international students as he could 
to have a friend — a liaison of 
sorts — Poddar teamed up with 
LSA juniors Ali Rosenblatt, Seth 
Schostak and Ayah Issa, also 
representatives within CSG, to 
begin planning the program.

“CSG is a really big organization, 

but when people from different 
branches manage to collaborate, 
that’s sort of how it happens,” 
Issa said. “We were introduced by 
another person in CSG.”

Dubbed M-Pals, students can 

apply to be a student guide for new 
international students. As part of 
their training, about 25 students 
attended 
monthly 
workshops 

at the International Center to 
prepare them for their roles.

M-Pals 
sent 
applications 

to 
accepted 
international 

students until June, when the 
matchmaking began. Each of the 
current students were paired 
with two or three international 
students, and the pairs exchanged 
emails over the summer and 
through the beginning of the 
school year. On Thursday evening, 
M-Pals hosted their first event of 
the school year, where everyone 
involved in the program met face-
to-face, rather than just through 
email correspondence.

For 
Rosenblatt, 
the 
most 

important part of the program 
involved 
familiarizing 

international students with the 

“We get the beans green, and 

we roast them as we need them,” 
Zeitoun said. “So let’s say today, 
you decide to have a Guatemala. 
You know that your Guatemalan 
beans have been roasted within 
a few days. You don’t want 
anything that’s roasted within 
an hour or two, because it’s too 
fresh to drink. So we actually 
want it to sit for at least 12 hours, 
so everything in the Javabot 
has had at least a day of being 
roasted.”

Roasting Plant also serves 

freshly 
made 
iced 
drinks. 

Rather than keeping chilled 
coffee in a fridge or putting it 
over ice, Roasting Plant uses a 
“Chiller,” another device created 
by Caswell. The Chiller, like 
the Javabot, is on display for 
customers. It’s a large glass bowl 
with tubes inside that are sitting 
in cold water. The coffee is run 
through the tubes and is chilled 
in the process.

The State Street store is 

Roasting Plant’s first location in 
Ann Arbor, and Zeitoun said this 
has been a goal for some time.

“Ann Arbor has just been one 

of those locations that we’ve 
always really wanted to get in, 
and we just found this prime 
location across the street from 
the University, so it was perfect,” 

Zeitoun said.

Since the soft opening on 

Sunday, the new location has 

been 
unexpectedly 
busy 
— 

Zeitoun said they haven’t even 
had time to train their new 
employees.

“We’ve only been open for four 

days, and it’s insane,” Zeitoun 
said. “Everyone’s talking about it, 
and we’re already getting repeat 
customers coming in every day 
and It’s only going to get better 
and better.”

Zeitoun said this is because 

Roasting Plant is a completely 
different experience from nearby 
coffee shops like Starbucks and 
Espresso Royale.

“It’s totally different coffee,” 

Zeitoun said. “Totally different 
concept. And even though we 
beat all the coffeeshops in quality, 
we’re still very competitive in 

pricing.”

LSA 
senior 
Kyle 
Bailey 

appreciated 
the 
unique 

experience, and said he’d never 
heard of the Roasting Plant chain 
before.

“I like how the atmosphere 

mixes modern elements with 
more old-fashioned ones, like 
the exposed brick walls,” Bailey 
said.

The care with which the 

coffee is handled was also not 
lost on students. Art & Design 
sophomore Alyssa Lopatin took 
particular notice of this.

“I’ve been to a lot of coffee 

places 
all 
over 
the 
place,” 

Lopatin said. “And wherever I 
go, the best ones are always the 
ones that just care more.”

The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
News
Friday, September 15, 2017 — 3A

Ann Arbor Police Department 

officers arrested a California man 
this week after connecting him 
to an extensive identity theft and 
counterfeit operation that spanned 
across several states.

30-year-old 
Shawn 
Ingram 

was apprehended after a gas 
station clerk reported his use of 
a counterfeit $20 bill, Channel 4 
News reported. Police officers 
had been previously alerted that 
numerous counterfeit bills had 
been circulating in Ann Arbor. 
The clerk noted Ingram’s license 
plate number and police tracked it 
to a car rental agency. The AAPD 
then traced Ingram to a hotel 
parking lot and arrested him as 
he was exiting an elevator in the 
hotel.

