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DONORS
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Kappa sorority members will
work with DKMS Americas, a
donor recruitment center, help-
ing students, faculty and staff
members register for the Be The
Match Registry today from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Anderson
AB Room in the Union.
LSA senior Samira Monav-
vari, Lee's friend, has been
working to promote today's
event via Facebook and has
received more than 1,000 con-
firmed attendees. Monavvari
said she hopes to be able to help
someone else in need of a trans-
plant, even if she doesn't find a
match for Lee.
"The fact that Dan is going
through this makes us want to
donate to people who we don't
even know because it's so hard
seeing what he's going through,"
Monavvari said.
According to Monavvari, Lee
is known jokingly by his friends
as "the next Steve Jobs," adding
that he is extremely smart, driv-
en and friendly.
"If you ask him what he wants
to do, he'll always say he wants
to be known for something,"
Monavvari said. "He is the kind
of kid who gets along with every-
one ... that's why (his diagnosis)
has touched everyone so much."
LSA junior Jessica Kaltz, a
member of Sigma Kappa, started
organizing the drive prior to
Lee's diagnosis. Kaltz worked
with Christian Montgomery,
a University alum and DKMS
Americas employee, over the
past few months to organize the
registry at the University.
She wrote in an e-mail inter-
view that she hopes that Lee's
story will inspire people to
I attend today's event.
W "When people hear about
Dan's story, I think they will see
that by simply taking five min-
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"If I get caught up with empty
amounts of time in limbos, things
could turn out for the worse," he
said.
During the panel, the stu-
dents discussed several factors
that they wished faculty and staff
would be more awgre of how
they encourage substance abuse.
Smith pointed out that most occa-
sions to bond with staff in gradu-
ate programs were during happy
hour in bars.
"I could not even go to bars
because I was not in a state of
mind to even be near alcohol,"
Smith said. "I just wish that there
were more events not associated
with happy hour."
Crook echoed Smith's sen-
timent, explaining that these
practices continue to exist at the
graduate level.
"I feel like I have to work hard-
er to make connections and net-
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said. "This display helps intrigue
(students and) helps them want to
learn about science and math."
Attributing the display as
a monument to continuous
improvement, Hanlon also
thanked Daisy Wu for her gen-
erous donations, which were a
tribute to her late husband, Shien-
Ming Wu, a former professor of
engineering at the University.
utes of their time by signing up
to become a donor, they could
possibly be the life-saving dif-
ference that Dan needs," Kaltz
wrote.
Montgomery explained that
the process for joining the reg-
istry involves having potential
donors fill out a short form and
then submit a cheek swab to
determine their tissue type.
Potential donors will then be
added to the Be The Match Reg-
istry, a national list of potential
bone marrow donors.
If the donor is contacted as a
match and decides to continue
with the process, he or she will
be required to take a blood test
in order to obtain the best match
for the patient in need.
Between four and six weeks
later, the donor will undergo a
marrow extraction procedure or
peripheral blood stem cell dona-
tion, depending on the patient's
condition. Contrary to popular
belief, the donor typically does
not experience significant pain,
a common misconception about
the two procedures, Montgom-
ery said.
Montgomery is not only a
DKMS employee, but also a bone
marrow donor himself. In 2007,
he registered at an event in the
Diag, and in January 2008 he
was contacted as a potential
match for a 22-year-old female
in New Jersey suffering from
paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglo-
binuria, a rare blood disease.
Nicole Mausteller, the patient
to whom Montgomery made his
donation, said her disorder was
discovered through blood work
that was required as part of the
process of becoming a dental
assistant.
Montgomery donated
through marrow extraction in
May 2008, a procedure that he
said left him a bit stiff and sore
for a few days. After receiving a
one-month, six-month and one-
year update, Montgomery and
work without drinking," Crook
said.
Goldberg was accepted to the
University in the fall, but didn't
start his freshman year until the
winter semester due to issues
with substance abuse. He said
he recently celebrated his sixth
month of sobriety.
Goldberg said he he would like
to be open about his recovery, but
wished his professors and .GSIs
wouldn't differentiate him from
other students when he confessed
his condition.
Keyes, who has been sober for
seven months and is currently
working in a neuroscience lab
on drug addiction, agreed with
Goldberg that it's difficult at
times to determine how peers
or professors may perceive her if
they knew about her past.
"In my lab, I work with
amphetamine every day and
have access to space where they
store heroin and cocaine," she
said. "I'm pretty well respected
in the lab by now, but if I were to
Laurie Alexander, the
associate University librar-
ian for learning and teaching,
was responsible for organizing
the event and explained that the
display will allow the libraries
to further connect to University
research.
