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July 24: UMich medical students walk out of white coat ceremony Incoming medical students walked out of their white coat ceremony to protest the selection of Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Kristin Collier as speaker due to her anti-abortion views. The walkout followed the circulation of a petition to remove Collier as speaker, which received over 400 signatures. Michigan Medicine ultimately declined to select another speaker,
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JUNE June 5: UMich receives $3.5 million reimbursement for Philbert settlementTheUniversity will receive a $3.5 million reimbursement from Munich Reinsurance America for its $9.25 million settlement with eight survivors of former University Provost Martin Philbert’s sexual misconduct. Philbert was fired from his position in March 2020 after the law firm WilmerHale uncovered over 15 years of evidence of sexual misconduct against him.
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Hubbard (R) shared updates about the Presi dential Search Committee and the process of selecting the Uni versity’s new president. In Febru ary, the University announced the Presidential Search Committee, led by regents Sarah Hubbard and Denise Ilitch, to find a replacement for former President Mark Schlis sel, who was fired in January for engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate. The committee, which solicited feedback from the campus com munity through virtual learning sessions and an online survey, consists of representatives from all three campuses and Michigan Medicine.“Wecontinue to be on track to complete the search for a new pres ident this summer,” Hubbard said. “We’d like to have an announce ment sometime soon. The interest is very high. We’re interviewing a diverse pool of candidates.” Following Coleman’s opening remarks, Laurie K. McCauley, Uni versity Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, presented the Fiscal Year 2023 General Fund Budget for the Ann Arbor campus. The budget out lined an increase in the minimum wage for students and temporary workers of the University to $15 an hour, up from $9.87 per hour. “This change will assure that all employees, including students and temporary staff, are compen sated in a manner consistent with the institutional values, regardless of how many hours they worked at the University,” McCauley said. The budget presentation detailed an increase in tuition for all paying students. For the 2022-23 school year, tuition will increase by 3.9%, amounting to $2,102 per year, for undergradu ate out-of-state students and will increase by 3.4%, or $558 per year, for in-state students. The increase in the cost of tuition amounts to over double that of last year’s, with up news from the ‘U’ administration
April 23: The Michigan Republican Party endorses Lena Epstein (R ) and Sevag Vartanian (R ) for UMich Board of Regents At the DeVos Place convention center in Grand Rapids, the Michigan Republican Party announced that they would endorse Lena Epstein (R) and Sevag Vartanian (R) for election to the University’s Board of Regents. If Epstein and Vartanian win their elections, they will be the third and fourth Republicans on the board. Regent Ron Weiser (R), chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, has chosen to support Lauren Hantz for theEpsteinelection. received her B.A. in economics from Harvard University, and received her Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. She is the co-owner and general manager of Vesco Oil Corporation and has not previously served in publicVartanianoffice. earned a Bachelor of Science in actuarial mathematics from the University in 1991. Varta nian worked in the finance indus try after he received a M.B.A. in finance and statistics from the Uni versity of Chicago Booth School of Business. Vartanian currently operates Vartanian Capital Man agement, an asset management firm.
APRIL April 9: The Michigan Democratic Party endorses Katherine White (D) and Michael J. Behm (D) for re-election to UMich Board of RegentsAt the 2022 Endorsement Convention in Detroit’s Huntington Place convention center, the Michigan Democratic Party endorsed Katherine White (D) and Michael Behm (D) for re-election to the University’s Board of Regents. White, the longest-standing regent at the University, is currently a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army National Guard, and is a professor at Wayne State University Law School. She serves in Lansing as the Deputy Commander of the 46 Military Police Command. She was inducted into the Michigan Military and Veterans Hall of Honor in 2021. Behm is president and owner of the Behm & Behm law firm and chairperson of Business Forward Michigan. Behm served as an officer of the Michigan Association for Justice from 2008 to 2012 and served as president from 2011 to 2012.
As students from all over reunite in Ann Arbor for a new school year, The Michigan Daily has you covered with all the major news coming out of the University of Michigan this summer.It’sbeen an eventful summer for the Wolverines. From announcing a new president to medical students walking out of their white coat ceremony, from a new minimum wage to LEO-GLAM’s first contract with the University of Michigan, here’s what you need to know for the upcoming year.
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JULY July 13: Dr. Santa Ono is officially appointed as 15th U-M president Current University of British Columbia President Dr. Santa Ono was officially appointed as the 15th president of the University at a special meeting of the U-M Board of Regents on July 13. Ono is set to begin his term on Oct. 13 and will have a base salary of $975,000. Interim University President Mary Sue Coleman — who was appointed following the firing of former University President Mark Schlissel — will continue to serve as president until the start of Ono’s term. According to a July statement from the University, Ono’s appointment came after a nearly six-month search of potential candidates that spread across the country. Ono will be the first president of the University that is of Japanese descent. While Ono’s base salary will be $975,000, that salary is subject to annual increases at the discretion of the Board of Regents, and Ono is also entitled to a deferred compensation of $350,000 as well as residence at the President’s House.July 22: Regents appoint Interim Dean of Public Policy at first meeting in the Upper Peninsula The July Board of Regents meeting marked the first time the board met in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. During the meeting, Interim University Provost Laurie McCauley recommended the appointment of Celeste Watkins-Hayes as the interim dean of the Ford School of Public Policy. Watkins-Hayes was associate dean for faculty affairs in the Public Policy School, professor of University Diversity and Social Transformation and founding director of the Center for Racial Justice.
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The University of Michigan Board of Regents met at the Alex ander G. Ruthven Building to dis cuss the budget for the 2023 fiscal year, which includes an increase in tuition and a $15 minimum wage for all workers across campuses. Interim University President Mary Sue Coleman opened the meeting by announcing that Regent Jordan Acker (D) will be succeeded by Regent Paul Brown (D) as the new chair of the Board. Acker will continue to serve on the Board of Regents until his term ends in Regent2027.Sarah
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MAY May 20: Regents approve new chief diversity officer, updates to the president’s house at May meet ingAt the May Board of Regents meeting, Interim University Provost Laurie McCauley recommended Sharon F. Matusik as the next dean of the Ross School of Business, Carlos Jackson as the dean of the School of Art & Design and Vicki Ellingrod as the dean of the College of Pharmacy. Tabbye M. Chavous was also recommended by McCauley as the next vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer, replacing Robert Sellers. The regents also approved a $15 million renovation to the President’s House, as well as $9.5 million for the construction of the temporary replacement for the Central Campus Recreation Building (CCRB) on Palmer Field following the planned demolition of the current CCRB after the Fall 2022 semester. The temporary structure will be used until construction at the current CCRB is completed in 2025 — it will then be removed from Palmer Field.
The Michigan Democratic Party endorsed Katherine White (D) and Michael J. Behm (D) for re-election to the University of Michigan Board of Regents on April 9 at the 2022 State Endorsement Convention in Detroit’s Huntington Place convention center. On April 23, the Michigan Republican Party endorsed Lena Epstein (R) and Sevag Vartanian (R) at DeVos Place convention center in Grand Rapids, Mich.White and Behm aim to retain their seats on the Board of Regents in the November 8 election, while Epstein and Vartanian’s elections would make them the third and fourth Republicans on the board. Regent Ron Weiser (R), chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, has backed Lauren Hantz for the election. The state of Michigan is holding an election for two of eight seats on the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, two of eight seats on the University of Michigan Board of Regents and two of eight seats on the Wayne State University Board of Governors on November 8, 2022. Article VIII § V of the Michigan Constitution provides for the election of the governing boards of three Michigan universities, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University, by the citizens of Michigan. Two U-M regents — White and Behm, in 2022 — are up for election every two years. As of 2022, there are two Republicans and six Democrats on the University’s Board. White is a professor at Wayne State University Law School and a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army National Guard. She is serving in Lansing, Mich. as the Deputy Commander of the 46 Military Police Command and was inducted into the Michigan Military and Veterans Hall of Honor in 2021. White is the longest-standing Regent at the University. Behm is president and owner of the Behm & Behm law firm and chairperson of Business Forward Michigan. He was an officer of the Michigan Association for Justice from 2008 to 2012 and served as president from 2011 to 2012. Behm succeeded former Regent Julia Donovan Darlow (D), who did not seek re-election, in 2014.White was originally elected to the Board in 1998 and was then re-elected in 2006 and 2014. If Behm and White are re-elected, they will be serving their second and fourth eight-year terms,Epsteinrespectively.attended Harvard University where she received a B.A. in economics. She graduated from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business with a Master of Business Administration in 2008. Epstein is also the co-owner and general manager of Vesco Oil Corporation. She has not previously served in publicVartanianoffice. is a 1991 graduate of the University of Michigan, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in actuarial mathematics. After graduating from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with an M.B.A. in finance and statistics, Vartanian has worked in the finance industry. He currently runs Vartanian Capital Management, an asset management firm. White, Epstein and Vartanian did not respond to requests for comment from The Michigan Daily. Jon Vaughn, a survivor of late athletic doctor Robert Anderson, announced in Nov. 2021 he would be running for the University’s Board of Regents in 2022. Vaughn also did not respond to The Daily’s requests for comment.LSAsenior Noah Zimmerman, Central Student Government (CSG) president, said maintaining a relationship between CSG and the Board is an important part of CSG’s role at the University. “(We talk) about what we want to see for the year (and) how we can work together, but the regents are really the ones who vote on things and decide on things,” Zimmerman said. “So we’re really just trying to advocate to them, answer their questions, tell them what students have been seeing, what they want to see more of and telling them what students want to change about the University. We’re really a voice for the students to the Zimmermanboard.”said while CSG cannot endorse or support any candidate for regent, the election does have an impact on the plans and actions CSG is able to take. “If a regent is more amenable to student decisions, they’ll probably listen to us a little bit more than some other regents,” Zimmerman
June 16: UMich Board of Regents approves $15 minimum wage and tuition increase at June meeting At the June Board of Regents meeting, a new budget for the 2023 fiscal year was approved, which included an increase in tuition and a mandated $15 minimum wage for all workers across the Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn campuses. For the 2022-23 school year, tuition will increase by 3.9% for outof-state students and will increase by 3.4% for in-state students. This tuition increase is over double the increase for the 2021-22 school year, which was 1.8%. Tuition increases do not apply to in-state students who receive need-based aid. Included in the tuition and fees, the University Health Service fee will increase by 2.2% to $209.80 per semester and the Central Student Government fee will increase from $2 to $11.19. Residence hall room and board rates with Michigan Housing will also increase by 4.6% for the upcoming fiscal year.
