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STUDY BRE AK

he was appointed to his current 
position by President Obama 
only last year, he worked as a 
congressional aide during the 
Clinton administration and has 
spent much of the last 25 years 
in various jobs with the Army, 
Navy and Air Force.

“My team likes to call me 

the oldest millennial, because 
I’ve had a bizarre career path,” 
Fanning 
said. 
“But 
I 
was 

moving into many different 
things, seizing many different 
opportunities. People can get 
very focused on wanting to do 
‘X’ and that’s not necessarily 
the best way to come into 
Washington. The best way to 
come into Washington is to find 
good bosses doing interesting 
things and start there.”

Fanning also offered advice 

given to him by his first boss 
to students looking to go into 
any 
kind 
of 
management 

position. According to Fanning, 

communication is crucial to 
managing any organization.

“Never 
underestimate 

the 
degree 
you 
need 
to 

communicate,” Fanning said. 
“That is a non-stop, ongoing 
requirement for any leadership 
job. I find that even in a large 
organization like the Army, you 
can drive change very quickly, so 
long as you have the right people 
involved and you just prioritize 
and focus on them. If I tried to 
have a handle on everything 
the Army did, I would grind to 
a halt. You have to size up the 
people you trust and tell them, 
‘Come to me when you need help 
because you’re on your own.’ ”

The event was put on by the 

College of Engineering as part 
of Entrepreneurship 390, a class 
taught by Max Shtein, associate 
professor of material sciences 
and 
entrepreneurship. 
The 

event was open to anyone, and 
the auditorium was nearly filled 
by students, staff and faculty 
from all areas of the University.

The advice Fanning gave, 

Shtein felt, fit perfectly into his 

curriculum. 
Entrepreneurship 

390 
focuses 
mostly 
on 

entrepreneurial 
design, 
but 

the class also deals with more 
general 
topics 
regarding 

business and management.

“He wanted to talk about the 

importance of public service, 
and how they do need somebody 
with 
entrepreneurship 
skills 

and desire to innovate and 
business acumen, as well as 
technical skills, to get into the 
service line of work,” Shtein 
said. “In the class we focus a 
lot on problems — what are 
high quality problems, what 
are difficult problems, what 
are problems that affect a lot 
of people. And this is certainly 
within that realm, so I think it 
was good for folks to see that, 
yeah, this is a huge organization 
… how do you run something like 
that?”

The audience responded to 

Fanning’s talk enthusiastically. 
Engineering senior Alexander 

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spin it, and whoever it lands on is 
immediately called through the 
app for a thirty-second video chat. 
After the chat, users can give each 
other “kisses” to signify interest; 
if both people give a kiss, the pair 
matches and can message further 
through the app’s interface.

Safety features are included 

to 
protect 
users 
from 
the 

uncertainties 
that 
could 
be 

involved in video chatting. For 
instance, the app operates using 
facial 
recognition, 
so 
if 
the 

camera doesn’t recognize what it’s 
pointed at as a face, the call will be 
immediately blurred out.

Cohen 
is 
confident 
video 

chatting can lead to a more 
successful 
online 
dating 

experience. He wrote the Daily 
in an email he found it difficult to 
learn any real facts about a person 
from a dating profile through his 
own online dating experiences. 
But he thinks adding video chats to 
the mix can change this.

“Sure you can get some insight 

from a profile or photo, but you still 
don’t know how they act, how they 
sound and what their personality 
is like,” Cohen wrote. “When it 
comes to online dating, video is 
better because it allows for face-to-
face interaction right from the very 
first contact, meaning that you can 
assess not only physical attraction 
but also personality and chemistry, 
all from your mobile device.”

Columbia 
University 
junior 

Chapman 
Hughes, 
the 
app’s 

campus representative at Columbia 
and a junior at the university, 
thinks the impromptu video-
chatting 
feature 
is 
partularly 

well-suited to college students — 
especially those who are looking to 
enter a more serious relationship.

“It’s well-suited to a college 

campus, especially in our day 
and age, because it’s so hard to 
find someone who’s willing to 
take the time to possibly be in a 
relationship,” Hughes said. “When 
you have an app where you’re 
immediately facing this person, 
you kind of have to be on your feet 
and able to say why you’re there 
and what you’re looking for.”

According 
to 
Hughes, 
her 

classmates have found that the 
type of person who uses Spin 
the Bottle is much more likely to 
follow up online communication 
with actual dates than people on 
other apps, like Tinder. Because of 
this, she sees the app moving more 
toward older college students.

