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This week, the Arts 
section 
explores 

the offices of The 

Every Three Weekly, the 
University’s 
premiere 

satirical 
newspaper. 
It’s 

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as often.”
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Gifts of Art 
performance 

WHAT: The Vocal Arts 
Ensemble of Ann Arbor will 
perform Choral Songs of 
Love. 
WHO: Gifts of Art 
WHEN: Today from 12:10 
p.m to 1 p.m.
WHERE: University 
Hospital Main Lobby 

Medical School 
workshop 

WHAT: This workshop 
will give advice to students 
interested in attending 
medical school about writing 
their personal statement. 
WHO: The Career Center 
WHEN: Today from 
12 p.m. to 1 p.m. 
WHERE: The Career Center 

Poetry reading 

WHAT: Poet Jean Valentine 
will give a poetry reading. 
WHO: University of 
Michigan Museum of Art 
WHEN: Today from 5:10 
p.m. to 6:10 p.m. 
WHERE: Museum of Art 
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President 
Obama 

sent Congress a draft 
legislation asking for the 

use of military force against 
ISIS, NBC News reported. 
He asked for the force be 
limited to three years but did 
not restrict it to any specific 
geographic location. 

1

Family Night 
in Pierpont 

WHAT: An event for 
graduate students with 
children. Crafts, food, and 
games will be provided. 
WHO: Center for Campus 
Involvement
WHEN: Today from 5 p.m. 
to 7 p.m. 
WHERE: Pierpont 
Commons 

The Jackie Robinson 
West 
team 
has 

been stripped of it’s 
2014 
Little 
League 

championship 
title, 
The 

Chicago Tribune reported. 
The team allegedly used a 
false boundary map to fill the 
team with suburban players. 

3

Director’s talk

WHAT: Filmmaker 
Matthew Torne will 
give a talk about his 
documentary, “Lessons in 
Dissent,” 
WHO: Center for Chinese 
Studies 
WHEN: Today from 3:30 
p.m to 5:30 p.m. 
WHERE: School of Social 
Work, Room 1840 

Innovation 
celebration 

WHAT: A celebration 
of students involved in 
innovation, creativity, 
and entrepreneurship on 
campus. 
WHO: Innovate Blue 
WHEN: Today from 5 p.m. 
to 7 p.m. 
WHERE: Michigan Union, 
Rogel Ballroom 

Trading 
simulation 

WHAT: BP America will host 
a trading simulation that will 
serve as a learning platform to 
understand energy markets. 
WHO: The Career Center 
WHEN: Today from 11 
a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Ross School of 
Business, Room R0400 

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Art & Design junior Julia Callis prepares a monotype 
print as part of an advanced independent study in 
printmaking at the Art & Architecture Building’s 
printmaking studio Wednesday. 
“

LSA queried students on their 
favorite place to eat pizza at in honor 
of National Pizza Day Monday. 

Today is #NationalPizzaDay — one 
of five pizza holidays in the U.S. 
What’s your go-to pizza solution in 
Ann Arbor?”

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$100M for at risk schools + expanded 
dental coverage) survive the House.

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State Rep. Jeff Irwin (D-Ann Arbor) 
tweets his take on Republican Gov. 
Rick Snyder’s budget proposal Wed.

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fun, informative, breaking or 
newsworthy, with an angle on 
the University, Ann Arbor and 
the state. All tweets have been 
edited for accurate spelling and 
grammar. 

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The School of Engineering 
congratulated Jack Hu, interim vice 
president for research, for receiving 
an academic honor Tuesday. 

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GOOD IMPRESSIONS

Oregon governor decides against 
leaving post amidst controversy Washtenaw County hit 

hard by influenza this year 

Experts tie 

increased number 
of illnesses to low 
vaccine efficacy

BY ANASTASSIOS 
ADAMOPOULOS

Daily Staff Reporter

As flu season continues, 

Washtenaw 
County 
has 

experienced 
a 
spike 
in 

influenza cases, as well as 
several deaths.

According 
to 
Shantell 

Kirkendoll, 
senior 
public 

relations representative for the 
University of Michigan Health 
System, UMHS has reported 13 
flu-related deaths for the 2014-
2015 season as of Wednesday.

At University Health Service, 

Chief Health Officer Robert 
Winfield said physicians have 
seen 156 flu-related cases.

The 
number 
of 
patients 

in December alone was 89. 
Winfield said the number of 
cases in January is not yet 
available, but noted the figure 
was lower than December’s.

Last 
month, 
UMHS 

implemented 
a 
policy 

encouraging people with flu-
like symptoms to avoid visiting 
patients at the hospital.

Eden 
Wells, 
clinical 

associate 
professor 
of 

epidemiology, said recent flu 
seasons have been unusually 
mild, unlike the current cycle. 
She said many people weren’t 

accustomed to the flu posing a 
serious problem.

