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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
National Ice Cream Cone
Day
WHAT: Bursley Dining Hall
makes the trek up to North
Campus worth it with a
commemoration of this important
holiday.
WHO: Michigan Dining
WHEN: all day
WHERE: Bursley Hall
Premiere Screening:
Einstein on the Beach
WHAT: As a part of its Nights at
the Museum series, the UMMA
will project the unconventional
opera film on its South State Street
facade.
WHO: Museum of Art
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
WHERE: Museum of Art, Forum
Court
Yoga in the Arb
WHAT: This session will feature
mindfulness and self-care for
both mind and body.
WHO: BizFit Club
WHEN: 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
WHERE: Nichols Arboretum
Autumn Pride
WHAT: An informal meet and
greet for LGBTQ+ faculty, staff,
and students, featuring free food!
WHO: Center for Engineering
Diversity and Outreach
WHEN: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Union,
Pendleton Room
420 Maynard St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327
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Every Friday, the Michigan Daily will be republishing
an article from the Daily’s archives from a moment
in University history.
December 4, 1989
Mounds of ice were discovered melting
in the University of Illinois Student Union
courtyard four weeks ago.
Dumped on the ground by a group called
Students for a Tuition Freeze, the act was
organized to show support for an end to
tuition hikes. The symbolic gesture was one
more in a growing number of student efforts
to bring attention to and halt the spiraling
costs of higher education.
Tuition at public and private universities
across the country has jumped dramatically
in recent years. In 1988 and again in 1989,
the University of Michigan passed tuition
increases of up to 12 percent for out-of-state
students.
The situation is similar at other schools.
Since 1987, University of Iowa and University
of Illinois students have watched their tuition
rise 13 to 17 percent each year, while inflation
rose no more than 6.5 percent in those years.
Faced with explanations that states are
strapped for funds, and universities must
remain competitive, many felt there was
little for students to do but sigh and sign for
another student loan.
But with the cost of a degree reaching
well into the tens of thousands — University
of Michigan in-state residents now spend
more than $12,000 for a four-year education,
while out-of-state residents spend $44,000 —
students are taking action.
At the University of Iowa, students
lobbied effectively to bring the rate of tuition
increases down from 17 percent last year to 3
percent this year for in-state students and 4
percent for out-of-state students.
The one-on-one meetings between
students and state and University officials
were “very important” to students’ success,
said Pepe Rojas-Cardona, president of the
Iowa Student Association.
“(Students) raised the level of awareness
among legislators, who I don’t think were
as aware of (tuition) as an issue before,”
said Ann Rhodes, Iowa’s acting director
for university relations. As a result, she
said, “Tuition and access (to education) are
going to be a real issue in the campaign for
governor this year.”
Students met independently with
members of the university’s Board of
Regents, state legislators, and Gov. Terry
Brandstadt.
One of the problems University of
Michigan students face in working to lower
tuition rates is developing a unified front.
“As it stands now, we’ve got a series
of different voices,” said LSA sophomore
Will Curl, a Michigan Collegiate Coalition
governor. Though students are interested in
the issue, Curl said, “they don’t necessarily
attack it the same way.” The lack of a cohesive
stance diminishes student impact on
University and state officials, he said.
At the University of Illinois, the united
student voice is represented by two non-
voting student members of the University’s
nine-person Board of Trustees. Both
students enter a “student’s advisory vote” on
the issues discussed by the trustees into the
official record.
“The vote doesn’t alter the board’s
decision, but symbolizes how (students)
are voting,” said Matthew Byer, one of the
students on the board.
The University of Illinois didn’t raise
tuition this year, partially due to greater state
appropriations and partially because of a
two-year income tax increase for education
passed by the state of Illinois.
Members of Students For A Tuition
Freeze hope the university will do the same
next year. Some students say representation
isn’t enough. At the University of Wisconsin,
members of the University’s student
government and the United Council — the
Wisconsin state student association —
negotiate proposed increases with the Board
of Regents.
Last year negotiations brought the
proposed tuition increase down from 17 to
nine percent.
But without visible signs of student
support, student representatives cannot be as
effective as possible, said Sherrie Bryant, the
United Council’s academic affairs director.
“If they’re going to raise (tuition), they’re
going to raise it no matter what students
say,” Bryant said. But if students were to be
“more responsive to what we asked them to
do,” said Bryant, then representatives would
have a stronger position during negotiations
and might have a larger impact on the
administration.
- Noelle Vance
Daily Government Reporter
FRIDAY’S BICENTENNIAL FEATURE:
NATION’S STUDENTS LOBBY TO END LARGE TUITION HIKES
Professor draws on own experience
to aid LBGTQ sexual health care
Researcher works primarily with gender and sexual minorities, preventing HIV
KATHERINA SOURINE
Daily Staff Reporter
The
work
and
research
of
Nursing
Professor
Rob
Stephenson is dedicated to the
study of sexual and reproductive
health. In addition to being
a trained epidemiologist and
demographer,
Stephenson
holds a Ph.D. from University
of
Southampton
in
the
United Kingdom, as well as a
postdoctoral fellowship at the
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. With a concentration
in HIV prevention as well as
sexual and gender minorities,
Stephenson aims to apply his
own experiences to bettering the
LBGTQ community.
Stephenson
reflected
on
the effect his identity and
background in had on his work.
He grew up in a rural area of
England and found that living
in his conservative community
presented difficulties for him as
a young, gay man.
“I quickly became aware of
how stigma and discrimination
can have a negative impact on
your health,” he said.
After turning 17, Stephenson
moved to London for college.
During this time, he noted the
growing HIV epidemic evolving
around him, and he felt he
needed to be instrumental in
positive change and research.
“That’s really how I got
into the field of sexual and
reproductive health,” he said. “I
wanted to make something as
normal and commonplace as sex
and sexuality safer.”
Among
his
more
notable
projects, Stephenson highlighted
Project
Nexus,
for
which
he is the lead investigator.
The project was created as a
response to the growing need
for communication surrounding
HIV risk in male couples, and
it works to provide the unique
needs
of
all
communtities
through these services.
The program sends testing
kits to young male couples,
then allows them to schedule
counseling
via
video
chat.
Through this process, couples
are better able to understand
the results of the test. Their
counselors are available to help
with the next potential course
of action, such as linking the
couple to further care. Thus far,
the service has been provided
to 400 male couples in the
United States, and this number
continues to grow.
Additionally,
Stephenson
is the director of the Center
for
Sexuality
and
Health
Disparities, based in School
of Nursing. There, he works
with
faculty
and
student
research assistants to conduct
research on a broad range
of sexual health problems.
In addition to working with
LGBTQ
communities,
the
center focuses on women’s
reproductive health and health
in resource-poor countries.
“What is really exciting to
me is that we attract research
assistants from across the
University,”
he
said.
“We
have a range of disciplines
that come here to do their
training.”
This year, Stephenson is
taking a break from teaching
to focus fully on his many
research projects. In the past,
he has taught a research grant
writing course for doctoral
students, and he plans to teach
a sexual and reproductive
health introductory course
next year. He highlighted that
much of his teaching and work
in research indirectly serves to
mentor the students he works
with.
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