The
Michigan
Union
celebrated its centennial on
Wednesday with cupcakes and
a birthday card on the Diag. The
Union has been a gathering space
for students on campus since its
creation in 1919, but the building
has been under construction and
closed to visitors since April 2018.
The
Center
for
Campus
Involvement hosted the event.
LSA senior Sarah Hussain works
as a program coordinator team
lead with the Center for Campus
Involvement. She said despite
the building not being open on
its 100th year of existence on
campus, the center felt it was
important to keep the Union
alive in students’ minds while
undergoing construction.
“We knew that the 100th
birthday was coming up and as
a committee we all talked about
some things we can do to keep
its memory alive and get people
excited about the reopening and
keep it on the forefront of people’s
minds, especially knowing that
we have a couple grades of classes
who have maybe never even
been in the Union as a student
here, so we wanted to keep it
relevant,” Hussain said.
“Knowing that it was going to
turn 100 while it was closed, we
decided we wanted to do at least
something to commemorate that,
so I just helped generate some ideas
signing the birthday cards and
having the block M out here for
people to talk about.”
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
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In an effort to prevent
school violence across the
country, the University of
Michigan School of Public
Health plans to host a $6
million national research
and
training
center
on
school
safety
and
gun violence. The new
center’s goal is to provide
schools with training and
technical
assistance
to
eliminate the threat to
student safety.
The new center will
be funded by the Bureau
of
Justice
Assistance
at the U.S. Department
of Justice in hopes of
providing
a
resource
for the Bureau’s funded
projects, as well as for
other
schools
around
the
country.
This
multidisciplinary
and
multi-institutional center
will gather faculty and
staff from top schools of
public health, criminal
justice
and
education,
as
well
school
safety
professionals
and
experts
in
evidence-
based
practices,
law
enforcement,
crisis
intervention,
violence
prevention
and
mental
health.
Contributors
to
the
center
include
the
Sandy
Hook
Promise
Foundation,
University
of
Virginia,
Michigan
State University, National
Council
of
Behavioral
Health,
Association
of
School
Superintendents
and National Association
of
Elementary
School
Principals, among others.
Marc
Zimmerman,
co-principal investigator
at the center and the
Marshal
H.
Becker
Collegiate
professor
of health behavior and
health education at the
U-M
School
of
Public
Health,
explained
the
center
will
focus
its
research and training on
prevention
tactics
and
notification technology.
On
Wednesday
afternoon,
hundreds of students, faculty and
staff convened in the Michigan
League Ballroom for an update on
the University’s Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion Strategic Plan from
Robert Sellers, Vice Provost for
Equity and Inclusion and Chief
Diversity Officer for the University.
The event, titled “Community
Conversation: DEI ProgressUpdate,”
focused on the University’s progress
in regards to DEI. The session
updated attendees on the progress of
the University’s five-year DEI Plan,
which is now in its third year.
The strategic plan was launched
in 2016. It features one broad
university-level plan and 49 unit-
level plans, specific to University
programs and schools. The plan
has three central goals: fostering
an inclusive and equitable campus
climate; creating a more diverse
community of students, faculty
and staff; and infusing diversity in
scholarship and teaching.
Sellers
began
the
talk
by
summarizing the plan’s overall goal:
impactful change.
“Our
plan
is
long
term,
sustainable, institutional, cultural
change — the change being making
the University a more diverse,
equitable and inclusive community,”
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Panera Bread,
Panda Express
Union will no longer house Starbucks,
Au Bon Pain when reopening in January
Women Also Know Law, a
new
initiative
spearheaded
by University of Michigan
Law School faculty, aims to
create more representation of
those who identify as women
or gender nonconforming in
legal academia.
The project includes two
online platforms. The first, a
searchable database currently
in the works, will include
those who have or are seeking
an
academic
appointment
in
legal
education
who
identify as women or gender
nonconforming. The initiative
also uses a Twitter account,
@womenknowlaw,
to
highlight the achievements
and
knowledge
of
women
and
gender
nonconforming
individuals in the legal field.
Assistant
Law
Professor
Leah
Litman
and
Emily
Prifogle,
visiting
assistant
law professor, co-founded the
initiative. Litman said the
public database will provide
the opportunity to easily find
experts in a given area of
law for individuals looking
to build curriculum or find
speakers for a conference or
panel.
U-M Law
initiative
highlights
diversity
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national center on school safety
$6 million nation-wide training forum will also study gun violence prevention
‘U’ admin
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The renovated Michigan
Union will feature a Panera
Bread and a Sweetwaters
Coffee & Tea, among other
options, when it reopens
in January.
Several
restaurants
previously
housed
in
the
Union,
including
Starbucks and Au Bon
Pain, will not be returning.
ButPanda
Express
and
Subway will keep their
spots in the Union with
the
addition
of
Mama
Deluca’s, a station offering
made-to-order
pizza,
pasta and chicken wings.
The other six restaurants
will include MI Burger
and the convenience store
Blue Market. All of the
restaurants
will
accept
Blue Bucks and Dining
Dollars.
The
renovated
Union
will also house five retail
partners: Barnes & Noble,
the U-M Credit Union, the
U-M Tech Shop, PNC ATM
and the Michigan Union
Ticket Office.
In
an
interview
with The Daily, Susan
Pile, senior director of
University
Unions
and
Auxiliary Services, said
there was a multipronged
approach to considering
restaurants’ bids for space
in the Union.
“I think the criteria has
been, what is going to be
of interest to students,
the price point, the menu
selection,
customer
service, who’s going to
operate a good business
that’s going to meet the
needs of all those folks
that
visit
the
Union,”
Pile said. “So I think that
those are the key drivers.”
The Michigan Union celebrates
its centennial with Diag event
Center for Campus Involvement shares cupcakes for the building’s 100th year
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Women Also Know Law
group seeks to improve
gender representation
in legal academia work
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See LAW , Page 3A
DESIGN BY MAGGIE HUANG
Vice Provost leads
community discussion
on Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion goals
MADELINE MCLAUGHLIN
Daily Staff Reporter
UNION UPDATES
the
climate change
b-side
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