The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 7A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 7A Students question Coleman on drops in minority enrollment at chat A honor guard stands at attention as the remains of Air Force Sgt. Robert Stinson are unloaded by ground personnel at Ontario International Airport yesterday. NWIIairman's remS ains found Military divers found leg fragments of Stinson, who died on Sept. 1, 1944 HIGHLAND, Calif. (AP) - For two decades after her son's bomb- er went down in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, Vella Stinson faithfully wrote the U.S. govern- ment twice a month to ask if his body had been found - or if any- one was looking. The mother of six strapping boys went to her grave without the answer that has finally reached her two surviving sons 65 years later: the remains of Sgt. Robert Stinson are coming home. HOUSING From Page lA environment," he said. "One way of supportingthat is through thistype of housing." Though Samberg's project is residential, University Prof. of Sus- tainable Enterprise Andy Hoffman said commercial projects are the more likely candidates for green construction. "One of the problems with resi- dential green construction is that people switch homes too quickly," he said. "So big corporations like universities get all the benefits of green construction." Hoffman said it is a "basic fact" that there is an increasing trend in green construction, but be isn't sure about the underlying reasons as to why. "I think it's driven probably more by economics than it is by actual concern for the environment." University Planner Susan Gott said there are a number of initia- tives currently at the University to promote and encourage eco-friend- liness on campus. Included are programs like the campus-wide conservation campaign Planet Blue and the increased variety of recy- cling options in residence halls. I Gott said all these programs are changing with time, but that the University is trying to make resi- dence halls and all campus build- ings more eco-friendly by better DELIVERY From Page 1A charge is placed on all orders. Currently, S2YD employs five drivers and anywhere from one to four can be making deliveries at a time. Many restaurants affiliated with S2YD can also be found on EatBlue.com, one of the company's main competitiors. Demchick explained how S2YD operates. "We employ drivers and basi- cally the way it works is people can order through us either by calling in or online on our website," he said. "We have a call center which GPA From Page 1A the GPA. With this new process, students who apply to the University with a GPA over a 4.0 will not have an advantage since admissions officers will continue to review the entire transcript, looking at how the stu- 4ent responded to the courses avail- able at their high school. "What we're going to still do Military divers recovered several pieces of leg bone from the wreckage of a B-24J Libera- tor bomber found at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of the island nation of Palau. DNA test- ing showed the femur fragments belonged to the 24-year-old flight engineer who died in combat on Sept.1, 1944. Stinson's remains arrived under U.S. Air Force escort Wednesday and will be buried Friday at River- side National Cemetery with full military honors. In between, the body will be kept at a mortuary less than 100 yards from the home where Stinson grew up with his brothers. "He's not someplace on a lit- tle island or at the bottom of the ocean. He's home," said Edward managing water use, reducing lighting during construction and increasing the amount of insulation in buildings. ~ "We're an evolving institution," she said. "We're always responding to new demands and new opportu- nities." She said that the University uses LEED as a checklist for measur- ing sustainability performance on their projects. Though it won't be LEED-certi- fied, Gott said North Quad is a good example of the University's green efforts since it will have "optimum insulation." Andy Berki, manager of Envi- ronmental Sustainability for the Department of Occupational Safety and Environmental Health discussed in an e-mail a few sub- stantial savings the University has experienced through eco-friendly projects. In five PlanetBlue pilotbuildings, energy consumption has decreased by 6 percent, he wrote, resulting in an annualized saving of $340,000. Based on the estimated annual energy consumption, Berki wrote that North Quad could net an approximate $300,000 in annual savings. He also discussed the solar col- lector on the roof of the Central Power Plant, which results in around $4,000 savings annually. And the trend isn't just limited to campus here in Ann Arbor. Atthe University of Colorado, the will take calls and contact the res- taurant and they will make the order, our drivers will come pick it up and deliver it to the customer's door." Looking into the future Dem- chick said the goal of the company is to continue growing. "The bigger we expand, the bet- ter," he said. "I guess we're trying to basically make every restaurant accessible to every student regard- less of if they have a car or if it's nice outside. We want to make sure if they want any restaurant they can go on and get that res- taurant. If the restaurant delivers themselves, that's great, but if not we'd like to take care of that for them." is that we're going to look at the courses that were available in the school and we're going to look at how many of those courses the stu- dent took and we're going to look at it in the context of other students from the high school and we're going to look at the grades they made in those courses," Spencer said. "Just because you have a GPA of 4.3, if