steady income can make all the 
difference for low-income and 
financially insecure students,” 
Schandevel wrote in an email 
interview. “Having information 
about job opportunities on and 
off campus, work-study, need- 

and 
merit-based 
scholarships 

and paid internships would be 
incredibly useful. 

The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
News
Friday, January 26, 2018 — 3

The University of Michigan’s 

Central Student Government 
released a Campus Affordability 
Guide Saturday and has since 
received backlash from many 
members of the student body. 
The online publication was 
widely touted as a “guide to 
cost-effective 
living 
at 
the 

University,” and lists a few 
dozen tips for students to cut 
down on costs in the face of 
rising living costs. 

Suggestions such as cutting 

down 
on 
housekeeping 

services, laundry delivery or 
limiting 
impulse 
purchases 

left 
low-income 
students 

incredulous. 

In a Facebook post that has 

been shared 27 times as of 
Thursday evening, LSA senior 
Zoe Proegler expressed her 
dissatisfaction with the way 
CSG approached affordability 
on campus.

“We all know Ann Arbor is 

expensive,” 
Proegler 
wrote. 

“Guides like this, which lecture 
to lower income students about 
how rich people think poor 
people can change a couple 
habits (or lightbulbs?) and not 
be poor anymore, do not help. 
Rather, they’re a slap in the 
face to people who fight every 
day to be here.”

A 2016 demographic self-

survey 
conducted 
by 
CSG 

in 2016 found 74.4 percent 
of its members come from 
households 
that 
earn 
over 

$100,000 a year, and 37.2 
percent 
have 
household 

incomes 
of 
over 
$250,000. 

According to a recent report, 
the 
University 
ranks 
last 

in economic mobility when 
compared to other top-ranked 
public universities.

“It was really immediate, 

the way that it hit me — 
something about the tone being 
off,” Proegler later said in an 
interview. “As I was reading it, it 
didn’t seem like something that 
had really taken into account 
the problems of students who 
are 
experiencing 
absolute 

issues with accessibility and 
affordability. It didn’t read like 
something that would actually 
be working towards improving 
accessibility for students who 
need it, and for CSG to push it 
that way was upsetting.”

Proegler brought up the 

specific points mentioned in 
the article, some of which 
she felt were out of touch and 
potentially dangerous to the 
students who would benefit 
most from this guide.

“It comes up twice in those 

first 50 points that students 
should get rid of cleaning or 
laundry service subscriptions 
in order to save money,” she 
said. “That, to me, doesn’t 
sound 
like 
they’re 
really 

addressing students who they 
intended to be targeting with 
that. The whole guide seemed 
to put CSG at a disadvantage in 
communicating what they were 
trying to do. There’s no way 
you can explain to somebody 
what a balance transfer is in 
two sentences. And to attempt 
to do so, is I think, grossly 
negligent.”

In a comment on Proegler’s 

Facebook 
post, 
CSG 
Vice 

President Nadine Jawad wrote 

she 
thought 
the 
numerous 

comments critiquing the guide 
misrepresented her years spent 
working with Ann Arbor City 
Council members, students and 
programs, such as the Ginsberg 
Center, in order to present 
options for students to live in 
Ann Arbor on a budget.

“As the director of this 

guide, 
and 
as 
a 
first-gen 

student who struggles with 
finances and costs here, this is 
a misrepresentative portrayal 
of two years of compiling 
research,” Jawad wrote. “My 
advocacy on affordable housing 
started with a journey through 
15+ meetings with Ann Arbor 
commissioners 
and 
council 

members as well as several 
meetings with U-M Housing. 
CSG actually helped institute a 
student advisory board to City 
Council last winter as a result 
of some of this research. This 
guide is a compilation of notes, 
but doesn’t erase the fear of 
prices in an ever-increasingly 
expensive city that doesn’t feel 
like someone like me can fit in or 
afford. SES and inaccessibility 
to low-income students isn’t a 
joke and is worthy of more than 
a string of FB comments. This 
is a first proactive step I, and 
many others, took to starting to 
change something. I appreciate 
the feedback and this is a 
revolving document.”

A 
CSG 
senior 
cabinet 

member, who asked to remain 
anonymous, 
was 
concerned 

most of the suggestions — 
which included points such as 
buying items in bulk or selling 
a vehicle — were not addressing 
the real issues that students 
face 
with 
affordability 
on 

campus.