June 16: Nurses at Michigan Medicine rally for fair contract amid negotiations with UMich Members of the University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council (UMPNC) marched from the Detroit Observatory on East Ann Street to the June Board of Regents meeting at the Ruthven Museums building. UMPNC is a branch of the Michigan Nurses Association and has been undergoing negotiations with the University since March 15. The current contract the University has with the nurses at Michigan Medicine expired on June 30. UMPNC’s original demands included an end to understaffing, enforceable nurse-to-patient ratios, fair wages and hazard pay. According to a UMPNC update from June 8, Michigan Medicine had not met the union’s demands about mandatory overtime and multi-unit positions at the time of publication. Several of the nurses spoke at the Board of Regents meeting following the march, highlighting understaffing issues and re-outlining their demands. University Regent Denise Ilitch (D) assured them that their concerns were being addressed, but a contract has still not been negotiated.
Rising LSA junior Aricka Crox ton said that while the timing of the new policy made sense, she believes a gradual change would have been a better approach. “I think it’s around the time it should happen, but I didn’t expect it to be so abrupt,” Croxton said. “I think the school should have just leaned into it more slowly.”
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“In discussions, we prefer stu dents to work in groups and discuss with each other,” Guo said. “In that case, it’s hard to keep the social dis tance in the classroom. The Univer sity should think about more ways to actually prevent (COVID-19) fromRisingspreading.”LSA sophomore Abhi Shuko said while he does not per sonally have an issue with the new mask policy, he believes it is impor tant to maintain mask requirements in spaces students cannot avoid, such as classrooms and transporta tion.“Maybe I’d prefer to keep them in the classroom or areas where students have to be,” Shuko said. “In areas where you’re supposed to be for classes, you would want stu dents to always have masks because if someone doesn’t feel safe without masks, it’d be kind of an issue.”
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“The impact of overturning Roe would be largely felt by Black, Lati no, indigenous people, immigrants, people living with low incomes and in rural communities,” Stallworth said. “(These groups) have already long felt the impact of lack of access to abortion due to the social determi nants of health and discrimination that already exists in our healthcare and criminal justice systems.”
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The University of Michigan announced in an April 27 Universi ty-wide email that starting May 2, masks would no longer be required in indoor spaces, including class rooms and campus transportation. This updated policy is applicable to all three U-M campuses and includes campus visitors, regardless of vaccination status. The Michigan Daily spoke to U-M students about their reac tions and opinions regarding this change. Some students said the spring semester seemed like the appropriate time to lift classroom mask requirements, given declining cases for the majority of April and decreased student presence on cam pus, but said they would personally remain masked while in class.
With signs reading “Protect safe, legal abortion,” “No forced birth” and “My uterus, my choice” in hand, attendees heard from various speak ers on the importance of protecting abortion access in Michigan and nationwide. The chants “Bans off our bodies” and “We support Roe” echoed around the Diag throughout theKatieafternoon.O’Connor, president of the Albion College chapter of Planned Parenthood Generation Action, expressed her disappointment regarding the potential overruling of Roe v. Wade, but told attendees she remains determined to fight to protect legal abortion. O’Connor emphasized that abortion remains legal in the state of Michigan since Roe v. Wade has not been officially overturned, and encouraged attend ees to continue advocating for abor tion“Iaccess.don’t have the words to describe the anger and hurt that I feel,” O’Connor said. “Abortion is still legal in Michigan, and it will not be attacked on our watch without a fight … This week confirms we’re fac ing the worst-case scenario, which would be disastrous for every person in our country. And that is why we are here today … people in every state across the country in their home towns, right this minute, (are) rising up to say ‘Bans off our bodies.’” Nicole Wells Stallworth, execu tive director for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan, pointed out in her speech that a ban on legal abor tion will disproportionately affect low-income and minority groups.
Croxton said the changes in the mask mandate did not affect her experiences while communicating with instructors and classmates in the“It’sclassroom.kindof still the same,” Crox ton said. “I still interact with people the way I did before, and I don’t think the masks changed anything.”
Croxton said she believes it would be beneficial for the safety of community members if masks become required again in classrooms during the first few weeks of the fall semester. “I think (mask requirements in classrooms) would be the smart thing to do, at least for the first month or so, just in case somebody does come back with (COVID-19),” Croxton said. The University has not yet announced its intended mask policy for the fall semester. Daily Staff Reporter Tina Yu can be reached at tinapyyu@umich.edu.
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Wearing a mask remains a requirement in patient care areas such as Michigan Medicine, Uni versity Health Service and the Den tal School clinical area. Those who have tested positive for COVID-19 or have been exposed to the virus are also required to wear a mask while around other individuals dur ing the first 10 days of their isolation or self-monitoring period. According to the University, the new mask policy aligns with the COVID-19 community level guid ance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During the two weeks prior to the announcement of the updated mask mandate, COVID-19 cases on cam pus were declining, but they appear to be rising again in recent weeks.
“Using gender-inclusive language makes a great difference,” Stone said. “It opens up discussions in safe spac es to more people who are in bodily autonomy jeopardy.
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Students, community members, politicians and activists gathered at the University of Michigan Diag for the “Bans Off Our Bodies” rally Sat urday afternoon to speak out against the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade. One of around 50 “Bans Off Our Bodies” rallies held Saturday, the protest was held in response to the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on the pending Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organiza tion case. The decision, if finalized, would reverse 50 years of national legal precedent protecting the right to abortion with minimal govern ment interference and return the issue to individual states. In the state of Michigan, the over ruling of Roe v. Wade could mean the return to a 1931 law that banned all abortions unless to save the pregnant person’s life and made it a felony to perform one in other circumstances. Last month, Gov. Gretchen Whit mer filed a lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to strike down this law under the Michigan Constitu tion’s Due Process and Equal Protec tion clauses.
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Rackham student Xiaosheng Guo is a Graduate Student Instruc tor for the spring semester. Guo said she believes the new mask mandate will not impact safety in lecture halls because the bigger classroom size allows students to maintain social distancing. “I have taught for two semesters that students have masks for the whole class,” said Guo. “I think for rooms that (are) large enough, and the students can sit separately… then it is okay that students don’t wear masks because in this way, you can still keep your social distance, and you don’t need to be that careful about getting (COVID-19) or other diseases.”However, Guo said she felt the University should adjust its policy for classes where students have to sit in closer proximity to each other.
Rising LSA sophomore Jenny Zhao said although she believes the updated mandate is reasonable, she will continue to wear a mask in the classroom out of health and safety concerns.“When I first heard about it, it did make sense because there (are) less students on campus, and classes will be smaller,” Zhao said. “I’m probably going to (keep) wearing my mask in classrooms just for safe ty concerns because I don’t want to get sick during the spring semester.”
The University’s May 13 update to the Campus Blueprint COVID-19 dashboard said the COVID-19 com munity level for Washtenaw Coun ty is now “high,” according to the CDC. While the University’s policy regarding mask requirements in indoor spaces remains unchanged, the University encourages commu nity members to take preventative measures such as getting vaccinat ed, receiving boosters if eligible and staying home if sick. Students also expressed con cerns regarding how the updated mask mandate will affect the cam pus community in August when students return to campus for the fall semester.
Sarah Hubbard: We worked with a search firm — Isaacson, Miller — and part of what they did is helped us identify this big pool of candidates. So they were going to look at every possible candidate across the world. After the listen ing sessions, we developed the job description and Ono was in one of those very early pools of 100 candi dates when we started the search in March.
TMD: How did the presidential search process change following former President (Mark) Schlis sel’s termination? Were you already considering candidates when Schlissel announced his retirement in October?
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TMD: How will the board help facilitate the presidential transition and what role do you both plan to play in said transition? DI: I think it’ll be business as usual. We’ll try to be as supportive as possible. We’re excited because we believe Ono is a transparent per son, he’s a collaborator and he likes to work in partnerships. He has a servant-style leadership, so he has humility and he likes to ask advice and get help and listen. We want to be a strong support system to him and that’s what we’ll do.
Interview with Presidentelect Santa Ono TMD: How has your experi ence as president of the University of Cincinnati and the University of British Columbia prepared you to lead a public research university with a Big Ten athletics program? How has your experience at Cin cinnati shaped your relationship with The Ohio State University? Santa Ono: Oh, that’s a pretty funny question. That’s an in-state rivalry. So like I could ask you ‘What’s the relationship between Michigan and Michigan State?’ I would say that the University of Cincinnati shares that rivalry that Michigan has with Ohio State. You’re not looking at a Buckeye fan. As you probably know, the University of British Columbia is gigantic — there are about 71,000 students enrolled there. It’s a very comprehensive research university, like Michigan. I would say there Read more at michigandaily.com
Following the Board of Regents’ approval of President-elect Santa Ono on Wednesday, The Michigan Daily sat down with Ono as well as the co-chairs of the Presidential Search Committee, Regents Sarah Hubbard (R) and Denise Ilitch (D), to discuss Ono’s experience, the presi dential search process and more. This article has been edited and condensed for clarity.
SH: Because Schlissel had already announced his retirement we started looking at search firms and started preparing for that pro cess, but it wasn’t until he actually left that we really moved forward with the search committee. We cer tainly didn’t expect to have to move as quickly as we did. But when we needed to do it, we did.
