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NIH
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funded research available.
There are currently 147 stem cell
lines on the registry.
Gary Smith, co-director of the
A. Alfred Taubman Consortium
for Stem Cell Therapies, started
work on the line in October 2010.
Smith said development of the
line setsthe Universityapartfrom
other major research institutes.
"I do believe it makes us
unique in comparison to many
other universities," Smith said.
"It does put us in a handful of
universities across the Unites
States (that have contributed to
the registry)."
The line was created from a
five-day-old embryo approxi-
mately the size of a period, which
would have been discarded
because it was not fit for implan-
tation. The cells will be used to
understand stem cell biology,
OURMICHIGAN
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will be announced Sunday at
a launch party for the group, and
the party will nominate candi-
dates for CSG's Student Assem-
bly in March, Mersol-Barg said.
Mersol-Barg said the two
major points of the OurMichi-
gan platform are furthering
accessibility to the University by
preventing tuition increases and
increasing student advocacy.
"You need to be empowering
minority students to affect the
change they want to see and not
just passing a resolution saying,
'We're helping students,' because
that's not enough," he said. "That
may be symbolic, but it is not
helping the many students that
need it."
Navvab said the campaign is
strengthened by her and Mersol-
Barg's experiences and relation-
ships outside of CSG.
"Kevin and I both have prac-
tical experience uniting student
leaders outside of Central Student
Government," Navvab said. "I'm
excited that for our campaign,
how certain diseases form and to
design treatments and cures for
those diseases, Smith said.
The line is genetically nor-
mal, but University researchers
are working to develop two dis-
ease-specific lines, Smith said.
Researchers are also working on
eight others - five of which will
be genetically normal. I
Sue O'Shea, the other co-
director of the Consortium, said
in a press release the combina-
tion of the two types of stem cell
lines will open up a wide range of
possibilities in disease research.
"We envision inthe futurethat
investigators will be able to use
the genetically normal embry-
onic stem cell lines ... together
with disease-specific embryonic
stem cell lines, asa model system
to investigate what causes these
diseases and come up with treat-
ments," O'Shea said.
Eva Feldman, director of the
A. Alfred Taubman Medical
Research Institute, said in the
press release the breakthrough
of the developing lines offers
additional opportunities to find
cures to diseases.
"This is another major step
forward for medical science in
Michigan," Feldman said. "This
opens up another avenue for
researchers to reallybegin explor-
ing the causes and progression of.
those diseases, with the ultimate
goal of finding new therapies for
patients."
A. Alfred Taubman, founder
and chair of the Taubman Insti-
tute, added in the press release
that the recent stem cell prog-
ress is monumental for the Uni-
versity's research programs.
"I consider stem cells to be
a modern miracle - the most
exciting advance in medicine
since antibiotics," Taubman
said. "The progress we have
made throughout the state in
stem cell research has been
nothing short of remarkable."
UMHS
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ty's Department of Public
Safety.
University spokesman Rick
Fitzgerald said the Joint Com-
mission's announcement is a
positive step forward in the
case, and follows the Univer-
sity's compliance in launching
an internal investigation , the
results of which were released
on Friday.
"We did exactly what the
Joint Commission asked us to do,
and they're satisfied with that
response, and that's certainly
good to know," Fitzgerald said.
The Joint Commission can
consider complaints with com-
pliance standards in the future
when UMHS is scheduled for
renewed accreditation.
Pescovitz mentioned her plan
for the future hospital security
protocol in an e-mail, which
was also outlined in the internal
report compiled by the Univer-
sity Audit office and released on
Friday. The report recommend-
ed that a shared communication
system be developed between
DPS and UMHS to increase
accountability.
The report also suggested that
increased team building efforts
be created to fostertransparency
between the departments. Addi-
tionally, it recommended that
the culture within the health
system be modified through
cooperation between outside
experts and security leaders.
we'regoingtobe bringingtogeth-
er students who have not histori-
cally been involved in CSG."
Mersol-Barg was one of five
candidates seeking MForward's
nomination, but he lost to Aditya
Sathi, MForward's candidate
and the current vice speaker of
the CSG Student Assembly, who
is the only other candidate to
announce a run for the presiden-
cy. He said his decision to launch
a new party was not to spite his
former party.
