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2A — Wednesday, January 17, 2018
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
THURSDAY:
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WEDNESDAY:
This Week in History
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: BSU DAAP CLASH DURING MLK RALLY
January 16, 2001
By Jacquelyn Nixon
Daily Staff Reporter
As students took to the streets
yesterday to advocate affirmative
action, there were clear divisions
among the 200 participants in how
the message supporting affirmative
action shoul be presented.
Shortly after students marched
from the corner of South University
and South Forest avenues to the
Diag, where the rally began, the
crowd parted as members of the
Black Student Union and the Black
Greek The University’s 14th annual
Martin Luther
Association entered. They held
green King Jr. Symposium signs
stating
affirmative
action
was
their issue and not an issue for the
Coalition to Defend Affirmative
Action and Integration and Fight for
Equality By Any Means Necessary.
BSU members joined BAMN and
the other organizations on the steps
of the Harlan Hatcher
Graduate
Library.
BAMN
member
Ebonie
Byndon
said
although BAMN has encountered
problems with BSU members in
the past, BSU members have never
before charged into a BAMN event.
BSU members said they feel
BAMN is an outside force which
does not truly reflect the concerns
of the minority students of the
University.
Monique
Luse,
an
LSA
sophomore on the BSU executive
board,
said
BSUrespects
that
BAMN fights for affirmative action,
but they don’t agree withtheir
tactics.
“The organization is not run by
University students. BSU, on the
other hand, is led by the students.
BAMN does not have that same
element,” Luse said.
Throughout the rally, sparks
began to fly between BAMN and
BSU members in the crowd.
“We would work hand in hand
with this organization, but they
won’t let us,” said BSU
historian
D’Yal
Mcallister.
Donna Stern, a paralegal for
BAMN,said the BSU and BAMN
have different ideas about the type
of action to take for progress in the
area of affirmative action.
“They don’t want mass militant
action. It takes people getting on the
streets to win.”
Read more at MichiganDaily.com
LEO decries stalled bargaining process
with University HR on new contract
Lecturers’ union of 1,700 members calls for increase in wages, benefits and an expedited response
As
bargaining
between
the University of Michigan’s
Lecturers’
Employee
Organization
and
University
administration
continues
regarding wages, performance
evaluations and other factors,
LEO members are expressing
frustration with what they say is
a lack of administrative response
to their proposals.
LEO
is
a
member-run
organization representing non-
tenure faculty among the three
University campuses. Founded
in 2003, the organization has
approximately 1,700 members
and aims to improve working
conditions and protect the rights
of lecturers at the University.
Lecturers are hired by term
or school year, as opposed to
professors who have established
contracts with the University.
Full-time lecturers teach three
or more courses a semester
at the Ann Arbor campus,
but lecturers at the Flint and
Dearborn
campuses
must
teach at least four courses to be
considered full-time. According
to LEO president Ian Robinson,
a sociology Lecturer IV, the
starting salary for a full-time
Lecturer I is $34,500 in Ann
Arbor, $28,300 in Dearborn
and $27,300 in Flint. The Ann
Arbor campus’ average cost of
attendance for a lower division
in-state student is $29,526 per
year.
Robinson
also
said
that
turnover rate, or the percentage
of employees that leave during a
year, for Lecturer I positions is
at 40 percent.
Bargaining has been ongoing
since the beginning of last
semester. Lecturers can also
lose their health benefits over
the summer when they are not
teaching, and pay for Cobra,
a government program that
gives those who lost healthcare
benefits the right to their group
plan for a limited period of time
to alleviate this.
Currently, LEO’s bargaining
platform
includes
improved
job security for Lecturer I
and
III
positions,
making
performance evaluations more
meaningful, streamlined and
fair, extended affordable health
care, significant increases to the
minimum salaries, a dedicated
fund to support lecturers who
are advancing DEI objectives
and all schools having a vote
on enfranchising lecturers who
are at least half-time and have
taught at the University for at
least one year.
