As students gear up for the 
University of Michigan’s Student 
Government elections on March 
27 and 28, The Daily sat down 
with LSA presidential and vice 
presidential candidates to talk 
platforms, vision and plans. In 
this installment, we profile the 
Wang-McKillop ticket. This is the 
first in a series profiling each set of 
candidates for the executive team.
LSA junior Brian Wang, the LSA 
presidential candidate, and LSA 
sophomore Mary McKillop, the 
LSA vice presidential candidate, 
both got involved with LSA 
Student Government during their 

first year on campus. 
Wang said he enjoys helping 
other students understand what 
the University has to offer. He 
credited his inspiration for running 
to 
Pharmacy 
student 
Ibtihal 
Makki, who encouraged Wang to 
run for president last year.
“(Makki) reached out to me last 
year hoping I was going to run for 
president, but I told her I was a 
sophomore,” Wang said. “I was a 
little too young (and) I still wanted 
to get more experience, but this 
year when I was considering to run, 
I definitely reflected back on that 
text … I took it as a compliment. It 
was one of the largest reasons why 
I decided to run.”
When Wang was looking for a 

running mate, he said he wanted to 
find someone who was passionate 
about student government and 
experienced in dealing with a 
variety of situations.
“I think one of the reasons why 
I asked Mary to run with me is 
because I saw her passion for how 
well she connected with other 
students that she was bringing into 
our organization,” Wang said. “I 
really liked the way she handled 
herself, handled the situations that 
came up, addressed the issues that 
our new representatives faced, and 
just overall was a great presence 
and resource for these other 
students and kids who want to get 
involved and came in with, you 
know, open minds and just really 
want to try and understand what 
we’re about.”
McKillop said she enjoys 
asking 
students 
what 
they 
would like to see happen and she 
strives to improve her leadership 
style by asking others what she 
could do better.
“I guess my inspiration to 
run for vice president started 
when I became the chair of 
the appointments committee 
because originally I was only 
the (vice) chair of the Internal 
Review Committee,” McKillop 
said. “When Brian asked me 
to run with him to be vice 
president, I knew that I could 
step up and do it because of 
what I had been doing as the 
chair 
of 
the 
appointments 
committee and also I was just 
really excited to be able to be a 
part of bringing LSA to the next 
level of representing students’ 
interests.”
Wang 
said 
he 
would 
describe his leadership style as 
constructive and democratic.
“I 
think 
most 
of 
my 
experience that I’ve gained for 
the last three years has really 
come from listening to other 

people,” Wang said. “I was a vice 
chair for a few committees for a 
year and a half, and the best way 
I learned and contributed was 
listening to other people and seeing 
what they had to say, because as a 
first-year student, you come in here 
with very little knowledge of how 
the University runs.”
The campaign’s platform is 
broken down into three main 
points: accessibility on campus, 
academics and student life.
On 
the 
accessibility 
point, 
McKillop said the candidates 
hope to implement iClicker and 
calculator rentals for students 
because some students can’t afford 
to buy those materials.
McKillop said the idea of fixed 
tuition rates is also an important 
part 
of 
accessibility. 
Fixed 
tuition is when a student pays the 
same tuition from year to year 
without any increases. Wang 
said implementing this idea will 
make it easier for students to 
attend the University. McKillop 
added that the principle has 
been implemented at George 
Washington University and the 
new tuition would be proposed 
to be the average between 
under 
division 
and 
upper 
division tuition. According to 
the U.S. Census Bureau, average 
household income increased by 
1.8 percent from 2016 to 2017. In 
2018, the University announced 
a 2.9 to 3.9 percent increase in 
tuition for the following year.
“When people come here, they 
don’t know how much they’ll be 
paying in three years,” McKillop 
said. “The average income in the 
United States doesn’t change 
that much from year to year, but 
tuition does … and so it’s very 
much an issue of accessibility 
because people who are of a 
lower socioeconomic status are 
the most affected by an increase 
in tuition.”

