0 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 5A Announcement expected about UM-MSUgame at the Big House From Page 1A record. Less than a month ago, the Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins played outdoors at Fen- way Park in the 2010 NHL Winter Classic. But with more than 100,000 seats available at Michigan Sta- dium, the attendance record from the first installment of the out- door rivalry could be broken next December. ENTREPRENEURS From Page IA gesnt challenges ofhaving a business in college was balancing his life as a student and running his own business. Bornhorst is a program- mer for Mobiata.com - a company that develops travel applications for smart phones. "I was a part-time student in my last semester, and I was working full-time at that point," Bornhorst said. "It was hard to balance, but it was really enriching." Bornhorst said though complet- ing his coursework and attending to his company was difficult, the technical skills he gained in his engineering and entrepreneurship courses helped himto run his busi- ness. Business senior Josh Lin is a co- founder of the Nexecon Consult- ing Group - a student-consulting group that advises local businesses and University departments on their marketing strategies. Nex- econ works with a wide range of clients which include Sava's Cafe and No Thai!. He said one of the reasons he Next weekend, Michigan will take on No. 3 Wisconsin in its first outdoor game since the "Cold War" in the Camp Ran- dall Classic on Feb. 6. But as of Jan. 22, the long-awaited game in Madison had only sold 42,000 of the estimated 80,000 tickets available. Check back with michigan- daily.com this week for more updates and details on the "Cold War II." was able to start his own business while still attending the Univer- sity is because there were many resources in the area to help him financially or otherwise. Lin said help from Ann Arbor SPARK- a local economic devel- opment agency that helps young entrepreneurs start companies of their own.- was the "cornerstone" of Nexecon's early development. Leahy said Ann Arbor SPARK also recently provided MyBand- Stock with a $10,000 grant. Linsaid though it's difficultto be a student and a business owner at the same time, his business school courses helped him both in advis- ing clients and in making Nexecon a more efficient business. But he said he learned one of the most important lessons outside of the classroom. "At the end of the day, if you don't recruit the right team, you're going to be one of the only people staying up until four o'clock in the morning trying to get things done," Lin said. "If you're going to recruit people with passion and with strengths in different areas, it can become a cohesive group that can drive things forward." VIGIL From Page1A As more people gathered, candles were passed out while music contin- ued to play in thehbackground. Then, the vigil began with a brief Power- Point presentation recapping the events and aftermath of the earth- quake. Followingthepresentation,which included resources on how students could get involved with the Haiti relief efforts on campus, President Mary Sue Coleman addressed the crowd that had come to pay respects to those affected by the devastating earthquake. Coleman told those at the vigil that though the current aid efforts are vital, it is important for them to remember that aid will be needed in the longterm, too. "Our challenge in the future is going to be not to forget when Haiti is no longer on the front page of the newspaper, and we don't see it on the news every night, that we are still willing to give money because it is going to take a long time to rebuild," Coleman said. Following Coleman's speech, Associate Prof. Emeritus Ruth Bar- nard from the School of Nursing and Armando Matiz, a researcher and lecturer from the School of Public Health, spoke to the crowd - addressing the importance of find- ingwaysto assist with the rebuilding efforts. And while those gathered fought to keep their candles lit in last night's windy weather, Kinesiology ACCREDITATION From Page 1A tunity for self-improvement. "I'm really not worried about us being reaccredited, but it is important to me for us to use this opportunity and not just treat it as one more thing we've got to do, but really take advantage of it," Sullivan said. "Ben van der Pluijm has done a really good job of digging in deeply and we were way ahead of ourselves in getting this report ready." Van der Pluijm said the biggest section of the report is the assess- ment of the learning environment at the University. He said as part of this, the committee came up with learning outcomes tailored to every school and college, which outline what is expected of students grad- uating from the University. "We came up with a list of learn- ing outcomes," van der Pluijm said. "It's a working document. It doesn't TOREHAN SHARM University President Mary Sue Coleman speaks ata vigil last night to show support for victims of the Haiti earthquake, senior Walter Lacy closed the