0 2 - Tuesday, December 1, 2009 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com MONDAY: TUESDAY: In Other Ivory Towers f the Beaten WEDNESDAY: Campus Clubs THURSDAY: Before You Were Here FRIDAY: Photos of the Week A memorial that fights disease 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com GARY GRACA DAN NEWMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-3336 734-764-0558 gaca @michigandailycom tmdbusiness@geail.eem CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom office hours: Sun.-Thurs, 11a.m. - 2 a.m. 734-763-2459 News Tips news@michigandaiy.com Corrections corrections@ichigandaiy.com Letters to the Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Many people honor the death of a loved one by plac- ing flowers on their grave or making a small donation to a cause the loved one was pas- sionate about. But Catherine MacDon- ald Simpson took a different route. After her husband, Thom- as Henry Simpson, died from pernicious anemia - a blood disorder caused by vitamin B-12 deficiency - Simpson funded the construction of a half-million-dollar insti- tute dedicated to fighting the disease that led to her loved one's death. In 1923, Mrs. Simpson donated more than $400,000 to the University to establish the Thomas Henry Simp- son Memorial Institute for Medical Research, according CRIME NOTES to umhistory.dc.umich.edu. The building was designed and constructed by architect Albert Kahn, who designed numerous campus build- ings, including Angell Hall, according to the site. The three-story institute is located on South Observa- tory Street, just across from the Alice Lloyd Residence Hall, and features a lobby, offices, laboratories, a library and a conference room. As umhistory.dc.umich.edu explains, the third floor was originally used as a treat- ment ward that could hold up to 10 patients. While the third floor ward is now gone, the building itself remains in similar condition, featuring the same entrance hall of walnut paneling. The entrance hall now showcases various glass-encased histori- cal medical artifacts dating as far back as the mid-18th cen- tury. These artifacts include various bloodlettingtools and devices used in pernicious anemia treatment. While Mrs. Simpson's initial focus for the institute was to study pernicious ane- mia, she hoped that the cen- ter would eventually expand to include the study of other disorders. The first instance of this occurred in 1962, when it expanded to include the study of other blood and neoplastic diseases, accord- ing to documentation from a Nov. 1962 Board of Regents meeting. Though there is still no cure for pernicious anemia, the institute has made many advancements in treat- ment, including the devel- 7 7 opment of an important therapeutic compound, pro- gression toward the isola- tion of vitamin B-12, and the use of blood and blood sub- stitutes in the treatment of shock. The institute has also made progress toward the treatment of leukemia and other blood-related diseases. Today, the institute is home to the Center for the History of Medicine, part of the Department of Internal Medicine and the Historical Center for the Health Servic- es. The organization works to study the "history, culture and philosophy of medicine" and "to place contemporary medical dilemmas in context with past events," according AARON AUGSBURGER/C to its mission statement. The Simpson Memorial Institute on Observatory - BETHANYBIRON Street. 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Get more onlieut mirhigandily.tom/blogs/thwire " Trial begins for Ohio man accused of crimes in Nazi camp 0 John Demjanjuk, 89, charged with killing 27,900 as camp guard MUNICH (AP) - John Demjan- juk sat in a wheelchair wrapped in a light blue blanket, his eyes closed and his face pale as his trial opened yesterday on charges he helped kill 27,900 Jews as a Nazi death camp guard. Lawyers for the retired Ohio auto- worker portrayed him as a victim - of the Nazis and misguided German justice. But three German doctors testified the Ukrainian-born Dem- janjuk was fit to stand trial. Wearing a blue baseball cap, Dem- janjuk, 89, was wheeled in to the packed Munich state court and did not answer when presiding judge Ralph Alt asked if he could answer basic questions about himself. His left hand twitched occasionally and his mouth was open slightly as though he was in pain. A German doctor who exam- ined Demjanjuk two hours before the trial began said that despite suffering from a bone marrow disease and other ailments he was able to face trial. "He lies there, keeps his eyes closed, but understands everything," said Dr. Albrecht Stein. Demjanjuk's family disputed that. "Given his now confirmed grave medical condition and his resulting inability to fully defend himself, it is farcical for anyone to say he is fit for trial and malpractice for any doctor to recommend it," said his son, John Demjanjuk Jr., in an e-mail sent from Ohio. Demjanjuk was deported in May from the United States and has been in custody in Munich since then. He could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted of training as a guard in the Trawniki SS camp, then serving in the Sobibor death camp in Nazi- occupied Poland. The prosecution argues that after Demjanjuk, a Soviet Red Army sol- dier, was capturedby the Germans in1942hevolunteeredtoserveunder the SS as a guard. Demjanjuk has denied that, say- ing he spent most of the rest of the war in Nazi POW camps before joining the so-called Vlasov army made up of Soviet POWs and other anti-communists to fight with the Germans against the encroach- ing Soviets in the final months of World War II. Ulrich Busch, one of Demjanjuk's twolawyers,toldthecourtthatthose Ukrainians who did volunteer to serve as guards did soto save them- selves, noting that millions of Soviet POWs died at the hands of the Nazis. "Germany did not only com- mit the Holocaust on the Jews, but also on the Red Army prisoners of war," he said. Those who trained at "Trawniki were survivors, not per- petrators." Efraim Zuroff, the top Nazi hunt- er at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said the contention was offensive. "It is a total distortion of the Holocaust and turns people with criminal responsibility into blame- less victims," he said. 0 CII~icai . Ea P R E S E N T S SICK OF THE DORMS? CAN'T FIND A PLACE TO LIVE? 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