The 
detectives 
discovered 

several dozen counterfeit debit 
cards, credit cards, iTunes and 
other gift cards, numerous sheets 
of counterfeit currency, multiple 
fake driver’s licenses and devices 
capable of producing these items. 
They believe the suspect has been 
operating out of a mobile lab in 
order to maintain discretion and 
operate behind the scenes.

“We believe that this operation 

has crossed into several states,” 
AAPD said in a statement. “The 
suspect 
has 
used 
numerous 

rented cars and hotel rooms 
in what we believe is to keep 
the criminal enterprise mobile 
thereby increasing the likelihood 
of success.”

Ingram is currently being held 

in Washtenaw County Jail and is 
charged with nine felony counts.

Ann Arbor Police Department 
arrests man charged with 
identity theft

RHEA CHEETI
Daily Staff Reporter

of Higher Education, averaged 
$464,000 last calendar year.

Nevertheless, 
he 
remains 

outside of the top ten paid 
public university officials due 
to an increase in the average 
public 
university 
official’s 

salary between 2016 and 2017.

After five years of compiling 

data, 
the 
Chronicle 
noted 

average 
salary 
generally 

increases 
2 
to 
3 
percent 

annually. 
Yet, 
this 
year, 

the 
average 
increase 
was 

approximately 
5 
percent 

— 
noticeably 
higher 
than 

Schlissel’s 3.5 percent raise.

Last fiscal year, the three 

highest paid public university 
leaders 
each 
took 
home 

$1,000,000 
or 
more, 
while 

seven earned over $700,000. 

Raymond Watts, president 

of the University of Alabama 
at 
Birmingham, 
received 

$890,000 last year — the 10th 
highest 
public 
university 

official salary in the country — 
while President Michael Crow 
of Arizona State topped the list 
with more than $1.5 million. 

However, the Chronicle does 

not account for the housing 
and transportation Schlissel 
receives from the University, 
benefits other presidents do not 
necessarily gain.

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Schlissel 
also 
thanked 

May for his work with the 
campaign and effectiveness in 
fundraising in general, saying 
the University’s supporters 
and competitors often passed 
along praise of May to him.

“You really do make blue 

go,” Schlissel said.

Construction 
and 

Renovation

Several 
of 
the 
regents 

debated 
raising 
the 
cost 

threshold 
for 
construction 

and renovation projects not 
requiring 
regent 
approval 

from 
$1 
million 
to 
$3 

million. Kevin Hegarty, the 
University’s 
executive 
vice 

president and chief financial 
officer, proposed the measure, 
which ultimately passed 5-3, 
saying $3 million was still a 
relatively low threshold. 

“Projects that fall in the $1 

million to $3 million dollar 
cost range are typically of a 
routine, capital maintenance 
nature,” he said. “Things like 
replacing 
air 
conditioners, 

replacing heaters, replacing 
damaged or failed drain lines, 
doing building repairs, street 
repairs, etc.”

Several 
regents 
opposed 

the 
measure, 
however. 

Regent Shauna Ryder Diggs 
(D) said she felt a fiduciary 

responsibility to students to 
require stricter procedures 
for approval, citing rising 
tuition costs.

“I’m not in favor of this 

proposal because I think the 
$3 million limit is too high,” 
she said. “This is not about 
trust –– I trust the executive 
officers –– this is about how I 
feel about oversight of public 
dollars, 
particularly 
when 

the limit is reaching the same 
amount of money that I hope 
for for tuition increase.”

Regent Ron Weiser (R) was 

one of the regents in favor 
of 
raising 
the 
threshold, 

saying the ability to expedite 
the approval process could 
ultimately 
end 
up 
saving 

the 
University 
money 
on 

construction contracts.

“Having some knowledge 

of construction, because of 
the shortage of labor and 
contractors, 
the 
cost 
of 

projects can go up if they 
can’t fit them in a certain time 
period,” he said. “So for these 
kinds of projects, quite often, 
if we can’t move quickly, the 
price is going to be quoted 
at a higher rate, because by 
the time we get back to them 
they might not have the time 
periods available to make 
them.”

Schembechler Hall
The regents also approved 

schematic designs for 24,000 
square feet of renovations 

to the Schembechler Hall 
football performance center, 
which will include a state-of-
the-art treatment and recovery 
facility, hydrotherapy pools 
and administrative spaces.

Plans for renovations to 

the Oosterbaan Field House, 
which 
include 
replacing 

lighting, practice surfaces and 
the roof of the facility, were 
approved in February.

Citing the large size of the 

football team, the goal of the 
renovations is to provide a 
more unified space where 
all 
athletes 
can 
practice 

simultaneously.