"Research is central to the Uni-
versity libraries mission and it
permeates our daily lives, yet we
often don't have the opportunity
to gather to appreciate our con-
tribution to the broader academic
community," 'Alexander said.
Mausteller agreed to exchange
contact information. They have
been in contact since February
2010 and remain good friends.
"He's my hero," Mausteller
said. "I hope he's forever in my
life, not because he gave me his
bone marrow, but I hope we're
friends forever."
May 2012 will mark the four-
year anniversary of Mausteller's
transplant. Now completely
cured, Mausteller said it is very
important that people join the
registry to give a patient like
herself a second chance at life.
"I really didn't think I was
going to find a donor," she said.
"(Especially) with younger
(patients), they have their whole
lives to live and if you can do
something to help them, you
should do it."
Montgomery said the possi-
bility of saving someone's life far
outweighed the mild discomfort
he experienced.
"Really, what this comes
down to is if you get a call and
are told that you could save
someone's life in exchange for a
few days of being sore or feeling
flu-ish, would you do it?" Mont-
gomery asked. "If the answer is
'yes,' then there's no reason not
to register."
LSA freshman Sam Oshinsky
also joined the registry in April
2011 while touring another uni-
versity and donated peripheral
blood stem cells in January. He
said he was surprised to be
contacted so soon after join-
ing the registry, but donating
to a female patient in need was
life changing, adding that he is
expected to learn more details
about the patient's condition at
the one-month update.
"It has been an incred-
ible experience to go through,"
Oshinsky said. "While you
might go through a little pain,
the good I was able to do - and
hopefully save this girl's life -
was all worth it."
tell them I'm a recovering addict,
I don't know how they would
react."
Keyes expressed that she had
to work harder than most peo-
ple in order to live a normal life,
adding that she did not want to
worry about the stigma of being
an addict during the process.
"People's general idea of an
addict is some dude with a brown
paper bag walking down the
street in a gutter shooting up
heroin or something," she said.
"That was never my life."
Keyes explained that she was
tryingto portray the image of the
addict in recovery and did not
want to be compared with other
types of addicts that are inactive
and aren't seeking recovery.
The students also shared sev-
eral difficulties of living in Ann
Arbor and attending the Uni-
versity, most notably the issue
of being surrounded by a college
environment that encourages
alcohol consumption.
Keyes said she missed the
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dren," Frost said. "This is one of
those cases that was worked."
The federal affidavit does not
explicitly mention the hospital's
delay in reporting the incident to
the DPS. However, it notes that
the resident reported her find-
ings on May 24 after she discov-
ered that the thumb drive was
missing, with the next statement
LECTURE
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student responses, but they didn't
allow me to ask the kinds of ques-
tions that I wanted to ask," Sam-
son said. "So I just started writing
this code to allow students to
respond to a wider range of ques-
tions."
Nursing Prof. Ellen Smith said
she incorporates LectureTools
into her class in order to better
engage her students. She added
that she a hopes to improve stu-
dent perceptions of her class,
which previously received low
student reviews at the end of the
semester.
"The class evaluations have
now improved dramatically,"
Smith said. "There are definite-
ly students who say that they
have really enjoyed the Lecture-
Tools, and it has kept them more
engaged. SoI think that definitely
has been a plus."
Sociology Prof. Terrence
McGinn added that the question-
asking feature of LectureTools
allows students who may feel
uncomfortable participating in a
large classroom setting to partici-
pate without feeling pressured.
Nursing sophomore Shelby
Epstine said the program has
helped her to feel more at ease
participating in large lectures.
"(LectureTools) allows you to
showing that the hospital report-
ed the incident to DPS on Nov. 21.
According to the U.S. Depart-
ment of Justice's website, the FBI
typically handles child pornogra-
phy cases, but Frost said jurisdic-
tions overlap in many cases.
"If we're asked to assist any
law enforcement organization,
we're certainly going to provide
our assistance," Frost said.
U.S. Attorney Matthew Roth
will represent the federal govern-
ment in the case. Roth could not
ask a question and then the GSI
is able to answer it," Epstine said.
"This is helpful for me because
questions are answered right on
the spot."
Smith said one of the drawbacks
to LectureTools is that participa-
tion in activities requires students
to have laptops or cell phones.
They must have power for their
devices for long periods of time,
as well as access to an Internet
connection or cell phone signal -
which is often difficult for large
lecture halls to accommodate -
according to Smith.
"Sometimes (my students are)
taking notes via LectureTools on
the Web, and they lose their Inter-
net connection," Smith said. "Or,
I'm asking them a question in class
- and they get credit for class par-
ticipation - and so the technology
has to work in order for that tobe
effective as a technique, and some-
times it doesn't work."
LSA sophomore Katarina Fabre
agreed that the LectureTools
technology has been somewhat
unreliable and difficult to use in
University lecture halls.