“I personally see this moving 

more towards older students,” 
Hughes said. “Juniors and seniors, 
and possibly our large graduate 
student 
population, 
because 

they’re (more often) the ones 
who are looking for a meaningful 
relationship… On other apps, 
there aren’t a lot of people who 
are coming out of that with a 
relationship, or even a great story.”

Stanton, who helped to build 

the app’s interface from scratch, 
is 35 and married. He doesn’t have 

much personal experience with 
online dating, but he’s hopeful 
that breaking into the college 
demographic can be a gateway to 
other groups of users.

“It’s kind of like what the 

college kids do is cool for people 
my age,” Stanton said. “It just 
spreads. We feel that if we can 
capture the college market, it will 
grow from there.”

For now, though, the app is 

concentrating on college students. 
Cohen said the team has begun 
promoting Spin the Bottle in 
Ann Arbor, and is currently in 
the process of hiring a campus 
representative 
to 
help 
with 

promotion efforts here.

Though 
the 
app 
isn’t 
as 

popular at the University yet, LSA 
freshman Ben Fu thinks Spin the 
Bottle could become a campus 
fixture. He said he has only used 
Tinder in the past, but said he 
would be open to trying Spin 
the Bottle if he was looking for 
something more serious.

“I 
think 
it’s 
better 
than 

(Tinder),” Fu said. “You get a 
better sense of who the person is, 
rather than just reading their bio. 
Most people don’t even read the 
bio anyway. They just swipe right 
or left.”

On the other hand, Fu hasn’t 

used dating apps in a while and 
he thinks he might try his luck 
outside the digital realm.

“My success with women was 

a lot better after I stopped using 
Tinder,” Fu said. “I just learned 
how to approach them in real life.” 

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enrollment increased 25 percent.

Meanwhile, in this same time 

span, total enrollment of U.S. 
citizens and permanent residents 
has increased by only 1.09 percent.

An 
article 
published 
by 

Bloomberg in late December 
references the report and notes its 
finding that, since the recession, 
there has been a demand for “full-
tuition-paying” students at state 
schools.

Statistics from the Institute of 

International Education show that 
565,000 international students 
enrolled at U.S. postsecondary 
schools 
in 
the 
2005-2006 

school year, versus 1.04 million 
international students in the 2015-
2016 school year — an 85 percent 
increase. 
Further, 
according 

to the State Higher Education 
Executive Officers Association, 
while tuition made up only 35.8 
percent of public universities’ 
revenue in 2008, it made up 46.5 
percent in 2015.

However, the article notes 

that while in general, reliance on 
tuition has dropped recently, it is 
still above 2008 numbers.

State Funding and University 

Response 
to 
International 

Enrollment

The University faced a 21.6 

percent funding cut by the state 
in 2011, as part of a general cut in 
higher education funding under 
Gov. Rick Snyder. 2016 saw a 4.3 
percent increase in state funding 
overall, bringing most schools’ 
numbers back to where they 
were before the 2011 cut, but the 
University’s allotment remains 
7.8 percent less than it was prior 
to 2011.

In June 2016, the University’s 

Board of Regents voted to increase 
tuition for both in-state and out-
of-state students, leading to an 
overall increase of $86.35 million 
in University funds. Lower state 

funding was cited as one reason 
for the increase.

State Rep. Adam Zemke (D–

Ann Arbor), who has voiced his 
opinion in the past about the need 
for more state funding, said he is 
confident the University is acting 
appropriately given the decrease 
in funding.

“I’m certain that the University 

is taking steps that they have 
deemed necessary, unfortunately, 
to figure out another way to 
generate revenue due to the 
fact that the state has been 
underfunding them for quite 
some time,” he said.

Zemke said the 2011 funding 

cut was very significant, and does 
not think it is fair for the schools to 
have to generate its own revenue.

“The idea that we as a state 

have decided through our lack 
of appropriation that it is okay 
for universities to generate most 
of their operating revenue from 
tuition, I think is really terrible 
and speaks to the tremendous 
amount of student debt in this 
country,” he said.

University officials, however, 

are quick to emphasize that the 
spike in international enrollment 
does not represent an explicit 
strategy to make up for lost 
funding.

Kedra Ishop, vice provost for 

Enrollment Management, said it 
makes sense that international 
enrollment 
has 
increased 

nationally overall. She explained 
other schools that have a difficult 
time appealing to domestic out-
of-state students look to potential 
international student.

