Philip J. Deloria, former 

University 
of 
Michigan 

professor, became Harvard 
University’s 
first 
tenured 

Native-American 
studies 

professor 
last 
week 
after 

having taught in the History 
and 
American 
Culture 

Department at the University 
for over ten years. Deloria 
specialized 
in 
Native-

American history and also 
served as the associate dean 
for 
Undergraduate 
and 

Graduate Education in LSA, 
director 
of 
the 
Program 

in 
American 
Culture 
and 

acting director of the Native 

American Studies Program. 
In his time at the University, 
Deloria was an outspoken 
advocate for Native American 
students and inequalities in 
higher education. 

Deloriaa 
earned 
his 

doctorate degree in American 
Studies from Yale University 
and taught at University of 
Colorado before coming to 
the University. He became 
a Carroll Smith-Rosenberg 
Collegiate Professor in 2009.

“At Michigan, I was really 

fortunate to be involved in 
building the Native American 
Studies 
program,” 
Deloria 

said. “I feel like my time at 
Michigan was full of really 
good things and it was really 

LSA Student Government 

passed 
five 
resolutions 

Wednesday night, including 
one in support of the Lecturers’ 
Employee 
Organization’s 

negotiations 
for 
a 
new 

wage contract and another 
calling for an investigation 
into potential conflicts of 
interest in investment of the 
University 
of 
Michigan’s 

endowment. 
The 
latter 

resolution 
was 
introduced 

and approved in time for LSA 
SG to join a group of student 
organizations also requesting 
further transparency before 
the Board of Regents’ meeting 
Thursday afternoon.

LSA 
SG 
representative 

Amanda 
Delekta, 
an 
LSA 

junior, 
co-sponsored 
the 

resolution.

“The 
regents, 
who 
are 

supposed 
to 
overlook 
the 

investment of the endowment, 
passed 
the 
responsibilities 

largely on to a financial 
executive 
committee,” 
she 

said. “A number of those 
individuals 
have 
been 

investing the endowment into 
their own enterprises, which 
is obviously a large conflict 
of interest and there has not 
been a lot of oversight with 
the issue.”

The Detroit Free Press 

recently 
reported 
the 

University invested portions 
— estimates range from $3 

to nearly $4 billion — of its 
nearly $11 billion endowment 
in funds run or owned by 
major donors. The resolution 
passed with 19 votes in favor 
and three against. LSA SG 
members 
debated 
whether 

the allegations of conflicts 
of interest had merit and if 
calling for an investigation 
might needlessly incite the 
regents. 

Representative 
Jordan 

Schuler, an LSA sophomore, 
said he didn’t see how an 
investigation 
could 
hurt, 

especially if the claims about 
the endowment, as University 
President 
Mark 
Schlissel 

wrote in an op-ed in the Free 
Press, are false.

“Passing 
this 
resolution 

doesn’t necessarily say that 
we believe there is severe 
malpractice, 
but 
passing 

it does say that it’s worth 

finding out,” Schuler said.

The resolution in support 

of LEO’s bargaining efforts 
comes two days after the 
University responded to the 
union’s salary proposals. The 
union, which represents non-
tenure track faculty across all 
three University of Michigan 
campuses, is asking for higher 
wages 
and 
enhanced 
job 

security. On Monday night, 

On 
Monday, 
several 

Michigan 
lawmakers 

proposed 
new 
legislation 

during 
a 
Michigan 
House 

of 
Representatives 
meeting 

to fight sexual assault and 
harassment in response to the 
Larry Nassar trials, #MeToo 
movement 
and 
#TimesUp 

movement. The call for new 
policy has a specific focus on 
college campuses in hopes 
of 
increasing 
prevention, 

education 
and 
protection 

services.

