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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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