As 
Robinson 
noted, 
the 
campaign has a great deal of data at 
its disposal. According to Robinson, 
42 percent of U-M Dearborn and 
39 percent of U-M Flint students 
qualify for the Pell Grant, a federal 
grant awarded to high-achieving 
students with financial need, yet 
none are covered under the Go Blue 
Guarantee, the University’s offer 
of free tuition for in-state families 
with incomes under $65,000, 
because this is offered only to 
Ann Arbor students. None of the 
$85 million Diversity, Equity and 
Inclusion funds go to the Dearborn 
and Flint campuses, despite a 
significant number of students of 
color.
The list of numbers goes on, 
and so do the ways these numbers 
manifest themselves in the daily 
and long-term operations of U-M 
Dearborn and Flint, according 
to members of the 1U campaign. 
These numbers and stories are 
the basis for 1U’s demands of the 
University.
The 1U coalition and campaign
Rackham 
student 
Corey 
Bowen, who works as an organizer 
for 
the 
Graduate 
Employees’ 
Organization, didn’t apply to the 
University of Michigan as a senior 
in high school. Hailing from a small 
town upstate, Ann Arbor didn’t 
seem like a place she could access 
 
at the time.
“I didn’t even apply to University 
of 
Michigan 
for 
undergrad,” 
Bowen said. “My perception was 
the University of Michigan is for 
wealthy, affluent families and not 
for rural communities.”
Now, as a graduate student here, 
Bowen is involved in 1U’s growing 
coalition. Her interest in this work 
spurred from her experience with 

GEO bargaining in 2017 when 
she said the University wouldn’t 
budge on equal pay for graduate 
student instructors across the 
three campuses, even when other 
progressive changes were made.
She sees this issue, among others 
1U advocates for, as a question 
of the University’s values and an 
example of what 1U calls an “unfair 
silo system” budget model used by 
University administrators, which 
hurts the Flint and Dearborn 
campuses.
For 
Bowen 
and 
other 
1U 
organizers, disparities across the 
University system are noticeable. 
1U has specifically listed the Go 
Blue Guarantee’s lack of extension 
to Flint and Dearborn, Flint and 
Dearborn not receiving any of the 
$85 millionearmarked for DEI over 
five years nor any of the $1 billion in 
funding for student support from 
the Victors For Michigancampaign 
and Flint and Dearborn lecturers 
being paid less than Ann Arbor, 
while 1U research shows workloads 
are 30-50 percent greater for Flint 
and Dearborn lecturers, as issues 
the campaign hopes to address.
Dan 
Birchok, 
an 
assistant 
professor of anthropology at U-M 
Flint is also working on 1U. He 
said many of his coworkers notice 
the issues 1U raises. There is also 
widespread concern, Birchok said, 
among faculty about the future 
of the Flint campus if the current 
level of monetary support from the 
University continues.
“There’s been a large cross-
section of interest from across 
the U-M Flint campus, and that 
appears to only be growing as we 
talk more and circulate what’s 
going on,” Birchok said. “These are 
all people who are invested in the 
institution and who fear if we don’t 
solve this problem then the already 
dire situation there will be worse, 
then we won’t be able to support 

our students.”
The overarching goals of the 
campaign include addressing a 
budget model the group believes 
perpetuates inequality among the 
three campuses. They also seek to 
press the University and state of 
Michigan to allocate more funding 
and resources to the Dearborn and 
Flint campuses.
According to Robinson, 1U’s 
goals are complex and made for 
long-term achievement. Currently, 
the coalition focuses on spreading 
their message across the three 
campuses ahead of the June 2019 
budget deadlines for both the 
University and state of Michigan.
Robinson said some of the points 
of the campaign are still undecided 
because as a large coalition, all 
parts of the group need to decide on 
priorities. He also said the coalition 
has begun communicating with 
members of the state legislature 
and University Board of Regents 
and will continue talking with 
decision-makers until the budget 
deadlines.
“A kind of fundamental shift to a 
vision of what we should be doing 
— that puts our three campuses on 
a more equal footing — is a long-
term project, but there is a sort 
of immediate target, which is the 
budgets,” Robinson said. “Part of 
the reason we’re building a big 
coalition is because it’s not going 
to be easy, but … we’re cautiously 
optimistic that we can make real 
progress.”
To do this, the coalition has 
held community forums and tables 
on all three campuses, circulated 
leaflets and created a listserv to 
build a support base. Going into 
winter semester, Robinson said the 
campaign is planning to increase 
its outreach efforts.
Lia Fabbri, a student on the 
Dearborn campus who joined 1U 
to address inequities she’s noticed 

