In October, Daley discov-
ered the Michigan Union 
and Office of Procurement 
have begun the process of 
accepting bids for vendors. 
Daley said she was concerned 
because of the Union’s lack of 
transparency regarding the 
bids.
Kim Broekhuizen, Univer-
sity Public Affairs spokes-
woman, 
described 
the 
bidding process, which last-
ed from Oct. 24 to Dec. 31. 
Broekhuizen expects final 
selections to be made “soon”.
“The University is engaged 
in a competitive bid process 
for thee spots in the Michigan 
Union for fast food-casual 
restaurants,” the Broekhui-
zen wrote. “A team comprised 
of U-M students as well as 
employees from Procurement 
Services, University Unions 
and Auxiliary Services is cur-
rently evaluating the bids and 
will likely make selections 
for the three spots in the next 
few months.”
Daley said she wants more 
information and greater stu-
dent involvement in the proj-
ect.
“It is a completely hid-
den process,” Daley said. “So 
there is no feedback being 
accepted from the commu-
nity or students so it is very 
difficult to tell people what 
you think; they won’t even 
tell anybody if Wendy’s sub-
mitted a bid.”
Daley 
emphasized 
the 
importance 
of 
community 
interaction in deciding which 
organizations 
should 
be 
placed in the building.
“The 
Union 
is 
going 
through this bidding process 
with no mechanism of getting 
feedback,” Daley said. “And 
also not communicating with 
most of the student body and 
most of the community about 
which corporations to work 
with to sell students things 
and sell people things in the 

Union.”
The Michigan Union Board 
of Representatives is a stu-
dent organization working 
with Union administrators 
consulting on various aspects 
of the renovation. One of the 
students sits on the Selection 
Committee for the vendors, 
but the members of the com-
mittee are not known.
“At least one of these stu-
dents sit on this board, but I 
don’t think this is an accurate 
representation of the student 
body and the community,” 
Daley said.
Daley 
emphasized 
the 
importance of student voices 
speaking out against Wendy’s 
coming to U-M.
“We are basically trying 
to pressure this corporation 
who has a lot of power in the 
amount of money they spend 
on produce to be able to put 
pressure to make working 
conditions for farmworkers 
in the United state better,” 
Daley said.
Daley said the community 
cannot know who submit-
ted bids by the Dec. 31 dead-
line without submitting a 
Freedom Of Information Act 
request. The organization has 
made a motion to the Michi-
gan Board of Representatives 
and is working with CSG to 
create a resolution to ban 
Wendy’s from campus.
With the University as one 
of the largest employers in 
Michigan, the University’s 
actions can impact every 
resident. As a result, Daley 
said, the decision of vendors 
should be chosen transpar-
ently with community feed-
back.
“Students spend thousands 
of dollars on tuition and if 
the University is going to be 
making money on vendors in 
the basement of the Union, 
then members of the commu-
nity and the Michigan Family 
should have a say in what goes 
there.” Daley said. “(Vendors) 
should fall in line with our 
values as a community and to 
not have that ability to share 

or even comment or provide 
feedback at all, is not trans-
parent and I think that’s real-
ly problematic because the 
power the University holds 
over the community.”
Rather than signing on 
to the Fair Food Program, 
Wendy’s has created their 
own code of conduct meant 
to be equal to the Fair Food 
Program. According to Daley, 
this code is not mandatory 
and only suggested in the 
United States and Canada.
“Wendy’s still purchases 
some amount of tomatoes 
from Mexico and there is 
no legal ground for them to 
enforce any of their code of 
conduct,” Daley said. “There 
are reports every year to 
show the changes that have 
been made in the field based 
on the program and there 
isn’t anything that Wendy’s 
has provided at all about 
their non-mandatory code of 
conduct.”
In response to The Daily, 
Wendy’s communication rep-
resentative 
Heidi 
Schauer 
released a statement say-
ing the former restaurant on 
campus was independently 
owned and will not be renew-
ing their lease.

“The Wendy’s restaurant 
on campus was indepen-
dently owned and operated 
by a franchisee,” the Schauer 
wrote. “As a brand we were 
happy to have been part of the 
University of Michigan com-
munity, but I understand that 
our franchisee’s lease expired 
when the school remodeled 
the building in which the res-
taurant was housed, and they 
made the decision not to pur-
sue a new lease.”
Schauer emphasized the 
company’s commitment to 
responsible business prac-
tices.
“We will continue to work 
to bring greater transparency 
to our supply chain practices 
and only the best, highest 
quality products to our cus-
tomers.”

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The University ceased all non-emergency operations until 7 a.m. Friday, leaving the campus empty 
and deserted.

There’s just a lack 
of understanding 
that everybody 
needs to play a role 
in helping people, 
making sure that 
everyone is safe.

