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THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

The 
Israel-Palestine 

debate has been waged 
on college campus — 

including 
the 
University’s 

— for decades. But how did 
this debate come to polarize 
student leaders, and where 
are we going?

>> FOR MORE, SEE STATEMENT

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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Public meeting 

WHAT:A discussion will 
be held on the causes of 
recent police violence 
and what can be done 
concerning the issue.
WHO: International Youth 
and Students for Social 
Equality
WHEN: Today from 6:30 
a.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan 
League

“That That” 
book release

WHAT: Ken Mikolowski, a 
Residential College poetry 
instructor, will sign copies 
of his book “That That.” 
WHO: Residential College
WHEN: Today from 7 p.m. 
to 9 p.m.
WHERE: East Quad, 
Benzinger Library

Disabilities 
awareness event

WHAT: Students with 
disabilities will speak about 
their experiences. 
WHO: Services for Sudents 
with Disablities
WHEN: Today from 7 p.m. 
t0 9 p.m.
WHERE: Harlan Hatcher 
Graduate Library
Please report any 
error in the Daily 
to corrections@
michigandaily.com.

The 
Arkansas 
state 

House passed a Religious 
Freedom 
Restoration 

Act Tuesday morning. The 
Act allows people, including 
corporations, 
who 
feel 

their religious freedom is 
“substantially burdened” to 
fight an order in court. 

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The 
deadline 
for 
a 

nuclear deal with Iran 
passed Tuesday, but U.S. 

representatives said the talks 
would go on for another day. 
The talks have been extended 
twice since an interim deal 
achieved in 2013.
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Mullin Welch 
lecture

WHAT: Michel Martin, 
an NPR and ABC News 
journalist, will discuss her 
career.
WHO: Center for the 
Education of Women
WHEN: Today from 5 p.m. 
to 7 p.m.
WHERE: A. Alfred 
Taubman Biomedical 
Science Research Building

Distinguished 
professorship 
lecture 

WHAT: Prof. Victor 
Lieberman will discuss 
nationalism and democracy 
across Eurasia between 
1400 and 1850.
WHO: University and 
Developements Events
WHEN: Today from 4 p.m. 
to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham 
Graduate School

TUESDAY:

Campus Voices

THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

MONDAY:

This Week in History

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

L E T ’S C H AT
CRIME ON CAMPUS

A University of California, 

Berkeley 
student 
was 
pro-

nounced dead on Monday near 
the University of Southern Cali-
fornia campus, The Daily Trojan 
reported.

19-year-old Eloi Vasquez was 

a freshman and also a member of 
Berkley’s men’s soccer team. He 
visited the USC campus this past 
weekend and had been missing 
since early Saturday morning.

Police reported that Vasquez 

was hit by a car after leaving a 
party.

Stanford University student 

accused of poisoning

A Stanford University gradu-

ate student has been charged 

with four felony counts for 
putting a chemical known as 
paraformaldehyde in the water 
bottles of the subject’s labmates’ 
water bottles, The Stanford Daily 
reported.

The 
suspect 
admitted 
to 

tampering with the bottles and 
apologized for the actions, claim-
ing to have not been conscious of 
doing so.

The suspect pleaded not guilty 

by reason of insanity.

University of Virginia releases 

sexual misconduct policy

The University of Virginia 

published a revised interim sex-
ual misconduct policy, The Cava-
lier Daily reported Monday.

The revised document estab-

lishes new policies for report-
ing 
sexual 
misconduct, 
and 

delineates the process for pro-
tecting those who undergo this 
process. Furthermore, a Student 
Resource Guide to help univer-
sity members through the new 
policy was created.

According to the new policy, a 

number of acts — including sex-
ual assault, stalking and retaliat-
ing against a person for reporting 
a violation — are explicitly pro-
hibited.

Violators of the new policy 

could face disciplinary action, a 
punishment that encompasses 
the possibility of expulsion.

