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Schlissel talks faculty involvement Faculty express desire for increased admin. transparency By MICHAEL SUGERMAN Daily Staff Reporter
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LSA senior Carly Manes lights a candle for J Street UMich’s vigil honoring those killed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza this past summer.
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Schoolboy Q to perform at Hill Auditorium in Oct. Artist adds to list of prominent rappers to hit A 2 By ADAM THEISEN Daily Music Editor
On Oct. 18, ScHoolboy Q will join the growing list of hip-hop stars who have played shows at
Hill Auditorium. With Chance the Rapper and 2 Chainz hitting the venue earlier in 2014, not to mention Earl Sweatshirt and Danny Brown both playing The Blind Pig in 2013, the bar is set high for Q. But, just as the chart performance of his number-one album Oxymoron cemented his place as one of the most exciting young rappers in the game
today, the fall show at Hill will be a chance to win the hearts of a Michigan crowd that has already seen their share of impressive concerts from top hip-hop acts. Big Ticket Productions, a student organization and concert production group at the University, is responsible for bringing ScHoolboy to Hill. Big Ticket has had a hand in previous hip-
hop shows in Ann Arbor, including J. Cole, Lupe Fiasco and Chance the Rapper. While Hill Auditorium has seen musical legends ranging as far back as Frank Sinatra, all the way through The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Marley in the late ’70s, a glance at its shows in more recent years reveals fewer recSee SCHOOLBOY, Page 3
University President Mark Schlissel’s introductions continued Monday at this semester’s first meeting of the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs. Though the University president doesn’t regularly participate in SACUA proceedings, the committee typically invites a senior administrator or notable campus figure to speak at each of its formal meetings. Monday’s main focus, at Schlissel’s request, was discussing faculty concerns that the administration could work to mitigate. Voicing a need for the administration to increase its transparency, SACUA members asked Schlissel’s opinion regarding where to draw the line between faculty governance and the jurisdiction of the central administration. Schlissel said faculty should largely take ownership of academic areas of governance, but conceded that responsibility for non-academic areas is more ambiguous. “The faculty needs to be involved and consulted early in the develop-
ment of administrative policies … but at the end of the day, administrative things are administrative things,” Schlissel said. Schlissel said he has made it his goal to reach out to all faculty in some form to make them feel fully represented in the University “machinery,” and to allow the administration to garner more “good input.” Comparative Literature Prof. Silke-Maria Weineck, a SACUA member, said quality facultyadministration collaboration would hinge on what Schlissel’s interpretation of consulting faculty will look like. Last year, the University’s launch of the Shared Services Center — which will ultimately relocate more than 100 department-level staff to a central building near Wolverine Tower — prompted vocal criticism from faculty and staff who questioned the administration’s transparency and equity in crafting the plan. Schlissel provided a few suggestions, including faculty representation in meetings with the deans of the University’s colleges and schools. The idea was well received, especially in the scope of a comment from Dentistry Prof. Rex Holland, another SACUA member. See FACULTY, Page 3
CAMPUS IMPROVEMENTS
GOVERNMENT
Fireside Café opens after renovations
Local leaders offer mixed views on ‘blue economy’
Six-month project creates new space for North Campus dwellers By STEPHANIE DILWORTH Daily Staff Reporter
North Campus just got a little more appetizing. Monday, the new Fireside Café in Pierpont Commons opened its doors after a six-month, $5.3 million renovation. The project is part of a series of Union renovations, which are funded in part by a $65-per-term student fee. E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, is an outspoken advocate for the renovations and encouraged the University’s Board of Regents to approve the projects in December 2013. At the ceremony, Harper expressed gratitude for the renovations and joked about past critiques of the North Campus café. “When you’ve been here for a while, like some of my colleagues, this is the end of an annual ‘Come to North Campus and get beaten up about how terrible the cafeteria is,’ ” Harper said. “I am thrilled because it means that I will not have to get that beating this year.” Harper said the dining space is a reflection of the hard work and persistence of the many faculty and staff members who recognized the need for better student dining options on North Campus.
