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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
‘U’ hosts
bootcamp
to support
new NGOs
Weiser Center,
William Davidson
Institute partner for
development abroad
By CAMY METWALLY
Daily Staff Reporter
For four days this week,
thousands of miles away, the
University took the international
stage in Slovakia.
The
Weiser
Center
for
Emerging Democracies and the
William Davidson Institute at the
University partnered together to
sponsor a bootcamp in Bratislava,
Slovakia, on leadership for non-
governmental
organizations.
From Oct. 20 to Oct. 23, the
program welcomed participants
from 20 NGOs in countries
transitioning to democracy.
Rachel Brichta, Weiser Center
communications specialist, said
the partnership demonstrated
how units across campus can
have interdisciplinary missions.
“Both of our missions have
strengthening democracy and
civil society at our core, and so
the fact that we’re able to work
together and then find a partner
overseas to do this together
really shows that Michigan has
so much to offer and these kinds
of partnerships can really make
an impact in the world,” Brichta
said.
The Pontis Foundation, an
NGO
in
Slovakia,
provided
instructors to train participants
with the goal of improving
the managerial capacity of the
organizations.
Activities
and
workshops targeted five different
areas:
advocacy
and
public
policy
building,
management,
marketing strategies, planning
and
sustainability,
and
communication and negotiation.
“Many NGOs have a clear idea
of what they want to achieve, but
sometimes it’s far more difficult
to figure out how to achieve,”
Political
Science
Prof.
Anna
Grzymala-Busse, Weiser Center
program director, wrote in an
e-mail to The Michigan Daily.
“This workshop will provide
See BOOTCAMP, Page 3
DELANEY RYAN/Daily
Gov. Rick Snyder speaks on cyber security, including his own experience with identity theft, at the 11th annual Security at University of Michigan IT conference at
Rackham Auditorium on Thursday.
Snyder talks cyber security
during Rackham address
Governor joins IT
experts for annual
conference on
internet protection
By EMMA KINERY
Daily Staff Reporter
Gov. Rick Snyder, the self-
proclaimed “one tough nerd,”
came to the University on
Thursday to speak on a topic
he says nerds know best: cyber
security.
“First of all, I am proud to
say I am a nerd,” Snyder said.
“One subset of that is being a
techie. Technology is something
that’s critically important, that’s
transforming our lives, and it’s
not going to go back, it’s only
going to continue to advance.”
Snyder spoke at the 11th
annual Security at the University
of Michigan IT conference at the
University, hosted by University
Information
and
Technology
Services.
The
conference
focused on cyber security this
year in honor of October’s status
as
National
Cyber
Security
Awareness Month.
“For everything we do to say
we’re
advancing
information
technology taking it to the
next level, I think it’s equally
important
that
there’s
a
corresponding
effort
to
encourage better cyber security,”
Snyder said.
University
President
Mark
Schlissel
introduced
Snyder,
and recognized the governor’s
high value on educatoin. Snyder
recieved his B.A., MBA and J.D.
from the University as well as a
honorary degree.
“He’s persistent. It doesn’t
matter what the climate is, he’s
going to work to achieve goals
he has for the citizens of this
state and I’ve learned from
See SNYDER, Page 3
ARTS
See UMASUNA, Page 5
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Etienne Hirsch, a director at the French Institute of Health and Medical Research, speaks about his research on
Parkinson’s disease at the Udall Center for Parkinson’s Disease Research Symposium in Kahn Auditorium on Thursday.
University holds inaugural
symposium on Parkinson’s
Conference speakers
pitch alternative
approaches to study
the disease
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
The
University
hosted
its first Parkinson’s disease
research symposium Thursday,
which focused on creative
ways to approach the disease’s
treatment.
William
Dauer,
director
of
the
Morris
K.
Udall
Centers
of
Excellence
for
Parkinson’s Disease Research,
a collaboration between several
universities, said the center
aims to study topics outside
of
mainstream
Parkinson’s
research.
