w 2A - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com MONDAY: > USDAY: WEDNEDAY: H M AY: FRID~AY InOhe vory Tow is ee nHistory C .pu .ubs PrfesorPoIe5 Phtos of teWe 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JOSEPH LICHTERMAN RACHEL GREINETZ Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-418-4115 ext. 1252 734-418-4115 ext. 1241 lichterman@michigandaily.com rmgrein@michigandaily.com Don't worry, be happy 6 I For Engineering. senior Grant Schroll, the co-founder of the Happiness Initiative, the club isn't about hugs and good feelings - it's about implementing change in peo- ple's lives. "What we aim to do is to provide an environment and resources for college students to get together and talk about issues that lead to genuine, wholehearted happiness in our lives," Schroll said. It may sound idyllic, but the University's chapter of the nationwide Happiness Initia- tive is planning a variety of ways to bring its in-house techniques to the student CRIME NOTES body. Though the club was just developed last year by Schroll, LSA senior Yianni Ellenikiotis and Engineering senior Pete Wangwongwiroj, it has since grown to approxi- mately 20 regular members per meeting. One of the most recent activities the group complet- ed was a journaling of their positive weekly experiences. Schroll said when the group came together and discussed their findings, group mem- bers reported everything from decreased stress to bet- ter sleep because everything felt more "lighthearted." "When they actually took the time to think about how their experiences were good or meaningful, they tended to be happier and they tended to have more meaningful inter- actions with people," Schroll said. He added that later this year the group will partner with other campus organiza- tions and the Office of Student Affairs to sponsor "Happi- ness Week" activities. Later, the Happiness Initiative will also sponsor an "open-forum" TedX style event for students to share their "inspiring and unique stories." -PETER SHAHIN Newsroom 734-418-4115aopt.3 Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Arts Section arts@michigandaily.com Sports Section sports@michigandaity.com Display Sales display@michigandaity.com Online Sales onlineads@michigandaily.com News Tips .news@michigandaily.com Letters to the Editor tothedaity@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Photography Section photo@michigandaily.com Classified Sales classified@m ichigandaily.com Finance finance@michigandaily.om PAUL SHERMAN/Daily Rackham student Eleanor Coyle participates in a free skate at Yost Ice Arena Tuesday. CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Smokin' on a Triple threat Annual lecture Climate rainy day WHERE: Medical Scinece Building Unit 2 WHEN: Monday at about 11:20 a.m. WHAT: Rainwater leaked into an electrical conduit, University-Police reported. The box began smoking and the building was evacuated as a precaution. Softball shouting WHERE: Alumni Softball Field WHEN: Tuesday at about 1:30 a.m. WHAT: Officers responded to a call about two men having an oral argument, University Police reported. There was no assault. WHERE: North Campus Research Complex WHEN: Monday at about 11:40 a.m. WHAT: Three cars were involved in an off-road accident, University Police reported. There were no injuries reported and there is no estimate of damage available. Off air WHERE: University Golf Course Club House WHEN: Monday at about 12:10 p.m. WHAT: A flat-screen television was stolen from the golf course clubhouse overnight, University Police reported. There were no signs of a forced entry and there are no suspects. WHAT: The Todd Quida AnnualLecture in Child- hood Axiety and Depression will feature Mary Fristad; who will speak about non- drug treatment of child- hood mood disorders. WHO: Depression Center WHEN: Today at 10:30 a.m. WHERE: Rachel Upjohn Building, Depression Center Auditorium Human rights speech WHAT: Pavel Khordorkovsy, president of the Institute of Modern Russia, will speak about human rights in the eastern European country. WHO: Center for Russian, East European, and Eur- asian Studies. WHEN: Today at 4 p.m. WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library, room 100. change talk WHAT: Inroyono Soesilo, a minister of the Republic of Indonesia and a senior Ful- bright fellow, will discuss the role of the Indonesian Archipelago in regards to climate change. WHO: Center for Southeast Asian Studies WHEN: Today at 2:30 p.m. WHERE: Duderstadt Center Psych advising WHAT: Psychology concentration advisers and career advisers will be on hand for dual advising appointments. WHO: Undergraduate Psy- chology Office WHEN: Today from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. WHERE: East Hall, Undergraduate Psychology Office A Coneticut woman was charged with Driv- ing Under the Influence and failure to drive properly after she chugged half a large bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer, the Huffington Post reported. The woman regis- tered a.17 blood alochol level. Computer science stu- dents are being heav- ily recruited by major companies for their unique talents. >FOR MORE, SEE THE STATEMENT INSIDE 3A California man was cooked to death while working at a seafood plant, NBC News reported. A state Occupational Safety and Health spokeswoman said the man was "fatally injured when he was cooked in an oven," but it's not clear why he was in the oven. 