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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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