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Thursday, August 10, 2017
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
NEWS

ACROSS
1 Mus. key of “I Am
The Walrus”
5 Gulf
10 They’re underfoot
14 Shade akin to
ecru
15 Critical vessel
16 K-12
17 Tarragona title, in
detail?
19 Tucked in
20 NBC show that
inspired “30
Rock”
21 It’s hidden in
some profiles
23 How great minds
think
26 Sweet __
28 Immature bee
nourished by
royal jelly
29 Arles animal, in
detail?
32 Amorous murmur
33 Voice mail
prompt
34 Wow
35 Rat Pack
nickname
37 Wetland area
39 Fire
43 Sci-fi SFX
45 Take at a concert
47 Capital of
Delaware?
48 Toulouse trace,
in detail?
52 Poundstone of
“Wait Wait...
Don’t Tell Me!”
53 Like the
occasional clean
sock
54 Emphatic
affirmation
55 Craftsperson
57 N.L. teams
usually don’t use
them
58 Bus sched. info
59 Augsburg above,
in detail?
65 “Foiled again!”
66 Brat condiment
67 Gable neighbor
68 Jazz sessions
69 37-Across plant
70 CT scan
component

DOWN
1 They might be
ripped

2 “The Simpsons”
tavern owner
3 Gloucester’s
cape
4 Lake craft
5 Word with roll or
toll
6 Mason’s burden
7 “__ you coming?”
8 College in
Northfield, Minn.
9 Colt producer
10 Cleavers
11 Finney with a
recurring role in
Jason Bourne
films
12 “Look What __
Done to My
Song, Ma”
13 What an LP has
that a CD lacks
18 Like helium
22 Went like mad
23 Preschool song
opener
24 Sainted pontiff
called “the
Great”
25 Revered one
26 Skipjack or
bluefin
27 Came to light
30 Stand-up
individual?

31 “The Blacklist”
actress
36 Eye experts, 
old-style
38 DUI-fighting org.
40 TV Batman West
41 Biz biggies
42 Bingo kin
44 Dean’s list nos.
46 Friend of Job
48 “Nausea” novelist
49 Surpass in a hot
dog contest

50 Small parrot
51 Yarn that makes
fabric stretchy
52 Oater colleagues
56 Arctic divers
57 Check figure
60 Sore
61 Carry with
difficulty
62 Backdrop for
many jokes
63 Actress Longoria
64 Spanish king

By Mel Rosen
©2017 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
08/10/17

08/10/17

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RELEASE DATE– Thursday, August 10, 2017

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on page 2

Big House program supports diverse applicants

By DYLAN LACROIX

Summer Daily News Editor 

About 30 prospective minority 

undergraduate students gathered at 
Assembly Hall in Rackham Monday 
afternoon to meet with current 
University of Michigan students 

and administrative members to 
explore the advantages of choosing 
to study at the University for their 
undergraduate career.

The luncheon was one of a series 

of events held by the Big House 
Program, which throughout the 
summer and academic year supports 
chosen underrepresented minority 

prospective students throughout the 
process of applying to the University. 
The program started in 2012.

Compared to the 26.5 percent 

acceptance rate for the University 
overall 
for 
fall 
2017, 
program 

participants 
yielded 
an 
overall 

acceptance rate of 82 percent, with 27 
out of 33 participants accepted to the 

University.

Reem 
Aburukba, 
Dearborn 

resident and Big House Program 
participant, said many who are 
often left in the dark when applying 
to college. The Big House Program 
seeks to amend this, she explained, 
by providing valuable resources to 
prospective students. This helped 
alleviate many of her concerns and 
fears around the college application 
process.

“When you’re searching things 

up online, they make it seem really 

impossible to get a really good 
personal essay,” Aburukba said. 
“But here they’re alleviating our 
fears and telling us like, ‘You need to 
expose enough of yourself to show 
them you’ve been through things 
and that you’re ready for Michigan 
and just want to make a change.’ It’s 
a difference; it gives you ideas.”

LSA junior Antonio Gallegos, 

who went through the program 
three years ago, spoke on how, 
with the mentorship offered by the 
program, his dream of attending 
the University became a reality.

“I don’t think I’d be where I 

am today without the program,” 
Gallegos said. “I didn’t even really 
think Michigan was a possibility for 
me. I’m a first generation student so 
I didn’t know anything.”

He 
shared 
how, 
once 
the 

application process was over and 
he had received admission, the 
program continued to guide him 
throughout his college transition 
period.

“The Big House really gave me 

the resources necessary to apply 
and not only apply, but once I 
came here even at my orientation 
people within PILOT, the student 

organization, were reaching out to 
me,” he said.

Throughout the summer and 

academic year, members of PILOT, 
a 
student-based 
organization 

working towards fostering diverse 
leadership within the University 
community, mentor and guide 
the chosen prospective students 
throughout the application process 
with the Big House Program.

University Regent Shauna Diggs 

gave a brief speech at the event, 
attributing 
her 
own 
personal 

success to an experience similar to 
the Big House Program when she 
applied to college.

“I went to quite a few programs 

like this, and they are in large part 
the reason I am a physician in 
private practice today, a regent at the 
University of Michigan,” Diggs said.

She went on to describe the large 

amount of opportunities that the 
University has to offer that are not 
possible at other institutions.

“There are a couple things that 

a program like this can do,” Diggs 
said. “The first is to present to you 
all the opportunities, to see the 
possibilities. Sometimes in our small 
world we can’t really see all the 
things that we can do, but when you 
come to a place like the University 
of Michigan, campus of Ann Arbor, 
Dearborn and Flint, you can really 
start to see all the things that you 
can accomplish.”

Later 
this 
year, 
program 

participants will return to campus in 
the fall to shadow current University 
students and explore academic 
options, and again in 2018 to plan 
their 
collegiate 
transition 
and 

connect with University support 
services.

COURTESY OF JAD ELHARAKE

Michigan Regent Shauna Ryder Diggs speaks at an event hosted by the Big House 
Program at Rackham on Monday.

