2A - Monday, March 15, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 2A - Monday, March 15, 2010 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom * 5 TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: FRIDAY: MONDAY: TUESDAY: WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: FRIDAY: SOther vTowers Professor Profiles Before You Were Here Campus Clubs Photos of the Week FAST FINGERS Harvard insurance to cover sex changes -e cdtan Dail 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JACOB SMILOVITZ DAN NEWMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-3336 734-764-0558 smilovitz@michigandailyeom tmdbusiness@gm~nailtcom Starting Aug.1, 2010,trans- gender students at Harvard University will be able to receive insurance coverage through Harvard's student insurance plan for sex transi- tion treatments includingsur- geries and hormone therapy, according to a March 11 arti- cle in The Harvard Crimson. According to the article, sex hormones have been covered under Harvard's insurance plan since 2006. However, in an effort to be more welcoming toward all groups of students on cam- pus, the insurance policy will now cover sexual reassign- ment surgeries. Noah Lewis, an attorney for the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, has been working with Har- vard's University Health Ser- CRIME NOTES vices to get the policy passed. Lewis told The Crimson that he knows firsthand the improvement in health that follows gender reassignment treatments. "For those who want them, hormones and surgery allow transsexual people to feel comfortable in their bodies for the first time," Lewis said in the article. ASU TEAM IMPROVES CHEMICAL DETECTION A team of Arizona State University scientists, led by N.J. Tao of the ASU Biodesign Institute, has developed a new method to detect trace chemi- cals, the ASU News reported. According to the article, this new technology can be used in areas concerning human health and national security. This new technology - electrochemical imaging microscopy - has proved to be more advantageous than previous methods of chemi- cal detection. The article reported that Tao and his team were able to detect and identify particles of dynamite weighing less than a billionth of a gram on the ridges of a fingerprint. WMU INSTALLS NEW ALERT SYSTEM Western Michigan Uni- versity installed a new emer- gency notification system, according to a March 11 arti- cle in the Western Herald. The system consists of 3,546 indoor and 62 outdoor speakers that have the abil- ity to alert students and fac- ulty about emergencies, like an active shooter or tornado warning. The system, which is activated by WMU police, will only be used in extreme emergency situations, the Herald reported. According to the article, the system has been under construction for a number of years and was first tested on March 4. WMU Emergency Man- agement Administer Cam Vossen told the Herald that students who walk around campus with headphones on may not hear alerts, ultimate- ly making the system less effective. "We can only help people as much as they help themselves," Vossen said in the article. - JENNA SIMARD CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom c News Tips Corrections Letterstothe Editor Photography Department Arts Section Editorial Page Sports Section Display Sales Classified Sales Office hous:eaSun.-Thrs. ia.m. - 2a.m. news@michigandaily.com correctios@michigandaily.com tothedaily@michigandaily.com photo@michigandaiy.com artsage@michitandaily.cox opinion@xirhigandaiy.oo sports@michigandaily.com disptay@michigandaily.ome classifiedpmicigadaily.com Engineeringjunior Shihan Qin practices piano Fri- day evening in the lounge of Pierpont Commons. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Cultural film Spring pride GPS and cash Drunk harasses taken from car passerby with WHERE: 2300 Glazier Road WHEN: Friday at midnight WHAT: The driver's side window of a vehicle was bro- ken into, University Police reported. A Garmin GPS unit and $20 cash were stolen from the vehicle. There are no sus- pects. Student faints, attempts to flee from DPS WHERE: Catherine Carport WHEN: Friday at about 2 a.m. WHAT: A student was found passed out with injuries on the right side of his face, University Police reported. When con- fronted, the student resisted and attempted to flee the scene. rainbow umbrella WHERE: South Quad Resi- dence Hall WHEN: Saturday at noon WHAT: An intoxicated person yelled obscenities at a student carrying a rainbow colored umbrella, University Police reported. Student vomits out of window WHERE: West Quad Resi- dence Hall WHEN: Sunday at about 1:30 a.m. WHAT: A student was cited for a MIP after vomiting out of a window, University Police reported. screening WHAT: A film explor- ing a activist's struggle for women's rights within Islam. WHO: Center for Mid- dle Eastern and North African Studies WHEN: Today at noon WHERE: School of Social Work Building, room 1636 Lecture on museum funding WHAT: Betsy Quick, direc- tor of education at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, will discuss the role of university funding of cam- pus collections and museums. WHO: Museums Theme Year WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. WHERE: The University Museum of Art rally on the Diag WHAT: A rally celebrating LGBT culture. The event is part of Spring Pride Week. WHO: LGBT Commis- sion of the Michigan Student Assembly WHEN: Today at noon WHERE: The Diag Ensemble performance WHAT: A chorale and orchestra concert performed by University students. 