anarchist pamphlets and social
protest primary sources housed
in the University Library’s Joseph
A. Labadie Collection. As part of
the series, Weinzweig is launch-
ing his own series of pamphlets
which promote the Zingerman’s
business model.
During the talk, he read quotes
from noted anarchists like Emma
Goldman and Peter Koestenbaum
with the aim of correcting mis-
conceptions about anarchism.
“The popular perception of
anarchism is chaos, but it’s not,”
Weinzweig said. “It’s just about
freely chosen organization.”
He also said many people see
anarchism as calling for the over-
throw of all leadership. For him,
that’s not the right way to think
of it.
“Leaders earn the right to lead
by having content expertise and
leading with integrity so people
want them to lead,” Weinzweig
said.
Weinzweig served as half of the
team that gave the University’s
commencement speech in May
2015. He, along with Zingerman’s
co-founder Paul Saginaw empha-
sized generosity to graduates.
“I believe that going for great-
ness — greatness for you and not
how everyone else in the world
identifies it — is energizing,”
Weinzweig said in May.
some of our buildings were, well,
there’s historic and then there’s
antiquated,” Harper said. “Some
of our buildings were definitely
on the antiquated side.”
While the nearly 75-year-old
original tile floors were kept, air
conditioning was added, as well as
a new creative suite and improved
study spaces. The multicultural
room was relocated and updated.
LSA senior Amanda Cham-
pagne, a West Quad residential
adviser, lived in the dorm her
freshman year as well and said
the improvements reflect the
needs of the students.
“As students, academics are
our first priority, and they made
sure to make that their prior-
ity as well by creating all of these
awesome spaces for students to
study,” Champagne said. “You
can really tell that the renovations
were made with the needs of resi-
dents in mind.”
The updated building is over
30 percent more energy efficient
than code standards require.
Schlissel said improving build-
ings on campus will encourage
more people to apply to the Uni-
versity.
“Now I look at what we can
provide in terms of accommoda-
tions for our students and I can’t
wait to have a campus tour start
walking through here,” Schlis-
sel said. “Applications will go out
through the roof even more than
they’ve been.”
Harper said students are most
interested in the creative suite,
which features a sewing machine
for students to use
“With all of the new technol-
ogy in this place I hear that stu-
dents are flocking to the sewing
machine,” Harper said. “People
who say that millennial’s don’t
care about old fashions skills
need to go check out the sewing
machine.”
The designers also focused on
improving multicultural, inclu-
sive spaces for students. The Cul-
tural Connector — a space lined
with multicultural art that opens
to East Madison Street and serves
as the gateway to South Quad
across the street — provides a
space for students of all walks of
life and backgrounds to connect
with one another.
The previous Asubuhi Mul-
ticultural Lounge was not ideal
for students to associate with
one another when Diversity Peer
Educator Jake Davidson, an LSA
senior, was a freshman in West
Quad. He said he is excited to
make use of the new space.
“Prior to the renovation, the
space was tucked into this corner
of the concourse and had a rather
intrusive column in the middle
— needless to say that wasn’t
too conducive for discussions,”
Davidson said. “Since the reno-
vation lounge has been moved to
the center of the concourse in this
new design that’s open space but
it reflects its history of providing
a safe space for students.”
responsible and measured pro-
cess,” he said.
Kagan Ozer, orthopaedic sur-
geon and the program’s surgical
director, stressed that the skill of
the doctors involved is only one of
the important variables dictating
the success of the surgery.
Finding patients with the right
mindsets is also crucial.
“They have to be well-disci-
plined, persistent people who
must be happy to carry someone
else’s hand or face for the rest
of their lives,” Ozer said. “That
requires a certain level of com-
mitment and ability to cope with
that stress. The very first hand
transplant performed in France
resulted in the patient electing
to get the hand removed nine
months later. The patient couldn’t
get over the feeling that the hand
wasn’t his.”
While Ozer said the surgery
team is ready to perform the pro-
cedure, the physical, functional
and psychiatric screening proce-
dures mean that the first surgery
could be months away.
The VCA donation process is
also different than the process
for organ transplantations. Those
who join the Michigan Donor
Organ Registry are not consid-
ered to have given consent for
their hands or faces to be used in a
transplantation.
