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The Michigan Daily - Monday, May 9, 2005 - 3
Canham set the tone 'U' petitions students for
for Michigan Athletics ideas about North Campus

CAN HM
Continued from page 1

Committee asks for student
input to create a new vision for

lot of faith in me, and together we a additional campus development
produced a pretty good team. And
the success I had at Michigan, I By Undsey Ungar
would share equally with him." For the Daily
Other coaches who Canham hired
felt similarly to Schembechler. The University's Planning Advisory Committee is
"Don Canham was a visionary soliciting opinions from students to draft a new vision
athletic director, ahead of his time. statement for future North Campus development.
He was responsible for building the E-mails were sent out in April asking students to
Michigan athletic department as we give suggestions on how to improve the campus's sense
know it today. He did a great job of of community and the area as a whole. Students can
finding the coaches and allowing still submit their opinions about North Campus to
them to coach their programs. We plansnersoffice@umich.edu. After these suggestions
are going to miss a great friend of are collected, the advisory committee will draft areport
Michigan" said hockey coach Red that will aid future planning for North Campus.
Berenson. Douglas Kelhough, the Dean of the School of Archi-
With Canham's help, the Michi- tecture and Urhan Planning and a memer of the com-
gan footfall team has not playes mittee, is looking to students to provide direction.
at home to a c swd of fewer than "(We're looking for) their sense of functional needs
100,000 people since 1975, and and their vision for the kind of place they'd like to see
Michigan has had the highest atten- develop over the next 25 to 50 years," Kehough said.
dance in the nation for 30 of the last The draft vision statement in the e-mail said that
31 years. while it is important to maintain North Campus's
"Don Canham was a giant in the openness and green spaces, "physical linkageshetween
history of intercollegiate athletics campuses must be improved," and there should he an
at Michigan," University President T G / area for retail and entertainment.
Mary Sue Coleman said. "His con- While it seems the vision may call for North Cam-
trihutions are many, and they con- pus to become more like Central Campus, Janet
tinue to shape the experiences of Weiss, committee memher and associate provost for
student-athletes at the University. academic affairs, stated that this is not the case.
As a (University) student, coach and "The two campuses will always he somewhat dif-
administrator, he exhibited the vat- n ferent from one another hecause of their geography,"
ues of integrity and sportsmanship. Weiss said. "But hoth can he very successful places to
Don was an outstanding ambassador TsMusss GOMEZ/Daily work, study and live."
for the University of Michigan, and Bo Schembechier speaks at a memorial service for Don However, some students believe that North Cam-
he will he deeply missed." Canham in Crisler Arena on Saturday, May 7, 2005. pus must hecome more like its central cousin to he
Admi-ssions video rec ruits mino11ritiesF

successful.
LSA junior Suman Chhabra lived in Bursley her
freshman year but later relocated to Central Campus,
which she said was more convenient.
"I feel like I missed out on a lot (freshman year) by
not heing on Central Campus," Chhabra said.
Still, others find North Campus's unique qualities
more accommodating.
"I like North Campus because it looks nice and there's
less commotion," LSA sophomore David Plona said. He
added that North Campus is also better for studying.
Weiss said the committee-wants North Campus to
be a livelier, more vibrant part of the University. The
question presented to students is how this should be
accomplished.
"North Campus needs more eating places," engi-
neering graduate student Archis Ghate said. "After
classes, most people just leave."
Plonadoes notliveonNorth Campusandadmits itwill
take creative planning to pers de him to take the hus to
North Campus more often.
"It would have to he something that I couldn't find
on Central Campus," Plona said. "If it's just another
Jimmy John's, I wouldn't go there"
The feedhack received from students is solely to
create a vision statement, Diane Brown, spokeswoman
for University Facilities and Planning said. There are
no concrete plans in the works for new construction or
development. Instead, the vision will help aid in future
planning, she added.
Brown said the committee realized that while
many planning studies in the past did not include stu-
dents' views, this study needed to incorporate more
campus opinion.
"In their focusing on North Campus, the committee
decided they needed to solicit and bring out more of
these interests, opinions, thoughts, hopes and dreams
from users - faculty, staff, students, and potential
visitors," Brown said.

By Amber Colvin
Daily Staff Reporter
A video sent to underrepresent-
ed minorities may have increased
minority enrollment, but some think
the University has practiced dis-
crimination with their soliciting.
The Office of Undergraduate
Admissions sent out welcome vid-
eos this year to underrepresented
minorities who were accepted to
the University. Minority enrollment
is up from last year's low numbers,
according to Chris Lucier, associate
director of undergraduate admis-
sions, even though the full set of
official enrollment data is not yet
available because it has not been
fully compiled.
Lucier said the video and other
methods used this year increased
minority enrollment. Two different
videos were sent out in late March
to all admitted underrepresented
minorities - one catering to pro-
spective LSA students and one to
prospective Engineering students.
Each video featureda professor from
the respective school welcoming the
student, listing the University's pro-
grams and showing some features
of the University. At the end of each
video, the professor encouraged the
student to attend Spring Welcome
Day, an event for minority students
to get acclimated at the University

and learn more about what opportu-
nities are available.
"After the video went out over
that weekend, (Spring Welcome
Day) registration went up astronom-
ically," Lucier said.
Lucier added that the rate of
enrollment was much higher for stu-
dents who attended Spring Welcome
Day than those who did not. By the
time the decision to send out videos
had been made, it was too late to be
able to send videos to all admitted
students, so the University decided
to only send them to admitted under-
represented minorities, Lucier said.

"We really wanted to try to tar-
get underrepresented minorities.
We knew that was a group that we
really wanted to reach out to," Luc-
ier said.
As for next year, Lucier said the
Office of Undergraduate Admis-
sions hoped to expand video send-
ing to all admitted students.
LSA senior Brian Lundin said he
thought sending videos to selected
students was outrageous.
"But sadly, I have come to expect
such conduct from an administration
so out of touch as our own," he said.
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