"I think that this is beyond
politics," he said. "This is about
what's best for students ... After
two years, MForward has really,
become institutionalized. It's
substituting speech for action
and resolutions for change. We
are going to take a new approach
to this."
Mersol-Barg added that
though MForward's nominations
were only 11 days ago, he had con-
templated running outside of the
party for several weeks.
Since transferring to the Uni-
versity from Michigan State Uni-
versity in fall 2010, Mersol-Barg
said he has been involved with
Human Rights Through Educa-
tion and the University's chap-
ter of College Democrats. He
currently serves as chair of the
Communications Commission of
CSG and has continued to work
towards tuition equality, which
would allow undocumented stu-
dents who have attended school
and lived in Michigan to receive
in-state-tuition.
In support of his cause, Mer-
sol-Barg founded the Coalition
for Tuition Equality, a group that
has invited the Pulitzer Prize-
winning journalist and undocu-
mented immigrant Jose Antonio
Vargas to campus on Feb. 22.
Mersol-Barg said he chose to
work outside of CSG's typical
settings to utilize resources that
would allow for more outreach to
the campus community.
"I worked with the Peace
and Justice Commission on fair
trade issues ... Student govern-
ment and the way MForward
had really shaped (student gov-
ernment) didn't have the abil-
ity to reach out to these student
organizations," he said. "Slowly
but surely, my understanding of
what good government looked
like diverged from what MFor
ROMNEY
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Michigan's Democratic Party,
said inthe conference call that the
op-edeupset many state officials.
"All of us here in Michigan
nearly spit out our coffee this
morning when they read Gover-
nor Romney's op-ed in the Detroit
News," Brewer said.
During the call, former Demo-
cratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm
said she felt Romney's claims
were hypocritical and inconsis-
tent with opinions he had previ-
ouslyexpressed.
"(Romney) turned his back on
Michigan," Granholm said. "He
stabbed us in theback in our dark-
est hour."
Granholm, who- now hosts
the news show "The War Room"
on the cable channel Current,
said she thought the recession
would worsen if Romney's plan
was implemented, adding that
Obama's policies have helped
improve industry in the state.
In another op-ed Romney pub-
lished in The New York Times
in 2008 - titled "Let Detroit Go
Bankrupt" - Romney detailed a
plan for the failing auto industry.
In the piece, he called condemned
any plan that would use govern-
ment loans to bail out auto com-
panies.
In yesterday's piece, Romney
wrote that Obama's assistance in
Detroit was ultimately detrimen-
tal.
"The president tells us that
without his intervention things in
Detroit would be worse," Romney
wrote. "I believe that without his
intervention things there would
be better."
He wrote that Obama's plan
exploited taxpayers through pro-
viding the bailout, adding that
working through the bankruptcy
would have been more effective.
"Managed bankruptcy may
sound like a death knell," Romney
wrote. "But in fact, it is a way for a
troubled company to restructure
itself rapidly, entering and leav-
ing the courtroom sometimes in
weeks or months instead of years,
and then returning to profitable
operation."
Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
said on the call that Romney's
plan would have been harmful to
the auto industry.
"(Romney was) running away
from the reality facing the auto
industry," Levin said.
In the call, Rep. John Dingell
(D-Mich.) lauded Obama's han-
dling of the auto industry failure
during his term.
Dingell said 200,000 new jobs
were created and 150,000 are set
to be available over the next four
years, adding that the auto indus-
try had its strongest year since
1994 in 2011.
"The president refused to turn
his back on Michigan," Dingell
said.
According to Dingell, Rom-
ney's article was simply a stra-
tegic. move for Michigan's
upcoming primary election on
Feb. 28.
"Mr. Romney changes his
position as often as he changes
his underwear," he said.
