On Wednesday, Secretary of 

the Army Eric Fanning spoke 
to a crowd of students, staff 
and faculty during a fireside 
chat with Alec Gallimore, dean 
of the College of Engineering, 
at the Chrysler Center on 
North Campus. Fanning met 
with University of Michigan 
President Mark Schlissel earlier 
in the day.

During the talk, Fanning 

focused on the importance and 
versatility of public service 
careers, as well as his path 
to 
becoming 
the 
secretary 

of the Army. He discussed 
his beginnings in the public 

service 
sector, 
stating 
that 

he 
first 
became 
interested 

in government work as an 
undergraduate at Dartmouth 
University.

“I was (at Dartmouth) in 

1988,” 
Fanning 
said. 
“Both 

parties had open primaries, 
so there were quite a few 
candidates 
running 
for 

president. It’s a small state; there 
aren’t many places to go and 
they were always on campus. I 
just got the bug for government 
politics, government service.”

Fanning, a Kalamazoo native 

and the self-described “CEO 
of the Army,” is responsible 
for overseeing its $140 billion 
budget and personnel matters, 
among other things. Though 

Robertson Auditorium was 

filled with about 500 students, 
faculty and staff who came 
to see the first talk of the 
University of Michigan’s Ross 
School of Business Positive 
Links Speaker Series this 
semester 
which 
featured 

University alum Adam Grant 
Wednesday afternoon. Grant, 
a Wharton School top-rated 
professor, 
discussed 
the 

seven characteristics he sees 
original thinkers exhibit in 
the workplace to the sold 
out event. The speaker series 
aims to spreads ideas about 
positive business practices in 
the workplace.

Grant received his Ph.D. 

in organizational psychology 
from the University in less 
than three years. The author 
of multiple bestselling books, 
he is currently co-writing 
a 
book 
with 
technology 

executive and author Sheryl 
Sandberg about being resilient 
in times of hardship.

He posited that original 

thinkers: 
brainstorm 

differently, 
take 
risks 
on 

novel ideas, harness anxiety, 
make the unfamiliar familiar, 
are tempered radicals, find 
the right allies and fight 
“groupthink.”

“If you track 40 years of 

data, we know that if you 
were to take five people and 
instead of putting them in the 

same room, if you were to put 
them all in separate rooms to 
brainstorm alone, you would 
get more ideas and better 
ideas,” Grant said.

Grant 
further 
explained 

original thinkers avoid the 
typical prototypes that leaders 
and managers may come up 
with. 
He 
highlighted 
the 

importance of brainstorming 

one’s 
own 
ideas, 
as 
this 

promotes divergent thinking.

“Before you judge others’ 

ideas, spend five minutes 
brainstorming 
your 
own 

ideas,” Grant said.

Grant 
also 
incorporated 

his psychology background 
into his lecture. He noted 
anxiety is a resource that can 
be converted into productive 

emotions, such as excitement 
or enthusiasm.

LSA freshman Leann Abad 

said Grant’s lecture was a 
great opportunity to learn the 
positives of business, as he 
is currently applying to the 
Business School.

“I 
really 
liked 
Adam’s 

whole 
perspective 
as 
an 

Spin the Bottle, a new dating 

app launched at the end of 2016 
by entrepreneur Matt Cohen and 
software 
developers 
Andrew 

Stanton and Nish Patel, is aiming 
to revolutionize the world of 
dating apps. Instead of swiping 
left or right on dozens of photo 
profiles, Spin the Bottle utilizes 
video chatting in hopes that it 
will help users develop stronger 
connections right away.

The app became available to 

University of Michigan students 
in early December, but is available 
on other college campuses across 
the country and is most popular 
at Columbia University and New 
York University, where it launched 
in September.

Like other dating apps, users 

set a geographic range and 
preferred gender, but the rest is up 
to chance. Modeled after the party 
game of the same name, users find 
a match by “spinning the bottle.”

