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University alum
Dick Costolo
explores successful
leadership
By REBECCA SOLBERG
Daily Staff Reporter
It took him over 140 characters,
but former Twitter CEO Dick
Costolo spoke to a filled Rackham
Graduate
School
auditorium
Thursday on how he has found
value in his liberal arts degree
from the University throughout
his career.
LSA Dean Andrew Martin, who
introduced Costolo to the crowd
of hundreds, proclaimed at the
lecture’s start, “What a great day to
be a Wolverine!”
Costolo said in his speech he
aimed to inspire and highlight
the merit of a liberal arts degree,
which he said can be viewed as
“impractical” in Silicon Valley. He
disputed this opinion by explaining
how his LSA education fueled his
leadership skills and broadened his
understanding of the world.
“A broad liberal arts degree, and
deep immersion in the humanities
is actually vital to developing
our very best leaders and in fact
without that education, none of
you would develop the habits of
mind, and frameworks for creative
synthesis and lateral thinking, that
really make the very best leaders in
the world,” he said.
Costolo said he believes great
leaders
possess
five
speccific
qualities: They make decisions
rapidly and adapt to dynamic
environments when there are no
road maps or obvious choices;
they
creatively
synthesize
information and provide context
for decisions that are to be made
across disciplines, cultures and
perspectives; they inspire and
build trust in any collaborative
environment
by
welcoming
viewpoints different than their
own; they are never in reaction;
they are kind without being weak
and
confident
without
being
“jerks.”
But to achieve these attributes
of a leader, Costolo said their
education is key.
“They need to have a few habits
of
mind
uniquely
developed
through
deep
curiosity
and
See COSTOLO, Page 2
Vocal instructor’s
mentorship
supported diversity
on campus
By CAMY METWALLY
Daily Staff Reporter
Dozens gathered in the School of
Music, Theatre & Dance’s Stamps
Auditorium on Thursday night
to commemorate George Shirley,
University emeritus professor of
voice, as the recipient of the 2016
Shirley Verrett Award.
Established in 2011, the Women
of Color in the Academy Project
presents the annual award, which
includes a $5,000 stipend, to a
University faculty member whose
work supports the success of
female students and faculty in
the arts who come from diverse
backgrounds.
The
Women
of
Color in the Academy Project is
a campus-wide faculty network
that provides support for the
development of scholars who are
women of color.
Attendees at Thursday’s event
included
community
members
from
Shirley’s
hometown
of
Detroit and a number of current
students and colleagues.
“Music feeds my soul,” Shirley
said. “It feeds my spirit, and to
share this moment with people,
some of whom I don’t know, many
of whom I do, it’s indescribably
delicious.”
Opera singer Marcia Porter
performed
at
the
ceremony
followed by a performance by
one of Shirley’s current students,
School of Music, Theatre & Dance
graduate
student
Kaswanna
Kanyinda. Her first piece, she
explained, told the story of a
person who experienced trials and
tribulations while working toward
a goal, and the second song was
about how the individual became
lost to the world after reaching
that goal.
Kanyinda celebrated Shirley
through song, attributing many of
her successes and accomplishments
to his instruction.
“He helped me to understand
that music isn’t about perfection,”
Kanyinda said. “It’s about sharing
who you are, what you’ve been
through and who you could
be through song. I know that I
wouldn’t be on this path, and I
know I wouldn’t have achieved
what I have without this man’s
guidance.”
School of Music, Theatre &
Dance graduate student Dorian
Dillard II also attended the
ceremony
to
honor
Shirley’s
mentorship. He said he met Shirley
in 2011 when he won second place
in the first George Shirley African
American Art Song and Operatic
Aria Competition. Since then,
Dillard said, Shirley has served as
a mentor and father figure to him
and others.
“It’s an honor to be in the
presence of a legend,” Dillard said.
