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an, a professor of ecology and 
evolutionary biology, did not 
favor the proposal to increase 
Rules Committee responsi-
bilities.

“From 
my 
perspective, 

when you start adding all 
of that extra responsibility, 
the jurisdiction expands and 
it becomes a big burden,” 
Lehman said.

While it was decided that 

the Tenure Committee would 
not be recommended for 
merger with the Rules Com-
mittee, it will be recommend-
ed that the Rules Committee 

be renamed the Rules, Prac-
tices and Policies Commit-
tee. This change would give 
the committee more leverage 
to deal with policy related 
issues.

SACUA also recommended 

the addition of two commit-
tees.

The 
Information 
Tech-

nology Committee was pro-
posed to address technology 
issues. SACUA also proposed 
the Buildings Facilities and 
Infrastructure Committee to 
confront matters within the 
University’s facilities.

The next Senate Assem-

bly meeting will be held Feb. 
16. The next SACUA meeting 
will be held Feb. 23.

to prescribe antibacterial medi-
cation.

Dr. Robert Winfield, chief 

health officer at the University 
Health Service, said e-mails are 
sent to UHS caregivers encour-
aging prescribing Tamiflu.

“Influenza peaked in the first 

week of January, and anybody 
coming in within 48 hours of 
getting sick will be treated with 
Tamiflu,” Winfield said. “Tami-
flu is a useful drug, but after 
four hours it tends to be inef-
fective.”

This 
research 
has 
been 

underway for the past several 
years and trials were conducted 
on more than 4,300 patients 
globally. The study employed 
a placebo-controlled design, 
where patients with placebo 
medication experienced their 
flu symptoms alleviated within 

123 hours — whereas those who 
took Tamiflu were remedied in 
98 hours.

“Observational studies were 

conducted 
with 
a 
double-

blind approach,” Monto said. 
“Neither the patients or the 
researchers were aware of the 
placement of placebo. It was 
done to reduce bias from the 
nature of observations.”

Researchers found the drug 

to be ineffective when admin-
istered to patients not carry-
ing the influenza virus, even if 
they show similar symptoms. 
The study also showed that use 
of pain-relief medications with 
Tamiflu reduced its success.

Though the study demon-

strated Tamiflu’s usefulness, 
Monto stressed the need for 
new 
antiviral 
medications 

that could shorten the dura-
tion of symptoms. He said it 
could be possible to combine 
different antivirals to achieve 
this goal.

ening the Statement to make 
it more “digestible” would 
allow 
students 
to 
“fully 

understand” their expecta-
tions as members of the Uni-
versity community.

While drafting the code, the 

task force plans to consult mem-
bers of the student body — in 
part by holding at least one open 
forum — as well as University 
administrators. Lustig said the 
task force would like to speak to 
members of Greek life and large 
student organizations like the 
Black Student Union, as well as 
the deans of different colleges 
and eventually, University Presi-
dent Mark Schlissel.

CSG representative Steven 

Halperin, an LSA sophomore, 
will serve as the task force’s vice 
chair.

“I wanted to become involved 

in the task force because I want-
ed to be a voice for students,” 
Halperin said. “I feel that it gets 
a little complicated and students 
sometimes get a little confused 
about what is permissible and 
what is not.”

The task force is also com-

prised of students outside of 
CSG.

“We reached out to large 

organizations 
and 
different 

schools within the University 
and tried to get students that 
represent the entire University,” 
Lustig said.

Kyle Lady, a member of Rack-

ham Student Government, will 
also serve on the team.

“I think there’s value in work-

ing on what’s out there and 
where shortcomings might be,” 
Lady said.

Violations of the Statement of 

Student Rights and Responsibil-
ities have garnered significant 
attention this semester. In Janu-
ary, six University Greek chap-
ters were suspended by their 
nationals for reportedly caus-
ing thousands of dollars worth 
of damage at two Michigan ski 
resorts. Sigma Alpha Mu, who 
attended a retreat weekend in 
Gaylord Mich. with Sigma Delta 
Tau, reportedly caused upwards 
of $100,000 in damage to several 
of the hotel’s rooms and com-
mon areas.

If 
found 
responsible 
by 

University disciplinary pro-
cedures, they could face sanc-
tions based on violations of the 
Statement.

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causing carbon footprint calcula-
tors to incorrectly estimate car-
bon dioxide uptake by crops like 
soybeans.

However, 
DeCicco 
remains 

optimistic for the future and 
believes that scientific critical 
analyses will help to remove these 
assumptions.