“(In admissions,) your ability 

to market to your residents, your 
non-residents and international 
students varies,” she said. “You’re 
going to have, in some cases, 
institutions that are able to recruit 
and market themselves amongst 
students from foreign countries, 
perhaps more than they are 
able to do the same for students 
domestically, out of state.”

She 
added 
that 

foreign interest in a 
U.S. education has increased 
exponentially over the past decade. 
However, she said the University 
does not use a purposeful or 
deliberate recruitment strategy 
for international students because 
there has never been a shortage of 
applicants.

She noted that according to 

the enrollment summary’s new 
freshmen enrollment data, the 
percentage 
of 
international 

students in incoming classes has 
been very consistent since 2012, 
lingering around 4 percent — a 
statistic that often surprises 
people.

“There is a belief that our 

international student population 
in our freshman class and in 
our new student population is 
much larger than it is, when in 
reality, it hovers between two 
and a half and 4 percent, which 
is considerably smaller than 
many institutions who are more 
deliberately recruiting from an 
international population,” she 
said.

Ishop said about two-thirds 

of 
University 
applicants 
are 

out of state — the bulk of that 
being U.S. citizens — and these 
numbers have grown drastically 
since 2010 and 2011. She said 
admissions focuses more on 
balancing the in-state and out-of-
state populations, and there is no 
need to fill a financial quota.

“We are able to attract a high-

quality class from the state of 
Michigan and also respond to 
almost overwhelming demand 
from an out-of-state population of 
students who are equally strong,” 
she said. “We haven’t been in a 
position to need to bring forward 
an 
international 
recruitment 

strategy to fill financial coffers.”

She noted that the University’s 

out-of-state and international 
fees are the same.

International 
Student 

Response

Despite 
Ishop’s 
evidence, 

international 
students 
said 

they feel that admitting more 
foreign students does benefit the 
University financially, and had 
mixed responses to the increase.

Engineering 
freshman 

Edmond Tsoi, an international 
student from Hong Kong, said he 
thinks the rise in international 
enrollment is a more direct effort 
to boost the University’s ranking.

Though Tsoi completed three 

years of high school in the United 
States, he pointed to what he 
called the “high standard” of 
students coming directly from 
other countries. He added these 
students bring in more revenue.

“I have a couple of friends 

who came directly from China or 
even Korea or other countries,” 
he said. “Usually they are one of 
the top students in their country. 
By accepting more international 
students, 
especially 
those 

who come directly from other 
countries, they are bringing the 
standards up. They can also get 
more tuition money from them 
too.”

Tsoi noted that international 

admissions 
and 
out-of-state 

admissions are more competitive 
than 
in-state 
admissions, 

allowing the University to accept 
superior applicants to increase 
ratings.

He also thinks, as Ishop 

mentioned, a significant reason 
for the increase stems from 
the desire of Asian students — 
particularly those from countries 
like China or South Korea — to 
come to American schools.

According 
to 
Tsoi, 
most 

students in China aspire to go to 
Peking University, the country’s 
top school, which he said is 
ranked lower than the University 
internationally. 
However, 
he 

said, it is incredibly difficult to 
get accepted.

“In order to get into a better 

college and also to compete in a 
less competitive area, they are 

trying to go to the U.S. or to the 
U.K. for college,” he said.

LSA 
sophomore 
Daria 

Belyaeva, 
an 
international 

student from Russia, said she 
didn’t think an increase in 
international 
students 
would 

serve the University’s rankings as 
much as it would serve funding.

“Michigan is a great, huge 

school in general,” she said. “I feel 
like we never had a huge shortage 
of international students. I feel 
like the financial aspect is more 
currently important.”

In addition to mentioning 

that her tuition has increased 
by 4 percent since last school 
year — as is consistent with 
the 
aforementioned 
tuition 

increase 
— 
Belyaeva 
noted 

that international students can 
receive very little money from the 
school through grants, studies 
or other special circumstances. 
Most international students, she 
explained, pay full tuition.

“This feels very unfair,” she 

said. “Obviously, it’s a state 
school, so why should I get stuff 
from the state of Michigan? 
But still it’s a crazy burden for 
international students.”

Engineering 
junior 

Madhav 
Sharma 
addressed 

the 
University’s 
engineering 

program specifically, noting a 
significantly larger international 
student 
population 
in 

Engineering than in LSA.

Looking at raw numbers from 

the aforementioned enrollment 
summary, Sharma noted the 
decrease in in-state enrollment 
between 2012 and 2016 — from 
24,095 to 23,095 — a small but 
evident 
decrease, 
given 
the 

increase in out-of-state students 
from 19,331 to 21,623.

