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SMTD alum show 
support of LEO

Students, alum 
express solidarity 
with lecturers facing 
course load cuts

Approximently 50 University 
of Michigan School of Music, 
Theatre 
& 
Dance 
alumni 
have sent videos to the SMTD 
administration, 
voicing 
their 
support 
for 
the 
Lecturers’ 
Employee Organization and their 
non-tenure 
faculty 
members. 
This comes after LEO accused 
the SMTD of unjustifiably cutting 
course loads from two non-
tenure faculty members after 
the ratification of a new contract 
between LEO and the University. 
The new contract was ratified 
in July 2018. It included salary 
increases, 
improved 
health 
benefits and job security for 
nearly 1,700 non-tenure track 

faculty across the University’s 
three campuses.
Controversy 
emerged 
when 
SMTD administration notified 
Missy Beck, lecturer of dance, 
that a course she has taught for 
nine years would be taken over by 
a tenured faculty member. In the 
email, Anita Gonzalez, interim 
chair of the Department of Dance, 
told Beck her course load was 
being cut to avoid paying her the 
salary increase outlined in her 
new contract.
“Because of the large increase 
in LEO salaries the administration 
would like to move as many LEO 
courses as possible to tenure track 
faculty,” Gonzalez wrote.
SMTD has since then denied 
such claims and stated the course 
load changes were results of a 
review of its entire instructional 
workforce, including all tenured, 
tenure-track and clinical faculty, 
lecturers and graduate student 
instructors.

Chatime, CoCo 
open on Central, 
North Campuses

On Wednesday morning during 
finals week, LSA junior Theresa 
Pham traveled to North Campus 
around 9 a.m. Pham was going to 
the third day of CoCo Fresh Tea & 
Juice’s soft opening — almost two 
hours before the store opened its 
doors.
“I think why most people tried 
it or waited so long in line was 
to see if it was really worth the 
hype,” Pham said. “For the most 
part, I think most people can 
agree it was.”
CoCo 
and 
Chatime, 
two 
Taiwan-based chains specializing 
in a popular drink known as 
“bubble tea” or “boba,” opened in 
Ann Arbor in late April. Chatime, 
opened downtown on Maynard 
Street, and CoCo, located on 
North 
Campus 
on 
Plymouth 
Road, join Sweeting and Bubble 
Island 
on 
South 
University 
Avenue, bringing the number of 
bubble tea shops in Ann Arbor up 
to four.
Since opening, both CoCo and 
Chatime have attracted lines with 
over a two-hour waiting periods 
throughout 
their 
respective 
opening weeks. According to 
Business senior Connie You, 
these 
lines 
don’t 
represent 
everyone who is interested in the 
drinks.

“I feel like the lines would’ve 
been even longer if more people 
actually came in person,” You 
said. “I know a lot of my friends 
bought like 20 at a time for other 
people.”
This demand for bubble tea in 
Ann Arbor may reflect the drink’s 
growing popularity around the 
country. Invented in Taiwan in 
the 1980’s, the original bubble tea 
drink combines tea and milk with 
chewy tapioca pearls, from which 
“bubble” tea gets its name. As 
the drink has evolved, becoming 
available in an assortment of 
fruity flavors and with a variety 
of topping options — like grass 
jelly, red beans and egg pudding 
to name a few — boba has spread 
beyond Asia.
Brought to the United States by 
Taiwanese immigrants, bubble 
tea first got its footing on the West 
Coast, where it has become “an 
integral part of Asian-American 
culture in Los Angeles” and other 
coastal cities. In recent years, 
the bubble tea market has grown 
significantly: Chatime sells over 
100 million cups of boba a year, 
and CoCo has more than 3,500 
stores worldwide. From 2017 
to 2023, the global bubble tea 
market is forecasted to expand at 
a compound annual growth rate 
of 7.4 percent.
“Each location will surely find 
some pre-existing bubble tea 
fans, and plenty of people eager 
to try something new,” Uri Bram 
wrote in a Quartz article.

Boba shops join 
crowded A2 pool

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