The
Senate
Advisory
Committee
on
University
Affairs had their first meeting of
the winter semester on Monday
to discuss the Academic Affairs
Advisory Committee resolution
to protect faculty from unfair
demotions.
The
committee
discussed
whether it should endorse the
AAAC’s resolution regarding
salary
cuts
and
demotions
of tenured and tenure-track
professors.
This
resolution
was written in response to a
tenured professor receiving a
notice from their department
chair that their salary was being
reduced by 10 percent. Those
in attendance di d not give any
identifying details about this
incident.
According to Dan Sharphorn,
the former Deputy General
Counsel of the University of
Michigan, it is legally acceptable
to reduce a professor’s salary
by 10 percent each year for a
certain amount of years or 30
percent overall.
However,
most
issues
involving salary reductions are
problematic because they do not
follow due process, said SACUA
member John Lehman, who is
also a professor of ecology and
evolutionary biology.
He and the other AAAC
members drafted a resolution
that
they
will
present
to
the
Senate
Assembly
—
the governing body of the
University
which
represents
the interests and concerns of
faculty — at its meeting on Jan.
23. The resolution calls for the
enforcement of due process
in situations where salary is
lowered.
The AAAC is a committee
of the Senate Assembly, while
SACUA is its executive branch.
“The
AAAC
is
not
comfortable with these actions
that have been taken,” Lehman
said. “What we are saying is that
the Senate Assembly hereby
declares that any reduction to
an individual faculty member’s
base academic salary constitutes
a demotion, and entitles the
affected faculty member to all of
due process provisions … We’re
not saying you can’t do it, you
just have to follow the bylaws.”
After Lehman’s presentation
of the resolution, the SACUA
members
moved
into
a
discussion
of
whether
or
not they would endorse the
resolution
for
the
Senate
Assembly, attempting to find the
boundaries of what constitutes a
demotion.
SACUA Vice Chair Dave
Wright,
a
Business
School
professor, said there was a key
flaw in the recommendation.
He was concerned with how
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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
See TUITION, Page 3
Bill signed
to aid Nat.
Guard with
tuition cost
GOVERNMENT
Synder signs legislation
to streamline 10 million
dollar college program
HEATHER COLLEY
Daily Staff Reporter
CLAIRE MEINGAST/Daily
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs discusses a resolution at their weekly meeting in the Fleming
Administration Building on Monday.
SACUA addresses “unfair” demotion
for faculty through new resolution
The committee will present resolution to the Senate Assembly on Jan. 23
MAYA GOLDMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
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See SACUA, Page 3
The Michigan Department
of Natural Resources approved
Ann Arbor’s 2017 deer cull plan
Friday. Which aims to eliminate
100 deer over the course of two
weeks from Jan. 30 to Feb. 13.
This year’s deer management
program will introduce deer
sterilization for the first time.
According to the city, between
the hours of 3 p.m. and 5 a.m.
from Jan. 22 to 29, professionals
from White Buffalo Inc. will
dart
doe
with
tranquilizers
to
conduct
ovariectomies
—
surgical procedures that remove
ovaries — on them at a temporary
surgical site.
Every sterilized deer will have
a numbered ear tag attached to
it, and one doe from each group
will be fitted with a radio collar
to
track
migration
patterns
and analyze survival rates. The
program aims to sterilize at least
50 deer by the end of the week.
City Councilmember Jason
Frenzel (D–Ward 1) said the
sterilization aspect was added
in response to anti-cull groups,
which have been demanding
See DEER, Page 2
MI DNR
approves
2017 deer
cull plans
ANN ARBOR
The elimination will
occur over a two week
period starting Jan. 30
ISHI MORI
Daily Staff Reporter
Two
University
of
Michigan
Ross
School
of
Business alumni and former
classmates, Harry Zhang and
Leore Avidar, were honored
on the Forbes 30 Under 30
rankings under the category
Enterprise
Technology
for
co-founding
Lob.com,
a
company
that
specializes
in sending physical mail as
easily as email through a
suite of application program
interfaces.
