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THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

Mental health is a major
concern
for
college

students,
though
it

appears women may be at
greater
risk.
This
week,

the Statement looks at the
methods used to treat such
disorders.
>> FOR MORE, SEE STATEMENT

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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Multicultural
discussion

WHAT: Three panelists will
discuss spirituality, religion
and health in different
cultures.
WHO: Student
Organization: Spirituality
Religion and Health
WHEN: Today at 3 p.m.
WHERE: SPH II, Room
M1122

Armenian
history
WHAT: A workshop aimed
at reinventing how to teach
Armenian history so it
appeals to wider audiences.
WHO: Armenian Stud-
ies Program, Center for
South Asian Studies
WHEN: Today from
1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: School of
Social Work Building

Gemini concert

WHAT: Michigan duo San
and Laz Slomovits will play
covers, as well as their own
songs and poetry set to
music.
WHO: Michigan Union
Ticket Office
WHEN: Today at 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Ark, 316 S.
Main

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New York City Mayor
Bill de Blasio visited
Paris on Tuesday to pay

his respects after the recent
terror attacks which left 17
people dead, the New York
Times reported.
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Productivity
workshop

WHAT: In this seminar,
attendees will learn how to
pinpoint the distractions that
interfere with productivity
and learn how to increase
productivity while reducing
stress
WHO: Human Resource
Development
WHEN: Today from 9 a.m.
to 12 p.m.
WHERE: Administration
Services Building

The AirAsia flight which
crashed in the Java Sea
climbed
too
quickly,

causing
the
aircraft

to
stall,
said
Indonesia’s

transport
minister.
A

preliminary crash report is
expected later this month,
BBC News reported.

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Ta-Nehisi
Coates lecture

WHAT: Ta-Nehisi Coates,
an Atlanic senior editor and
writer, will speak about the
issue of race in America.
WHO: Institute for Research
on Women and Gender
WHEN: Today at 5:10 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham
Graduate School
Auditorium

Climate change
litigation

WHAT: Raymond
Ludwiszewski, partner in
the Washington, DC, office
of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher,
will be speaking about
climate change litigation.
WHO: Michigan Law
Environmental Law and
Policy Program
WHEN: Today at 11:50 a.m.
WHERE: South Hall, Room
1020

Official warnings
come over two days
after 50,000 gallons

of oil leaked

GLENDIVE,
Mont.
(AP)

— Eastern Montana residents
rushed to stock up on bottled
water Tuesday after authori-
ties detected a cancer-causing
component of oil in public water
supplies downstream of a Yellow-
stone River pipeline spill.

Elevated levels of benzene

were found in water samples
from a treatment plant that
serves about 6,000 people in the
agricultural community of Glen-
dive, near North Dakota.

Scientists from the federal

Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention said the ben-
zene levels were above those
recommended
for
long-term

consumption, but did not pose a
short-term health hazard. Resi-
dents were warned not to drink
or cook with water from their
taps.

Some criticized the timing of

Monday’s advisory, which came
more than two days after 50,000
gallons of oil spilled from the
12-inch Poplar pipeline owned by
Wyoming-based Bridger Pipeline
Co. The spill occurred about 5
miles upstream from the city.

Adding to the frustrations was

uncertainty over how long the
water warning would last. Also,
company and government offi-
cials have struggled to come up
with an effective way to recover
the crude, most of which appears
to be trapped beneath the ice-
covered Yellowstone River.

A mechanical inspection of the

damaged line Tuesday revealed
the breach occurred directly
beneath the river, about 50 feet
from the south shore, Bridger
Pipeline spokesman Bill Salvin
said.

The cause remained undeter-

mined.

By Tuesday, oil sheens were

reported as far away as Williston,

North Dakota, below the Yellow-
stone’s confluence with the Mis-
souri River, officials said.

“It’s scary,” said 79-year-old

Mickey Martini of Glendive. “I
don’t know how they’re going to
take care of this.”

Martini said she first noticed a

smell similar to diesel fuel com-
ing from her tap water Monday
night. Officials previously didn’t
know whether the spill happened
beneath the iced-over river or
somewhere on the riverbank.

