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The history 
of yoga 

WHAT: Instructor 
Lakshminarayanan Venkat 
of the Osher Lifelong 
Learning Institute will 
discuss the modern day 
evolution of yoga.
WHO: Osher Lifelong 
Learning Institute 
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
WHERE: Genesis of Ann 
Arbor, 2309 Packard Street

Addiction 
recovery 

WHAT: A conference 
with the U.S. Drug Czar 
and people in recovery 
from addiction.
WHO: UM Substance 
Abuse Research Center
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham 
Amphitheatre and 
Assembly Hall

Armenian 
meet and greet 

WHAT: An event for 
students to learn about 
courses and meet faculty 
members.
WHO: Armenian Studies 
Program 
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social 
Work Building Room 1636

SAPAC 
support group

WHAT: A support group for 
those who have experienced 
sexual violence.
WHO: SAPAC
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Union 1551 

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Anger and 
forgiveness

WHAT: Philosopher 
Myisha Cherry will 
discuss outrage in the 
black community over 
police brutality and her 
argument for the place of 
‘Outraged Forgiveness.’
WHO: Department 
of Philosophy
WHEN: 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall 3222

Plurality of love

WHAT: Cuban artist 
Rolando Estévez will 
discuss his work as an 
independent bookmaker 
as well as the evolution of 
the arts in Cuba along with 
Ruth Behar, a University 
anthropology professor.
WHO: University Library
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Hatcher Gallery

THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

As 
2015 
rush 
is 

reaching its final stages, 
Managing Arts Editor 
Chloe Gilke explores 

the reasons one rushes and 
the 
consequences 
of 
not 

rushing.

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Georgia 
death 
row 

inmate 
Kelly 
Renee 

Gissendaner’s 
petition 

for clemency was denied 

Tuesday, 
NBC 
reported. 

Gissandaner was executed 
early Wednesday morning.

A new report indicated 
that the number of 
immigrants 
seeking 

to enter Europe by boat this 
year more than doubled from 
2014 at 500,000 total, the 
Associated Press reported.

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THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

MONDAY:

This Week in History

TUESDAY:

Campus Voices

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ON CAMPUS

Sanders visits alma mater

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

Bernie Sanders spoke at the 

University of Chicago Insti-
tute of Politics on Monday, the 
Chicago Sun-Times reported. 
Sanders is a presidential can-
didate for the Democratic 
party.

The talk was part of the 

IOP’s Road to 2016 series, 
which consists of several 
events relating to the upcom-
ing presidential election and 
offering equal opportunities 
for all presidential candidates 
to speak.

In his speech, Sanders 

encouraged the students to be 
active members of their com-
munity.

“Change never takes place 

from the top down,” he said. 

“We need the idealism and the 
energy and the intelligence 
of millions of young people 
to join us in the fight to make 
America the kind of country 
we know it must become.”

Sanders was well received 

by the students in Hyde Park, 
where he received his under-
graduate degree in 1964.

“(Sanders) was electrify-

ing,” said University of Chica-
go freshman Jacob Johnson. 

Mental health services 

director 
steps 
down 

at 
George 
Washington 

University

Silvio Weisner, director of 

George Washington Univer-
sity’s Mental Health Services, 

was forced to step down last 
week after it was discovered 
he is not a licensed psycholo-
gist in Washington D.C., the 
GW Hatchet reported.

After discovering his lack 

of credentials, Peter Konw-
erski, dean of student affairs, 
said administrators respond-
ed swiftly.

“Immediate 
action 
was 

taken to ensure compliance,” 
Konwerski said. 

According to the District 

of Columbia Department of 
Health, Weisner’s license to 
practice in D.C. is awaiting 
reinstatement, though he is 
licensed to practice in Vir-
ginia.

 
—BRIAN KUANG

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Lunch munch

WHAT: The Graduate 
Society of Women 
Engineers is holding 
weekly Wednesday 
lunches for members 
to socialize in a 
casual setting.
WHO: Graduate Society 
of Women Engineers
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. 
WHERE: Dow 3062

Labor 
economics 

WHAT: Economics Prof. 
Nicole Fortin will give 
a seminar on computer 
gaming and test scores.
WHO: Department of 
Economics and ISR-
Zwerdling Seminar in 
Labor Economics
WHEN: 8:30 a.m. 
to 10 a.m.
WHERE: Weill Hall 3240

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At event, students learn how to 
tackle medical ethics dilemmas

Roundtables 

planned to discuss 

revisions to 

misconduct policy

BY JACKIE CHARNIGA

Daily Staff Reporter

At Tuesday’s Central Stu-

dent 
Government 
meeting, 

CSG President Cooper Charl-
ton, an LSA senior, announced 
initiatives to work with stu-
dents on the issue of sexual 
assault.