In early February, Nassar 

received his third sentence of 
40 to 125 years for sexual assault 
charges. 
The 
260 
reports 

against Nassar included those 
of Olympic gymnasts Jordyn 
Wieber and Aly Raisman, as 
well as countless other women 
who were assaulted under 
his treatment as a former 
Michigan State University and 
USA Gymnastics doctor. These 
reports of abuse contribute to 
the thousands of women who 
have recently come into the 
spotlight under the banner 

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ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM

Deloria to be 
1st Native 

studies prof. at 

Harvard

Haberman’s unionized U.S. rep. 
campaign is first to do so in state 

See HARVARD, Page 3A

90,000

number of 
non-technical 
workers that 
increased

$12,986

money lost 

from working an 

unpaid summer 

internship

(according to the U.S. 
Bureau of Labor Stats)

10.7%

U.S. 

unionization 
at a record 

low of

CASEY TIN/Daily

ACADEMICS

Former ‘U’ dean and professor joins 
ranks as first tenured faculty member

REMY FARKAS
Daily Staff Reporter

University alum, Democrat running to replace Republican Dave Trott in 11th district

Dan Haberman, one of the 

11 candidates for Michigan’s 
11th Congressional District seat 
and University of Michigan 
alum, has made the decision to 
unionize his campaign staff. 

Haberman, who received his 

bachelor’s degree in political 
science from the University, 
is a businessman, lawyer and 
Democrat from Birmingham 
running to replace the seat 
vacated by former U.S. Rep. 
Dave 
Trott, 
R-Birmingham. 

Democrats 
hope 
to 
claim 

another 
U.S. 
congressional 

seat 
despite 
the 
district’s 

Republican-leaning history.

Now, Haberman is unionizing 

his staff in a move that he says 
symbolizes his commitment to 
workers’ rights.

“I believe that it is important 

to protect all Michigan workers. 
It’s not always convenient, but 
it’s the right thing to do. Our 

representatives 
in 
Congress 

are sent there to represent 
and protect the people they 
represent and to take action,” 
he said. 

His Democratic opponents 

include 
Haley 
Stevens, 
the 

former chief of staff for an 
auto task force led by former 

CARLY RYAN
Daily News Editor

See NASSAR, Page 3A

In light of 
Nassar, MI
assault bill 
 
 

introduced

GOVERNMENT

Michigan state legislators 
present three-pronged 
law with focus on campus

JORDYN BAKER
Daily Staff Reporter

CHUN SO/Daily

LSA Student Government committee representative Emma Rose discusses agenda points at the LSA SG meeting in 
Mason Hall Wednesday

LSA CSG passes resolutions in support 
of LEO, investigation into endowment

Assembly requests more transparency from Regents on investment policies

LEAH GRAHAM
Daily News Reporter

the b-side

This week, The Daily 

arts section took a look 

at queerness and gender 

fluidity in the arts.

» Page 1B

See LSA SG, Page 3A

See HABERMAN, Page 3A

A study conducted at the 

University of Michigan found 
unhealthy body weight may 
make it harder to resist food, 
an 
important 
step 
in 
the 

struggle to prevent obesity. 
In her study, Carrie Ferrario, 
a 
research 
and 
assistant 

professor 
at 
the 
Medical 

School, 
discovered 
obesity-

prone rats had a stronger 
response to a sound signaling 
food, and the rats that showed 
the strongest response were 
the ones that gained the most 
weight.

To test her theory, Ferrario 

cued rats, both obesity prone 
and 
obesity 
resistant, 
by 

associating the promise of food 
with a certain sound. She then 
trained the rats to push a lever 
when they wanted food.

She found the rats that 

were more prone to obesity 
were more likely to press the 
lever when they heard the 
sound. She also discovered the 
obesity-prone rats developed 
more CP-AMPA receptors in 
the nucleus accumbens region, 

See JUNK FOOD, Page 3A

‘U’ studies 
finds links
in resisting 
junk food

RESEARCH

Obesity-prone rats had 
stronger responses that 
lead to more consumption

MOLLY NORRIS
Daily Staff Reporter

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