gath- eringwith a passionate spoken word response to the tragedyin Haiti. Once Lacy had finished, the crowd stood silent, observing a moment of silence for those killed in the tragedy. And despite the uncooperative weather that made it difficult to hear the speakers at the event, partici- pants at the vigil voiced their desire to help the devastated country. "I wanted to go to Haiti until I realized that it wouldn't be the most effective way to contribute, but that helping any way I can through the vigil and through other ways on campus would be much appreci- ated," said Nursing freshman Emily lock us into anything, but it starts to identify what it means to be a student at the University of Michi- gan. Whatyouexpectfor (students) to be when they leave here." Van der Pluijm said as part of the study, the committee also came up with a vision statement for the Uni- versity. "(The vision statement) is from Mary Sue Coleman and executive officers and it received input from a lot of other people on campus to try to describe how the University of Michigan is today," he continued. "It's an extension of our mission statement, but much more practi- cal for our current activities and our current interests; it's a living document." Van der Pluijm added the com- mittee dedicated a portion of the report to explaining the Univer- sity's budgetary process. "We put consicleraleeffortlnto explaining why and how we do the budget," he said, "and how we are in relatively good shape compared receiving their certification. TFA eventually decided to terminate the partnership, sending them to continue their education at Wayne State University instead. It was in Nov. 2001 when Ryan Gall, then a Teach for America teacher stationed in Detroit, found out he'd be transferring to a differ- ent public school across town. Gall said when he was forced to move to another school he felt as though he was "losing his kids." "I was teaching an astronomy unit, and I had just glued stars and planets all over she walls," he said. "The whole room was trans- formed to a solar system for the next day. That night I found out I'd be transferring to a new school in the middle of that year, and I was devastated." Upon entering his new school, ihe wire FOLLOW THE DAILY'NTFA P 'S NESFrom Page1A * michigandaily.com/blogs /the wire positions," she said. "It came as a result of a shrinking student popu- lation and budget challenges the district faced." At the end of the first year in Detroit, it remained uncertain whether TFA teachers would be guaranteed placements the next year. It was then that TFA made the decision not to send any more participants to the city. The teach- ers already there were given the choice to finish . their two-year commitments to Detroit or move elsewhere. Adding to the problems was a fracture in TFA's partnership with Marygrove College, the school from which TFA teachers were Diepenhorst. The Office of Multi-Ethnic Stu- dent Affairs formed M-HEART, which led the coordination efforts for the planning of the vigil, days after the earthquake struck in order to unify the entire campus' effortsoto assist with the devastation. MESA formed the coalition after multiple student organizations reached out demonstrating their interest in offering aid to the country. "M-HEART is a student-led orga- nization determined to make an impact in any way possible to the relief efforts," MESA Intercultural Development Program Director Linh Nguyen said. "Starting with to some of our peers and give an explanation of that" Because of the University's exemplary reputation, the HLC has allowed the University to select one topic for a special emphasis study. The HLC only allows insti- tutions they feel will be adequate in each of the aforementioned cat- egories, like the University, to pro- duce such reports. In 2000, the University focused the self-emphasis study on inter- disciplinary cooperation. This time around, the study will concentrate on internationalization. With over 4,000 international undergraduate students and an ever-increasing sense among the student body that the University is part of a global community, van der Pluijm said internationalization was a logical choice. With more students traveling abroadl:8ullivan, sai the ,Jniver- sity chose this theme to advance the study abroad program. "We're thinking about different models," Westside Multicultural Academy, Gall said he experienced his fair share of challenges. The fifth- grade class he taught was com- prised of kids taken from two other classes in the middle of the year. "I said,'OhmyLord, it's Novem- ber and I'm startingethe first day of school," he said. Gall said his students literally kicked and screamed on the floor and received a number of suspen- sions when he first started. But by the end of the year, his students had made a year and a half's worth of progress. Classroom challenges like these are to be expected for many TFA teachers across the country. But Gall said being transferred was rarely experienced outside of Detroit. Most teachers in the