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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM

Following enrollment

report, groups say
bump is step in the

right direction

By ALLANA AKHTAR

Daily Staff Reporter

Though the University’s fall

2015 enrollment data reported
the
highest
proportion
of

underrepresented minorities in
a decade, leaders of Black, Latin
American and Native American
student groups say the current
numbers leave more to be desired.

Underrepresented minorities

make up 12.8 percent of this
year’s freshman class, up 2.8
percent from last year’s incoming
cohort of first-years. The last
time the percentage of incoming
underrepresented
minority

students was this high was in
2005, when they collectively
made up 13.8 percent of first-year
students.

In 2013, minority students

— Black students in particular

— brought the issue of campus
diversity and inclusion to the
forefront of University concerns
by popularizing the Twitter
hashtag #BBUM, or “Being Black
at the University of Michigan.”

Social media responses with

the hashtag, which went viral,
detailed ways Black students felt
uncomfortable at the University
due
to
microaggressions

or
explicit
forms
of
racial

harassment.

The
#BBUM
campaign

heightened
work
between

leaders of the Black Student
Union, other minority groups on
campus and the administration
to make campus more welcoming
to students of different ethnic
groups — both by way of
on-campus
climate
and
in

admissions. The University has
outlined several new initiatives
to increase the diversity of the
student body, within the confines
of the state of Michigan’s ban
on affirmative action. Those
programs so far have included
increased outreach to specific
school districts, the creation of

Business junior
Taylor Janssen is
in intensive rehab
after July accident

By LYDIA MURRAY

Daily Staff Reporter

Business junior Taylor Janssen

was playing beach volleyball
with his friends when the

accident occurred. He had dived
into shallow water to retrieve the
ball and hit his head on the rocky,
shallow ground. Janssen severed
his C5 vertebrae.

That was in July. Monday

night,
approximately
100

students gathered on the Diag for
an evening of prayer dedicated,
who is currently in intensive
rehabilitation, but was released
from the hospital Friday and was
able to go home for the first time.

Business junior Seth Johnson,

Janssen’s friend and fellow Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity member,
organized the event and retold
the story of Janssen’s injury.

“Following that, his friends

realized something was wrong
so they got him out of the water
and notified the police,” Johnson
said. “They took him in an
ambulance to the University
of Michigan Hospital Trauma
Center where he underwent
multiple surgeries. They weren’t
sure if he was going to make

it, but eventually he pulled
through.”

Monday’s
event
concluded

with a candle-lighting ceremony
and a moment of silence in
support of Janssen, who was also
on hand in the Diag. Afterward,
he said he appreciated the
encouragement
that
he
has

received.

“It’s truly amazing to see

all the support and everyone
come out,” Janssen said. “It’s

ADMINISTRATION

See PRAYER, Page 3
See NUMBERS, Page 3

CLAIRE ABDO/Daily

Kinesiology junior Drew Ohlrich, Business junior Conor Irwin and LSA junior Jake Glaser light their candles after a prayer for their injured Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
brother Taylor Janssen, a Business junior, on the Diag on Monday.

‘An Evening with

Drew Barrymore’ to
cover new memoir

‘Wildflower’

By CAROLINE FILIPS

Daily Arts Writer

It’s hard to mention Drew

Barrymore without referencing
her
tumultuous
childhood.

Though
the

perils of fame
plagued
her

formative years
—
habitual

nightclubbing
as a pre-teen,
rehab by age
14,
living

on
her
own

and
dealing

with
familial

instability
through it all —
Barrymore prevailed with poise.
Today, her repertoire continues
to expand: she identifies as an
actress,
director,
producer,

philanthropist, author, mother
and co-founder of the cosmetic
company Flower Beauty.

