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Tuesday, April 11, 2017
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RED BERENSON RETIRES
FOLLOWING 33 YEARS AT MICHIGAN, FAMED HOCKEY COACH ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT ORION SANG
Senior Sports Editor
On April 10, nearly one month after finishing his 33rd season as head coach of the Michigan hockey team, Red Berenson announced he would be retiring. “I’ve thought about this for a long time and I think this is the right time and it’s the right thing to do for the Michigan hockey program,” Berenson said in a press release Monday. “My heart will always be at Michigan and I look forward to the team taking the next step and making me proud as a former coach.” Added athletic director Warde Manuel: “Red Berenson is a legendary figure at the University of Michigan as well as in our ice hockey history. Throughout his career, Red has focused on the academic and athletic success of the young men who have come through our program while shaping the sport as we know it today. He has developed an astounding 73 NHL players but, more importantly, he has positively impacted hundreds of young men. We are forever grateful for his contributions to the University of Michigan and I look forward to continuing working with Red for years to come.” Berenson has pondered retirement in recent years. He said Monday that he had received questions on the recruiting trail about his future and how long he planned on coaching. It bothered him, he admitted, that it was an issue, and it played a part in his conversation about retirement with Warde Manuel last year. The original plan was for Berenson to step down following last season. But Manuel was still settling down into his new job — according to Berenson, he hadn’t even moved to Ann Arbor yet. The new athletic director coaxed Berenson into staying, and so began the last year of his career in Ann Arbor.
And what a career it was: to trace its outline with each of its stops is to follow the history of the sport — and even history itself. To put the longevity of Berenson’s term at Michigan into context, the last time the Wolverines took the ice without him behind the bench was during the Cold War, with Ronald Reagan serving as president of the United States. Many fine players have filed in and out of Ann Arbor over the years, doing their part to fill the trophy cases and bring glory to the program. Yet it is Berenson’s name that has become synonymous with ‘Michigan hockey’ — and rightfully so. Berenson himself was once the star on ice, playing for the Wolverines for three seasons between 1959 and 1962. He enjoyed an illustrious career in the NHL, becoming one of the league’s first expansion stars as it doubled in size during the late 1960s. Once his playing career ended, he became a coach for the St. Louis Blues — the team he had become famous playing for — and won coach of the year in just his second season. In 1984, he returned to his alma mater, where he would remain for the duration of his career. It took longer for Berenson to achieve success in the collegiate ranks. Michigan, once mighty but since humbled, was in dire straits. It had been nearly a decade since the team experienced its last postseason success, and the onus was on Berenson to rebuild the program. It was no easy task. To begin his tenure, he endured three consecutive losing seasons. He took another step forward once the team was full of players he had recruited, leading the team to three straight winning seasons — but with zero NCAA Tournament appearances. The final breakthrough occurred in Berenson’s seventh year. The Wolverines recorded over 30 wins for the first time in school history and finished as an NCAA See BERENSON, Page 3
GOVERNMENT
Janet Yellen talks the Fed’s role and relationship to gov. Chair of U.S. Federal Reserve touches upon new policies born out of ’08 recession
AMELIA CACCHIONE/Daily Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen talks with Susan Collins, Dean of the Ford School, as part of the Ford Policy Talks series at Rackham Auditorium on Monday.
CARLY RYAN
Daily Staff Reporter
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen conversed with economist Susan M. Collins, dean of the Ford School of Public Policy, about her experience as the leader of multiple public policy initiatives to a packed Rackham Auditorium Monday night. University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel introduced Yellen, outlining the importance of the Federal Reserve to the University of Michigan, specifically the Public Policy School, which hosted the event. Regents Kathy White, Andrew Richner and Ron Weiser were also in attendance. “The University of Michigan’s academic strength is further enhanced by the Ford School’s connections to the Federal
Reserve,” Schlissel said. “Many UM students and graduates have interned or worked at the Fed.” Yellen then launched into her discussion, starting with her experience in carrying out the dual mandate Congress places on the reserve: to uphold low and stable inflation rates and to maximize employment. Yellen said the current economy, in comparison to the economy during the 2008 recession, is relatively healthy. “In terms of the goals Congress has assigned us, we’re doing pretty well,” she said. “The economy is growing at a moderate pace, mostly supported by consumer spending. But housing is a little bit healthier than it’s been, investment spending that had been quite weak last year is showing greater strength and the global economy, which was quite weak, now seems to be operating See YELLEN, Page 3
HAIL Scholarship leaves recipients University Discovery made with feeling tokenized by the ‘U’ program comes to ADMINISTRATION
RESEARCH
research in diseases
Other students believe the program is not widely advertised, holds limitations
University researchers identify protein that could be linked to cell death
In LSA freshman Ashley Soto’s hometown of Livonia, the University of Michigan is not always a feasible option for high-school seniors. With an average in-state tuition rate of $28,776 per year, Soto said most lower-income students don’t even consider the University when applying to colleges. “Coming from the west side of the state, Michigan is not a name you hear very often,” Soto said. “It’s mostly Grand Valley and Ferris State University … I think the biggest thing that scares people is the price tag … I actually have friends who I encouraged to apply to become freshmen next year and even teachers told them not to because they didn’t think they would make it.” LSA freshman Daija White did not consider the University as her first choice either when applying to colleges last year. She could have gone across
MOLLY NORRIS Daily Staff Reporter
University of Michigan researcher Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, a professor of chemistry and biophysics, made a breakthrough in his research on age-related diseases, and he and his team have received a grant from National Institutes of Health to conduct further studies. The team has discovered a protein that appears to be significantly linked to the cell death that causes memory loss in Alzheimer’s patients. They are working on discovering how this protein and the cell’s membrane interact to cause this cell death. “We are investigating See RESEARCHERS, Page 3
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MATT HARMON Daily Staff Reporter
the border to Canada as a dual citizen, and would have likely paid much less for her degree. However, when she received an advertisement in the mail for the High Achieving Involved Leaders Scholarship, she said her thoughts about the University and her future changed.
“I had already known I was going to apply to the college,” White said. “It definitely wasn’t my first choice but I had known I was going to apply and at least see what the outcome was … (HAIL) was a large part of it.” The HAIL Scholarship is a full-tuition scholarship that
reportedly targets low-income students across Michigan that have the ability to succeed but might not be able to afford the cost of attendance. The scholarship is listed in the 49-page Diversity, Equity and Inclusion plan as a method of improving socioeconomic See HAIL, Page 3
HAIL Scholarship at U of M
262
HAIL Scholars enrolled in the program’s first year
Scholarship value: approx.
$60,000 four years of free
Median family income of a student who attends U of M:
$154,000
The HAIL Scholarship considers academic success, financial need, Average student who and a competitive application upon selection. attends U of M comes
80th
in-state tuition
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negotiation with GEO
Contract includes wage increases, protects against hiring discriminations MATT HARMON Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan Graduate Employees’ Organization members and allies established a negotiated contract with the University late Monday afternoon after the GEO held its third sitin of the semester earlier that morning during the first meeting of a graduate DEI labor task force created by Chief Diversity Officer Robert Sellers, vice provost for equity and inclusion. According to GEO President John Ware, a Rackham student, bargaining sessions reconvened Monday morning at 9:30 a.m. and continued until 6:30 p.m. The new tentative contract was then taken to the GEO membership meeting and the members present at the See GEO, Page 3
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