“I 
had 
generally 
known 

(the guide) was coming; it 
was something that had been 
in the works for a while, but 
most people hadn’t really seen 
the content of it,” he said. “I 
thought it was a good idea at 
first, trying to make campus 
more affordable is something 
I’m very passionate about, but 
I think this is a tonality issue. 
Reading through the pages, the 
suggestions seemed so glib and 
out of touch. I think the set of 
college students with a maid 
is incredibly small already and 
is not low-income students. 
It came across less as though 
it was intended to be aimed 
towards low-income students 
and more as a guide for fairly 
wealthy students.”

He also pointed out the 

guide was lengthy and filled 
with redundant material.

“It’s 80 pages long,” he said. 

“A lot of this is just hugely 
extraneous material that’s not 
relevant and is just taking up 
space. We’re all busy students — 
low-income students more than 
most of us. I don’t have time to 
read an 84-page pamphlet in 
detail. I’m doubtful that kids 
who are working two plus jobs 
to put themselves through 
college are able to do that.”

Public Policy junior Lauren 

Schandevel said she would 
have 
appreciated 
a 
more 

detailed focus on employment 
opportunities 
and 
ways 
to 

balance 
work 
and 
study 

schedules.

“I was so surprised to find 

that 
there 
was 
almost 
no 

mention 
of 
employment 
in 

the guide — after all, having a 

Michigan 
Medicine 

physician Mark Hoeltzel is 
under investigation by a state 
licensing 
board 
for 
sexual 

misconduct, according to a 
statement 
from 
Michigan 

Medicine 
CEO 
Marschall 

Runge, 
executive 
vice 

president of Medical Affairs 
for the University of Michigan.

Michigan 
Medicine 
was 

notified of the investigation 
in 
early 
December 
and 

immediately removed Hoeltzel, 
a 
pediatric 
rheumatologist, 

from patient care duties. He 
has not been allowed to return 
to work, and his employment 
with Michigan Medicine has 
since been terminated.

Runge 
wrote 
Michigan 

Medicine reported Hoeltzel to 
law enforcement officials right 
away, and is cooperating with 
the investigation, which is 
already underway. An outside 
professional has been hired to 
review the matter.

“These are very disturbing 

and serious allegations, and 
we have reached out to our 
patients to inform them of 
the situation, offer resources 
and provide them with a way 
to report any concerns,” the 
statement reads.

The 
Michigan 
Medicine 

community was notified of 
the situation this morning 
in an email sent by Michelle 
Daniel, 
assistant 
professor 

of Emergency Medicine. She 

urged medical students to do 
everything possible to attend 
the meeting, as they would be 
divulging information about a 
former faculty member.

“We will be holding an 

urgent meeting today from 
12:30-12:45 in West Lecture 
Hall,” Daniel wrote in the 
email. “We have important 
information to share about a 
former faculty member. We 
understand that some of you 
are in your Step Study period, 
and others are at clinical sites 
away from the main campus. 
If you are on campus, please 
make every effort to attend. 
Your faculty should release you 
for this time period.”

A letter was sent to all of 

Hoeltzel’s patients by Michigan 
Medicine, explaining Hoeltzel 
was under investigation for 
sexual misconduct and their 
child would be transferred to a 
different doctor.

“Your 
child 
is 
our 
top 

priority,” 
the 
letter 
states. 

“We 
understand 
that 
this 

information will be disturbing 
and a cause for concern.”

According to ClickOnDetroit, 

Hoeltzel was first accused 
of misconduct in 2004. He 
exchanged 
“flirtatious” 

messages with an 11-year-old 
girl he had examined at a U-M 
arthritis camp.

The hospital sent Hoeltzel 

to a “boundaries course” as a 
result.

No 
additional 
complaints 

were filed against Hoeltzel 
until December, when the state 
licensing board notified the 
hospital of the investigation.

In 
response 
to 
the 
bias 

incidents that have taken place 
on the University of Michigan 
campus, the Dean of Students 
office is launching the Response, 
Education 
and 
Awareness 

Community Taskforce (REACT) 
with Respect initiative. The task 
force will work along the Expect 
Respect campaign, as well as 
the Bias Response Team, to 
create a more inclusive campus 
environment through workshops, 
peer support services and more. 
Students who sign up for the 
initiative can be trained in one of 
two areas: preventative planning 
or bias incident training, and 
will learn how to handle issues 
involving identity, bias, and social 
and restorative justice ideas.

