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allows funding for veterans to
attend college after service.
* Obama added that the Affordable
Care Act, which extends the age
that dependents can be covered
by a family health insurance plan
from 18 to 26 years old, will also
make higher education a more
viable option for people.
Obama also said colleges need
to be cautious of how they allocate
funding, and they must ensure
money is being used for increas-
ing the quality of learning, rather
than on things like facilities and
renovations. He said that while
faculty research should remain a
funding priority, universities and
professors should not let research
overshadow student needs.
"Part of what I think we've got
to examine is are we designing our
universities in a way that focuses
on the primary thing, which is
education," Obama said. "You're
not going to a university to join
a spa; you're going there to learn
so that you can have a fulfilling
career. And if all the amenities of
a public university start jacking
up the cost of tuition significantly,
that's a problem."
Obama said he hopes to work
closely with university officials
across the nation to grapple with
financial issues and find ways to
allocate more money to directly
improving the educational quality
of universities.
Despite lingering fear among
college students faced with loan
debt that they may not find a job
in a difficult job market, Obama
said he thinks that this genera-
tion of college students will be
FREEZING
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In 2006, ASCO developed
a guideline requiring fertility
preservation counseling prior to
gonadotoxic treatment - that is,
treatment which has a harmful
effect on the ovaries or testes - a
new standard of care for cancer
patients of reproductive age.
But according to Fisseha, "a
large number of patients who
still need counseling are not get-
ting the opportunity."
At the Center for Reproduc-
tive Medicine, fertility preserva-
tion services include sperm, egg,
ovarian and testicular tissue and
embryo freezing coupled with
one-on-one counseling.
Fisseha said the process
involves a combination of evalu-
ation, counseling and outpatient
procedure. The freezing of eggs,
which is offered to women with-
out current sexual partners,
involves stimulation of the ova-
ries prior to the eggs being frozen
and harvested. When the eggs are
eventually thawed, they are fer-
tilized with a partner's sperm.
"When fertility is under
threat, and single women don't
have partners, this is a great
strategy to improve fertility," she
said.
While the center primarily
serves cancer patients, services
are available to any patient with
a fertility-threatening condition,
she added.
Fisseha, who is a reproductive
endocrinology and infertility
specialist, said a number of treat-
ments for diseases can endanger
future chances of fertility. Che-
motherapy drugs and multi-drug
therapies may severely damage
reproductive organs, and for
cancers of the ovaries or uterus,
these organs may need to be
removed entirely, she said.
Every patient reacts differ-
ently to drug treatments, and
"just fine," and that plenty of job
opportunities in various fields are
awaiting graduates.
"We've gone through the worst
financial crisis since the Great
Depression, and so things are
real tough for young people right
now," Obama said. "But having
said that, if you are getting a col-
lege degree, if you've got skills in
math and science or good, sound
communication skills, there are
still jobs out there even in a tough
environment. And nine out of 10
people who are looking for work
can still find work."
Obama said that it is crucial for
students to vote in the midterm
elections this November, encour-
aging students to educate them-
selves about candidates and their
policies so that they can elect
people who will make important
changes.
Obama said students got
involved in his campaign for
president because they saw it
as "a vehicle to get engaged and
involved in shaping the direction
of this country," adding that stu-
dents should view the midterm
elections similarly.
"What I want to do is just to
go speak to young people directly
and remind them of what I said
during the campaign, which was
change is always hard in this
country," Obama said. "It doesn't
happen overnight. You take two
steps forward, you take one step
back."
"I just want to remind young
people, they've got to get re-
engaged in this process," Obama
added. "And they're going to
have to vote in these midterm
elections."
chemotherapy may not always
cause infertility, according to
the University Health System's
Comprehensive Cancer Center
website. The sterilizing effects
of radiation treatment depend on
dose, delivery schedule and the
patient's age at the time of treat-
ment, the website reports.
But for patients who opt for
cryogenic preservation before
undergoing treatment, reproduc-
tion can become an option once
the patient's health allows him
or her to begin the process of
starting a family.
Because the lifetime of a cryo-
genically preserved egg is indefi-
nite, Fisseha said adolescents
and teenagers facing cancer can
also elect to have their eggs pre-
served prior to child-bearing
age.
