the School of Education in 
2008, is another in a series of 
efforts by the Weisers to align 
the 
University 
community 

with Weiser’s previous work in 
Europe. 

LSA junior David Carpenter, 

vice president of policy for the 
student-run Michigan Foreign 
Policy Council, said he believes 
the center will provide students 

who are interested in entering 
the field of diplomacy with the 
tools and information they need 
to launch their careers.

“In terms of career aspects for 

a lot of students there, I know I 
want to enter foreign service or 
something diplomacy related 
so I think having (the center) 
for students is definitely good 
for having career opportunities 
and really good mentorship 
opportunities,” Carpenter said.

In a press release Wednesday, 

John Ciorciari, director of the 

International 
Policy 
Center 

at the Public Policy School, 
reaffirmed the belief that the 
center will help prepare students 
for careers in diplomacy.

“This 
new 
initiative 
will 

help train a new generation 
of informed, principled, and 
entrepreneurial 
students 

committed 
to 
international 

affairs,” Ciorciari wrote. “ will 
also help connect the academy 
to the world of foreign policy 
practice 
to 
generate 
new 

ideas for addressing the many 

global challenges we face. No 
comparable 
concentration 
of 

diplomatic expertise exists at 
any university in the Midwest.”

Carpenter agreed the center 

will 
introduce 
students 
to 

careers in international affairs 
who otherwise wouldn’t have 
seriously considered such a 
career as an option living in the 
Midwest.

“I definitely think having 

people 
come 
to 
the 
Ford 

School that are in that field 
will 
definitely 
open 
doors 

for 
students 
who 
never 

really considered (careers in 
diplomacy) 
as 
a 
possibility, 

especially since I feel like often 
times the foreign policy world 
is so centered in Washington 
that people might not be able 
to make it a conscious effort … 
to reach out to universities like 
us,” Carpenter said.

The $10 million donation 

is the latest addition to the 
Weisers’ contributions to the 
University. Both Ron and Eileen 
Weiser are University alumni, 

and their biggest contribution 
came in 2014 with a $50 million 
donation. Half of the donation 
was 
distributed 
across 
the 

School of Education, University 
Athletic Department, University 
Health 
System, 
University 

Musical Society and Ross School 
of Business, with the remaining 
half dedicated to the Center for 
Emerging Democracies.

When asked about plans for 

future donations, Weiser said 
he has “some other ideas and 
thoughts” in his head.

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highly 
contrasting 

campaigns in hopes of following 
Snyder, who is leaving the 
seat with low approval ratings 
following the Flint water crisis, 
as Michigan governor. 

Now, with nine weeks left 

until 
the 
general 
election, 

Whitmer is polling 9 points 
ahead of Schuette, according to 
RealClearPolitics.

The 
Libertarian 
Party, 

qualifying as a major party in 
Michigan, also held its first 
primary in the state Aug. 7. 
Insurance title examiner Bill 
Gelineau and former Livonia 
teacher John Tatar faced off, 
with 
Gelineau 
winning 
58 

percent of the vote.

The election results diverged 

from student polling conducted 
by The Daily — last fall, 
University of Michigan alum 
Abdul El-Sayed, the former 
Detroit 
Health 
Department 

Director, received the highest 
share 
of 
potential 
student 

voters. 32 percent of students 
indicated they planned to vote 
for El-Sayed in the primaries.

The 
Michigan 
primary 

election featured voter turnout 
that broke records going as far 
back as 1978. Nearly 29 percent of 
registered voters casted ballots, 
amounting in about 2.5 million 
votes total. Washtenaw County 
experienced the largest surge 
in voter turnout in the state, 
increasing from 21.6 percent in 
2010 to 34.4 percent. 

Vote Breakdown
Republican 
candidates 

on 
the 
ballot 
included 

Schuette, 
Lieutenant 
Gov. 

Brian Calley, state Sen. Patrick 
Colbeck and Dr. Jim Hines. 
Schuette won 50 percent of 
vote, and Calley was the runner 
up at 25.2 percent. Colbeck 
followed at 13.1 percent and 
Hines at 11 percent.

Schuette led in the primary 

polls and was expected to 
win 
the 
nomination. 
An 

endorsement from President 
Donald 
Trump 
played 
a 

significant role in his campaign. 
In June, Vice President Mike 
Pence 
visited 
Michigan 
to 

campaign on Schuette’s behalf.

“President 
Trump 
has 

endorsed my candidacy for 
governor because he knows 
I’ll cut taxes in Michigan like 
he’s cut taxes in America,” 
Schuette said in the final GOP 
debate in July. “It’s time that 
Michigan wins again.”

Schuette 
also 
received 

endorsements from several U.S. 
Republican 
representatives 

and the Michigan Chamber of 

Commerce. Meanwhile, Calley 
was endorsed by Gov. Rick 
Snyder and Colbeck by Texas 
Sen. Ted Cruz. 

