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TOMORROW

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