took years. Mody said research-
ers hope to ultimately cut this
time down to three weeks.
The study used new tech-
nology called Next-Generation
DNA Sequencing to sequence
a patient’s tumor’s DNA and
RNA, as well as their normal
genome. The genome is the
complete set of genetic infor-
mation inside a cell. Through
comparing the tumor’s genome
and
the
normal
genome,
researchers were then able to
identify the source of the can-
cer and any potential difficul-
ties the patient could facing
during treatment.
Out of the entire study, the
doctors found that 46 percent
of patients had “actionable
findings,” from the sequencing.
However, they were only able
to take action with 25 percent
of the total number of patients.
“Just because you have this
information where you know
what you can do does not mean
you can do something,” Mody
said. “Sometimes there are no
drugs available, the patient is
too sick, there are no clinical
trials available, there are no
small tablets available for chil-
dren, etcetera.”
John
Maris,
a
pediatric
oncologist at the Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia who
published an editorial along-
side the study, told HealthDay
that an additional challenge
for treatment was that drug
companies are also reluctant to
study children.
“There’s a fear of the drugs
being more toxic in children,”
Maris told HealthDay.
Of the 25 percent of patients
treated, doctors were able to
change an original diagnosis,
begin early treatment on fam-
ily members for prevention or
change
treatment
strategies
entirely.
According to Mody, in at
least 10 percent of the patients,
the team was able to produce
six months of remission or
symptom relief.
“I think one of the things
that people lose sight of is that
10 percent either sounds large
or small, depending on what
you know about the patients,”
he said. “These are patients for
whom there is nothing else out
there. These people have tried
everything that they’ve wanted
to try, so these are the worst of
the worst cases.”
Moving forward, he said,
the biggest challenges include
decreasing the time it takes
to begin treatment, producing
more drugs that are available
for young children and increas-
ing the availability of clinical
drug trials.
“This is a seminal and land-
mark study, but there’s a lot
more work to be done,” Mody
said.
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Thursday’s
meeting
comes
as administrators continue to
emphasize the dire need for cul-
ture change in the Greek commu-
nity — a point with which Blake
Jones opened the conversation.
“I’m hoping tonight will be
remembered as a turning point
when the Greek community came
together, reinforced and recog-
nized its positive attributes, con-
tributions and influence and was
willing to thoughtfully reflect and
consider the need for significant
changes in the community,” Blake
Jones said.
In particular, administrators
said they fear the impact of Greek
life-organized parties on the Uni-
versity’s image.
Blake Jones said the popularity
of the 2012 “I’m Shmacked” video
— which showcased and glorified
the party scene featuring Univer-
sity students — ultimately casts
a shadow over the institution.
The result: potential students are
drawn in for the wrong reasons or
others are turned off for fear of a
wild social scene.
This was a point that Mary Jo
Desprez, director of Wolverine
Wellness, spoke to in an exclu-
sive interview with The Michigan
Daily on Sept. 4. She said balanc-
ing this kind of negative picture of
the University with more positive
messages that better reflect the
school’s values is increasingly dif-
ficult in the digital age.
“The one thing that’s differ-
ent today that we didn’t have to
deal with 10 or 15 years ago is the
24/7 instant visual of party,” she
said. “For those of you who saw
‘I’m Shmacked’ and how quickly
that went around and how many
views it got — now you’re a 10th
grader looking at the schools you
want to go to and you type in the
University of Michigan. U of M’s
admissions tour had like 70,000
(views) and the ‘I’m Shmacked’
had 800,000 ... so who’s doing
your recruiting and does that
change the way people decide to
come to schools?
“That might have been 1,000
students in that video, but we
have 43,000 students here and
now you have a video that we’ll
never be able to get rid of that
sort of shows our campus, but it
shows this one teeny-tiny bit of
the story,” Desprez added. “We’ll
never get that sort of traction
with any counter story.”
The virality of “I’m Shmacked”
seems to be representative of
what Schlissel sees as an increas-
ingly poor understanding of what
it means to have “fun” at school.
Referencing his roles as a father
and, previously, a practicing doc-
tor, Schlissel emphasized the neg-
ative effect the party climate can
have on students’ health.
