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
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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:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

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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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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