The effectiveness of this 

year’s vaccine for the H3N2 
virus — about 23 percent — 
presents 
a 
unique 
element 

to the current flu season. 
According 
to 
the 
Centers 

for Disease Control, this is 
approximately 50 percent less 
effective than in usual years.

In Washtenaw County, eight 

patients have died from the 
flu this season. The death toll 
is lower for the county than 
at UMHS because the health 
system treats patients from 
several counties.

According to the CDC, this 

year has been the most fatal 
flu season nationally for people 
older than 65 years old since 
the CDC began collecting data 
on influenza in 2005.

Wells said the vaccine is 

designed to address several 
different 
virus 
strains 

compared to the previous year’s 
version. She said flu experts at 
the World Health Organization 
conduct a number of studies 
around the world based on 
those strains to try and predict 
which strains will circulate in 
the fall.

“You 
start 
making 
the 

vaccine, 
and 
it 
takes 
six 

months to make the vaccine,” 
she said. “Sometimes that (flu) 
virus loves to kind of slightly 
mutate throughout the year 
— that what ended up finally 
circulating this fall was not-
quite matched to the vaccine 
that was made in February”.

In 
an 
e-mail 
interview, 

Epidemiology 
Prof. 
Arnold 

Monto wrote that the disease 
changed 
in 
the 
Northern 

Hemisphere 
during 
the 

summer.

“A lot of work is going on to 

develop a vaccine that does not 
have to be redesigned for each 
vaccine strain,” Monto wrote. 
“This past year’s experience 
shows why that is important.”

He noted that Ann Arbor 

residents tend to vaccinate 
more than national average, but 
said that’s been less effective 
this year because the vaccine 
hasn’t worked as well.

“We are involved in several 

studies which look at the 
occurrence of influenza in 
the Ann Arbor area, and how 
well the vaccine is working,” 
Monto wrote. “This has been 
a bad influenza season in our 
area, with a lot of illnesses and 
hospitalizations with type A 
(H3N2) influenza”.

Still, Wells said vaccination 

remains the best tool to prevent 
the flu. She noted the message 
has been well-received locally 
due to the intensity of this 
year’s influenza season and 
the 
recent 
return 
of 
the 

measles. In recent weeks, the 
reappearance of measles has 
sparked 
discussion 
on 
the 

merits of vaccination.

“We 
are 
hearing 
more 

now 
from 
people, 
parents, 

community members who are 
actually taking up the banner 
for vaccine,” Wells said. “So, I 
think that’s a good thing.”

John Kitzhaber 
faces scrutiny for 
fiancée’s policy 
work, office use

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Embat-

tled Oregon Gov. John Kitzha-
ber had reached a decision to 
resign because of an ethics 
scandal surrounding him and 
his fiancée, but he changed his 
mind, three people with direct 

knowledge of the situation said 
Wednesday.

They said the Democratic 

governor informed some of his 
aides on Sunday that he was 
going to resign and on Tues-
day he asked his would-be 
successor, Secretary of State 
Kate Brown, to rush back from 
a conference in Washington 
D.C. They spoke to The Associ-
ated Press on condition of ano-
nymity because they were not 
authorized to talk about private 
discussions.

Brown’s abrupt and unex-

plained 
return 
to 
Oregon 

sparked 
speculation 
that 

Kitzhaber 
planned 
to 
quit. 

Hours later, Kitzhaber issued 
a statement saying he would 
stay put. It was not clear why 
Kitzhaber changed his mind.

“Let me be as clear as I was 

last week, that I have no inten-
tion of resigning as Governor of 
the state of Oregon,” Kitzhaber 
said in a statement. “I was elect-
ed to do a job for the people of 
this great state and I intend to 
continue to do so.”

The governor told KGW that 

he asked Brown, a Democrat, to 
return from Washington so he 
could tell her he was not resign-
ing.

Newspaper editorial boards 

and Republican political opera-
tives 
have 
been 
criticizing 

Kitzhaber and calling for him to 
leave office over allegations that 
his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, used 
his office to land contracts for 
her consulting business. She’s 
accused of advocating policies 
that she was paid to promote.

Hayes 
has 
been 
under 

increasing scrutiny since Octo-
ber, when a series of reports 
chronicled her work for orga-
nizations with an interest in 
Oregon public policy, which 
came as she served as an unpaid 
adviser in the governor’s office.

The focus led Hayes to reveal 

that she accepted about $5,000 
to illegally marry an immigrant 
seeking immigration benefits in 
the 1990s. Later, she acknowl-
edged purchasing a remote 
property with the intent to ille-
gally grow marijuana.

Kitzhaber, meanwhile, has 

denied wrongdoing, saying he 
and Hayes took steps to avoid 
conflicts of interest. Attorney 
General Ellen Rosenblum has 
launched a criminal investiga-
tion.

Kitzhaber was re-elected by a 

wide margin in November, eas-
ily defeating Republican state 
Rep. Dennis Richardson.

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