Defying stereotypes about 

college students’ preference 
for loungewear, one can find 
students sporting suits at any 
given day at the Ross School 
of Business Building. With a 
sleek, modern exterior and an 
interior that hosts a private 
gym, cafeteria and frequent 
visists from top recruiters, 
some students have remarked 
that 
the 
building 
itself 

resembles 
a 
traditional 

business atmosphere.

Belying 
the 
Business 

School’s traditional business 
image, however, is a school 
that considers one of its 

core 
values 
to 
bepositive 

business. While this may be 
a core value, some students 
have 
noted 
classes 
and 

recruitment 
efforts 
seem 

to focus heavily on finance, 
consulting 
and 
marketing 

opportunities, leaving those 
who are pursuing a business 
degree to enter other social 
impact or nonprofit careers 
disappointed.

Jamie Jacobson joined Ross 

as a pre-admitted freshman, 
hoping to use her business 
degree in work with nonprofit 
or 
political 
advocacy 

organizations.

“The original impression I 

got was that it was sort of this 
new age, more progressive 

Tuesday night, the University 

of Michigan Central Student 
Government 
convened 
to 

discuss goals for the semester, 
including promoting inclusivity 
and enhancing communication 
on campus. The CSG session 
confirmed 
12 
members 
for 

various leadership positions.

The meeting began with a 

presentation from Erik Wessel, 
the director of the Office of 
Student Conflict Resolution, on 
the amendment cycle for the 
Statement of Student Rights 
and 
Responsibilities. 
Wessel 

explained OSCR is in the process 
of bringing proposals to amend 
this statement, noting how the 
statement has always been and 
will continue to be shaped by the 
University community.

“I should mention that the 

statement itself has always been a 
community-owned, community-
amended, 
community-crafter 

document from its inception,” 
Wessel said.

Wessel 
also 
encouraged 

students 
to 
attend 
OSCR’s 

conflict 
skills 
education 

workshops, such as Conflict 
Resolution 101 or Nonviolent 
Communication.

“Feel free to reach out to 

OSCR,” Wessel said. “We are 
always willing and wanting to be 
supportive to you all as a group 
and to you all as individuals as 
well.”

After Wessel’s presentation, 

CSG President Daniel Greene, 
a Public Policy senior, gave 
a State of Campus address, 
loosely based on the president’s 
annual State of the Union 
address. Greene discussed CSG’s 
financial affairs, partnerships 
with 
off-campus 
resources, 

areas for improvement, key 
campus issues and upcoming 
September policies.

Greene highlighted some of 

his goals for the upcoming year, 

hoping to improve relationships 
with institutions like the Office 
of Financial Aid and MDining, 
and trying to start a process 
of 
online 
registration 
with 

University Health Services and 
Counseling 
and 
Psychiatric 

Services. He also noted the 
creation 
of 
the 
executive 

diversity 
officer 
executive 

position, which he hopes will 
encourage diversity, equity and 
inclusion on a student level.

“I think as of now the DEI 

plan on our campus has been 
too 
administratively 
and 

academically heavy, and if we’re 
really going to get to the point 
where students of any identity 
feel included on our campus and 
safe and comfortable to attend 
the University of Michigan,” 
Greene said. “There’s not a 
better way to get to those 
social 
interactions 
than 
to 

The M Den, the University 

of 
Michigan’s 
official 

merchandise 
retailer, 
will 

be opening its first Detroit 
location on Columbia Street 
in 2019 in partnership with 
Olympia 
Development 
of 

Michigan.

The new location occupies 

a stretch of Columbia Street 
that’s part of the Ilitch family’s 
District Detroit, a new block-
long development that will 
feature several shopping and 
dining attractions. Downtown 
Detroit will be the seventh 
brick-and-mortar store for The 
M Den, which has locations 
across Ann Arbor, Novi and 
Livonia.

The 
location’s 
collection 

will include regular M Den 
merchandise as well as Detroit-
themed products. With two 
storefronts for both The M Den 
and the Victors Collection by 
The M Den –– a subsidiary that 
features 
higher-end 
apparel 

and accessories –– the store 
will incorporate 4,000 square 
feet of space on the first floor 

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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM

Students in 
Ross search 
for broader 
curriculum

Minority Serving Institutions lay 
plans to build partnerships with ‘U’

See ROSS, Page 3A

ALEC COHEN/Daily

Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Robert Sellers shares his experiences working for the University of Michigan at the U-M and Minority Serving Instituions Dis-
ciplinary Hub Plenary Reception in the Ross School of Business Tuesday.