Santa Ono is expected to be confirmed as the 15th president of the University of Michigan by the Board of Regents Wednesday afternoon, the Detroit Free Press reported late Tuesday. Ono’s appointment marks the second time a person of Color has served as president of the University, after former Presi dent Homer A. Neal, who served as interim U-M president in 1996. Ono is the first person of Japanese descent to serve as the president of the University. Since 2016, Ono has served as the current president and vice chancellor of the University of British Columbia. He previously served as president of the Uni versity of Cincinnati from 2012 to Ono2016.received an undergradu ate degree in biological sciences at the University of Chicago in 1984 before pursuing a Ph.D. in experimental medicine at McGill University in Montreal in 1991. Ono has received the Regi nald Wilson Diversity Leader ship Award from the American Council on Education, as well as the Professional Achievement Award from the University of Chicago, a Grand Challenges Hero Award from UCLA and the NAAAP 100 Award from the National Association of Asian American Professionals. The University established the Presidential Search Committee in February to survey candidates for the position. Regents Denise Ilitch (D) and Sarah Hubbard (R) were co-chairs of the committee, which included representatives from the three campuses and Michigan Medicine and sought input from the community through virtual learning ses sions and an online survey. The hiring comes after for mer President Mark Schlissel was fired on Jan. 15 for engag ing in a two-year relationship with a subordinate over email. The board appointed Coleman as interim president that same day to serve until a replacement was found.Schlissel’s termination came after he announced he would step down from the role of president one year early in June 2023. As part of his exit package, Schlis sel was initially entitled to his base salary of $927,000 for two years, $2 million to start a lab and a $5,000 monthly housing allowance. Following his termi nation, Schlissel’s exit package was voided, but he was awarded a one-year sabbatical in which he was paid $463,000, after issuing a 91-word apology to the board back in April. Following the sab batical, Schlissel is eligible to return as a U-M faculty member with a salary of $185,000. A spokesperson for the Uni versity was not immediately available in time for comment. Daily News Editors George Weykamp and Anna Fifelski can be reached at gweykamp@umich. edu and afifelsk@umich.edu.
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“There’s this discipline regulation that applies to all students that is essentially under the President’s Office … and after the president’s approval, it was published.” Bhangu said. “However, (AMS) hadn’t been consulted on that. And we reached out to Dr. Ono on a Friday evening, letting him know that ‘Hey, we weren’t consulted, and we aren’t happy with this change because it affects a lot of students,’ and Dr. Ono didn’t hesitate from rescinding his approval of the change in regulation and said that nothing will go forward without student consultation on that case.”Bhangu also said Ono had a positive relationship with students on the UBC campus and enjoyed how involved he was with the campus. “He’s quite a good sport,” Bhangu said. “He’s very pleasant to interact with. He’s very accessible to students. I think students just love that about him … and he’s just very present on our campus. One of our (campus) bucket list items is ‘Get a Selfie with Santa,’ so you’ll often see him across campus, and he will not even think twice before stopping and taking selfies with like a hundred students crowded around him.”
Campus reacts to Santa Ono’s appointment as 15th UMich President Campus looks forward to changes under new President TAYLOR PACIS/ Daily NEW PRESIDENT ANNA FIFELSKI & NIRALI PATEL Summer News Editors ANNA FIFELSKI & GEORGE WAYKAMP Summer News Editor & Daily News Editor Read more at michigandaily.com ‘It’s a happy damn day’: Dr. Santa Ono officially appointed as 15th president by Board of Regents NEW PRESIDENT Ono will take office Oct. 13 with base salary of $975,000 ANNA FIFELSKI & GEORGE WAYKAMP Summer News Editor & Daily News Editor BECCA MAHON/ Daily
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DI: Presidential experience was really a dealbreaker. I was not willing to take the risk of having a person that did not have the expe rience of running an institution of our size and public. It would have been a very unusual person to make that exception. But for me also it was the healer-in-chief, someone who could take the situation that we’re in now and rebuild trust in our community.
“When it comes down to (it), I’m mostly interested in ‘How is his administration going to reduce emissions? How is his administration going to prevent sexual assault cases and actually take accountability for the massive cases of sexual assault that have happened on campus with Dr. Anderson, for example, or Professor Conforth?’” Farah said. “And I’m also really interested to see how his administration will treat the workers of this university. I was very disappointed by how (former President) Mark Schlissel threatened our unions on campus.” During Ono’s presidency at the University of Cincinnati, Samuel Dubose was fatally shot by UC police officer Ray Tensing during an offcampus traffic stop on July 19, 2015. In response to the shooting, Ono announced the review and reform of the UC police department and appointed a new Vice President for Safety and Reform, Robin Engel. Though Tensing was tried twice on charges of murder and voluntary manslaughter, both ended in mistrials and Tensing did not face criminal charges.In2016, after a student on the University of Cincinnati campus committed suicide, Ono spoke out on Twitter about his past struggles with mental health and his own attempts at suicide. Ono also attended an N15 fundraiser, named for the statistic that one in five people will suffer from mental illness, to help raise money for teenagers struggling with mental illness.Kirsten Herold, LEO-GLAM President, Public Health lecturer and a member of the Presidential Search Committee, declined to participate in a formal interview to maintain the confidentiality of the presidential search. In an email to The Michigan Daily, Herold stated she was honored to be part of this year’s search committee.“Hereis what I think I can say: I was honored to be asked to serve on the committee,” Herold wrote. “We had a much more diverse search committee than most universities have (typically Deans and wealthy donors only), and we all took the process very seriously and worked extremely well together. We all attended the listening sessions and took the input to heart. The search firm, the UM staff support and the joint leadership of Regents Hubbard and Ilitch made it an efficient and collaborative process. I am very pleased with the final result and am excited to be working with the new president in the years to come.”
DI: Our timing was really good because there’s like five differ ent presidential searches going on right now across the country, and so we’re really happy that we didn’t have to compete with them. We got a little bit ahead of that, and we were able to get the best candidate.
The Michigan Daily: When did you first identify Ono as a candidate and how long have you been consid ering him?
Ono marks the first U-M president of Japanese descent and will receive a base salary of $975,000, which is subject to annual increases at the board’s discretion. Schlissel received a salary of $927,000 at the time of his termination. Ono is also entitled to deferred compensation of $350,000 and residence in the President’s House on South University Avenue. “I am honored to serve what I think is the greatest public university in the world,” Ono said. “The University of Michigan is known worldwide as an exceptional place for learning, teaching, healing and service across this great state, across this great nation and around the world, and I am humbled and honored to be named its 15th president.” Daily News Editors George Weykamp and Anna Fifelski can be reached at gweykamp@umich.edu and afifelsk@umich.edu.
SH: I think he’ll also stay in touch with (Interim) President (Mary Sue) Coleman and that transition, and while he wants to be respectful of her retirement, she wants to be sure he gets off on the right foot too.
TMD: What were the main take aways from the listening sessions? How did that impact your decision to select Ono? SH: The takeaways from the listening sessions were the main attributes we wanted in a presi dent, primarily someone who could really build trust between the broad University community and all its different stakeholders. The top takeaway was someone who was capable, who could do the job and understood how to run a Universi ty. We wanted to hire someone who didn’t need training wheels, and the listening sessions really helped us focus on those attributes. DI: I would just add that he talk ed about being a connector of peo ple. One thing I took away from the listening sessions is that our com munity wants to be heard and they want to be listened to and they want to be connected with, and Ono’s a connector. That was really critical, not only in his style of leadership but also in the way he communi cates. We happened to fall in love with the way he communicates, and that he looks at communication in a lot of ways.
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The Board of Regents held a special meeting on Wednesday to officially appoint Dr. Santa J. Ono as the 15th president of the University of Michigan.Ono,59, will begin his initial five-year tenure on Oct. 13 and will succeed Interim President Mary Sue Coleman, who was appointed by the board in January following the abrupt firing of former President Mark Schlissel. Coleman will continue to serve as president until Ono’s term begins. Ono is the current president of the University of British Columbia and has previously served as the president of the University of Cincinnati and senior vice provost and vice provost at Emory“I’mUniversity.thrilled to join in this enthusiastic welcome for Dr. Santa Ono as president of the University of Michigan,” Coleman said. “From academics and research to health care, athletics and service to society, the University is dedicated to excellence. ‘Leaders and best’ is our way of life on all three campuses.” According to a statement by the University on Wednesday, Ono’s appointment followed a nationwide search of potential candidates beginning in February, where the Presidential Search Committee hosted seven virtual listening sessions to hear community input on candidates. Regent Denise Ilitch (D) said in her statement at the meeting that the committee noticed integrity, communication and listening skills were among the main qualities community members were looking for in a leader. “It is readily apparent to me after getting to know Dr. Ono and learning about his experiences as a university administrator that he is the right person to lead the University of Michigan at this moment in time,” Ilitch said. “His vision for our future is exciting and we have a lot to look forward to. I’m telling you that it’s a happy damn day.”
NEW PRESIDENT Trigger Warning: This article contains mentions of suicide and attempts of suicide, mentions of sexual assault and mentions of police violence. “It’s official: Santa is coming to town,” “I’m okay with our new president being a Sagittarius” and “Santa’s meme game is fire” are only a few of the memes circulating on Instagram and Twitter following the appointment of Dr. Santa Ono as the University of Michigan’s 15th President at a special Board of Regents meeting July 13. Ono’s appointment as the 15th President of the University comes after a four-month search by the Presidential Search Committee, led by co-chairs Regents Sarah Hubbard (R) and Denise Ilitch (D). In an interview with President-elect Ono, Hubbard and Ilitch emphasized the impact the community listening sessions had on the presidential search. Hubbard also said Ono was in one of the first pools of candidates that the committee began considering in March. Zackariah Farah, U-M alum and Research Assistant at Michigan Medicine, said he is impressed by how Ono interacts with the students at the universities he has led, the University of British Columbia and the Univerisity of Cincinnati. “I’ve heard that he is very accessible and that he loves talking to students, and in my four years at U-M, I only saw Mark Schlissel in person once, which is pretty crazy,” Farah said. “(I’m looking forward to) just having someone who is willing to mingle and (be) friendly with the people that they’re supposed to represent and lead, and I hope that is what Santa Ono is going to bring to the table.”Farah said that while he’s excited for Ono to take over as president, he’s left with questions about how Ono’s administration will handle the problems at the University.
