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33rd Annual German 
Day

WHAT: The University will 
sponsor an event for secondary 
school students to compete in 
German language competitions 
in front of teachers and parents.

WHO: Germanic Languages & 
Literatures

WHEN: 10 a.m. to Noon

WHERE: Rackham Graduate 
School Auditorium

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Mobile Device Security 
Seminar

WHAT: ITS will demo how to 
properly manage and secure 
mobile devices to ensure privacy 
and the protection of personal 
information.

WHO: Information and 
Technology Services

WHEN: 11 a.m. to Noon

WHERE: Michigan Union, 
Room G312

“What is Good About 
Justice?” Lecture

WHAT: Rüdiger Bittner, from 
the University of Bielefeld in 
Germany, will discuss ideas 
and concepts of justice in a 
philosophical context.

WHO: Department of Philosophy 
WHEN: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

WHERE: Angell Hall, Room G127

Saxophone Ensemble 
Concert

WHAT: The UM Saxophone 
Ensemble will perform a free 
concert featuring works by Joel 
Love, Matthew Browne and 
Vincent David.

WHO: School of Music, Theatre 
& Dance

WHEN: 8 p.m. 

WHERE: Earl V. Moore 
Building, Britton Recital Hall

Harassment and Gender 
Discrimination Talk
WHAT: Elizabeth Seney, 
the Univeristy’s deputy 
Title IX coordinator, will 
provide information on sexual 
harassment and gender 
discrimination on campus.
WHO: Department of Physics
WHEN: 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

WHERE: West Hall, Room 340

Food Truck Friday

WHAT: Food trucks from 
Bearclaw Coffee Co. and Ray’s 
Red Hots will be selling lunch 
and giving away merchandise on 
North Campus.

WHO: Michigan Dining

WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

WHERE: North Campus Diag, 
Gerstacker Grove

Morgan Stanley 
Informational Event
WHAT: Representatives from 
Morgan Stanley’s Investment 
Banking Division will assist 
freshmen and sophomores in the 
process of getting an internship.
WHO: University Career Center

WHEN: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

WHERE: Ross School of Business, 
Davidson Winter Garden

UMMA After Hours

WHAT: UMMA will be open 
late to the public to view 
galleries as well as special 
exhibits, including the 
Bicentennial Victors for Art 
exhibits. 

WHO: University of Michigan 
Museum of Art

WHEN: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

WHERE: Museum of Art

Fear crowded gyms no more.

LSA senior Lakshman 

Mulpuri and Rackham student 

Trevis Harrold, Central Student 

Government representatives, 

recently launched a program through 

the University of Michigan app 

that allows students to view how 

many people are currently in the 

Recreational Sports facilities, as well 

as what equipment is being used.

The model is very similar to 

one of the app’s features that tracks 

how full dining halls are. Mulpuri 

and Harrold worked with College 

of Engineering students and 

Information and Technology Services 

to create the program and add it to 

the official University app.

The representatives said CSG 

made a donation to the recreation 

buildings to buy iPads. Then, every 

half hour, recreation employees walk 

around the building and count how 

many people are using the equipment. 

“It gives you a sense of how busy 

(the gym) is,” Mulpuri said. “It tells 

you how many people are in each 

room, lifting, running, swimming 

is actually on there too, the lounges, 

the racquetball courts. At the top of 

the app, it’ll also say what time it’s 

been updated at, and it’s really useful 

because a lot of students 

have told me that this is 

something that they’d like.” 

Mulpuri added this was 

a project he and Harrold 

been trying to work on for 

a while, and they had to go 

through multiple meetings 

with managers and faculty 

at different centers to have it 

implemented.

Harrold said he was 

proud to see the application 

running after their hard 

work.

“It was a really long 

process, even getting the 

money allocated to different 

(recreation) centers, we were 

very involved with that, but 

it was good to see it actually 

usable and working,” Harrold said.

The program can be accessed 

through the University app from 

the Student Life tab and is currently 

collecting data from the Central 

Campus Recreational Building, the 

North Campus Recreational Building 

and the Intramural Sports Building. 

ON THE DAILY: CSG “BIG BROTHER” TRACKS GYM USE 

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Discussions 
surrounding 

issues of race and gender in the 
world of University of Michigan 
research and academia were 
prominent during a lecture 
for undergraduate researchers 
held Thursday afternoon. 

Around 
40 
students 

gathered in a classroom in 
Haven Hall to hear a panel 
of 
speakers 
discuss 
issues 

of gender and race in the 
Undergraduate 
Research 

Opportunity 
Program, 
the 

University 
of 
Michigan’s 

program 
for 
involving 

undergraduates in research 
projects with faculty.

The panel was moderated by 

one of UROP’s social science 
peer 
advisors, 
LSA 
senior 

Adedolapo Adeniji who asked 

the panelists questions. At 
the end of the discussion, 
the students were allowed to 
ask the panelists their own. 
 

Adeniji sought answers that 
would help students learn 
more about research, including 
how to find a mentor, how to 
seek out support and how race 
and gender have played a role 
in the paths of the panelists.

Panelist 
Sara 
Adlerstein 

Gonzalez, 
an 
associate 

research 
scientist 
in 
the 

School of Natural Resources 
and Environment, discussed 
what it means to be a woman 
in a male-dominated research 
field.

“Being a person of color and 

a female and younger, you get 
questioned a lot in terms of 
your research or your ideas,” 
she said. “You get challenged 
in ways that maybe your male 
or white counterparts aren’t 

challenged. So, if anything, 
you learn to push back, you 
learn to defend your ideas.”

American 
Culture 
Prof. 

Yeidy Rivero, another panelist, 
discussed 
mentorship 
in 

research and how it relates to 
race.

“Because I am a woman and 

I am Latina does not mean I 
am the perfect mentor for a 
Latino person, you know what 
I mean?” she asked. “My first 
mentor was a white male. 
And he was wonderful and 
I adore him and he was my 
dissertation adviser.”

In an interview following 

the panel, Rivero discussed 
the importance of talking to 
undergraduates.

“We 
as 
scholars 
should 

devote a lot of attention to 
our undergraduates and part 
of that is to talk about what is 
going on in society, and gender 

and race are key issues 
today,” she said.

In the interview she also 

commented on the way the 
University addresses racial 
issues higher up in the 
research community.

“I think the University 

is trying very hard to tell 
you the truth, to deal with 
those issues,” she said. “I 
think each department is 
different, of course, but 
I think the University is 
putting in a lot of effort and 
funds for that … I think many 
people are unaware of their 
own sexism and racism. 
They make comments and 
you are like ‘Oh my god.’ 
Believe it or not, I think 
people should be trained. It 
doesn’t matter that you have 
a Ph.D.”

Kinesiology junior Riley 

Engstrom commented on 
the diversity within UROP.

Panel addresses gender and race 
biases within research community

The speakers presented to approximately 40 undergraduate researchers 

AARON DALAL
Daily Staff Reporter

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