See SHIRLEY, Page 3
Program strives
to increase
health options in
Southeast Michigan
By DESIREE CHEW
Daily Staff Reporter
This
summer,
Michigan
Forward in Enhancing Research
and Community Equity will
launch
the
Health
Access
Initiative,
a
free
quality-
improvement program for clinics
and health centers in Southeast
Michigan aimed at providing
better care for LGBTQ youth.
MFierce
was
founded
in
September 2014 with the aim
of dealing with societal health
disparities via a participatory,
community-based approach of
structural change. It is funded by
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
MFierce
Project
Director
Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis said the
organization focuses on systemic
problems rather than individual
interventions.
“Besides being participatory,
the other part that makes MFierce
different is that it is involved
with structural change,” Sirdenis
said. “Currently there are a lot of
programs focused on changing
individual behavior, for example
how to use a condom, how to
have safer sex negotiations — but
these are more on the person-to-
person level.”
“So this structural change
works to impact the bigger
systems and policies, as well
as take into account existing
policies that could be affecting
quality of care,” she added.
MFierce
is
a
three-part
coalition, according to Sirdenis.
The first entity is the steering
committee, composed of different
community leaders, CEOs, AIDS
service organizations, LGBTQ
groups, state and county health
departments. Also involved are
public health researchers in the
Center for Sexuality and Health
Disparities,
or
the
SexLab.
The final piece is the Youth
Advisory Board, which is made
up of LGBTQ youth from all over
Southeast Michigan.
Marcos
Carrillo,
biology
junior at Henry Ford Community
College, is a member of the
Youth Advisory Board. He said
his decision to join MFierce was
deeply motivated by personal
See HEALTH, Page 3
MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, a University alum, discusses his career path and the field of communications at a talk sponsored by the Ford School of Public Policy at
Rackham Auditorium on Thursday.
Frontrunner
candidate took
several risks in first
caucus state
By EMMA KINERY
Daily News Editor
In a speech before his loss
at the Iowa caucuses Monday,
Donald Trump said he felt
“guilty” about not spending
enough money in the state.
“I’m self-funding my own
campaign, it’s my money,”
Trump said. “So far I have
spent very little money, very
little. I need to start spending
for two reasons: Number one,
I feel guilty. Number two, I
don’t want to take a chance.”
At the time, Trump used
his guilt as a jab, ascribing
it to his then-success in the
polls over other candidates,
namely Jeb Bush, who spent
significant amounts of money
in the state without seeing
correspondingly
large
poll
numbers. But, by spending
little in Iowa Trump had
already taken a chance —
one that may now lead to a
different kind of guilt down
the road.
The erstwhile frontrunner
in the Republican race for
the presidential nomination
took several risks in Iowa,
including not showing up to
a debate — and for the most
See TRUMP, Page 3
Professor discusses
Western ideals
in relation to
Islamophobia
By AUSTIN HIYAMA
For the Daily
History
Prof.
Juan
Cole
examined the rise of Islamophobia
in the Western world in response
to recent waves of anti-Muslim
sentiment following a series of
attacks
attributed
to
Islamic
extremists. At the event, which
was attended by about 50 students
and hosted by the University’s
Muslim Students’ Association,
Cole kicked off the talk by
defining the “American identity.”
The identity, he said, truly began
with the idea of manifest destiny
— an ideology asserting that
Americans in the 19th century
were destined to expand the
United States to the Western coast
— and the subsequent expansion
into Western frontier. He also
said he felt the centrality of the
frontier in America’s identity was
responsible for the centrality of
the military.
See COLE, Page 3
GRANT HARDY/Daily
Presidential hopeful Donald Trump points out people in the audience that he thinks would have good aim,
referencing the Second Amendment, at a rally in Cedar Rapids, IA on February 1, 2016
Ex-Twitter CEO discusses
importance of liberal arts
Professor
lauded for
dedication
to students
ACADEMICS
Group aims to
boost care for
LGBTQ youth
HOSPITAL
In Iowa, Trump’s confidence
ends in second place
CAMPUS LIFE
Prof. talks
anti-Muslim
sentiments
in the U.S.