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At the Dec. 9 Board of Regents
Meeting at the Postma Club-
house, Chuck Christian, a for-
mer University of Michigan
football player and a survivor of
former University doctor Robert
Anderson, made an unsched-
uled
appearance.
Christian
spoke with the regents about his
experience with Anderson and
his resulting fear of doctors – to
which he attributes his stage IV
cancer diagnosis.
Christian – who has been
camping
outside
University
President Mark Schlissel’s house
since Oct. 8 along with fellow
Anderson
survivor
Jonathan
Vaughn – said he knows many
other survivors who have been
diagnosed with preventable dis-
eases because of their fear of
doctors.
“We’re still dealing with the
trauma 30, 40 and 50 years later;
some of us can’t hold a job because
Michigan didn’t stop Anderson,”
Christian said. “One player said
to me, ‘I have battled with drugs
and alcohol for half of my life, all
because I was raped repeatedly
by the team doctor.’ Four of my
friends have died in the last year
because of their fear of doctors.”
Christian then revealed Jona-
than Vaughn has recently been
diagnosed with cancer.
“I just found out today that my
dear friend Jon Vaughn was diag-
nosed with cancer,” Christian
said at the Dec. 9 meeting. “My
prayer is that it’s not the terminal
kind like I have, and Jon will con-
tinue to protest in the camper in
front of the President’s house…in
public you say how sorry you are
about what Anderson did, but in
private victims are traumatized
and abused. We are treated like
animals.”
Vaughn – who announced on
Nov. 14 he is running for Board
of Regent in 2022 and has vowed
to camp outside of Schlissel’s
house for 100 days or until Presi-
dent Schlissel and the Board of
Regents agree to meet with him
– sat down with The Michigan
Daily to talk about his diagnosis
and what it means for both his
regent campaign and the ongoing
protest.
Vaughn said he first began to
experience symptoms on Oct.
5 – three days before he began
camping outside Schlissel’s house
– when he noticed a lump on his
neck. Vaughn said he later went
to the doctor’s, where he was ulti-
mately diagnosed with thyroid
cancer.
Vaughn said it was terrifying
to be back in a hospital after his
experience with Anderson, but
Christian helped him put those
fears aside and take care of his
health.
“That first weekend when I
found out I’m having conversa-
tions with Chuck and he was like,
‘you know, Jon, just don’t put this
off like I did,’” Vaughn said. “That
was when it kind of hit me … that I
had compartmentalized so much
– it was terrifying, obviously, to
walk into a hospital for first time
in many, many, many years, but
once I got there, I realized that at
some point in time, (I was) gonna
have to break the cycle.”
Vaughn said he will undergo
surgery in January to remove
the cancer and Christian and
Tad Deluca – former University
wrestler and whistleblower for
the Anderson case – will take over
protesting while he is in surgery
and recovering.
“I will go in (to surgery) in the
morning, they have to observe
me overnight and then I (will be)
released the next day,” Vaughn
said. “I’ve already started talking
to Chuck and Tad and some of the
other survivors that, at that point,
we’ll do a relay which I will hand
off for one of my fellow survivors
to sleep in the tent or the camper
overnight, and then I’ll be right
back (after my recovery).”
Vaughn said his diagnosis will
not impact his regent campaign
and he is working on creating a
more concrete campaign blue-
print to share with voters in the
coming months.
Over 950 Anderson survivors
have been in ongoing mediation
with the University since Oct.
2020. Vaughn and Christian plan
to continue camping outside of
Schlissel’s house until Jan. 16.
Daily
News
Editor
George
Weykamp can be reached at
gweykamp@umich.edu
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Now that the gradu-
ating class of Michigan
Daily journalists, editors
and developers have said
their heartfelt goodbyes,
it’s time for a chorus of
enthusiastic
“hellos.”
After a staff-wide elec-
tion on Nov. 12 and sev-
eral
section-specific
elections throughout the
past couple of months,
The Michigan Daily is
delighted to announce its
131st editor in chief and
managing editor team.
The editor in chief and
the editorial page edi-
tors were elected by all
sections of The Daily on
Nov. 12. The managing
editor and digital manag-
ing editor were appointed
by the editor in chief and
approved by The Daily’s
management desk on Nov.
28. The management desk
also chose a new editor
of The Statement, the
paper’s weekly magazine.
Editor in Chief: Jas-
min Lee
LSA junior Jasmin Lee
will serve as The Daily’s
editor in chief for the 2022
calendar year. Lee previ-
ously served as a senior
news
editor
overseeing
campus life and student
government coverage, as
well as a member of Cul-
ture, Training and Inclu-
sion. Lee said she has
wanted to run for EIC
since she began writing as
a freshman and one of her
main goals is to make The
Daily more accessible to
students on campus.
“In the past, The Daily,
(has seemed) like this big
intimidating (place),” Lee
said. “Although the work
we do is important, and
does take a lot of time, I
just want to make sure
either the ability to pro-
duce work on The Daily, or
the ability to have access
to the quality journalism
that we produce, is open to
everyone.”
Managing
Editor:
Paige Hodder
LSA junior Paige Hod-
der will serve as the paper-
wide managing editor for
2022 and will work with
Lee to create a commu-
nity among Daily staffers.
