The Michigan Daily - michigandaiiy.com Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 7A The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Wednesday, Fehruary 15, 2012 - 7A NIH From Page 1A 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 From Page 1A 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 From Page 1A 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 From Page 1A 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 From Page lA 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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