February 3, 2022
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Welcome to the Feb. 3 edition of the Weekly Roundup. We hope you are staying safe during this snowstorm, but still finding ways to enjoy it.
The University of Michigan had a busy week, as The Michigan Daily covered UMich’s pivot to provide free menstrual products in buildings, Mark Schlissel’s potential return as a tenured professor, Anderson survivors continuing their protest and more.
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Fired University President Mark Schlissel offered contract for tenured professor this fall
Despite his termination on Jan. 15, former University President Mark Schlissel is still entitled to his faculty tenure position under his initial contract with the University. Although it is unknown whether or not Schlissel has accepted this agreement, documents obtained by the Detroit Free Press show that Schlissel may rejoin the University as research-active faculty in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology. He would be required to teach 1-2 classes per year starting in the 2022-2023 school year.
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UMich to provide free menstrual products in public ‘U’ buildings
The University will provide free menstrual products across all 670 main floor restrooms in its student and academic buildings in accordance with the Ann Arbor City Council ordinance passed last November. The University originally hesitated to follow the ordinance due to their constitutional autonomy from the city, but student organizations such as The Dot Org helped persuade the University. “If the city is requiring small businesses to provide free menstrual products, the University can undoubtedly afford to fund this effort too,” The Dot Org President Olivia Hintz said.
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Jon Vaughn and Chuck Christian, two survivors of late University athletic doctor Robert Anderson, plan to continue their protest after the $490 million settlement between the University and 1,050 Anderson survivors was reached last week. Advocates hope to persuade the University to enact administrative reforms that better protect current and future students from sexual abuse and harrasment. “We weren’t there, protesting just for ourselves. We were protesting for all of the students that are there now. And for the students that are going to come there in the future,” Christian said.
COVID-19 cases on campus are on the decline as the outlook “is now showing signs of sustained improvement,” according to the University COVID-19 Dashboard. The percent positivity rate currently sits at 3.1%, and quarantine and isolation housing is at 11.3% occupancy, both significantly down from last week.
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- A look back at eight years of UMich under former U-M President Mark Schlissel
- Report: Jim Harbaugh staying with Michigan, dispelling NFL rumors
- University confirms positive case of meningococcal meningitis on campus
- Michigan hockey under investigation
- ‘Tell them what you allowed to happen to us’: sexual assault survivors of former U-M professor Bruce Conforth take legal action against the University
- From The Daily: The potential of public power
- What we can learn from Schlissel
- Wolverines look to carry success into season’s final month
- Students and faculty talk Black joy at opening ceremony of Black History Month
- Mission accomplished
- Not just TikTok drama: We need to reassess how we talk about sexual assault
- The dark side of HBO’s ‘Euphoria’
- Vegan bakery chain Cinnaholic opens its first Michigan location in Ann Arbor
The biggest news, Tweets, events of interest (and maybe some jokes) captured from Twitter.
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