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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

ZACH MOORE/Daily

YC the Cynic performs at A Night of Art, Hip-Hop and Activism hosted by Hip Hop Congress and FOKUS at the UMMA Thursday.

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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