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Federal Reserve Chairwoman 

Janet Yellen conversed with 
economist Susan M. Collins, 
dean of the Ford School of Public 
Policy, about her experience 
as the leader of multiple public 
policy initiatives to a packed 
Rackham Auditorium Monday 
night. 

University 
of 
Michigan 

President 
Mark 
Schlissel 

introduced 
Yellen, 
outlining 

the importance of the Federal 
Reserve to the University of 
Michigan, specifically the Public 
Policy School, which hosted the 
event. Regents Kathy White, 
Andrew Richner and Ron Weiser 
were also in attendance.

“The University of Michigan’s 

academic strength is further 
enhanced by the Ford School’s 
connections 
to 
the 
Federal 

Reserve,” Schlissel said. “Many 
UM students and graduates have 
interned or worked at the Fed.”

Yellen then launched into her 

discussion, starting with her 
experience in carrying out the 
dual mandate Congress places 
on the reserve: to uphold low 
and stable inflation rates and to 
maximize employment.

Yellen 
said 
the 
current 

economy, 
in 
comparison 
to 

the economy during the 2008 
recession, is relatively healthy.

“In 
terms 
of 
the 
goals 

Congress has assigned us, we’re 
doing pretty well,” she said. “The 
economy is growing at a moderate 
pace, 
mostly 
supported 
by 

consumer spending. But housing 
is a little bit healthier than it’s 
been, investment spending that 
had been quite weak last year is 
showing greater strength and the 
global economy, which was quite 
weak, now seems to be operating 

Janet Yellen talks 
the Fed’s role and 
relationship to gov.

GOVERNMENT

Chair of U.S. Federal Reserve touches 
upon new policies born out of ’08 recession 

CARLY RYAN

Daily Staff Reporter

University 
of 
Michigan 

researcher 
Ayyalusamy 

Ramamoorthy, 
a 
professor 

of chemistry and biophysics, 
made 
a 
breakthrough 
in 

his research on age-related 
diseases, and he and his team 
have received a grant from 
National Institutes of Health 
to conduct further studies. 

The team has discovered 

a protein that appears to be 
significantly linked to the cell 
death that causes memory loss 
in Alzheimer’s patients. They 
are working on discovering 
how this protein and the cell’s 
membrane interact to cause 
this cell death.

“We 
are 
investigating 

The University of Michigan 

Graduate Employees’ Organization 
members and allies established 
a negotiated contract with the 
University late Monday afternoon 
after the GEO held its third sit-
in of the semester earlier that 
morning during the first meeting 
of a graduate DEI labor task force 
created by Chief Diversity Officer 
Robert Sellers, vice provost for 
equity and inclusion.

According to GEO President 

John Ware, a Rackham student, 
bargaining sessions reconvened 
Monday morning at 9:30 a.m. and 
continued until 6:30 p.m. The new 
tentative contract was then taken 
to the GEO membership meeting 
and the members present at the 

See RESEARCHERS, Page 3
See GEO, Page 3

DESIGN BY AVA WEINER

In LSA freshman Ashley 

Soto’s hometown of Livonia, 
the University of Michigan is 
not always a feasible option 
for high-school seniors. With 
an average in-state tuition 
rate of $28,776 per year, 
Soto said most lower-income 
students don’t even consider 
the University when applying 
to colleges.

“Coming from the west 

side of the state, Michigan 
is not a name you hear very 
often,” Soto said. “It’s mostly 
Grand 
Valley 
and 
Ferris 

State University … I think 
the biggest thing that scares 
people is the price tag … I 
actually have friends who 
I encouraged to apply to 
become freshmen next year 
and even teachers told them 
not to because they didn’t 
think they would make it.”

LSA freshman Daija White 

did not consider the University 
as her first choice either when 
applying to colleges last year. 
She could have gone across 

the border to Canada as a dual 
citizen, and would have likely 
paid much less for her degree. 
However, when she received 
an 
advertisement 
in 
the 

mail for the High Achieving 
Involved Leaders Scholarship, 
she said her thoughts about 
the University and her future 
changed.

“I had already known I was 

going to apply to the college,” 
White 
said. 
“It 
definitely 

wasn’t my first choice but 
I had known I was going to 
apply and at least see what the 
outcome was … (HAIL) was a 
large part of it.”