on her campus, said one of her 
challenges is making 1U and its 
campaign points known to other 
U-M Dearborn students.
“I think a lot of people come to 
school and get their education and 
they go home, which is fine, but 
I think people need to realize — 
need to be shown — there are these 
issues we can be fighting for and 
that they will directly impact our 
education and make our experience 
at this University a better one,” 
Fabbri said. “It does sometimes feel 
that we’re secondary, that we’re 
forgotten, that we’re the end of 
the list where resources are being 
allocated.”
How 
the 
discrepancies 
1U 
claims are reflected
Studying abroad is popular on 
the Ann Arbor campus, with a 
plethora of opportunities within 
the University and non-University 
programs offered. Funding is 
available through the Office of 
Financial Aid, as well as through a 
variety of University scholarships. 
Birchok is involved with helping 
students go abroad through the 
International and Global Studies 
Program at U-M Flint. Birchok 
explained Flint students face a 
number of obstacles when trying 
to apply to these trips and the 
program office doesn’t have the 
funds to overcome them.
“For our around 40-percent Pell 
Grant students, for those students 
to take a two-week trip overseas, 
for them to have to pay for their 
trip but then in many cases lose the 
opportunity cost of not being able 
to work during that time, some of 
our students have children or are 
responsible for children, there’s 
a lot of hidden costs for them,” 
Birchok said. 

dining staff and housing security 
officers, to possess epinephrine.
“In the past, our position 
on epinephrine and having it 
available in the unit was we 
did not have a way of procuring 
epinephrine because prior to 
some 
recent 
legislation, 
we 
couldn’t purchase it,” Whiteside 
said. “Recently the legislation 
changed in the state of Michigan 
and it became possible for us 
to get a prescription that is 
associated with the organization, 
not with an individual, and that 
would allow us to get epipens 
and get them in our first aid kits...
We’ve had students asking for us 
to be able to do this for years and 
we weren’t legally able to.”
Whiteside 
said 
personnel 
authorized 
to 
administer 
the 
epipen 
have 
undergone 
appropriate training.
“The 
professional 
dining 
staff, the management teams in 
the dining hall, have taken the 
red cross training for how to 
administer an epipen,” Whiteside 
said.
Whiteside said she hopes 
access to the program will 
eventually expand to more of 
the student body. There will 
potentially 
be 
epinephrine 
available at student recreation 
centers and other locations in the 
event that a student experiences 
a delayed food allergy reaction.
Whiteside 
said 
college 
students are more likely to take 
risks while trying foods despite 
known allergies, one of the 
reasons the University sought to 
implement the new epinephrine 
program. Food Allergy Research 
& Education stated teenagers and 
young adults are a population at 
the highest risk of experiencing 
fatal food-induced anaphylaxis.
“The percent of the population 
we 
see, 
they 
are 
adults,” 
Whiteside said. “As adults they 
are responsible for themselves, 
but also the age group that 
we see are the population of 
individuals that take the most 
risks when managing their own 
food allergies.”
Whiteside said the emergency 
epinephrine 
program 
is 
important 
to 
maintain 
the 
safety of students because many 
people do not know they have a 
food allergy and can experience 
a severe reaction. According 
to 
FARE, 
approximately 
20-25 percent of epinephrine 
administrations 
in 
schools 
involve individuals who were 
unaware of their allergy at the 

