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Opera drops SMTD prof. accused of sex assault
Students turn to ‘U’, third parties for scheduling assistance tools To make scheduling easy, students look for grade distributions, calendar apps
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David Daniels removed from San Francisco Opera show after ‘U’ student files sexual assault lawsuit CATHERINE NOUHAN Daily Staff Reporter
The San Francisco Opera has dropped David Daniels, professor at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance and a worldrenowned countertenor singer, from their 2019 production of “Orlando” amid sexual assault allegations and lawsuit filed by a student at the University against him. The opera cited business and professional reasons for letting go of Daniels in their press release announced last Thursday. The release stated the decision was made “after considerable deliberation given the serious allegations of sexual assault, an ongoing police investigation and a lawsuit filed against the American opera singer.” “While these situations remain under investigation, San Francisco Opera is unable to present the artist on the War Memorial Opera House stage,” the release read. Daniels also had a performance from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra pulled shortly after the lawsuit was filed in October 2018. The allegations began in March 2018, when an anonymous student reported Daniels’s solicitation for
sexual favors on Grindr. The student filed a complaint with the Office of Institutional Equity two days later. In July 2018, baritone singer Samuel Schultz accused Daniels and Daniels’s husband, Scott Walters, of a sexual assault that allegedly occurred in 2010. Music, Theatre & Dance senior Samuel Kidd then reported a solicitation from Daniels on Grindr later in July. In October 2018, Music, Theatre & Dance student Andrew Lipian filed a lawsuit accusing Daniels of sexually assaulting him earlier in March 2017. After the reports of Grindr solicitation were first made to OIE, Daniels still made tenure at the University in May 2018 despite a brief OIE inquiry. Daniels has been on leave since August, and the University’s actions have been in question because of their knowledge of multiple reports since July. He is currently under investigation. Lipian’s lawsuit alleges that on March 24, 2017, Daniels invited Lipian to his apartment to watch TV and discuss his career, and then drugged and assaulted Lipian. Lipian reported not being contacted by OIE for a University investigation. Lipian’s lawsuit also accuses See OPERA, Page 3
of UM students use it
UNC Chapel Hill
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Factor 3 increase
of students use it
from last year
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AMARA SHAIKH Daily Staff Reporter
As the winter semester at the University of Michigan draws near, students have begun scheduling, turning to course registration tools to help plan their upcoming semester. One of these newest resources students have begun utilizing is Coursicle, which works with students to create a schedule for the upcoming term by allowing instant class filtering, visual schedule planning and notifying them when seats open up in a certain class. At the University, Coursicle has recently gained traction with about 500 current student users.
Co-founder Joe Puccio created Coursicle during his freshman year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after struggling to register for courses he needed. He explained how the frustration of planning out which classes to take and then not getting all the ones he needed inspired him to write the program in 2012. “When I was an incoming freshman at UNC Chapel Hill, I spent 7 hours trying to plan my class schedule,” Puccio said. “Then finally when I went to actually register for those classes I only got to one out of the 5 that I needed to take. That night I started working on a program that would notify me when a class I wanted had an
open seat and one of my friends suggested opening it up to other students, so we did that and it started growing really quickly.” Coursicle was unique to UNC-Chapel Hill for its first three years but began expanding to other schools by late 2015. During its first semester, Puccio said the tool had 900 users and by the next semester, the total doubled to 1,800 users. UNC-Chapel Hill offered its support to Coursicle and after becoming partnered with the Information Technology Department, nearly 80 percent of students use it to plan their class schedule. Puccio explained the Coursicle team was encouraged to branch out to different universities after
receiving emails and Facebook messages from students across the country. “Originally we were just at UNC, so we only had UNC’s classes on Coursicle, but we had started getting some emails from other students and FB messages at other schools asking if we could add support for other schools,” Puccio said. “So we started playing around with that idea and then at the end of 2015 we started expanding to other schools.” LSA senior Diego Rojas Salvador’s Facebook message caused the Coursicle team to look into expanding to the University specifically. He said he reached out to See COURSES, Page 3
Veterans panel talks stigma around Study finds PTSD, public policy support systems VP Pendse ACADEMICS
RESEARCH
concerning ads in apps for youths 95 percent of apps for children age 5 and under contain advertisements
The panel, hosted by the Ford School, drew a crowd of around 100 students, faculty ERIN GRANT For the Daily
In honor of Veterans Day, the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of
Michigan hosted a panel event Monday night to discuss the implications of public policy for veterans. The panel, titled “The U.S. at ‘Endless War’: Public Policy and Those Who Serve,” featured three
veterans and was moderated by associate professor Luke Shaefer, director of Poverty Solutions. The event followed the University’s Veterans Week, a week-long series of events intending to honor
former members of the military. In front of an audience of about 100 students, faculty and Ann Arbor residents, Shaefer directed See VETERANS, Page 3
talks tech in classes at SACUA
David Potter re-elected as Faculty Senate Sec. at weekly SACUA meeting
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DANIELLE PASEKOFF
Daily Staff Reporter
Daily Staff Reporter
In college, students are finding apps for anything — deals on food, study tools and more. But as technology starts reaching younger audiences, advertisers have begun tapping into the new mobile market, resulting in what University researchers say is harmful exposure. Mobile applications geared toward children contain significant disruptive, often inappropriate, advertising content, University of Michigan researcher Jenny
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs at the University of Michigan met on Monday afternoon to elect an interim officer to the assembly, as well as discuss issues of attendance and the consideration of electronic participation in the future. Ravi Pendse, vice president for information technology and chief information officer, spoke to the assembly about the need for better communication between SACUA members and University faculty NATALIE STEPHENS/Daily
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Troy Nienberg, legislative director for U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., Heath Bergmann, Public Policy graduate student, Chemistry chief administrator Jan Malaikal, and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel sit at a panel moderated by Luke Shaefer at the U.S. at “Endless War”: Public Policy and Those Who Serve event at Ford Monday evening.
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Vol. CXXVIII, No. 30 ©2018 The Michigan Daily
NEWS.........................2 OPINION.....................4 ARTS......................6
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SUDOKU.....................2 CLASSIFIEDS...............5 SPORTS....................7