you didn't challenge the cur- riculum, if you didn't take the right kind of courses and you didn't do Stinson, who was 9 when his brother died. For Robert Stinson, the journey home was far from a sure thing. Stinson's family knew only that his bomber had gone down in the Pacific Ocean after being hit by anti-aircraft fire. The government politely responded to his mother's letters but said again and again that no new information had sur- faced. The family learned that Stinson, who joined the Army Air Forces right out of high school, won sev- eral medals in the summer of 1944 for participating in dangerous attacks on Japanese airdomes, military installations and enemy ships. His plane was dubbed "Babes in Arms." In 1994, a nonprofit group of adventurers and scuba divers began to search for the miss- ing bomber off the waters of Koror, Palau's biggest island. The 15-member group, called Bent- Prop, travels to the island nation each year for a month to search for some 200 missing U.S. World War II aircraft. Half of the wrecks scattered in the waters around the archipelago's 300 tiny islands have missing crew members associated with them, said Daniel O'Brien, a member of the BentProp team. Stinson's plane had 11 crew members - and there were eyewitness reports of where it went down. Eight crew members went down with the plane; three parachuted out, but were captured by the Japanese and are believed to have been executed. From Page 1A en each year. Despite the drop in underrep- resentedminorityrepresentation, the number of underrepresented minorities applying to the Uni- versity has increased in the last two years. Rackham student David Green asked what the University has been doing to maintain diversity at the University since the state banned affirmative action. Coleman said despite the pas- sage of that ban, she was pleased the University didn't suffer the "dramatic decline" that schools in California and Washington expe- rienced when the states passed similar proposals. Another student asked if, similar to the rise in overall undergraduate applications, the number of minority applicants had increased. Though Coleman didn't know the exact number of minority students who applied, she said the increase was an "encourag- ing sign." Coleman said though an increasing number of minor- ity students were applying to the University and being admitted, fewer are choosing to enroll. "If we were in a position where families are saying, 'Look, don't even bother to apply to Michi- gan,' " Coleman said. "That's a very different problem." Coleman said underrepresent- ed minority students have many options when it comes to choos- ing a college and the University can't match schools that offer scholarships that the Univer- sity cannot provide because of restrictions on minority-targeted scholarships. While the University cannot .giv .similar scholarshipsCole- man said there are other things administrators can do to increase minority enrollment, like com- munity outreach. On Tuesday, Coleman traveled to Detroit and met with counsel- ors, principals and the superin- tendent of Detroit Public Schools to discuss strategies for increas- ing minority enrollment at the University. "We had a wonderful conver- sation about things that we could do to help," Coleman said. "So we're on it." However, one student said minorities often are discouraged from applyingto the University - citing his high school counselor who told him not to apply to the University because he wouldn't succeed. Coleman said she had a similar conversation while talking this week with educators in Detroit who said they didn't want stu- dents to be discouraged by the University's academic vigor when the work is easier at other colleges. In response, Coleman said stu- dents should never be discour- aged from applying in fear that they won't achieve academic suc- cess. "I said 'Look, first of all, you can't predict (what will happen). You come in, you get going, you'll blossom and it's so worth it to you at the end of the day to have this Michigan degree,' "Coleman said. Walter Lacy, a Kinesiology student currently taking time off, said campus segregation exists. He questioned Coleman on how racial tensions can be eased. Coleman said she believes it's very important that students, faculty and administrators see each other as human beings and that the University has many programs that encourage inter- group dialogue. "I think we have a number of ways to try to get people to get to know each other and see each other as individuals and as human beings and not as mem- bers of any particular group," she said. She added that many students come from "very homogeneous" high schools, where they haven't interacted with people of other races, backgrounds or religious beliefs. "It becomes asmatter of how do you break down those walls. How you get people to see each other," she said. "It's an issue." However, Coleman noted that a high percentage of alumni has responded in surveys that their exposure to diversity at the Uni- versity helped them be success- ful in their careers. "That's not to say that things don't happen on the campus, but I think we work pretty hard at it, and it's pretty effective," she said. "But we've got to always work at it." After the chat, Lacy said in an interview that he was not sat- isfied with Coleman's answers about race and diversity. "It sounded like a general statement. It's something I've heard before in public speeches and just in general discussion," Lacy said. "That is the response you get about race. That is, 'we're doing the best we can."' He added that he thinks there is "deep-seated racism that exists at Michigan." LSA senior Andrew Dalack, outreach chair for Students Allied for Freedom and Equal- ity, a pro-Palestinian campus group, had a different opinion and said he thought the chat went well. "I always admire President Coleman," he said. "I think she has great leadership style, and she has great pioneering ideas for the University." This house on Packard St. is being renovated to be the first LEED-certified private student housing in Ann Arbor. 