2 Thursday, July 23, 2015 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS ALEX BODFISH/Daily The new Munger Graduate Residences will open in mid-august. 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com EMMA KERR Editor in Chief 734-418-4115 ext. 1251 emkerr@michigandaily.com MADISEN POWELL Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 madisenm@michigandaily.com EDITORIAL STAFF Derek Wolfe Managing Editor dewolfe@michigandaily.com Lara Moehlman Managing News Editor alyabd@michigandaily.com SENIOR NEWS EDITORS: Lea Giotto, Carly Noah and Colleen Harrison Melissa Scholke Editorial Page Editor opinioneditors@michigandaily.com SENIOR EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR: Mary Kate Winn Zach Shaw Managing Sports Editor sportseditors@michigandaily.com SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR: Chloe Aubuchon Christian Kennedy Managing Arts Editor cmkee@michigandaily.com SENIOR ARTS EDITOR: Caroline Filips Amanda Allen and Zach Moore Managing Photo Editors photo@michigandaily.com Francesca Kielb Managing Design Editor design@michigandaily.com Emily Campbell Managing Copy Editor copydesk@michigandaily.com Nick Cruz Online Editor CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom Office hours: Sun.-Thurs. 11 a.m. - 2 a.m. 734-763-2459 opt.3 News Tips news@michigandaily.com Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Letters to the Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com or visit michigandaily.com/letters Photo Department photo@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigandaily.com Magazine statement@michigandaily.com Advertising Phone: 734-418-4115 Department dailydisplay@gmail.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published every Thursday during the spring and summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $110. Winter term (January through April) is $115, yearlong (September through April) is $195. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of The Associated Press and The Associated Collegiate Press. Munger graduate housing to open on Central Campus Living space designed to encourage collaboration and a balanced lifestyle By EMMA KERR Summer Editor in Chief If you’re a graduate stu- dent living in the new Munger Graduate Residences, climbing through dorm windows at night to get a strictly prohibited roof- top view will not be part of your residential life experience. Munger Graduate Residences will open its doors to nearly 630 single graduate students in mid-August. The $155 million project includes a rooftop patio and running track overlook- ing Michigan Stadium, in addi- tion to entire floors dedicated to common spaces and study spaces for residents. The proj- ect ultimately cost $30 million under the original budget of $185 million. Each individual unit is part of a six or seven-bedroom suite, and though each resident has his or her own bathroom, kitchen and study spaces in the suite are shared. Suites were designed with interdisciplin- ary collaboration in mind, Amir Baghdadchi, the University Housing’s Assistant Director of Communications, said during a tour Friday. Graduate student Ashley Adams, a Planning Fellow who will be living at Munger Gradu- ate Residences in the fall, said she and the other Planning Fel- lows will organize programs and provide resources to resi- dents. “The building is beautiful, but the mission of the program was really a driver for me. I was a Planning Fellow, and so our student input was really valu- able and even residents get to decide how they will want to use the space and it can adjust to their needs,” Adams said. Students of at least four different areas of study are assigned to suites. Spaces like the theater-style multimedia room are all designed to cre- ate a unique graduate experi- ence and encourage students to explore areas of study outside of their own, Baghdadchi said. “Housing is a way to bring people together who do differ- ent kinds of things,” he said. “When you live next to each other, amazing things can hap- pen.” Living a balanced life was also an idea planners kept in mind when designing Munger Graduate Residences. The lower level includes a game room, the- ater, and indoor bike rack. Stairs are lined with grooves to make moving bikes up and down from the bike storage area easier. “If you don’t make it easy to live life with a bike, they won’t do it. So this is a way to nudge them toward that lifestyle,” Baghdadchi said. Baghdadchi also said Mung- er is on track to achieve Gold Leadership in Energy and Envi- ronmental Design certification. The building exceeds energy efficiency code requirements by 30 percent. The 8th floor of Munger Graduate Residences — what Badhdadchi called the heart of the residence hall — is divided into indoor and outdoor space and includes a rooftop patio garden and large windows that can slide open during warmer months. The top floor is also equipped with an exercise room. Most of the furniture has yet to be moved into the residence hall, though the project is said to be on schedule for completion in just over two weeks when staff residence begin arriv- ing. The project was designed modularly for maximization of efficiency and was approved by the Board of Regents in Septem- ber 2013 after the University received a $110 million donation from University alum Charles Munger, vice chairman of Berk- shire Hathaway. See MUNGER, Page 9