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Compensation figures for faculty, staff and administrators at Saginaw Valley State University.
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SVSU has appoin
ted attorn
ey
John Decker t
o the n
ewly-cre
ated
position of a
ssociate vice pre
sident
and general c
ounsel.
The universi
ty has
had th
e
position
listed
for
quite so
me
time,
and M
r.
Decker
was
widely
viewed
thro
ughout th
e
halls
of th
ird-
floor
Wickes
as th
e natura
l
choice to fi
ll the
role.
Mr. D
ecker
comes to
SVSU
from th
e law fi
rm B
raun K
endrick,
where h
e was a
partn
er and h
ad
worked fo
r 34 y
ears, in
cludin
g 12
years as m
anaging partn
er.
“We
conducted a
national
searc
h and determin
ed that J
ohn’s
impre
ssive legal
experience and
long-term
commitment
to SVSU
made him
an id
eal candid
ate for
this
role,
” said
James G
. Muladore
,
SVSU executiv
e vice
presid
ent
for
administ
ratio
n and business
affairs
. “Given th
e ever incre
asing
complexity
of
university
operatio
ns, I
am confid
ent SVSU
will benefit
greatly
from John’s
skill
s and experie
nce.”
Mr.
Muladore
led th
e searc
h to
fill th
e position and consu
lted w
ith
SVSU presid
ent Donald Bachand
before
making a fin
al decisi
on,
SVSU spokesm
an J.J.
Boehm told
The Saginaw Valley Journal.
Mr.
Decker, whose
starti
ng salary
has not y
et been d
etermin
ed, will
report
to M
r. Muladore
.
Mr.
Decker has
repre
sented
SVSU on n
umerous l
egal matte
rs
over the years,
and in re
cent years
serv
ed as outsi
de general c
ounsel.
In additi
on to his
legal dutie
s,
SVSU names
Decker
as
associ
ate V.P.,
chief
lawyer
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. Gilb
ertson (l
eft), fl
anke
d by Boar
d of Contro
l chair
man
Jeff
Mar
tin an
d SVSU
presid
ent Donald
Bac
hand, u
nveils
the new
‘Gilb
ertson H
all’ s
ign on the fo
rmer R
egional Educa
tion C
enter.
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. KOKKIN
IS /
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to A.J.
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t
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tion op-ed
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UNIVERSIT
Y CENTER, M
ICH.
FIRST C
OPY FREE
MONDAY, O
CTOBER 20, 2014
By Mic
hael Westendorf
Student
Associa
tion ap
pointed
20 new re
prese
ntatives e
arlie
r this
month,
capping off
a mar
athon
meeting which
included a
week-
long re
cess.
The
asso
ciatio
n
rejecte
d 15 ap
plican
ts, fiv
e of whom
did not show up.
Appointed were
: M
elissa
Whitf
ord, Billi
e Deshone,
Rachel
Aguirre,
Kyle Hull,
Jaleah
Hawth
orne,
Charlie
Fere
ns,
Ryan Arn
tz, Alyssa W
right,
Zach
Mendoza,
Sabrin
a Clar
k, Rac
hel
Cahill,
Leslie Smith
, Ron Biswas
,
Jere
my Flood, C
hi Weng, S
hannon
Rusell,
D’Onna
Camero
n, Tay
lor
Fisher,
Drew M
ojica,
and Shan
e
Carter.
The as
socia
tion
decided
to
create
a ‘yes s
late’ a
nd a ‘no sl
ate,’
adding ap
plican
ts to
a par
ticular
slate durin
g discussi
on. Typically
,
applic
ants
are judged far
more
harsh
ly th
an
their
elected
counterp
arts,
and th
at tre
nd held
up during th
e meetin
g.
“I know
who I
don’t wan
t
better
than
who I
do w
ant,”
said
asso
ciatio
n legisl
ative
directo
r
Brandon E
rrer.
No applic
ant r
equested th
at th
e
asso
ciatio
n enter into
an ex
ecutiv
e
sessi
on—one close
d to th
e public
—
to d
iscuss
any o
f the a
pplicati
ons.
The asso
ciatio
n voted to ac
cept t
he
‘yes slat
e’ at t
he end of the m
eeting
to av
oid losin
g a quoru
m by voting
each
succ
essful
candidate
into
office
separ
ately.
The asso
ciatio
n was lim
ited to
acce
pting 21
applic
ants
due to
a ru
le which lim
its as
socia
tion
membership to
.5 percent
of the
number of t
otal SVSU st
udents.