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“This celebration is not only about the beautiful transformation of a facility, not only about creating a welcoming place for students, faculty and staff,” Harper said. “We have just been doggone determined that we would have a facility here worthy of our students and our community. And I think we have managed to do that, in spite of hard economic times.” In addition to new fireplaces, the renovated common area includes an updated seating area and more windows to showcase a scenic view. There are also several new options for the hungry students who find themselves on North Campus, including dine-in and to-go options to accommodate those with busy schedules. For example, the Maize Blaze will feature unique, made-toorder items, while the Hearth will serve oven-baked pizza, sandwiches and other baked entrées. Other options include the “Greens. Grains. Soups.” salad bar, as well as Flare, which is staffed by a rotation of local restaurants throughout the week. Before the project began, a group of faculty, staff and students came together to discuss their goals for the space. Members from the student organization Building a Better Michigan and the Pierpont Commons Board of Representatives played a significant role in the project’s planning, according to Pierpont Commons Director Michael Swanigan. See FIRESIDE, Page 3
Great Lakes generally viewed as economic resource for state AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
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Phil Deloria, LSA’s associate dean of undergraduate education, discusses success at Game Plan: Achieving Success at the University at Rackham Graduate School Ampitheater Monday.
Theme semester kick-off examines success, defeat Panel of varsity coaches, leading academics gives advice to students By ARIANA ASSAFF Daily Staff Reporter
To celebrate the Fall 2014 LSA Theme Semester, a panel of academics and coaches discussed achievement, happiness and even facial hair to more than 50 students and rising professionals Monday night in Rackham Auditorium. The theme, “Sport in the University,” combines courses in several disciplines as a means of exploring and researching the many facets of athletics. The panel, consisting of the University’s men’s basketball coach and women’s gymnastics coach, a linguistics professor and two
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administrators, discussed the theme’s aim. English Prof. Anne Curzan, an organizer of the Theme Semester, outlined the goal of the project: to blend the curricular and the co-curricular to look at the subject of sports from several different perspectives. To survey from academics and coaches, Curzan moderated the event, posing questions to gauge advice from the panelists on how to achieve success and — more importantly — how to respond to failure. Perhaps the most comical answer was given by Phil Deloria, LSA associate dean of undergraduate education: “Shave off the scraggly beard and never grow it back.” Deloria’s and others’ more serious suggestions were relevant to all students, including those who may not have clearly defined academic paths. Deloria made the point that
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experiential goals, though their outcome may not be as identifiable as those of more concrete goals, are still an important part of the learning process. “No experience is ever lost or wasted,” he said. “You just haven’t used it yet.” Women’s gymnastics coach Bev Plocki said because athletics in general are so perfectionistic, there can always be an element of failure. However, to her, the most important element of “failure” is learning to overcome it and try again. Men’s basketball coach John Beilein called failure “fertilizer for growth.” As perhaps the most well known panelist to the student body, Beilein led the men’s basketball teams through successful seasons in 2013 and 2014, finishing as the national finalist and the Elite Eight, respectively, in the March Madness See KICK-OFF, Page 3
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Over the past several years, following in the footsteps of a decadelong push for environmental restoration, the idea of using the Great Lakes a driver of Michigan’s economy has culminated in a significant amount of political action at state and federal levels. Under the direction of a 2007 Act of Congress, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is currently conducting a long-term study of invasive species in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River Basin. U.S. Rep. Gary Peters (D–Bloomfield Township) has made the economic impact of the Great Lakes a focal point of his senatorial campaign through his Great Lakes Jobs Tour. “From a political perspective, it’s a good issue to pick up,” said Jennifer Read, director of the University’s Water Center and a former member of the Great Lakes Commission. “It’s not just the environment, but it’s closely tied to our economy in the region. A strong and healthy ecosystem, we’ve demonstrated, is reflected in a strong economy.” Recently released survey results from CLOSUP, the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy within the Ford School of Public Policy, found that at the local level the concept of a “blue economy” has been well See ECONOMY, Page 3
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