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Despite
frigid

temperatures,
about
100

students
and
community

members marched through
the streets of Ann Arbor
on Thursday night to “take
back the night” and raise
awareness for sexual assault
on college campuses.

Though
Take
Back
the

Night is believed to have
originated
in
19th-century

London
when
women

marched for safer streets,
it has since evolved into an
international
movement
of

over 1,000 annual marches
and rallies. These events,
such as the one in Ann Arbor,
work to provide a safe place
for survivors of sexual assault
to come together and share
their stories.

Take Back the Night and

University
of
Michigan

Students
Against
Rape

organized the Ann Arbor
march and rally, and allowed
organizations with similar
goals
such
as
SafeHouse,

Sexual
Assault
Prevention

and Awareness Center and
Planned Parenthood to table
inside the Michigan Union,
where the rally was held.

Ann Arbor residents Tom

and Pam Swider kicked off
the rally, themed “The Power
of Words,” noting it was their
ninth year of organizing the
event and the 39th annual

rally in Ann Arbor.

Pam Swider emphasized

the importance of the rally as
a way to create an accessible
space for victims of assault
to reach out to others, as well
as to overcome the feeling of
shame that sometimes follows
an assault.

“Shame is such a powerful

and harsh aspect of sexual
violence,” she said. “But the
more we talk about it, the
easier it is for someone who
has been assaulted to reach
out to others for support and
help.”

State Sen. Rebekah Warren

(D–Ann
Arbor)
gave
the

opening
address,
during

which she emphasized the
power of events like Take
Back the Night to incite
dialogue surrounding sexual
assault. She presented the
statistic that only 20 percent

Making
a
pun
on
the

culinary arts, the University
of
Michigan
Bicentennial

Office held a Feast of Ideas
on Thursday night, providing
an “intellectual sampler” of
short talks representing some
of the University’s academic
offerings.

More
than
a
dozen

University staff and professors
went to local businesses around
Ann Arbor as part of one of
the University’s bicentennial
celebrations
intended
to

highlight
the
University’s

impact and contributions to
the community-at-large.

The
multi-part
event

featured
a
diverse
lineup

of
professors,
providing

expertise in all areas of the
University.

In a University press release,

Michelle
French,
associate

director of the Bicentennial
Office, said the event was
intended to strengthen the
ties between the Ann Arbor
community and the University
it houses.

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INDEX
Vol. CXXVII, No. 62
©2017 The Michigan Daily

N E WS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

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

A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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

CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

See BICENTENNIAL, Page 3

Day-long
festivities
celebrate
U-M’s 200th

ANN ARBOR

Series of talks from faculty
around Ann Arbor aim to
advocate academic success

ANDREW HIYAMA

Dail Staff Reporter

KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily

Students start the Take Back the Night march in front of the Union on Thursday night.

Around 100 march in annual Take Back
the Night event against sexual assault

Series of performances preceded the march, discussed curbing sexual violence

KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporter

michigandaily.com

For more stories and coverage, visit

See NIGHT, Page 2

The
Residence
Halls

Association
presented
and

passed its official decision to
endorse a 3-percent increase
for room and board rates for
the 2018-2019 academic year
at Couzens Residence Hall on
Thursday evening.

The
RHA

recommendations,
authored

by
LSA
sophomore
Sujay

Shetty, president of the RHA,
and
RHA
representatives

Rabi
Osagie
and
Dylan

Rushton,
Engineering

freshmen, include a 1-percent
increase
for
operational

purposes and a 2-percent
increase
for
Residential

Life Initiatives — a program
dedicated to improving the
residential living experience
at the University of Michigan.

Shetty said in a press

release the resolution will
be presented to the Board of
Regents, who will ultimately
make a final decision on room
and board rates.

Currently, the average cost

of a single room is $12,974,

See RHA, Page 3

Residence
Hall Assoc.
negotiates
room costs

CAMPUS LIFE

Committee negotiates the
changes with the Division
of Student Life Thursday

CALEB CHADWELL

Daily Staff Reporter

Covering

issues
such
as
higher

education
and
influencing

change
through
academia,

University
of
Michigan

President
Mark
Schlissel

highlighted on Thursday what
he considers the importance
of being a research institution
socially,
economically
and

internationally.

However, Schlissel veered

from the central topic of the
colloquium — a President’s
Bicentennial Colloquium event
held at the Rackham Graduate
School featuring four former
University presidents, including
Harold T. Shapiro, James J.
Duderstadt, Lee C. Bollinger
and Mary Sue Coleman — to
speak about issues he found
more significant: immigration
and a university’s responsibility
to speak out within the current
political climate.

“The challenge we’re going

to confront in this very political
era is: How do we walk that line

between picking on issues that
we can contribute to that make
our mission stronger, make our
University stronger and more
valuable to society without
being categorized or dismissed
as inappropriately acting in
the political space?” Schlissel
asked.

Beforehand,
Gary
Krenz,

director
of
bicentennial

planning,
wrote
in
an

email interview the event’s
significance was twofold.

“First, to be able to have a

group of people together who,
all told, can reflect on such a
large portion of the University’s
history
is
very
exciting,”

Krenz wrote. “It allows us
to compare similarities and
differences across time. Second,
these presidents collectively
represent an amazing amount
of experience in higher ed
leadership, so having them
together to discuss challenges
will be very enlightening.”

Susan Alcock, special council

for institutional outreach and
engagement, was joined by

Presidents
event covers
civic duty of
University

Massive Online Open Courses prove
beneficial outside the classroom

See SCHLISSEL, Page 3

ADMINISTRATION

Joined by four former U-M presidents,
Schlissel talks current political climate

ALEXA ST. JOHN
Managing News Editor

Students, faculty members also face challenges, see room for improvement with the portal

School of Information Prof.

Charles Severance has been
interested in Massive Open
Online
Courses
since
the

moment he was first introduced
to them.

“When MOOCs came along in

2011 or 2012, I was like, ‘this is
going to be the biggest use of the
internet for teaching that the
world’s ever seen, and I got to be
part of it,’ ” Severance said. “So

I sort of shoved my way in and
got to be part of the first round
of courses that the University of
Michigan published on Coursera
(a host website for MOOCs),
which were really the first real
MOOCs.”

Just as Severance expected,

MOOCs have exploded in the
past five years, and both he
and the University have been
on the cutting edge of MOOCs
production ever since.

James DeVaney, the associate

vice
provost
for
academic

innovation for the University,

told the Daily in an email
interview the University was
one of the first four schools
to partner with Coursera in
2012. Since then, the school has
produced over 100 MOOCs and
forged strong partnerships with
both Coursera and edX, another
host website for MOOCs.

Currently, the University’s

MOOCs alone have reached over
5.6 million people from around
the world, according to DeVaney,
and the University shows no
signs of slowing production any
time soon.

“It’s really pretty when it’s

done, but it takes a lot longer
than it used to.”

The first major MOOC —

an introduction to artificial
intelligence — was launched
by Stanford University in 2011,
and out of this experiment
came MOOC provider websites.
In most cases, these providers
act as intermediaries between
universities
and
“learners,”

which is the MOOC-jargon term
for a student.

The University of Michigan

MAYA GOLDMAN

Daily Staff Reporter

See MOOCS, Page 3

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