Under the interim policy, students 
wishing to resolve cases of sexual 
misconduct have two options: tradi-
tional investigative resolution, which 
involves now an in-person hearing, 
or adaptable resolution. An adapt-
able resolution must be voluntary 
on part of both the claimant and the 
respondent and must be approved by 
the Title IX coordinator. If the case is 
successfully resolved, the respondent 
does not incur a disciplinary record.
In an email to the Daily, Erik Wes-
sel, director of the Office of Student 
Conflict Resolution, explained how 
contrary to longstanding mispercep-
tions, adaptable resolution is not the 
same as mediation.
“In fact, what is now described 
as adaptable resolution (formerly 
alternative resolution) is both a philo-
sophical framing which seeks to hold 
accountable those creating harm and 
support the process for repairing 
harm and a spectrum of voluntary 
resolution options that are focused 
on meeting needs and repairing 
harm,” Wessel wrote.
Adaptable resolution has been 
available under the SSMP since the 
August 2013 iteration of the policy, 
but it has been referred to in policies 
prior to 2019 as “alternative resolu-
tion” and “informal resolution”. One 
goal of the 2019 interim policy is to 
establish the title of the resolution as 
“adaptable resolution”.
According to Wessel, the 2019 
interim policy also seeks to more 
explicitly describe the types of 

options available under adaptable 
resolution. These options, which 
have remained the same since 2013, 
include various mediation methods 
with a trained adaptable resolution 
coordinator.
Facilitated dialogues and restor-
ative circles are facilitated in-per-
son conversations between those 
involved in which parties share 
their perspective and work toward 
a shared agreement. Alternatively, 
shuttle negotiation does not require 
direct interaction between par-
ties; instead, parties negotiate an 
agreement by meeting individually 
with the coordinator. The circle of 
accountability focuses on support 
and education of the respondent 
when the respondent has assumed 
responsibility for repairing harm and 
does not require the participation of 
the claimant.
According to Dana Elger in an 
email to The Daily, the University’s 
Public Affairs representative for 
sexual misconduct, the new 2019 
interim policy is the latest in a series 
of revisions. The 2013 policy origi-
nally prohibited the use of adaptable 
resolution, then called informal reso-
lution, in any sexual assault cases. 
Informal resolution was first broad-
ened by the 2016 policy, which used 
the term alternative resolution and 
specifically barred mediation in any 
sexual assault case.
“(The 2016 SSMP) did not specifi-
cally state that alternative resolution 
other than mediation was not avail-
able in any sexual assault cases, but 
that was our practice and I believe 
the language from that policy could 
be and often was reasonably inter-
preted that way,” Elger wrote.

Adaptable resolution was further 
revised in the February 2018 SSMP, 
which only prohibited use of media-
tion in respect to penetrative sexual 
assault. The newest January 2019 
iteration fully expanded the pathway, 
allowing for the use of any adaptable 
resolution method on any sexual 
misconduct case, regardless of the 
nature of conflict alleged.
Public Policy senior Allison Berry 
is a Sexual Assault Prevention and 
Awareness Center volunteer who 
studies sexual violence preven-
tion policy. According to Berry, the 
expansion of adaptable resolution is 
a positive change, as it offers more 
options to survivors.
“I think (adaptable resolution) 
allows the opportunity for the survi-
vor to ask for what they need,” Berry 
said. “It shows that the University 
wants to provide claimants with the 
resources and the support that they 
want. … It’s opening the door for all 
different kinds of survivors who have 
unique needs to have their needs met 
by the University.”
Similarly, 
Engineering 
senior 
Courtney Burns, a SAPAC volunteer 
and Sexperteam education chair, 
said adaptable resolutions could 
empower survivors in ways investi-
gative resolutions sometimes cannot.
“The adaptable resolution process 
allows the survivor to have more 
agency to decide how they want 
their case resolved,” Burns said. “It 
is a welcome step forward in the pro-
cess of enabling survivors of sexual 
violence to feel empowered. A lot of 
the adaptable resolution pathway is 
enabling a conversation between the 
claimant and the respondent where 
the respondent learns and assumes 