"(LectureTools) tends to be
very glitchy, and sometimes slides
are hidden and won't unhide,"
Fabre said. "It can be very frus-
trating and just slows down the
whole lecture."
McGinn said the University is
working on troubleshooting the
cell phone signal in lecture halls
be reached for comment as of yes-
terday evening.
Jenson is currently represent-
ed by Ann Arbor attorney Joseph
Simon as he faces state charges
of four counts of possessing child
sexually abusive material. How-
ever, in an interview yesterday
evening, Simon said he will not
represent Jenson in the federal
case, adding that the state charg-
es will most likely be dismissed at
Jenson's preliminary exam today
in Ann Arbor District Court.
to allow students who do not have
laptops or are not connected to
the Internet to participate in the
activities on their mobile phones:
Additionally, Samson said
his team has come up with two
potential solutions, both of which
would allow students to access
full lecture notes offline.
"One (idea) is simply a button
where at the end of class you can
save everything as a PDF, so you
can have your slides and your
notes and you can download them
to your computer, and when you
don't have Internet connection
you can study offline," Samson
said.
Samson added thatanother idea
to provide students with offline
access to notes would involve giv-
ing professors the option of auto-
matically e-mailing a PDF file
complete with slides and notes to
the class for future reference.
Samson said he hopes to have
a solution to fix the Internet fail-
ures in classrooms soon. He added
that LectureTools is undergo-
ing further development, and he
hopes that by next fall the website
will be incorporated into online
textbooks.
"As you're typing your notes in
class, we could be automatically
making hints or linkages between
the notes you're taking and the
information in your textbooks,"
Samson said. "We're just tryingto
think about what's next."
Keyes said she initially used
alcohol as a social lubricant
because the University has a sig-
nificant party culture.
"You should not think that
activities without alcohol are
'lame,"' she said. "You don't have
to be drunk all day to have fun."
Goldberg explained that
though he initially did not want
to be "that one guy" who broke
the mood by refraining from
drinking, he ultimately lost who
he considered his best friends
when he didn't participate.
"You figure out who your true
friends are," he said. "The people
in the program become your true
friends."
The panel of students empha-
sized that there does not need to
be a grand aim in life to recover
from addiction, but Cervi said
after her recovery, she began to
develop and exceed her goals.
"What recovery had given me
is hope, the opportunity for pos-
sibilities, and trust for myself,"
she said.
nightlife and added that she lives
with friends who still engage in
alcohol consumption and other
behaviors.
"There is alcohol in my freez-
er, and there are weed brownies
chilling on the counter," Keyes
said.
As a freshman, Goldberg said
not being able to go out to parties
and engage in typical collegiate
life last fall was tough at first.
"In the Notre Dame game, I
saw people who were wild," Gold-
berg said. "I was nearly in tears.
I wanted to drink so badly, and I
wanted to be part of it so badly."
Goldberg said the presence of
many young people in recovery
at the University has been help-
ful, explaining that most people
in the recovery program in his
hometown were over 40.
"You can relate (with similar-
aged peers) on so many levels," he
said. "It's like I found a home."
Cervi said she was surprised
that in Ann Arbor, she could not
drive two miles without running
into another member of the Col-
legiate Recovery Program, which.
helped her stay on track when
under pressure.
"It's like a little secret society,
it's a powerful connection," she
said. "Sometimes, that's all I need
to feel."
Smith agreed with Cervi, and
said her connection to individuals
in the program on campus keeps
her from using substances. She
also noted the tight-knit and sup-
portive environment to be a big
advantage.
"It's reassuringto see U-M pro-
fessors or other students working
at the University while recover-
ing from addiction," she said. "If
you want to get sober, all you need
to do is ask for help, there will be
people at your side."
Students also expressed that
the notion that one cannot have
an "authentic college experience"
without alcohol needs to change
and that other students should
also be open to talking about their
experiences.
"This event enables us to do so."
Alexanderaddedthat she hopes
studentswillfind inspirationfrom
the display as well.
"Say you're a student here and
you're studying - why you're here
is on the wall," Alexander said.
In her opening remarks, Alex-
ander thanked Catherine Soehner,
former director of the Shapiro Sci-
ence Library, for her efforts in the
display's creation and initiating
the project five years ago.
Sandra Arlinghaus, a professor
in the School of Natural Resourc-
es and Environment, expressed
excitement to see her own
research, which is also published
in Solstice: An Electronic Journal
of Geography and Mathematics,
hung in bright colors alongside
her colleagues' in the display.
"It's like going to a museum,"
said Arlinghaus.
Arlinghaus added that ' her
research display includes QR
codes, and she said she hopes stu-
dents will use their smart phones
to access her research and other
scientific work.
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