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HI: 52
LO: 36
Dialogue focuses
on experiences
with mental
wellness on campus
By TANYA MADHANI
Daily Staff Reporter
During
their
last
mass
meeting of the year, the Black
Student Union allotted time
for a mental health dialogue
to address the topic within the
African-American community
both on campus and at large.
Discussion
at
the
event
focused on the lack of minority
clinicians in Counseling and
Psychological
Services,
as
well as lack of knowledge
about mental health resources
and the effects of attending
a
predominantly
white
institution like the University
of Michigan.
LSA junior Janice Allen and
LSA senior Darian Lasenby
moderated the event, which
almost 50 students attended.
Allen said hosting a mental
health dialogue was imperative
to getting members of the
Black community on campus
to talk about the stigmas that
they face.
“It’s seen as something that
is an issue, but not a serious
issue that you need to seek help
for,” she said. “You put it off to
the side or it’s something that
you put in the dark.”
LSA
sophomore
Shavon
Edwards
said
she
is
an
active member of the BSU
and found the topics of the
meeting important, especially
addressing mental health and
illness concerns raised by her
peers.
“I’m a part of the community,
so I know from experience that
these issues are very much valid
and true,” she said. “It’s just
a simple lack of not knowing
and the struggles we face as a
community contributes to the
fact that we don’t know the
signs of mental illness.”
These struggles, Edwards
said, are what she and others
Brandon Stanton
speaks in Hill
on his path to
photojournalism
By ALYSSA BRANDON and
BRANDON SUMMERS-
MILLER
Daily News Editor and Daily Staff
Reporter
One human from New York
managed to find his way to the
University of Michigan despite
high winds and rainy weather
Thursday night.
Brandon Stanton, renowned
photojournalist and creator of the
book and blog “Humans of New
York,” delivered the Center for
Campus Involvement’s annual
Change Our World Lecture to
a sold-out Power Center for the
Performing Arts.
According to CCI’s website,
the annual Change Our World
lecture was created in 2015 to
spark a conversation among
students on creating positive
impacts within the University
community and the world at
large. This year’s event was
sponsored by other institutions
and
organizations
at
the
University, including the Center
for Social Impact, the Stamps
School of Art & Design and the
Office of Global Education and
Engagement.
During the lecture, Stanton
recounted the life events that led
him to pursue photojournalism
and create his largest blog and
photojournalist
compilation,
“Humans of New York.” Followed
by more than 14 million people on
Facebook, HONY is comprised
of street portraits of New York
residents accompanied by quoted
captions about their day-to-day
lives.
However,
HONY
wasn’t
always
the
international
sensation that it is today. Stanton
said before starting the blog, he
was a bond broker in Chicago
hoping to earn enough income to
pursue his true life passions.
After two years on the job, he
was fired and left without much
See HONY, Page 3
MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
Brandon Stanton, creator of Humans of New York, speaks about his experiences interviewing and photographing strangers at the Power Center Thursday.
See HEALTH, Page 3
Evaluation
information
now available to
undergraduates
By ISOBEL FUTTER
Daily Staff Reporter
Just in time for backpacking
and class registration, a new
tool that displays course data
from the past five to six years
— Academic Reporting Toolkit
2.0, or ART 2.0 — has become
available to students.
The course evaluation data
does not include individual
professor
evaluations
or
courses that had fewer than
30 evaluation responses, and
students do not have access to
grade distributions or average
GPAs for the courses taken.
The
tool,
which
went
live Tuesday, is designed to
give students an interactive
platform to answer questions
about
course
evaluations,
enrollment
during
each
semester, the major and year
distributions of students who
took the class and the pre-
enrollment,
co-enrollment
and post-enrollment of other
classes. It was developed by the
Digital Innovation Greenhouse,
a program within the Digital
Education
and
Innovation
department,
which
was
established last year to increase
academic software on campus.
Information
graduate
student
Christanna
Hemingway is one of the
student fellows who worked
on ART 2.0. Hemingway said
they originally planned to make
more information available to
the public, but decided to limit
available information due to
faculty concerns.