The HAIL Scholarship is a 

full-tuition scholarship that 

reportedly targets low-income 
students across Michigan that 
have the ability to succeed but 
might not be able to afford 
the cost of attendance. The 
scholarship is listed in the 
49-page Diversity, Equity and 
Inclusion plan as a method 
of improving socioeconomic 

Discovery
made with
research in
diseases

University
comes to
negotiation 
with GEO

RESEARCH 
ADMINISTRATION

University researchers 
identify protein that could 
be linked to cell death

Contract includes wage 
increases, protects against 
hiring discriminations

MOLLY NORRIS
Daily Staff Reporter

MATT HARMON
Daily Staff Reporter
HAIL Scholarship at U of M

262

80th
$60,000

$154,000
HAIL Scholars enrolled 
in the program’s first 
year

four years of free
in-state tuition

approx.

Scholarship value:

Median family income
of a student who 
attends U of M:

Average student who
attends U of M comes
from the

percentile for
family income

The HAIL Scholarship 
considers academic success, 
financial need, 
and a competitive 
application upon selection.

HAIL Scholarship leaves recipients 
feeling tokenized by the ‘U’ program 

Other students believe the program is not widely advertised, holds limitations

MATT HARMON
Daily Staff Reporter

See HAIL, Page 3

See YELLEN, Page 3

ORION SANG

Senior Sports Editor

On April 10, nearly one month 

after finishing his 33rd season as 
head coach of the Michigan hockey 
team, Red Berenson announced he 
would be retiring. 

“I’ve thought about this for a long 

time and I think this is the right 
time and it’s the right thing to do 
for the Michigan hockey program,” 
Berenson said in a press release 
Monday. “My heart will always 
be at Michigan and I look forward 
to the team taking the next step 
and making me proud as a former 
coach.” 

Added athletic director Warde 

Manuel: 
“Red 
Berenson 
is 
a 

legendary figure at the University 
of Michigan as well as in our ice 
hockey history. Throughout his 
career, Red has focused on the 
academic and athletic success of the 
young men who have come through 
our program while shaping the 
sport as we know it today. He has 
developed an astounding 73 NHL 
players but, more importantly, he 
has positively impacted hundreds 
of young men. We are forever 
grateful for his contributions to the 
University of Michigan and I look 
forward to continuing working with 
Red for years to come.”

Berenson 
has 
pondered 

retirement in recent years. He 
said Monday that he had received 
questions on the recruiting trail 
about his future and how long he 
planned on coaching. It bothered 
him, he admitted, that it was an 
issue, and it played a part in his 
conversation about retirement with 
Warde Manuel last year.

The 
original 
plan 
was 
for 

Berenson to step down following 
last season. But Manuel was still 
settling down into his new job — 
according to Berenson, he hadn’t 
even moved to Ann Arbor yet. 
The new athletic director coaxed 
Berenson into staying, and so began 
the last year of his career in Ann 
Arbor.

And what a career it was: to trace 

its outline with each of its stops is 
to follow the history of the sport 
— and even history itself. To put 
the longevity of Berenson’s term at 
Michigan into context, the last time 
the Wolverines took the ice without 
him behind the bench was during 
the Cold War, with Ronald Reagan 
serving as president of the United 
States.

Many fine players have filed 

in and out of Ann Arbor over the 
years, doing their part to fill the 
trophy cases and bring glory to the 
program. Yet it is Berenson’s name 
that has become synonymous with 
‘Michigan hockey’ — and rightfully 
so.

Berenson 
himself 
was 
once 

the star on ice, playing for the 
Wolverines 
for 
three 
seasons 

between 1959 and 1962. He enjoyed 
an illustrious career in the NHL, 
becoming one of the league’s first 
expansion stars as it doubled in 
size during the late 1960s. Once his 
playing career ended, he became a 
coach for the St. Louis Blues — the 
team he had become famous playing 
for — and won coach of the year in 
just his second season. In 1984, he 
returned to his alma mater, where 
he would remain for the duration of 
his career.

It took longer for Berenson to 

achieve success in the collegiate 
ranks. Michigan, once mighty but 
since humbled, was in dire straits. 
It had been nearly a decade since 
the 
team 
experienced 
its 
last 

postseason success, and the onus 
was on Berenson to rebuild the 
program. It was no easy task. To 
begin his tenure, he endured three 
consecutive losing seasons. He took 
another step forward once the team 
was full of players he had recruited, 
leading the team to three straight 
winning seasons — but with zero 
NCAA Tournament appearances.

The final breakthrough occurred 

in Berenson’s seventh year. The 
Wolverines 
recorded 
over 
30 

wins for the first time in school 
history and finished as an NCAA 

See BERENSON, Page 3

RED BERENSON RETIRES

 
FOLLOWING 33 YEARS AT MICHIGAN, FAMED 

HOCKEY COACH ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT

AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen talks with Susan Collins, Dean of the Ford School, as part of the 
Ford Policy Talks series at Rackham Auditorium on Monday.