Democratic candidates on 

the ballot included Whitmer, 
El-Sayed and businessman Shri 
Thanedar. Whitmer won with 
52 percent of the vote, followed 
by El-Sayed with 30.2 percent 
and Thanedar with 17.7 percent.

El-Sayed 
received 

endorsements 
from 
several 

progressives 
during 
his 

campaign, including Vermont 
Sen. Bernie Sanders as well 
as activist Shaun King and new 
Democrat upstart Alexandria 
Ocascio-Cortez. 
El-Sayed 

campaigned 
heavily 
at 
the 

University, holding rallies on 
campus and speaking at the 
Ford School of Public Policy

Thanedar funded much of 

his campaign with his own 
money and polled strongly 
before the election with Black 
voters in Detroit due to key 
endorsements form local radio 
personalities and pastors. 

Whitmer also led in the 

primary polls and was the 
expected 
winner, 
receiving 

endorsements 
from 
Detroit 

Mayor Mike Duggan, former 
Gov. 
Jim 
Blanchard, 
the 

Michigan 
Education 

Association and the United 
Auto Workers. 

“Detroit needs a partner in 

the governor’s office who knows 
how to get things done right 
now, and without a doubt, that 
person is Gretchen Whitmer,” 
Duggan said at the opening 
of 
Whitmer’s 
new 
Detroit 

campaign headquarters.

Whitmer has emphasized 

her substantial experience in 
the government and has said 
she will be the governor to “get 
things done” in Lansing.

“I am the one person who has 

experience in state government 
and 
we’re 
hiring 
someone 

to run our state, to oversee 
our schools and our higher 
education institutions as well 
as our criminal justice system, 
the cleanliness of our water, the 
health care of our citizenry, and 
I think that we need someone 
who knows what they’re doing,” 
Whitmer said in an interview 
with The Daily in July.

Schuette 
is 
focusing 
his 

campaign on jobs, tax cuts and 
giving families a pay raise.

“I want each and every 

citizen to cop a new attitude, 
a 
new 
attitude 
about 
our 

future. 
Michigan 
must 
be 

about big hopes, bold dreams 
and 
boundless 
aspirations,” 

Schuette’s website reads. “We 
must have the attitude that 
there is nothing we cannot 
achieve.”

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Joe Salvatore, director of the Science Learning Center, discusses the power of a growth mindset in the Undergraduate Science Building 
Wednesday evening. 

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The 
building 
project 

was approved by the University 
Board of Regents in 2014 to give the 
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 
Department 
and 
Molecular, 

Cellular 
and 
Developmental 

Biology 
Department 
a 
better 

working space, as the 103-year-
old 
Kraus 
Natural 
Science 

Building was deteriorating. In 
2017, the Museum of Natural 
History announced plans to join 
the EEB and MCDB departments 
in the new building. The BSB 
now also houses the paleontology 
museum faculty and staff. The 
Ruthven building, which formerly 

housed the museum, will be the 
new headquarters for University 
administration 
when 
Fleming 

Building is demolished. 

For post-doctoral student Torey 

Arnold, the building change is 
welcome. Arnold is a cell biologist 
who researches the changing 
cells and tissues of frogs in 
metamorphosis. He appreciated 
the 
building’s 
aesthetics 
and 

convenience.

“It’s made everything more 

efficient, putting everything closer 
together,” Arnold said. “It’s also 
gotten me a better view (from my 
window).”

Engineering junior Weihong 

Chou said he spends time before 
his biology class in the BSB, 
expressing his admiration of the 

building’s design. 

“I really love the glass,” Chou 

said. “I like how clean everything 
looks.”

But the building shift was not 

an enthusiastic transition for 
everyone. Catherine Badgley, an 
EEB professor and researcher 
in the Museum of Paleontology, 
used to teach at the North 
University Building and misses the 
way both NUB and the museum 
allowed her to interact with her 
department.

“I’m not yet convinced that 

the change is positive,” Badgley 
said. “I really enjoyed the way I 
interacted particularly with my 
students in the museum building, 
where I could every day go into a 
lab area, we could meet around a 

big table, discuss informally, we 
could have regular lab meetings, 
we could have lunches, things 
like that. And that’s not possible 
in this building, at least not yet, 
without scheduling a room that 
is sometimes already booked for 
other people’s meetings.”

Badgley said she’s still waiting to 

see how everything turns out and if 
the previous department synergy 
will return. She acknowledged, 
though, while certain things have 
been lost, the building has created 
many 
new 
opportunities 
for 

workspace and research. 

Students and faculty agreed 

the arrival of the BSB will require 
some adjustment. But at least on its 
sleek surface, it’s hard to deny the 
BSB is, as Arnold put it, “cool.” 

that we had to grapple with more 

constructively, more intentionally.”

The bill calls for racial equity 

training for all commissioners 
and members of county boards, 
commissions 
and 
committees. 

Departments will be required to 
create a racial equity plan, but 
plans for evaluation and metrics 
have yet to be determined. 

Smith said he believes the policy 

would help confront the challenge 
of inequity in the county.

