the conduct of Ann Arbor police officers and investigate complaints from city residents, but concerns arose about the legality of certain provisions in relation to the city charter and the police department’s collective bargaining agreement. Kailasapathy, who co-sponsored the task force’s ordinance, said the process surrounding the formation of citizen task force’s proposal was the most democratic she had seen in her six years on City Council. “I’m really proud to bring this up because this is yours,” Kailasapathy said to supporters in attendance Monday evening. “It’s what the residents have told us,” adding the ordinance was “not anti-police,” but rather “pro-safety.” While the mayor’s proposal and the task force’s ordinance both preserved anonymity for complainants and clarified that no city councilmember or active duty police officer will sit on the oversight board, Taylor’s differed in its appointment of independent counsel and provisions regarding concurrent investigations by the board and the Ann Arbor Police Department. The mayor’s proposal diverged from the vision of the citizen task force in giving the mayor more power over the appointment process as well. In Taylor’s version, the mayor would be responsible for appointing members to the oversight board, while the citizen task force proposed the oversight board itself and the Human Rights Commission should create a list of possible members that would be appointed by City Council. While the citizen task force sought to award the oversight board subpoena power, a memo from City Attorney Stephen K. Postema noted “significant legal issues with subpoenaing residents of the City, City employees, or police officers” because the city charter does not grant City Council subpoena power. Postema maintained Council’s lack of subpoena power implies its power to the commission is questionable. Additionally, Postema’s memo cast doubt on the the commission’s ability to retain independent counsel, an issue that led to worries of conflicts of interest during the September work session. The memo stated a commission created by City Council “has no authority to contract with outside legal counsel on its own.” The Police Officers Association of Michigan sent a letter to Taylor opposing the citizen task force’s ordinance, calling the “blatant lack of trust” for the AAPD “unconscionable.” POAM did so in an effort to “protect Ann Arbor police officers from the venom which this proposed ordinance spews,” saying, “The proposed ordinance lacks moral justification and lacks legal authority.” The ordinance introduced by Taylor will move forward to a second reading at the City Council meeting on Oct. 15. five municipalities and sorts through the trash generated by the University. According to Tracy Artley, waste reduction and recycling program manager for the Office of Campus Sustainability, recycling on the institutional level has had increased standards and thus requires education and consistency. “Manufacturers have a lower and lower tolerance for contamination — for non- recyclables ending up in there,” Artley said. “That’s a cost to them, they have to sort those out, and if they missed it, it could ruin the whole batch of what they’re recycling. Unfortunately, some people do what we call wish-cycling, where they put things in the recycling bin hoping that because they put it there, it’ll get recycled.” Because of the University’s close relationship with WWRA, consistent communication allows the Office of Campus Sustainability to be notified if a batch is contaminated, and they can subsequently trace the bin back to a certain building or department. This way, the office is able to directly address consistent recycling errors at certain buildings. Artley also explained how economic factors weigh heavily on the lack of recycling for paper products, especially coffee cups. “Recycling is this great environmental effort, but at heart, it’s an economic effort,” she said. “When we recycle things, they get sorted out and set out for recycling. They are being recycled for purchasing by a manufacturer who wants to make something new out of that. With coffee cups, there’s no company, at least around the state, that wants these paper coffee cups.” said earlier in September. “We’re continuing to study our current procedures … The idea is to continuously improve in this really important area, so there will be more to come in the months ahead on what we can do to diminish the frequency of misconduct on our campus.” The training was born out of the Working Group on Faculty and Staff Sexual Misconduct, a committee which investigated current University policy and published findings. The committee was co-chaired by Laurita Thomas, associate vice president for Human Resources, and former U-M Dearborn Chancellor Daniel Little. The committee’s published recommendations included mandatory faculty programming, as the University previously required only newly hired staff to undergo such training. Proposed modules in the training include topics of institutional commitment, principles and values and behavior expectations. The University’s annual sexual misconduct report released in September reported data from only student misconduct filings. An independent crowd- sourced database of sexual misconduct in academia, however, called the “whisper network” attracted attention last winter with a log of more than a dozen incidents of sexual assault, harassment and rape perpetrated by University faculty members. American Culture Professor Lisa Nakamura welcomed the trainings, predicting they would certainly raise awareness of protocols among faculty, but expressed reservations about the long- term efficacy of the online course. The Michigan Daily — www.michigandaily.com News Tuesday, October 2, 2018 — 3 TRAINING From Page 1 SHAT TERING THE SILENCE SARAH KUNKEL/Daily Saline High School student Zaynab Elkolaly shows her support for political activism against gun violence at the Shattering the Silence Rally on the Diag Monday. finding funding for humanities research is generally difficult, especially from sources not associated with the University. Noting a funding disparity between humanities and natural science research, Crisostomo said he’s found the most success receiving grants for humanities projects with computational aspects, like his contributions to an online database of translated texts. “The digital humanities almost is a way of making the humanities seem more scientific,” Crisostomo said. “Funding bodies are looking more at these projects rather than what have been the traditional humanities