After beginning as an idea
in 2013, Lob now operates out
of San Francisco with a team
of more than 25 individuals.
According to their website,
Lob
creates
customized
pieces, sends them on their
customers’ behalf, helps A/B
test different variants and
tracks mail as it’s delivered.
This occurs all under the idea
that “sending physical mail
should be as easy as sending
email.”
Avidar
said
they
are
empowering
developers
to
build applications.
“Our goal is to enable
developers and enterprises to
build applications that they
couldn’t previously,” he said.
Prior
to
creating
Lob,
Zhang, who graduated in 2011,
began as a product marketing
manager at Microsoft, where
he worked as a domain expert
in direct mail, taking 60 to 90
days to send out millions of
pieces of mail at a time.
Avidar, who also graduated
in 2011, gained experience
working in the web services
department at Amazon, where
he learned how to build and
sell APIs. At Amazon, Avidar
said it took 30 seconds to send
one million emails.
The two domain experts
were able to combine their
respective talents in making
an API similar to Amazon’s,
which could send physical
mail as easily as email on an
automated schedule.
“We were domain experts
Ross alumni
honored on
Forbes’ “30
under 30”
The University Health System
rebranded as Michigan Medicine
See ROSS, Page 3
MICHIGAN
MEDICINE
26,000
3,160
5,000
3
526
$417
.6
million
1,059
40
hospitals
clinical trials
in sponsored
research revenues
beds
outpatient facilities
faculty, staff, students,
trainees and volunteers
physicians
nurses
DESIGN BY: AVA WEINER
Source: Michigan Medicine 2015 Annual Report
BUSINESS
The pair co-founded application which
aims to send mail as easily as email
KEVIN BIGLIN
Daily Staff Reporter
Name to better reflect collaboration between education, research and patient care
The University of Michigan
Health
System
has
been
renamed Michigan Medicine
in an effort to reflect the
collaboration
between
the
system’s education, research
and patient care branches.
The new name, which took
effect on Jan. 9, signifies the
appointment of a single leader
of both the University Medical
School and Medical Affairs for
the University of Michigan.
Marschall S. Runge, M.D., will
serve in that position, putting
him in charge of both the
medical school and hospital
operations.
The name of the University
Medical School is not changing,
but it will remain a part of
Michigan Medicine.
Runge
is
dean
of
the
University
Medical
School,
executive vice president for
medical affairs and CEO of
Michigan
Medicine.
Before
coming to the University, Runge
was the executive dean for the
University of North Carolina
School of Medicine, a professor
of medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill
and chair of the UNC-Chapel
Hill Department of Medicine.
The University’s Board of
Regents approved this combined
position in September, hoping it
would facilitate more seamless
implementation of the system’s
three-part
mission:
patient
care, education and research.
“Becoming
Michigan
Medicine
is
more
than
a
name
change,”
Runge
said
in an article from Michigan
Medicine. “This new name
reflects a growing trend among
world-class academic medical
centers
to
showcase
the
integration of their missions:
medical education, health care
research and patient care.”
Medical
School
student
William
Froehlich
said
in
an interview with the Daily
though some people worry the
new name erases the health
system’s history and tradition,
CARLY RYAN &
RASHEED ABDULLAH
Daily Staff Reporters
See MEDICINE, Page 3
On
Monday,
Gov.
Rick
Snyder
signed
legislation
that will streamline tuition
assistance for members of the
Michigan National Guard.
House
Bill
6013
was
introduced in November to
the Michigan Legislature and
sponsored by state Rep. Bruce
Rendon (R–Lake City). It was
referred to the Committee on
Military and Veterans Affairs,
which reported on the bill
with recommendation without
amendment.
In December, the bill was
referred to the committee on
Veterans,
Military
Affairs
and Homeland Security, all of
whom favored the bill without
amendment, and recommended
its immediate effect.
The bill seeks to adjust the
Michigan National Guard State
Tuition Assistance Program,
which is housed within the
state’s Department of Military
and Veteran Affairs, in assisting
members of the National Guard
in paying for higher education.
Michiganbegan
revamping