Schlissel, Sarkar welcome 

students back to school

President 
Schlissel 

welcomed the regents back 
for the first meeting of the 
academic year and expressed 
his concern for all those 
on 
campus 
affected 
by 

Hurricanes Irma and Harvey.

“I want to express my 

sympathies 
for 
those 
in 

the 
University 
community 

affected by recent natural 
disasters,” he said. “All of the 
students from Texas are safe 
and sound here on campus.”

Schlissel then announced 

the formation of a search 
committee 
for 
the 
next 

University 
of 
Michigan-

Dearborn chancellor, which 
will begin with two Dearborn 
campus town halls Sept. 29 and 
Oct. 2. The committee consists 

of wide range of faculty and 
professors, stemming from all 
three University campuses.

As 
with 
all 
executive 

officer selection processes, 
the procedure will remain 
confidential 
until 
Schlissel 

provides his recommendation 
to the Board of Regents.

The regents also received 

their first report from LSA 
senior 
Anushka 
Sarkar, 

president of Central Student 
Government.

While Schlissel did not 

address the recent defacing of 

the Rock, which was covered 
with anti-Latino and pro-
Trump graffiti, Sarkar noted 
the importance of calling out 
forces that threaten the well-
being of University students, 
no matter how controversial 
they may be.

“I want to emphasize the 

importance of speaking out in 
the face of happenings simply 
beyond the campus that impact 
our 
Michigan 
community,” 

she said. “When forces beyond 
the confines of the University 
of Michigan campus threaten 
any member of the University 
of Michigan’s community, it is 
our collective responsibility 
–– every person at this table 
–– to support, protect and 
stand 
in 
solidarity 
with 

the students who are being 
impacted. I will also note that 
supporting, 
protecting 
and 

standing in solidarity with 
members of our Michigan 
community who are being 
threatened by these forces 
sometimes means pushing the 
envelope and being outspoken 
in your support.”

Sarkar 
also 
mentioned 

several 
CSG 
initiatives 

for 
the 
upcoming 
year, 

including 
“Know 
Your 

Rights” workshops following 
the recent DACA decision, 
alcohol-free tailgates on high-
risk game days and increasing 
first year student involvement 
in student government.

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know how to support their 
institution.

“This kind of (rally) gets 

(students) involved in some of 
the most crucial issues,” Eaton 
said. “As the speakers said, 
Walmart and their owners have 
been funding the defunding 
of public education. This is 
a public university. I know 
students who are going to the 
University of Michigan are 
incurring huge debt because we 
don’t fund public education the 
way we used to.”

With 
Michigan 
State 

University as the next stop 
on their tour, Ritter said the 
college tour was organized to 
show college students their 
effect on the global economy 
and their impact on politics 
through the places they shop.

“It’s hard to change the 

world, but you can change your 
world and every day, students 
here on this campus have the 
opportunity 
to 
change 
the 

world in the small decisions 
that they make and where they 
put their purchasing power, 
their economic power, their 
political power through their 
vote — they’re able to make that 
change and we want people 
to be aware of that. You don’t 
have to be a CEO to change the 
country.” 

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Herrada said she felt the 

panel was an excellent way to 
bring 
historical 
movements 

and moments together with 
modern 
day 
activism 
and 

scholarship.

“As 
an 
archivist 
and 

librarian 
it’s 
important 

for me to kind of relate 
the work that people are 
doing here on campus — 
how they came to find that 
work, how they discovered 
the documentation of the 
historical 
movements 
that 

they did find — and a lot of 
them can be found here in the 
library,” Herrada said. “So for 
me a takeaway is how much 
rich scholarship can come 
out of the resources the U-M 
library has. Also how they can 
relate historical movements 
to what is happening today.”

The 
panel 
consisted 
of 

researchers and activists who 
each have done research or 

are experts in topics related 
to Hayden’s work during his 
activism. 

The three topics set the 

scene of what was happening 
during the 1960s and 1970s and 
how that related to Hayden’s 
work.

LSA senior Leah Schneck, 

an organizer on campus for 
College Democrats, discussed 
her research on participatory 
democracy. 
She 
described 

participatory 
democracy, 

a 
term 
coined 
by 
Arnold 

Kaufman, to be a method, 
not a theory, to reevaluate 
hierarchies that exist in our 
society.