“By 
adopting 
this 
office 

this evening by identifying a 
staffing structure and a regular 
commitment to including this in a 
four-year budget, so that it is not a 
flash in the pan — that is going to 
lay a foundation that I believe we 
have badly needed for a long time,” 
Smith said. “Whoever ends up in 
this office certainly has their work 
cut out for them.”

The Racial Equity Office will 

lead the effort to tackle inequity, 
reporting 
directly 
to 
County 

Administrator 
Gregory 
Dill. 

During the public hearing prior to 
the board’s vote, Trevor Bechtel, 

a pastor at Shalom Community 
Church in Ann Arbor, said the 
Racial 
Equity 
Office 
would 

institutionalize the work to reduce 
gaps in resources.

“An office allows the people 

working 
on 
this 
policy 
to 
 

address 
questions 
of 
racial 

equity from inside the system, 
so 
it 
becomes 
a 
systematic 

conversation,” 
Bechtel 
said. 

“Part of addressing a systematic 
question like racism is positioning 
the structure and creating the 
institution that can have that 
conversation.”

Margy 
Long, 
director 

of Washtenaw Success by 6, which 
works to combat the opportunity 
gap faced by children of color and 
low-income children in elementary 
school, spoke up during a public 
comment 
period, 
encouraging 

the commissioners to reach out 
to 
community 
members 
who 

are affected by racism and social 
injustice as they begin enacting the 
equity policy. 

“If we hope to make an impact 

with this policy and this office, I 
hope that it goes much beyond just 
talking to professionals, and you 
really reach out to the people in the 
community,” Long said.

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investigations this year dipping, 
we had another year where it 
dipped. It’s kind of hard to have 
any feelings about a one-year 
data point.”

Rackham 
student 
Nicole 

Bedera is currently conducting 
a dissertation at the University 
on 
how 
various 
academic 

institutions respond to sexual 
misconduct 
cases. 
When 

considering the current OIE 
report, Bedera said the low 
number 
of 
investigations 

compared to the previous year 
could be a result of the increased 
attention to reporting processes 
on behalf of the University. 
She said data collection on the 
claimants’ 
impressions 
after 

interacting with OIE would be 
helpful in determining whether 
or 
not 
the 
new 
reporting 

methodology 
benefits 
the 

claimants.

“It is possible that more 

stringent mandatory reporting 
requirements 
are 
bringing 

more reluctant complainants 
forward 
who 
were 
never 

interested in an investigation 
and 
would 
not 
participate 

should one start,” Bedera wrote 
in an email. “I would like to see 
more information reflecting the 
degree to which those reporting 
sexual misconduct are satisfied 
with their treatment by the 
Office for Institutional Equity.”

The 
report 
breaks 
down 

the total 277 cases into eight 
categories – 148 sexual assault 
concerns, 85 sexual harassment 
claims, 26 stalking claims, 27 
intimate partner violence cases, 
four gender-based harassment 
claims, 
three 
retaliation 

concerns, 
one 
violation 
of 

interim measures and seven 
“other” cases. “Other” cases 
involved prohibited conduct that 
did not explicitly fall under the 
University’s sexual misconduct 
policy. 

When considering the cause 

of why the number of launched 
investigations dipped compared 
to last year, Heatlie pointed 
to data in the report on the 
University’s policy scope and 

the wishes of the claimant. 
The report claims 102 of the 
277 reports brought to the 
University were deemed outside 
of the University policy’s scope, 
meaning 
the 
report 
could 

possibly 
involve 
a 
member 

outside 
of 
the 
University 

community, conduct that isn’t 
technically prohibited by the 
policy, etc.

Out of the 175 cases that 

were deemed inside the scope 
of University policy, 152 of the 
cases were not pursued because 
either the claimant did not 
want an investigation or OIE 
could not identify the claimant. 
Heatlie cites this as the primary 
reason for why there are so many 
reports and so few investigations 
launched. Heatlie said OIE takes 
the claimant’s wishes heavily 
into account when considering 
investigating.

“We would be happy to 

investigate every single report 
that comes into our office but 
our Student Sexual Misconduct 
Policy … has a process that gives 
the claimant the ability to say 
to the institution, ‘I would like 

this investigated’ or ‘I wouldn’t 
like this investigated,’” Heatlie 
said. “We want to respect that 
when possible, when there isn’t, 
for example, a campus safety 
issue that overrides that request 
and so our primary focus when 
handling any report that comes 
into our office is campus safety 
and wellbeing, including the 
well-being of that particular 
claimant.”

Melissa Overton, deputy chief 

of police at the University’s 
Division of Public Safety and 
Security, also spoke about the 
reasons why someone might 
not report a sexual misconduct 
case. According to both Overton 
and Heatlie, DPSS and OIE 
work together on cases when a 
crime has been committed such 
as sexual assault or intimate 
partner violence.

While 
Overton 
said 
she 

expected sexual assault claims 
to increase due to situations 
like the Nassar trial giving 

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