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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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