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Moses said another explanation for the increase in applicants is that osteopathic medicine appeals more to students beginning their medical careers today. "I believe that the millennial generation is more committed to the personal aspect of medicine and patient care, which are the hallmarks of osteopathic meth- ods," Moses said. LSA senior Dustin Harmon said he plans to attend osteopathic school in the fall because osteo- pathic doctors are less likely to rely on pills and medications as a form of treatment. "For a headache, you can crack (a patient's) neck and set it so that it alleviates pressure, rather than just saying, 'Take some ibupro- fen,"' Harmon said. Rosenthal said practitioners who felt the medical profession was becoming too standardized and impersonal developed the field. "Osteopathic medicine focuses more on patient history and a lot of outside factors that should be incorporated into a person's care that sometimes aren't," she said. Though in previous years osteo- pathic doctors had fewer opportu- nities to practice their specialty, Brawn wrote that is no longer the case. "DOs have long since gained rights to practice medicine in all SO states and in more than 50 differ- ent countries," he wrote. "The full range of opportunities is available in both fields." Moses said she becomes "crazed" when she hears "campus myths" about osteopathic medi- cine. "People think they can't special- ize or practice internationally," she said. "It's just not true. DOs are not limited at all." Currently, osteopathic doctors can fulfill medical doctorate resi- dencies and offer the same pre- scriptions as a medical doctorate. In addition, Rosenthal said doctor- ate osteopathic schools and medi- cal schools have almost identical curriculums. "You have the same basic sci- ence classes, and you take the same clinical exam," she said. "But then you also have an extra osteopathic principle and practicum class that teaches you how to do exams that help you to understand the body with your hands." Despite the similarities among the fields, Rosenthal said some stigmas remain attached to the field of osteopathic medicine because it only gained recognition by the American Medical Associa- tion in 1969. "Older generations, like my grandparents didn't respect it as much at first," she said. Mariella Mecozzi, senior assis- tant director of pre-professional services at the University, said stigmas stem from ignorance about the practice of osteopathic medicine. "I think people are often skepti- cal of what they don't know," she said. Mecozzi also said patients can often be wary of DO doctors because they believe it is easier for students to be accepted to DO schools, but according to Mecozzi, there is only a slight difference between the grade point averages of students accepted to MD and DO schools nationally. "The explanation I can give you is that DO schools pay a lot of attention to what else the student brings to the table," she said. "They look for good GPAs and good let- ters of recommendation." She added that the real differ- ence between MD and DO stu- dents lies within Medical College Admission Test scores. According to Mecozzi, MD students score, on average, about 30 on the MCAT - which has a score range from 1 to 45 - while DO students score about 25 points on average on the test. Rosenthal said many of her friends have begun applying to both MD and DO schools to improve their chances of admis- sion - a trend she believes is help- ing to dissipate the remnants of stigmas about osteopathic medi- cine inherited from older genera- tions. "Now that our generation is starting to learn so much about it and the generation right above us is starting to accept it more because their kids are going to these schools more often, I think osteopathic medicine will become as common as allopathic medi- cine," she said. Harmon saidbecause the stigma associated with osteopathic medi- cine is disappearing, there's more camaraderie between allopathic and osteopathic medical profes- sionals. "I don't think there's this huge barrier that used to exist when DOs and MDs just thought in com- pletely different ways," he said. Mecozzi also said that there is more unity between the two medi- cal fields. "The last few generations of (MD and DO) doctors have had more of an opportunity to work side by side," she said. Harmon said that regardless of the way osteopathic medicine is received in today's world, he still prefers to attend a DO school. "I've worked with osteopathic and MD physicians, and I've shad- owed both," Harmon said. "You get to establish a better relationship with the patient in the long term if you're an osteopathic physician, in my opinion." Mecozzi said eventually, after the frenzy of applying to medi- cal schools subsides, the degree achieved becomes less important than the skill of the doctor. "I think there's more to a doc- tor than the letters behind their name," she said. FOLLOW THE DAILY'S NEWS BLOG: MICHIGANDAILY.COM/BLOGS/THE WIRE ;y- ., Staying in Ann Arbor this summer? Looking for a job? The Michigan Daily Business Department is currently hiring dedicated and energetic individuals to be Advertising Account Executives for this summer Please send resumes or questions about the position to dailydisplay@gmail.com to the attention of Julianna Crim. I 1 1 i