cantly lower costs by allowing
states and individuals to under-
take more efficient solutions.
He
emphasized
that
col-
lege tuition increases could be
reduced by allowing students to
take low-interest loans directly
from private banks, stating that
direct federal subsidies to higher
education are responsible for the
rapid inflation of college costs.
“Do you know why the (fed-
eral student loan interest rate) is
6.8 percent?” he said. “Because
the government says it’s got to
be 6.8 percent regardless of what
the market says … you could go
out and get a loan from a bank
for 3- to 4-percent interest if we
allowed the banks to do what
they’re supposed to do.”
In response to audience ques-
tions, Price didn’t specify a
preference among the Repub-
lican primary field for the 2016
presidential election, expressing
admiration for a variety of can-
didates.
“I think this is probably a
Rubio-Kasich-Bush
race,”
he
said, referring to Sen. Marco
Rubio (Fla.), Ohio Gov. John
Kasich and former Florida Gov.
Jeb Bush.
He also expressed surprise at
the success of the outsider can-
didates Donald Trump, Carly
Fiorina and Ben Carson, noting
concern with the leadership style
of Donald Trump.
“What concerns me about
Trump is not necessarily his
policy positions, but we know
what it feels like to have a presi-
dent that oversteps their bounds
on regulations and rules,” Price
said,
referring
to
President
Barack Obama. “And when I hear
Trump saying things like ‘I’ll just
do XYZ’ without seemingly any
regard for the legislative branch,
it gives me some thought.”
Price also heavily criticized
the Affordable Care Act, drawing
from his experience as a prac-
ticing physician and long-time
opponent to government-man-
dated healthcare coverage.
Though conceding that the
extension of healthcare coverage
to a larger portion of the popula-
tion is a positive development,
he said the bill undermines the
direct doctor-patient relation-
ship.
“(The ACA) works for the
government and insurance com-
panies, but not for patients,” he
said.
Price argued that the ideal
healthcare system should be
accessible, affordable and of high
quality, while also possessing
the capacity for responsiveness,
innovation and patient choice.
“(The ACA) violates the prin-
ciples that everyone holds dear,
whether you’re on the left side of
the spectrum or the right side of
the spectrum,” he said.
He also touched on a health-
care reform bill introduced by
his Republican colleagues in the
House in 2013, the Empowering
Patients First Act, which sought
to provide universal coverage
without mandates as a replace-
ment for the Affordable Care Act.
Price is also scheduled to
speak at the Medical School
tomorrow as part of a series of
talks with alumni. In a view-
point submitted to The Michigan
Daily, a group of Medical School
students cited several parts of
Price’s record they said didn’t
align with their values as future
doctors, including his vote ear-
lier this week to defund Planned
Parenthood and votes against
legislation to prevent LGBTQ
discrimination, as well as the
Violence Against Women Act.
Apart from politics, Thursday
night’s discussion also had more
lighthearted moments, such as
Price reflecting fondly on his
time at the University, where he
enrolled as an undergraduate in
1972.
“One of the big activities that
we had in ’73 and ’74 were the
Watergate hearings, and we
would gather in the East Quad
common area with a television,
huddled around watching the
Watergate hearings and not
attending class,” he said to laugh-
ter from the audience.
LSA sophomore Grant Strobl,
YAF chair, said the group wanted
to bring Price to campus because
he is an alum who encompasses
many of their views about size of
government and business.
“At the University, it’s impor-
tant to think critically and dis-
cuss the big issues,” he said. “And
I think that having a group like
ours that advances these beliefs
is a mutual benefit in that we cre-
ate that dialogue on campus that
wouldn’t otherwise exist.”
2A — Friday, September 25, 2015
News
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY
Former
Michigan
running back Mike Hart
is
coaching
running
backs at Western Michigan
now, where he is broadening
his horizons and learning
from one of the nation’s most
fascinating coaches in P.J.
Fleck.
2
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Drug Discovery
lecture
WHAT: Senior research
scientist Julia Clay
discusses diverse models
for researchers to
collaborate.
WHO: Center for the
Discovery of New
Medicines
WHEN: Today at 9:00 a.m.
WHERE: Forumn Hall
Directions in
Modern Studies
WHAT:Medieval Scholars
present research regarding
style as ideology, human-
ism in the age of antihu-
manism and speech acts
on Shakespeare’s stage.
WHO: English Department
WHEN: Today from
8:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
WHERE: 3222 Angell Hall
Pope Francis addressed
Congress,
discussing
immigration,
climate
and the death penalty, CNN
reported. He urged Americans
to not be “fearful of foreigners,
because most of us were once
foreigners.”
1
Jazz guest
presentation
WHAT: Jazz
percussionists and
composer William Hooker
parses shifts in film, race
relations, spoken word,
creative survival and
spiritual foundation.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: Today at 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: 4701 Haven Hall
Supreme
Court
Justice Antonin Scalia
said he wouldn’t be
surpised if the Court
deemed the death penalty
unconstitutional in a speech
at Rhode’s College Tuesday
night, Buzzfeed reported.
3
The Czech
Resistance
WHAT: Sandra Novacek
will talk about her book that
follows the life of her late
husband, who was integral in
the Czech resitance.
WHO: Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute
WHEN: Today at 9:30 a.m.
