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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?
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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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