Katie Wolberg returned to 
campus after winter break filled 
with anticipation. As a second-
semester LSA freshman, she 
resolved to explore her developing 
interest in consulting, excited 
by the prospect of what joining 
a firm offered her: a network, a 
group of friends and a community 
at the University of Michigan. 
Despite Katie’s interest in data 
analytics and consulting, her 
anticipation quickly turned into 
disappointment when she was 
met with rejection at some of the 

top consulting clubs on campus, 
cutting short her opportunity to 
engage in this new atmosphere.
“I’m planning on transferring 
to the School of Information,” 
Wolberg said. “I’m interested in 
maybe consulting in the future, 
or doing something in the tech 
industry, and I thought [joining 
a club] would be a really good 
opportunity to meet new people 
and expand my network … and 
then it fell through and now I’m 
like, ‘Do I need to rethink what 
I’m doing?’”
Campus 
clubs 
and 
organizations are an integral 
part of the college experience. 

With more than 1,600 clubs at the 
University, students are afforded 
the opportunity to engage in a 
myriad of activities. 
But 
many 
pre-professional 
organizations require intensive 
application processes that make 
membership extremely exclusive. 
Competitive 
admissions 
are 
especially prevalent in business-
oriented, 
pre-professional 
organizations, 
including 
consulting groups, investment 
firms and business fraternities. 
Applications 
often 
require 
written supplements, interviews 
and multiple rounds of “cuts,” 
yielding an extensive process of 

new member selection.
A 
growing 
sentiment 
of 
frustration has developed among 
portions of the student body due 
to the highly selective nature 
of these clubs, which reject a 
majority of initial applicants 
before welcoming new members.
LSA junior Andrew Levey 
discussed 
how 
his 
own 
experience with rejection from a 
campus consulting firm led him 
to create Alliance Consulting 
Group, an organization dedicated 
to providing all students with 
an opportunity to learn about 
consulting.

Following 
temperature 
lows of -17 degrees Fahrenheit 
Wednesday 
and 
Thursday, 
numerous Ann Arbor tenants 
faced 
difficulties 
resulting 
from the inclement weather.
Several apartment buildings 
around 
campus 
contended 
with burst pipes and heating 
malfunctions Thursday due to 
the low temperatures. Varsity 
Ann 
Arbor, 
an 
apartment 
building on E. Washington 
Street 
largely 
housing 
University 
of 
Michigan 
students, dealt with these 
problems yesterday afternoon.
On Thursday at about 1 p.m., 
Varsity 
Management 
sent 
out an email to its tenants, 
stating that a water pipe had 
frozen and burst, leading to 
a fire alarm going off on the 
3rd floor of the apartments. 
Consequently, heating and hot 
water throughout the building 
was limited for much of the 
day.

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MDining 
to start new 
emergency 
allergy plan

Coalition of faculty, students 
launch One University campaign

Addition of epinephrine auto injectors 
serve as aid for sensitive food allergies 

Initiative is an effort to spread resources fairly among three ‘U’ campuses

The 
One 
University 
Campaign, a coalition of faculty 
and 
students, 
launched 
last 
semester across the University of 

Michigan’s three campuses as an 
effort to equip the University’s 
Flint and Dearborn campuses 
with more resources. A key player 
in the campaign is sociology 
lecturer Ian Robinson, president 
of 
the 
Lecturers’ 
Employee 
Organization. Robinson said the 
campaign has ideas in the works 

for where these resources should 
go and has the numbers to back 
them up.
“We 
are 
in 
many 
ways 
one university, and in many 
ways 
not,” 
Robinson 
said. 
“The 1U campaign is really, 
fundamentally 
an 
effort 
to 
get more resources for those 

campuses, and we have a number 
of different areas in which 
we think they’re lacking right 
now and which we have ideas 
on what might address those 
inadequacies and some numbers 
that prove where things are 
now.”

The University of Michigan’s 
College of Literature, Science and 
the Arts announced the formation 
of the Digital Studies Institute 
Monday. The Institute will expand 
the current minor degree program 
and provide students and faculty 
with greater resources, in addition 
to a new location on campus.
“LSA created the Digital Studies 
Institute to bring a humanities-
centered approach to the power 
and problems of the digital worlds 
billions of people visit and inhabit 
each day,” the press release reads. 
“The 
compelling, 
integrated 
coursework allows students to 
attain a degree with a more holistic 
and tech-savvy viewpoint on social 
and cultural issues.”
The Department of American 
Culture created the Digital Studies 
minor program in 2014. With 
only 20 students in its first year, 
the curriculum focused on the 
digital world and its history, as 
well as human interaction with 
technology. The program grew 
to more than 100 students by its 
second year and expanded to 
include a graduate program in 2016. 

LSA creates 
institute to 
expand the 
digital minor

ACADEMICS

New institution will 
focus on intersections of 
technology and human 
identity, provide research

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loses heat 
amid cold

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energy due to weather 
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MDining decided to implement 
an emergency-use epinepherine 
program for fall of 2019 after a 
change in Michigan Legislation 
in 2015 allowing pharmacists 
to 
dispense 
auto-injectable 
epinephrine to an authorized 
entity. 
The epinephrine auto-injectors 
will be available as an emergency 
resource in all residential dining 
halls, according to a press release 
from the University of Michigan. 
MDining 
will 
partner 
with 
Housing security, a subunit of 
U-M Division of Public Safety & 
Security, which will have security 
officers 
patrolling 
residential 
areas, equipped with epinephrine 
auto-injectors.
According to the press release, 
a 2017 FDA report said there has 
been a 25 percent increase in 
allergy sensitive adults from 2007-
2017. The Journal of the American 
Medical 
Association 
found 
nearly 26 million adults have 
food allergies, and that number is 

growing.
MDining 
Dietitian 
Anne 
Smiarowski 
explained 
the 
implications of this research in 
the University press release.
“All 
research 
points 
to 
this number increasing for 
many reasons, including new 
additives and food processing 
that our bodies are not used 
to, as well as the possibility 
that we’ve become too clean,” 
Smiarowski said “The focus 
has been on making sure we use 
hand sanitizers, disinfectants, 
etc., everywhere in our life. 
Some 
studies 
suggest 
this 
has 
altered 
our 
immune 
system’s response to potential 
allergens.”
Kathryn Whiteside, Director 
of Systems Management for 
MDining, said the epinephrine 
program is not necessarily a 
response to a rise in allergy 
sensitive adults but to the 
recent legislation passed under 
the Public Act 221 of 2015 
 
that allows for authorized 
personnel on campus, including 

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