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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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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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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in legal academia work 
 

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Vice Provost leads 
community discussion 
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and Inclusion goals 

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