatever 
the 
political 
motivations 
of 

those engaged in such acts, their 
expressions of disrespect for 
members of our community can 
have nothing but a chilling effect 
on the social and intellectual life 
of this campus.”

The letter also emphasizes a 

need for community activism to 
oppose Islamophobia on campus.

“We call on all members of the 

community — students, faculty, 
staff, and administrators — to 
join in support of the right of 
everyone, as the CSG put it, ‘to 
be free from discrimination, 
persecution, and to be treated 
with dignity and respect by 
the University and the campus 
community,” the letter states.

President Schlissel responded 

to the faculty letter Friday 
in an e-mail to all faculty 
signatories that stressed the 
University’s commitment to the 
Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern 
and North African students 
and 
underscored 
how 
the 

administration has shown that 
committment.

“We have also worked to 

communicate 
our 
values 
of 

respect, civility and equality.” 
Schlissel’s response said. “The 
President’s speech at winter 
2015 commencement addressed 
the challenging balance between 
constitutional rights and a sense 
of safety, specifically referencing 
Islamophobia. 
Remarks 
at 

the U-M Martin Luther King 
Jr. 
Symposium 
in 
January 

discussed 
the 
hostility 
and 

hateful messages the students 
had experienced in the context 
of our work to do better as a 
University.”

Several Central 

Student Government 
amendments rejected

By LYDIA MURRAY

Daily Staff Reporter

University 
of 
Michigan 

President Mark Schlissel approved 
seven 
amendments 
to 
the 

Statement of Student Rights and 
Responsibilities Monday aimed 
at addressing awareness about 
the statement and transparency 
related to the amendment process.

The 
statement, 
originally 

created 
in 
1996, 
details 

expectations for student conduct 
and outlines suggested sanctions 
and disciplinary measures for 
violations. 
The 
amendment 

process occurs every three years 
and is coordinated by the Office of 
Student Conflict Resolution.

This 
cycle’s 
amendments 

include 
increasing 
education 

and awareness among students 

about the statement, clarifying 
and 
increasing 
transparency 

related to the amendment process, 
addressing stalking and intimate 
partner violence and clarifying 
the 
scope 
of 
violations. 
An 

additional amendment will alter 
the amendment process so it must 
be completed by the end of winter 
semester.

Students were able to propose 

changes to the statement from 
April 2015 until the beginning of 
November for the consideration 
of the Student Relations Advisory 
Committee, the Office of the 
Vice President, General Counsel, 
the Civil Liberties Board and 
eventually Schlissel.

Central Student Government 

has been heavily involved in the 
process, discussing it since their 
first meeting and submitting 
seven amendments of their own.

CSG 
submitted 
two 

amendments 
that 
Schlissel 

rejected, aimed at implementing 
an honor code for students, adding 
provisions to address falsified 

information and changing the 
amendment process to increase 
student voice by allowing CSG to 
participate in the approval process 
for amendments.

Schlissel 
encouraged 
CSG 

to 
continue 
to 
develop 
the 

amendments that were not passed 
as they could be considered 
in 
future 
amendment 
years, 

according to a press release.

In a November meeting, CSG 

General Counsel Jacob Pearlman, 
a Public Policy junior, said adding 
CSG to the approval process 
would ensure students have a say 
in all amendments proposed to the 
process.

“Skipping student input here, 

I don’t like that,” Pearlman said. 
“An executive officer or the 
Faculty Senate could propose 
amendments to SRAC that CSG 
would never see … Giving CSG 
the power to recommend or not 
recommend all proposals and not 
simply their own.”

In a previous interview with 

Panelists explore changes to 
 
 

foreign news coverage in U.S.

Pollack approves release 
of course evaluation data

Faculty address anti-Islam 
chalking in letter to Schlissel

Seven changes approved for
Statement of Student Rights 

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