ACADEMICS

Despite outward emphasis on positive 
business, students say opportunities lack

ZAYNA SYED

Daily Staff Reporter

VP for Equity and Inclusion critiques DEI plan, says University lacks minority inclusion

Robert 
Sellers, 
the 
vice 

provost for equity and inclusion 
and 
chief 
diversity 
officer, 

opened the Minority Serving 
Institutions Disciplinary Hub 
Plenary 
and 
Reception 
at 

the Ross School of Business 
Tuesday afternoon. The event, 
attended by dozens of students 
and faculty, was the conclusion 
of a conference between the 
University of Michigan and 
minority-serving 
institutions 

intended 
to 
cultivate 

relationships 
and 
develop 

strategic goals moving forward.

Sellers began by discussing 

the University’s current five-
year 
Diversity, 
Equity 
and 

Inclusion plan. The plan, which 
is currently in its third year, 
aims to recruit more minority 
faculty, graduate students and 
undergraduate students as well 
as cultivate solutions to improve 
retention rates.

While Sellers acknowledged 

the 
plan’s 
successes, 
he 

believes the University and the 
country’s 
academic 
system, 

in 
general, 
is 
still 
deeply 

lacking 
minority 
inclusion. 

Students have challenged the 
DEI plan in recent years, saying 
it has failed to create a safe 

REFAEL KUBERSKY

Daily Staff Reporter

statement

THE MICHIGAN DAILY | SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Mark Schlissel gave me 
writer’s block

P 

resident 
Mark 
Schlissel 
apparently lives in a beautiful 
white 
house 
on 
South 
University and I was going 
to see it. I was going to see it 
because I emailed a professor 
that I needed a building to write about, 
and of the hundreds in Ann Arbor, not a 
single one felt curious enough for a story.
“Break into Mark Schlissel’s house!” he 
wrote.
“Will I be arrested?” I wondered.
“I’m just an Idea Guy!” he replied.
It was an idea, and one I needed, since I 
signed on to write about buildings for The 
Daily’s Statement magazine this semester: 
To turn immobile structures into however 
many 
thousand 
romantically-tainted 
words on a semi-regular basis. When 
I applied, I felt I had a lot to say on the 
subject, and I wanted to force myself to 
write.
The weather was awful the day I fi
 rst 
set out to see the President’s House. I left 
around noon and faced the September mix 
of warm humidity and cold wind that begs 
both for shorts and a fl
 annel, and doesn’t 
blink an eye at the contradiction. I wore 
neither, and downed a Claritin instead, as 
September not only gifts split personality 
weather but also searing and persistent 
allergies.

See SCHLISSEL, Page 4B

BY MATT GALLATIN, 
STATEMENT CORRESPONDENT

See MDEN, Page 2A

M Den to 
open new 
storefront 
in Detroit

BUSINESS

The University’s official 
merchandise retailer will 
now have seven locations

SONIA LEE

Daily Staff Writer

AARON BAKER/Daily

Central Student Government President Daniel Greene delivers his State of the Campus address during the CSG 
meeting at Palmer Commons Tuesday night. 

Central Student Government ‘State of 
the Campus’ speech talks inclusivity

Partnerships with off-campus resources, Office of Financial Aid discussed

ELIZABETH LAWRENCE

Daily Staff Writer

Schlissel gave me 

writer’s block 

A writer tries to write about 

the President’s House, but 

ponders the nature of his 

own writing instead

» Page 4B

See CSG, Page 3A

See DEI, Page 3A

U-M chemistry professor 

Zhan Chen, who received his 
post-doctoral 
degree 
from 

University 
of 
California, 

Berkeley, pursued chemistry 
since childhood. After graduate 
school, 
Chen 
considered 

other careers, but ultimately 
decided on teaching because 
he understood how significant 
an impact professors can have 
on their students. 

“From very young, I knew 

that it was extremely important 
for young people to have good 
teachers,” Chen said. “I chose 
chemistry as my major because 
I 
had 
excellent 
chemistry 

teachers in my middle school, 
high school and college.”

Researchers 
from 

the 
Rackham 
Institutional 

Research 
office’s 
first 

Michigan Doctoral Experience 
Study in September 2017. The 
results of the survey, designed 
to 
collect 
data 
about 
the 

first-year graduate are now 
publically 
available. 
The 

University 
of 
Michigan’s 

administration hopes the data 

See RESEARCH, Page 3A

Results of 
Rackham 
research 
released

RESEARCH

The Doctoral Experience 
Study aims to improve 
experience of students

RACHEL LEUNG

Daily Staff Writer

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