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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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