Throughout
her
four

decades with a public audience,

Barrymore
has
accumulated

an arsenal of life lessons. She
first shared her uncensored,
cautionary tale in 1990, focusing
on her deviant youth in “Little
Girl
Lost.”
Barrymore’s

newest memoir, “Wildflower”
chronicles her turbulent past
and deems it essential to her
present
—
admittedly
her

happiest, married to actor Will
Kopelman and mother to two
toddlers Olive and Frankie.
In the recent November issue
of InStyle magazine — the
third time the publication’s
editor
Ariel
Foxman
has

elected Barrymore cover girl —
Barrymore admits her conscious
decision
to
disregard
her

inaugural narrative as she wrote
“Wildflower.”

“It’s in my room, in the

‘Barrymore library’ — the stack
of all the dusty old hardcover
books my family has written,
from my Aunt Diana’s ‘Too
Much, Too Soon’ to everything
that Ethel, Lionel and John
(Barrymore) wrote. ‘Little Girl
Lost’ belongs in that crazy
category, and I’m glad it’s there,
but I didn’t want to be influenced
this time around,” Barrymore
said in the interview.

The remainder of the intimate

See BARRYMORE, Page 5

Barrymore’s
book tour takes
her to Michigan
Theater event
on Wednesday

EVENT PREVIEW

Provost previously
pledged to pause
plans based on
assembly vote

By GENEVIEVE HUMMER

Daily Staff Reporter

An overwhelming majority

of the University’s Faculty
Senate voted in favor of a
proposal to delay the release
of course evaluation data until
faculty, students and experts
can reach a consensus on a new
instrument of evaluation.

The vote was planned after

James
Holloway,
the
vice

provost for global and engaged
education,
announced
the

University could implement
plans
to
release
course

evaluation data as early as this
semester at a Senate Advisory
Committee
on
University

Affairs meeting Oct. 12.

According
to
the
plan

Holloway
presented,
the

University would release all
numerical data from student
course evaluations through
a
website
accessible
only

to those with a University
uniqname. Comments written
on
the
evaluations
would

not be released, nor would
the
data
collected
from

course evaluations of classes
taught by graduate student

instructors or instructors with
fewer than seven terms of
teaching experience.

At Monday’s Faculty Senate

meeting,
faculty
members

engaged
in
an
hour-long

discussion about the potential
implications of releasing course
evaluation data to students.

Weineck
opened
the

conversation by sharing faculty
input she has received over
the past several weeks both
in favor of and opposed to the
release of data.

Those in favor of releasing

the data said current course
evaluations, while not perfect,
would be a better resource for
students than ratings posted on

RYAN MCLOUGHLIN/Daily

SACUA member Stephan Szymanski, a professor of kinesiology, discusses flaws in studies regarding student course
evaluations during the SACUA meeting in Palmer Commons on Monday.

See SACUA, Page 3

CAMPUS LIFE

University

faculty kick off
yearlong series of

discussions

By ALEXA ST. JOHN

Daily Staff Reporter

According to a 2015 Pew

Research Center report, 6.9
percent of all Americans 18 and
older identify as multiracial.
According to the University’s
Office of the Registrar, last year,
just over 3 percent of students
identified as two or more races.

A panel of University faculty

met Monday night to discuss
how multiracialism influences
academic work for the first of
their yearlong series dedicated
to discussing the multiracial
experience.

“We were really hoping to

create a sense of community,”
said
Karen
Downing,
the

University Library’s head of
social sciences and the education
liaison librarian. “This is a
population that is often hidden
because we don’t walk around
with signs on us saying we’re
multiracial.
It’s
hard
to

connect sometimes with other
multiracial people.”

Downing said the organizers

hope to share their stories and
find some commonalities with
one another during the course of
this series.

“There’s
also
a
growing

multiracial population in our

See FACULTY, Page 2

An Evening
with Drew
Barrymore

Michigan
Theater

Oct. 28

$25-$50

Students talk
increase in
student body

diversity

Faculty vote to delay release
of course evaluation data

Panel talks
multiracial
identity in
academics

Students gather on Diag
to pray for injured friend

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