values that many students desire
for affirmative, verbal consent to
be included in the institution’s
consent definition, and even more
importantly, be fully integrated
into our behaviors and beliefs as
the expected, common practice of
students when they have sex,” she
wrote. “As a culture, though, we
are not there yet and SAPAC makes
this distinction in our educational
efforts. In order to address the
issue raised by the Daily’s editorial
Board, SAPAC staff have carefully
reviewed our website materials and
revised the information provided
on consent to make this distinction
clearer.”
The updated SAPAC page on
consent now includes this new
addition:
“One of the core values that
guides SAPAC’s work is respect.
And for SAPAC, consent is respect.
As we work towards a world
free of sexual assault, intimate
partner violence, stalking and
sexual harassment, we promote
equality
and
respect
for
all
members
of
our
community
through
our
commitment
to
primary prevention. Our primary
prevention approach is centered
on our vision and hope for a future
where we all expect consent for
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Weinberg Symposium focuses on
relation between science, morality
CONNOR BADE/Daily
Molly J. Crockett, an associate professor at the University of Oxford, and John Mikhail, a professor at Georgetown University, speak at the Weinberg Symposium Friday at the Michigan League.
Speakers discuss
cognitive psych
and ethics
By IRENE PARK
Daily Staff Reporter
The Marshall M. Weinberg
Symposium — hosted Thurs-
day and Friday in the Michi-
gan League — focused on a key
question: What does it mean
to be moral?
This
year’s
symposium,
titled “The Cognitive Science
of Moral Minds,” was orga-
nized for the first year by the
Weinberg Institute of Cogni-
tive Science. The University’s
departments of Philosophy,
Psychology, Linguistics and
Molecular and Cellular Biolo-
gy previously hosted the sixth
annual symposium.
The institute opened last
April after the University
received a $7.7 million dona-
tion
by
University
alum
Marshall M. Weinberg. The
Weinberg Institute aims to
promote an interdisciplinary
approach to cognitive science
research. It also houses the
undergraduate cognitive sci-
ence major, which launched
January 2014.
Thursday’s speaker, Joshua
Greene, psychology profes-
sor at Harvard University,
presented a lecture Thursday
titled “Human Morali-
ty: Features and Bugs.”
Molly
Crockett,
associate
professor
of experimental psy-
chology at the Uni-
versity of Oxford, and
John Mikhail, profes-
sor of law and philoso-
phy at Georgetown
University, also deliv-
ered lectures during
the symposium.
During
his
talk,
Greene gave an over-
view of human moral-
ity based on findings
from psychology, neu-
roscience and philoso-
phy. Greene defined
morality as putting
“us” before “me.”
“Morality is a suite
of psychological fea-
tures that allow oth-
erwise selfish individuals to
reap the benefits of coopera-
tion,” he said.
Greene also discussed the
importance of cognitive sci-
ence research for studying
morality. Cognitive science,
he said, can change the way
people ask questions about
morality and help identify the
underlying cognitive factors
shaping moral standards.
Greene, who is also the
director of the moral cog-
nition lab at Harvard, also
applied his morality research
to real life situations. Greene’s
team of researchers found
that not all people in the med-
ical field who deal with life-
and-death situations employ
the same moral standards.
The team analyzed moral-
ity in two groups: medical
doctors and people who work
in public health. Greene said
they found people in public
health were, in comparison to
medical doctors, more “utili-
tarian,” meaning that they
value what produces the best
outcome for the society.
“The idea is that if you are
in public health, you are more
concerned about the society,”
he said. “Whereas if you are
a doctor, you are concerned
about the individual in front
of you. It’s about your duty for
that patient and as a doctor.”
Greene also commented on
the “bugs,” or discrepancies,
in morality identified by his
team. For example, they found
that people are more likely to
help someone if the person
who needed help was in close
proximity — like a bleeding
man on the side of the road as
opposed to a child starving in
another country. Greene said
this moral discrepancy stems
from evolution.
“From a biological perspec-
tive, it makes a lot of sense,”
he said. “You didn’t evolve to
be
universally
cooperative
to everybody on Earth. You
evolved for your tribe.”
Because a number of fac-
tors are involved in shaping
one’s moral standards, he
said it is difficult to come up
with a general principle of
how people should act. This
idea suggests no theory can
account for the complexity
of the human mind. In spite
of the difficulty, Greene said
humans still need a general
moral standard for how soci-
ety “ought to be.”
Rackham student Kevin
Blackwell, who said he attend-
ed the symposium due to his
interest in the topic, echoed
Greene on the importance of
human morality research.
United 2 Heal dinner fundraises
to give Ghana medical supplies
Student group
raises $2,700
during fundraiser
By KATIE PENROD
Daily Staff Reporter
A University student organiza-
tion raised $2,700 over the week-
end to help fund their partnership
with physicians in Ghana.
United 2 Heal, which fundrais-
es to buy medical supplies for com-
munities in developing countries,
hosted its eighth annual benefit
dinner Saturday evening in Rack-
ham Auditorium. The event fea-
tured keynote speaker Dr. Thomas
Crawford, an assistant professor
of internal medicine.
Proceeds will go toward fos-
tering what Kinesiology senior
Nathan Palaparthi, United 2 Heal
president, calls the group’s biggest
project: a partnership with physi-
cians in Ghana. The organization
has sent shipments of supplies
to underdeveloped areas in this
region, and also works to sponsor
students doing volunteer work.
Palaparthi said United 2 Heal’s
overarching goal is to fight global
health disparities by collecting
excess medical supplies from hos-
pitals around Michigan and send-
ing them to places lacking these
resources.
“Our mission is really twofold,
in that first we’re trying to help
individuals in other countries
to obtain basic medical supplies
and really equip resource-poor
hospitals,” Palaparthi said. “But
at the same time we’re doing so
using medical supplies that are
obtained from U.S. hospitals that
would otherwise be disposed of.”
He added that United 2 Heal
recently partnered with World
Medical Relief — a Detroit-based
organization that provides a
variety of medical supplies for
individuals lacking insurance,
according to its website. United 2
Heal members and other students
on campus visit WMR’s Detroit
warehouse weekly to help sort its
stock of medical supplies.
University alum Joey Perosky,
one of United 2 Heal’s founders
and a research lab specialist in
the Medical School, discussed
the organization’s transition to a
partnership in Ghana from their
original recipients in Tanzania.
Perosky said the Tanzanian
hospital did not give clear feed-
back on how they were actually
using the medical supplies they
received, and added that he was
motivated to help after traveling
to Ghana, where he observed a
striking lack of medical supplies.
“While
conducting
clinical
observations in the labor deliv-
ery ward at one of the hospitals,
the lack of resources was read-
ily apparent, including adequately
trained
healthcare
personnel,
medical equipment and supplies,”
he said.
Crawford, the keynote speaker
at the event, related his work to
United 2 Heal’s mission. He works
on a project in collaboration with
World Medical Relief called “My
Heart Your Heart.” The project’s
goal is to send pacemakers previ-
ously used by deceased patients
to places where people could oth-
erwise not afford them.
“I think what has united us
is the recognition that there are
health disparities in the world,
that it’s our moral responsibility
to try to attend to them and that
we cannot remain silent,” he said.
However, Crawford noted that
Ghana’s Komfo Anokye Teaching
Hospital does not have a perma-
nent cardiac catheterization lab
or pacemaker implantation cen-
ter, making it difficult for patients
to receive the heart treatment
they need.
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“It is very important for
decision-making,”
Black-
well said. “I thought the
examples
about
public
health decisions were very
on-point.”
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