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Thursday, May 3, 2018
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
NEWS

Interactive mural 
 
piques AA interest

Downtown winged 
artwork bolsters 
U-M social media 
presence

By ELIZABETH LAWRENCE

Daily Staff Reporter

When 2018 graduate Sejal Mehta 
walked by the newly commissioned 
mural, a pair of maize and blue wings 
painted by artist Kelsey Montague, 
at the corner of East William and 
Maynard streets at Tower Plaza, 
she saw a fabulous Instagram 
opportunity. She posed underneath 
the wings, threw her graduation cap 
in the air and had her friend of four 
years snap the photo.
“It just turned out really well,” 
Mehta said. “I was wearing a 
yellow dress that went well with 
the colors and then I just posted the 
photo to celebrate being done with 
everything.”
The 
mural’s 
clear 
invitation 
for photo ops is exactly what the 
commissioners intended. The idea 

for the mural originated in the 
University of Michigan Department 
of Communication as part of a 
yearly initiative to show University 
constituents the impact social media 
has. Nicole Sunstrum, director of 
social media, said her department 
wanted to foster an appreciation of 
art and bolster the University’s social 
media presence.
“The ultimate goal was to provide 
an opportunity for individuals to 
appreciate art, first and foremost, 
and to also take a photograph to 
share and tag U of M, and feel proud 
of their University,” Sunstrum said.
To bring this project to life, 
U-M Social Media worked with 
the University Arts and Culture 
Initiative, LSA, Destination Ann 
Arbor and the Ann Arbor Downtown 
Development Authority. Sunstrum 
said 
she 
encountered 
one 
of 
Montague’s wing murals in Nashville, 
Tenn., and after witnessing the long 
line of people waiting to take photos, 
thought it would be the perfect fit 
for the project. Montague’s series of 

By Fall semester 
internet access will 
be available on Diag

By ALICE TRACEY

Summer Daily News Editor

 
The University of Michigan’s 
Information 
and 
Technology 
Services 
announced 
plans 
last 
Thursday to install Wi-Fi on the 
Diag, providing wireless internet 
access to the Central Campus area 
surrounding the block ‘M.’
The initiative began in Fall 2017 
when LSA senior Anushka Sarkar, 
former Central Student Government 
president, and CSG Vice President 
Nadine Jawad, a Public Policy 
senior, started their respective 
appointments after campaigning 
on the promise of Wi-Fi on the 
Diag. The pair took action soon 
after coming into office, contacting 
the U-M administration to discuss 
outdoor internet access. University 
President Mark Schlissel supported 
the idea and ITS received funds to 
add the initiative to its list of projects.
Sarkar noted she worked closely 
with 
University 
administrators, 
especially Schlissel, to push the plan 
forward.
“I campaigned on this when I ran 
for CSG President because it’s an 
unexpectedly important component 
of daily student life, but its success 
is also a demonstration of two 
important tenets of effective student 

advocacy: the power of persistence, 
and the power of the personal 
relationship,” Sarkar wrote in an 
email interview with The Daily. “I 
stayed in pretty close contact with 
the key decision-makers for this 
issue throughout the year (mainly in 
Student Life, IT, and the President’s 
office) to ensure it would be 
prioritized during the university’s 
budget process.”
Major internet access renovations 
have been underway since 2016 
when ITS began the Campuswide 
WiFi Upgrade Project with the 
goal of improving wireless access 
in 275 locations across campus. 
Andy Palms, executive director of 
ITS Infrastructure, said that before 
Sarkar took initiative, ITS would 
occasionally set up temporary Wi-Fi 
for outdoor events near the Diag 
and had discussed the feasibility 
of installing it permanently. But, 
according to Palms, ITS did not have 
official plans to bring Wi-Fi to the 
Diag.
“We’d been expecting that our 
students and faculty and staff would 
be fine just with using their cell 
phones when they are outdoors,” 
Palms said. “In fact, our whole 
project that we’ve had for the last 
three years to enhance Wi-Fi inside 
all the buildings, we intentionally 
had not included outdoor spaces.”

ITS brings WiFi 
to the outdooors

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