Eshana Bhangu, a third-year student at UBC and President of Alma Mater Society (AMS) — the student government at the Vancouver campus — said that Ono was receptive to student needs and often worked with AMS on student issues.
SH: Something that was really important to me was someone who had presidential experience. That wasn’t an absolute bottom line, we were still interested in people who had provost experience and dean experience, but someone who had experience as a president for me was very, very important.
DI: Confidentiality. Most people don’t understand, it’s really about the other candidates, not just the candidate-elect, but those that also were interviewed to protect their privacy because they all have cur rent jobs and everything.
TMD: What did you do with the information gathered from the Presidential Search Committee? Have members of the committee met with Ono? Denise Ilitch: What we did is we looked at all of the candidates that Sarah talked about and then we started an interview process that we did with the Presidential Search Committee and we narrowed down the candidates with the committee.
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For restaurants still reeling from the financial costs of the pandemic, the block closure enables outdoor seating and provides a lifeline. TAQ is a local destination for tacos and margaritas. Cynthia Messmore, the owner of TAQ, said in an email to The Daily that the business could not have sur vived the early stages of the pan demic if not for outdoor dining. “We currently pay over $10,000 a month for our small space,” Messmore wrote. “With out the additional seating in the summer, we would not be in business.”Whatresidents think In interviews with The Daily, Ann Arbor residents spoke on the ways block closures have impacted their personal lives and routines. Rackham student Bahaa Aldeeb said he appre ciated the block closures and wished they could be a perma nent“Itfeature.isnice to walk outside and it is nice to have social dis tance,” Aldeeb said. “We hope the city could make (block clo sures) more official rather than a bunch of random obstacles in the middle of the street. That would make it feel more like a forever thing and would encourage us to visit here even more often.” Although some drivers may have to drive or park further away from their workplace due to the blockades placed on the street, a survey conducted by the MSAA reported that 96% of the 1,400 respondents are in favor of streetUniversityclosures.of Michigan alum Nick Hall works for the law firm Gunderson Dettmer located in The First National Bank Build ing, a historical landmark on Main Street. Hall said he sup ports the closure and that the policy has little impact on his commute.“When I come into work, the Read more at michigandaily.com
Public Policy graduate stu dent Alyshia Dyer is a former law enforcement officer for the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office and a member of SSDP. Dyer said she has responded to many previous 911 calls involving an overdose and expressed how critical naloxone is in overdose situ ations.“The times that I’ve used nalox one, it really felt like you were sav ing someone’s life, because it wasn’t looking good before that,” Dyer said. “It showed me how important it was to make naloxone readily available.”Dyeralso said quick administra tion of naloxone was integral to ensuring the recovery of the person overdosing, and that by making nal oxone readily available, the commu nity was saving lives. “I have done research on opioid response in Michigan, and basically, making naloxone widely available is one of the best public health initia tives that you can do to save people’s lives,” Dyer said. Though the vending machine can provide quicker access to nal oxone, Scherba said the primary concern with its installment is that it could create a false sense of secu rity among those experiencing sub stance“(Peopleabuse.who are witnessing an overdose) may not call for help as soon as they could or would have otherwise, which could potentially put the user at risk,” Scherba said. However, Brianna Dobbs, Recov ery Opioid Overdose Team coor dinator for Home of New Vision and coordinator for the vending machine project, expressed that the vending machine will help beyond just saving “Havinglives.(the vending machine) in such a public place will raise awareness, reduce barriers and increase access to a life-saving medication,” Dobbs said. Dobbs added that Home of New Vision is trying to decrease the stigma around naloxone, as it is not just to be given to those expe riencing substance abuse. Dobbs emphasized naloxone can also be used in cases when prescribed medication is inadvertently mis administered. She said every household should have naloxone in their first aid kit. “People can have an opioid overdose because they took too much of a prescription medica tion, they read the bottle wrong or a small child gets into someone’s medication,” Dobbs said. As for the future, Home of New Vision hopes to expand the vend ing machines to other libraries in Washtenaw County. Dobbs said they are trying to expand these vending machines to the areas in Washtenaw County that expe rience the most overdoses. The organization told The Daily that their priority is challenging the stigma around drug overdoses, and there is still more to do. “I think there’s so much that can be done,” Dobbs said. “I think the starting point is to provide empathy and passion and support for people.” Daily Staff Reporter Riley Hod der can be reached at rehodder@ umich.edu.
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A new vending machine now stands outside the Ann Arbor District Library that dispenses free Narcan, the brand-name ver sion of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, according to an April 1 tweet from AADL Direc tor Eli Neiburger. The vending machine was installed by Home of New Vision, an organization devoted to supporting those with substance abuse issues. According to Rackham student Derek Frasure, policy director for Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) at the University of Michi gan, the vending machine sup plies resources that could be vital in saving someone’s life.
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Lauren Bloom, the owner of Bløm Mead works, said the social district and summer events offered her business an opportunity to advance its sus tainability efforts and strengthen community ties when they were previously put into place for half the week.“We bought compostable cups from a retailer here in Ann Arbor for takeouts, and we bought com postable stickers that have a social district logo on it,” Bloom said. “We offer discounts for participants of the biking events, and we’re also working on a local food-focused event during A2ZERO week. We love doing collaborative events. It’s so fun for us to work with other small business owners. In the mean time, our customers get introduced to their business and vice versa.”
“(The vending machine) is something that can mitigate that tide of deaths, which has cur rently outpaced car accidents for common fatalities,” Frasure said.
In June 2020, three months after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed the “Stay Home, Stay Safe, Save Lives” executive order, Ann Arbor joined a growing group of municipalities implementing temporary street closures to enable physical distanc ing for downtown restaurants and retailers.AnnArbor City Councilmember Ali Ramlawi, D-Ward 5, who is also the owner of Jerusalem Garden, said his experience running a local business motivated him to work on the initial street closure agenda. “We talked to police and Washt enaw County health officials to cre ate a safe area for people to come downtown,” Ramlawi said. “Equal ly important is to help businesses stay alive. Since people couldn’t dine-in, we wanted to set up out door sittings to the extent permis sible.”The street closures instituted for last summer were temporarily suspended in November. On March 21, the City Council passed a resolu tion announcing the return of street closures. The return of street clo sures not only allows city officials and downtown merchants to be prepared for renewed pandemic restrictions, but also creates a test ing ground for a more lively down town area as the city moves past the pandemic.
Like many businesses on Main Street, even though most of their current orders are takeout through Snackpass, Moeller said he is researching how to expand outdoor dining. Andrade said businesses must complete an application pro cess before they can expand out door dining capacity. “People have to get sidewalk occupancy permits directly with the city,” Andrade said. “The Main Street Area Association holds the permit for the street space. So for folks expanding to the street, going through us is just a simple process including signing a contract that follows the city rules, like noise con trol.”The extended social district also allows downtown businesses to connect with one another and get involved in local causes.
The Michigan Daily spoke to Ann Arbor community members about the impacts of the revival of this policy on small busi nesses, community engagement and potential issues with accessibil ity.Ann Arbor’s social district was first introduced in November 2021 as the area of the city containing all block closures to allow people to walk around with open alcoholic beverages. An April 18 City Council resolution extended the social dis trict’s operational hours. The block closures and social dis trict are both organized by the Main Street Area Association (MSAA), which works to make Ann Arbor’s downtown area and businesses suc cessful. In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Sandra Andrade, executive director of MSAA, said she expects the joint impact of the social district and its block closures to enhance foot traffic in outdoor spaces.“My estimate is that the num ber (of participants) will double,” Andrade said. “The goal is to encour age people to be outside enjoying the space rather than inside. I am looking forward to incorporating that into the block closure this year.”
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Prior to September 2021, Ann Arbor legislation allowed land lords to start showing properties and signing new leases for the next school year 70 days into the exist ing lease. This resulted in students spending the early months of each semester searching for housing for the next year. The City of Ann Arbor attempted to address this issue by passing the Early Leasing Ordi nance in September 2021, which prevents landlords from showing leased properties to prospective tenants or entering into a new ten ant agreement 150 days before the end of the current lease. Many students report landlords often evade the terms of the ordi nance by finding various loopholes. These include requiring prospec tive tenants to pay fees in order to enter a waitlist for a unit or hold a unit before reaching the 150 day mark.Source 1, an Art & Design fresh man, spoke on their experience renting from Michigan Rental. The student asked to remain anonymous and will be referred to in this article as Jane Doe. Doe said that when they signed their lease with Michigan Rental for the 2022-2023 school year, the land lord made them put money down to reserve the unit in Feb. 2022. The Daily received a copy of this email and verified its contents. “We contacted the property management company and they (said) because of the land ordinance we can’t do a lease yet but if you pay $2,000 for a holding fee, then we can hold the lease for you,” Doe said. Doe said the ordinance is inef fective because landlords have been inconsistent in following its terms. Doe said they might not have had a place to live for the winter semester if they had not paid a holding fee early.“I feel like if all of them (land lords) are following (the ordinance), it would be effective or if none of them were following it, it would be however it was before,” Doe said. “I
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Andrade said increased foot traffic drawn by the social district and block closure would encourage more activities and events on the street.“Because of the pandemic, we haven’t been able to really engage the street space as far as we want,” Andrade said. “This year, we are going to start doing that. So Friday, we’ll be announcing a Thursday night music series. We’ll have com munity mornings on Fridays, and on Saturdays, the candles will light up the area. We really opened it up to anybody who wants to engage with street Opportunitiesspace.”for businesses and restaurants2022marks the first year certain downtown businesses get to expe rience the social district and street closure. Cinnaholic, a vegan bak ery that opened at the beginning of this year, is actively adjusting to the business rhythm of downtown Ann Arbor. Doug Moeller, the owner of the Cinnaholic, said in an interview with The Daily that he is looking forward to the upcoming events later this summer. “We haven’t actually experi enced it,” Moeller said. “But you know, I did live here before. I kind of know what to expect from those things … that’s going to drive a lot of traffic here. We’re gonna have tables outside selling baby buns dur ing the art fair … we’re staying open later on Fridays and Saturdays.”