Bias 
incidents 
have 
been 

steadily increasing on campus in 
the last two years. A new response 
log published last fall reported 80 
incidents last semester alone. 

Julio 
Cardona, 
interim 

Assistant 
Dean 
of 
Students, 

currently 
manages 
the 
Bias 

Incident Prevention and Response 
team and the Expect Respect 
Campaign. 
Cardona 
further 

explained the development of 

REACT with Respect initiative, 
pointing out it was created at the 
request of members from the 
student body.

“It is a pilot program that was 

created in response to students 
last year expressing the desire 
to be more actively involved in 
preventing 
bias 
incidents 
on 

campus, and also finding ways 
that they can support the work of 
the Expect Respect campaign,” 
Cardona said. “This year we 
decided to pilot the program with 
a few students just to see how 
then in the future we can continue 
expanding it out.”

Cardona also discussed the 

goals of the initiative: offering 
students who have faced bias 
situations support and resources 
to 
report 
the 
incident, 
and 

implementing 
preventative 

measures in collaboration with the 
Expect Respect campaign.

“This is really almost like 

a 
student 
organization 
that 

is supporting and acting as 
an advising group,” he said. 
“(However it is) also providing 
peer support to students that may 
need to file a bias incident report 
with Student Life, but don’t know 
how to, or may feel that there is 
a sense of retaliation if they do 
… Also it’s helping to do more 
preventative events, so tabling, 

flyering, chalking the Diag to 
tell people about what we do, but 
then also programming around 
the Expect Respect campaign 
through doing workshops, and 
meeting with other students orgs 
to discuss all of our initiatives.”

REACT with Respect and the 

Expect Respect campaign are both 
parts of the Diversity, Equality 
and Inclusion Plan implemented 
by the University in 2016. Cardona 
highlighted the ways that REACT 
with Respect paralleled different 
aspects of the DEI both in regards 
to the campus-wide plan and the 
Student Life plan.

“This pilot program aligns 

directly to Strategy Two of the 
U-M campus-wide strategic plan, 
and that strategy is to, ‘Recruit, 
maintain and support a diverse 
community,’” Cardona said. “Then 
also specifically to Student Life’s 
DEI strategic plan of increasing 
the 
capacity 
of 
student 
life 

programs devoted to supporting 
student experiencing bias and 
improving campus climate.”

Cardona ended by explaining 

the 
importance 
of 
ensuring 

students’ voices are heard so the 
University can take action in areas 
that actually need it, not just ones 
presumed by the administration.

“We really want the students’ 

voice and their ideas represented 

in all of our work,” Cardona said. 
“If we need to update the Expect 
Respect webpage we’ll ensure 
that students thoughts and ideas 
are incorporated in it, so that way 
we address the current needs 
of students. Especially if we’re 
going to share resources that are 
about reporting a bias incident, we 
want to make sure that the type 
of resources we provide students 
are currently aligned to what they 
need, and not what we assume 
they need.”

The program is still in its 

beginning phase, and searching 
for student participants. Megan 
Zabik is an LSA sophomore 
considering joining REACT with 
Respect.

“It sounds really interesting to 

me because I think the University 
needs more initiative like that. 
I hope that it can help create a 
more understanding culture at the 
University of Michigan,” Zabik 
said. “The national culture isn’t 
very inclusive and I feel like it’s 
reflected at this University for 
sure, and it needs to change. The 
administration should have more 
initiatives like this, and I hope to 
support it with my involvement.”

Student task force to address bias

CSG budgeting guide ‘out of touch,’ students say

REACT with Respect initiative to receive complaints, offer support services

Suggestions included eliminating services like housekeeping, laundry delivery miss experiences of low-income students

AMARA SHAIKH
Daily Staff Reporter

MAYA GOLDMAN

Daily News Editor

RHEA CHEETI
Daily Staff Reporter

‘U’ physician 
 

faces sexual 
misconduct 
accusations

Pediatrician exchanged “flirtatious” 
emails with 11-year-old patient in 2004

ROSEANNE CHAO/Daily

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