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tomers and all of the campus 
community know when that 
decision and when that agree-
ment is reached.”

TCF currently has 18 ATMs 

in University buildings across 
campus, including in the Michi-
gan Union and the Michigan 
League.

Goldman said TCF is also 

working with the University to 
make the transition away from 
the partnership they have using 
the Mcards as seamless as pos-
sible and added that the bank 
still plans to serve the Ann 
Arbor community and the Uni-

versity’s students.

“We are committed to doing 

everything we can to continue 
to help students and continue 
to serve the interest of the com-
munity,” Goldman said. “That 
could come in a variety of dif-
ferent ways, sponsorship of 
various charitable events as 
well as continuing to provide a 
compelling banking solution for 
the entire community.”

The end of the partnership 

may not mean the end of the 
Mcard as a banking tool.

“The University has been 

reviewing proposals to select 
a new banking partner and 
expects to finalize its decision 
in the near future,” Broekhui-
zen said.

The project includes the addi-

tion of new racquetball courts, 
locker rooms and group fitness 
and weightlifting rooms, as well 
as infrastructure upgrades.

“The project will preserve the 

history of the 87-year-old iconic 
facility,” said E. Royster Harper, 
vice president for student life, at 
the February regents meeting. 
“It will also promote the health 
and wellness of our students, 
faculty and staff.”

North Campus Grove 

project

The regents will also consider 

schematic designs for the North 
Campus Grove project, as well 
as grant the University autho-
rization to award construction 
contracts.

The existing North Campus 

central lawn spans four acres 
and serves as the main outdoor 
gathering space on North Cam-
pus. The grove project will cre-
ate an informal amphitheater 
and add a new central plaza to 
the lawn, as well as walkways, 
seating, trees and improved 
lighting, water and electrical 
infrastructure.

The proposed improvements 

will facilitate more opportuni-
ties for outdoor events, activities 
and displays on North Campus.

The regents approved the 

project at their meeting last 
April.

The project will be funded by 

gifts and College of Engineering 
resources.

Scheduled for fall of 2015 

completion, the improvements 
are projected to create 27 on-site 
construction jobs.

TCF
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REGENTS
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Dr. William Lynch, Univer-

sity associate professor of sur-
gery, said with the system, the 
lungs are able to remain healthy 
outside of a body for 15 to 16 
hours, which gives surgeons 
more time to determine their 
viability for transplant.

“The main purpose is to 

get more lungs to transplant 
patients,” Lynch said.

Since the implementation 

of the system in 2011, nine 
other centers in the United 
States have been 
involved in this 
clinical 
trail, 

resulting in about 
68 
lung 
trans-

plants.

The trial seeks 

to 
demonstrate 

the safety of the 
machine 
and 

the procedure to 
ensure the FDA requirements 
have been met. It also gathers 
data that will allow scientists 
to get an idea of the technique’s 
efficiency.

Through a process called ex 

vivo lung perfusion, the lungs 
are attached to a machine that 
keeps them alive outside of 
the body. One tube from the 
machine pushes fluid through 
the lungs, which pulls water 
out of the lung tissue and keeps 
it healthy. The other tube 
pumps air into and out of the 
lungs, allowing oxygen to cir-
culate.

The machine was first used 

for a transplant at the Univer-
sity two weeks ago and involved 
transplanting lungs that were 
kept outside the body for 15 to 16 
hours, almost twice the amount 
of time normally safe for lungs, 
Lynch said.

“Right now, we have about 

15 to 20 minutes to decide if 
the lungs will work well in the 
patient,” Lynch said.

Since there is no time to 

observe the lungs before they 
are transplanted, surgeons are 
forced to be overly cautious.

Currently, only about 20 per-

cent of available lungs are actu-
ally being transplanted. In the 
United States, there are about 
1,600 to 1,700 lung transplants 
a year, but there are 160,000 
people that would benefit from 
a lung transplant. There are 

about 8,000 lung donors, but 
less than 2,000 of them are 
being used.

University alum Fares Algha-

nem, a research assistant in the 
Extracorporeal Life Support 
Lab, said the trial could have 
lasting impacts for organ trans-
plants.

“There’s a weird disconnect 

now,” Alghanem said. “We’re 
not using all the lungs avail-
able for transplant, but we’re 
not able to give transplants to 
everyone who needs it.”

