Monday, July 21, 2008
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RECRUITING
From Page 1
work with minority middle and
high school students are refashion-
ing their activities on the Univer-
sity's campus and in high schools
across the state.
Erica Sanders, the director of
recruitment operations at the Uni-
versity's Office of Undergraduate
Admissions - which often assists
student groups in contacting pro-
spective applicants to the Univer-
sity - said her office is working
with a "broader spectrum" of
student organizations than it did
before the ban. Admissions officers
worked with about 10 percent of the
approxi- mately 1,100 student
organizations on campus before the
ban. Sanders said she wasn't sure
exactly how many more student
organizations her office will work
with inthe fall.
Sanders, who recently met with
Michigan Student Assembly presi-
dent Sabrina Shingwani to discuss
student organization and OUA
collaborations, said she couldn't
ART FAIR
From Page 1
to keep things under control..
Though this year's rap sheet for
the South University area included
just one failed attempt at stealing a
wheelchair and one report of van-
dalism that was stopped within
minutes, Ann Arbor police officer
Pete Tsangaris said those are the
kinds of minor incidents that hap-
pen basically every year.
Tsangaris, who was also
assigned to patrol the South Uni-
versity area, added that Maynard
Street, near the ever-popular
Scorekeepers Sports Grill and Pub,
estimate the number of students
working with the admissions office
in minority recruitment efforts,
but that student participation and
interest has definitely increased.
"We have not been met with con-
cerns, just students who want to be
involved," she said.
LSA senior Eric Soto, former
president of Sigma Lambda Beta,
a multicultural fraternity, and an
executive board member of the
Latino Students Association, said
the drop in Latino enrollment from
350 in 2007 to 200 in 2008 was a
shock to the LSO.
As a result, Soto, a member of
Assisting Latinos to Maximize
Achievement, said that the empha-
sis of many student groups will
switch from campus mentoring to
high school recruiting.
"The question now is, 'How can
we help these kids get to our cam-
pus?"' he said.
Soto added that encouraging
minority recruitment remains
more important than ever after the
affirmative action ban because it
inspires students who don't think
See RECRUITING, Page 8
has also been a problematic spot in h
the past. But even on streets witho
busy bars, Tsangaris said theft has
never been a serious issue at thed
annual Art Fairs. s
And that's why Chicago-basedv
artist Cheryl Ward said her long-n
held post in front of Rick's Ameri- b
can Cafe didn't give her any cause s
for concern.
The mixed media artist and her r
husband have made a living off of s
selling their art at fairs across the l
country for the past eight years,
and for them, theft has never been t
an issue in Ann Arbor.o
"I mean you've got a bar right $
here," Ward said. "People can c
stumble in and people can sleep ind
VOTE
From Page 2
Vice President Arvind Sohoni.
Along with the Office of New
Student Programs, VYV distrib-
uted more than 4,000 flyers to
freshmen during orientation with
information on how to register.
Sohoni said that throughout
the fall, VYV would work close-
ly with University Housing in a
program called "Dorm Storm,"
where members will register stu-
dents door-to-door in the resi-
dence halls.
To make the process more
convenient, Sohoni said VYV
will coordinate with the Ann
Arbor City Clerk's office to
have drop boxes for in-state
voters affixed to several high-
traffic buildings on campus.
"We could have a student
pick up a form, fill it out at
their own pace and drop
it back off at one of these
boxes," he said.
Ann Arbor City Clerk
Jackie Beaudry said VYV
here, but usually there's no theft
or damage."
Even though Ward said she
doesn't lock her tent at night, she
aid she suspected the couple's
work was safe - but she said that's
mostly because there's no real
lack market for abstract impres-
ionism or mixed media, she said.
She added that the artists who
un a real risk are those who sell
maller, more expensive items
ike gems or jewelry.
"But they have no idea what
o do with this stuff," Ward said
of her art, which sold for around
1500 a piece last week. "You
an't hock it, so what else are you
doing to do with it?"
would be in charge of monitoring
the boxes.
Beaudry said the City Clerk's
office would also participate in
both Festifall and Northfest,
setting up booths to explain the
voting process and registering
students to vote.
Dickerson, who said he has
worked with groups that regis-
tered as many 100 people in a day,
said that the main incentive for
registering voters should be to
give all voters a voice in a pivotal
presidential race.
"I'm trying to get people regis-
tered to vote, period," he said.
CORRECTIONS
" In an editorial in the July
19 issue of The Michigan Daily
(A bad call on bad behavior), the
amount of Rich Rodriguez's
settlement with West Vir-
ginia University was incor-
rectly stated to be $9 million.
Rodriguez settled for $4 million.
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