Marlanna Landeros
recognized by OIE
for programming
By RIYAH BASHA
Daily Staff Reporter
For Marlanna Landeros, the
University of Michigan Division
of Public Safety and Security’s
program manager, public safety at
the University is in her blood.
Landeros
is
one
of
10
individual recipients of this year’s
Distinguished Diversity Leaders
Award, and was recognized last
week by the Office of Institutional
Equity as the force behind DPSS
programs aimed at making the
department diversity-concious.
The Distinguished Diversity
Leaders
Award
celebrates
University
members
working
toward creating an inclusive
working
environment.
The
award is made possible by the
Office of the Provost and Human
Resources, and winners recieve
money to use for professional
development activities.
Though her position as student
program manager is new in the
department this year, Landeros is
no stranger to campus safety and
security. She has held multiple
positions with DPSS since 2002,
and noted that her mother and
father were also involved in
similar public safety work while
she was growing up.
“My dad was director of public
safety at UM-Flint,” she explained.
“I learned the importance and
value of diversity; it looked a little
different when they were part of
policing. And I gained a passion
for wanting to make a difference.”
Much of her work this year has
been focused on implementing
University
President
Mark
Schlissel’s
diversity
initiative.
Every department and unit on
campus has been tasked with
developing a unique strategic
plan to address diversity that will
ultimately be combined into one
cohesive plan in the fall.
“The structure we’ve built is
designed to encourage discussion,
the
sharing
of
successful
programs and the development
of new ideas,” Schlissel said at
theintroduction of the initiative
last September. “We want to
encourage
innovation
to
set
broad parameters; not prescribed
boxes.”
Landeros
said
for
DPSS,
implementing those instructions
has meant orchestrating dialogues
with other departments as well as
creating safe spaces for students
to communicate with University
police. On multiple occasions,
she said, she had to demonstrate
DPSS’s presence in the planning
initiative to other departments.
“With the call to action from the
president, people know we must
move forward,” she said. “And
(the plan) brings together a lot of
people that would not intersect
and have a conversation on this
subject matter. Verifying to
other groups that we’re here has
been very important.”
The intersection of diversity
and policing is a sensitive
one in many communities,
including at the University, as
minority students have voiced
complaints of feeling unsafe
on campus over past years.
The City Council’s Human
Rights Commission recently
recommended that the city
institute a police review board
after the death of Aura Rosser,
a Black woman fatally shot by
an Ann Arbor police officer in
2014.
In response to a question
about similar programs on
college
campuses,
such
as
Michigan
State
University’s
recent creation of an Inclusions
and
Anti-Bias
Unit
and
whether DPSS would consider
instituting one, Landeros to the
unit’s data collection as a part of
the strategic plan.
“We’re still seeking data
there before we make any
decisions,” she said.
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Ann Arbor project
may be revived,
but details remain
uncertain
By ANDREW HIYAMA
Daily Staff Reporter
Tuesday, University of Michi-
gan President Mark Schlissel
reintroduced the idea of creating
a rapid transit system between
Central and North Campuses, a
project that had essentially been
dormant since 2013.
“The city would probably con-
tribute a modest amount, but not
an amount that changes a $60
million project into something
we don’t know how to do right
now,” Schlissel said during the
chat.
In 2010, under then-President
Mary Sue Coleman, the Univer-
sity of Michigan began discuss-
ing plans with the City of Ann
Arbor to build a new transporta-
tion system that would effective-
ly unify the University’s entire
Ann Arbor campus, stretching
as far east as the East Medical
Campus on Plymouth Road and
as far south as Wolverine Tow-
ers near Briarwood Mall.
In 2011, the University and
the city collaborated with the
Ann Arbor Area Transporta-
tion Authority and the Ann
Arbor
Downtown
Develop-
ment Authority to fund a study
investigating
the
feasibility
of such a rapid transit system.
The study considered light rail,
bus rapid transit, monorail and
streetcar as potential modes of
transportation, finding that the
current and projected levels of
ridership justified high-capac-
ity service in the “high demand
core”
encompassing
Central
and North Campuses, as well as
“end-to-end connection” from
the Briarwood Mall area to the
East Medical Campus.
There were a series of public
meetings in 2013 to discuss the
future of the so-called Connec-
tor program, but the program
hasn’t received any public atten-
tion since.
“That was the first I’d heard
that idea surface in the last few
years,” Ann Arbor City Council-
member Sabra Briere (D–Ward
1) said in an interview with the
Daily.
Briere said she understood
the demand for a rapid transit
system, though.
“The biggest, most congested
area of University transporta-
tion is between Central Campus
and North Campus. A bus is en
route between those two desti-
nations several times a minute,”
she said.
Engineering freshman Hosse-
in Abdollahi, a resident of Bates
Housing, knows this struggle all
too well.
“Living on North Campus
was particularly difficult with
the current transit system as
most of my classes had nothing
to do with engineering and were
located on Central Campus,”
Abdollahi wrote in an e-mail.
“The commute to Central was
awful because everyone would
be trying to get to the same place
and so buses would be packed.”
Schlissel said at his fireside
talk that for North Campus to
expand as he hoped, improve-
ments in transportation would
be necessary. Ann Arbor Mayor
Christopher Taylor had similar
sentiments.
“Traffic and congestion are
important quality of life issues
for everyone in Ann Arbor and
the University community, and
outside the University commu-
nity,” Taylor said. “We all expect
the University to continue to
grow and expand and improve
its educational and research and
medical offerings, to integrate
campuses and to provide the
free and easy flow of persons
from, broadly speaking, North
Campus to Central to South
Campus.”
Taylor said if the transporta-
tion project was to go through,
the University, not the city,
would be the recipient of federal
grants. Though no statement has
been issued by the University on
how the funds for this project
would be raised, Abdollahi says
bearing a tuition hike is a con-
sideration he would make.