Lieutenant Mike Scherba of the Ann Arbor Police Department (AAPD) said that in 2021, the AAPD received a total of 68 calls recorded in their system as drug overdoses in Ann Arbor, which averages out to about one call per week. While all AAPD officers and supervisors are required to carry naloxone, Scherba said the vending machine has the poten tial to create faster distribution of the drug to those experiencing an overdose.“Provided that the person has the ability to administer (nalox one) properly, I think the poten tial, at least, is there for faster administration,” Scherba said.
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Trigger warning: this article contains mentions of sexual assault. An estimated 2,000 people gathered on the Diag on Friday to ‘share space’ and discuss action after the Supreme Court over ruled Roe v. Wade (1973). The Supreme Court voted 6-3 in favor of a Mississippi ban on abor tions after 15 weeks of pregnancy in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned Parent hood v. Casey (1992). The decision leaves the right to abortion access to the states, and it is expected that almost half of states will establish a ban on abortions as a result.The vigil began with Carrie Rheingans — an instructor at the School of Social Work, a member of the Washtenaw County Board of Health and an organizer of the event — asking the crowd if they felt hurt, exhausted and angry. Rheingans then led everyone in a “deliberate scream”, and the Diag was momentarily filled with voices.The ruling came after Politico released a leaked draft opinion suggesting that the Supreme Court would overrule Roe v. Wade last month. This leaked draft opinion sparked nationwide protests and was condemned by both advocates of abortion rights and Michigan physicians. In Michigan, a preliminary injunction issued in May on a 1931 ban on all abortions except those that are necessary to save a per son’s life will temporarily maintain access to abortions in the state. The injunction currently halts the ban from coming into effect, but it is only temporary, with conservative activists having filed a request last month to have the injunction lifted. In response, a ballot initiative called the Reproductive Freedom for All campaign currently exists in Michi gan that would add the right to an abortion to Michigan’s constitution if passed.Bonsitu Kitaba, Deputy Legal Director at the ACLU of Michigan and an organizer of the vigil, spoke about this ballot initiative to the crowd, claiming that it not only pro tects access to abortion but also pro tects a wide range of reproductive healthcare services. “The Reproductive Freedom for All campaign and ballot initiative is a constitutional amendment that protects every individual’s right to reproductive freedom,” Kitaba said. “And that means your right to make and effectuate decisions related to your pregnancy, whether that be contraception, sterilization, prena tal care, postnatal care, miscarriage management, infertility and abor tionKatiecare.”Scott, County Commission er for District 9 and an organizer of the vigil, addressed the crowd and urged them to act beyond the ballot and donate to the Midwest Access Coalition, an organization that rais es funds to help women with travel costs and other costs associated with getting an abortion. “In Michigan, 87% of our coun ties have no abortion providers,” Scott said. “What do we do about this? We support organizations like Midwest Access Coalition.”
U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Ann Arbor, also spoke, expressing her shock at the decision. Dingell encouraged the crowd to use its energy from the vigil to take action to protect abortion rights. “We’ve got to put (the energy), that passion, into fighting for what’s right, to fight for women’s health care,” Dingell said. “And remember, that’s what we’ve got to tell people, a woman has the right to make her own decision and control her own body.”Ann Arbor is considered a “zone of reproductive freedom” after resi dents of Ann Arbor voted to amend the city’s charter 30 years ago. Under the amendment, if an abor tion were to take place within city limits while a state or federal ban on abortions existed, the person who had an abortion, or the healthcare provider, would only be subject to a $5 fine. Additionally, government officials, including the city attorney, are not able to refer cases to any other authority for prosecution. State Rep. Felisha Brabec, D-Pittsfield, addressed the crowd, saying the overturning was person al for her as a mother of two daugh ters. She spoke on how this decision has impacted the youth of America. “It is our 13-year-old’s birth day today, and the conversation we were having today with her was about the rights she had today when she woke up, she no longer has going to bed,” Brabec said. “(My daughter) has less rights than I had, and less rights than my mom had. That has got to change. That is why we are all here.”
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The Michigan Nurses Association filed a lawsuit against the University of Michigan amid ongoing contract negotiations with the University of Michigan Professional Nurses Council. The suit, filed Monday in the Court of Claims, alleges that the administration has violated state law by refusing to negotiate with the union over nurses’ workload. Specifically, the lawsuit claims the University is violating the Public Employment Relations Act of 1947, which requires bargaining agreements between public employers and labor organizations to consider “wages, hours and other conditions of employment.”
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The Supreme Court’s June 24 overturning of Roe v. Wade ignited rapid changes in state abortion laws, with eight states having already banned abortion and four more expected to do so over the summer. Abortion remains legal in Michi gan due to a preliminary injunc tion against the state’s 1931 law criminalizing all abortions except to save the pregnant person’s life. The 1931 law was nullified by the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision but never officially repealed. In light of the uncertainty surrounding abortion access in Michigan, a coalition of organizations created the Repro ductive Freedom for All ballot ini tiative, a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive rights that received over 800,000 signatures in support.Thedraft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was initially published by Politico in May, after which the University of Michigan announced the creation of a “Post-Roe Task Force” composed of individuals across various areas and occupa tions, including healthcare profes sionals, legal representatives and students and faculty working in rele vant research areas. The task force is designed to mitigate the effects of a potential abortion ban in Michigan.
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In an email to The Michigan Daily, Michigan Medicine spokesperson Mary Masson wrote that University of Michigan Health, Michigan Medicine’s clinical division, will “vigorously defend itself” in the lawsuit. Masson wrote that the University’s current contract offer provides a 6 percent raise for first-year nurses and a 5 percent raise per year for the next three years. The University has also offered to introduce a salary step program for nurse practitioners and eliminate mandatory overtime to address overtime“University of Michigan Health makes staffing determinations with patient safety at the forefront of its decisions, and this has produced outstanding safety results,” Masson wrote. “We continue to bargain in good faith.”In addition to the lawsuit, MNA filed an unfair labor practice charge against the University with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission. Pending the MERC ruling, the lawsuit asks for an injunction that would immediately force the University to bargain over nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.
Dr. Lisa Harris, a physician at Michigan Medicine who provides abortion care and a co-chair of the task force, said this task force cov ered a wide variety of topics that arose when Roe v. Wade was over turned.“There’s two broad buckets of work that the task force is doing,” Harris said. “One is campus work, so thinking about all the ways in which students and faculty and staff across all the different campuses and schools will be impacted. And the second bucket is around clinical care and individualarecommittees,theHarristreatment.”describedtaskforce’ssub-whichworkingtoaddressissues,such as which abortions Michigan Medicine could still provide if the 1931 ban, or a ban like it, were to take effect, as well as clarifying Title IX protections and student insurance policies. Following the official overturn ing of Roe v. Wade, Michigan Medi cine released a public statement reaffirming its commitment to pro viding abortion care and resources, so long as abortion remains legal in the“U-Mstate. Health remains commit ted to providing high-quality, safe reproductive care for patients, across all their reproductive health needs,” the statement read. “This includes abortion care, which remains legal in Michigan while challenges to various state-law criminal statutes continue to Accordingproceed.”toMichigan Medicine, many of the patients for whom they provide abortions are experiencing serious pregnancy complications or underlying health conditions. While they can provide outpatient medication abortions in some cases, they also outline various local clin ics such as the Planned Parenthood Ann Arbor Health Center that do so moreMichiganoften. Medicine still provides access to abortion care, but Dr. Dee Fenner, chair of obstetrics and gyne cology at Michigan Medicine and co-chair of the task force, said that access would change if a ban were to be put into “Obviously,place.we would follow the law,” Fenner said. “That would sig nificantly impact our ability to care forUnderpatients.”the 1931 ban, Michigan Medicine would still be available to provide abortions in life-threat ening events. However, according to Harris, there is little clarity on if a doctor can provide an abortion in a situation where the threat to the pregnant person’s life is uncertain or evolving.“It’sunclear if we would be able to provide abortion care early in pregnancy, when there’s not an imminent threat to someone’s life, in order to prevent an imminent threat later,” Harris said. “So that’s one thing that’s ambiguous: the timing of it. Do they have to be imminently at risk, or what if their risk is later?” Harris highlighted ectopic preg nancies, a condition in which the fertilized egg implants outside of the uterus — most commonly in the fal lopian tube. The uterus is the only organ in which a pregnancy can be carried to term, so the treatment for an ectopic pregnancy is medi cal or surgical termination of the pregnancy. Left untreated, ectopic pregnancies can rupture and cause a life-threatening hemorrhage.
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According to a statement from the MNA, 6,200 nurses in the union have worked without a contract since July 1, when the union’s previous contract with the University expired. The two parties have yet to reach a new agreement and have been negotiating since March 15. The Association also cited statistics identifying high workload ratios as responsible for preventable infections and injuries among patients and nurses in the United States. Renee Curtis, UMPNC president and registered nurse, said patient safety was the union’s primary concern. “Our union is fighting for patient safety, first and foremost,” Curtis said in a statement. “It’s absurd to think that conversations about how to keep patients safe can be effective without talking about our nurses’ workloads.”
