At
the
intersection
of
Washtenaw Avenue and Hill
Street, where the University
of Michigan’s iconic painted
Rock resides, residents have
reported many dangerous car
accidents that put drivers and
pedestrians at risk.
Michigan
Traffic
Crash
Facts, a tool developed by the
University, compiles queries
of
accident
information
across the state of Michigan.
According to MTCF, there
were 245 crashes within 150
feet of the intersection of
Washtenaw and Hill from
2008 to 2017, and 41 of those
crashes were in 2017 alone. In
fact, the number of crashes
almost doubled from 2016 to
2017 with 25 crashes reported
in 2016. Information about
2018 has yet to be synthesized.
Residents suspect the high
frequency of accidents can be
attributed to the sloping road,
illegal left turns and the high
speed limit –– 45 miles per
hour.
Holde Dorcherts, a retired
University
of
Michigan
library researcher, has lived in
a house at this intersection for
the last 39 years. She claims
accidents
have
increased
since she and her husband
have moved into the house.
“I’m saying that for the
last 39 years, Ann Arbor
has increased in size. It’s
becoming a city instead of a
cute little town, and we have
enormous traffic coming into
town –– thousands of cars,”
she said. “This intersection is
poorly designed. It was fine
50 to 100 years ago, but now
it is a major server into town.
Because of this increase in
population and traffic we
have a lot more accidents
here, but the intersection
design has not changed.”
Dorcherts said it is not an
uncommon
occurrence
to
hear an accident across the
street shortly followed by the
sirens of an ambulance.
“We built over the years a
pretty solid hedge, and that
hedge takes so much abuse
at that corner,” she said. “It
doesn’t matter what we plant,
it gets demolished from cars.”
A similar event happened
to resident Chad Brummett,
a professor of anesthesiology
at the Medical School, when
his iron-rod fence was split in
half by an automobile accident
a few weeks ago. Brummett
said he was shocked by the
sheer force needed to dent the
fence, let alone break it.
“We’ve lived in this house
for almost nine years. We see
accidents there all the time,”
Brummett said.
When the new University of
Michigan’s
Board
of
Regents
convenes in 2019, it will have seven
Democrats and just one Republican,
the result of two new Democratic
members, Jordan Acker and Paul
Brown, replacing two current
Republican
members,
Andrew
Richner
and
Andrea
Fischer
Newman. This will shift the
ideological balance of the board
to the furthest left it has been in
several decades.
The board has been comprised
of eight officials elected statewide
since
1852.
Members
were
initially mostly nonpartisan but
increasingly identified with one
of the major political parties. By
the early 20th century, nearly all
members of the board had political
affiliations. Since this period, such
partisan dominance that will be
present next year has rarely been
seen.
There were several brief periods
of Republican dominance, but
since the emergence of the modern
party system, there have been only
two such periods, from 1967 to 1968
and from 1975 to 1984, both marked
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Crashes at intersection of Washtenaw
and Hill concern residents, students
Former students allege 40 years of
misconduct by SMTD professor
Residents suspect that the sloping road and high speed limit play a role
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Daily Staff Reporter
10 in a row
Michigan improved to
10-0 after defeating South
Carolina in a high-scoring,
offensive shootout on
Saturday.
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The University of Michigan
approved
a
new
Graduate
Certificate
in
Computational
Neuroscience,
which
will
be
jointly
administered
by
the
Neuroscience Graduate Program
and
the
Michigan
Institute
for
Computational
Discovery
and
Engineering.
According
to its website, the program is
“U-M’s response to the increasing
prevalence
and
need
for
quantitatively trained researchers
in neuroscience.”
To apply for the program,
students must be enrolled in a
graduate degree program at the
University.
Though
enrollment
for the certificate has not yet
opened, the program is planning
informational sessions for early
2019. Victoria Booth, professor
of mathematics and associate
professor of anesthesiology, will
oversee the program.
“The broad, practical training
provided
in
this
certificate
program will help prepare both
quantitatively focused and lab-
based students for the increasingly
cross-disciplinary job market in
See NEUROLOGY, Page 2A
‘U’ creates
new Neuro
graduate
certificate
RESEARCH
The program plans to
begin informational
sessions in early 2019
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Daily Staff Reporter
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The University of Michigan hired
Stephen Shipps as an associate
professor of music on Sept. 1, 1989.
Since then, he has had a successful
academic career at the University.
From 2001 to 2004, he served on
the Executive Committee of the
School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
From 2002 to 2007, he served as
the associate dean for academic
affairs. He is currently the chair of
strings and the faculty director of
the Strings Preparatory Academy,
a university-affiliated pre-college
music program for local middle and
high school students.
A Michigan Daily investigation
unearthed previously undisclosed
allegations of sexual harassment and
sexual misconduct against Shipps.
These reports span nearly 40 years,
from Fall 1978 to a University-
affiliated
summer
program
in
the last five years. They include
accusations of unwanted touching,
sexual assault, prolonged sexual
relationships with teenage students,
and misogynistic and sexist verbal
statements.
Shipps declined to comment for
this article. His lawyer, David Nacht,
also declined to comment.
The Daily also found reports that
at least one faculty member in the
Music, Theatre & Dance school, Prof.
Yizhak Schotten, was made aware
of some of these allegations soon
after Shipps’s hiring was announced
and before he started teaching. It is
unclear whether he communicated
these concerns to the University at
the time, or if the University has ever
been made aware of these concerns.
***
Shipps taught at the University of
North Carolina School of the Arts —
known then as the North Carolina
School of the Arts before a 2008
name change — prior to coming to
the University of Michigan. The
Daily spoke with a former North
Carolina School of the Arts college
student, who wished to remain
anonymous, citing professional and
privacy
concerns.
She
currently
serves as the associate principal
second (the second-ranked member
of the second violin section) in a
full-time professional orchestra. In
this article, she will be referred to as
Meghan.
SAMMY SUSSMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
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