39-year-old Environmental Center has guided sustainability efforts on campus. In addition to greening the Colorado campus, the center aims to educate students about conserv- ing the environment. In addition to educating stu- dents, the center works with other divisions on CU's campus - like housing and dining - to promote sustainability. Casey LeFever, Housing and Dining Promotions coordinator for Manager Nick Oliverio of Max & Erma's on East Eisenhower Parkway said the new service will definitely mean more student customers ordering from his res- taurant. "It's been picking up kind of steady since September when the school got back in," he said. "You're going to target it a lot at the dorms. I mean that's who we were targeting initially." Oliverio also commented on the success of the deliveries. "So far it's been great," he said. "We have plans to keep it going just the way it's going right now." Owner Sukhdial Singh of the Quizno's located on South Main well in those you won't be advan- taged in our system," Spencer con- tinued. "It will remain the same, virtually." Spencer said that after research- ing the issue, the difference in recalculated GPAs did not signifi- cantly change students' GPAs. Sul- livan said the average change was as little as 0.08 points on a four- point scale. Dick Tobin, director of college counseling at Greenhills School in Ann Arbor, said admissions offices the center, wrote in an e-mail that the center has been implementing many programs to increase sus- tainability in residence halls. "Being green often means saving money,"hewrote in the e-mail. "For example, just last year, CU's Dining Services eliminated disposable cof- fee cups in their dining halls. This meant hundreds of thousands of cups were diverted from the land- fill, and less money was spent by the dining halls." Street said the reason he got involved with S2YD was really to help the students. "I can go to the students and maybe their needs are a little far away from me so that way I can reach them and give them busi- ness ... So I'm just helping myself and helping them," he said. However, Singh said business hasn't been good enough for him to keep working with S2YD and the results of the partnership have been mixed. "It's not easy for me as a fran- chise owner," he said. "Quizno's took 11 to 12 percent, then (S2YD) took (money). I want it to improve, but I don't know, we will see ... I can wait a few more months." at many colleges and universities around the country do not recalcu- late GPAs. He said he believes this change is understandable, given the amount of time it took to recalculate GPA. "I think that the GPAs that Mich- igan will work with, the ones that we submit, and this is what they've found, will be almost identical to what they were finding when they recalculated," Tobin said. "So -in that way I don't think there will be a difference." VIGIL From Page 1A light vigil was just the beginning of what the Black Student Union hopes to accomplish. "We want to commemorate, but we also want to instilla move- ment," James said. The ceremony opened with the singing of "Lift Every Voice And Sing" - the Black National Anthem- andthenacknowledged the death of many individuals lost to urban violence by reading their names aloud. Members of the Michigan Gos- pel Chorale sang in memory of all the victims and the treasurer of the Black Student Union, Kortni Malone, recited Maya Angelou's poem "Million Man March." Brittney Williams, the group's community outreach chair, sang "Amazing Grace" before Walter Lacy, a Kinesiology student cur- rently taking time off, recited another poem that was dedicated to two boys lost to inner-city vio- lence. Finally, the floor was opened for participants to give remarks about urban-youth brutality. One student spoke specifically about African Americans at the University of Michigan. He said these lucky few must understand they are the exception in the African-American community, and the ultimate hope is that this exception will become the rule. Most of those who spoke up at the event agreed that the African- American community must open itself up to change and lead others by example. McClendon said this shift can and will occur. "I really do feel that change takes place within oneself and then from there it gets conta- gious," he said. "I've been affected by change. Inspirational instruc- tors I've had changed my para- digm, changed my approach, changed my outlook." "Just as theyhave that power to change and affect me, I have that same power to affect and change someone else," he continued. "I can guarantee that a change is going to take place because it is going to take place within me." Kinesiology junior Darren Craddieth agreed, saying that the African-American community will evolve. "A lot of our youth feel like they have no help and they have no way out, so we just have to be that way out for them and let them know anything is possible for them," he said. "We have fought for all of our lives, coming from slavery to now, so we just have to be that differ- ence." LSA senior Crystal Irving said it is the responsibility of African- American students at the Uni- versity to lead others in the right direction. "There is already enough sad- ness and depression in the world, there is just no more room for any kind of situation like this," she said. "It is definitely our job to step in and intervene."