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2A — Monday, February 19, 2018
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This Week in History

News

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Prom may be a rite of passage

for most high school students
but often poses a large financial
burden. Ann Arbor resident Jan
Wery, along with several other
volunteers, founded the Prom
Dress Project — an organization
that
collects
donated
prom

dresses and sells them for $25 or
less — to address this issue.

According to Wery, donations

for the prom dress sale continue to
grow every year, and this year, the
project has once again achieved a
new record of donations. Now in
its sixth year, this year’s annual
sale will be the biggest yet. The
event will feature 500 long prom
dresses and 100 shorter dresses,
all between $10 and $25 and
including sizes 0 to 20.

Volunteers have helped to build

dressing rooms for the event,
which will take place March
11 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the
Holiday Inn on Plymouth Road.
Volunteers will also be available
to help students pick out and try
on dresses.

“It’s gotten so much bigger and

so many donations,” Wery said in
an interview with MLive. “The
community is so generous. The
dresses that come in are just really
beautiful.”

In prior years, Wery stored

the project’s donations in the
basement of her home, but this
year’s donations have outgrown
that space, so Wery rented storage
to accommodate the increased
amount.

According to Wery, she first

conceived the idea when she was
working in an Ann Arbor thrift
shop. Wery was disappointed
students didn’t shop for prom
dresses in the thrift shop, despite
the store having beautiful dresses
available.

“Girls weren’t coming to shop

for a prom dress at the thrift shop.
... But there were some very pretty
dresses,” Wery said. “That’s when
I decided we’ve got to have a
special place and a special day for
girls to come for prom dresses.”

Wery also noticed how the

prom dresses the thrift shop
received were in great condition
because most students wore their
dresses for only one night. While
most dresses donated to the

project are in excellent condition,
Wery cleans all of the dresses
and makes small repairs when
necessary to make sure every
dress is stunning.

Wery said her favorite moment

is when a girl finds a dress.

“It’s just so much fun when

they get the dress that is meant
for them,” Wery said. “They
put it on and the smiles are just
unbelievable.”

The
group
welcomes
any

student
in
the
Washtenaw

County area to come to the
event and look for a prom dress.
Wery emphasized the group
accepts donations year-round. To
donate a dress, send an email to
A2promdressproject@comcast.
net.

ON THE DAILY: ANN ARBORITE PROVIDES DRESS RELIEF

University tradition that dates
back to the 1930s. Students and
professors used to time their
classes according to the chimes of
the Burton Tower at the beginning
of each hour, and Michigan time
was officially adopted to allow
students to get from class to class
without being late.Now, to allow
for students to get to back-to-back
classes, all classes will stop 10
minutes before the hour.

Though administrators have

been
talking
about
removing

Michigan time for many years
now — University Provost Martin
Philbert said there have been
conversations since he came to
the University in 1995 — this is the
first time anything conclusive has
passed. The change will start in
May for the Spring and Summer
terms, so any unexpected kinks
can be worked out before the Fall
2018 semester.

“The freshmen will come in not

knowing a time we had it,” Philbert
said.

According to Philbert, it was a

“tradition born out of necessity.”

Now,
however,
some
see

the
once-crucial
tradition
as

a
hinderance.
Many
newer

University schools never adopted

it, and Patricia Hurn, dean of the
School of Nursing, told The Daily
in an email Michigan time was
never an option for the Nursing
School.

“The major reason our classes

have not used Michigan Time
is because we are a clinical
discipline,” Hurn wrote. “So we
very early on aligned our class
times, specifically the on-the-
hour start time, with the time
of our clinical partners. None of
these partners recognize or utilize
‘Michigan time.’”

Problems
arise
when

University units aren’t operating
on synchronized schedules, and
because programs like Nursing
don’t have the option of Michigan

time, Philbert thinks going to
“clock time” is the most logical
course of action.

One of the major issues the

new system aims to fix is the
shortage of classrooms. When
some schools are on Michigan
time and others are not,
classrooms are unavailable for
up to 10 minutes at the end of
the hour.

“We have the need for

more classrooms,” Philbert
said. “We have more sections,
which require more rooms,
and some of these rooms
require specialized services.
So by aligning time, we free
up the number and types of
classrooms available.”

University spokesman Rick

Fitzgerald said the University
is also hoping the switch
will
make
collaboration

among different schools and
departments easier.

“I’d say one of the hallmarks

of
our
campus
is
cross-

University
collaboration,”

Fitzgerald said. “From school
and colleges and departments
and different units who are
constantly
cross-pollinating

all of our efforts, and this really
facilitates
that…
We’re
just

eliminating one of those stumbling
blocks.”

Though there are clear benefits

for faculty and administrators,
students are uncertain about the
upcoming change. Michaels, even
after her exam confusion, thinks
Michigan time works well. She’s
concerned professors will have a
difficult time stopping 10 minutes
short of the hour.

“I really like Michigan time.

I think it makes so much sense,
especially when you have back-to-
back classes,” she said. “It gets your
day rolling. I think that (this new
system) is just a cause for disaster. I
think that professors are way more
aware of starting 10 minutes late
because they haven’t started yet,
but if they have to end 10 minutes
early, they’re not going to know to
stop.”

While Michaels understands

this could eventually be a good
system, the thought of working
through
the
transition
next

semester is daunting.

“It’s going to be a huge transition

and it’s going to mess a lot of people
up with their schedules,” Michaels
said. “I don’t think this is a good
idea, but that’s just because I’m
used to Michigan time and I think
that this is working well so I don’t
see why you should change what’s
already working and what people
like.”

On the other hand, Philbert

said he’s received a lot of positive
feedback about the change from
students and faculty.

“Especially
through
Vice

President Royster’s office, we
have worked with many student
organizations,” Philbert said. “In
my experience there’s been an
enormous sigh of relief that we’re
all going to be operating on the
same expectations of starting and
finishing.”

TIME
From Page 1A

launched on Monday with that
advertisement and by Wednesday
we were up double-digits… it was
the strongest quarter in the history
of public restaurant companies at
the time.”

Domino’s
recognized
the

advantages of redesigning their
stores
and
identifying
more

convenient locations for customers.
They realized the effects of location
on their customer’s purchasing
habits and positioned their stores
accordingly.

“People will not walk past

five other pizza places to pick
up a pizza,” Doyle said. “I don’t
care how good your pizza is,
convenience starts to override
the quality of the food. Basically,
people will not go more than a mile
to pick up their pizza — for the
most part, they won’t go more than

a half a mile — this means we have
to have more stores.”

Doyle also emphasized the

value of data analytics and media
design for business success.

“Data drives everything: We

know who our customers are,
we know what they eat, which
devices they prefer, we know
where they receive their messages
and most importantly, we know
what changes purchase behavior
and have modeled all of that and
know exactly what it’s going to do,”

Doyle said. “Math is driving our
business.”

He
provided
an
example

of research on the function of
Domino’s
website
allowing

customers
to
order
online.

Domino’s realized the difference
between the term “order” and
“order online” led to a 0.86 percent
increase in the number of people
who purchased.

DOMINO’S
From Page 1A

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