When someone opens the 

app, they are met with a circle of 
profile pictures centered around 
a graphic of a bottle. The user 
presses on the bottle image to 

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Sec. of Army
emphasizes 
public work 
in lecture

‘U’ admin: Spike in international 
enrollment not related to funding

See ARMY, Page 3A

fall 2012
fall 2013
fall 2015
fall 2014
fall 2016

6.33% 
increase

5% 

increase

1.4% 

increase

13.21% 
increase

4.15% 
increase

1.07% 
increase

2.67% 
increase

4.83% 
increase

3% 

increase

1.8% 

increase

5.9% 

increase

1.5% 

increase

out-of-state
international
state funds

fall 2011

15% 

decrease

6.07% 
increase

8.2% 

decrease

DESIGN BY JULIA MAGALIT

Source: University of Michigan Registrar

GOVERNMENT

Military head outlines versatility of 
public work for students, faculty

MAYA GOLDMAN

Daily Staff Reporter

Officials assert increase in international students instead result of foreign interest

A new national report released 

by 
the 
National 
Bureau 
of 

Economic 
Research 
concludes 

recent increases in international 
student enrollment nationwide 
are the result of a decrease 

in 
state 
funding. 
University 

administrators, however, maintain 
that this is not case, despite 
popular 
student 
perception. 

Though both trends hold true 
at the University of Michigan in 
recent years, administration points 
to other factors that may influence 
international attendance.

The NBER paper, released in 

December 2016, finds that between 
1996 and 2012, a 12-percent 
increase in foreign enrollment 
at public research universities 
correlated 
with 
a 
10-percent 

decrease in state funding.

From fall 2012 to fall 2016, total 

international enrollment at the 
University increased by 15 percent 
— from 5,881 to 6,764 students 

— according to the Office of the 
Registrar’s Enrollment Summary.

International 
undergraduate 

enrollment alone went up 14.25 
percent, 
while 
international 

graduate 
and 
professional 

enrollment 
increased 
15.35 

percent. 
Most 
significantly, 

new 
freshman 
international 

JENNIFER MEER
Daily Staff Reporter

See APP, Page 3A

Video chat 
dating app 
debuts in 
Ann Arbor

BUSINESS

Entreprenuers hope 
to revolutionize local
online dating landscape

MAYA GOLDMAN

Daily Staff Reporter

MARINA ROSS/Daily

Author Adam Grant speaks about positive business organization strategies at the Ross School of Business on 
Wednesday.

Ross alum talk highlights workplace 
positivity, business management

Adam Grant kicks off Positive Links Speaker Series for winter semester, draws 500

KENNEDY WERNER

For the Daily

michigandaily.com

For more stories and coverage, visit

See ROSS, Page 3A

See ENROLLMENT, Page 3A

Over 50 faculty, students and 

city residents attended a teach-
in Wednesday night at Hatcher 
Graduate Library to discuss 
issues pertaining to the creation 
of a sanctuary campus for 
undocumented immigrants, as 
well as local initiatives planned 
for the future.

A sanctuary campus is defined 

as any college or university 
that adopts policies to protect 
undocumented students from 
deportation. More than 1,000 
University of Michigan students 
took part in a walkout protest 
on Nov. 16, where they called 
for the University to become 
a sanctuary campus, as well 
as for administrators to better 
represent minority students.

The event was the first in a 

series of teach-ins sponsored 
by the University’s Department 
of 
History, 
Department 
of 

American Culture and the LSA 
Democracy in Action Fund. 
Event organizers created the 
teach-in as a space where a 
diverse group of six experts, 
including both students and 

See SANCTUARY, Page 3A

Depts. host
sanctuary 
campus 
teach-in 

CAMPUS LIFE

Attendees organize 
advocacy initatives for 
undocumented students

KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporter

Ugly in Illinois
The Michigan men’s 

basketball team took on 

a comparable team in the 

Fighting Illini yet was 

embarassed, 85-69 

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