Three students have been 

awarded 
the 
prestigious 

Marshall 
and 
Schwarzman 

scholarships 
to 
pursue 

graduate studies at universities 
in the United Kingdom and 
China during the upcoming 
academic year.

LSA 
seniors 
Amanda 

Burcroff and Noah McNeal 
won the Marshall Scholarship, 
which 
provides 
up 
to 
50 

students from across the United 
States full funding to study at 
any U.K. institution in any field 
of choice. Business and LSA 
senior Eduardo Batista became 
the first University of Michigan 

student to win the Schwarzman 
Scholarship, 
which 
was 

created in 2016. According to 
the website, the Schwarzman 
Scholarship 
offers 
students 

interested in global affairs 
the chance to study at China’s 
Tsinghua University.

Burcroff 
and 
McNeal 

became the University’s 8th 
and 9th Marshall Scholarship 
winners, and are the first 
winners since 2013. A press 
release 
published 
Monday 

afternoon by the Marshall 
Scholarship 
Program 
said 

the 48 scholars were chosen 
from a pool of over 1,000 
applicants. The winners will 
join an accomplished alumni 
base including Supreme Court 

Bird –– the scooter-sharing 

company that took Ann Arbor 
and the University of Michigan’s 
campus by storm this fall –– 
says it will continue to operate 
during the winter, depending 
on daily weather conditions.

A 
Bird 
spokesperson 

confirmed 
the 
company’s 

intentions to let the public 
proceed with riding through 
the winter months, but added 
that the vehicles could be 
removed if inclement weather 
were to occur.

“Bird is extremely committed 

to the safety of our riders, and 
so we take into account the 
weather conditions of each city 
where Bird is available,” a Bird 
spokesperson wrote in an email 
to The Daily.

The spokesperson said Bird 

has a monitoring team that 
reviews riding conditions and 
determines 
whether 
roads 

are safe for use each day, and 
oftentimes the service will 
pause riding when weather is 
not permitting, such as during 
storms or hurricanes. When 
there’s a threat of blizzards 
or icy roads, the company 
investigates to deem whether 
the driving environment is safe. 
Bird’s statement still leaves 
uncertainty 
as 
to 
whether 

the Bird scooters will, in fact, 
completely migrate south for 
the winter.

Scooter 
usage 
has 
been 

hotly contested ever since they 
arrived in Ann Arbor this past 
September. After the scooters’ 
initial deployment, the city of 
Ann Arbor temporarily removed 
nearly two dozen scooters for 
violating city ordinances that 
require motorized vehicles not 
to interfere with the public 
right-of-way. 
According 
to 

Lisa 
Wondrash, 
the 
city’s 

communications director, Ann 
Arbor has had many Bird-

related violations, but only 
one has been reported and 
confirmed to have resulted 
in an injury attributable to a 
Bird scooter. Since the initial 
crackdown, 
a 
total 
of 
44 

scooters have been impounded.

Backlash 
from 
the 
local 

government’s decision to seize 
the scooters led to an agreement 
passed in November with Bird 
Rides, Inc. that requires the 
company to pay a fee to the 

city of Ann Arbor, provide 
educational materials to its 
users and assume liability for 
improper driving or parking of 
the vehicles.

“The 
City 
Council 
has 

provided their policy direction 
regarding Bird and scooter 
share companies, which is 
that we should allow them to 
operate insofar as they can be 
operated safely and they can 

A new study on the use of 

diversity statements in hiring 
at the University of Michigan 
was recently conducted at the 
University’s National Center for 
Institutional Diversity. The study 
served to analyze the effects 
of new and evolving practices 
in faculty hiring in higher 
education.

Diversity 
statements 
are 

written pieces of an application 
in which the applicant explains 
the 
ways 
their 
background, 

experience, 
scholarship, 

mentoring and other previous 
work can contribute to campus 
efforts to promote diversity, 
equity 
and 
inclusion. 
The 

statements are requested from 
candidates 
for 
some 
faculty 

positions at the University and 
increasingly at institutions of 
higher 
education 
across 
the 

country.

Prof. Tabbye Chavous, director 

of NCID, co-authored the paper. 
Chavous said the purpose of 
the study was to gain a more 
thorough understanding of how 
candidates and faculty used the 

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Scholarships 
send three 
students to 
China, U.K.

Audubon vice president reflects 
on environmental equity, diversity

See SCHOLARSHIPS, Page 3A

PRASHANTH PANICKER/Daily

Dr. Deeohn Ferris, Audubon vice president, speaks about environmental justice, equity and law at the Dana building Tuesday. 

ACADEMICS

Prestigious Marshall and Schwarzman 
awards provide graduate opportunities

LIAT WEINSTEIN

Daily Staff Reporter

School for Environment and Sustainability hosts lecture for DEI speaker series

Deeohn Ferris, vice president 

for 
Equity, 
Diversity 
and 

Inclusion at National Audubon 
Society, presented Tuesday at 
the University of Michigan’s 
School for Environment and 

Sustainability on initiatives to 
increase diversity, equity and 
inclusion in the environmental 
conservation field. The lecture 
was organized through the 
University’s Diversity, Equity 
and Inclusion program as a 
part of the “DEI December 
Presentation: 
Environmental 

Justice, Equity and Law.”

The National Audubon Society 

is 
a 
nonprofit 
conservation 

organization with a mission 
to protect bird and wildlife 
habitats. 
Audubon 
policy, 

education and science experts 
provide guidance to lawmakers 
to shape conservation actions 
and policies.

In Ferris’s first job as a 

lawyer for the Environmental 
Protection Agency, she and 
her 
colleagues 
looked 
into 

patterns of the locations of 
companies who did not comply 
with regulations. Everywhere 
they had a case, Ferris and 
her 
colleagues 
determined 

people 
of 
color 
and 
low-

CALLIE TEITELBAUM

Daily Staff Reporter

See DIVERSITY, Page 3A

‘U’ study 
evaluates 
diversity 
statements

ADMINISTRATION

New hiring requirements 
in higher education “a 
really promising practice”

RILEY LANGEFELD

Daily Staff Reporter

MILES MACKLIN/Daily

Bird says it will continue to operate during the Winter, depending on daily weather conditions. 

Bird scooters will not fly south for 
winter weather, company announces

Licensing agreement with city requires company to assume liability for improper use

CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN

Daily Staff Reporter

The Sex Issue 

The Statement Magazine 
dives into the results of its 

annual sex survey 

» Page 3B

See BIRD, Page 2A

See AUDUBON, Page 3A

The 
University 
of 

Michigan 
Central 
Student 

Government 
met 
Tuesday 

night to introduce and discuss 
the NET plan — narrative, 
equity and transformation — an 
inclusivity program to enhance 
diversity and inclusion among 
student 
organizations 
on 

campus.

The NET plan is part of the 

University’s commitment to 
increasing 
diversity, 
equity 

and inclusion on campus.

Public 
Health 
junior 

Lloyd 
Lyons, 
a 
diversity 

peer educator, explained the 
purpose of the NET plan.

“The NET plan is a narrative, 

equity 
and 
transformation 

program 
within 
student 

organizations 
on 
campus,” 

Lyons said. “This program was 
created to fulfill the needs 
that a lot of organizations felt 
that they were missing, that 
they didn’t have all voices 
represented, and that they 
didn’t have different people 
within their organizations.”

Lyons said this program 

See CSG, Page 3A

CSG talks 
new NET 
inclusivity 
program

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Assembly also introduced 
fund to empower survivors 
through SAPAC donation 

ABIGAIL BERGER

For the Daily

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