“The Michigan donor registry
does not cover VCA or the hand
transplant,” said Tim Makinen,
spokesman for Gift of Life Michi-
gan, the organization responsible
for organ and tissue recovery in
Michigan. “That is a separate
authorization that Gift of Life
would get from the family.”
The first hand transplantation
took place in 1999, and fewer than
100 of the surgeries have been
completed since.
Theatre & Dance and Engineer-
ing. Phase two, which includes
the Ross School of Business, the
Law School, the School of Den-
tistry and the Rackham Graduate
School, rolled out this August.
Sevig said the first phase
proved the embedded model
helps CAPS reach more students.
“We learned a lot from phase
one and we made some tweaks,
but in short it really worked, it
helps,” Sevig said. “We have that
by way of data, we have that by
way of anecdotal stories, we have
that by way of the number of stu-
dents that we’ve seen.”
The annual report also said
the four schools and colleges who
participated in phase one of the
embedded model experienced a
34-percent increase of students
seeking initial consultations.
He added the new model is help-
ing reach students who otherwise
would not have visited CAPS.
“Based on the data and the
numbers, we think we have met
a need in two different ways,”
Sevig said. “We have seen stu-
dents who probably would have
come to Central (Campus), that’s
good because it makes it easier
for students. The other beauty,
based on the data, is we know
that we are reaching students
who wouldn’t have come and
received help.”
The three phase-one staff
members dedicated 1,452 clini-
cal hours and 189 hours of com-
munity service over the course of
the 2014-2015 academic year.
Students are still welcome at
the CAPS Central Campus loca-
tion, Sevig added.
“If a student feels uncomfort-
able with seeing the person in
that school or college, maybe
they’re uncomfortable because
someone will see them go to
that staff member’s office let’s
say, the beauty of that model and
approach is that they can come to
Central,” he said.
Sevig said the schools selected
to participate in phase two of the
model were chosen for a variety
of reasons, one of which was
because they are all professional
schools whose students operate
on unique schedules.
“After going through a num-
ber of possibilities we settled
on for the most part the idea of
professional schools,” he said.
“We did do some thinking about
what are the particulars, not just
being a professional school, but
what are the particulars that go
into that. Who are we under-
serving?”
Sevig said the Business school
fit the mold for phase two not
only because it is a professional
school, but also because CAPS
sees a lower percentage of stu-
dents from that school than from
other schools and colleges.
“Ross was an example of where
the percentage of students com-
ing to CAPS was lower than the
University percentage,” he said.
“It’s a little hard to know what
goes into that, because you could
call that we’re under-serving the
Business School, but it gets con-
flated with gender. When we look
at help seeking behavior in mental
health care, it’s very standard that
two-thirds are women and one-
third are men. ”
Business senior Jeffrey Yu, Ross
Student Body President, wrote in
an e-mail interview that he sup-
ports the embedded model.
“I think that embedding a
CAPS counselor at the business
school is a great idea,” he wrote.
“Although Ross has an under-
graduate program, a large stu-
dent population here consists of
MBA and masters students who
will rarely leave the business
campus. Putting a CAPS coun-
selor in Ross will make it more
convenient for these students to
access help if they need it.”
Echoing
Yu’s
sentiments,
Business junior Libby Guise said
the school should work on publi-
cizing the new resource.
“I think the CAPS program is
a great start to addressing mental
health,” she wrote in an e-mail.
“I think the only thing the school
could do would be to raise aware-
ness of the CAPS program. A lot
of students aren’t aware of the
resources the school offers, so
doing a better job of conveying
these opportunities to students
would go a long way in terms of
overall mental health on campus.”
Business junior Anna Nor-
man wrote in an e-mail that
recent curriculum changes have
made the business school more
demanding for juniors.
“Junior year is different now
that Ross has changed the cur-
riculum,” she wrote. “This year,
most juniors have an all-Ross
semester and are planning to
study abroad for the winter
term. This means that everyone
is recruiting for summer intern-
ships (which is extremely time
consuming to the point that it
seems like another class) along
with having very full semesters.”
