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THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

The 
Michigan 

football 
team 
takes 

on Northwestern at 

3:30 p.m. Saturday. The 
Wolverines and Wildcats 
are the No. 1 and 2 scoring 
defenses in the Big Ten. 
>>>SEE SPORTS, PAGE 1B
2

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

New York 
Philharmonic

WHAT: Principal 
musicians offer a 
range of instrumental 
masterclasses. 
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 11 a.m.
WHERE: Britton Recital 
Hall

Summer Bridge
celebration 

WHAT: Panel discussions 
and presentations on the 
past, present and future of 
CSP and Summer Bridge.
WHO: Comprehen-
sive Studies Pogram 
WHEN: Today from 
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan 
League Ballroom

Belarusian 
author 

Svetlana 
Alexievich 

was awarded the 2015 

Nobel Prize for Literature on 
Thursday, the Nobel Prize 
organization 
announced. 

Alexievich has chronicled the 
fall of the Soviet Union among 
other topics. 

1

Engineering 
parade

WHAT: Michigan 
Engineering will hold a 
parade for students, alumni 
and community members, 
featuring floats competing 
for seven themed awards 
and the first annual Golden 
Pickle Award. 
WHO: College of 
Engineering
WHEN: Today from 3 p.m. 
to 4 p.m.
WHERE: Bonisteel Blvd.

Indiana University has 
suspended its chapter 
of the fraternity Alpha 
Tau 
Omega 
after 
a 

29-second 
video 
surfaced 

of members being forced 
to perform oral sex on two 
women, the Indianapolis Star 
reports. 

3

Fat-Talk 
Nation lecture

WHAT: Susan Greenhalgh, 
professor of anthropology and 
Chinese society at Harvard 
University, will discuss the 
costs of America’s war on fat.
WHO: Center for Chinese 
Studies
WHEN: Today from 12 
p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: 2239 Lane Hall 

Musicology 
lecture

WHAT: New York 
Philharmonic archivist 
Barbara Haws will 
discuss how the 
performance history of 
local areas relates to a 
region’s broader history 
and culture. 
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN:Today at 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. Moore- 
Glenn E. Watkins Lecture 
Hall

BallouFest
symposium 

WHAT: Symosium honor-
ing David Ballou featuring 
keynote speakers from uni-
versities across the nation. 
WHO: Biological Chemistry
WHEN: Today from 
8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Palmer 
Commons, Forum Hall 

Queer 
ecologies

WHAT: Jennifer Monson 
will collaborate with students 
in a public event to discuss 
dance as an interdisciplinary 
research method.
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 3 p.m.
WHERE: 735 S. State Street 

Alumnus 
lecture

WHAT: Kristina Ford, a 
University alum and the 
former director of city 
planning for New Orleans 
will discuss her career 
and her experiences dur-
ing Hurricane Katrina. 
WHO: Taubman College 
of Architecture and 
Urban Planning
WHEN: Today at 6 p.m.
WHERE: Art and 
Architecture Building

TUESDAY:

Campus Voices

THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

MONDAY:

This Week in History

LEFT: Lauren Lopez performs at “A 

Very Starkid Reunion” in honor of 

the 100th anniversary of the School 

of Music, Theater & Dance at the 

Power Center on Thursday. (DELANEY 

RYAN/Daily)
RIGHT: LSA sophomore Kim Truong 

plays the string bass during the 

“Conduct Us!,” the Pops Orchestra’s 

impromptu concert. Passersby were 

invited to conduct the orchestra 

on the Diag on Wednesday. (ZOEY 

HOLMSTROM/Daily)

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‘U’ prof. teaches class in tandem 
with Moscow State University

Trial section of 
course explores 
co-instruction 

with global partners

BY LYDIA MURRAY

Daily Staff Reporter

Ten University Honors stu-

dents are working alongside 
peers in Moscow in a trial sec-
tion of the humanities course, 
“The Land of Israel/Palestine 
Through the Ages.”

The partnership, four years 

in the making, may be the first 
of its kind, according to Rab-
binic Literature Prof. Yaron 
Eliav, who is leading the course 
along with faculty at Moscow 
State University. The class has 
been taught for 15 years at the 
University.

Eliav said the trial section of 

the course represents both an 
important global experience 
for students and a new way to 
think about classroom dynam-
ics.

“There’s a shift from a teach-

er-centered class to a student-
centered class,” he said. “All 

the way back to the Middle 
Ages, teaching was a professor 
providing information to his 
or her students. We’re kind of 
changing that.”

The students involved in 

this partnership have a video 
conference with their Russian 
peers once a week for discus-
sion led by either Eliav or the 
instructor in Moscow. The two 
courses are exactly the same, 
except for the language in 
which they are taught.