“I, alongside many research-

ers around the world, have 
begun peeling the layers of the 
onion,” he said. “It’s necessary 
because the scientific commu-
nity has made some erroneous 
decisions.”

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dents to look at race and hunger 
in Detroit from an angle they 
might not have thought about 
before.

“We just really wanted to 

focus on different areas of food 
justice,” she said. “Social justice 
doesn’t just happen one way, 
you can look at the same prob-
lem and have a lot of different 
solutions for it.”

Growing up, Hatinger, the 

garden coordinator, said he was 
the only biracial resident in a 
small Lansing suburb. He said 
he moved to Detroit to learn 
about a new culture that might 
subsequently help him learn 
more about himself. With his 
work in spirituality, agriculture 
and community development, 
he strives to bring together 
larger issues in the city like 
health, education and nutri-
tion.

Pothukuchi, who was raised 

in Mumbai, India, employs her 
work in architecture and com-
munity planning to find links 
between 
communities 
and 

their food systems. Similar to 
Hatinger, Pothukuchi noted 
the importance of address-
ing Detroit’s larger problems 
including water shutoffs, hous-
ing shortages and poor land 
quality.

“We don’t really plan for 

food, that thinking is shift-
ing partly due to the work my 
colleagues and I have done in 
raising 
awareness 
between 

the links between community 
planning and food systems 
and how integral those links 
are and how many community 
goals you can advance by inter-
vening in the food system,” she 
said.

A 
self-described 
activist 

since the age of 11, Amakisi 
became involved in food access 
work after noticing the mini-
mal knowledge Detroit resi-
dents had of cooking healthy 
meals and finding adequate 
ingredients to feed their fami-
lies.

Growing up in a family of 

farmers from the South, Amak-
isi said she realized the neces-
sity of relating to the Detroit 
residents she was trying to 
serve. To do so, she shifted 
the conversation to focus on 
the ways in which problems 
related to food access shaped 
other problems within the 
city.

“By growing food and these 

basic issues I’m also able to 
also get them involved in water 
rights, I’m also able to talk to 
them about neoliberalism and 
privatization and issues that 
relate to relate to their basic 
needs first,” she said.

The dialogue brought in the 

panelists’ 
backgrounds 
and 

their wide array of experienc-
es to help explain barriers to 
food accessibility within the 
city.

Pothukuchi, speaking from 

her experience as an urban 
planner and architect, used 
history and city development 
to help understand these bar-
riers.

She explained that though 

Detroit once housed various 
local, 
independently 
owned 

grocery stores, they were sold 
out by larger corporations like 
A&P, Kroger and Walmart — 
stores with buying power to 
bankrupt local growers and 
local sellers.

Furthermore, as aid from the 

federal government declined, 
the city took money from 
local elites and corporations 
while ignoring and neglecting 
exploited residents.

“You can talk about the cor-

ruption that politicians, about 
Kwame, you can talk about 
Kwame buying SUVs and the 
corruption, but Detroit did not 
cause the problems it experi-
ences,” Pothukuchi said.

Amakisi 
described 
the 

hardships residents face in 
the context of food accessibil-
ity, pointing to the way public 
schools take away food stamps 
if children miss too much 
school and the long distances 
residents often walk to reach 
gas stations that only sell pro-
cessed food.

Amakisi also mentioned 

the lack of knowledge resi-
dents in and out of the city 
have about growing and cook-
ing food, saying that training 
people to build their own gar-
dens and cook their own food 
can have a direct impact on 
developing and supporting 
the city.

Hatinger said power-holders 

like politicians and corpora-
tions oppressed residents by 
controlling the distribution and 
access to food and thus limit-
ing the resources of the general 
public. He added that learning 
about the dynamics of power 
and giving food resources back 
to the people is what propels 
him to do his work with agri-
culture in the city.

“It’s natural, it’s natural to 

every person on the globe and 
it’s more so about getting peo-
ple back in touch, letting them 
learn how to foster and sustain 
life”

The panel continued the dis-

cussion to help identify the con-
fluences of food and the city’s 
racial history.

Hatinger touched on the 

stigma of agriculture and farm-
ing Black residents may feel due 
to its historic connection with 
sharecropping and slavery.

Amakisi spoke on the way 

that the construction of free-
ways cut through thriving 
Black communities within the 
cities and the arrival of big 
businesses demolished exist-
ing homes and agricultural 
land.

LSA freshman Elena Mosher, 

who attended Monday’s panel, 
said the biggest takeaway was 
the larger role food accessibil-
ity plays in the more publicized 
problems within the city.

