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GREEK LIFE
Sigma Alpha Mu
reprimanded by
nationals for causing
extensive damage
By AMABEL KAROUB
Daily News Editor
The Sigma Alpha Mu national
office has suspended the Uni-
versity’s chapter after several of
its members reportedly caused
thousands of dollars worth of
damage at a northern Michigan
ski resort over the weekend.
The Sigma Alpha Mu frater-
nity caused $50,000 worth of
damage at Treetops Resort in
Gaylord, Mich., according to the
resort’s manager. Members from
several other University Greek
Life chapters also caused dam-
age at Boyne Highlands, a ski
resort in Harbor Springs, Mich.
Thursday evening the Uni-
versity released the names of
five additional Greek Life sorori-
ties and fraternities allegedly
involved in the incidents at the
Treetops Resort or Boyne High-
lands over the weekend.
The chapters at Treetops
Resort were the fraternity Sigma
Alpha Mu and the sorority Sigma
Delta Tau. At Boyne Highlands,
fraternities Pi Kappa Alpha
and Chi Psi and sororities Delta
Gamma and Alpha Phi were
present. The University is cur-
rently investigating the involve-
ment of these members in the
damage at the resorts.
In the statement, University
spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald
said the suspension of SAM
would include meetings, chapter
events, philanthropy, recruit-
ment,
candidate
education,
social activities and other Greek
life activities on the Ann Arbor
campus.
“The university’s Office of
Greek Life is asking the national
offices of the other five Greek
‘U’ doctors to offer
services at Hamilton
Community Health
Network
By NABEEL CHOLLAMPAT
Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan
Health System is expanding
urology services to Flint.
UMHS announced Monday it
will begin providing specialty-
level urology consultations and
care to patients at a new clinic
in Flint beginning Jan. 28. The
clinic will be housed within the
Hamilton Community Health
Network.
According to the press release,
the clinic will operate on the
fourth
Wednesday
of
every
month. John Stoffel, associate
professor of urology, and John
Wei, professor of urology, will
alternate seeing patients.
In the statement, Michael Gia-
calone Jr., chief medical officer
at Hamilton Community Health
Network, said he was satisfied
with the new partnership.
“I’m very pleased that the
U-M Department of Urology has
decided to locate their new clinic
in our facility,” he wrote. “Now
— in addition to the many other
medical, dental, vision, and
pharmacy services we already
provide — we’ll also be able to
connect patients who have com-
plex urologic conditions with
Michigan’s world-class experts
who specialize in these areas.”
The University’s urology clin-
ic is ranked 14th in the country
by U.S. News and World Report,
and the University’s urology
residency program was recently
ranked 7th in the country by
physicians on Doximity, a net-
working website for physicians.
The clinic where UMHS will
operate is a Federally Qualified
Health Center, a place for indi-
viduals who are under-insured
or uninsured. It has already
hosted University students doing
internal medicine rotations, as
well as a University OB/GYN.
UMHS is partnered with
over 20 other health systems
and medical practices across the
state, offering specialty outreach
clinics. The clinic at HCHN is
one of a number of recent part-
nerships for UMHS, the most
notable of which is the alliance
with Allegiance Health, signed
in late 2013.
In an interview with The
Michigan Daily Thursday, Wei
said UMHS expansion is good
for the state because it provides
more treatment options for resi-
dents.
“Geography is important for a
number of reasons, one of which
is that the University has a lot of
expertise that elsewhere in the
state, they don’t have,” he said.
“This isn’t the first time we’re
reaching out. A lot of this is also
just doing the right thing for peo-
ple. It kind of is, in some sense,
just doing good.”
Wei will see more male
patients on average, while Stof-
fel specializes in working with
female patients, though the
two do switch from time to
time. Urologic conditions that
will be treated include benign
University alum’s
donation to advance
stem cell research,
search for a cure
By ANASTASSIOS
ADAMOPOULOS
Daily Staff Reporter
A few years ago, University
alum Brooke Kendrick pursued in
vitro fertilization to conceive her
first child. Now, her excess embry-
os are helping researchers study
the neurological disorder adreno-
leukodystrophy.
Kendrick, a carrier of the dis-
order, was able to prevent her son
from being born with ALD through
in vitro fertilization. The process
allows the physician to detect the
embryos that carry the disease and
separate them from the healthy
embryos, which are then used for
conception.