Students are also paired 

with a Russian peer to work 
on assignments and research 
projects, so they have regular 
contact with them outside of 
the general meetings.

“We discuss, unfortunately 

only in English, the topics of 
the course,” Eliav said. “This 
week we had a huge debate on 
the issue of ethnicity. Every 
week there is a discussion.”

LSA freshman Talia Katz, 

who is enrolled in the class, 
said she appreciates the dif-
ferent perspective her Russian 
peers provided.

“The language barrier is a 

little bit difficult to get across 
because some of them have 
limitations in regards to that,” 

she said. “It is really interest-
ing to discuss their point of 
view on modern issues based 
on some of the ancient his-
torical facts that we have been 
studying.”

The 
course 
was 
funded 

through a nearly $1 million 
grant from the University’s 
Third 
Century 
Initiative, 

which seeks to allocate fund-
ing to a series of academic pur-
suits, including broadening the 
University’s global reach.

Looking to the future, Eliav 

said he sees these kinds of glob-
al partnerships as an impor-
tant development in how the 
world of academia approaches 
teaching.

“We envision that learning 

in the 21st century will not be 
confined anymore to the Ann 
Arbor campus, as the world 
has become too small for that,” 
he said.

According to Eliav, six other 

universities from across the 
globe have expressed interest 
in joining in a similar partner-
ship, teaching a class alongside 
a University one. 

“The word is getting out,” he 

said. “People are hearing about 
this and they want to come.”

MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily

Music, Theatre, & Dance freshman Isabelle Molnar tapes down bubble wrap for students to pop as the group 
Art on the Diag decorates the bricks on Thursday.

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University announces summit, 
lectures on campus diversity

Campus-wide 
assembly slated 
to take place in 

November

BY ALLANA AKHTAR

Daily Staff Reporter

Though 
University 
Presi-

dent Mark Schlissel has hosted 
several invite-only summits on 
diversity and inclusion since 
taking office last year, he is now 
taking those efforts campus-
wide.

In an e-mail released to facul-

ty, students and staff on Thurs-
day, Schlissel invited members 
of the community to join him 
for an interactive assembly to 
discuss diversity, equity and 
inclusivity on campus. Clarence 
Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning 
journalist and senior editorial 
board member of the Chicago 
Tribune, will join as the event’s 

host.

“The University of Michi-

gan is currently undertaking a 
campuswide strategic planning 
process to create our vision for a 
diverse, equitable and inclusive 
campus,” Schlissel wrote in the 
message. “Faculty, students and 
staff: Your voice, your partici-
pation and your ideas are vital 
to shaping the future of Michi-
gan.”

The assembly aligns with 

a strategic planning process 
Schlissel 
has 
launched 
to 

address issues such as campus 
climate and the University’s 
accessibility to minority stu-
dents. Schlissel has hosted two 
summits to discuss these topics 
and gather input toward the cre-
ation of a formal strategic plan 
for diversity. The most recent 
was held in September.

“Dedication 
to 
academic 

excellence for the public good 
is inseparable from our com-
mitment to diversity, equity and 
inclusion,” Schlissel said dur-

ing the September address. “We 
cannot be excellent without 
being diverse in the broadest 
sense of that word.”

Along with the community 

assembly, the University will 
host five events on diversity: 
a reflection on the history of 
campus diversity; a public lec-
ture featuring one of only three 
Black surgeon generals of the 
United States, a conversation 
titled Leadership for Diver-
sity in Higher Education: A 
System-wide Commitment; and 
the release of a staff committee 
report on diversity, equity and 
inclusion.

Schlissel previously appointed 

60 facilitators — representing 
each college and campus unit — 
to design programs for enhanc-
ing diversity unique to their unit. 
Those ideas would later be com-
piled into a larger, campus-wide 
vision for addressing the issue.

In an interview with the 

Michigan Daily last month, 
Schlissel said he hoped to see 
initial initiatives to increase 
campus diversity reflected in 
Fall 2016 enrollment figures, 
which are typically released in 
October.

“We 
began 
implementing 

some of the changes in the 
admissions and financial aid 
procedure a year ago,” he said. 
“We should start to see mod-
est incremental changes in the 
direction of diversity now.”

University conversations on 

diversity and race came to the 
forefront in 2013 when the Uni-
versity’s Black Student Union 
the #BBUM Twitter campaign, 
which 
encouraged 
students 

to share their experiences as 
Black students on campus. The 
hashtag spurred campus dia-
logue, particularly around the 
University’s decreasing minor-
ity population following the 
2006 voter-enacted affirmative 
action ban in Michigan.

According to last October’s 

enrollment figures, Black stu-
dents made up 4.63 percent of 
the undergraduate population 
in 2014.

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