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ON THE DAILY: NEIL PATRICK HARRIS NAMES GANDY DANCER AMONG FAVORITES

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: REGENTS GETS GRIM 
MINORITY NEWS

Actor Neil Patrick Harris and his 
husband, David Burtka, a Michigan 
native and professional chef, named 
Ann Arbor’s Gandy Dancer as one 
of their favorite restaurants. The 
actors recently listed their top ten 
favorite restaurants for OpenTable’s 
new feature, Tastemaker lists, which 
allows users to explore the favorite 

restaurants 
of 
frequent 
diners, 
including many celebrities.
Gandy Dancer currently has a 
92 percent recommendation rate on 
OpenTable and almost 4,000 reviews. 
The fine dining restaurant, which 
opened in 1970, is known for its seafood 
and steaks. It is located in downtown 
Ann Arbor, at the intersection between 
Broadway and Depot Street.
The term “gandy dancer” is slang 
that refers to early railroad workers 

in the United States. The restaurant 
sits inside a renovated 19th century 
railway station. According to reviews 
on OpenTable, trains run by the 
restaurant.
“Known in railroading days as 
‘the finest station between Buffalo 
and Chicago,’ the majestic Michigan 
Central Railroad Depot deserves that 
commendation more than ever as the 
Gandy Dancer now,” OpenTable’s 
description of Gandy Dancer reads.

Harris and Burtka also listed Roast 

in downtown Detroit as a favorite 

restaurant, along with a number of other 

eateries scattered across the country. 

Burtka is a University of Michigan 

alum and left his full-time acting career 

to study at Le Cordon Bleu College of 

Culinary Arts in Los Angeles in 2009. 

He currently runs a Los Angeles catering 

company called Gourmet M.D. Harris 

starred in the popular sitcom “How I 

Met Your Mother.”

March 19, 1981
Concerned members of the 
University are preparing to 
battle the persisting problem of 
declining black enrollment as 
the University Regents take a 
look at the minority enrollment 
report today. 
The report shows that black 
enrollment been falling since 
1976 with a record decline

fall of 5.6 percent - the lowest 
figure since the report was first 
compiled in 1972. 
Administrators speculate the 
declining enrollment is caused 
by several factors, many of 
which, they say, the University 
can do little to remedy.
Many black campus leaders, 
however, University must place 
a higher priority on recruiting 

and 
retaining 
minority 
students. And they worry that 
educationally 
disadvantaged 
students will be hard hit by the 
current budget cutting fervor.
Assistant Director of the 
Undergraduate 
Admissions 
Office Lance Erikson said that 
his office
would like to bring more 
prospective minority students 

to see the campus, but that the 
budget
will not allow for it.
And 
assistant 
admissions 
Director Dave Robinson said 
that while the University’s 
many programs are “somewhat 
successful,” the University is 
fighting more than the problem 
of 
contacting 
prospective 
students.

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In their academics point, the 
candidates would like to increase 
transparency in departmental 
grading 
in 
large 
classes. 
McKillop said the coursework in 
classes like Economics 101 can 
be vastly different depending on 
the professor, which can impact 
students’ grades.
In 
addition, 
they 
would 
like to add more details from 
course evaluations to Academic 
Reporting Tools so students can 
get a better understanding of the 
class.
“Once you are mid-class or 
at the end of your class, you get 
reminders repeatedly about filling 
out course evaluations, but most 
of the information is only for the 
benefit of professors and students 
don’t get to see it,” McKillop said. 
“Some of it was released with 
the implementation of ART 2.0, 
which you can find on the Course 
Guide with grade distributions 
and things, but we would like to 
see more of them because there 
are 27 possible questions to be 

asked on the course evaluation 
(and) we’d like to see more of the 
questions released so students 
will be able to better gauge which 
courses fit with their needs.”
In their student life section, 
Wang and McKillop said they 
would 
like 
to 
expand 
the 
recreational 
sports 
waiver 
program for students of lower 
socioeconomic 
status. 
They 
would also like to expand and 
improve CAPS functions.
Wang said there is a shortage 
of CAPS counselors and office 
locations.
“The solution we included in 
our platform was at least working 
with CAPS to provide a more 
informational email and sessions 
to 
increase 
other 
students’ 
knowledge and awareness that 
CAPS is a resource that they can 
use,” Wang said. 

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