In addition to keeping lungs 

viable outside a body, the 
machine also allows more lung 

transplants 
to 

occur.

“You can take 

the lungs for a test 
drive,” Lynch said. 
“By being able to 
take the lungs out 
and observe them 
for a few hours, 
surgeons would be 
able to confidently 

transplant the lungs that may 
get wasted currently because 
there is a slight doubt about 
them and not enough time to 
observe.”

Lynch said he is especially 

excited about the future possi-
bilities that could arise from the 
clinical trial.

“The real interesting future 

is going to be when these kind 
of machines can support organs 
for a prolonged period of times,” 
Lynch said.

Currently, lungs can only be 

kept outside for hours, but it 
is a possibility that soon there 
will be ways to keep them 
viable for days.

“Conceptually, there’s no 

reason we can’t take a cancer-
ous lung out of a person, keep 
them alive, cure the lung, and 
then put it back in.”

This clinical trial is a step in 

that direction, Lynch said, and 
the future of medicine could 
change dramatically with this 
new technology.

Alghanem said the research 

could allow for a type of organ 
bank, where organs are kept 
alive with machines like the 
XVIVO Perfusion System, and 
they could be readily available 
for transplant when needed.

“This 
type 
of 
cutting-

edge research inspires you to 
want to push the boundaries 
of medicine even further,” 
Alghanem said.

LUNGS
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development of these depart-
ments. Gurin, who began her 
tenure at the University in 1966, 
also discussed her experience 
with a particular University pol-
icy, the Michigan Mandate.

Gurin said former University 

President James Duderstadt’s 
1988 policy, which aimed to cre-
ate a more inclusive commu-
nity at the University, but didn’t 
address women as part of the 
framework. In response, Gurin 
participated in an assembly to 
address the issue.

“He listened to that,” Gurin 

said. “That’s when President 
Duderstadt 
enunciated 
the 

women’s agenda, and IRWG 
comes along as a really wonder-
ful place where it’s not just about 
women’s lives, it’s about wom-
en’s scholarship. Twenty years 
later, there is really an enormous 
amount of scholarship that has 
come out of IRWG.”

Each panelist discussed their 

individual work and how it 
changed over time.

Canning spoke first about her 

interest in feminist scholarship 
and the body, particularly what 
the definition of the body is and 
what it has meant throughout 
time. During the research for 
her article “The Body as Meth-
od? Reflections on the Place of 
the Body in Gender History,” 
Canning found that the defini-
tion is not fixed and is dependent 
on other elements.

“I see the three terms: gen-

der, body and sexuality, as a set 
of moving parts that are almost 
always connected to one anoth-
er, even if one or another might 
be very hegemonic at any given 
point,” Canning said. “So I see it 
as our task to actually dig down 
and try to excavate the ways to 
which the terms relate to each 
other.”

As a psychologist, Gurin’s dis-

cussion concerned how feminist 
theory has become increasingly 
prevalent in the field of psychol-
ogy. Twenty years ago, Gurin 
said feminist scholarship was 
alien in the field of psychology.

Gurin also said gender has 

now become more than just a 
variable in research groups and 
that the movement away from 
binary gender has opened up 
psychology to more research. 
Today the focus is not as much 
on men or women, but rather 
different types of men and 
women as the groupings have 
become broader.

Valerie Traub, professor of 

English and women’s studies, 
said she doesn’t see the study of 
feminism fading from academic 
spheres anytime soon.

“Circulating 
within 
the 

humanities are a variety of criti-
cisms about feminism’s fate: 
fears of the success of a conser-
vative reaction against femi-
nism within in the academy and 
without … ambivalence about 
feminism’s 
entanglement 
in 

academic knowledge, anxiet-
ies about the displacement of 
feminism,” Traub said. “My own 
sense is that announcements of 
the death of feminism in literary 

studies are premature.”

Many attendees were inter-

ested in how feminist studies 
expanded in disciplines beyond 
the humanities. As a psycholo-
gist, Gurin was able to speak on 
behalf of feminist practices in 
the medical field, but others dis-
cussed how feminist theory has 
been involved in business and 
engineering.

Monday’s venue was filled 

with about 50 graduate students, 
many of whom were happy to 
make use of the forum to further 
their own studies.