— ANASTASSIOS 
ADAMOPOULOS

UC, Berkley student found dead

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ACUPCC vetoed

By SAMANTHA WINTNER

WILLIAM LYNCH/Daily

LSA Dean Andrew D. Martin addresses student 
concerns at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology during 
a student meet and greet on Tuesday.

Sing and Variety

WHAT: University 
Greek Life will conclude 
its annual Greek Week 
fundraising event. Teams 
will participate in song and 
dance competitions and a 
Greek Week champion will 
be crowned. 
WHO: Michigan Union 
Ticket Office
WHEN: Today at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium

THE FILTER
Andy Grammer

By DANIELLE 
RAYKHINSHTEYN

Andy Grammer creates wel-

coming and loving environ-
ment for the smaller shows he 
consistently performs. Pop duo 
Alex & Sierra recently opened 
his show with a mix of songs 
ranging from their own origi-
nals to song covers.

CSG 
President 
Bobby 

Dishell, a Public Policy senior, 
announced Monday morning 
that he has decided to veto a 
resolution that would have 
encouraged 
the 
University 

to become a signatory on the 
American College and Univer-
sity Presidents’ Climate Com-
mitment.

AMANDA ALLEN/Daily

Investigative reporter Ellen Gabler speaks about the effects of her reporting on newborn screening in hosptials at “Newborn 
Screening: The Cost of Delays” in Forum Hall on Tuesday. 
Award-winning journalist 
leads panel on newborns

LSA dean fields questions, 
shares gelato, lemonade

Students gather 
to discuss campus 
affairs, with focus 
on dual-degrees

By COLLEEN HARRISON 

Daily Staff Reporter

LSA Dean Andrew Martin 

chatted with around 40 students 
Tuesday evening to discuss a va-
riety of campus affairs.

Throughout the course of his 

first year, Martin has held simi-
lar talks on campus to offer stu-
dents the opportunity to discuss 
his administration and other top-
ics of interest. Martin held two 
talks earlier this academic year 
where he discussed the LSA Race 
and Ethnicity Requirement, and 
diversity and socioeconomic sta-
tus, among other issues.

Students led the discussion in 

a town-hall style, asking ques-
tions on topics such as adding 
potential new majors, challenges 

associated with student-athletes 
missing class for practice and 
games and the perceived discon-
nect between faculty and stu-
dents.

“We want to make sure that 

they’ve got the robust support 
necessary,” Martin said.

Many 
students 
discussed 

problems of obtaining dual-de-
gree credits, specifically the re-
striction on students within the 
Ford School of Public Policy and 
their inability to double major.

Martin said he believes hav-

ing students obtain a dual-degree 
could only help rather than hurt 
them. He said eliminating this 
policy should happen and would 
only benefit students.

LSA 
freshman 
Nicholas 

Fadanelli said he appreciated 
Martin’s discussion of some of 
the issues with majors and mi-
nors on campus.

“If you have certain programs, 

like journalism, that don’t have 
the major like they used to, or 
have the applied field outside of 
college, that having new minors 
to come to those would be very 

beneficial to LSA students so they 
could have that liberal breadth,” 
Fadanelli said.

Discussing students on cam-

pus with lower socioeconomic 
status or who find themselves 
unable to academically continue 
at the University, Martin said he 
wants to ensure that all students 
admitted to the University are 
able to stay and finish their de-
grees.

“It does happen, and we want 

to do everything we can to make 
sure that it doesn’t happen,” 
Martin said. “Every student that 
we admit to this university de-
serves to be at this university.”

As a former professor, Mar-

tin spoke about a disconnect be-
tween students and faculty at the 
University.

“Sometimes we forget what it’s 

like, sometimes it’s been many 
years since we were undergradu-
ate students,” Martin said.

LSA freshman Patrick Mullan, 

an office ambassador in the LSA 
dean’s office, said he appreciated 
Martin’s efforts to increase con-
tact between students and ad-
ministration, citing the creation 
of the ambassador program to 
further facilitate this contact.

