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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A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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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

michigandaily.com

For more stories and coverage, visit

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

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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 

