The School of Art & Design 

has 
begun 
to 
implement 

strategies to increase diversity 
in teaching and in coursework 
as part of the University of 
Michigan’s 
campus-wide 

plans to increase diversity, 
equity and inclusion.

Karina Moore, director of 

admissions at the Art & Design 
School, said as part of the DEI 
initiative, grants have been 
given to different areas of the 
University to allow them to 
increase inclusion specifically 
within their space, which the 
school has received. The exact 
monetary amount of the grants 
has not been released.

The 
Stamps 
Diversity, 

Equity & Inclusion Strategic 
Planning 
Committee 

submitted its specific plan to 
University 
President 
Mark 

Schlissel before he released 
his campus-wide plan. The 
original Art & Design School 
plan included concepts for 
better recruiting and retaining 
diverse faculty.

Moore said after receiving 

feedback 
and 
financial 

commitments 
from 
the 

University, the Art & Design 
School decided to use the 
funding to focus on the aspects 
of their plan tied to curriculum 
and faculty teaching.

Irina 
Aristarkhova, 

professor of Art & Design and 
head of the DEI commitee 

for the Art & Design school, 
wrote 
after 
meeting 
with 

students to receive input on 
ways to improve the plan, the 
school has started running 
workshops with the Center 
for Research on Learning 
and Teaching in response to 
desires for a more diversity-
oriented curriculum.

“Our next workshop is this 

coming 
Friday, 
December 

9, where faculty will share 
their syllabi and workshop 
new ideas for assignments, 
examples, and strategies to 
make inclusive teaching a more 
explicit part of their courses 
for Winter 2017 semester,” she 
wrote.

Art & Design Prof. Franc 

Nunoo-Quarcoo, former head 
and current member of the 
planning 
committee, 
noted 

the Art & Design School had 
not received all the funding 
it requested, but said the 
committee 
will 
focus 
on 

achieving its goals in other 

With the fall semester 

coming to a close, Central 
Student 
Government 
has 

set 
the 
groundwork 
for 

campaign 
initiatives 
it 

hopes to carry out next 
year, 
including 
engaging 

more with the student body 
through scholarships and an 
anti-racism campaign called 
“It Starts with Me.”

In late September, CSG 

released a diversity report 
that indicated the Student 
Assembly 
was 
mostly 

made up of wealthy, white, 
heterosexual males. White 
students 
made 
up 
69.8 

percent 
of 
the 
assembly 

while Asian students made 
up 
the 
second 
largest 

portion of members with 
9.3 percent. The diversity 
report noted 58.1 percent of 
members identified as male, 
40.7 percent as female and 
1.2 percent preferred not to 
answer. A 2015 analysis by 
The Michigan Daily noted 
the past seven CSG presidents 
had been men.

CSG 
President 
David 

Schafer, an LSA senior, said 
after the survey’s release that 
the student government was 
committed to diversity both 
on campus and within the 
organization.

“Diversity is critical to 

Whip’s Dog Days has been a 

staple business at the University 
of Michigan for almost 25 years, 
serving students Koegel hot dogs 
at C.C. Little out of the back of a 
trailer.

Owner LeRoy Whipple has 

operated the stand alone for 13 
years after inheriting it from his 
father’s friend, Richard Eisley, 
who ran it for 12 years. In April, 
Whip’s Dog Days will celebrate 
its 25th anniversary on campus.

“He had people who had 

been coming to him for years,” 
Whipple said. “He was here for 12 
years. And he said he had a pretty 
good clientele base built up. So he 
didn’t want to just let it go, so he 
asked me to come out and I fell in 
love with it.”

The Owosso native works at 

Barry Bagels at the Westgate 
Shopping Center in Ann Arbor 
in the morning and afternoon, 
where he starts preparing food 
for the day as early as 7 a.m. He 
then drives his trailer over to C.C. 
Little and opens his cart around 
10:30 a.m.

Every weekday he fires up 

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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

B S I D E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 B

See CSG, Page 3A

CLAIRE MEINGAST/Daily

Theatre Prof. Anita Gonzalez and Dance Prof. Robin Wilson hold a discussion about diversity in the arts for the Diversity Next! series at North Quad Wednesday 
night.

An 
opera 
professor, 
an 

investigative choreographer, an 
Ann Arbor resident, a graduate 
student and about seven other 
arts-interested 
individuals 

all convened Wednesday in 

a community room in North 
Quad to discuss the importance 
of 
including 
arts 
in 
the 

diversity conversation as part 
of the Diversity Next! series 
organized by the Center for 
World Performance Studies.

The event was the first of the 

series, which, according to the 
event’s flyer “is an arts-inspired 

series of conversations… that 
seeks to broaden the horizons 
of diversity deliberations on 
the U-M campus and beyond.” 
The CWPS said they aim to 
host three more panels during 
the winter semester.

Diversity Next! is separate 

from 
the 
University 
of 

Michigan’s Diversity, Equity 

& 
Inclusion 
plan 
launched 

by 
University 
President 

Mark 
Schlissel 
in 
October 

and includes campus climate 
related 
training 
and 
the 

opening of the new Trotter 
Multicultural Center to create 
a more diverse and inclusive 
campus.

See HOT DOGS, Page 3A

HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily

Students relax with therapy dogs in the Ugli Wednesday. 

The B-Side

Daily Arts Writer Sam 

Rosenberg explores virtual 
reality and its place in the 

new age

» Page 1B

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For more stories and coverage, visit

See STAMPS, Page 3A

See DIVERSITY, Page 3A

Earlier 
this 
month, 

the 
Michigan 
House 
of 

Representatives 
introduced 

a bill to adjust the Michigan 
National Guard State Tuition 
Assistance 
Program. 
The 

bill, which was introduced by 
Rep. Bruce Rendon (R–Lake 
City) would allow any current 
member of the National Guard 
to apply for tuition assistance 
while attending a university or 
college in Michigan. 

The 
Michigan 
National 

Guard 
assistance 
program 

is housed within the state’s 
Department of Military and 
Veteran Affairs. Brig. Gen. 
Mike Stone, assistant adjutant 
general for installations of 
the Michigan Army National 
Guard, said the revamping 
of the program is a welcome 
change that will strengthen 
Michigan’s National Guard.

“The program is all about 

readiness,” 
he 
said. 
“Our 

number one priority in the 
military 
is 
readiness. 
Are 

we prepared to go fight and 
respond at home if there is a 

See GUARD, Page 3A

THE R APY DOGS

CSG execs. to 
launch push 
to improve 
‘U’ climate

Discussion highlights the role of 
art in increasing campus diversity

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Initiative follows diversity report on 
homogeneity of student assembly

NISA KHAN

Daily Staff Reporter

Professors connect their work as artists with greater goals for University

ERIN DOHERTY
Daily Staff Reporter

Whip’s 

Dog Days: 
Nearly 25 
years later

BUSINESS

Owner LeRoy Whipple 
reflects on his time selling 
hot dogs on campus

KEVIN BIGLIN
Daily Staff Reporter

Stamps School of Art and Design begins 
implementation of DEI strategic plan

New initiatives to focus on curriculum and teaching style

RACHEL COHEN
Daily Staff Reporter

Bill aims to 
adjust state 
National 
Guard aid

GOVERNMENT

Legislation would change 
how tuition assistance 
is administered

CAITLIN REEDY
Daily Staff Reporter

Is Virtual 
Reality the 

New Reality?

