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Kinesiology junior Drew Ohlrich, Business junior Conor Irwin and LSA junior Jake Glaser light their candles after a prayer for their injured Phi Kappa Psi fraternity brother Taylor Janssen, a Business junior, on the Diag on Monday.
Students gather on Diag to pray for injured friend Business junior Taylor Janssen is in intensive rehab after July accident By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
Business junior Taylor Janssen was playing beach volleyball with his friends when the
accident occurred. He had dived into shallow water to retrieve the ball and hit his head on the rocky, shallow ground. Janssen severed his C5 vertebrae. That was in July. Monday night, approximately 100 students gathered on the Diag for an evening of prayer dedicated, who is currently in intensive rehabilitation, but was released from the hospital Friday and was able to go home for the first time. Business junior Seth Johnson,
Janssen’s friend and fellow Phi Kappa Psi fraternity member, organized the event and retold the story of Janssen’s injury. “Following that, his friends realized something was wrong so they got him out of the water and notified the police,” Johnson said. “They took him in an ambulance to the University of Michigan Hospital Trauma Center where he underwent multiple surgeries. They weren’t sure if he was going to make
Following enrollment report, groups say bump is step in the right direction By ALLANA AKHTAR Daily Staff Reporter
it, but eventually he pulled through.” Monday’s event concluded with a candle-lighting ceremony and a moment of silence in support of Janssen, who was also on hand in the Diag. Afterward, he said he appreciated the encouragement that he has received. “It’s truly amazing to see all the support and everyone come out,” Janssen said. “It’s See PRAYER, Page 3
Though the University’s fall 2015 enrollment data reported the highest proportion of underrepresented minorities in a decade, leaders of Black, Latin American and Native American student groups say the current numbers leave more to be desired. Underrepresented minorities make up 12.8 percent of this year’s freshman class, up 2.8 percent from last year’s incoming cohort of first-years. The last time the percentage of incoming underrepresented minority students was this high was in 2005, when they collectively made up 13.8 percent of first-year students. In 2013, minority students — Black students in particular
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Barrymore’s book tour takes her to Michigan Theater event on Wednesday ‘An Evening with Drew Barrymore’ to cover new memoir ‘Wildflower’ By CAROLINE FILIPS Daily Arts Writer
It’s hard to mention Drew Barrymore without referencing her tumultuous childhood. Though the perils of fame plagued her An Evening formative years with Drew — habitual Barrymore nightclubbing as a pre-teen, Michigan rehab by age Theater 14, living on her own Oct. 28 and dealing $25-$50 with familial instability through it all — Barrymore prevailed with poise. Today, her repertoire continues to expand: she identifies as an actress, director, producer, philanthropist, author, mother and co-founder of the cosmetic company Flower Beauty. Throughout her four decades with a public audience,
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— brought the issue of campus diversity and inclusion to the forefront of University concerns by popularizing the Twitter hashtag #BBUM, or “Being Black at the University of Michigan.” Social media responses with the hashtag, which went viral, detailed ways Black students felt uncomfortable at the University due to microaggressions or explicit forms of racial harassment. The #BBUM campaign heightened work between leaders of the Black Student Union, other minority groups on campus and the administration to make campus more welcoming to students of different ethnic groups — both by way of on-campus climate and in admissions. The University has outlined several new initiatives to increase the diversity of the student body, within the confines of the state of Michigan’s ban on affirmative action. Those programs so far have included increased outreach to specific school districts, the creation of See NUMBERS, Page 3
Panel talks multiracial identity in academics University faculty kick off yearlong series of discussions By ALEXA ST. JOHN
Barrymore has accumulated an arsenal of life lessons. She first shared her uncensored, cautionary tale in 1990, focusing on her deviant youth in “Little Girl Lost.” Barrymore’s newest memoir, “Wildflower” chronicles her turbulent past and deems it essential to her present — admittedly her happiest, married to actor Will Kopelman and mother to two toddlers Olive and Frankie. In the recent November issue of InStyle magazine — the third time the publication’s editor Ariel Foxman has elected Barrymore cover girl — Barrymore admits her conscious decision to disregard her inaugural narrative as she wrote “Wildflower.” “It’s in my room, in the ‘Barrymore library’ — the stack of all the dusty old hardcover books my family has written, from my Aunt Diana’s ‘Too Much, Too Soon’ to everything that Ethel, Lionel and John (Barrymore) wrote. ‘Little Girl Lost’ belongs in that crazy category, and I’m glad it’s there, but I didn’t want to be influenced this time around,” Barrymore said in the interview. The remainder of the intimate See BARRYMORE, Page 5
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SACUA member Stephan Szymanski, a professor of kinesiology, discusses flaws in studies regarding student course evaluations during the SACUA meeting in Palmer Commons on Monday.
Faculty vote to delay release of course evaluation data Provost previously pledged to pause plans based on assembly vote By GENEVIEVE HUMMER Daily Staff Reporter
An overwhelming majority of the University’s Faculty Senate voted in favor of a proposal to delay the release of course evaluation data until faculty, students and experts can reach a consensus on a new instrument of evaluation. The vote was planned after James Holloway, the vice
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provost for global and engaged education, announced the University could implement plans to release course evaluation data as early as this semester at a Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs meeting Oct. 12. According to the plan Holloway presented, the University would release all numerical data from student course evaluations through a website accessible only to those with a University uniqname. Comments written on the evaluations would not be released, nor would the data collected from course evaluations of classes taught by graduate student
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instructors or instructors with fewer than seven terms of teaching experience. At Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting, faculty members engaged in an hour-long discussion about the potential implications of releasing course evaluation data to students. Weineck opened the conversation by sharing faculty input she has received over the past several weeks both in favor of and opposed to the release of data. Those in favor of releasing the data said current course evaluations, while not perfect, would be a better resource for students than ratings posted on See SACUA, Page 3
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According to a 2015 Pew Research Center report, 6.9 percent of all Americans 18 and older identify as multiracial. According to the University’s Office of the Registrar, last year, just over 3 percent of students identified as two or more races. A panel of University faculty met Monday night to discuss how multiracialism influences academic work for the first of their yearlong series dedicated to discussing the multiracial experience. “We were really hoping to create a sense of community,” said Karen Downing, the University Library’s head of social sciences and the education liaison librarian. “This is a population that is often hidden because we don’t walk around with signs on us saying we’re multiracial. It’s hard to connect sometimes with other multiracial people.” Downing said the organizers hope to share their stories and find some commonalities with one another during the course of this series. “There’s also a growing multiracial population in our See FACULTY, Page 2
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