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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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