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2A — Wednesday, January 17, 2018
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Behind the Story

MONDAY:

Looking at the Numbers

News

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The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the 
fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available 
free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for 
$2. Subscriptions for September-April are $250 and year long subscriptions are $275. 
University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions 

for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 

DAYTON HARE
Managing Editor haredayt@michigandaily.com

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Managing News Editor news@michigandaily.com

Senior News Editors: Andrew Hiyama, Carly Ryan, Kaela Theut, Matt Harmon, 
Maya Goldman
Assistant News Editors: Jordyn Baker, Remy Farkas, Riley Langefeld, Elizabeth 
Lawrence, Rachel Leung, Molly Norris, Maeve O’Brien, Shannon Ors, Amara 
Shaikh, Katherina Sourine

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Editorial Page Editors 
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Senior Opinion Editors: Elena Hubbell, Emily Huhman, Jeremy Kaplan, Tara 
Jayaram, Ellery Rosenzweig

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Senior Arts Editors: Becky Portman, Sam Rosenberg, Arya Naidu, Dominic 
Polsinelli
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Gallatin, Naresh Iyengar

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Deputy Editors: Colin Beresford, Jennifer Meer, Rebecca Tarnopol

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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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