time of the reaction.
“There’s a large percentage 
of the population that doesn’t 
know they have a food allergy 
and could have an anaphylactic 
reaction and not even know it at 
that point, not even know that 
they have an allergy,” Whiteside 
said. “And the percentage of that 
population is high enough that 
we felt like it was a win win for 
us to have epipens available.”
Whiteside 
explained 
the 
immediate procedure to deal 
with an anaphylactic reaction to 
a food allergy prior to the auto-
injection program was to call 911.
“Up until we had the epipens 
available, that would be our 
standard 
safety 
procedure,” 
Whiteside said. “You call for 
assistance immediately.”
In 
addition 
to 
the 
new 
epinephrine 
auto-injectors, 
the University has worked to 
accommodate students with food 
allergies in the past using online 
databases to present nutritional 
and allergen facts. Ingredient 
information can be found on 
digital menus throughout dining 
halls, physical signage, websites 
and mobile apps which include 
allergen information for all food 
served in residential dining halls 
and catered campus events.
The 
MDining 
website 
“MyNutrition” allows students 
to filter menus for the some of 
the most most common allergens 
such as eggs, fish, milk and 
peanuts, as well as gluten-free, 
halal, spicy, vegan and vegetarian 
options. According to the press 
release, MyNutrition displays all 
ingredients for every single item 
found in the dining hall.
“On MyNutrition you can 
actually read the ingredients like 
you would on a label in a grocery 
store,” Whiteside said.
A disclaimer is provided on the 
MyNutrition site states accuracy 
of nutrition information is not 
guaranteed.
“The University of Michigan 
does not guarantee the accuracy 
of 
nutrition 
information; 
ingredient and nutrition content 
of foods may vary due to 
changes in product formulation, 
recipe 
substitutions, 
portion 
size and other factors,” the 
disclaimer reads. “The nutrition 
analyses 
provided 
here 
are 
approximations 
only. 
Guests 
with food allergies or other 
food intolerances should consult 
a Chef or Dining Manager for 
specific ingredient questions.”

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The minor in Digital Studies 
is available to all students, and, 
according 
to 
DSI 
Coordinator 
Lisa Nakamura, a professor of 
American culture, many students 
in the past have used the minor as a 
complement to their studies.
“A lot of our minors were in 
communications or film, but we 
also had minors in the School of 
Engineering, or minors in the 
Information School,” Nakamura 
said. “(Students) said, ‘In my 
engineering classes, I learn how to 
make technology, but in my digital 
studies classes, I learn why I make 
technology.’”
LSA sophomore Ellie Metni is 
majoring in history and political 
science and pursuing the minor 
in digital studies. Metni was 
interested in the program because 
of its integrative nature that bridges 
politics 
and 
technology 
with 
aspects of communications and 
social media. Metni believes even 
more students would be interested 
in the program if they expanded the 
curriculum to form a major.
“It seems like a really good 
intersection 
of 
things 
like 
communications and (sociology), 
and film and American culture,” 
Metni said. “If they made it a major, 
and it would be super appealing 
to students who are into multiple 
topics.”
The Digital Studies Institute will 
be the first of its kind in the United 
States, as mentioned on its website. 
The institute will provide students 
and faculty with opportunities for 
research, primarily focused on the 
intersections of technology and 
human identity, but also focused on 
digital culture and art.
The requirements for the digital 
studies minor remain the same, and 
many faculty members from the 
American Culture Department and 
across the University are joining the 

effort to bring various resources to 
one central location. The ultimate 
goal of the DSI is to make students 
more aware of the minor by giving 
the program a name and location on 
campus. According to Nakamura, 
some students didn’t know the 
program existed and wished they 
knew about it while they were 
undergraduates.
“There may have been students 
who were really interested in this,” 
Nakamura said. “I’ve had a student 
who graduated say, ‘I want to come 
back and get this degree.’”
Ann Arbor has continued to 
gain momentum as a top location 
to study technology in the country, 
earning itself a reputation as a hub 
for start-up companies. The Google 
Ads program has a secondary 
office in Ann Arbor, and successful 
technology companies like Duo 
Security were started in the city. 
This adds to the appeal of the new 
Digital Studies Institute, because 
resources are available both on 
and off campus to connect with 
leaders in the tech industry in 
ways unparalleled to the rest of the 
nation.
Plans for the Digital Studies 
Institute are underway, with hopes 
to incorporate research regarding 
both the positive and negative 
effects of technology into their 
overall mission. Anne Curzan, 
associate dean for the humanities 
in LSA, is looking forward to 
connecting the University with 
experts around the world through 
the growing resources the DSI will 
provide.
“There 
are 
important 
ethical questions in play as new 
technologies emerge,” Curzan said 
in an email interview with The 
Daily. “We are excited that the 
researchers at the Digital Studies 
Institute will be positioned to 
respond quickly and be part of 
national and global conversations 
about the design and impact of 
these technologies.”