“I’ve been working in close 

contact with him for six weeks 
and I think he did a really good 
job in an hour of reiterating what 
we’ve been working on in the of-
fice,” Mullan said.

Students in attendance also 

mentioned problems with turn-
ing a degree into a career, es-
pecially for those pursuing the 
humanities. Martin said these 
degrees do not tend to provide 
a direct path toward a career as 
majors in other fields might, but 
he said the liberal arts education 
helps turn these degrees into ca-
reers.

“The reason why the liberal 

arts education is so empower-
ing is that it allows you to look at 
things from a different perspec-
tive,” Martin said.

To help students explore ca-

reers in their fields, Martin said 
he believes the University could 
do more to assist students in 
finding sustainable careers post 
graduation.

“As a college we can do a bet-

ter job helping to connect you 
with those people,” Martin said.

Investigation into 
screenings leads to 
hospital reforms

By KATIE PENROD 

Daily Staff Reporter

Award-winning journalist Ellen 

Gabler visited campus Tuesday, 
accompanied by three professors 
and the director of the Utah 
Newborn 
Screening 
Program, 

to lead a panel discussion about 
deadly 
delays 
in 
processing 

newborn blood work and the 
severe risk these delays can pose to 
newborn health.

Gabler’s 
investigative 
series 

on delays in newborn screening 
published 
in 
the 
Milwaukee 

Journal Senteniel led to reforms at 
hospitals throughout the country. 
Her talk focused on options to 
improve the screening process and 
how hospitals and institutions can 
implement these changes.

Newborn babies have blood 

drawn to test for rare diseases 
immediately after birth. Though 
the blood work is sent to labs, the 
process of sending and screening 
is often drawn out unintentionally, 
leading to delays.

Gabler started the panel by 

discussing her interest in the 
transparency of public data as well 

as her inspiration for beginning 
this 
investigative 
series. 
She 

said one of her colleagues at the 
Milwaukee 
Journal 
Sentinel 

brought in a story about a child 
who almost died because his blood 
work screening was delayed.

Gabler 
said 
she 
realized 

this delay could be happening 
around the country, adding that 
she believed hospitals as well as 
state governments needed to be 
held accountable. She insisted 
institutions analyze how quickly 
these newborns and their parents 
get the health information they 
need so rare diseases can be 
addressed.

“Holding people accountable is 

how you make change,” she said.

Throughout the investigative 

process, Gabler said she often 
struggled 
with 
getting 
data 

from certain states and that 
governments did not always want 
to share their hospitals’ lapses in 
responsibility.

“It’s 
simply 
not 
OK 
for 

governments to just say ‘listen 
we’ve got this handled, trust us’ 
and that’s kind of what they were 
saying, and that’s just not OK,” she 
said.

Throughout her talk, Gabler 

also 
discussed 
improvements 

made across the country because 
of her investigative reports. Prior 
to her work, she said Arizona was 

one of the worst states in regard 
to timeliness of screenings, but 
after her series was published they 
had a 30 percent improvement in 
efficiency.

Panelist Edward Goldman, a 

lawyer and associate professor in 
obstetrics and gynecology, spoke 
about how the newborn screening 
process is multifaceted. He said 
because of its complicated nature, 
addressing the issue requires 
analysis of every aspect of the 
process.

“The 
testing 
is 
for 
rare 

conditions 
with 
significant 

medical implications, as you’ve 
heard,” 
Goldman 
said. 
“That 

means testing has to be fast, it 
needs to be accurate, it needs to 
be returned to physicians who 
understand the testing and can act 
on it to provide treatment. That 
should show you all the places 
where this could break down.”

The panelists discussed the 

screening process from many 
different 
perspectives. 
Sharon 

Kardia, senior associate dean for 
administration and professor of 
epidemiology, said one important 
problem 
to 
consider 
is 
the 

monetary pressure on health 
departments.

Andreas Rohrwasser said he has 

only been at his post as Newborn 
Screening Laboratory Director in 

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