In a video released Sunday,
white
supremacist
Richard
Spencer announced a halt to
his national college tour amid
clashes between protesters and
police at his scheduled speech
at Michigan State University last
Monday.
“At least for the foreseeable
future, I don’t think it’s a good
idea for me to host an event
that’s wide open to the public,
in which we name the date and
the time,” Spencer said in his
video. “Because if we do that in
advance, Antifa are going to do
their thing.”
Spencer’s
legal
team
announced a delay in Spencer’s
potential visit to the University
until a future semester, stating
they would prefer to hold an
event in the summer to draw
larger crowds.
MSU allowed Spencer to
speak at the school following a
lawsuit filed by Attorney Kyle
Bristow.
Bristow
has
since
announced he will no longer aid
Spencer’s team.
Stop Spencer at Michigan
State University celebrated the
decision to halt the college tour,
attributing the news to the joint
effort of those in the community
and the Stop Spencer movement.
Members of the Lecturers’
Employee
Organization
gathered
for
a
general
membership meeting Friday
on the University of Michigan-
Dearborn campus to discuss
the
next
step
in
their
campaign to secure a contract
granting them higher wages
and enhanced job security.
Despite receiving what they
called an “insulting” response
to the union’s salary proposal
last month, leaders remained
optimistic,
emphasizing
the importance of involving
both lecturers and allies in
organizing efforts.
Representing
nearly
1,700
non-tenure
track
faculty members across the
University’s three campuses,
LEO has been negotiatingsince
October, asking for improved
benefits, more full-time jobs
and significant increases to
minimum salaries.
Bargaining team manager
and
LEO
Vice
President
Kirsten Herold, a lecturer at
the School of Public Health,
has been through five rounds
of
contract
negotiations
with LEO since the union’s
inception in the early 2000s.
She said she has maintained a
positive outlook, citing public
school
teachers’
successful
statewide walkout in West
Virginia
and
grassroots
enthusiasm.
“I
really
feel
more
optimistic
this
time
than
I otherwise have in terms
of our shot at getting a real
raise,”
Herold
said.
“The
University’s always been a
little bit ahead of the curve on
this front, and I really think
this time we can do it. We just
have to put everything into it.
We have so much great staff,
so many great allies and so
many members involved. I’m
telling people, we’re going to
see a five-digit raise. If that’s
not worth a few hours of your
time, I don’t know what is.”
Under the union’s current
contract, which expires April
20, the minimum salary for a
full-time lecturer is $34,500
in Ann Arbor, $28,300 in
Dearborn and $27,300 in Flint.
LEO’s salary proposal would
have raised the minimum to
$60,000 in Ann Arbor and to
$56,000 in Dearborn and Flint
in 2018, increasing by $2,000
at all three campuses in 2019
and again in 2020.
The
University
instead
offered a $1,000 increase to
the starting salary in 2019,
$750 in 2020 and $500 in
2021. The deal also included
a 1.5 percent annual raise for
lecturers in Ann Arbor, but
not those in Dearborn or Flint.
Former
Secretary
of
Commerce Penny Pritzker, who
worked under President Barack
Obama and currently works
as chairman of PSP Capital
Partners
and
its
affiliate,
Pritzker Realty Group, spoke
Friday in the Ford School of
Public
Policy’s
Annenberg
Auditorium. Dozens attended
the event, titled “America’s
Economic Future,” the first
annual Vandenburg lecture.
The event was held as a
discussion between Pritzker
and Ellen Hughes-Cromwick,
who was a Business adjunct
professor
before
serving
as chief economist at the
Department of Commerce.
The Vandenburg lectures
are sponsored by the Meijer
family and honors late Sen.
Arthur Vandenberg, R-Mich,
who
encouraged
bipartisan
support
for
consequential
foreign policy issues such as
the
Truman
Doctrine,
the
Marshall Plan, NATO and the
creation of the United Nations.
Pritzker began the speech
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Monday, March 12, 2018
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Spencer puts
college tour
on hold after
MSU protest
Heisman winner Charles Woodson
to speak at spring commencement
EVAN AARON/Daily
The University of Michigan will have Charles Woodson as the speaker at the spring commencement ceremony this year.
ADMINISTRATION
Still unclear if white supremacist will
attempt to speak on campus over summer
KATHERINA SOURINE
Daily Staff Reporter
Graduating seniors get to hear live speaker for second time in three years
The University of Michigan
will have a speaker at its spring
commencement ceremony this
year, the University announced in
a press release Monday, and that
speaker is alum Charles Woodson.
Woodson,
a
student-athlete
on the University’s football team
from 1995 to 1997, received the
Heisman Trophy in 1997. He is the
only primarily defensive player to
win the award to date. That same
year, Woodson led the team to an
undefeated season and national
championship, then went on to
an 18-season career in the N.F.L.,
playing for the Oakland Raiders
and Green Bay Packers.
Central Student Government
President Anushka Sarkar, an LSA
senior, said the announcement
excited and surprised her.
“I heard a lot of rumors about
who the commencement speaker
was going to be, and I think this
is kind of coming out of left field,”
Sarkar said. “They were pretty
informal rumors — people kept
saying Michelle Obama, Oprah.
But I think they were pretty
uninformed rumors.”
ANDREW HIYAMA
Daily News Editor
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Obama-era
commerce
secretary
talks trade
GOVERNMENT
Penny Pritzker says
Trump’s steel tarifffs
“screwing up” market
REFAEL KUBERSKY
Daily Staff Reporter
CASEY TIN/Daily
LEO discusses potential walkout in
salary negotiations with University
Meeting in Dearborn aims to secure job security contract for 1,700 members
LEAH GRAHAM
Daily Staff Reporter
Wichita bound
No. 3 seed Michigan is in
the West Region and will
play Montana in Wichita on
Thursday night
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The Institute for the Humanities
announced
Thursday
a
new
Summer Fellowship program for
tenured/tenure-track faculty and
lecturers II/III/IV. The program
is eight weeks long with residence
in the institute, and it will accept
eight fellows this summer — four
tenured/tenure-track faculty and
four lecturers.
The institute also provides a
year-long
fellowship;
however,
that is open only to tenure-
strain faculty and their graduate
students. This summer program
is meant to parallel the one held
during the year but includes both
lecturers and tenure-strain faculty.
Peggy McCracken, director of the
Institute for the Humanities, said
including lecturers and tenured
faculty together is unique program
for the humanities.
“I’m really happy we’ve been
able to put together this program
that includes both tenure-strain
faculty and lecturers,” McCracken
said.
LSA opens
humanities
fellowship
to lecturers
ACADEMICS
New eight week program
based on year-long version
for tenure-track faculty
SAYALI AMIN
Daily Staff Reporter
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