WHERE: Turner Senior
Resource Center, Suite C
Symphony
Orchestra
WHAT: The University
Symphony Orchestra will
perform pieces composed
by the late Vítzslava
Kaprálová. There will be
a pre-concert lecture in
lower lobby.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN:Today at 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium
Entrepalooza
Un-conference
WHAT: “Entrepreneurship
through the Kaleidoscope,”
features BBC World News
America top anchor Kath-
erine Kay discussses what it
takes to inspire confidence.
WHO: Innovate Blue
WHEN: Today from
8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan League
Dimensions 28:
Public Unveiling
WHAT: The Taubman School
of Architecture and Urban
Planning presents various
thesis and research projects.
WHO: Taubman School
of Architecture and Urban
Planning
WHEN: Today at 12 p.m.
WHERE: Art and
Architecture Building - East
Review
UMMA
dialogue
WHAT: Tyree Guyton
and Jenenne Whitfield
discuss the Heidelberg
Project, an outdoor art
eviroment located in
an urban community
on Detroit’s east side.
WHO: University of
Michigan Museum of Art
WHEN: Today at 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Museum of Art
TUESDAY:
Professor Profiles
THURSDAY:
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FRIDAY:
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WEDNESDAY:
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MONDAY:
This Week in History
LEFT:
Supporters of Republican
presidential candidate Ben Carson
show messages written on lab coats
as they wait for him to come on stage
at a campaign rally at Spring Arbor
University on Wednesday. (AMANDA
ALLEN/Daily)
RIGHT: Ohio Governor John Kasich
jokes with Michigan Senator Jim
Marleau during a reception at the
Grand Hotel Jokey Club during the
Mackinac
Republican
Leadership
Conference
on
Saturday.
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WALLAU/Daily)
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Society of Women Engineers
hosts summer camp in Liberia
Students
aim to foster
inter-cultural
connections
BY IRENE PARK
Daily Staff Reporter
The University’s Society of
Women Engineers has expand-
ed — to Liberia.
Members of the society trav-
eled to Liberia to host a two-
week
engineering
leadership
camp for female Liberian engi-
neering university students. The
camp, Setting Up Collegiate for
Careers in Engineering through
Social Support Camp, was held
at the Peace Corps Training
Facility at Kakata, Liberia.
A total of 40 students — five
University
Ph.D.
candidates,
five University undergraduate
students and 30 Liberian under-
graduate students from three
different Liberian universities
— participated in the summer
camp.
Sara Rimer, an environmental
engineering graduate student
and one of the students who ini-
tially launched the student part-
nership between the University
and the Liberian university, said
the summer camp had several
goals.
First, the camp aimed to help
bridge the gap between the two
groups of students, with the
hope of fostering peer support
for students from both countries
working toward careers in engi-
neering.
“We wanted a peer-to-peer
network to develop that was
cross-cultural,” Rimer said. “We
noticed that international expe-
riences are huge for (Univer-
sity) undergraduates, but a lot
of them don’t necessarily have
the peer aspect, where they go
to another country and develop
relationships with peers in that
country.”
The cross-cultural networks
also exposed participants to
cultural similarities and differ-
ences between the United States
and Liberia.
Engineering senior Breosh-
shala Martin said since she is
African American, it was inter-
esting to see how she and the
Liberian students were similar
but also different.
“The
cultural
differences
weren’t something that I was
used to, but there were some
things that are similar to my
culture back home,” Martin
said. “There were things (the
Liberian students) did that hap-
pened in my family and things
they said that I say to my friends
often.”
In addition, the camp provid-
ed hands-on engineering activi-
ties, which are not typically
integrated into the curriculum
at Liberian universities.
The
University
members
also worked with the Liberian
students in developing a SWE
chapter at their school. Though
Liberia-SWE was founded in
2013, events such as last year’s
Ebola outbreak caused setbacks
at the universities. Since 2013,
the Liberian students have only
had two semesters of five weeks
each.
“Since 2013, their whole lives
have been on a hiatus,” Rimer
said. “Peers from the U.S. have a
lot of experience and have suc-
cessfully ran the organization,
so they can provide perspective,
ideas and advice as input.”
Overall, the camp focused
on helping Liberian students
acquire life skills that are not
taught in their classroom, such
as professional development,
Rimer said.
Edith Tarplah, a University
of Liberia junior and L-SWE
president, wrote in the Univer-
sity’s graduate SWE blog that
the leadership camp has been
like a “miracle” for her and other
female
Liberian
engineering
students, especially because it
is difficult being a female engi-
neering student in Liberia.
“It is difficult to be a female
student in Liberia, yet alone say
an engineering female student,”
Tarplah wrote. “Having other
female
engineering
students
giving up their time to come
to Liberia to encourage and
promote networking amongst
engineering student and pro-
fessionals, giving students the
opportunity of having a one-
on-one conversation about their
field of studies and how things
actually work in the real world
is a miracle.”
Rimer said SWE plans to con-
tinue to foster the relationship
with the Liberian students with
hopes that this relationship will
serve as a model for other cross-
cultural connections.
GREG GOSS/Daily
U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R—Ga.), a University alum, spoke to members of the University’s chapter of Young Americans for
Freedom at the Michigan Union on Thursday, discussing topics like healthcare reform and Donald Trump.
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