Engineering freshman Diana 

Thompson, who is in the women 
in science program, was also 
interested in where the two 
fields intersect.

“I thought that this would 

kind of relate but not directly, 
so I could see a different per-
spective of where feminism 
is,” Thompson said. “Feminism 
in these fields is a lot different 
than engineering. It’s very much 
more theoretical.”

Matthieu Dupas, a graduate 

student of French literature and 
gender studies in the Depart-
ment of Romance Languages 
and Literatures, enjoyed the 
variety of disciplines involved in 
the conversation.

“It was very nice to have femi-

nist scholars coming in from dif-
ferent disciplines and together 
endeavoring 
to 
picture 
the 

evolution of the interdisciplin-
ary fields of women’s studies,” 
Dupas said. “For us, these schol-
ars are at the peak of their field, 
and so it’s very cool to have their 
perspectives.”

FEMINISM
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“Conceptually, 

there’s no reason 
we can’t take a 
cancerous lung 
out of a person, 
keep them alive, 

cure the lung, 
and then put it 

back in.”

hoski said. “We are unable to 
enforce the ordinance in years 
that there is been frequent 
snow … The existing ordinance 
requires that each citation have 
a warning before it so if we are 
getting snow after snow after 
snow... we have property owners 
that can just ride that out with-
out citation.”

Councilmember Sabra Briere 

(D–Ward 1) offered a substitu-
tion amendment. Briere suggest-
ed Council consider removing 
language that implied a property 
owner must remove snow or ice 
immediately, as snow may fall 

at inconvenient times such as in 
the middle of the night or day.

After 
an 
extensive 
pub-

lic hearing session in which 
eight residents expressed their 
concerns pertaining to this 
resolution, Ann Arbor Mayor 
Christopher Taylor said the 
need for clear sidewalks is cru-
cial to the citizens of Ann Arbor 
and that standards should not be 
lowered.

According to research by 

the Ann Arbor Pedestrian Task 
Force, changes requiring snow 
removal at any accumulation are 
necessary and would bring Ann 
Arbor to state standards.

“What we’ve heard from the 

Pedestrian Safety Task Force is 
that truly dozens of Michigan 

cities have an all snow stan-
dard,” Taylor said. “Buffalo has 
an all snow standard.”

“... I think that we’ve heard 

today that our residents rely 
on the sidewalks for transit, 
and we should do all we can to 
ensure that they’re passable to 
all that need them, and although 
I appreciate a lot of what’s in 
here, I think walking back for 
me, walking back from that stan-
dard, is a place I’d rather not go,” 
Taylor said.

Council will reevaluate this 

issue after a public hearing 
scheduled for April 20, where 
they hope to listen to more com-
ments from members of the Ann 
Arbor Commission on Disability 
Issues.

COUNCIL
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Iran, European nations 
make little progress in talks

Negotiations aim 
to freeze Iranian 
nuclear program

BRUSSELS (AP) — European 

powers and Iran made little 
progress late Monday toward 
reaching an agreement to end 
the 
standoff 
over 
Tehran’s 

nuclear program as an end-of-
March deadline closes in.

“We’re still making progress 

but there is a long way to go if 
we’re going to get there,” British 
Foreign Secretary Philip Ham-
mond said, after talks in Brus-
sels with his French, German 
and Iranian counterparts plus 
European Union foreign policy 
chief Federica Mogherini.

The talks were aimed at nar-

rowing gaps in the positions 
between Iran and the world 
powers, as part of a 15 month 
negotiating process that could 
see Iran freeze its nuclear pro-
gram for at least a decade in 
exchange for the gradual lifting 

of international sanctions.

Iran says the program is 

aimed at generating electric-
ity and at medical research, but 
many in the West fear the Islam-
ic republic is trying to covertly 
build atomic weapons.

“It’s always useful to talk but 

we, the French, want a solid 
deal,” said French Foreign Min-
ister Laurent Fabius. “Certain 
points are yet to be resolved, we 
hope we will be able to resolve 
them but as long as it’s not done, 
it’s not done.”

Mogherini, who is negotiat-

ing with Iran on behalf of the 
world’s five nuclear powers and 
Germany, said that all sides 
were aware how important it 
is to seal a good deal and that it 
was not clear whether “a techni-
cal solution” to fill the remain-
ing gaps can be found.

