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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 
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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.