city were transferred at least once and some weren't placed until well after the first day of school, he said. At the end of his first year, Gall heard TFA would be ending its partnership with Detroit Pub- lic Schools after his second year, making his the only class of TFA teachers to work in Detroit. According to Gall, the major- ity of TFA teachers in Detroit, including himself, decided to stay in the city. But despite choosing to remain in Detroit, only a handful were offered teaching positions after their second year. "Myself and my roommates all finished out the end of the second year and they pretty much told all of us they had no place for us to stay," Gall said. "A lot of us scat- tered to the winds, and only about S or 6 teachers got job offers." According to a February 20, 2009 Detroit News article, it was widely believed the Detroit Fed- eration of Teachers - the Detroit Public Schools teachers union - pressured the district into getting rid of the TFA teachers. Gall agreed with this assess- ment, saying the teachers' union played a key role in TFA's depar- ture. "The whole state of Michigan is extremely unionized," he said. "Teachers' unions run whatever alternative teaching placements there are. If the union doesn't sup- port something, it doesn't have much of a chance. And the unions were not in love with TFA." Detroit Public School adminis- the vigil, we also hope to initiate a donation drive and form long-term rebuilding efforts with a focus on education in Haiti." LSA junior Ghita Vagher, one of the students who reached out to MESA, has already begun formulat- ing future plans to continue provid- ing support for the country in the future. Vagher said that one of M-HEART's goals is to reach out to as many student organizations as possible that wish to help with the cause. Additionally, Vagher said she hopes to host a concert and a fund- raising dinner in the near future to raise money. she said. "I think the old model of spending one semester of my junior year in Florence isn't what people want to do for study abroad any- more." "I think that they've got differ- ent ideas in mind. Maybe it would be three weeks in Beijing and three weeks in Nairobi and comparing and contrasting what you saw in terms of water treatment systems in those two places," she continued. "There's a lot more ways to make it relevant to your program and more than tourism." Sullivan said though many questions remain about what changes may need to be made to the University's study abroad office, the University may consid- er consolidating the study abroad offices. "Other Big Ten schools have a single study abroad office, we ;dpn't," Slliran said, "We tendIn have each school or college develop its own. That would be a logical thingto look at." trators and the Detroit Federation of Teachers did not return phone calls or e-mails from The Michi- gan Daily. TFA officials are currently exploring the option of return- ing to Detroit within the next few years. In an e-mail interview, Ify Offor, vice president of new site development for TFA, wrote there has been "a lot of local support for bringing Teach For America to Detroit." According to Offor, TFA has been talking with city leaders including Mike Tenbusch of the United Way and officials in Gov. Jennifer Granholm's office. Though University graduates interested in TFA don't have the option of being placed in Detroit, many undergraduates participate in various programs in the Detroit metro area, with student organi- zations working at Detroit Public Schools. LSA senior Hannah Lieberman is a member of The Detroit Part- nership, a student group that does volunteer work in Detroit. After being involved with the organiza- tion for three and a half years and now the director of the group's School Program Team, Lieberman said Detroit's need for qualified teachers is apparent. Lieberman said Detroit's non- compliance with TFA is surprising given the school district's lack of resources. "It's a huge hole in their ideol- ogy," she said. "In an area of such need and especially in a school system that's really struggling with changing administrations, not meeting 'Adequate Yearly Progress' as determined by No Child Left Behind, Detroit Pub- lic Schools could use really great teachers." Today, Gall is the principal of Indianapolis Lighthouse College Preparatory Academy, but his affection for Detroit hasn't waned. "If someone were to call me tomorrow, I think I'd jump at the opportunity (to return to Detroit)," Gall said. "Not that I don't love it here, but I've told wife many times I would've taught there until retirement. I love the kids; I love the city. Detroit's a punchline all over our media these days, but something about Detroit grows on you." Think you know where to find the Best Dessert? Do you have the Best Pick-up Line? Is your landlord the Best? Cast your vote in the Michigan Daily's Annual Readership Survey Poll! Vtefer the Best of Ann Arbor Voting extended to January 29th! Go to: http://wwwmichigandailycom/best-2010 to Cast your vote today.