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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Vol. CXXVII, No. 90
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A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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