“I tried to become interested 
in the consulting industry in 
the beginning of my sophomore 
year,” Levey said. “I applied to a 
lot of the Ross consulting clubs 
to see if I could learn about the 
industry and get some real-world 
experience doing so, and I found 
that these clubs are really, really 
hard to get into if you don’t know 
anything about what’s called a case 
interview.”
In a case interview, an applicant 
is presented with a hypothetical 
business 
scenario 
that 
the 
interviewee 
must 
assess 
and 
propose a solution to. Consulting 
clubs often utilize this interview 
style to assess potential members.
Levey went on to discuss how 
Alliance Consulting combats a 
culture of exclusivity by focusing 
on new member education and 
developing skills for consulting, 
including how to complete a 
successful case interview.
“I thought it was unfair that 
people who don’t know about an 
industry are assessed on a learned 
skill they don’t know,” Levey said. 
“I felt that there needed to be a club 
on campus for students who, even if 
they don’t know what consulting is, 
if they want to become interested 
in it, they can have the opportunity 
to do so.” 
Business junior Thejas Suvarna, 
president of APEX Consulting 
Group, one of the most selective 
consulting groups, stated that in an 
effort to provide all students with 

an equal opportunity to succeed 
in the recruitment process, case 
interview workshops are held 
to explain what they are and 
provide applicants with examples 
of how to approach problems. 
APEX Consulting Group focuses 
on offering pro-bono consulting 
for local Ann Arbor businesses 
and is known to have selective 
membership.
“At the end of the day, we really 
emphasize that while there’s a 
formal name to this case interview, 
really it’s just a way to gauge your 
thought process and see how you 
break down a problem, and those 
are inherent traits people will 
have,” Suvarna said.
“We do so much work with 
clients and we have to manage 
those relationships,” Suvarna said. 
“Clients give us their personal 
information. We have to make sure 
that we’re respecting their privacy 
and serving them a purpose and 
doing a good job, and it’s not feasible 
for us to do that well with a club 
that’s too big for us to manage.”
Suvarna went on to discuss the 
firm’s applicant selection process 
is based on anonymity to ensure a 
more holistic process at large.
“Our application process is 
completely anonymous,” Suvarna 
said. “We go through and read the 
responses to our essays because, for 
us, what is most important is, ‘Did 
these people do their homework 
and learn about what APEX has to 
offer? Is there a legitimate reason 
that they want to be in APEX, 
to contribute to the community 
rather than to just use it as a step 
to the next thing?’ That all comes 

first.”
Ed Huebner, assistant director 
of Counseling and Psychological 
Services, noted the positive aspects 
of selective clubs, as they instill a 
strong sense of community among 
members within a large campus.
“I think the idea goes back to 
connection and feeling a sense 
of belonging — and that could be 
belonging to a group, a club, an 
organization or a department,” 
Huebner said. “There’s a sense of 
identity that can come from feeling 
like, ‘This is my group, this is my 
connection, these are my people, 
and from that there’s a closeness 
that we feel.’”
Huebner discussed how the 
feeling of belonging contributes 
to the mental health of students 
on campus, both positively and 
negatively.
“For a lot of our students that 
come in, this can be a very big 
place,” Huebner said. “So that idea 
of, ‘Who can I connect with and feel 
belonging with?’ on campus ends 
up being a really big factor when it 
comes to their mental health.”
Norm Bishara, the associate 
dean for undergraduate programs 
at the Ross School of Business, 
provided an email statement on 
behalf of the Business School 
discussing how success on a college 
campus goes beyond admission to 
any one organization.
“The clubs provide benefits to 
students by creating opportunities 
for 
leadership 
and 
real-world 
experiences, offering fellowship 
and a like-minded community, 
and creating positive impact,” 
Bishara wrote in the email. “… 

We recognize that the student 
leaders 
of 
some 
clubs 
have 
implemented 
competitive 
application processes. While clubs 
and student organizations are an 
important part of the Michigan 
Ross experience, student success is 
independent of participation in any 
single club or activity on campus.”
Business junior Jack Geiger, vice 
president of clubs for the Bachelor 
of 
Business 
Administration 
Council, 
said 
the 
competitive 
nature of business-oriented clubs 
is appropriate, given the rigorous 
work students participate in once 
admitted.
“I think for the most part it’s 
justified, based on the fact that a 
lot of these clubs are operating as 
businesses in a way,” Geiger said. 
“A lot have clients and will be 
managing funds where it definitely 
makes sense to have a merit-based 
application process.”
Geiger went on to discuss how a 
small club environment is beneficial 
to students, as it resembles the 
competitiveness of the professional 
world and prepares students for the 
future.
“Business school in general is a 
pretty competitive environment 
and I think the point of that is to 
prepare you for the real world, 
which is the next step in everyone’s 
process,” Geiger said. “So, as we 
recruit for jobs or are applying 
for internships, it’s obviously very 
selective. … I think having a mini-
environment when joining clubs is 
beneficial because it prepares you 
for what you can expect in the real 
world.”