projects, such as translations of texts or analyses of texts or people groups, things like that.” According to the University’s 2017 Annual Report on Research, the majority of research expenditures go toward projects in the natural sciences and technology. The School of Medicine topped research expenditures last year, taking up 41 percent of all research costs, followed by the College of Engineering at 17 percent. Only 13 percent of research expenditures were attributed to LSA, the largest college by population at the University. Several key sources of income fund research at the University. Of the $1.48 billion spent on research in 2017, 56 percent was funded by the federal government, mostly in the form of grants provided by agencies such as National Institute of Health and NASA. Funds from non-federal sources, such as industry sponsors, comprised 11 percent of research expenditures. Internal funds, generated by tuition, gifts and state support, made up 33 percent. Sara Blair, vice provost for Academic and Faculty Affairs, said though University faculty have been successful in earning humanities research awards relative to other universities, external funding for the humanities is generally limited. “One really important fact about funding for research in the humanities and humanistic social sciences, more broadly, is that the amount of funding available externally is regrettably minimal,” Blair said. “Especially compared with other disciplinary areas, there just are not robust opportunities for faculty to apply, particularly for longer-term, larger-scale research projects.” Heather Offhaus, director of Grant Review and Analysis for the Medical School Office of Research, noted there is some practical basis for the funding disparity. She said one reason medical research dominates total expenditures at the University is the school’s large faculty size, leading to a higher volume of research. “The schools and colleges are arranged by where faculty are employed and tenured, and we have a very large engine,” Offhaus said. “The three largest schools on campus are the Medical School, Engineering and LSA.” Offhaus added scientific research is often more costly than research in the humanities or arts, thus requiring larger grants. “Compared to LSA, medical research is far more expensive, and so we’re applying to sponsors that are prepared to cover the cost of the research or part of the cost of the research and so those tend to be larger awards than, say, in LSA,” Offhaus said. “Engineering is a little more like we are in terms of size and scope of awards.” Though Crisostomo acknowledged science and technology research can be costlier in terms of personnel and equipment, he also attributed the funding gap to a lack of appreciation for the humanities. According to Crisostomo, the humanities are often seen as purely academic, luxury fields of study, whereas the natural sciences are considered to have more realistic applicability. “There is a tendency for the natural sciences to be more easily understandable as somewhat practical research,” Crisostomo said. “You think about the projects at U of M such as automated driving that led to a lot of attention, and you see how that’s practical outside of academia.” Crisostomo said he strongly believes in the value of humanities research, because it builds empathy and promotes the careful consumption of media. He added humanities scholars, especially those who study the past, are able to piece together fragmentary information to better understand historical events, a skill that translates to modern politics and global issues. In applying for grants from funding agencies, Crisostomo said, humanities researchers must make a strong case for the validity and value of their work. “We have to make the case, whereas for some natural sciences it’s more assumed, it’s a default thing that they’re really applicable,” Crisostomo said. “It’s not as obvious a case for the humanities.” In spite of his difficulty finding external funding, Crisostomo said he has noticed the University’s efforts to direct more internal funds toward the humanities. “One of the good things that I’ve seen here at the U of M is recently there has been more of a push for getting some humanities funding,” Crisostomo said. “For example, I know that the college of LSA has increased the amount for the startup package, that is the amount of money given to incoming professors to get their projects going, and that includes the humanities, that includes social sciences.” Amy Dittmar, vice provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs, said the University tries to compensate for the lack of external funding by supporting humanities research with internal funds, such as initiatives like the Institute for the Humanities and Humanities Collaboratory. In 2017, the humanities, arts and social sciences received a combined 56 percent of grants and awards distributed by the Office of Research. “We really are mindful in making sure that there are available resources for all of our faculty to do research, and some of those areas naturally have external funding and some of with the response of the community. Barabino and Cortina discussed how women and members of other underrepresented groups have to brush off instances of gender harassment. “You may brush it off, say that was just today,” Barabino said. “Well, it was today, it was yesterday, it’s coming tomorrow, and it doesn’t get seen.” University administrators are currently working to reduce harassment and misconduct among faculty. As of last month, faculty members will be required to undergo sexual misconduct training following reccomendations from a staff and faculty working group. While the University’s student sexual misconuduct policy is subject to regular reviews and revisions, similar guidelines do not exist for the Standard Practice Guide that governs faculty and staff misconduct. In response to a question asking how it is possible to survey sexual harassment, Cortina said because of this issue, they do not ask respondents point blank whether they have experienced sexual harassment or not. “When we survey people, we try to avoid all these terms entirely,” Cortina said. “We ask about specifically defined behaviors because people have such different understandings for what sexual harassment means, what it means to be sexually harassed. And oftentimes what you actually find is that people will say yes to a whole list of behaviors, and all these behaviors are examples of sexual harassment conduct. 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