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The Top 10s If you’re curious about what dishes the dining halls most commonly serve, don’t worry — The Daily has compiled a list of the most commonly served items for breakfast/ brunch and lunch/dinner. Here are the Top 10s:
A core part of any college fresh man experience is the dining halls. Whether you decide to avoid them at all costs or visit them for break fast, lunch, and dinner, it’s helpful to have a breakdown of which din ing halls do what things best. That is exactly what The Michigan Daily has set out to do. The University of Michigan has seven public dining halls, and nine overall, which can be a lot for an incoming freshman. The public dining halls are in South Quad Resi dence Hall, Bursley Residence Hall, East Quad Residence Hall, MosherJordan Residence Hall, North Quad Residence Hall, Mary Markley Res idence Hall and at Twigs at Oxford Residence Hall. The Daily has ana lyzed menu data from the MDining API to help incoming freshmen pre pare for the challenge of deciding where to eat. The data was collected from Aug. 11, 2021, to April 29, 2022, and The Daily has broken it down for you here.
Vegetarian Options Any incoming vegetarian freshmen will likely want to know which dining hall offers the most options for their dietary restric tions. To help these students and anyone else searching for vegetarian dishes, The Daily calculated the average number of vegetarian options served per day at each dining hall. If you’re a vegetarian, this breakdown is for you:
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Conclusion For all incoming freshmen, take this information and run with it. Use it to inform your decisions on where to eat and what dining halls to steer clear of. You’re also free to use this data in any arguments you have with other freshmen over what dining hall is best, because that, too, is a classic freshmen experience. No matter how little or how much you enjoy the din ing halls, this information is important, because more likely than not, they’re the only choice you have.
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MHealthy MHealthy is the University’s system of identifying healthy options at dining halls for those who are trying to be conscious about what they are consuming. Every menu item is either MHealthy or it’s not, so The Daily tal lied up the healthy items at each dining hall to determine which one offered the highest percentage of MHealthy options over the surveyed period. Here’s what they found: Variety Variety can be a hard thing to measure, but The Daily attempted to do so by counting the number of items served at each dining hall during the surveyed time period and dividing that amount by the number of days the dining hall was open. This was all in hopes of finding an average number of items per day at each public dining hall, so freshmen can decide which dining hall offers the most variety. Here’s what they found:
Early November: Men’s & women’s basketball season begins Nov. 16: Men’s basketball plays in the Legends Classic, facing off against Arizona State, Pittsburgh and VCU Nov. 26: The Wolverines take on Ohio State in “The Game” for the final regular season football game
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APRIL Apr. 1: Men’s Final Four takes place at the NRG Stadium in Houston Apr. 2: Women’s NCAA Tournament championship takes place at the American Airlines Center in Dallas Apr. 6-8: Amalie Arena hosts the men’s Frozen Four in Tampa Bay
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Jan. 9: CFP National Championship game in Los Angeles
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Sept. 3: Michigan opens football season at home ColoradoagainstState Sept. 24: Parents & Family Weekend, the Wolverines face Maryland
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MARCH Mar. 1-5: The women’s basketball team competes in the Big Ten Tournament at the Target Center in Minneapolis Mar. 8-12: The men’s basketball team goes to the United Center in Chicago to compete in the Big Ten Tournament Mar. 12: Selection show for the men’s NCAA basketball tournament Mar. 13: Women’s NCAA basketball tournament selection show Mar. 16: March Madness begins Late March: NCAA men’s ice hockey tournament begins
Mid-February: Michigan baseball and softball begin their seasons
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Dec. 3: Potential Big Ten Football Championship in Indianapolis Dec. 4: UM men’s hoops face Kentucky in London Dec. 21: The inaugural Jumpman Invitational takes Michigan men’s basketball to Charlotte to face UNC Dec. 31: College Football Playoff semifinal games
2) Can mitigateMichiganthelosses of Hutchinson and Ojabo?
Preparation Depending on what time the game is scheduled for, you might be waking up pretty early on Saturday to start getting ready and tailgating. Most students in my dorm hall last year were up and ready (and blast ing music) by 7 or 8 a.m. for noon games. So try to go to bed early the night before – you’ll need lots of energy to make it through the day. Another good idea is to make a plan with your friends the day before about when you’ll meet and where you’ll go before the game. The din ing hall is usually a good place to start the day, but make sure to check the weekend hours. If you aren’t able to make it to the dining hall, try to grab some quick breakfast from your room or another place on campus. And last but not least, don’t forget your MCard — you’ll need it to get into the stadium.
Gameday Guide
Fall in Ann Arbor is special. The campus is abuzz as students return for the beginning of the school year; the weather and scenery are abso lutely beautiful; and, of course, foot ball season is in full swing. Football and the University of Michigan go hand in hand. Saturdays in the fall — whether you care about the sport or not — are some of the best days of the year. You’ll wake up earlier than you wake up for classes. You’ll walk out of your dorm and down State Street in a sea of maize and blue. You’ll join 110,000 other fans in the biggest stadium in America. You’ll make some of your favorite memo ries, ones that you’ll never forget, even after your time as a Michi gan student is over. All that to say, gamedays are incredible. But they can also be daunting. So, to help ease any nerves that you may have as the first Michigan football game approaches, here’s a comprehensive guide to navigating gamedays in Ann Arbor.
Michigan football is an exten sion of its enigmatic coach, for bet ter and for worse. That proposition is as true now, entering year eight of Harbaugh’s tenure in Ann Arbor, as it was back at his introductory press conference in 2014. Of course, in the past 20 months, most people presumed that we wouldn’t reach this juncture, that Harbaugh would be out at some point or another. Fol lowing a calamitous 2020 season, many called for Harbaugh’s firing, and in the wake of a Cinderella-like tale in 2021, Harbaugh seriously entertained a return to the NFL in February. Nonetheless, Harbaugh remains. And after a year that unfolded like a Hollywood script — a feel-good story of a youthful coaching staff whose revamped culture helped a rejuvenated head coach return his alma mater to the promised land — it’s worth ask ing: What happens when this year inevitably unfolds differently? Har baugh did well to deflect conversa tion of expectations and pressure in March, instead stressing the “scary good” state of his program. But how long can he manage to keep such positive feelings afloat in Ann Arbor, especially among a fanbase crazed for sustained dominance? That, perhaps, is the greatest nar rative arc at the season’s inception.
4) Is Ronnie Bell, well, still Ronnie Bell?
What to wear There’s really only two pieces of advice I have to give on the topic of clothing: Dress for the weather and wear anything maize and blue. It’s usually warm out for the first few home games before the infa mous Michigan winter starts to kick in — make sure to check the weather beforehand and plan your outfit accordingly. Within weather constraints, anything with a block M is fair game. If you need to find gameday clothes on campus, check out the M Den for anything you can imagine with a Michigan logo. For cheaper alternatives, try the Wal greens or CVS on campus. Another great option is borrowing from your friends, roommates or hallmates. Most people come to school with tons of maize and blue clothes, and they are usually happy to let you borrow for a game. Pre-game festivities There are tons of tailgates and events around campus that you can go to before the game. Almost every fraternity has a tailgate, many of which are on big streets like Hill, Oxford and Packard. Fra ternity tailgates are popular spots for freshmen, and they’re relatively easy to find. Lots of alumni also have tailgates closer to the stadium and around the golf course next to the Big House. My biggest piece of advice for pre-game festivities is to explore! You don’t necessarily need a set-in-stone plan for tailgat ing; you’ll definitely stumble upon events as you walk towards the stadium. Some of my favorite pregame memories — like fist-bump ing Charles Woodson and getting on TV before the Ohio State game — were unplanned. If you need a break at any point (gamedays can be exhausting), East Quad is a great place to sit down for a bit and get some food. When you’re ready to head to the stadium, follow the maize and blue masses. All roads lead to the Big House on gameday. At the Big House The Big House definitely lives up to its name, and it can be stress ful to navigate at first. You’ll enter through Gate 10 for the student sec tion, which is very easy to find (look for the huge crowd of students mov ing towards the stadium from State Street). Your mobile tickets will have a section, row and seat num ber, but most students don’t stick to their assigned seats; it’s easy to move around and sit with your friends once you get inside. Be aware, though — you’ll probably have little to no cell service in the stadium. It can be very hard to communicate with and find your friends, so make sure not to lose them in the crowd. Once you secure a bleacher spot, prepare to be on your feet for the entire game. The student section initiates lots of cheers, so become familiar with those. The Michigan fight song, Hail to the Victors, is definitely the most important. It’s played every time Michigan scores a touchdown and at various other times throughout the game. Addi tionally, “Pump it Up” and “Mr. Brightside” have become Michigan football anthems — you’ll definitely want to sing along to those. And at the beginning of the third quarter, the band plays “Can’t Turn You Loose” by Blues Brothers. Everyone in the student section starts doing an accompanying dance; watch the cheerleaders or the students around you and follow their lead for this one. There will be other songs and cheers that are played throughout the game, but those are the basics to know and love. After the game
1) Who is QB1?
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Much of the intrigue surround ing this iteration of the Michigan football team starts under cen ter, where the stage seems set for a quarterback competition. Cade McNamara steered the Wolverines to a Big Ten Championship win last season, and though McNamara’s game is not flawless, his blemishes are often over-emphasized. McNa mara is a proficient game manager, a respected locker room presence and he can sling it, too — far better than his critics give him credit for. That being said, it’s reasonable to wonder whether Michigan would have a higher ceiling with J.J. McCarthy as the starting quarter back. McCarthy, a former five-star recruit, saw limited action last season as a freshman. It’s clear, though, that he offers variables that McNamara does not; McCarthy has a stronger arm and is a legiti mate mobile threat, two skills that would increase Michigan’s chances to trump the rugged defenses of the Big Ten. However, McCarthy has nursed a shoulder injury through the offseason, missing spring ball and hindering the competition. But both quarterbacks should be ready to go as fall camp begins.
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Follow the crowds to the sta dium exits when you’re ready to leave. Take a well-deserved nap once you get back to your dorm and make sure to get some food. You’ll probably notice either a collective euphoria or defeat in the Ann Arbor air depending on the outcome of the game. But either way, gamedays are some of the best experiences that you can get as a Michigan student. Take advantage of them; you don’t get all that many.
