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. 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