responsibility for their actions. … 
That can provide a form of closure 
that the investigative process per-
haps cannot as oftentimes those 
processes are not successful in the 
claimant’s favor.”
By providing more resolution 
options, University President Mark 
Schlissel said in an interview with 
The Daily earlier this month that the 
University hopes more students will 
be encouraged to report sexual mis-
conduct.
“The hope is by providing the sec-
ond pathway, students who did not 
want to come forward and expose 
themselves to a hearing might come 
forward and say, ‘Yeah, I’d like to 
consider this other way of getting 
justice here,’ a more negotiated way 
to get justice,” Schlissel said. “By 
offering that as an option, we’ll get 
more students to step forward and 
ask for help.”
According to Kaaren Williamsen 
in an email to The Daily, director of 
SAPAC, revisions of the policy were 
motivated by student feedback.
“Student requests for adaptable 
resolution also influenced the expan-
sion of the policy,” Williamsen wrote. 
“We know that not all survivors 
want to initiate an investigation and 
adjudication process, but do want 
some assistance in addressing what 
happened to them. The policy now 
allows for more survivors to request 
assistance and intervention beyond 
an investigation and hearing.”
Since its implementation in 2013, 
adaptable resolution has only been 
used in two cases out of the 580 total 
cases from July 2013 to June 2018 
deemed to fall under the scope of the 
SSMP. According to KC Johnson, 

Brooklyn College history professor, 
one reason behind this statistic may 
be bureaucratic.
“Certainly you can infer from 
those figures that Title IX bureau-
cracy at Michigan is not encouraging 
students to pursue this alternative 
pathway,” Johnson said. “And then 
the other question is, how much this 
is disseminated on campus? Students 
do not pursue (adaptable resolution) 
if they do not know it exists.”
Burns also testified to a general 
need for more education of sexual 
misconduct awareness and of Uni-
versity sexual misconduct policy.
“I think the general student body 
isn’t particularly well-equipped with 
the knowledge of what it would look 
like after a sexual violence case is 
reported to the University,” Burns 
said. “Every student goes through 
Relationship Remix when they 
arrive at the University. However, 
when they’re off-campus, it becomes 
more challenging to keep adminis-
tering dosages of sexual violence pre-
vention and resolution education.”
Burns explained more work needs 
to be done, particularly at the College 
of Engineering.
“As an engineering student, most 
of my professors either don’t know 
what SAPAC is or are not trauma-
informed if a survivor were to come 
forward,” 
Burns 
said. 
“SAPAC 
doesn’t have a big presence on North 
Campus.”
Johnson said to his knowledge, no 
other schools have implemented an 
adaptable resolution policy as com-
prehensive and formalized as the 
University’s.
“It’s particularly positive that (a 
policy like adaptable resolution) is 

coming from Michigan because it’s 
a high-profile institution,” Johnson 
said. “If the program succeeds at 
Michigan, it could be a model for lots 
of other institutions. It has potential. 
Maybe it will just fizzle out if no stu-
dents will use it … But if the Univer-
sity finds a way to channel students 
into this, the literature on restorative 
justice suggests that for some stu-
dents, this is the best option.”
In response to Johnson’s claim 
that the University may be taking the 
lead on using alternative methods 
in dealing with sexual misconduct, 
Wessel reaffirmed the University’s 
core purpose as a place of education.
“The University of Michigan is 
indeed at the forefront in providing 
fair, just, equitable and adaptable 
resolution options for our commu-
nity,” Wessel wrote. “Indeed, we are 
educators — and this is how we sup-
port our community while fulfilling 
both missions of education and com-
pliance.”
Wessel also said many students 
may still not be aware of the new pol-
icy and explained the University is 
always looking for community input.
“Although the policy change has 
been communicated to the commu-
nity, we understand that many would 
not have read through the nuance of 
the policy,” Wessel said. “That said, 
it should be noted that the policy 
was intentionally implemented as 
an interim policy to comply with the 
ruling of the Sixth Circuit. We will be 
engaging the University community 
as we seek to draft a finalized policy 
in the coming months. A process for 
seeking community input is current-
ly in development and will begin to 
roll out in February and March.”

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people need to understand 
that the agencies can’t do it 
all, that people, individuals 
need to interact with anyone 
they feel might be in danger 
and not be afraid to ask 
them if they’re ok, if they’re 
safe because safety is not 
guaranteed, 
especially 
during the extreme situation 
that we’re in right now.”
On Monday, Gov. Gretchen 
Whitmer declared a state 
of emergency and released 
a press release stating the 
concern she has for the 
upcoming temperatures.
“Such 
widespread, 
extreme 
conditions 
have 
not occurred in Michigan 
for many years and it is 
imperative 
that 
we 
are 
proactive 
with 
record-
low 
temperatures 
being 
predicted by the National 
Weather Service,” Whitmer 
wrote. 
“Wind 
chills 
are 
predicted 
as 
low 
as 
50 
degrees 
below 
zero 
in 
many places, such as metro 
Detroit, which is especially 
unaccustomed 
to 
these 
temps.”
In 
Washtenaw 
County, 
there 
have 
been 
efforts 
by cities, local homeless 
shelter 
communities 
and 
students to aid the homeless 
population during this 
time of extreme cold. 
Kurtz said even after the 
extreme 
temperatures 
subsided, 
obstacles 
would remain for people 
affected 
by 
housing 
insecurity.
“I think it’s a shame 
that 
it 
takes 
a 
pure 
emergency 
situation 
such as this to have the 
shelter and the warming 
center 
extend 
their 
hours,” Kurtz said. “A 
safe indoor space should 
be available all seasons, 
all hours to anyone who 
lacks stability and there 
are 
times 
during 
the 
winter when the severe 
weather goes away and 
people are still going to be 
exposed to incredibly not 
only uncomfortable but 
unsafe temperatures.”
Daniel 
Kelly, 
executive 
director 
of 
the Shelter Association 
of 
Washtenaw 
County, 
said their center is taking 
additional 
precautions 
to 
host more people during the 
cold nights and days this 
coming week. 
“With 
record 
low 
temperatures, we are trying 
to accommodate as many 
bodies as we can. We have a 
residential shelter program 
that houses 50 beds, and our 
warming centers house 118 
individuals,” Kelly said. “We 

