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Program aims to
improve access to
healthcare abroad
By TOM McBRIEN
Daily Staff Reporter
Three patients who would
have normally died of kidney
failure received the first kidney
transplants in Ethiopia thanks
to a partnership between the
University
and
Ethiopian
doctors.
The
partnership
between
the University Hospital and
St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium
Medical
College
in
Addis
Ababa aims to train Ethiopian
doctors
in
sub-specialties
such as transplantations and
obstetrics while also helping the
University train its students and
faculty.
By focusing on building the
kidney transplantation services
first, the program intends to
train Ethiopian specialists and
improve hospital services such
as
laboratory
facilities
and
the intensive care units — all
improvements that can then be
spread to hospitals across the
country.
Senait
Fisseha,
adjunct
professor
of
obstetrics
and
gynecology at the University
and a native Ethiopian, has
dreamed of participating in
a program like this since she
started her medical training.
“When I came here for school,
all along from undergrad I had
a conception of going back to
work on building the healthcare
system in Ethiopia,” she said.
As a medical fellow, Fisseha
traveled
to
Ethiopia
about
two times per year, building
connections she hoped would
someday benefit her country.
First, she established ties with
the
Ethiopian
Ministry
of
Reps also discuss
new DPSS unit for
sexual assault,
abuse victims
By JACKIE CHARNIGA
Daily Staff Reporter
Representatives
from
the
University’s Division of Public
Safety and Security briefed
Central Student Government
on new initiatives aimed at
preventing alcohol and drug
abuse on campus and aiding
survivors
of
criminal
and
sexual assault. The assembly
also discussed CSG’s ongoing
initiative to keep dining halls
opening earlier on football
game days.
Prevention of alcohol
abuse by minors
Bryan Baker, the DPSS liaison
to student life, said the division’s
goals for reducing alcohol abuse
by minors on campus will be
attained through several new
initiatives.
One such effort is a plain
clothes detail. Officers have
already been patrolling campus
in plain clothes and distributing
minor in possession tickets. The
detail began this year and is
funded through a special grant.
DPSS officer Justin Berent
said the detail was not conceived
as an undercover operation to
trick underage students.
“We always have some kind
of badge,” Berent said. “Not
entrapment, it’s just reducing
underage drinking.”
Special Victims Unit
Berent
has
been
with
DPSS for five years and is
now a member of the UMPD
Special Victims Unit, which is
dedicated to responding to and
investigating cases of sexual
assault,
domestic
violence,
stalking and child abuse.
The unit comprises of five
officers
trained
to
handle
various emergency situations
and who also receive specific
training
for
dealing
with
trauma.
“If you’re involved in a
traumatic
event,
we
know
how your body and your mind
responds to that,” Berent said.
Baker asked CSG to spread the
word about other new resources
provided by DPSS with students
in mind, including statistical
information about past crimes
EMILIE FARRUGIA/Daily
Engineering graduate student Ben Juliar practices an aerial silks routine outside of the Central Campus Recreation Building on Tuesday.
WE’RE SOARIN , FLYIN
After speech in
Detroit, ‘U’ president
cautions fraternities,
sororities
By MICHAEL SUGERMAN
Daily News Reporter
Questions about Greek life
just seem to follow University
President
Mark
Schlissel
wherever he goes.
After
speaking
to
the
Detroit
Economic
Club
on
Tuesday afternoon as part of a
presentation called “Powering
Michigan’s
Future
with
Innovative Ideas and Human
Capital,”
Schlissel
spoke
to
reporters about what he deemed
the potentially self-destructive
nature of Greek life.
According to reports from
both the Detroit Free Press
and the Detroit News, Schlissel
said fraternities and sororities
may slowly fade out of campus
culture if they continue down
their current paths.
“Unless
…
the
students
themselves moderate some of
the risky behavior … they may
naturally wither and people
may want to stop joining them,”
he said.
Schlissel
and
other
key
administrators
met
with
students from all chapters of
University Greek life last month,
where
Schlissel
told
those
in attendance that the party
culture associated with Greek
life is a stain on the University’s
reputation.
“The value of their degrees
are going to go down because
the reputation of the University
of
Michigan
won’t
be
the
excitement in the Big House or
our teams doing well under our
fantastic new coach,” Schlissel
said in the meeting. “It’s not
going to be the kids who receive
the Rhodes Scholarships and
the
Fulbright
Scholarships,
and
the
famous
professors
who do the work that you’re
going to get reflected on for,
or the National Medal for the
Arts that our faculty won this
Roland Blackwood
fields questions from
undergraduates
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
Roland Blackwood, associate
professor of pediatrics, spoke
to
undergraduate
students
about his work fighting health
care inequality in Southeast
Michigan, and provided advice
on thriving in the pre-med
track and medical school on
Tuesday night.
Blackwood noted several
statistics
that
point
to
disparities
in
health.
For
example, white women have
the greatest life expectancy
and Black men have the lowest.
A
person’s
location
and
environment can dramatically
affect health outcomes, too, he
noted.
“Health can be related to
all kinds of factors,” he said.
“One of the things that people
don‘t realize is that where you
live can affect how long you
live … In one ZIP code, the
life expectancy can be 72 and
another it‘s 86.”
Turning
to
his
efforts
to fight these inequalities,
After vandalism
charge, sentence
includes $5,000
in restitution
By ALLANA AKHTAR
Daily Staff Reporter
The criminal case against
a former member of the
University’s disbanded Sigma
Alpha Mu chapter has resulted
in a probation sentence.
University
alum
Jesse
Krumholz received two years
of probation for a misdemeanor
charge
on
Tuesday,
the
Associated Press reported. His
sentence also includes paying
$5,000 in restitution and $400
in costs, as well as 100 hours of
community service, which he
has already completed.
Otsego County Prosecutor
Michael Rola was unavailable
for
comment
on
Tuesday
afternoon.
In September, University
alum
Matthew
Vlasic,
See CSG, Page 3A
See TRANSPLANT, Page 5A
See SKI TRIP, Page 5A
See HEALTH CARE, Page 5A
See GREEK LIFE, Page 5A
EMILIE FARRUGIA/Daily
Roland Blackwood, associate professor of pediatrics, discusses how to eliminate healthcare disparities in
southeastern Michigan in Danto Auditorium on Tuesday.
RESEARCH
‘U’ partners with Ethiopian
doctors to teach transplants
CSG talks
safety, game
day dining
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Professor discusses medical
school, equity in health care
Schlissel says
Greek culture
must change
ADMINISTRATION
Ski trip
participant
to complete
probation
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