The 
Michigan 
Fashion 

Media Summit held its annual 

conference on Thursday via Zoom 

webinar. MFMS had rescheduled 

their original in-person event as a 

result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The student-run group was 

set to host more than 650 people 

at the Ross School of Business 

featuring 16 speakers on March 

20. Thursday afternoon’s webinar 

hosted Caroline Gogolak, vice 

president of retail at SoulCycle 

and co-founder of Carbon38, and 

Tenley Zinke, vice president of 

marketing and communications 

at Fendi Americas. Amy Tara 

Koch, an author, journalist and 

U-M alum, moderated the event.

Gogolak said her interest in 

fashion was spurred from a class 

she took at Parsons School of 

Design. After working at Morgan 

Stanley 
and 
Goldman 
Sachs, 

she co-founded the company 

Carbon38, a luxury activewear 

lifestyle brand. Gogolak joined 

SoulCycle in 2017 after falling in 

love with the brand.

“I thought that retail, although 

it was a somewhat small business 

at that point, had an opportunity 

to grow,” Gogolak said. “It also 

enabled me to really continue 

to just operate and learn more 

in a retail business and also 

learn about brick and mortar 

since most of my business, most 

of my background had been in 

e-commerce. SoulCycle has just 

under 100 locations, so I knew I 

would quickly learn that side.”

Gogolak 
oversees 

merchandising, 
planning, 

allocation, product development, 

supply chain and e-commerce 

at SoulCycle. She described how 

she is adapting to the current 

COVID-19 climate.

LSA freshman Ishi Shukla 

felt lucky to have had her 

Biology 173 lab section earlier 

than others. Her group had 

finished the wet lab portion of 

an assignment to examine their 

own fecal matter before other 

sections later that day.

So 
when 
the 
University 

of Michigan announced the 

suspension of in-person classes 

on 
March 
11, 
Shukla 
and 

her classmates had the data 

they needed to complete the 

assignment. Others did not. 

“For other lab sections of 

(Bio 173), it was definitely more 

tricky,” Shukla said. “Honestly, 

shout out to all the professors 

who have had to put in all this 

extra time to get classes in this 

type of virtual mode because 

they only had two days to do it. 

It’s pretty impressive.”

As a result of transitioning 

classes to online platforms, lab 

courses have been faced with 

the challenge of administering 

the physical components of 

their curricula virtually. In 

an email to The Michigan 

Daily, Tim McKay, physics, 

astronomy 
and 
education 

professor and LSA associate 

dean 
for 
undergraduate 

education, explained how the 

University is adjusting to these 

changes. 

According to McKay, there 

are a variety of approaches 

among lab courses. The most 

common 
is 
for 
graduate 

students 
to 
perform 
labs 

through video presentations 

and then for students to analyze 

the 
data 
produced. 
McKay 

gave Ginger Shultz, assistant 

professor of chemistry, as an 

example: With less than a week 

to move her Chemistry 211 

course online, Shultz and three 

graduate 
students 
recorded 

four weeks of experiments in 

one day for her 771 students.

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ANN ARBOR

University of Michigan students 

enrolled in Public Policy 456/756 

hosted candidates for Wards 1, 2 and 

3 of Ann Arbor City Council in an 

online forum Thursday afternoon. 

Students asked candidates about 

transportation, affordable housing 

and climate change.

Anne Bannister, D-Ward 1, is 

running to keep her current seat 

on City Council and is challenged 

by Lisa Disch, a professor in the 

political science and women’s 

City Council hopefuls 
convene in online forum

Candidates 
talk housing, 
environment

Event hosts SoulCycle, Fendi execs

Michigan Fashion Media Summit features leaders of famous brands virtually

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The Michigan Fashion Media Summit, originally planned to take place at the Ross School of 
Business, was held via Zoom Thursday.

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