neuroscience,” Booth said in a 
university press release.

LSA 
senior 
Camille 

Phaneuf, 
co-president 
of 

the 
Neuroscience 
Student 

Association, 
chose 
her 

major because much about the 
brain is yet to be uncovered, 
and is excited about the new 
program.

“I 
decided 
to 
study 

neuroscience because the brain 
is a gelatinous blob that semi-
floats between our ears, yet it 

somehow manages 
to 

control our every thought, 
action and emotion,” Phaneuf 
said. “Despite all of humans’ 
powerful 
metacognitive 

abilities, 
we 
actually 

understand so little about 
the organ that makes these 
capacities possible.”

In order to complete the 

University’s new certificate, 
students must finish nine 
graduate 
credit 
hours 

in 
approved 
core 
and 

interdisciplinary 
courses, 

by 7 to 1 Democratic dominance. 
However, the board has had an 
almost uninterrupted Democratic 
majority since the 1950s.

Despite 
this 
consistent 

ideological presence, the board’s 
work is largely nonpartisan and 
focuses on various challenges 
facing 
the 
University 
rather 

than ideologically acrimonious 
issues. According to University 
Regent Ron Weiser (R), the 
board’s working style is mostly 
harmonious and united.

“The board is not ideological 

in nature; at least that’s what I’ve 
found up to now,” Weiser said. “I 
believe everyone there is looking 
at a focus on the University and 
what’s best for it and the students 
at the University, for its long-term 
future. And I don’t think that 
partisan politics are at play; at 
least I have not experienced that 
in my two years.”

Weiser, who was first elected in 

2016, will be the chair of the board 
and the board’s only Republican. 
He has established productive 
individual working relationships 
with the current members of the 
board and doesn’t see partisan 
obstacles in the future.

University 
President 
Mark 

Schlissel, 
who 
sits 
on 
the 

board as a non-voting member, 
echoed 
these 
comments 
in 

an interview with The Michigan 
Daily earlier this month.

“Rarely do partisan issues 

show up in discussions by the 
board,” Schlissel said. “They’re 
responsible for supervising me 
and then general oversight of the 
University, and there are way 
more similarities than there are 
differences between the members 
of different parties … With two 
new people (Acker and Brown), 
that’s a quarter of the group that’s 
different, so there’s a whole new 
dynamic. And people come in 
with their own background and 
the issues they care about … but I 
wouldn’t parse those things into 
Democrat or Republican.”

Though the work on the board 

is 
supposedly 
non-partisan, 

Public Policy junior Katie Kelly, 
the communications director of 
the University’s chapter of College 
Democrats, said she still sees value 
in the partisan elections. She said 
party identification signals that 
candidates hold certain views on 
governance.

“It shows the real values that 

that person has,” Kelly said. “With 
the extreme divides that have 
come between the Democratic 
and Republican parties, it has 
become easier to see what a 
politician values based on their 
party. So for us in College Dems 
— we knew that Jordan Acker 
and Paul Brown shared the same 
values as us.”

The College Democrats spent 

time working with Brown and 
Acker, who attended several 
meetings of the organization 
this semester as well as their 
“election eve” party. Kelly said the 
College Democrats considered 
this midterm to be especially 
important, 
and 
members 

emphasized the importance 
of down-ballot elections, 
such as those for the 
Board of Regents, in their 
advocacy. They focused on 
the Board of Regents more 
than 
other 
down-ballot 

elections because of how 
directly 
the 
candidates 

affect 
the 
lives 
and 

educations of University 
students.

The University’s chapter of 

College Republicans similarly 
campaigned for Richner and 
Newman. 
LSA 
sophomore 

Dylan Berger, president of the 
University’s chapter of College 
Republicans, said the College 
Republicans 
supported 
the 

candidates 
because 
of 
their 

specific policy positions.

“We supported both (Richner 

and Newman) because they 
supported fiscal responsibility 
and free speech on campus, not 
because of their party affiliation,” 
Berger 
wrote 
in 
an 
email 

interview. “Going forward, we 
are committed to working with 
all Regents, regardless of political 
affiliation, to advance freedom of 
speech on campus.”

Where the regents do differ, 

the differences tend to be more 
pronounced in what policy issues 
they focus on rather than their 
place on the partisan spectrum. 
Nonetheless, Weiser expressed 
firm confidence in the capability 
of the board to work effectively in 
the future.

“I don’t see anything that’s 

going to change based on the 
things that we’re working on, 
which are really about what’s 
best for our customers, which are 
the students, and for our faculty, 
staff, and for the University’s 
future,” Weiser said. “We have a 
responsibility of general oversight 
— especially financial oversight — 
and I think that doesn’t change.” 

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NEUROLOGY
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TUESDAY:
By Design 

THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Behind the Story

WEDNESDAY:

This Week in History 

MONDAY:

Looking at the Numbers

On Thursday, the University of Michigan Board of 

Regents said goodbye to two regents.
Andrea Newman 
and 

Andrew Richner

 were both unseated on Nov. 6, after
serving 24 and 16 years on the board, respectively.

LSA seniors Amanda Burcroff and Noah McNeal won the 
Marshall Scholarship, becoming the University’s 
8th and 9th winners

The Marshall Scholarship provides up to 50 students from across the United 
States full funding to study at any U.K. institution in any field. This year’s
 48 scholars were chosen from a pool of 

 1,000 applicants.

According to recent tests, groundwater 
collected from storm sewers in Ann 
Arbor’s West Park was found to have 

19 parts per billion 
of 1,4-Dioxane, 
a synthetic chemical used in paint 
strippers and dyes. Since 
exposure to large amounts of 
the toxin can cause kidney and
liver damage, as well as respiratory 
issues, the state lowered the 
acceptable amount of the toxin from

85 to 7.2 parts per 
billion in 2016.

 

 

 garnered large amounts of controversy. While the 

 city has not release the specifics for this cull, in the 

third annual cull this past January, hunters

hunters killed 115 deer in 

over three weeks

As January approaches, Ann Arbor prepares to enter 

 its fourth and final deer cull, which has 
According to the Lecturers’ Employee Organization 
community forum, faculty at U-M Flint and U-M 
Dearborn are paid 21-51% less than 

U-M Ann Arbor faculty for 

U-M Ann 
Arbor has a $10.9 
billion endowment
U-M Flint has a 
$96 million 
endowment.

30-50% more hours

 The difference stems partly from the 
disparity in the campuses’ endowments. 

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