"We're making a lot of advanc-
es in adolescent and adult can-
cers. We have greatly increased
life expectancy in young women
and men that have cancer,"
Fisseha said. "For very young
patients, they don't know when
they will want to have children,
but they want a means to pre-
serve their fertility."
Greater life expectancies
in cancer patients, as well as
advances in research, have
increased the popularity of cryo-
genic preservation in recent
years.
Fisseha said the center, which
has been offering fertility pres-
ervation counseling and services
since 2003, sees patients from
all across Michigan and neigh-
boring states. She said she hopes
to see the number of patients
grow as fertility education and
counseling become more readily
available to patients before they
undergo chemotherapy or other
gonadotoxic treatments.
"The greatest progress that
we need to make is making
our patients aware that (fertil-
ity preservation) is an option,"
Fisseha said.
SACUA
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ting measures to meet the possible
loss in state appropriations to the
University.
These measures may include
eliminating unnecessary services
provided by the Information and
Technology Services across cam-
pus and the possible restructuring
of administration positions.
As the University looks toward
the future, Hanlon said he feels it
should also continue to work on its
strengths and emphasize out-of-
classroom learning.
Hanlon said students are enrich-
ing their education outside the
classroom with the research, ser-
vice and creative opportunities on
campus.
But Hanlon noted that these
campus assets are not currently
integrated into the student learning
experience and that research tools
ought to be developed to assess
their impact on student education.
"We need to become more rigor-
ous and disciplined about defining
learning outcomes and having tools
to assess them," he said.
These assessment tools would
also increase the University's pres-
tige over that of private schools,
which have smaller student-to-
teacher ratios, Hanlon said.
"When we let education get
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SACUA members meet in the Regents Room at the Fleming Administration Building yesterday afternoon.
defined by classroom teaching, we
get creamed," he said.
Hanlon added that he would
like to see the University's stu-
dent-to-faculty ratio decrease to
10-to-1 from its current ratio of
approximately 14.3-to-1. The ratio
was initially about 15.1-to-1 prior
to the planned addition of 150
new faculty members from 2007
through this year.
Addressing the National
Research Council of the National
Academy's rankings of Ph.D. pro-
grams - set to be released Tues-
day - Hanlon said he is interested
to see the reaction to the numbers,
adding that he is concerned that
the public will misinterpret the
numbers because they are based
on interval scales rather than a set
number ranking.
SACUA Chair and Prof. of Statis-
tics Ed Rothman said as a statisti-
cian, he feels the interval rankings
are unclear and measure what was
done in the past rather than cur-
rent educational strategies.
Hanlon also said he feels the
quantification of University's out-
of-classroom experience would
increase its ranking. Though he
said the University is not con-
cerned with its ranking, Hanlon
added that the data will be a useful
tool for the future.
- Katelyn Hummer
contributed to this report.
CVs
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June 2009 to demolish the exist-
ing building except for the front
wall and construct a new building
behind that original facade. Pho-
tos of the site show that the fagade
dates back to the 1930s. The build-
ing used to be a two-story single-
family home and carriage house
that, with several additions over the
years, became a boarding house.
DeAngelis said CVS bought the
property in April 2010 because of
its convenient location near campus
and the number of students who
walk by the area. The new phar-
macy is being built next to Corner
House Apartments, home to many
University students.
The construction has caused
some problems for nearby business-
es. Employees at Mr. Greeks Coney
Island say the restaurant has lost
business because of it.
"It's hard for people to park out
front(because ofthe construction),"
Mr. Greeks worker Nazik Anton.
"We can feel vibrations (from the
construction) in the store."
And while construction may
cause headaches for students and
business owners in the area, CVS
officials are hoping students and
residents embrace the store once it
opens.
Art & Design sophomore Jessica
Fass said she plans to stay with her
current pharmacy - The Village
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alcohol and other drugs policy and
prevention.
According to the University's
Division of Student Affairs web-
site, "in the first ten weeks of Fall
Term 2008, 70 UM students were
transported to the hospital for
alcohol-related issues." The aim of
the program is to lower that num-
ber and educate students about two
importantissues, alcohol consump-
tion and sexual assault before they
actually get to campus in order
to avoid dangerous situations,
Desprez said.
