The Board of Regents held
its second meeting of the year
remotely on Thursday to vote
on
firing
David
Daniels,
a
former Music, Theatre & Dance
professor
accused
of
sexual
misconduct,
and
address
the
effects
of
the
coronavirus
outbreak
on
University
of
Michigan operations. All Regents
and public commenters called in
online and the meeting was live-
streamed.
Early in the meeting, University
President Mark Schlissel asked
the Board to take note of his
recommendation
to
dismiss
Daniels without severance for
allegations of sexual misconduct.
The Board voted unanimously
to
dismiss
Daniels
without
severance.
“I
have
determined
that
Professor
Daniels’
conduct
is
inconsistent
with
the
character
of
tenure
at
the
University
of
Michigan
and
therefore
constitutes
cause
for dismissal,” Schlissel said.
“I
therefore
recommend
the
dismissal of Professor Daniels
from his tenured position at the
University of Michigan, effective
immediately.”
Daniels has been on leave from
the University since allegations of
sexual assault were made public
in August 2018. A Michigan
Daily investigation found that
the University awarded Daniels
tenure in May 2018 despite having
knowledge of allegations against
him. The University began the
process of formally firing Daniels
in July 2019.
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A/PIA persons push for more data on community
Activists, experts urge ‘U’ to record more specific demographic categories of individuals for better representation
At a surface level, the Asian/
Pacific
Islander
American
community is often seen as
socioeconomically
successful
and having similar immigration
and family histories, usually
fitting into the “model minority”
narrative. However, in the large
APID/A community where some
groups are overrepresented and
others
are
underrepresented,
some say issues of diversity
and equity can be hidden with
aggregated data.
Mary Lai Rose, a Program
Manager
at
the
Office
of
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
and
a
Staff
Co-Chair
for
the
University’s
APID/A
Knowledge Community, said a
lack of separated data hinders
underrepresented groups from
getting necessary resources and
attention from the University of
Michigan.
“The groups that we know
are underrepresented are all
the ones that are not East Asian
and are not South Asian, and
even within South Asian there’s
so much diversity,” Rose said.
“People who come from lower
income backgrounds within the
APID/A community, Southeast
Asian groups who have refugee
histories, Pacific Islanders who
have histories of colonization
… the bottom line is that we
are a very diverse group and
I don’t know if the broader
community and the University
understands that and this is one
way for us to help increase that
understanding.”
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Board, Schlissel discuss impact of coronavirus on campus
Mobilize secures
CSG election win
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Public
Policy
junior
Amanda
Kaplan
and
LSA
junior
Sav
Nandigama will serve as president
and vice president of the University
of
Michigan
Central
Student
Government’s
10th
Assembly,
preliminary results from the March
25-26 election show.
Kaplan and Nandigama ran with
the party Mobilize, which endorsed
candidates
in
the
LSA,
Public
Health and Music, Theatre & Dance
representative
elections.
Their
platform focused on sustainability,
affordability
and
accessibility,
student wellness and preparing for
the 2020 U.S. presidential debate
being held on campus in October.
In their party profile, Kaplan and
Nandigama said they wanted to make
CSG more inclusive of other student
groups to better understand the
needs of students. The pair reiterated
this goal and thanked voters in a
statement to The Daily released early
Friday morning following notification
of their victory.
“We’re so grateful for all the
support we’ve received over the past
few weeks from our friends, family
and campus community,” Kaplan
and Nandigama wrote. “This has
definitely been an unprecedented
time on campus. However, we are
both so excited to represent the
student body in the upcoming school
year and start working right away to
advocate with and for students. We
want to thank all of the candidates
who so passionately advocated for the
issues important to them and we look
forward to working with students
from across campus to make our
collective Michigan experience even
better.”
Among Kaplan and Nandigama’s
large-scale goals are to ensure student
wellness
and
safety,
specifically
in October when thousands will
flock to Ann Arbor for the general
presidential debate at the Crisler
Center. Their platform also aligns
with student activists’ goals when
it comes to issues such as the One
University campaign and climate
action.
Their
ideas
in
the
area
of
accessibility and affordability include
aiding students in their housing
search through the creation of guides
and pushing for more transparency
from the Office of Financial Aid on
deadlines and the cost of attendance.
Kaplan and Nandigama received
1457 votes, 578 more than second-
place finishers Rackham student
Austin Glass and LSA sophomore
Megha Jain, who ran with Change at
Michigan. One of Change’s main goals
was to use CSG’s resources to better
advocate on behalf of students to the
University in areas such as carbon
neutrality, sexual assault policies and
diversity, equity and inclusion.
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