Business junior Sarah Perry
said the Business School’s cul-
ture can lend itself to higher
stress levels.
“I think the competitive cul-
ture in Ross can be mentally tax-
ing,” Perry said. “The majority of
people I’ve met in the Ross com-
munity are nice, hard-working
and intelligent people who want
to see their peers succeed. Both
the process of getting an intern-
ship through Ross and the grade
determination encourage a cut-
throat atmosphere, where stu-
dents may be tempted to cheat or
lie to peers in order to save their
own chances. A shift in the over-
all culture to a more collabora-
tive, supportive atmosphere may
increase overall mental health.”
However,
Perry
acknowl-
edged this competitive culture
also seems to encourage certain
students to be more productive.
“I know many of my peers
in Ross thrive in a competitive
atmosphere, and the high stakes
atmosphere has certainly kept
me on my toes, so maybe it isn’t
so bad after all,” she said.
Yu rejected the idea that the
Business school is more competi-
tive than other schools and col-
leges at the University.
“I wouldn’t say that our cul-
ture is more competitive than
other schools such as LSA and
Engineering,” he wrote. “Every-
one here at Michigan strives to
do well and Ross students are no
exception. From group projects
to interview prep sessions, Ross
students are always helping each
other out and pushing each other
to do their best work.”
While a third phase for the
embedded model is not currently
in the works, it is up for consider-
ation, Sevig said.
“There is not an active phase
three,” he said. “At the same
time, we are looking at other
possible ways given that based
on last year, the model is really
working. So we are thinking of
other ways that this could help
the campus. I think we’re going
to take this year and really delve
into that.”
LSA student builds,
lives in tiny house
After reviewing his yearly
expenses for room and board
and deciding they were too
costly, Christopher Cerk, an LSA
junior, decided it was time to take
matters into his own hands.
More than two summers ago,
Cerk built a 170-square-foot
house that he lives in during the
school year. Dubbed the “Humble
Trundle,” Cerk officially moved
into the home last week.
Cerk told USA Today that he
considered living in a mobile
home
to
cut
down
living
expenses, but eventually decided
building a home was best.
“Living in a motor home
would’ve taken the creativity out
of the process,” he said. “I like
knowing I built this myself.”
Business school sees
increases in women
faculty members
The number of women faculty
members at the Ross School
of Business has increased by
25 percent since 2011, recent
data in the Chronicle of Higher
Education shows.
Ross School of Business Dean
Alison
Davis-Blake
told
the
chronicle shortly after she was
hired as Dean in 2011, professors
raised concerns about the gender
make-up of the faculty.
“This wasn’t so much about
replacing them,” said Davis-
Blake. “They felt the faculty
is
stronger
when
it
isn’t
homogenous.”
In turn, Davis implemented
modifcations to the school’s
hiring
process.
One
change
called for search committees to
broaden their final candidate
pool. Another gave committees
the option to hire more than one
professor in a single job search.
UM researchers
awarded grant for
Detroit River study
University researchers earned
a $3 million grant from the Erb
Family Foundation that will fund
research into how the Detroit
River
contributes
to
algae
blooms that emerge in Lake Erie
each summer.
According to the University,
the money will also go toward
measuring the effectiveness of
“green infrastructure” projects
in Detroit. The specific projects
in question are supposed to help
control stormwater overflows.
The overflows are thought to
carry phosphorous that produc-
es much of the algae into both
the Detroit River and Lake Erie.
The toxin-filled algae blooms
have been a continual problem
for Lake Erie and the people
living in its proximity, having
caused a water supply shutoff
to 400,000 Toledo citizens in
August 2014.
The Detroit River supplies 80
percent of the water and between
40 to 50 percent of the phospho-
rous content to Lake Erie.
Cell phones can help
fight disease in Latin
American countries
For the past eight years, Uni-
versity Prof. John Piette has
studied “telehealth” and the
positive effects it can have on
people suffering from chronic
diseases in several Latin Amer-
ican countries.
Piette has developed pro-
grams to help patients manage
their diseases by sharing their
health information on their
phones.
The chronic diseases cur-
rently targeted by the program
include diabetes, high blood
pressure and depression.