The first part of the course takes
about 2.5 hours to complete and
finishes with a quiz that students
must pass with at least a score of 85
percent. Then, 30 to 40 days later,
those who completed the course
are asked to take a 15-minute fol-
low-up survey, which Desprez said
is intended to gauge students' hab-
its while school is in session.
Outside The Classroom, a com-
The site of the new CVS on South State Street last week. Matthew Basal works on continuing the construction process.
Apothecary on South University
Avenue - because of the personal
touch they provide.
"I like the people (at The Village
Apothecary)," Fass said. "I'm close
with them, and they rarely make
mistakes with my prescriptions."
Despite the threat the new CVS
may pose to other local businesses
and pharmacies, David Palan, who
works at The Village Apothecary,
believes that the national brand
can't match the local feel.
"We're a personal home-town
pharmacy," Palan said.
pany that creates educational mate-
rials devised the dual-modular
program. According to the orga-
nization's website, the program is
used in over 500 colleges and uni-
versities in all 50 states, including
Harvard University, Stanford Uni-
veristy and the University of Cali-
fornia at Los Angeles.
The Division of Student Affairs
website states that the University
requires all incoming students to
complete the online course in order
to better prepare them to man-
age the transition to college life.
But while the program is highly
encouraged, it is not mandatory.
"One of the things all of us, stu-
dents, staff, all of us, wanted to
do was...encourage people to take
(Community Matters) and remove
barriers people were having from
taking it and not turn it into a pun-
ishment," said Desprez.
Students who completed the
program before the semester began
were awarded donated prizes
including season tickets to men's
basketball, a gift certificate from
the Cupcake Station, free Wendy's
But LSA freshman Michael
Pereira said he thinks CVS will get
a lot of business, adding that he's
excited for the store to open.
"It's an all-purpose store,"
Pereira said. "I've been looking for
a place like that."
Kinesiology freshman Chloe
Kipnis echoed Pereira's sentiments,
saying that she can't wait for CVS
to open because she's had issues
finding the products she needs at a
pharmacy in Ann Arbor.
"(CVS) has everything a col-
lege student needs and it has more
breakfast sandwiches and a free
day pass to MRock.
For the second part of the pro-
gram, students who finish the
follow-up survey in a timely man-
ner will be entered to win an Apple
iPad, among other prizes.
Some students who took the sur-
vey prior to this semester said they
thought the online course was use-
ful, even though it required some-
what of a time commitment.
LSA freshman Erica Seifert said
that though she thought Commu-
nity Matters was "kind of a waste
of time," she did learn from the
program.
"I learned a lot of things about
the (blood alcohol content) I kind of
knew, but I had never been taught
before," she said. "It was way better
than it could have been; it was kind
of a cool program."
LSA freshman Fiona Clowney,
who also completed the course,
said she's not sure how much she
got out of the course.
"I don't know that it actually
helped me in my life because I'm
not actually following any of the
than just the little mom and pop
stores around campus ... things are
a little pricier there," Kipnis said.
"With CVS, everything's going to
be affordable and you can get a
lot."
Nursing freshman Lizzie Levine
said she's also looking forward to
the convenience of having a com-
mercial pharmacy nearby.
"I'm really excited because I can
fill my prescriptions without hav-
ing to look further for a pharmacy,"
Levine said. "If I get sick, they are
right there for whatever I need."
things I did, but just thinking
about it in a serious way instead of
just rushing into the college life,"
Clowney said.
Clowney also said she thinks
the program could be altered to be
more student-friendly.
"I think people should take it,
but it can definitely be improved
upon," she said. "I can't really fig-
ure out how because it's hard to
relate to students in a way that they
won't think it's you trying to talk
down to them. But I think it should
keep going."
Though Desprez said the goal of
the program is to educate students
about serious issues and help them
ease into life away from home, she
knows Community Matters is not a
fix-all solution.
"There's none of us who think
that this course is the magic bullet,
but what it does is create a com-
mon language for a whole incoming
class that you can sort of meet them
there and then really get into some
reallyimportantand more in-depth
dialogue, knowing everyone has a
baseline of information," she said.
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