Martini said she was unable

to take her daily medicines for a
thyroid condition and high cho-
lesterol until she picked up water
from a public distribution center
later in the day.

Representatives from the state

and the U.S. Environmental Pro-
tection Agency earlier said pre-
liminary monitoring of the city’s
water showed no cause for con-
cern. The water treatment plant
operated until Sunday afternoon,
more than 24 hours after pipeline
operator Bridger Pipeline discov-
ered the spill, officials said.

Additional tests were conduct-

ed early Monday after residents
began complaining of the petro-
leum- or diesel-like smell from
their tap water. That’s when the
high benzene levels were found.

Benzene in the range of 10 to

15 parts per billion was detected
from the city’s water, said Paul
Peronard with the EPA. Any-
thing above 5 parts per billion is
considered a long-term risk, he
said.

Peronard acknowledged prob-

lems in how officials addressed
the city’s water supply, includ-
ing not having the right testing
equipment on hand right away
to pick up contamination. But
Peronard and others involved in
the spill response said officials
acted based on the best informa-
tion available.

“Emergencies don’t work in

a streamlined fashion,” said
Bob Habeck with the Montana
Department of Environmental
Quality. “It’s a process of discov-
ery and response.”

Several residents interviewed

by The Associated Press said they
first heard about the water prob-
lems through friends and social
media sites, not the official advi-
sory.

“They could have been more

on top of it,” Whitney Schipman
said as she picked up several cases
of bottled water for her extended
family from a water distribution
center. “As soon as there was a
spill, they should have told every-
body.”

Officials took initial steps Tues-

day to decontaminate the water
system. Glendive Mayor Jerry
Jimison said it was unknown
when the water treatment plant
would be back in operation.

Until that happens, Salvin said

the company will provide 10,000
gallons of drinking water a day
to Glendive.

The company established a

hotline for people with ques-
tions about the water supply and
to report any wildlife injured by
the spill: (888) 959-8351.

Another pipeline spill along

the Yellowstone River in Mon-
tana released 63,000 gallons
of oil in July 2011. An Exxon
Mobil Corp. pipeline broke dur-
ing flooding, and oil washed up
along an 85-mile stretch of riv-
erbank.

Exxon Mobil faces state and

federal fines of up to $3.4 million
from the spill. The company has
said it spent $135 million on the
cleanup and other work.

The Poplar pipeline involved

in Saturday’s spill runs from
Canada to Baker, Montana, pick-
ing up crude along the way from
Montana and North Dakota’s
Bakken oil-producing region.

The pipeline receives oil at

four points in Montana: Poplar
Station in Roosevelt County,
Fisher and Richey stations in
Richland County, and at Glen-
dive in Dawson County. The
section of pipeline that crosses
the Yellowstone River was last
inspected in 2012, in response to
the Exxon accident, according to
company officials.

Oil pipeline spills into water
supply of Montana residents

Nutrition information readily
available on new dining hall app

The app uses the
same data as online
MyNutrition tool

BY IRENE PARK

Daily Staff Reporter

For students with dietary

restrictions, eating in University
dining halls just got easier.

In December, the University

of Michigan application added
nutrition facts for the food
served at University dining halls.
Now, students can access infor-
mation about food allergens of
individual items through the
dining section of the app.

Kathryn Whiteside, assistant

director of Michigan Dining,
said the new app function had
been in development for a few
years before coming to fruition.

Michigan Dining had already

developed an online tool called
MyNutrition, which allows stu-
dents to see the nutrition facts of

the dining hall food served that
day, up to a week in advance. The
same data used for MyNutrition
were used for the Michigan app.

“All the data were in our data-

base, so it was an easy transi-
tion,” Whiteside said.

According to Whiteside, the

idea initially started from an
effort to make nutrition informa-
tion more accessible and avail-
able to the students.

“We are always trying to

stay ahead of the curve,” Whi-
teside said. “Anything to get
the (nutrition) information out
there for the students is good.”

The dining hall nutrition

facts can now also be accessed
from the MyFitnessPal app,
which helps its users to self-
monitor their calorie intake.

