The 
University 
of 

Michigan Board of Regents 
voted unanimously to give 
University 
President 
Mark 

Schlissel another pay raise 
for the third year in a row 
Thursday afternoon.

Retroactively 
effective 

Sept. 1, Schlissel’s salary will 
rise by 3.5 percent, resulting 
in an increase from $795,675 
to $823,523.

At the beginning of the 

meeting, 
Regent 
Andrew 

Richner, 
R-Grosse 
Pointe, 

applauded Schlissel, who is 
entering his fourth year of 
leadership this year. Richner 

offered a positive performance 
review of Schlissel, praising 
the 
president’s 
focus 
on 

academic 
excellence, 

student affordability and the 
University’s record applicant 
number. 

“We think you’re doing a 

great job,” Richner said.

The 
five-year 
contract 

Schlissel 
signed 
in 
2014 

allows for the regents to 
increase his salary as they 
see fit. In 2015 and 2016, he 
received identical pay raises 
of 3 percent.

Schlissel’s salary remains 

significantly 
higher 
than 

that of the average public 
university 
leader 
which, 

according to the Chronicle 

The University of Michigan 

Library’s Joseph A. Labadie 
Collection hosted a panel 
Thursday night at the Harlan 
Hatcher Graduate Library to 
honor the late Tom Hayden, 
a social and political activist 
of the 1960s, as well as a 
former 
Michigan 
Daily 

editor-in-chief. 
The 
panel 

consisted of three University 
affiliates who have all done 
research on topics relating 
to Hayden’s anti-war, civil 
rights and radical intellectual 
counterculture activism.

Labadie Collection Curator 

Julie Herrada said the panel 
was held to pay homage to 
Hayden and his work in 
a manner he would have 
appreciated.

“We decided on a panel 

rather than hosting a reunion 
of 
radicals, 
even 
though 

we’re really good at hosting 
reunions 
... 
because 
Tom 

would’ve loved this event,” 
Herrada said. “Every time 
Tom came to campus he 
insisted on engaging with 
students and it was important 
for him to do that. I wanted to 
give the students that worked 
on topics that related to the 
work that he did a chance 
to showcase their work and 
talk about him and also their 
work.”

Hayden was a key Civil 

Rights activist during the ‘60s 

and ‘70s, during which he was 
badly beated and arrested. 
Despite 
opposing 
violent 

protests, Hayden supported 
militant 
demonstrations. 

One of his most notable 
achievements 
includes 

working 
for 
the 
Newark 

Community Union Project, 
which founded the Indochina 
Peace Campaign and working 
on the Vietnam War protest 
documentary, 
“Introduction 

to the Enemy.” 

Hayden 
was 
also 

instrumental during the Civil 
Rights movement in the ‘60s 
and ‘70s. During a protest 
in Mississippi, he was badly 
beaten and arrested. In a 
Georgia jail, he began writing 
the Port Huron Statement, the 
manifesto of the SDS, which 
called upon college students 
to peacefully oppose racism 
and oppressive government.

In 2014, Hayden donated 

a collection of his papers to 
the Labadie Collection to be 
more accessible to students, 
scholars and researchers. The 
collection is archived in the 
Special Collections Library, 
and documents the history 
of social protest movements 
and 
marginalized 
political 

communities from the 19th 
century to the present.

Roasting Plant, a trendy new 

coffee shop that originated in 
New York City’s Upper East Side, 
has just opened its first location 
in Ann Arbor. The new store, 
located at 312 S. State St., opened 
its doors for the first time on 
Sunday and has been bustling 
ever since.

The coffee shop puts a spin on 

the average coffee shop on the 
University of Michigan’s campus 
by emphasizing the actual coffee 
beans. Customers choose the 
specific bean they want, then 
can look up and watch the beans 
move through a glass tube on 
the ceiling before landing in the 
coffeemaker behind the counter.

Mo Zeitoun, store manager 

at Roasting Plant’s Ann Arbor 
location, said this device is called 
the “Javabot” and was created 
by Mike Caswell, the founder 
of 
Roasting 
Plant. 
Caswell, 

engineer and former Starbucks 
employee, created Roasting Plant 
to devise a way to get the freshest 
coffee possible. Roasting Plant 
gets their coffee from farmers all 
around the world.

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SPORTS..........B-SECTION

Schlissel’s 
salary now 
$823,523 
after raise

University raises cost threshold 
on approval-free construction

See SALARY, Page 3A

RYAN MCLOUGHLIN /DAILY

President Mark Schlissel attends the Regents meeting in the Michigan Union on Thursday.

ADMINISTRATION

The University president receives his 
third pay increase in three years

KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporter

The Board of Regents also discussed development and renovations for Schembechler Hall 

Development
At 
the 
University 
of 

Michigan’s Board of Regents’ 
September meeting, Jerry May, 
the University’s vice president 

for development, announced 
that the University had raised 
a record-breaking $476 million 
from 130,000 donors in fiscal 
year 2017, which ended June 
30. 

“We not only had one of the 

best summers that we’ve ever 
had, but we had the best year 
in terms of cash and private 

support,” he said.

May also provided updates on 

the progress of the University’s 
Victors 
for 
Michigan 

fundraising campaign, saying 
it had raised $4.24 billion from 
346,000 total donors so far.

Of 
those 
donors, 
8,700 

were 
students 
and 
20,100 

were faculty, staff or retired 

University staff or faculty. 
The 
campaign 
has 
raised 

$979 million from students so 
far, just short of its goal of $1 
billion –– and the campaign, 
University 
President 
Mark 

Schlissel pointed out, still has 
16 months before its scheduled 
end date of January 2019.

ANDREW HIYAMA & 

KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff ReporterS

See COFFEE, Page 3A

New coffee 
shop offers 
a different 
experience

BUSINESS

Roasting Plant highlights 
fresh ingredients, unique 
technology, atmosphere

MOLLY NORRIS
Daily Staff Reporter

AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily

Residential College senior Leah Schneck speaks about participatory democracy at a panel in memory of U-M alum-
nus Tom Hayden at Hatcher on Thursday.

Labadie Collection honors late political 
activist, former Daily EIC Tom Hayden

The event paid homage to the notable University alum’s life and years of work

ANNA HARITOS
Daily Staff Reporter

One century

Robert “Pete” Piotrowski 

has been around for half of 
the university’s existence. 
His life, quite simply, is a 

representation of Michigan

» Page 1B

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See ACTIVIST, Page 3A

See REGENTS, Page 3A

Adjusting to college life can be 

difficult, but adjusting to college 
life in a new country, surrounded 
by new people, new customs 
and new traditions can be even 
harder. For Business sophomore 
Shreyas Poddar, the transition as 
a freshman international student 
coming to the University of 
Michigan was far from easy.

“I (was) disliking my time here, 

I (had) no friends, just nothing, 
nothing is going my way,” he 
said. “You need certain social 
connections to get into clubs, 
you need to know certain things 
to just talk, you need to know 
certain cultural references to just 
talk and I just knew nobody here. 
I just wish that I had a mentor.”

This mentorship idea of got 

him thinking about how he could 
learn from his own experiences to 
help other international students 
transition more easily into life 
at the University. As a LSA 
representative within CSG, he 
had the opportunity to propose 
initiatives to affect the student 
body in a positive way. Motivated 
to 
help 
as 
many 
incoming 

See MPALS, Page 3A

CSG hosts 
welcome 
event for 
M-Pals

STUDENT GOV

The new program pairs 
international students 
with student partners 

JORDYN BAKER
Daily Staff Reporter

