In honor of Veterans Day,
the Ford School of Public
Policy at the University of
Michigan hosted a panel event
Monday night to discuss the
implications of public policy
for veterans. The panel, titled
“The U.S. at ‘Endless War’:
Public
Policy
and
Those
Who Serve,” featured three
veterans and was moderated
by associate professor Luke
Shaefer, director of Poverty
Solutions. The event followed
the
University’s
Veterans
Week, a week-long series
of events intending to honor
former
members
of
the
military.
In front of an audience
of
about
100
students,
faculty
and
Ann
Arbor
residents, Shaefer directed
The San Francisco Opera
has dropped David Daniels,
professor at the University
of Michigan School of Music,
Theatre & Dance and a world-
renowned
countertenor
singer,
from
their
2019
production of “Orlando” amid
sexual assault allegations and
lawsuit filed by a student at
the University against him.
The
opera
cited
business
and
professional
reasons
for letting go of Daniels in
their press release announced
last Thursday.
The
release
stated
the
decision was made “after
considerable
deliberation
given the serious allegations
of sexual assault, an ongoing
police investigation and a
lawsuit
filed
against
the
American opera singer.”
“While
these
situations
remain under investigation,
San Francisco Opera is unable
to present the artist on the
War Memorial Opera House
stage,” the release read.
Daniels
also
had
a
performance from the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra pulled
shortly after the lawsuit was
filed in October 2018.
The
allegations
began
in March 2018, when an
anonymous student reported
Daniels’s
solicitation
for
sexual favors on Grindr. The
student filed a complaint with
the Office of Institutional
Equity two days later. In July
2018, baritone singer Samuel
Schultz accused Daniels and
Daniels’s
husband,
Scott
Walters, of a sexual assault
that allegedly occurred in
2010. Music, Theatre & Dance
senior
Samuel
Kidd
then
reported a solicitation from
Daniels on Grindr later in
July. In October 2018, Music,
Theatre & Dance student
Andrew Lipian filed a lawsuit
accusing Daniels of sexually
assaulting
him
earlier
in
March 2017.
After the reports of Grindr
solicitation were first made
to OIE, Daniels still made
tenure at the University in
May 2018 despite a brief OIE
inquiry. Daniels has been on
leave since August, and the
University’s
actions
have
been in question because of
their knowledge of multiple
reports since July. He is
currently under investigation.
Lipian’s
lawsuit
alleges
that on March 24, 2017,
Daniels
invited
Lipian
to
his apartment to watch TV
and discuss his career, and
then drugged and assaulted
Lipian. Lipian reported not
being contacted by OIE for
a
University
investigation.
Lipian’s lawsuit also accuses
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Students turn to ‘U’, third parties
for scheduling assistance tools
COURSICLE
ART 2.0
50%
of UM students use it
UNC Chapel Hill
of students use it
Factor 3 increase
from last year
80%
MOLLY WU/Daily
To make scheduling easy, students look for grade distributions, calendar apps
As the winter semester at
the University of Michigan
draws
near,
students
have
begun scheduling, turning to
course registration tools to help
plan their upcoming semester.
One of these newest resources
students have begun utilizing
is Coursicle, which works with
students to create a schedule
for the upcoming term by
allowing instant class filtering,
visual schedule planning and
notifying them when seats
open up in a certain class. At
the University, Coursicle has
recently gained traction with
about
500
current
student
users.
Co-founder
Joe
Puccio
created Coursicle during his
freshman year at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill after struggling to register
for courses he needed. He
explained how the frustration
of planning out which classes to
take and then not getting all the
ones he needed inspired him to
write the program in 2012.
“When I was an incoming
freshman at UNC Chapel Hill,
I spent 7 hours trying to plan
my class schedule,” Puccio
said. “Then finally when I went
to actually register for those
classes I only got to one out of
the 5 that I needed to take. That
night I started working on a
program that would notify me
when a class I wanted had an
open seat and one of my friends
suggested opening it up to other
students, so we did that and it
started growing really quickly.”
Coursicle
was
unique
to
UNC-Chapel
Hill
for
its
first three years but began
expanding to other schools
by late 2015. During its first
semester, Puccio said the tool
had 900 users and by the next
semester, the total doubled
to 1,800 users. UNC-Chapel
Hill offered its support to
Coursicle and after becoming
partnered with the Information
Technology Department, nearly
80 percent of students use it to
plan their class schedule. Puccio
explained the Coursicle team
was encouraged to branch out
to different universities after
receiving emails and Facebook
messages from students across
the country.
“Originally we were just at
UNC, so we only had UNC’s
classes on Coursicle, but we
had
started
getting
some
emails from other students and
FB messages at other schools
asking if we could add support
for
other
schools,”
Puccio
said. “So we started playing
around with that idea and then
at the end of 2015 we started
expanding to other schools.”
LSA
senior
Diego
Rojas
Salvador’s Facebook message
caused
the
Coursicle
team
to look into expanding to
the
University
specifically.
He said he reached out to
AMARA SHAIKH
Daily Staff Reporter
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Opera drops
SMTD prof.
accused of
sex assault
ACADEMICS
David Daniels removed from San Francisco Opera
show after ‘U’ student files sexual assault lawsuit
CATHERINE NOUHAN
Daily Staff Reporter
NATALIE STEPHENS/Daily
Troy Nienberg, legislative director for U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., Heath Bergmann, Public Policy graduate student, Chemistry chief administrator Jan
Malaikal, and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel sit at a panel moderated by Luke Shaefer at the U.S. at “Endless War”: Public Policy and Those Who Serve
event at Ford Monday evening.
Veterans panel talks stigma around
PTSD, public policy support systems
The panel, hosted by the Ford School, drew a crowd of around 100 students, faculty
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For the Daily
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In college, students are finding
apps for anything — deals on
food, study tools and more. But
as technology starts reaching
younger audiences, advertisers
have begun tapping into the
new mobile market, resulting
in what University researchers
say is harmful exposure. Mobile
applications
geared
toward
children
contain
significant
disruptive, often inappropriate,
advertising content, University
of Michigan researcher Jenny
The
Senate
Advisory
Committee on University Affairs
at the University of Michigan met
on Monday afternoon to elect an
interim officer to the assembly, as
well as discuss issues of attendance
and the consideration of electronic
participation in the future.
Ravi Pendse, vice president for
information technology and chief
information officer, spoke to the
assembly about the need for better
communication between SACUA
members and University faculty
Study finds
concerning
ads in apps
for youths
VP Pendse
talks tech
in classes
at SACUA
RESEARCH
ACADEMICS
95 percent of apps for
children age 5 and under
contain advertisements
David Potter re-elected
as Faculty Senate Sec.
at weekly SACUA meeting
REMY FARKAS
Daily Staff Reporter
DANIELLE PASEKOFF
Daily Staff Reporter
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