Rather than disposing the dis-
ease-affected embryos, the Ken-
dricks decided to donate them
through the ALD Foundation to
the University’s MStem Cell Labo-
ratories. Kendrick said she and her
husband wanted to let the public
know about ALD and contribute to
the search for a cure.
“I wanted to do whatever I
could to help, to educate people on
it,” Kendrick said. “And the best
possible outcome came from this,
I mean they were able to use the
embryo to derive the cell line and
could figure out why children get
it.”
ALD is a genetically transmit-
ted disease that damages nerves
Congresswoman
hopes to create
new jobs, improve
education funding
By EMMA KINERY
Daily Staff Reporter
With only a few weeks in
Congress under her belt, U.S.
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D–Mich.)
has several initiatives planned.
Dingell hopes to help create
new jobs in Michigan, boost the
middle class and improve high-
er education during her term,
she said in an exclusive inter-
view with The Michigan Daily
Thursday.
Dingell took over her hus-
band John Dingell’s seat in
Michigan’s 12th Congressional
District, which includes Ann
Arbor, two weeks ago when
the 114th session of Congress
commenced. Dingell is the first
woman to succeed her husband
in Congress while he is still liv-
ing.
She emphasized that in every
position she has held during her
career, she has always been a
woman leader in a male-dom-
inated atmosphere, forcing her
to work hard to overcome the
stereotypes associated with
that dynamic. This session
there are 84 women in the U.S.
House out of 435 seats.
“I’ve been someone that’s
always out there that’s trying to
ensure that women are treated
equally,” Dingell said. “I’ve
worked just as hard — some-
times I feel like I’ve had to work
three times as hard — than the
person next to me.”
To aspiring female leaders,
Dingell said it was important
for women to work together
with one another, adding that
the younger generation does a
better job than women in her
generation.
As a representative, she
identified several legislative
priorities for the upcoming
term, including creating new
jobs and continuing to build the
economy in Michigan. A former
vice chairman of the General
Motors Foundation and execu-
tive director of Global Commu-
nity Relations and Government
Relations at GM, she specifical-
ly noted a desire to help diver-
sify Michigan’s economy.
“While the auto industry has
been the backbone of Michi-
gan’s economy, we need to
try to attract new industries,”
Gov. Snyder to
propose plans
to address fiscal
shortfall in February
By JACK TURMAN
Daily Staff Reporter
A few days after Republican
Gov. Rick Snyder’s State of the
State address, the Snyder admin-
istration has turned its attention
to the budget.
Last week, the House Fiscal
Agency projected a $454.4 mil-
lion deficit in the state’s general
budget due to an unexpectedly
high number of businesses cash-
ing in previously allocated tax
credits. A later estimate released
by the state’s Budget Director
John Roberts reported the pro-
jected deficit was $325 million for
the state’s general fund for 2015.
Along with a smaller projected
shortfall in this fiscal year’s bud-
get, net general fund revenues are
now projected to be $532 million
short of what officials expected
for the 2016 fiscal year.
In an interview with The
Michigan Daily, Thursday, Rep.
Adam Zemke (D–Ann Arbor)
said the implications of the defi-
cit aren’t clear yet, but the state
has to be cautious in using the
general fund due to its flexibility.
“It’s something that we can
shift money around,” he said. “It’s
unclear for sure what is going to
happen at this point.”
However, Zemke, the vice
chairman of the House Educa-
tion committee, said some leg-
islators are pushing to ensure
higher education funding will not
see a large loss and will be main-
tained at adequate levels.
Dr. Michael Boulus, execu-
tive director of the Presidents
Council, State Universities of
Michigan, expressed similar sen-
timents in an interview Thurs-
day.
Boulus said it’s difficult to
know where Snyder will make
HOSPITAL
RESEARCH
GOVERNMENT
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BINGO!
See FRATERNITY, Page 3
See STEM CELL, Page 3
See DINGELL, Page 3
See UROLOGY, Page 3
See BUDGET, Page 3
HIP HOP ACTIVISM
Fraternity
suspended
for resort
vandalism
State budget deficit could
impact higher education
UMHS opens
urology clinic
in Flint, Mich.
Rep. Dingell plans several
initiatives for start of term
MStem lab
studies ALD
disorder with
gifted embryo
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