“One 
thing 
that’s 
really 

important is just realizing that, 
like one of them said, these 
problems aren’t the fault of the 
people in Detroit, it’s really part 
of the bigger food system and 
we need to work with educa-
tion and proactive movements 
to combat the oppression that 
has already occurred,” Mosh-
er said.

Public Policy junior Hattie 

McKinney said she felt a larger 
responsibility as a college stu-
dent to lead the movement 
to improve food resources 
and spread awareness of the 
potential harms that food 
consolidation brings to inner-
city residents like those in 
Detroit.

“Basically, 
what 
every-

one should know is that we 
should take more interest in 
where our food comes from, 
as well as what we can do 
to make it healthier, and to 
share with those who don’t 
have access to food at all,” 
she said.

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Millersville University students attend a candlelight vigil for slain student Karlie Hall. 
Boyfriend charged for 
college student’s death

Freshman arrested 

for homicide 

following autopsy

MILLERSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — 

The boyfriend of a college fresh-
man found dead in her dorm 
room was charged Monday with 
homicide after an autopsy found 
she had been severely beaten 
and strangled, during a struggle 
in which a prosecutor said she 
“fought for her life.”

Police officers responding to 

a 911 call early Sunday from the 
boyfriend, Gregorio Orrostieta, 
19, said they found him trying to 
administer CPR to Karlie Hall, 
18, his own face, hands and 
jeans smeared with blood, his 
shirt ripped, his chest scratched 
and his forehead cut, a police 
affidavit said.

Authorities believe the CPR 

was “completely fake,” and that 
Hall had already been dead for 
hours when Orrostieta called 
them to Millersville Univer-
sity, claiming the young woman 
had suffered a heart attack, 
said Lancaster County District 
Attorney Craig Stedman.

Questioned by police, Orros-

tieta said he shoved Hall, caus-
ing her to fall and hit her head 
on a chair, and then gave her a 
“back hand” to the face, the affi-
davit said. But he made no men-
tion of choking her.

“He’s responsible and we’re 

going to hold him accountable,” 
Stedman told a news confer-
ence to announce the homicide 
charge. He had been charged 
only with aggravated assault 
pending the autopsy.

“She fought for her life,” the 

prosecutor said.

The dorm’s video surveil-

lance confirmed that no one else 
entered or left the room during 
the time when a struggle was 
heard in the dorm room.

The couple, both from the 

Philadelphia suburbs, had been 

dating about 11 months.

Orrostieta, 
of 
Kennett 

Square, is not a Millersville stu-
dent. He was being held without 
bail. The prosecutor said he did 
not have a lawyer on record, and 
no one answered the door at his 
residence Monday afternoon.

Orrostieta told police that he 

and Hall, 18, of Chadds Ford, 
had argued at a party Saturday 
night and she had hit him, the 
affidavit said. They made up 
before returning to the dorm 
at around 1:30 a.m. and arguing 
again, the affidavit said. Sted-
man declined to say if there was 
a history of abuse.

Stedman 
said 
witnesses 

reported hearing yelling and 
the sound of furniture moving 
between 2 and 2:30 a.m., about 
the time authorities believe Hall 
was killed.

The dorm’s resident assistant 

knocked on the door, but no one 
answered and no further sound 
was heard, authorities said.

Police found Hall unrespon-

sive when they arrived at Bard 
Hall after getting the 911 call at 
about 5 a.m., authorities said.

Asked about the resident 

assistant not calling police, 
Stedman said: “They’re not 
criminal investigators. Their 
responsibility is ... to make sure 
there’s no more disturbances 
going on.”

“It’s something that we’ll 

look at,” he said while adding: 
“I don’t want in any way any-
body taking out of this press 
conference today that any-
body’s responsible for her death 
other than the defendant who’s 
charged.”

University 
spokeswoman 

Janet Kacskos said the RA was 
awoken by other residents who 
heard the noise. After knocking 
and not getting any response, 
she figured they had “quieted 
down,” Kacskos said.

In a note to students, Millers-

ville President John Anderson 
called Hall’s death “unfathom-

able.” “We’ve never had this 
happen. We’re a pretty bucolic, 
rural campus. Very safe,” Kacs-
kos said.

Hundreds of students attend-

ed an outdoor vigil for Hall 
Monday night at Millersville, an 
8,000-student state-owned uni-
versity. Standing in the rain and 
holding candles, many of them 
wept as they sang two hymns 
and campus minister Dwayne 
Netzler prayed, the Reading 
Eagle reported.