“I don’t like the idea that we
measure how good or bad a week-
end was by how many of you
ended up in an ambulance taken
to our emergency room,” he said.
“That’s not how we should mea-
sure how good a time we are hav-
ing.”
According to the Campus Cli-
mate Survey taken last year and
released over the summer, stu-
dents involved in Greek life have
a 40-percent higher chance of
experiencing sexually assault.
At the meeting, E. Royster
Harper, vice president for student
life, stressed that the percep-
tion of Greek life on campus isn’t
always positive.
“There are others in the com-
munity that see your behavior as
racist and homophobic and sexist
and unsafe,” she said. “Some see
you as giving back to the commu-
nity and others see you as suck-
ing the life out of the community.
Some see only the worst in you
and others only the best.”
Schlissel
said
the
issues
described are best dealt with
at the student-leadership level
because students are more will-
ing to cooperate with the changes
if they are promoted by fellow
members of Greek life.
He noted, however, that the
problems don’t have a short-term
solution.
“They’re culture problems,”
Schlissel said. “They’re aspects of
how our culture and our behavior
line up with our values and who
we think we are — who we say we
are.”
A turning point for
Greek life
Blake Jones said the need for
a turning point for Greek life has
been on the horizon for some
time, and that the problems were
evident for many years prior to
the high-profile Treetops ski trip
incident in January.
Over the summer, administra-
tors began taking steps to curb
these incidents by developing
a task force composed of four
leaders from the four branches
of the Greek community: LSA
senior Alex Krupiak, Interfrater-
nity Council president; Business
senior Maddy Walsh, Panhel-
lenic Association president; LSA
senior Reid McManus, National
Pan-Hellenic Council president;
and LSA senior Kelly Gee, Mul-
ticultural Greek Council presi-
dent.
At February’s meeting of the
University’s Board of Regents,
Walsh said leaders from the
Greek community were plan-
ning to work with the University
to shift Greek life culture. Dur-
ing Thursday’s event, Walsh told
the assembled crowd that the
taskforce had created a plan to
improve the reputation of Greek
life members on campus.
The first part of the plan
requires all Greek organizations
to participate in the Achievement
Expectations
Program,
which
mandates that all chapters record
and submit to the University their
philanthropic and service hour
achievements. Walsh noted that
last year, Greek students raised
roughly $150,000 of the $450,000
raised for charity.
Walsh also addressed concern
over social life and the Greek
system. She recommended chap-
ters reduce the size and visibility
of their parties to downplay the
association between parties and
Greek life. She said this reduces
the liability and risk of host-
ing many potentially non-Greek
students, who could be the ones
destroying
the
reputation
of
Greek life.
Another suggestion: reduce the
amount of hard liquor at Greek
parties.
Gee, the Multicultural Greek
Council
president,
said
the
Greek community is working
to improve diversity and inclu-
sion. Until this meeting, the four
branches of Greek life did not
ever meet together for this type
of discussion. Next year, a Greek
life Diversity and Inclusion task-
force will be launched for that
purpose.
Walsh said compared to other
universities nationwide, the Uni-
versity’s practices for dealing
with alcohol and other behavioral
issues appear fairly advanced.
“We
contacted
universities
across the country and found, to
some extent, we are above the
curve,” Walsh said. “Campuses
with problematic Greek life com-
munities are implementing sober
monitors and social behavior poli-
cies which are things our Greek
community at Michigan has had
since the early 1990s.”
Frequent, loud coughs echoed
throughout the auditorium and
were regarded by several speak-
ers as a purposeful disruption and
show of disrespect.
As Schlissel spoke, members
coughed so loudly that Harper,
the following speaker, said while
she rarely is intimidated by a large
crowd, the negative atmosphere
created by the coughing made her
rethink her words.
Administrators
weren’t
the
only ones to comment on the
behavior. Krupiak, IFC president,
noted the display in his final com-
ments.
“Think for a second about
how much your chapter means
to you,” Krupiak said. “I know
it means a hell of a lot to me …
But when students sit here and
blatantly disrespect the leaders
of our University and fellow stu-
dents like myself and the three
behind me, it’s flat-out embar-
rassing to say I’m a member of
Greek life today.”
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