“She is
one o
f the m
ost devoted
individuals I’v
e ever met,”
Mr. E
rrer
said of B
illie D
eShone, ad
ding that
she w
as “o
ne of the best
[legisl
ation
Student
Associa
tion
appoints 20
new stu
dents
By Mic
hael Westendorf
Gilbert
son’s L
egacy
Last
Monday
, a
cere
mony
followed by a r
eceptio
n held in th
e
parking lo
t in fr
ont the b
uilding
formerly
known a
s the R
egional
Educatio
n Center mar
ked the
renam
ing of the build
ing in honor
of former
SVSU presid
ent Eric
R. Gilberts
on. Last
August, th
e
SVSU Boar
d of C
ontrol v
oted to
renam
e the b
uilding in
honor o
f
Mr. G
ilberts
on, who re
tired fr
om
the p
resid
ency in
Febru
ary af
ter
holding the posit
ion for more
than
24 years.
The event was
attended by
severa
l key universi
ty faculty
members an
d ad
ministra
tors.
The presid
ents of M
ing Chuan
University of
Taiwan
and th
e
University
Of Suwon,
South
Korea:
Chuan
Lee an
d In
-
Soo Lee, re
specti
vely, were
in
attendan
ce.
Several
legislato
rs
either
attended or
sent
staff
By Justin C
. Kokkin
is
members to
the event.
Jeff
Mar
tin,
chair
man
of
the Boar
d of Control se
rved as
the mas
ter of
cere
monies. M
r.
Mar
tin sp
oke at le
ngth ab
out Mr.
Gilberts
on’s impac
t on SVSU.
“Now, E
ric, a
nd I’m ab
solutely
certa
in about t
his, w
ill vigoro
usly
object to
being listed in an
y
category
that
puts him
in hist
ory,”
he added,
promptin
g laughter
from th
e crowd. “
He’ll just
have
to deal
with th
at.”
“Durin
g his tim
e he focuse
d
on regionali
sm, th
e importa
nce
of mak
ing SVSU a
neutra
l plac
e
to b
e begin k
ey disc
ussions.
He
partn
ered
SVSU with
se
veral
countri
es, Fra
nce, G
uyana,
China,
Korea a
nd India
in ord
er to give
students
a global
perspecti
ve on
their
chose
n care
ers, h
e affecte
d
thousa
nds of s
tudents
during h
is
time,”
Jero
me Yantz, a
member o
f
the B
oard o
f Contro
l, sa
id about
Mr. G
ilberts
on’s legac
y of serv
ice.
When M
r. Gilb
ertson ar
rived
in 1989,
SVSU’s enro
llment s
tood
at 5,915
students;
it incr
eased
to 10
,245 at t
he time h
e retir
ed.
The number of s
tudents
living on
campus r
ose m
ore th
an fo
urfold,
from 616
resid
ents in 19
96 to
more th
an 2,700 in
rece
nt year
s.
“Under
his lead
ership SVSU
and
Ming
Chuan
University
achieved a
stable re
lationsh
ip
since
2002. We offe
r our h
eartfe
lt
congra
tulat
ions to
Dr.
and M
rs.
Eric G
ilberts
on for t
he dedicatio
n
of Gilberts
on Hall,”
Mr.
Chuan
Lee said.
SVSU alumnus
and cu
rrent
resid
ent dire
ctor
Elyse
Ledy
spoke ab
out the im
pact t
hat M
r.
Gilberts
on had on her.
“I feel e
xtremely p
rivile
ged to
be a par
t of t
his dedica
tion. H
e’s
been an insp
iring ro
le model
of lead
ership.
As a
student,
I
Building offi
cially
renamed
after 3
rd pres
ident
John
Dec
ker
See D
ECKER on page 6
See A
SSOCIATIO
N on page 6
T.K.E
. paintb
all event r
aises over $2K for St. J
ude’s
Throughout
the
day,
the
teams were
pitt
ed
against
each oth
er, with
objectives
changing,
such
as contro
lling
a certa
in
base,
the
oppositions
headquarters,
captu
ring th
e
flag a
nd findin
g a c
ardin
al,
which was r
eprese
nted by a
Over 80 people gath
ered
on Satu
rday,
Oct. 11
to p
lay
paintb
all in
th
e wooded
area near
Pine Gro
ve. The
unprecedented fu
nd raise
r
raise
d over $2,000 fo
r St.
Jude Child
ren’s
Researc
h
Hospita
l. 110
people had
signed up.
Particip
ants were
divid
ed
into
two teams,
Red and
Gray as t
hose w
ere th
e two
availa
ble t-s
hirt
colors.
For $15
one could re
nt a
paintb
all mark
er complete
with
500 ro
unds, ammo
containers,
face mask and
received a t-
shirt
. While
the
Red team h
eld th
e card
inal
at the e
nd, The G
rey te
am
won by a slight
margin
of
nearly 300 p
oints.
