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University President Mark Schlissel named his nomination for a new leader of the University of Michigan Health System Monday. Dr. Marschall Runge has been recommended to lead medical affairs at the University, pending approval by the University’s Board of Regents at their regularly scheduled meeting on Dec. 18. Runge currently serves as executive dean for the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. If approved, he will take over the position of executive vice president of medical affairs March 1. University spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald confirmed that Schlissel met with Runge prior to making the recommendation. “Dr. Runge has significant experience and success in multiple aspects of healthcare and academic health sciences,” Schlissel said in a press release. “His accomplishments as a scien-
tist, physician and leader are ideally suited to advance the UMHS tripartite mission of clinical care, education and research.” Runge currently serves as director of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute, a partnership between the University of North Carolina and several other institutions which aims to “accelerate clinical and translational research from health science.” He earned a bachelors of arts in biology and Ph.D. in molecular biology from Vanderbilt University and a medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University. If appointed, he will take control of one of the University’s largest operations. UMHS includes the University hospitals and health centers, the medical and nursing schools, along with a large portion of the University’s biomedical research centers. Its operating activities accounted for over $3 billion for the 2014 fiscal year — 45 percent of the University’s total operations. When Ora Pescovitz stepped down from her role as CEO of the University of Michigan Health System in June, a search committee began to seek her replacement. Dr. Paul Lee, director of the Kellogg Eye Center, chaired the committee. See CEO, Page 3
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of the 129 cases reported from 2013-2014 BY ANJALI ALANGADEN AND EMILY SCHUMER
University releases first sexual misconduct report Reported incidents rise to 129 during first year of new Title IX policy By MAX RADWIN Daily Staff Reporter
Following revisions to its Student Sexual Misconduct Policy in 2012, the University has released its first annual report devoted exclusively to incidents of sexual misconduct, which have been reported at an increasing rate in the last four years.
The report provides details of the 129 reported incidents of potential sexual misconduct this year and how those proceedings were handled. “Since this is our first report, our interest is making sure that it’s useful to the campus community, especially for our students,” said Anthony Walesby, the University’s Title IX coordinator and associate vice provost for academic and faculty affairs. “Students can read it and look at the information, and say, ‘OK, this would have been more helpful had you presented it this way or if there were more hyperlinks,’ or whatever it might be — that will be useful for us to
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know.” In previous years, the data was published annually by the Office of Student Conflict Resolution as a subsection of its larger report concerning all forms of student complaints, violations, resolutions and sanctions. This year, the Office of Institutional Equity, in accordance with the University’s new sexual misconduct policy, published this independent report separate from the OSCR data. The University’s new policy was implemented in August 2013 following the two-year interim policy that was put in place in August 2011. The interim policy came as a response to a “Dear Col-
league” letter issued by the U.S. Department of Education recommending that universities update their procedures for handling such incidents. Most notably, the new policy amended the burden of proof required for finding a person responsible for allegations of sexual misconduct. The University previously practiced a higher “clear and convincing” standard. Under the new policy, cases are decided based on a “preponderance of evidence,” which in practice means the standard of evidence that is more likely than not an incidence of sexual misconSee REPORT, Page 3
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Giving Blueday to encourage student donors
‘U’ to add Nutritional Sciences Department School of Public Health to provide new way to for specialize
Fundraising drive to aid Victors for Michigan goal of $4 billion by 2018
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By EMILIE PLESSET
Daily Staff Reporter
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On Thursday, the University’s Board of Regents approved the creation of the Department of Nutritional Sciences within the School of Public Health. Currently, there are three existing pathways available to graduate students interested in nutrition that are offered through the Public Health School’s Human Nutrition Program. These three programs are being moved from their current home in the Public Health School’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences to the new Department of Nutritional Sciences effective July 1, 2015. Susan Aaronson, environmental health sciences lecturer, said the Master of Public Health program will stay largely the same, but will become more tailored to nutrition rather than environmental health. “The only thing that will be slightly different is a couple of See DEPARTMENT, Page 3
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Chris Tounsel and Marvin Chochotte (upper left), Associate History Prof. Martha Jones (bottom left) and Rackham student Kyera Singleton (right) discuss the possible impacts of the grand jury decision regarding Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson at a speak out in Tisch Hall on Monday.
Students, faculty discuss jury decision in Ferguson Diag vigil planned for 6 p.m. today after grand jury rules in case By CLAIRE BRYAN Daily Staff Reporter
As the St. Louis County, Mo. prosecuting attorney announced a grand jury’s decision that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted in the August death of teenager Michael
Brown, about 40 students and University faculty members gathered in Tisch Hall to discuss the issues and watch the live television coverage together. Martha Jones, co-director of the University Law School’s Program in Race, Law & History and an associate professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, organized the discussion between a panel of experts and students. “We knew it was likely when the grand jury decision was formed we would want to create a safe place where faculty and
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staff and visitors could come and be together and continue the conversation,” she said. In addition to Jones, the panel consisted of Matthew Countryman, an associate professor in the Department of American Culture and the Department of History; Rackham student Austin McCoy, a Ph.D. candidate in history; and Rackham student Kyera Singleton, a Ph.D. candidate in American culture. After the fatal shooting of Brown, a Black teenager, in August, protests in Ferguson See FERGUSON, Page 3
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Next Tuesday is about to be a whole lot more Blue. The University aims to raise $1 million next Tuesday, Dec. 2 through Giving Blueday, the first University-wide one-day push for donations as part of its current major fundraising campaign, Victors for Michigan. Tom Szczepanski, assistant vice president for development, connected Giving Blueday to Giving Tuesday, a national movement to promote charitable action after mass consumption on Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. “Imagine how few nonprofit organizations can claim that they raised a million dollars in one day,” Szczepanski said. “I think that our alumni and our students and all the friends of the University are up for that sort of challenge.” The University is asking students, alumni and friends of the University to donate to an area of
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their choice on Giving Blueday. Some private donors have agreed to match student donations; one will match all student gifts up to a total of $30,000. Szczepanski anticipates that donors will be inspired by current students and their organizations. About 70 student groups, including the Black Student Union, Michigan Marching Band and the Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, will participate and encourage donors to give money for their organizations. “Nothing motivates the donor more than looking at a young person and saying, ‘Wow, I want to support people like that,’” Szczepanski said. “By their participation in things like the campaign kickoff, it really is the embodiment of what they’re providing funds for, to support the students that we have here.” To encourage participation, there will be activities on campus throughout the day, including an appearance by Olympic ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White, both LSA students, and a performance by the School of Music, Theatre & Dance in the Diag. While much of the money raised will go toward student organizations, donors can also direct their money toward scholSee BLUEDAY, Page 3
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