“I see the elements for a deal 

to be reached but I still see the 
gaps that need to be filled,” she 
said.

Ahead of the meeting, Ger-

man Foreign Minister Frank-

Walter Steinmeier urged his 
international partners and Iran 
to “seize this opportunity” of 
talks in Brussels and in Switzer-
land this week to finally clinch 
an elusive deal.

The world powers and Iran 

have 
set 
an 
end-of-March 

deadline to reach a framework 
accord on the way ahead. Some 
officials have said persistent dif-
ferences mean negotiators could 
settle for an announcement that 
they’ve made enough progress 
to justify further talks.

Senior officials from the 

world powers will continue 
negotiations with Iran in Laus-
anne, Switzerland on Wednes-
day.

Iranian 
Foreign 
Minister 

Mohammad Javad Zarif, who 
represented Iran in Brussels, 
will also hold several days of 
discussions with U.S. Secretary 
of State John Kerry in Switzer-
land this week, as momentum 
builds in the nuclear negotia-
tions.

CALEDONIA TOWNSHIP, Mich. 
15 year-old boy held 
for stabbing sister 

A 15-year-old western Michi-

gan boy was ordered held Mon-
day as authorities investigate the 
stabbing of his 13-year-old sister 
in their Caledonia Township 
home.

Kent County Family Court 

Referee Lynn Perry made the 
ruling while acting on a motion 
from prosecutors, The Grand 
Rapids Press reported.

Sheriff’s deputies found the 

girl with multiple stab wounds 
about 1 p.m. Saturday after her 
15-year-old brother called 911. 
She was taken by an emergency 
helicopter to a Grand Rapids 
hospital. Authorities have not 
released the condition. 

NEW ORLEANS
Real estate tycoon 
charged in murder

Los Angeles prosecutors have 

filed a murder charge against 
real estate heir Robert Durst that 
could carry the death penalty.

Prosecutors said Durst was 

charged 
Monday 
with 
first-

degree murder in the killing of 
his friend, Susan Berman.

Durst was arrested in New 

Orleans over the weekend on 
a murder warrant and waived 
extradition to return to Los 
Angeles to face the charges.

Berman had acted as Durst’s 

spokeswoman after his wife dis-
appeared in 1982.

She was shot in the back of the 

head in her Los Angeles home 
in December 2000 just before 
New York authorities planned 
to interview her about Kathleen 
Durst’s disappearance.

LOS ANGELES 
Arrest warrant 
issued for cop

An arrest warrant was issued 

Monday for a rookie Los Angeles 
policeman suspected of killing 
a man during a fight in Pomona 
while he was off duty.

The murder warrant is for 

Henry Solis, 27, who should be 
considered armed and danger-
ous, according to a statement 
from Pomona police.

Solis’ 
Volkswagen 
Jetta 

was found Sunday about four 
blocks from where the shooting 
occurred, and he may be driving 
a 1992 brown or tan Ford pickup 
truck with license plate number 
4J79703, police said.

Solis is suspected of shooting 

Salome Rodriguez, 23, of Ontar-
io, around 3:30 a.m. Friday dur-
ing a fight near Third and Main 
streets in this city east of Los 
Angeles. He died at a hospital.

KINSHASA, Congo
Diplomat freed 
from detention

An 
American 
diplomat 

has been released after being 
detained in Congo during a raid 
in which journalists and democ-
racy activists were also arrest-
ed, the Congolese government 
spokesman said Monday.

Sunday’s detentions come at a 

time of rising tension in Congo, 
where 
some 
fear 
President 

Joseph Kabila is attempting to 
prolong his time in power after 
his term ends next year.

The raid followed a news con-

ference in Kinshasa to support 
a Congo’s Filimbi movement 
that aims to get more youths to 
participate in politics. Those 
arrested were suspected of being 
a threat to national security, 
according to Lambert Mende, 
the government spokesman.

The 
U.S. 
diplomat 
was 

released overnight, Mende said, 
adding that the news conference 
was “no place for a diplomat.” 
He did not disclose the diplo-
mat’s name or position and the 
U.S. State Department has not 
offered any additional informa-
tion.

—Compiled from 
Daily wire reports 

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