are converting our on-site 
community kitchen to more 
beds at the Delonis Center 
and are aiding operation of 
rotating shelters at faith-
based congregations.”
Kelly 
also 
mentioned 
the city of Ann Arbor and 
Washtenaw 
County 
have 
been crucial partners in 
expanding their outreach 
efforts for this particular 
week.
“Tomorrow 
we 
have 
additional 
off-site 
and 
overnight warming spaces at 
Ann Arbor Public Schools,” 
Kelly said. “Just for the next 
couple of nights, we’ll be able 
to house more folks in their 
gym. We set up those types 
of precautions especially for 
extreme weather situations 
such as these.”
Kelly 
explained 
that 
many homeless individuals 
don’t 
feel 
comfortable 
coming to shelters, but that 
the Shelter Association is 
working 
in 
partnership 
with 
Washtenaw 
County 
Community Mental Health, 
an 
organization 
that 
sustains relationships with 
and provides mental health 
services to the homeless 
population in Washtenaw 
County. They are tasked with 
guiding 
and 
encouraging 
those on the street to seek 
shelter and helping them 
find transportation.

The Robert J. Delonis 
Center, a homeless shelter 
in Ann Arbor, has developed 
a transportation option in 
response to an unsheltered 
emergency 
after 
5 
p.m. 
on 
weekdays 
and 
on 
weekends. This additional 
winter 
response 
is 
for 
homeless individuals who 
lack transportation to the 
overnight warming center 
the Delonis Center.
Students 
on 
campus 

are also helping the local 
homeless 
population 
in 
light of this week’s weather. 
Public 
Health 
senior 
Hussain Ali, co-president 
of Michigan Movement, has 
been gathering supplies and 
donating 
warm 
clothing 
items and food with a group 
of 15 other students to 
various homeless shelters 
around 
Ann 
Arbor 
on 
Tuesday. 
On 
Wednesday, 
five 
students 
who 
have 
access to cars will be driving 
around 
Ann 
Arbor 
and 
offering rides to shelter to 
the homeless on the street.
“Michigan 
Movement’s 
main mission is to provide 
aid and relief to people 
experiencing homelessness 
in 
Ann 
Arbor 
and 
Washtenaw 
County. 
This 
week, our major concern is 
getting anyone who doesn’t 
have shelter in an area of 
heat for the day and/or 
night,” Ali said.
Other students on campus 
are 
sharing 
emergency 
helplines to call if someone 
on the street is in need 
of 
housing. 
LSA 
senior 
Catherine 
Szkop 
saw 
that friends were sharing 
numbers for various shelters 
on their Instagram stories 
and so she decided to share 
the Ann Arbor helpline.
“I got the Ann Arbor 
number just by looking on 
Google and the Detroit 
numbers - someone else 
had on their story so I 
just screenshotted it and 
posted it on mine,” Szkop 
said. “I think sharing 
information 
through 
social media allows it to 
spread faster especially 
since more often than 
not, your friends check it 
multiple times a day. It’s 
more efficient and more 
likely to reach a wider 
audience to put a number 
for a warming center on 
my Instagram story than 
another method.”
Ali said in addition to 
calling the helpline for 
someone on the street, 
people should also let 
them know where to find 
warming shelters.
“The 
first 
step 
if 
someone is outside is to 
call the Delonis Center or 
let them know that there 
is food and shelter there. 
The major importance is 
that everyone is safe from 
the bitter cold during the 
night and day,” Ali said.
Kurtz called on people 
to reach out to one another 
and address the problem of 
housing instability. 
“There’s 
just 
a 
lack 
of 
understanding 
that 
everybody needs to play 
a role in helping people, 
making sure that everyone 
is safe,” Kurtz said.

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