“It 
is 
different 
from 
a 

representative system because 
it brings direct responsibility 
and 
accountability 
through 

building a system of how you 
make decisions starting in 
smaller groups and then the 
decision that comes from the 
smaller group then reaches a 
higher level,” Schneck said.

Sian Olson Dowis, University 

alum and doctoral candidate in 
U.S. History at Northwestern 

University, 
presented 
her 

research on the left movement 
in 
Urban 
America. 
Dowis 

spent time on the Economic 
Research and Action Project 
that was founded in 1963 by 
Students for a Democratic 
Society, a student organization 
that Hayden co-founded.

Dowis 
discussed 
how 

history has shown, through 
examples such as the ERAP, 
that creating any kind of social 
change requires more than 
strong ideals; it requires open-
mindedness.

“It shows that democracy 

is messy,” Dowis said. “Social 
change is messy and, that 
there is an enormous amount 
of 
change 
going 
on, 
and 

sometimes to achieve really 
important 
social 
ends 
you 

have to be willing to change 
your mind and listen to people 
saying things even if they’re 
not really what you want or 
hoping to hear, but that’s what 

democracy is. It’s listening to 
people and taking their ideas 
seriously.”

Taubman 
postdoctoral 

fellow Austin McCoy spoke 
about his research on Tom 
Hayden 
and 
the 
“Final 

Campaign to End the War.” 
He discussed the importance 
of following political thought 
through time.

“I think what seems to be 

important was that it shows 
how some of his thinking 
around politics, participatory 
democracy 
especially 
can 

still resonate today,” McCoy 
said. “As an audience member 
pointed out, we are galloping 
towards oligarchy. I think folks 
want to know what happened 
to American Democracy, and 
are there any other visions 
that could counter the kind 
of representative democracy 
we have now and I think 
Tom Hayden points us in that 
direction.”

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From Page 1A

I want to 

emphasize the 
importance of 
speaking out 
in the face of 
happenings 

simply beyond the 

campus 

Social change 
is messy and, 
that there is 
an enormous 

amount of 

change going 

on

I like how the 
atmosphere 

mixes modern 

elements 
with more 

old-fashioned 

ones

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MPALS
From Page 1A

campus. While promotional 
videos and other forms of 
information exist to help new 
students become acquainted 
with the University, advice 
directly from students is often 
more helpful.

“There’s a lot of questions 

that I think come up before 
you get to Michigan,” she said. 
“We try to bridge that gap, that 
knowledge gap, to kind of even 
out the playing field of what 
people know when they come 
to campus.”

With assistance from the 

International 
Center 
and 

the Office of New Student 
Programs, the leaders took 
into account any possible 
barriers.

Another major goal of the 

program is to help connect 
and 
create 
meaningful 

relationships 
between 

students 
from 
different 

backgrounds. 
Schostak 

explained the divide between 
international and domestic 
students is something CSG 
recognizes 
and 
looks 
to 

improve upon.

“I think it’s a really cool 

community of people who are 
trying to make the University 
and campus more inclusive,” 
he said. “We always felt 
there was a big gap between 
international 
students 
and 

domestic students.”

When 
Schostak 
asked 

Public Policy junior Benji 
Mazin to serve as an M-Pal, 
he willingly agreed and was 
paired with Business senior 
Mencía Lasa. One unique 
aspect of their situations is 
that both students are from 
Spain — this being Lasa’s first 
year at the University.

Lasa explained that M-Pals 

made her transition as an 
international student easier 
and that she and Mazin have 
had the opportunity to meet 
each other’s friends, creating 
even more connections on 
campus.

“He’s been really helpful 

with all the experience itself, 
he’s given me tips on buildings 
and what the University is 
like, the campus ... it’s been 
really easy to adapt to the new 

environment,” she said.

M-Pals looks to grow in 

the coming years to support 
more international students by 
expanding their base of current 
Michigan students as well as 
implementing new ideas and 
activities for M-Pals to engage 
in. The opportunity to meet 
new people is something that 
many college students look 
to take advantage of, and for 
the founders of M-Pals, the 
experience has been especially 
meaningful for those who got 
to pair up with international 
students.

Issa said while helping to 

create the program has been 
rewarding, her favorite part 
of it all was taking part in 
its activities, expanding her 
network and meeting new 
people.

“I met a lot of people in the 

workshops, I learned what 
questions really get you to 
know more about a person,” 
she said. “I met more people 
internationally and I managed 
to match with an M-Pal, so 
I got to be a part of my own 