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Last season, you’d have been hard pressed to find a better defen sive duo than Aidan Hutchinson and David Ojabo. The All-American edge rushers comprised a recur ring nightmare for the opposition, so often dominating the line of scrimmage and flipping the tenor of the game in Michigan’s favor. For a defense that entered the year with a number of question marks, Hutchinson and Ojabo evolved into a foolproof answer, assuaging early concerns. But with both play ers now in the NFL, there will be no such luxury for first-year defen sive coordinator Jesse Minter and company this season. In the spring, players and coaches expressed con fidence that these losses could be mitigated — while also acknowl edging that the production will be near-impossible to replicate. Mike Morris and Braiden McGregor are expected to assume greater roles as edge rushers, while Jalen Harrell, Taylor Upshaw and others are sure to be relied on, too.
3) Can Jim Harbaugh control — and win — the narrative?
Remember that guy? Michigan’s offense sure does. After tearing his ACL early on in last year’s seasonopener, Bell is set to return to a receiving corps rife with weapons. The addition of Bell could push the group from good to flat-out domi nant — that is, if Bell can recapture his pre-injury form. Bell isn’t the most physically-gifted receiver, but he is shifty and cunning, and he used his craft to become Michigan’s leading receiver by yards in 2019 and 2020. A legitimate go-to option out wide would not only alleviate pres sure for McCarthy/McNamara, but it would also slot the other receivers down a rung on the pecking order — presumably giving them more favorable matchups with the oppos ing secondary. And in an offense that already touts two top running backs in Blake Corum and Donovan Edwards, not to mention a steady tight end in Erick All, a seamless return from Bell would only make the opposition’s task more difficult.
All-Big Ten Honoree women in the Fall of 2021 alone, these athletes are more than just world-class competitors — they are your classmates, as well. “It’s especially important and special when it’s peer to peer,” Plocki said. “When it’s our athletes, their peers and fellow students at the University of Michigan, it’s not just mom and dad and grandma and someAndfriends.”although bringing mom, dad, grandma and anyone else to these games is more than welcome, when the student section is filled, the atmosphere is just different. “It’s amazing, and it just makes our athletes feel important and spe cial and really energized,” Plocki continued.Moreover, as a wave of incoming freshmen, your commitment to sup porting women’s sports will help honor the humble beginnings of Michigan women’s athletics. From the six varsity sports that began in the fall of 1973 to the 14 varsity pro grams in 2022, Michigan has come a long way. But there is still work to be done — work that you can help with. As much as Michigan athlet ics has taken steps to increase the equity between men’s and women’s sports — from marketing to atten dance and beyond — the onus is on students to make those steps pay off. Through attending women’s sport ing events, you do more than simply enjoy the thrill and rush of an amaz ingYougame.support women’s sports. And you prove to Michigan athletics that women’s programs already — and will continue to — deserve the funding, exposure, mar keting and investment that men’s sports have received for decades.
gramEspeciallyreceives.each and every one of Michigan’s talented women’s sports.The Wolverines are privileged to have 14 varsity women’s sports teams, each with a vibrant legacy and rich future of success and empowerment. Currently, Michi gan sits atop the race for the coveted Director’s Cup, which measures school-wide athletic performance. An achievement powered by four women’s Big Ten Championships. Women’s sports at Michigan are among the most elite in the world, and as a student body, it is our duty to bring the fans, energy and respect that these teams deserve. As a new wave of incoming fresh men, it is up to you to continue to build upon and strengthen a tradi tion of empowering women’s sports by attending these events.
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And National Championship winning head coach of women’s gymnastics Bev Plocki agrees: “I think it’s about time that we sell our women’s programs the way that we have our men’s programs for decades,” Plocki said. “And we showed for the first time this year that we could sell out Crisler Arena with a 12,707 attendance when we (hosted) Auburn.” And that’s the truth. With every passing season, wom en’s sports at Michigan vault into greater heights and cement what it means to be a Wolverine. Selling out Crisler Arena is just the beginning of what this new era for women’s sports can entail — a new era, pow ered by you freshmen. This is an opportunity which women’s soccer coach Jen Klein sees as ready for the taking.“Ithink the thing for us that we need to keep doing is to just keep fighting the good fight,” Klein said. “And not say, ‘oh, we did it once,’ like no, let’s do it. You know, every week end, every season. And continue to push it to make it as great as it can be.”With the help of you, the incom ing freshmen, the sky’s the limit for what women’s sports can reach. When you attend these events, not only are you empowering these ath letes, but you are empowering your fellowWithstudents.72Academic
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At Michigan — as anybody will tell you — the Wolverines are famous for game days. From the fanfare, to the tailgates, Ann Arbor bleeds Maize and Blue. And at the University of Michi gan, game days aren’t just on Satur days in the fall. No, this isn’t a cliche about bring ing your A-Game in class every day — although, you should probably do that. This is a message telling you that in addition to each electrifying sold-out game at the Big House on Saturdays, there are dozens more games played during the same week.And with the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX on June 23, the sportsloving student body of Michigan needs your help! Because in Ann Arbor, every sport deserves the overwhelming amount of love and attendance that the football pro
“The reality is, sports are draw ing (attendance) because of energy and the resources that you put into them,” Plocki said. “And if you put the same energy and resources into the women, I think it would be very interesting to see what the women really have the capability of doing.”
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It’s well known that football runs the Michigan sports scene, but Ann Arbor is home to many other successful athletic pro grams.The University is one of the top athletics institutions in the country. The Wolverines are a historic titan of the college foot ball world and have remained relevant in both men’s basket ball and hockey for decades. Those programs carry signifi cant popularity, and their suc cess gains plenty of publicity. But Michigan’s athletic stat ute extends past those three to the two dozen other exciting varsity teams on campus defeat ing rivals, making tournaments and winning titles. And the best part: Students can watch these teams for free. The Wolverines won 13 Big Ten titles last year, 11 of which were in non-revenue sports. While it’s easy to overlook some of the smaller programs and instead focus on football and basketball, the non-rev enue sports at Michigan are an intriguing entertainment option. Here are five exciting sports to check out this year on campus. Volleyball
The women’s gymnastics team is Michigan’s most recent national champion, taking home the hardware in 2021. Along with the men’s team, the Wol verines also won the Big Ten regular season and conference titles in 2022, and both teams made deep runs in the NCAA Tournament.Withtheelite skill level the Michigan gymnasts possess, every meet is a must-watch event.“There’s definitely a lot of energy,” LSA senior Ruby Mur ton said. “There’s moments when one of the athletes is on the beam, and the team needs a hit routine. The feeling when they stick their landing is incredible.”Thewomen’s team hosts its meets at Crisler Center, draw ing large and energetic — some times even sell-out — crowds. Meanwhile, the men’s team makes its home at Cliff Keen Arena. With both squads look ing to run back similar triumph next season, both should make for electric atmospheres.
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The environment at a vol leyball game alone is worth the trip — and that makes it a great place to start. It has one of the liveliest sporting atmospheres on campus, with passionate fans and the talented volleyball band on the sidelines. “I remember against Michi gan State at the Crisler Center after losing the first set,” Engi neering sophomore Nicho las Debelak said. “(Michigan) bouncing back … (and) storm ing ahead and the crowd danc ing along. (They won) the game three sets to one.” Most volleyball home games are played in Cliff Keen Arena, a short 15 minute walk from the Diag. But some matches take place at Crisler Center — and it makes for a next-level atmo sphere.
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Women’s soccer Last season, the women’s soccer team won its third Big Ten Tournament, its first since 1999. After finishing the sea son ranked No. 7 nationally, the Wolverines found momen tum in the conference tourna ment and rode it all the way to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament.“Whenthere’s a full student section, the crowd can be just as electric as some of the bigger sports, and there’s a lot of fun chants,” Education junior Siob han Stemme said. “The section has a great location right on the sideline.”Theteam makes for an excit ing viewing experience at the University of Michigan Soccer Stadium for soccer diehards and sports fans alike.
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Wrestling Coming off a Big Ten Cham pionship and runner-up finish in the NCAA Wrestling Cham pionships, the wrestling team is an exciting group to watch. After falling just short of the national championship — and with mul tiple elite veterans graduating — the team will enter the season with something to prove. Redshirt junior Cameron Amine, redshirt senior Will Lewan, fifth-year senior Mason Parris and redshirt sophomore Dylan Ragusin are names worth seeing at Crisler Center and Cliff Keen Arena. Field Hockey Finally, a sleeper sport that many students — myself includ ed — may have never even heard of before college: field hockey. While the sport is not as wide ly known, field hockey makes for an entertaining and exhila rating viewing experience that is pretty easy to pick up due to the similarities it shares with more widely known sports such as ice hockey and soccer. But more importantly, Michigan’s team makes the sport engaging forEndingfans. the 2021 season ranked third in the country, the Wolverines are one of the coun try’s top contenders. And being in the Big Ten — which occupied the top six spots in the 2021 endof-season rankings — Michi gan routinely plays high-stakes games against elite competi tion. During its home games at Phyllis Ocker Field, located just south of Schembechler Hall, those matchups can turn into the kind of grudge matches that make for top-tier sports memo ries.“(The games) were really entertaining,” Stemme said. “It was a sport I’d never watched before. I found it pretty easy to follow, and the game moves prettyWithquickly.”these— and many more successful non-revenue varsity programs in Ann Arbor — there are plenty of sports for passion ateAndfans.remember: All of these can be watched for free.