The programs are designed
for patients to have more access
to care by receiving health calls
on their phones when they are
in-between
doctors
appoint-
ments.
The study is to be published
in Telemedicine and e-Health
journal this month.
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skilled trades down the road.
He cited former Florida Gov. Jeb
Bush’s support for Common Core
as having the potential to open a
conversation about education.
Wednesday’s debate did solicit
responses on criminal justice
and marijuana use — subjects
Kall said may particularly inter-
est students. He noted that
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is par-
ticularly popular among young
people, largely due to his liber-
tarian leanings.
Though Michigan’s presiden-
tial primaries are still several
months away, Kall said Ohio Gov.
John Kasich is likely one of the
more popular candidates among
Michigan voters.
Kasich is generally known as
one of the more moderate candi-
dates and is often seen as some-
one who would employ a similar
approach to governance as Mich-
igan Gov. Rick Snyder. During his
time in office, Snyder has mostly
steered clear of policymaking
around social issues, focusing
more intently on areas like job
training and economic policy.
Kall said Wisconsin Gov.
Scott Walker might not have the
same pull, given his geographic
distance from the majority of
Michigan voters and his more
conservative leanings.
“Kasich will have a much
more ripe opportunity based on
geography and the way he’s built
his strategy,” he said.
With such a large Republican
field, Kall said Michigan could
play a bigger role in the nominat-
ing process than in previous cycles.
“The longer it drags on, then
the more important states that
are later in the process become,”
he said.
Public Policy senior Cody Gid-
dings, chair of the University’s
chapter of the College Repub-
licans, said Florida Sen. Marco
Rubio is the most popular can-
didate among University Col-
lege Republicans, according to
a straw poll conducted by the
group earlier this week.
“From my personal perspec-
tive, the large field is an advantage
because it allows our organization
to include an extremely diverse
set of political beliefs from around
campus. This political diversity
allows us all to foster intellec-
tual and constructive debate sur-
rounding very important policy
issues that our nation faces in the
coming years.
Giddings said the group’s straw
poll also showed foreign policy is
a central area of interest among
the University’s College Repub-
licans, and Wednesday’s debate
covered that topic extensively.
“Initially, I felt the topics of
the discussion surrounding Don-
ald Trump were unbecoming of a
debate to nominate a presidential
candidate,” he said. “Fortunately
the debate shifted to a more pro-
fessional policy setting in which,
in my mind, foreign policy played
a large role.”
As for who won the debate,
Giddings said he thinks it
was Carly Fiorina, the former
Hewlett-Packard CEO.
“Carly
Fiorina
without
a
doubt won that debate,” he said.
“Fiorina’s
incredible
display
of technical policy knowledge
was something I was extremely
happy to see as a young Repub-
lican who has felt that debate
surrounding actual policy is
something that has been serious-
ly lacking in the race for 2016 so
far. I would give Marco Rubio the
second place slot, he demonstrat-
ed his foreign affairs knowledge
very articulately and with a con-
viction that many like myself had
been waiting to see from him.”
Giddings said he has yet to see
the appeal of Trump, however.
“Donald Trump has impact-
ed discussion in every single
political organization across the
nation and our organization is no
exception,” he said.
While millions of people
around the country tuned in to
CNN on Wednesday evening, the
University’s chapter of the Col-
lege Democrats held their weekly
meeting instead.
“We didn’t watch the debates
at College Democrats,” said Pub-
lic Policy senior Max Lerner,
the group’s chair. “We had our
executive board meeting and we
weren’t going to let the Republi-
can debate slow down our prog-
ress to get the word out about
what Democrats are doing to try
and improve this country and try
and improve Michigan.”
Still, Lerner said he was able
to watch the beginning of the
debate and felt the focus on
Republican candidate Donald
Trump has been overblown,
whereas issues pertaining to
income equality and higher edu-
cation were not mentioned.
“Republicans don’t want to
talk about higher ed because
just look at what they’ve done in
Michigan, huge cuts to higher ed
under Republican governors and
a Republican legislature,” Lerner
said. “That’s not just in Michigan,
but that’s all across the country.
Democrats are going to keep on
fighting for students.”
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