The fi
nal
score
was 4500-4
280. The
event was
the re
alizatio
n
of over
eight month
s of
planning by fra
ternity
Tau
Kappa Epsil
on.
By Justin C
. Kokkin
is
red st
uffed ‘A
ngry B
ird.’
Paintb
all equip
ment was
raffl
ed off, su
ch as pain
tball
ammo, ammo
containers,
and mark
ers.
After
lunch,
where
particip
ants could
purc
hase
two sli
ces of
pizza and a
soft
drink fo
r $5, t
he battl
e
continued with
objectives
such as
“kill
(take down)
50 on the opposin
g team,”
control tw
o of the fo
ur base
s
and ulti
mately, c
apture
the
cardin
al and hold
it until
time ra
n out.
Rick Harris,
a political
science m
ajor and a m
ember
of T.K
.E.,
spoke with
The
Saginaw Valley Journal.
“I got i
t fin
anced, planned
it. Bro
ught it
to lif
e. Jon
Brenner
helped
me 50
percent
of th
e way. M
y
favorit
e part
of the event i
s
havin
g it be so
successf
ul.
We had 80 people atte
nd,
and made over a
n estimated
$2,000 – $2,500, all o
f which
will g
o dire
ctly to
St.
Jude
Childre
n’s Hosp
ital,”
he said
.
Brennan F
errilla
, a sp
orts
marketin
g major,
also sp
oke
about the game.
“My ro
le is to
help
set u
p,
put up haysta
cks, call p
eople
and recru
it. T
he game w
as
intense
, I
got tw
o take-
downs,” he sa
id.
Mr F
errilla
’s fath
er, Bria
n,
also to
ok part in
the game.
“It w
as an a
wesome fi
rst
paintb
all event,
it work
ed
out great,
it was
very well
done and it’s
for
a great
cause,
St. Jude Child
ren’s
Hospita
l,” he sa
id.
The event attr
acted people
rangin
g fro
m fir
st tim
e
paint-b
allers
to vetera
ns of
the game.
“I had a lo
t of fu
n, I won an
ammo pack a
nd belt,
I was
pumped about th
at. I
feel
pretty
good about it,
they
had trouble balancin
g out
Tau K
appa E
psilon held a
paintb
all ev
ent near
Pine Gro
ve in
order t
o help raise
funds f
or St. J
ude
Childre
n’s Hosp
ital. T
he event h
elped to ra
ise ove
r $2,0
00, T.K
.E. offi
cials
say.
JUSTIN C
. KOKKIN
IS /
THE SAGINAW
VALLEY JOURNAL
See PAIN
TBALL on page 6
See D
AVENPORT on page 6
Trans p
rofesso
r launches c
ampaign
Charin D
aven
port is
set t
o
make
history
as M
ichigan
’s
first
openly
transg
ender
electe
d officia
l. She i
s alre
ady
well known in M
ichigan
’s
LGBTQ co
mmunities
for
her
civil
rights
advoca
cy.
Earlie
r this
year,
she w
as th
e
princip
al sp
okesper
son for
efforts
to ad
opt pro
posed non-
discrim
ination o
rdinan
ces i
n
Bay County an
d Saginaw
—
both of
which fai
led aft
er
harden
ed
and
vitriolic
opposition.
Undaunted
by
thes
e setb
acks,
she i
s see
king
electi
on as a
truste
e for t
he
Delta
College
community
colle
ge dist
rict.
Her
connec
tion
with
the
colle
ge is
alrea
dy well-
estab
lished
. She has
serv
ed
as an
adjunct
profes
sor
of
English fo
r Delt
a Colle
ge and
also SVSU. I
n both ca
ses,
she
is th
e firs
t open
ly tran
sgen
der
faculty
member.
The Delt
a
College
community
colle
ge
distric
t inclu
des
three
countie
s in
east-
centra
l
Mich
igan—Bay
, M
idland,
and Sag
inaw—with
a total
population of n
early
390,000.
“That’
s sig
nifica
nt,”
says
Daven
port.
“In
terms
of
population,
that
is more
Davenport
files
as writ
e-in ca
ndidate for
Delt
a College
board
than
half
of a
Congres
sional
distric
t,” sh
e ad
ds. “T
here is
a diver
sity of
communiti
es
within th
e dist
rict t
hat nee
d
an ad
vocate.
”
“I beli
eve
educa
tion
is
a human
rights
issue,
and
I am
passio
nate when
it
comes
to h
uman ri
ghts!” M
s.
Daven
port sa
ys. “I
have b
een
an ed
ucator f
or 12 ye
ars,
and
there
is n
ot a d
ay th
at goes
by when
I don’t f
eel lu
cky to
work for
my studen
ts,”
she
adds. “
As the f
irst tr
ansg
ender
Charin D
avenport
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