“What I’ve heard from other 

students is that maybe the 
undergraduate 
admission 
is 

turning more to out-of-state 
students, because less financial 
aid can be given and more tuition 
can be collected,” he said.

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organizational psychologist, 
because you can see his 
passion for the research he’s 
done,” Abad said.

Grant disagreed with the 

belief that seeking advice in 
the workplace makes them 
seem amateur. He discussed 
the importance of asking for 
advice, as it may further one’s 
goals and ideas.

Series host Jane Dutton, 

a 
professor 
of 
business 

administration 
and 

psychology, 
said 
Grant’s 

efforts 
have 
improved 

attitudes toward relationships 
in the workplace.

“He’s really had a huge 

impact on the conversation 
in business and in work 
organizations,” she said.

This semester’s Positive 

Links 
Speaker 
Series 

will 
continue 
throughout 

January, 
February 
and 

April 
with 
presentations 

from the Business School 
faculty 
and 
a 
professor 

from Case Western Reserve 
University. Upcoming topics 
include promoting a society 
encompassing 
the 
world’s 

poorest people, presenting 
oneself 
positively 
and 

confidently, 
and 
building 

positive organizations and 
their impact on modern day 
business.

“I 
hope 
(this 
series) 

exposes 
(its 
audience) 
to 

top 
researchers,” 
Dutton 

said. “I hope it helps to 
build community, (among) 
researchers and practitioners 
and students, who also care 
about creating more life-
giving workplaces.”

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local activists, could come 
together 
and 
share 
their 

knowledge 
about 
sanctuary 

campuses while also answering 
questions from the community. 

Many students in attendance 

said they were proponents 
of making the University a 
sanctuary campus. LSA senior 
Jerry Graham said he thinks 
the change is an important one, 
adding it would benefit some of 
his friends and professors.

“This is something that I’d 

like to see for this campus,” 
Graham said. “I’ve spoken 
with a professor and friends 
that could really benefit from 
something like this, and that 
know people that could benefit 
from something like this. So I 
think it’s very important.”

The difficulty of working 

with both campus and city 
police in ensuring that the 
forces do not inadvertently 
inform 
U.S. 
Immigration 

and 
Customs 
Enforcement 

of 
undocumented 
students 

on 
campus 
was 
frequently 

discussed 
by 
speakers. 

Christine Sauvé, member of the 
Michigan Immigrant Rights 
Center, offered strategies to 
build a trusting relationship 

with the police.

“We have found, in Michigan, 

a lot of local police end up 
calling ICE or border patrol 
for their translation services,” 
Sauvé said. “So if your local 
police does not have something 
as simple as Language Link, 
which is very imperfect, even if 
they don’t have something like 
that, it could be something that 
pushes people to involve ICE 
and border patrol. Investing 
in language access is very 
critical for local communities. 
Community policing strategies 
and 
building 
that 
trust 

relationship 
with 
police 
is 

going to be critical.”

Another 
common 
theme 

evident throughout the teach-in 
was taking the meaning of the 
word “sanctuary” and making 
it a practical and operational 
concept to apply to the campus. 
Rackham 
student 
Vikrant 

Garg, a member of campus 
organization Students4Justice, 
said the University must make 
quantifiable 
policy 
changes, 

rather than merely applying the 
concept.

“For us, I think, as a 

campus, what we need to think 
about is how we’re going to 
operationalize what it means 
to advocate for a sanctuary 
campus,” Garg said. “It means 
tuition affordability, it means 

decreases in the cost of living … 
it means to actually take what 
sanctuary means, and turn 
it into an actual, operational 
definition.”

In a December interview, 

University 
president 
Mark 

Schlissel 
explained 
his 

hestitation to employ the term 
“sanctuary campus” due to its 
possible ambiguity.

“There’s 
some 
confusion 

about what that term means,” 
he said. “It’s a label that has no 
specific fixed definition and I 
don’t want to put a label on us 
that other people can define 
that may not be accurate.” 

Schlissel penned a statement 

in support of undocumented 
students in late November, while 
many University departments 
made 
resources 
available 

to members of the campus 
community in fear following 
the election of president-elect 
Donald Trump. Trump has 
repeatedly deemed executive 
orders signed by President 
Barack 
Obama 
protecting 

undocumented 
adults 
and 

children unconstitutional. 

“We already do many of 

the things that come under 
definitions 
of 
‘sancturary,’” 

Schlissel 
said. 
“We 
offer 

resources but don’t keep lists...
it maintains everyone’s privacy 
and safety.” 

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