Hodder previously served
as a summer news editor,
a Daily staff reporter and
contributor for The Daily
Weekly Podcast.
“One
of
my
biggest
goals is to recapture and
redefine the kind of com-
munity that we create at
The Daily,” Hodder said.
“A lot of that has been lost
to COVID it can feel really
disconnected these days
and I want to bring us back
together as a newsroom,
but then also cultivate a
culture in the newsroom
of listening and acknowl-
edgement
of
shared
knowledge.”
Digital Managing Edi-
tor: Aya Salim
As The Daily’s second
ever digital managing edi-
tor, LSA junior Aya Salim
will be responsible for
overseeing
The
Daily’s
online presence and the
six digital sections: photo,
video, web, design, audi-
ence engagement and pod-
cast.
Before being appointed
to her new position by
Lee, Salim served as the
managing design editor
and worked on the video
section as a videographer
as well. After working in
two different digital sec-
tions throughout her three
semesters on staff, Salim
said she plans to facilitate
cross-section projects and
support The Daily’s ongo-
ing “online-first” initia-
tive.
“I’m really excited to
see not only how print and
digital sections can collab-
orate … but also just how
the digital sections them-
selves can collaborate and
do cool different projects,”
Salim said. “And also how
the digital aspects of The
Daily can also contribute
to accessibility.”
Business
Manager:
Aaron Santilli
LSA sophomore Aaron
Santilli,
former
senior
account
executive,
will
lead The Daily’s business
operation section for 2022.
Santilli said one of his
main goals as business
manager is to make sure
staffers were compensat-
ed equitably for the work
they produced.
“(My goal is) ensur-
ing that all employees of
The Daily are paid (and)
treated fairly for the work
that
they’re
producing.
So you know, I’m going to
continue that in cohesion
with Jasmin, the editor in
chief, as well as Paige the
(managing) editor,” San-
tilli said.
Arts: Sabriya Imami
and Lillian Pearce
The arts section will
be led by LSA juniors
Sabriya Imami and Lillian
Pearce, the 2022 manag-
ing arts editors. Both of
them have previous expe-
rience as arts writer and
Imami served as the film
beat editor while Pearce
served as the book beat
editor. A major part of
their platform is to consis-
tently put their writers at
the forefront. To help arts
writers make the most of
their time on staff, Pearce
said she and Imami plan to
host workshops on lever-
aging Daily experiences in
the job market.
“As managing editors,
Sabriya and I are planning
out different workshops
we could do to help (arts
staffers)
improve
their
internship
opportunities
or their interview skills,”
Pearce said. “So we are
really
excited
thinking
about how we can support
writers and Daily arts peo-
ple in different (aspects) of
their lives.”
Imami said she and
Pearce also want to pro-
duce more content fea-
turing the local art scene
to encourage the greater
Washtenaw County com-
munity to read and con-
tribute to arts articles.
“There’s a huge music
scene in Ann Arbor that
we wanted to highlight
and even all the local
bookstores and booksell-
ers, just to uplift the Ann
Arbor community too,”
Imami said.
Audience
Engage-
ment: Evan DeLorenzo
and Zoe Storer
LSA junior Evan DeLo-
renzo and LSA sophomore
Zoe Storer will serve as
the 2022 audience engage-
ment managing editors.
DeLorenzo has served as
a senior editor for audi-
ence engagement and an
academics reporter for
the news section. Storer
worked as an audience
engagement assistant edi-
tor as well as the audience
engagement co-managing
editor for summer 2021.
DeLorenzo
said
the
audience
engagement
section is responsible for
keeping
the
University
of Michigan community
informed on The Daily’s
content.
“I just really love the
thrill of breaking news
and feeling a part of some
online
community.
It
brings a sense of impor-
tance and purpose to my
life,” DeLorenzo said. “It’s
more than just like tweet-
ing captions and whatnot,
we’re bringing good con-
tent to the people.”
Storer said one of her
main goals as co-man-
aging editor is to build
cohesion within the audi-
ence engagement section
because editors and staff-
ers often have different
experiences and responsi-
bilities.
“People who work on
(our) newsletter have a
very different experience
than people who work on
our Instagram or Face-
book and Twitter,” Storer
said. “So kind of (just)
bringing all those groups
together and then…con-
tinuing to create a plat-
form where people in the
campus community can
find the most important
news and book reviews
and all that good stuff.”
Copy: Caroline Atkin-
son and Ethan Patrick
LSA juniors Caroline
Atkinson and Ethan Pat-
rick will be taking over
as the 2022 copy chiefs.
Both Atkinson and Patrick
have previously served as
senior copy editors and
summer 2021 copy chiefs.
Atkinson has also written
for the arts section while
Patrick has written Daily
sports
pieces.
Patrick
said their main goal is to
restructure the copy sec-
tion to give the senior copy
editors greater responsi-
bility and flexibility.
“We
are
restructur-
ing copy a little bit to try
to make it less suscep-
tible to burnout,” Patrick
said. “One of our goals
is to increase the power
and responsibility of the
senior copy editors … so
we hope it’s more exciting
for them because it’s a lit-
tle more responsibility on
their part, but it’s also just
going to be easier for their
schedule.”
Atkinson
said
the
planned restructure will
also allow her and Patrick
to spend more time look-
ing holistically at each
article to ensure all pub-
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