In a poll conducted on Monday
and released by the polling group
Rasmussen, Romney trailed
Republican candidate and for-
mer Pennsylvania Sen. Rick San-
torum by three points. Santorum
led in the poll with 35 percent,
while Romney received 32 per-
cent of the vote. Other contend-
ers were well behind Santorum
and Romney, with Rep. Ron Paul
earning 13 percent and former
House Speaker Newt Gingrich
garnering 11 percent of the vote.
Romney, who has long been
considered the front-runner for
the Republican nomination, con-
siders himself a Detroit native
and has ties to Michigan's auto
industry. His father, George
Romney, served as chairman and
president of American Motors
Corporation and was also the
governor of Michigan from 1963
to 1969.
. Dingell said Romney is
attempting to take credit for the
achievements of the auto indus-
try legislation, as well as for the
economic turnaround.
"(Romney) wants to rush on
and claim success and claim par-
ticipation in that success," Ding-
ell said. "But his position earlier
was significantly different."
Levin said Romney's failure to
stand by earlier claims casts his
legitimacy as a presidential can-
didate into doubt.
"We want candidates to tell
the truth," Levin said. "We need
to know what they stand for."
Romney and the other Repub-
lican candidates will be travel-
ing the state in the coming week
in preparation for the Michigan
primary on Feb. 28.
ASSEMBLY
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apply for funding through
the Student Organization Fund-
ing Commission - a section of
CSG's executive branch. Repre-
sentatives at last night's meeting
expressed concerned with the
lack of legislative oversight on
student organization funding.
* Speaker of the Assembly Matt
Eral said changes to the process
in which student organizations
apply for money could impact the
convenience and effectiveness of
funding student groups - a core
responsibility for CSG.
"One of the biggest things, if
not the thing (the University's
Board of Regents), want to see
from (CSG) is a funding report,"
Eral said. "That's one (of CSG's)
principal function."
Another proposed resolutions
expressed support for a bill in the
Michigan House of Representa-
tives bill that could potentially
enforce de facto medical amnesty
throughout the state.
The resolution was expedited
and passed unanimously last
night so CSG representatives
could discuss it at the at the Stu-
dent Association of Michigan
conference - a gathering for the
state's student leaders - being
. held this weekend.
CSG is currently attempting
to implement a medical amnesty
program at the University and
passed a resolution on Jan. 24
in support of this motion.
LSA junior Sebastian Swae-
Shampine, assistant executive
director of the University's chap-
ter of Students for Sensible Drug
Policy, spoke at the meeting on
behalf of the resolution.
"Medical Amnesty is just a
social imperative," Swae-Shamp-
ine said. "Presently we have stu-
dents that are hesitating and we
have lives that are being unrea-
sonably lost because people are
afraid of any kind of legal reper-
cussions."
Swae-Shampine added it
was important that the medi-
cal amnesty proposal isn't inter-
preted as an excuse for students
to 'recklessly endanger their lives.
"I'm not condoning that sort
of consumption or especially that
sort of over-consumption by any
stretch of the imagination," he
said.
Another proposed resolution
endorsed the removal of a spou-
sal work-study requirement for
childcare subsidies. Members of
the Graduate Employees Organi-
zation have been meeting month-
ly with University administrators
to resolve the issue.
As it stands now, the spouse
of parent seeking childcare must
be working, enrolled as at least
a half-time student or a combi-
nation of the two for at least 20
hours a week to be eligible for the
childcare subsidy.
Rackham representative Pat-
rick O'Mahen, the resolution's
author and a former Michi-
gan Daily columnist, said this
requirement is not always fea-
sible for student-parents, adding
he hopes the resolution will "put
public pressure on the admin-
istration to do the right thing in
this case."
The CSG proposal also calls
for the University to apply it's
decision to all students, not just
members of GEO. Furthermore,
it would pledge $30,000 of CSG's
own funds to the adopted plan.
O'Mahen described the proposed
financing as "a grant with some
strings attached."
CSG also prepared for
next month's student goven-
rment elections. The Assembly
approved a recommendation for
the elections director and passed
a resolution forming the Election
Code Select Committee, which
will look at potential reforms to
CSG's election code.
At the meeting, seven repre-
sentatives were formally recalled,
bringing the total number of rep-
resentatives down to3 members
and the number for quorum to18.
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