A group of approximately 
50 students, faculty and 
community 
members 
gathered 
Monday 
night 
in the ballroom of the 
Michigan 
League 
for 
an 
open 
mic 
night, 
showcasing 
the 
stories 
and 
experiences 
of 
Asian/Pacific 
Islander 
Americans.
Multi-Ethnic 
Student 
Affairs hosted the open 
mic night as a part of the 
Asian/Pacific 
Islander 
American 
Heritage 

Month. The event, titled 
“hAPIness: 
Open 
Mic 
Night,” was co-hosted by 
Asian/Pacific 
Islander 
Desi 
of 
America 
Staff 
Association.
LSA 
sophomore 
Anooshka Gupta, a member 
of the programming board 
for the A/PIA Heritage 
Month, said one of the 
key reasons for hosting 
the event was to offer a 
single, inclusive platform 
to display diverse forms 
of art.
“One 
of 
our 
ideas 
behind 
open 
mic 
night 
was that, in the A/PIA 
community, 
there’s 
so 

much 
performance 
art 
and visual art and dance,” 
Gupta said. “...We were 
like, ‘Okay, we don’t want 
to have separate events for 

each, 
so how do we create a 
space 
where 
everyone 
can share their art?’ And 
that’s the key to open 
mic night.”
During 
the 
event, 
students 
performed 
various forms of fine art, 
ranging 
from 
spoken-
word poetry to musical 
performance, 
as 
a 
means of expression and 
cultural representation.
University alum Javier 
Solorzano 
Parada, 
a 
program 
manager 
for 
MESA, 
discussed 
the 
importance of events like 
this to help understand 
and 
communicate 
the 
identities of those in the 
A/PIA community.
“A/PIA 
Heritage 
Month has really been 
working 
towards 
the 
understanding that it’s 
not just about thinking 
about 
one 
specific 

identity,” 
Parada 
said. 
“It’s really about creating 
awareness of all of our 
different 
identities 
and 
how 
we 
are 
all 
each 

unique.”
LSA 
senior 
Maki 
O’Bryan, 
one 
of 
the 
emcees 
for 
the 
event, 
echoed 
the 
importance 
of 
finding 
individuality 
and 
personal 
meaning 
within communities and 
identities.
“I’ve 
been 
involved 
with the A/PI community 
on campus for the last 
four 
years, 
I’m 
pretty 
involved with the Japan 
Student Association and 
I just recently kind of got 
involved in the broader A/
PI community,” O’Bryan 
said. 
“I’m 
hoping 
this 
event will be a culmination 
of Heritage Month, but 
also my time at Michigan 
and my involvement with 
the community.”

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WEDNESDAY:
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MONDAY:
Looking at the Numbers

On Sunday, the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History opened its doors to the public in its new location at the Biological 
Sciences Building. Museums have been a prominent feature at the University for close to 200 years.

1837: 
The University’s first nat-
ural history collection is 
created. Beginning as a 
Cabinet of 
Natural History, the cab-
inet was kept in the 
homes of 

1881: 
The first University museum 
building is established, 
housing four different 
museums: Museums of 
Paleontology, Zoology and 
Anthropological 
Archaeology and the 
University Herbarium. 

1956: 
The Exhibits Museum is 
officially established 
inside the Ruthven 
Museums Building.

2011: 
The Exhibits Museum 
changes its name to the 
University of Michigan Museum 
of Natural History. The Provost 
also announces plans to build a 
new Biological Sciences
 Building that will also serve as 
the new home of UMMNH.

2017: 
The museum operates normally as 
scientists begin to take 
down exhibits.

Dec. 30, 2017: 
UMMNH officially closes its 
location at the Ruthven 
Museums Building.

April 14, 2019: 
UMMNH, newly located in the 
BSB, officially opens to the public.

1928:
 The Ruthven Museums Building, 
the future home of UMMNH, 
is completed.

A/PIA Heritage 
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working towards the 
understanding that it’s 
not just about one specific 
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