Sarah Ball, senior research

area specialist at the Michigan
Metabolic and Obesity Center,
wrote in an e-mail interview
that increasing student aware-
ness of the nutrition facts for
dining hall food because the

students do not make the food
themselves.

“When we eat outside of

our homes, we often choose
items blindly, not really know-
ing what is in them,” Ball said.
“That is okay for someone eat-
ing out a few times a week, but
for the students, it is all meals,
so knowing what you are eating
is particularly important.”

Ball also said the informa-

tion will help students plan
meals ahead and avoid the con-
sequences of impulse decisions.

LSA
sophomore
Morgan

Grantner wrote in an e-mail
interview that the availability
of the nutrition facts is espe-
cially useful for students with
dietary restrictions or food
allergies.

“You can see the exact ingre-

dients in the food,” Grantner
said. “Without these online
menus or apps, it would be
difficult to eat at dining halls
because there would be no
method of planning, which is
usually necessary when trying
to avoid allergens.”

However, Grantner also said

the choices for people with food
allergies and dietary restrictions
are sometimes sparse in the din-
ing halls, which can lead to stu-
dents opting out of meal plans.

“It’s often very easy for me

to go to a store and find a des-
ignated gluten-free section or
go to a restaurant and ask for
a gluten-free menu,” Grantner
said. “However, my experience
eating at the dining halls last
year was not as easy. I lived at
West Quad last year, and all
that I would ever (attempt to)
eat were the burritos with glu-
ten-free shells. And even then,
those would fall apart on con-
tact. The meal plan was just not
worth it for me.”

Currently, users can only

access nutrition facts on din-
ing hall food items. Michigan
Dining is working toward pro-
viding the nutrition facts for all
retail venues in Michigan Din-
ing, such as Java Blue or Mujo
Café.

TUESDAY:

Campus Voices

THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

MONDAY:

This Week in History

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

MAYOR TAYLOR
IN OTHER IVORY TOWERS

Harvard-affiliated doctor in

critical condition

after shooting

A shooting occurred Tuesday

morning at the Harvard-affiliat-
ed Brigham and Women’s Hos-
pital in Boston. The suspected
shooter is dead and the doctor
who the police believe was his
target is in critical condition
after sustaining at least two gun-
shot wounds, The Harvard Crim-
son reported Tuesday.

At a press conference Tues-

day, Boston Police Commissioner
William B. Evans said the offi-
cers searched the facility before
finding the alleged shooter inside
an examining room.

Evans said in this examining

room, they found the shooter
dead with a weapon lying next to
him. He also went on to say that
the authorities suspect that this
specific physician was targeted
for a reason that is currently
unclear.

Evans commended the first

responders, who “did everything
they could to neutralize not only
the situation but also get the care
to that doctor.”

Student protest shuts down

San Mateo-Hayward Bridge

Stanford
University
stu-

dents and various community
members shut down the San
Mateo-Hayward Bridge Monday
morning call for demilitariza-

tion of local law enforcement and
repurposing law enforcement
funds to support community-
based alternatives to incarcera-
tion, The Stanford Daily reported
Monday.

The demonstration included

an attempt to block the west-
bound entrance of the bridge for
28 minutes.

The demonstrators formed

a line blocking traffic as they
chanted slogans and displayed
signs protesting police brutality.

Not long after the demonstra-

tion began, California Highway
Patrol officers approached the
line of protestors and placed all
68 in custody at the side of the
bridge.

— ALEX SUGERMAN

Doctor in critical condition

BRIAN BECKWITH/Daily

Ann Arbor Mayor Chris Taylor speaks during the City
Council meeting at the Municipal Building Tuesday.

Concise writing
workshop

WHAT: Participants will
learn to write clear and cor-
rect e-mails, reports and let-
ters for a professional setting.
WHO: Human Resource
Development
WHEN: Today from
1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
WHERE: Administrative
Services Building

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Fraternities
cause damage

BY LINDSEY SCULLEN

THE WIRE

Three University frater-

nities caused $50,000 in
damages to two ski resorts
in
northern
Michigan.

Damages included broken
walls and felled ceiling tiles
around the hotel.