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The outbreak has killed at least 15 people and sickened more than 200 others in 15 states. Nearly all the victims had received steroid injections for back pain. Federal and state investiga- tors have been tightlipped about any problems they may have seen at the New England Com- *Ef pounding Center or whether they have pinpointed the source of the contamination. They did disclose last week that they found fungus in more than 50 vials from the pharmacy. Company spokesman Andrew Paven said by email that crimi- nal investigators from the Food and Drug Administration were at the pharmacy in Framing- ham, Mass., on Tuesday. The visit was part of a broad federal and state investigation of the outbreak, FDA spokesman Ste- ven Immergut said in an email.- New England Compounding has not commented on its pro- duction process or what }night have gone wrong, so outside experts can only speculate. But the betting money seems to be on dirty conditions, faulty sterilizing equipment, tainted ingredients or sloppiness on the part of employees. The drug at the center of the investigation is made without preservative, meaning there's no alcohol or other solution in 5-m it to kill germs such as a fungus. So it's very important that it be made under highly sterile condi- tions, experts said. Compounding pharmacies aren't as tightly regulated as drug company plants, but they are supposed to follow certain rules: Clean the floors and other surfaces daily; monitor air in "clean rooms" where drugs are made; require employees to wear gloves and gowns; test samples from each lot. The rules are in the U.S. Phar- macopeia, a kind of national standards book for compound- ing medicines that's written by a nonprofit scientific organiza- tion. Most inspections, though, are handled by state boards of pharmacy. Massachusetts last inspected New England Com- pounding in March in response to a complaint unrelated to the outbreak; the results have not been released. High-volume production of the sort that went on at New England Compounding also raises the chances of contami- nation, experts said. Traditionally, compounding pharmacies fill special orders placed by doctors for individual patients, turning out maybe five or six vials. But many medical practices and hospitals place large orders to have the medi- cines on hand for their patients. That's allowed in at least 40 states but not under Massachu- setts regulations. Last month, New England Compounding recalled three lots of steroids made since May that totaled 17,676 single-dose vials of medicine - roughly equivalent to 20 gallons. "I don't see it as appropri- ate for a community pharmacy to do a batch of something pre- servative-free in numbers in the thousands" of doses, said Lou Diorio, a New Jersey-based consultant to compounding pharmacies. Diorio, who has no connection to the investigation or the company, said it is harder to keep everything sterile when working with large amounts. .0 A woman shows her passport and that of her son to reporters as she leaves an immigration office io Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Oct 16, 2012. Cuban citizs now allowed to travel abroad without exit visas Policy reverses 50 year old rule preventing free foreign travel HAVANA (AP) - The Cuban government announced Tues- day that it will eliminate a half- century-old restriction that requires citizens to get an exit visa to leave the country. The decree that takes effect Jan. 14 will eliminate a much- loathed bureaucratic procedure that has keptmany Cubans from traveling or moving abroad. "These measures are truly substantial and profound," said Col. Lamberto Fraga, Cuba's deputy chief of immigration, at a morning news conference. "What we are doing is not just cosmetic." Under the new measure announced in the Communist Party daily Granma, islanders will only have to show their passport and a visa from the country they are traveling to. It is the most significant advance this year in President Raul Castro's five-year plan of reforms that has already seen the legalization of home and car sales and a big increase in the number of Cubans owning private businesses. Migration is a highly politi- cized issue in Cuba and beyond its borders. Under the "wet foot, dry foot" policy, the United States allows nearly all Cubans who reach its territory to remain. Granma published an edito- rial blaming the travel restric- tions imposed in 1961 on U.S. attempts to topple the island's government, plant spies and recruit its best-educated citi- zens. "It is because of this that any analysis of Cuba's problematic migration inevitably passes through the policy of hostility that the U.S. government has developed against the country for more than 50 years," the editorial said. It assured Cubans that the government recognizes their right to travel abroad and said the new measure is part of "an irreversible process of normal- ization of relations between emigrants and their homeland." The decree still imposes lim- its on travel by many Cubans. People cannot obtain a pass- port or travel abroad without permission if they face crimi- nal charges, if the trip affects national security or if their departure would affect efforts to keep qualified labor in the country. Doctors, scientists, mem- bers of the military and others considered valuable parts of society currently face restric- tions on travel to combat brain drain. "The update to the migra- tory policy takes into account the right of the revolutionary State to defend itself from the interventionist and subversive plans of the U.S. government and its allies," the newspaper said. "Therefore, measures will remain to preserve the human capital created by the Revolution in the face of the theft of talent applied by the powerful." On the streets of Havana, the news was met with a mixture of delight and astonishment. Offi- cials over the years often spoke of their desire to lift the exit visa, but talk failed to turn into concrete change. "No! Wow, how great!" said Mercedes Delgado, a 73-year- old retiree when told of the news that was announced overnight. "Citizens' rights are being restored."