The Interfraternity Council 

at the University of Michigan 
will begin to restore social 
event privileges to fraternities 
this 
semester, 
according 

to a statement released on 
the 
organization’s 
website 

Wednesday 
morning. 
The 

announcement comes after a 
two-month self-imposed ban. 
Recruitment this semester for 
the IFC fraternities will continue 
as scheduled. 

“IFC will begin a phased 

process 
of 
restoring 
social 

event privileges on January 3, 
2018,” the statement read. “This 
process will not constitute an 

immediate lift of the social 
suspension for all IFC chapters. 
The phased process will involve 
chapters 
being 
notified 
of 

specific action plans they will 
need to complete.”

 As early as Tuesday evening, 

The 
Daily 
obtained 
copies 

of invitations to IFC chapter 
mixers 
sent 
to 
Panhellenic 

sorority members who requested 
to remain anonymous.

At the IFC’s meeting on Nov. 9, 

presidents of several University 
fraternities voted to suspend all 
social activities and pledge terms 
following allegations of sexual 
assault and hazing during the 
previous months. 

The 
Inglis 
House, 
which 

was once used by University 
administration to accommodate 
overnight guests such as the 
Dalai Lama and President Gerald 
Ford, has been sold to buyers who 
intend to use the property as a 
family residence.

In 
1950, 
Elizabeth 
Inglis 

donated the property to the 
University after the death of 
her husband James Inglis, who 
stipulated that the property 
would be given to the University 
as a residence for the University’s 
president. However, Elizabeth 
delivered a quitclaim deed to the 
Board of Regents in 1951 as former 
University presidents have opted 
for the more centrally situated 
property of 815 S. University 
Ave., the traditional home for 
presidents of the University since 
its inaugural president, Henry 
Tappan.

James 
Kosteva, 
University 

director of community relations, 
explained the house has not 
been used since 2012 and would 
continue to incur significant 
maintenance costs in addition to 
the cost of necessary renovations.

“It 
determined 
that 
the 

University would need to spend 
a minimum of $4.7 million 
of capital to make the home 
usable and would need to fund 
approximately 
$550,000 
on 

(an) annual basis to operate the 
property,” Kosteva wrote in an 
email interview. “The University 

administration determined that 
the long-term costs of property 
exceed the benefit to be derived 
and that operation of the property 
was not mission critical.”

The University administration 

recommended 
selling 
the 

property, and the Board of 
Regents approved the sale at a 
meeting in March. The board 
decided to use proceeds from 
the sale to establish a new 
scholarship for students in the 

Inglis family name.

At an April regents meeting, 

community 
members 
and 

members of the Inglis family 
expressed grave concern over the 
sale of the property. Esther Kyke, 
a member of the Inglis family, 
worried 
new 
owners 
could 

demonlish the home now that it 
was no longer under University 
protection. Kyke and a dozen 
other members of the Inglis 
family presented the regents 

with a letter condemning the sale 
of the home. 

“It has also come to the 

collective attention of the Inglis 
family that it has been publicly 
circulated that we are very 
pleased with this decision and 
that the living relatives approve 
of the sale,” Kyke read in April. 

Students on campus are used to 

hailing a ride with Uber, but now 
they can order a snack or meal 
with the company as well. Uber is 
expanding its presence in Ann Arbor 
with the launch of UberEATS, a new 
food delivery system featuring Uber 
drivers as the deliverers.

The phone application launched 

on Dec. 7 and will connect Ann 
Arbor residents to 27 different local 
restaurants. While in Michigan the 
food delivery system is currently 
only 
operating 
in 
downtown 

Ann Arbor, Kerrytown and the 
University of Michigan campus, 
UberEATS has the potential to 
expand even farther.

Liz 
Meyerdirk, 
UberEATS 

Head of Development, said more 
restaurants are learning about 
UberEATS and seeking to get 
involved themselves.

“After launching, we work to 

understand what customers want 
by surveying and understanding 
what their behavior is like through 
the app,” Meyerdirk said.

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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 B

S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

SPORTS.........................6

IFC lifts ban 
on Greek life 
social events,
with checks

GEO and CRLT work to promote
safety and inclusion for employees

19
800
schools at
UMich
taught inclusive
inclusive teaching 

orientations taught 
teaching
by CRLT

CASEY TIN/Daily

CAMPUS LIFE

Chapters required to complete action 
plans, social programming underway 

KAELA THEUT
Daily News Editor

Graduate employee union requests leave during Spencer visit, release inclusion guidelines

After 
contentious 
contract 

bargaining 
last 
winter, 
the 

University of Michigan Graduate 
Employees’ Union has focused 

much of its efforts on equity across 
its membership of more than 1,800 
graduate 
student 
instructors, 

research 
assistants 
and 
staff 

members. Last year’s contract 
hinged upon the hiring of graduate 
student assistants working solely 
on execution of the Diversity, 
Equity and Inclusion plan. In the 
new year, GEO looks towards 

issues of race and class, both inside 
and outside of the classroom. 

The Michigan Daily spoke with 

GEO president Rachel Miller, 
a Rackham student, to discuss 
initiatives 
including 
inclusive 

teaching, and whether or not 
GEO members will be on campus 
during a potential visit from white 
supremacist Richard Spencer.

Inclusive Teaching Network 

Releases Guide for Instructors

GEO released a statement on 

its Facebook page Tuesday night 
encouraging their members to 
look into new resources from 
the Inclusive Teaching Network 
and implement them into their 
classrooms.

MAYA GOLDMAN & 

CARLY RYAN
Daily News Editors

UberEATS
delivery in
Ann Arbor 
welcomed

BUSINESS

New services will cater 
restaurants, fast food to 
downtown & Kerrytown

CORY ZAYANCE
Daily Staff Reporter

CEREN B DAG/Daily

The Inglis House has been sold by the University to buyers who intend to use the property as a family residence.

University sells historic overnight 
house for $2.1 million as residence

50 years later, Inglis House now owned by hotel owner, former Regent’s daughter

RACHEL LEUNG
Daily Staff Reporter

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In 1980, LSA held its first 

Theme Semester at the University 
of Michigan in hopes of providing 
students with the opportunity 
to immerse themselves in a 
specific topic through classes 
and extracurricular events such 
as museum exhibits and theater 
performances. 

Past topics have covered a 

broad range of subjects from 
“Water” in Winter 2011 to “The 
Possible Futures of U-M” in Fall 
2017, themes selected through 
the Office of the Associate Dean 
for Undergraduate Education.

However, following a busy 

year 
with 
the 
University’s 

Bicentennial, there is no theme 
this semester.

“We do not have a theme 

semester every semester, or 
even every year; the frequency 
depends on the number of 
proposals we received at any 
given time,” Angela Dillard, 
LSA 
Associate 
Dean 
for 

Undergraduate Education, wrote 
in an email interview. 

In Winter
2018, no
LSA theme 
semester

ACADEMICS

Following Bicentennial, 
LSA to forgo academic 
theme for first time in years

ZOE BAXTER

Daily Staff Reporter

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