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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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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