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Thursday, July 9, 2015
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS
Bentley Library compiles University history
In preparation
for bicentennial,
researchers create
bibliography
By ALAINA WYGANT
Daily Staff Reporter
In honor of the University’s
upcoming bicentennial in 2017, the
Bentley Historical Library is com-
piling a bibliography of stories,
histories, photographs and other
artifacts that are representative of
the University’s past.
The contents of the bibliography
are accessible to the public online
and include everything from his-
tories written about the University
to photographs of the first football
team. Bentley archivists are cur-
rently looking to expand the fiction
section of the work, which either
includes or lightly alludes to the
University.
In 1936, Wilfred B. Shaw, then
director of the University Alumni
Association started the bibliogra-
phy. Archivists at the University
have recently picked up the project
in preparation for the upcoming
bicentennial.
Brian Williams, the lead Bicen-
tennial Archivist, said the contents
of the bibliography include histo-
ries and case studies that James J.
Duderstadt, president of the Uni-
versity from 1988 to 1996, wrote, as
well as others, such as Shaw. Some
of these works include “The Mak-
ing of the University of Michigan”
by Howard Peckham, Margaret
Steneck and Nicholas Steneck, and
“History of the University of Mich-
igan” by Elizabeth Ferrand.
Bicentennial
archivists
have
found a total of 2,500 artifacts that
relate to the University, but Wil-
liams said they are still looking for
more. Williams added that, while
the bibliography itself may not
be exciting, the books and stories
included in it are.
“You’d find some really interest-
ing little anecdotes,” Williams said.
“By today’s standards, student life
was hard. At first, students lived
in the dorm, had to cut their own
wood, and classes started at five
in the morning. A bell would wake
everyone up to begin studying.”
Williams added that hazing was
a significant part of student life at
the University.
Some of it was sports-minded,
but in other cases they’d kidnap
students,” Williams said. “... a lot of
freshmen would get their hair cut.
We have scrapbooks that have snip-
pets of hair from students.”
In addition to the campus atmo-
sphere, Williams said the history
of library cataloguing is starkly dif-
ferent from its present state, said
Williams, who noted the various
changes in research technology.
See HISTORY, Page 8
CITY
From Page 1
ZACH MOORE/Daily
The United States Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus performs as part of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival Sunday.
AR MY FIE LD BAND
The council scheduled a working
session for this fall to work out the
details of the snow removal ordi-
nance.
Council also addressed resolu-
tions
concerning
sustainability.
One resolution approved by council
confirmed a contract with the Ecol-
ogy Center of Ann Arbor, a local
organization focused on environ-
mental sustainability, to educate
children in Ann Arbor and Dexter
public schools about recycling.
Members of council discussed
the importance of using Ann Arbor
tax revenue to educate Dexter chil-
dren: the water from Dexter comes
to Ann Arbor, polluted or clean.
Councilmember Sabra Briere
(D–Ward 1) asked a representative
from the Ecology Center to con-
firm that the education of Dexter
schoolchildren was meant to ben-
efit Ann Arbor’s environment.
“We could provide this educa-
tion only in Ann Arbor classrooms,
but we wouldn’t be able to address
the impact other communities have
on our drinking water if we focused
only on providing education in the
city of Ann Arbor,” Briere said.
“Our ability to collaborate with
the Dexter Public School system
to provide a small intervention and
educational program in their sec-
ond-grade classrooms is an asset
for the city and benefits the city —
correct?” said Briere.
ONE
From Page 1
“We’re really excited for this
year’s talented Student Advisory
Board members to bring their ideas
to Washington.”
Isaac currently serves as leader
of the University’s chapter of the
ONE Campaign, and worked with
fellow campaign members to gain
Senate co-sponsorship for the Elec-
trify Africa Act, a resolution that
could bring electricity to 50 mil-
lion people living in Sub-Saharan
Africa if passed.
As a member of the advisory
board, Isaac, who also served on
the board from 2013-2014, will par-
ticipate in a meeting with members
of Congress at Capitol Hill to dis-
cuss the resolution.
In an e-mail to the Daily, Isaac
said she was thrilled to find out she
was chosen to serve on the board
again.
“It was incredible to discover
that I had been selected to serve
on the SAB again,” she said. “Lob-
bying senators on Capitol Hill is
extremely gratifying, and having
the opportunity to do that is pretty
awesome.”
She also said she hopes to use her
experiences to educate the Univer-
sity community more about pov-
erty and disease in Africa.
“The number of people living in
extreme poverty (on less than US
$1.25 a day) has halved since 1990,
thanks largely to organizations like
ONE,” she said. “I hope that serv-
ing on the SAB gives me the tools
I need to help remove the greatest
barriers to Africa’s development
and prosperity, like lack of electric-
ity, which trap hundreds of mil-
lions of people in extreme poverty.
I’m excited to educate Michigan’s
students and faculty about issues
like energy poverty.”
Moskowitz said the efforts of
college student activists are vital in
ending extreme poverty.
“College students bring a pow-
erful and passionate voice to the
global fight against extreme
poverty and have made a historic
difference in persuading American
lawmakers to confront
some of the world’s most diffi-
cult challenges,” she said.
ACA
From Page 2
that there are over 10 million
people who are uninsured,” Fen-
drick said. “One of the principal
reasons that people remain unin-
sured is they find that the health
plans that are available to them
are not deemed to be worthwhile
expenditure, and in fact they
think they are better off just pay-
ing the penalty.”
Fendrick directs the Univer-
sity’s Center for Value-Based
Insurance
Design,
which
is
dedicated to removing financial
barriers to essential, high-qual-
ity clinical services. The insur-
ance design is based on “clinical
nuance,” which acknowledges
some medical services are more
important than others.
“Instead of the consumers
paying the same out-of-pocket
for every diagnostic test, every
drug and every doctor visit, we
would like to see health plans
that actually have low or no
out-of-pocket costs,” Fendrick
said. “As a doctor, I would like a
health plan to send out-of-pocket
expenses to patients based on
how much healthier the service
would make them, as opposed to
how much it costs.”
Several state representatives
also voiced support for the ACA
ruling.
Congresswoman Debbie Ding-
ell (Mich.–12) applauded the
court ruling in a statement on
the day of decision.
See ACA, Page 8