Philip Christman, co-chair of
the Ann Arbor campus branch
of LEO and English Lecturer
II, said he hopes to see lecturer
salaries increase due to the
revenue lecturers generate for
the University.
“A lot of people are taking
our classes,” Christman said.
“Non-tenured faculty tends to
teach the classes that are more
lower-level and introductory, so
we meet more students ... we’re
generating a lot of revenue for
the University.”
Christman
also
explained
standards
for
performance
evaluation vary among campus
location and academic unit.
“I know there is a real
disproportion between academic
units and on the different
campuses in terms of how much
effort some people have to go
through to do their annual
or major review versus some
others,” Christman said. “For
some people, the demand
of review is reasonable,
and other people are just
outright being bullied by
their supervisors.”
According to LEO’s blog,
one example of this varied
treatment within academic
departments is a lecturer
not receiving a raise because
his school felt the salary
he was paid was already
high enough. The Daily
was not able to confirm this
anecdote, however.
“A
lecturer
in
a
professional school at the
University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor was due for his
second major review,” the
post reads. “The school
wanted to skip his 7% raise,
basically because they felt
he was already being paid
a lot.”
Robinson also feels there
are issues with how the
University responds to non-
financial
proposals
LEO
makes.
“There (were) proposals
where
they
didn’t
necessarily involve money but
they did involve a change in the
way we were doing things and
their response was just to simply
hand it back and ex out all of the
changes we proposed without
any real explanation,” Robinson
said. “We feel like ... come up
with a counter-proposal that
has some language that at least
moves in the direction of the
concern we’ve expressed or tell
us why you cannot do anything
in response to that concern.”
University spokespeople told
The Daily they feel progress
being made in the bargaining
process.
University
spokeswoman
Kim Broekhuizen wrote in a
statement the University will
continue to negotiate until a
resolution is determined.
“The University is in the midst
of
bargaining,”
Broekhuizen
wrote. “We are making progress,
and will continue to actively
negotiate until we reach a
resolution. Bargaining has been
ongoing every week since late
October. And the contract does
not expire until late April. This
is all part of the normal process
for bargaining.”
Robinson said the University
told union members it would
respond
to
LEO
regarding
benefits proposals this Friday.
LSA
graduate
Neala
Berkowski worked with LEO
through Radfun, a group that
aims to improve student culture
through creating art, zines and
radical spaces for students of
marginalized groups. In an
email interview, she wrote she
also hopes to see lecturers’
contracts improve.
“Ultimately, myself and I’m
sure many other students are
hoping lecturers will get a fair
contract,”
Berkowski
wrote.
“If this doesn’t happen, the
administration will obviously
be hurting a lot of lecturers by
making their lives considerably
harder. But I don’t think the
administration
has
really
thought
enough
about
how
their
choice
will
impact
students as well. Low starting
salaries and low job security for
lecturers means higher lecturer
turnover, so students will have
a harder time forming long-
term relationships with their
instructors.”
RACHEL CUNNINGHAM
Daily Staff Reporter
If you were looking out your
window Tuesday night, you
may have seen a bright flash
light up the night sky at about
8 p.m. While many assumed
it was just lightning, the
National Weather Service and
United States Geographical
Survey confirmed the light
was, in fact, a meteor.
Many
videos
posted
on
YouTube and Twitter from
car dashboard cams and home
security systems show the sky
fade to light blue, followed by a
short burst of orange light and
then back to the normal black
sky. Some videos show a trail
forming from the meteor.
Reports to the American
Meteor Society of the bright
light
were
received
from
locations in six states and
Canada. According to NWS,
the
meteor
caused
a
2.0
magnitude earthquake near
New Haven, Michigan.
Former
U.S.
Rep.
John
Dingell
tweeted
Tuesday
night his bewilderment at the
possibility of a meteor flying
over Michigan.
“What’s
this
meteor
nonsense?” Dingell wrote.
MATT HARMON
Daily Staff Reporter
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