Charlton said CSG will host 

roundtables with students on 
sexual assault prevention and 
to gather feedback on proposed 
changes to the sexual miscon-
duct policy in the next two 
months. 

Dates for the roundtables 

are Oct. 1, Oct. 26 and Nov. 3. 

“This 
is 
something 
we 

should all be fighting for, and 
I encourage you to show up,” 
Charlton said.

Charlton also requested that 

CSG allocate $3,800 in funds 
to bring a production of The 

Haze to campus. The play is an 
autobiographical one-woman 
show by San Francisco resi-
dent Heather Marlowe about 
untested rape kits.

“There are over 400,000 

rape victims in the United 
States whose rape kits have 
gone ignored at the hands of 
local law enforcement agen-
cies,” Charlton said. “Heather’s 
purpose and her objective is to 
use theater and performance 
to bring this issue to the fore-
front.”

Charlton said several stu-

dents reached out to him about 
bringing the play to campus, 
and he thought the perfor-
mance would spread aware-
ness of the issue to students at 
a minor cost to CSG.

Budget amendments

CSG voted on and approved 

the Fall 2015 budget with a 
few amendments, including a 
2-percent increase in the bud-
get for the Student Organiza-
tion Funding Committee.

LSA senior Kevin Ziegler, 

CSG treasurer, said the finan-
cial committee reduced both 
operations and payroll by 1 per-

cent to raise SOFC’s funding to 
$200,000, constituting half of 
CSG’s Fall 2015 budget. SOFC 
is the CSG committee charged 
with allocating funding to stu-
dent organizations. 

Ziegler said it is CSG’s duty 

to make sure the student fees 
that make up the budget are 
spent responsibly.

“Not only just spending 

money, but establishing pro-
grams that benefit students 
for years to come — keeping 
that in mind in spending our 
money,” Ziegler said.

Ziegler also discussed how 

CSG can properly use its money 
to avoid funds being left over 
after the budget period are 
allocated for ends. In Fall 2014, 
there was $34,000 left over 
in unused capital from CSG’s 
commission discretionary and 
legislative discretionary funds.

Ziegler said this could be 

avoided by this year by the 
assembly if they properly apply 
for and utilize the money set 
aside for them.

“All leaders on campus can 

use the CSG funds in different 
ways,” Ziegler said.

CSG talks sexual assault 
awareness, finalizes budget

Professor discusses 
important issues, 
helps pre-meds for 
future interviews 

BY SANJAY REDDY

Daily Staff Reporter

Tuesday afternoon, 30 stu-

dents convened in the Student 
Activities Center to consider 
ethical questions in medicine.

Hosted by the Career Cen-

ter, the long-running event was 
originally designed to introduce 
undergraduate pre-medical stu-
dents to the ethical issues phy-
sicians face on a daily basis. The 
program also provides critical 
exposure to the kinds of ethi-
cal questions posed in medical 
school admission interviews.

The event featured a presen-

tation by Emergency Medicine 
Prof. Andrew Barnosky, who 
has led the session since its 

inception. Barnosky stressed 
the importance of exposing stu-
dents to medical ethics issues 
early on in their careers.

“(It) allows them to gain 

some degree of orientation and 
familiarity with issues that 
will become of growing impor-
tance as they advance in their 
careers,” he said.

During the presentation, Bar-

nosky discussed ethical issues 
currently generating intense 
debate in the medical field, 
including 
physician-assisted 

suicide, abortion and stem cell 
research and physician profit 
motives.

Barnosky put these topics 

into the context of a medical 
school interview, explaining to 
students how best to approach 
controversial 
questions. 
He 

emphasized that there’s no one 
correct answer to these ethical 
dilemmas: No matter what you 
answer, he said, doctors need to 
convey to the interviewers that 
you will put patient interests 

above your own and promote 
fair treatment for all patients.

A Q&A session followed the 

talk. Students in the audience 
volunteered to read controver-
sial medical ethics questions 
aloud and share their likely 
response if they were faced 
with the situation in the field.

University 
alum 
Andrea 

Berkemeier, who said she is 
applying to medical school dur-
ing the 2016 application cycle, 
said she found the event useful.

“I felt that the question-

answer session at the end was 
very helpful,” Berkemeier said. 
“It was framed in a very posi-
tive, constructive way.”

Berkemeier added that, as a 

pre-med student, opportunities 
to work with these issues are 
hard to find.

“As a pre-medical student 

you don’t necessarily have the 
opportunity to address and 
think about these questions 
until you are preparing for 
medical school interviews,” she 
said.

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Business senior Kevin Ziegler, Central Student Government treasurer, discusses what University students’ tuition 
should be spent on at the CSG meeting in the Michigan Union on Tuesday. 

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LSA sophomore Julia Pompilius scales still-life objects for 
her creative drawing class in the basement of East Quad on 
Tuesday. 

DR AWN TO SCALE