“I’d be willing to pay extra
depending on how reasonable
the amount he’s asking for is,”
Abdollahi said. “However, I
would first like to make sure that
there is no other way to raise the
funds.”
Engineering
senior
Anya
LaRoche doesn’t think the time
the transit system would save
would be worth the cost.
“I think that a lot of people are
already very financially strained
with what they already have to
pay,” LaRoche said.
Regarding its own involve-
ment
with
the
Connector
project, Central Student Gov-
ernment issued this statement:
“CSG has been working close-
ly with Busing to adjust current
bus routes and cater to North
Campus
Student’s
Gameday
transportation needs since the
Fall semester. We have engaged
in the long term plan conversa-
tion, focusing on innovative and
clean
energy
transportation.
CSG understands the long-term
nature of this plan, however
is committed to maintaining a
strong voice both in the present,
and in the distant future.”
As far as the timeline for the
project or its estimated comple-
tion date, things are very much
still in the dark.
“We don’t have an estimated
start date. This is nebulous and
still in the planning stages. It’s
not even in the proposal stage,”
Briere said. “The last meeting
I attended, we still didn’t have
any sense of what would be cre-
ated to service the transporta-
tion model.”
That meeting was in 2013. Eli
Cooper, transportation program
manager for the City of Ann
Arbor, will meet with members
of City Council to provide them
with updates about the Connec-
tor project for the first time in
years on Friday.
Daily Arts Writers explore
love,
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the University Flower shop.
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Gemini: Love
Songs
WHAT: Watch Gemini, a
local folk duo, perform love
songs at their pre-Valentine’s
Day concert. They will sing
both original and traditional
songs and play instruments.
WHO: Gemini
WHEN: 12:10 p.m. to 1:00
p.m.
WHERE: University
Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
Career Crawl
WHAT: Learn about what
it would be like to have a
career in the financial ser-
vices industry. Meet with
University alumni who
work within this indus-
try and learn about their
work and experiences.
WHO: Career Center
WHEN: 12:00 p.m.
to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
Union-Pond Room
Crisis pregnancy centers in
California are fighting for
the right to deny abortion
information, according to
The New York Times. Clinics have
been accused of concealing biases
about abortions and giving women
non-objective
advice
about
handling pregnancy.
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A rare albino green
turtle was hatched on
an Australian beach,
The Washington Post
reported. Only about one in
many hundreds of thousands
of eggs that are laid yield an
albino turtle, according to the
Post.
Penny Stamps
speaker series
WHAT: Hear Louise Fili, a
director of a New York City
design firm specializing
in brand development for
restaurants speak about
food, type and all things
Italian.
WHO: Louise Fili
WHEN: 5:10 p.m. to 6:00
p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Theater
Disruptive
Behavior
WHAT: Discuss learning
enviroments in which
disruptive behavior in
the classroom can be
addressed and prevented.
WHO: CRLT-Engin
WHEN: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00
p.m.
WHERE: Lurie Robert
H. Engin Ctr - Johnson
Rooms
Engineering
study abroad
mixer
WHAT: Meet with past
participants of International
Programs in Engineering study
abroad programs and learn
about their experiences.
WHO: International Programs
in Engineering
WHEN: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Duderstadt Center
How to be Better
than Average
WHAT: Learn about how
to be a leader, identifying
opportunities for leader-
ship and discovering your
inner strength. Learn how
to recognize challenges and
succeed when they arise.
WHO: Todd Brockdorf
WHEN: 9:00 a.m.
to 12:00 p.m.
WHERE: Administrative
Services Building - LPD
No Fail
E-Mail
WHAT: Learn how to
compose clear and concise
e-mail messages and
effectively communiate
via e-mail. Learn to
recognize proper e-mail
etiquette and use it in
messages.
WHO: April Callis
WHEN: 1:00 p.m. to 5:00
p.m.
WHERE: Administrative
Services Building - LPD
NoViolet
Bulawayo
WHAT: A Q&A session
with the winner of
many prizes for writing,
including the 2011 Caine
Prize for African Writing.
WHO: NoViolet Bulawayo
WHEN: 2:00 p.m. to 3:00
p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall -
Hopwood Room
ON THE DAILY
Hotline Bling invades inboxes
If Drake hasn’t called you
on your cell phone lately,
maybe you should check your
e-mail.
Wednesday evening, many
University students received
multiple e-mails from an
address called “hotlinebling-
blingboi@gmail.com,” each
e-mail containing a line from
Drake’s famous song, “Hotline
Bling”
The messages were sent to
individual University e-mail
addresses, not a listserv.
The e-mails were sent over
a span of a few minutes, with
students taking to Twitter to
share their reactions.
The Michigan Daily is cur-
rently running a Twitter poll,
asking students if they’ve
received e-mails from the
source.
By clicking “show original”
on a drop down box in the
individual e-mails, more infor-
mation about the source of the
messages and the intended
audience is made clear. The
source is cited as “Michael’s
Macbook Pro” and for “LSA
Sophomore Initiative”
The University does
not authorize community
members to assume another
person’s identity or commu-
nicate via e-mail address with
another person without truth-
fully introducing themselves,
according to Standard Practice
Guide Policies.
“You may not communicate
or act under the guise, name,
identification, email address,
signature, or indicia of another
person without proper autho-
rization, nor may you com-
municate under the rubric
of an organization, entity, or
unit that you do not have the
authority to represent,” the
SPG 601.19 guideline states.
Consequences for violating
the guideline range from disci-
plinary action to dismissal and
legal action, depending on the
severity of the offense.
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DPSS program manager wins
award for diversity leadership
Schlissel, city officals envision
monorail to unite campuses