Forum draws
law enforcement
leadership from
across the county
By ISOBEL FUTTER
Daily Staff Reporter
Following an ongoing national
conversation about the relationship
between police and communities,
Washtenaw County Police and
Public Safety department will now
implement additional measures to
communicate with the public.
On Wednesday, the 16th Annual
Public Forum for the Enhancement
of Police and Community Trust
featured a panel of police from
municipalities
including
Ann
Arbor,
Ypsilanti,
Milan
and
Pittsfield Township, in addition
to the Michigan State Police.
Community members came from
all over the county with questions
about police relations.
Stephanie
Dawkins
Davis,
executive assistant U.S. attorney,
spoke
about
the
importance
of
ensuring
regular
police
correspondence
with
the
community. Davis said community
understanding of law enforcement
has
had
positive
results
in
southeast Michigan.
“Justice doesn’t happen under
a rock, the community has to
understand what decisions are
being made and what criteria is
needed to make those decisions,”
Davis said.
She added that Detroit has a
similar program to ENPACT called
ALPACT — Advocates and Leaders
for Police and Community Trust.
According to Davis, the program
has been extremely successful.
She cited a recent incident when
an Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agent shot a man in
Detroit, pointing out that there
were no riots from the city’s
inhabitants in response.
“We
were
able
to
have
respectful dialogue,” Davis said.
“We can’t say that something like
Ford School panel
focuses on impact
of the city’s 2014
‘grand bargain’
By JACKIE CHARNIGA
Daily Staff Reporter
Key
players
in
Detroit’s
now-infamous
bankruptcy
proceedings convened at the
Ford School of Public Policy on
Wednesday to discuss the city’s
growth since the city first filed
for bankruptcy in 2013.
The panel focused on the
impact of the Detroit “grand
bargain,”
which
decreased
the city’s $18 billion debt,
restored public safety services
and increased funding to city
infrastructure.
U.S.
Bankruptcy
Judge
Steven W. Rhodes, who oversaw
Detroit’s bankruptcy, designed
the
$194.8
million
bailout,
known as the grand bargain, to
garner support for a deal from
unions and retirees. Rhodes
joined Wednesday’s panel along
with Judge Gerald Rosen, Judge
Mike Gadola, former State Sen.
Randy
Richardville,
former
State Rep. Thomas Stallworth
and Chad Livengood, a political
reporter for The Detroit News.
The panelists examined how
Detroit’s financial challenges
halted the city’s full operation
— from its road, school and
emergency
services
to
the
pension plans and benefits for
city retirees — and credited the
grand bargain with its revival.
“From
a
constitutional
perspective, this is the state of
Michigan coming to the federal
government to solve a problem
that it could not solve on its
own under our constitutional
structure,” Rhodes said.
Rhodes said when the city
filed for bankruptcy, the largest
portion of debt came from the
water department’s secured debt
and post-employment benefits
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Technology could
increase success of
surgeries to remove
brain tumors
By TOM MCBRIEN
Daily Staff Reporter
Brain tumor removal is the
ultimate
game
of
Operation.
Remove too little of a tumor and
it could be back within months.
Remove too much and your patient
may never speak or walk again.
A new microscope, developed
in the University’s Medical School,
could help surgeons with the
difficult task of tumor removal by
showing the difference between
healthy and tumorous tissue in
real-time.
A team of Medical School
doctors and students spent years
developing the new technology,
called
the
stimulated
Raman
scattering — or SRS — microscope,
alongside researchers from other
institutions
including
Harvard
and New York University. It could
eventually
help
improve
the
outcomes for some of the nearly
700,000 people in the United
States living with brain tumors.
Third-year
Medical
student
Spencer Lewis, an author of the
paper announcing the first clinical
test of this technology, said it’s
difficult to tell the difference
between healthy and unhealthy
brain tissue using the naked eye
— making the technology all the
more neccisary.
“Brain tissue normally looks like
a soft, tan mass with a very soft,
jelly-like consistency,” Lewis said.
“And tumor is often a similar color
and is really only differentiated by
texture. So it’s very difficult to tell
by eye the difference, depending
on the type of tumor.”
The SRS microscope addresses
this difficulty through a technique
called
Raman
spectroscopy,
which uses a laser to shine light
at a piece of brain tissue that has
been biopsied from the brain. The
many molecules in the tissue have
chemical bonds between them that
are constantly wiggling, stretching
and rotating. Each type of tiny
bond movement affects the light in
a different way. By detecting how
the light is altered and scattered,
scientists can infer what kind of
bonds and molecules are in the
tissue. The SRS amplifies this
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MEDICINE
See BRAIN TUMORS, Page 3A
Barnes Arico touts
senior forward’s
progress coming
off major injuries
By TED JANES
Daily Sports Writer
For any athlete, two years
of injuries can incur just as
much damage mentally as it can
physically. But for a senior on the
Michigan women’s basketball
team, a torn anterior cruciate
ligament and a broken foot have
revamped her mindset, leaving
her looking to finish on a high.
Wednesday, at the Michigan
women’s basketball team’s media
day, coach Kim Barnes Arico
began her opening statement by
mentioning a player that hasn’t
been in many headlines: forward
Kelsey Mitchell.
After highlighting the new
additions to her staff and
recapping
the
Wolverines’
WNIT
run
last
spring,
Barnes Arico discussed the
small number of scholarship
upperclassmen on the team
(four), led by Mitchell and senior
guard Madison Ristovski.
“Out
of
those
four
(upperclassmen), I think the
biggest surprise right now is
(Mitchell),” Barnes Arico said.
“She has had an injury-plagued
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New programs
encourage historic
number of patents
By TOM MCBRIEN
Daily Staff Reporter
The University’s Medical
School produced the most
inventions and startups in
its history over the last fiscal
year, the school announced
last Monday.
Due largely to new programs
designed to help researchers
introduce their discoveries to
the market, the Medical School
broke its previous records in
almost all tech transfer metrics
including patents filed, startups
produced, license agreements
with industry and revenues.
Especially lucrative was the
partial sale of the University-
developed
drug
Cerdelga’s
licensing rights, which earned
the University $65.6 million.
Medical School Dean James
Woolliscroft said the rise in
TECHNOLOGY
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The Daily Arts staff explores
Ann Arbor’s artisan fair.
» INSIDE
Panel talks
community
relationship
with police
Key players provide inside
look at Detroit bankruptcy
‘U’ researchers
pilot advances
in microscopy
Kelsey Mitchell poised for
breakout season in 2015-16
Medical
School says
2014 was
record year
for startups
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