Charlie Pappalardo: A case for the sport you’ve never cared about Arbor is almost as alluring as the actual sport itself. Don’t get me wrong, Michigan loves football, but the love of these events isn’t exclusively about the game. It’s also about the people you experience the game with. It’s about the emotion and excitement of being emotional and excited with thousands of others who share your same desires. That culture and that feeling is what people think of when they hear about so-called Michigan sportsTheculture.culture of non-revenue sports, though, is vastly differ ent — but it’s just as entertaining. When you move away from foot ball, hockey and both basketball programs, the crowd sizes decrease exponentially. You won’t find thou sands of people at the average wres tling dual, field hockey game or gymnastics meet, but you will find incredibly high levels of skill in the athletes and obsession in the crowd that shows Watchingup.lacrosse, I found peo ple that were obsessed. There were maybe 15 people in the student sec tion watching the Wolverines play Harvard that day, but they made it fun. They heckled the nation’s aca demic elites in the Crimson to the point of outrage, and they screamed at the referees’ apparent biases. And — most importantly — they explained everything I could ever want to know about the sport in excruciating detail. They told me about the team’s roster, its stars, their shortcomings and the recur ring storylines. I was hooked, not solely by the sport but by the cul ture.The culture around non-revenue sports is unique. It’s small, rabid and, above all else, fun. The people in the stands really care and being around them makes you care, too. At Michigan, you’ll find every sport you’ve ever thought about. If you played it in high school or if you’ve seen it on TV, there’s prob ably a team that plays it in Ann Arbor — and they also probably do it well. You’ll see Olympians and national champions performing in front of mostly empty venues, but that doesn’t make the experience any less Thesefun.sports and the cultures that surround them are magnetic. The athletes perform at ridiculously high levels, and the fans are always losing their marbles, regardless of whether there’s 10 of them or 108,000.Mybest advice is that you don’t have to fully understand something to enjoy it. So if a friend ever asks you to go watch a sport in the 18-degree cold that you couldn’t have cared less about before, go watch it. I have the feeling your opinion on the sport might change.
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It was a balmy 18 degrees and windy when I atI’mgamegoHughisedthatrememberedI’dprommyfriendthatI’dtoalacrossewithhim.notthebestremembering things, or keeping promises, and it just so happened that I was already at the Union studying for a test that I had forgotten was the next day. There was no good reason for me to drop what I was doing to go watch lacrosse. I was underdressed for the frigid weather. The lacrosse field was two miles away, and lacrosse was a sport that I’d neither seen, nor cared to see, played. But I must’ve felt guilty or something because I got up and went. In almost every way, it should have been a miserable experience. Michigan got walloped, and I froze so badly I couldn’t feel my feet. But it was also the most fun I’d had that month. Unknowingly, I’d stumbled upon the entertaining culture of non-revenue sports at Michigan. When everyone talks about the sports culture of Big Ten schools, they’re generally referring to foot ball and men’s basketball. And for good reason, too, because the cul ture around these sports in Ann
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Sitting atop the bleachers at Alumni Field — home of the Michigan softball team, and home of its former head coach for the past 38 years, Carol Hutchins — Schembechler Hall is plainly visible.Sitting atop the bleachers at Alumni Field — home of the Michigan softball team, and home of now-former head coach Carol Hutchins for the past 38 years — Schembechler Hall is plainly visible.Outside the hall is a bronze statue of its namesake, Bo Schembechler, the so-called “legendary” former football coach, idolized by many fans, former players and even current coaches. Despite his complacency with the abuse by Dr. Robert Anderson, Schembechler’s name remains and the statue still stands. Somehow, Schembechler is still the face of Michigan athletics, as ugly and contorted as it may be. Monday morning, a real legend stood inside that very hall to speak in the wake of her retirement. A legend who goes by one name: “Hutch.”“Icame here as a girl with potential, and I leave a woman with no limits,” Hutch said. “That’s my wish for every woman who walks out on the field.”
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A sentiment reflected in every one of her actions since she arrived in Ann Arbor until now. So as Hutch’s time as an active coach for the Wolverines having drawn to a close, it’s time to replace the misshapen face of Michigan athletics with a new one — hers. Hutch is the type of person the University tries to cultivate and wants representing it: “A leader and best,” Samantha Findlay, a member of the 2005 National Championship team under Hutch, labeled her former coach. “She has withheld that title to the utmost respect, not only for the University of Michigan, but for any athlete or coach who has played softball.” At the forefront of Findlay’s summary stands the word “leader.” It’s easy to label a coach, a winning head coach at that, a leader. Boiled down, their job is to lead. But “leader” in that sense is not what Findlay meant; it’s too shallow a definition. Hutch leads in everything she does.Back in April 1978, Hutch — then a two-sport athlete at Michigan State playing basketball and softball — had had enough. Hutch and her teammates were being treated unfairly, simply because they were women. “Well, we have to let (the female athletes) go out and play, so let’s just let them,” the Michigan State athletic department said, according to one of the players. “Just make sure they don’t get in the way of the boys.” That was the attitude held at the time, an attitude reflected through actions. The year prior, the Spartans’s athletic department budgeted $776,000 to men’s athletics, but less than $85,000 to women’s. It showed in the facilities — or lack thereof — for the female athletes, even in their travel arrangements and even the amount they could spend on food while on team road trips. It was a full-scale violation of Title IX, the landmark legislation minted six years prior. The women, with Hutch as the spearhead, took action. From that action, two things were borne: The class action suit, Hutchins v. Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, and Hutch, Title IXOvertrailblazer.40years later, Hutch has created monumental change for women in sports. But nothing has changed in her resolve,
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Ask anyone who knows her: Hutch stands for what she believes in, and nothing will get her to back down.Fortunately for the athletic department, Hutch also believes in creating a winning culture for Michigan softball. So when it comes down to the full phrase “leaders and best,” Hutch has a firm grasp on the “best” title as well — retiring as the winningest coach in NCAA Softball history and the winningest coach ever at the University of Michigan. Through the lens of athletic achievement, her success as a coach can’t be denied. No one has done it better than Hutch. This level of achievement has only been accomplished by expecting nothing less than excellence; from herself, her players and from everyone in the program.“Shedoesn’t really allow you to be anything but your best and doesn’t allow you to make excuses for yourself,” former Michigan shortstop Abby Ramirez told The
With Hutch’s time as an active coach for the Wolverines coming to a close, it’s time to replace the misshapen face of Michigan athletics with a new one — hers. Daily. “Sometimes it looks tougher than other days. Sometimes it was a kick in the butt, other days, it was words of confidence and boosting you up. “When… I think of Hutch, I think of someone who does things to a standard of excellence always. She does things the right way with the rightSheintentions.”doeseverything with the right intentions, and none of it for her own glory. “This isn’t Hutch’s program, this is Michigan,” Hutch said in 2017. “I am a servant of the University of Michigan. My job is to make Michigan softball great, to make these student-athletes great in everything they do, to teach them all the great lessons that you don’t learn anywhere else.” That’s just Hutch. Whether she’s heralded as a Title IX trailblazer, an excellent coach, a women’s rights activist, a role model or just “Hutch,” she will no doubt go down as a legend in Michigan history and in college softball.Soput up a statue, name a hall after her, do something to commemorate her legacy. Because the time to make Carol Hutchins the face of Michigan athletics is now. Stoll can be reached at nkstoll@ umich.edu or on Twitter @nkstoll . Managing Sports Editor Jared Greenspan contributed to the reporting of this story.
namesake. “Her impact is immeasurable,” assistant coach Jennifer Brundage said in 2017. “Ever since those college days, she’s been an advocate for women and gender equality, and increasing salaries of coaches in our sport and increasing opportunities for women in our sport. The list goes on and on.”
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“What’s your snap?” At this point in the conversation, I have been talking to this stranger for maybe two minutes and said a maximum of three sentences. Especially on the first day of class, “what’s your snap” tends to be one of the first things you are asked about yourself. Where you sit on day one tends to be where you stay, and the person or people next to you are going to be your besties in that class for the rest of the semester. Even if you never see them again after your last final, you will probably stay on their snap or Instagram follow ing list, and maybe even in their LinkedIn connections, for who knows how long. Meeting as many people as possible in as many ways as possible is extremely important in college, but it can also lead you to question the college experience you personally are having. Coming out of the pandemic, meeting other incoming U-M stu dents started, for me, on Instagram with the @umich2025 page. It kept Designs by Serena Shen
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In my experience, what is being shown is almost never the whole story. Being fake on social media is easy, but recognizing and enjoying reality is something that we should all aspire to. and feelings of inadequacy. Because we are taught that the University hosts the Leaders and the Best even before we arrive, we might feel the need to come in with our own busi ness, three years of “relevant” work experience or at least a five-year plan. In reality, with every new post, there were probably 100 peo ple who did not get the opportunity. LinkedIn tends to be a place where only success is heralded, not show casing the reality of such a competi tive market. Post about your success because LinkedIn is used by future employers, but don’t compare what you do to the success of others. I will admit that I, and probably everyone, has fallen into the trap of toxic social media. All of my posts are extremely curated, particularly when it comes to school. I have yet to post a picture of myself having a mental breakdown, even though it feels like a quarter of the experi ence. I love showing pictures that make me happy, while trying to make it clear that this probably is not the whole picture. For me, every good photo comes with fifty “bad” ones. Defining what this looks like for you is never easy, but it can and should be done to have a healthy relationship with social media, as well as Socialyourself.media is a double-edged sword. As college students, it is pretty hard to avoid it entirely. By recognizing how fake and toxic it can be, and by detaching yourself from what is being portrayed, you can better have the experience you truly want. Cherish your memories, and use social media the way that you want to. It is okay, and some times more than necessary, to take a break, whether it is from social media or in another area of your life. I am here to tell you that when someone asks you what you plan on doing this summer or if you are going to grad school, it is okay to laugh and say “Who knows.” Espe cially as a freshman, but even if you are a senior, take time to find things you like and figure out the things you don’t. I am proud of whatever you choose to do, and of course, I encourage you to push yourself in areas where you feel ready to do so. In my experience, what is being shown is almost never the whole story. Being fake on social media is easy, but recognizing and enjoying reality is something that we should all aspire to.
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