“Originally, we had some
ideas
of
showing
more
information,
and
then
in
consulting
with
faculty
colleagues we decided to step
back,” Evrard said. “There were
some trade-offs that we needed
to make in order to get here.
What we want to see from the
student engagement is to see if
you are actually using this tool,
what you’d like to see and then
engage in conversation with the
Provost’s office and the deans
across the University to align
ourselves with respect to what
should students know.”
The tool uses selected data
from the course evaluations
taken every year. For all the
schools besides Ross School of
Business, answers to questions
on the desire to take the course,
whether the student learned a
great deal from the course and
whether the course had a large
workload are available. For the
Business School, the questions
shown are whether the student
had a strong interest to take the
class and whether the material
is helpful.
It is currently linked to on
both Wolverine Access and the
LSA Course Guide last week.
Physics Prof. Gus Evrard,
the ART 2.0 team lead, said
the project is part of a number
of initiatives, such as releasing
See EVALUATION, Page 3
Wolverines
set for first-
round game
against Irish
ICE HOCKEY
Michigan to open
NCAA Tournament
play against Notre
Dame in Cincinnati
By MINH DOAN
Daily Sports Editor
Last weekend, the Michigan
hockey team was able to go
to the Big Ten Tournament
without
worrying
about
its
season ending — the Wolverines
had already secured a spot in the
NCAA Tournament.
With
the
conference
tournament
over,
Michigan
(12-5-3
Big
Ten,
24-7-5
overall)
moves
on
to
the
NCAA
Tournament,
where
the situation is a little more
desperate: Either win or go
home.
The
seventh-ranked
Wolverines head to Cincinnati to
face No. 12 Notre Dame (15-5-2
Hockey East, 19-10-7) on Friday
night. And if last weekend’s
Big Ten Tournament win was
an
indication
of
anything,
Michigan is ready to go.
The Wolverines demolished
Penn
State
for
the
third
straight
game,
winning
7-2
behind freshman forward Kyle
Connor’s four goals. The team
followed the thrashing with a
5-3 win over Minnesota the next
night to win the title.
“The
past
few
years,
it
seemed
to
come
down
to
whether we won our conference
championship if we got into the
See HOCKEY, Page 3
Event highlights
women in the
workforce, gender
gap
By CAITLIN REEDY
Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan
Society of Women Engineers and
the Center for Entrepreneurship
held a seminar and group
discussion titled “Strategies to
Overcome Gender Stereotypes”
Thursday
afternoon
for
an
audience of nearly 40 students.
The discussion was a part of
a new lecture series called
Empowering Women through
Entrepreneurship,
which
explores how business ethics and
power ethics can defeat gender
inequality in the workplace.
The
discussion
was
led
by Elizabeth Rohr, an intern
from the University’s Center
for the Education of Women.
Throughout
the
session,
Rohr focused on helping the
group recognize and address
microagressions
as
well
mediating
small
group-led
conversations.
Rohr
described
microagressions
as
everyday
verbal
or
nonverbal
environmental
slights,
snubs
and insults; more often than not,
she said, they are subconsciously
performed by an individual
with a privileged, or majority,
background.
“Through
years
of
my
training and experience in social
work, I automatically pick up on
instances when people say ‘all of
mankind,’ ” she said. “It makes
me, and other women, feel
excluded, like we were not a part
of the history as well.”
As
an
example
of
a
microagression, Rohr discussed
instances like when men will
spread out their legs on public
transportation, possibly taking
up two seats, while women are
MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
Elizabeth Rohr, intern at the University of Michigan’s Center for the Education of Women, leads a discussion on issues
of discrimination and`microaggressions at the Duderstadt Center Thursday.
See GENDER, Page 2
CAMPUS LIFE
Creator of Humans of New
York talks pursuing passions
BSU holds
discussion
on minority
health at ‘U’
ART 2.0 tool
makes course
data available
ACADEMICS
Entrepreneurship seminar
discusses microaggressions