Friends said Hall was a 

finance 
major 
who 
always 

appeared happy and often spent 
her free time going to the gym 
or feeding ducks at a campus 
pond.

“I knew that the relation-

ship wasn’t that great,” said 
Hall’s friend, Trisha Faust, 19, of 
Emmaus. “It was on-again, off-
again.”

Molly Gaetano, 19, of Pitts-

burgh, who lived two doors 
down from Hall on the second 
floor of the three-story dormi-
tory, said she last spoke to her 
Friday.

“She never talked bad about 

anyone. She was always smiling 
and cheerful,” Gaetano said.

A memorial with flowers and 

cards was set up at Hall’s dorm 
room.

Hall and her twin sister, Kris-

tin, graduated from Unionville 
High School last June and went 
to Millersville together, Princi-
pal Paula Massanari said. The 
girls also have an older sister.

Hall was a member of the 

school rugby club and gay-
straight 
alliance, 
and 
she 

volunteered at an animal shel-
ter, Massanari said. She was 
described in a college recom-
mendation letter as a “hard-
working” student, who was 
working a part-time job to help 
offset the cost of college.

“This has certainly hit our 

school community very hard,” 
Massanari said. “We are devas-
tated by the loss.”

MOUNT PLEASANT, MICHIGAN 
CMU head coach 
plans for long career 

Like so many schools in the 

Mid-American 
Conference, 

Central Michigan faces a real 
challenge maintaining continuity 
in its football program.

Everyone wants a coach who 

wins — but win too much, and 
your coach becomes a candidate 
for other jobs pretty quickly.

In John Bonamego, CMU may 

have found someone who can buck 
that trend.

“I plan to win, win now, and 

be here for a very, very, very, very, 
very long time,” Bonamego said.

Bonamego 
was 
introduced 

as the Chippewas’ new coach 
Monday, his voice cracking with 
emotion 
almost 
immediately 

as he described his connection 
to the school where he was a 
player during the mid-1980s. 
The question now is whether his 
passion for CMU will translate to 
victories on the field in his return 
to college football after a lengthy 
stretch as an NFL assistant.

BOSTON, MASS.
Cities struggle after 
record snowfall 

More than 2 feet of fresh snow 

piled up in parts of New England 
on Monday, breaking records set 
during the Blizzard of 1978 and 
testing the patience of officials 
and commuters as forecasters 
warned of more winter misery 
later in the week.

The latest onslaught forced 

the cancellations of hundreds 
of flights, tested transit systems 
and tempers, and collapsed roofs 
straining beneath the weight of 5 
feet or more of snow that has fall-
en in less than two weeks.

“It’s awful. I’m done with it. It’s 

ridiculous,” said Priscilla Medina, 
a sandwich shop worker in West-
borough, 
Massachusetts, 
suf-

fering from a nasty case of snow 
fatigue.

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN 
Drone strike kills 
Islamic State Leader

The top recruiter for the Islamic 

State group’s affiliate in Afghani-
stan was killed by a drone strike 
Monday, local officials said, mark-
ing the first such attack on the 
extremist group in a volatile coun-
try where it has a small but grow-
ing following.

U.S. officials said a total of eight 

people were killed in the drone 
strike, but could not confirm the 
Islamic State recruiter’s death.

The deputy governor of the 

southern Helmand province iden-
tified the recruiter as Abdul Rauf, 
saying he and others were killed 
when a drone-fired missile struck 
their car.

The attack would appear to deal 

a blow to the Islamic State group’s 
efforts to develop a local affiliate to 
challenge the long-dominant Taliban.

Last month, Afghan tribal lead-

ers and Western intelligence ana-
lysts told The Associated Press that 
Abdul Rauf was the top Islamic 
State recruiter in Helmand. Rauf 
had been held in the Guantanamo 
Bay detention center in Cuba for 
his involvement with the Taliban.

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA 
Prime minister 
maintains powers 

Australia’s beleaguered Prime 

Minister Tony Abbott emerged 
politically wounded after with-
standing a leadership challenge 
from within his own party Monday, 
with many analysts doubting he can 
survive to lead his conservative gov-
ernment to next year’s elections.

The polarizing leader’s grip on 

power has slipped since last month 
when he drew widespread criticism 
for making Queen Elizabeth II’s 
93-year-old husband, Prince Philip, 
an Australian knight on Australia’s 
national day. Many saw it as an 
insult to worthy Australians. 

Abbott, in office less than a year-

and-a-half, survived a move by dis-
gruntled Liberal Party members 
calling for a secret ballot to decide 
who would be prime minister.

—Compiled from 
Daily wire reports 

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