“The key theme is to look
beyond the traditional focus
to other aspects of the disease,
to other chemical transmitters
that are affected to try to better
understand how those play a
role is the disease,” he said.
Etienne Hirsch, director at
the Institute for Neurosciences
at the French Alliance for Life
and Health Science, delivered
the
conference’s
keynote
address
in
the
Biomedical
Science Research Building’s
Kahn Auditorium.
Hirsch’s talk focused on
the ways in which brain cell
deterioration causes symptoms
associated with Parkinson’s,
touching on his own research.
He emphasized the role of glial
cells, inflammatory cytokines
and apoptosis, the automatic
response
within
cells
to
destruct when they sustain
a certain level of damage.
Glial
cells
help
maintain
homeostasis, or stability, in the
brain. Inflammatory cytokines
are proteins that signal cells to
cause inflammation.
He said while those three
elements are not always viewed
as pivotal to understanding the
disease, he hoped to convince
the audience that looking at
Parkinson’s disease in this way
would provide a new way to
think about treatment.
In
talking
about
his
experiments, Hirsch said he
found that a certain heat shock
protein, HSP60, was responsible
for increasing the amount of
cellular
degeneration.
Heat
shock proteins are a type
of protein within the body
that are produced when a
cell
experiences
stressful
conditions.
“From
this
experiment,
POLITICS
See PARKINSON’S, Page 3
College
Democrats
hear from
MDP chair
Brandon
Dillon stresses
importance of
youth involvement
By BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
Despite the keynote speaker
delivering his address through
Skype instead of in person and
the presence of a tracker for the
Republican Party, the College
Democrats heard from the head
of Michigan’s Democratic Party
on Thursday about how young
people can become involved in
politics.
MDP
Chair
Brandon
Dillon, who was elected in
July after former chair Lon
Johnson stepped down to run
for Congress, was originally
scheduled
to
speak
in
the
Michigan Union. An upcoming
event with presidential candidate
Martin O’Malley, the former
governor of Maryland, conflicted
with the plans and led him to
Skype in to the event instead.
O’Malley is slated to appear
in Dearborn, Mich. on Friday as
part of a conference hosted by the
Arab American Institute. During
the appearance, he will discuss
policy issues affecting Arab
Americans and how they can be a
part of the discussion during the
2016 campaign season.
“(Even with the schedule
conflict), Dillon still wanted to
support students and reach out to
us,” said Public Policy senior Max
See DEMOCRATS, Page 2
UMASUNA
grapples w ith
life and death
Japanese
dramatists bring
avant-garde
theater to the ‘U’
By COSMO PAPPAS
Daily Arts Writers
Editor’s Note: All quotes
from the interview with Ushio
Amagatsu were translated from
English
to
Japanese
and
from
Japanese
back
to
English
by
Midori
Okuyama
and Yasuko
Takai.
Butoh
looms
large in the
story of the
post-war
avant-garde
arts
in
Japan. The
brainchild of Hijikata Tatsumi
and Ohno Kazuo, Butoh is an
experimental
movement
in
dance that established a novel
visual and physical vocabulary
in dance. Slow, controlled
movement and striking, often
unnerving
costume
define
this genre that strives “to find,
in the depth of each human
being, a common sense, a
serene universality, even if,
sometimes, it refers to cruelty
or brutality.”
For those first-generation
innovators in Butoh, violent
and unsettling images were
the order of the day. But for
Ushio Amagatsu, the director
and founder of Sankai Juku,
the
world-renowned
Butoh
troupe founded in 1975 and
based out of Paris, doesn’t
draw
its
inspiration
from
violence in the pursuit of this
universality.
“I was born by the sea,”
Amagatsu said in an interview
via email. “Boundary between
land and sea, a changing color
from dawn to a blue sky, on the
contrary, from red sunset to
blue that is further darkened
deeper, and the repetition
of them that we may call as
‘eternity’ ... These impressions
still dwell upon my mind.”
Where Amagatsu departs
from
the
violence
and
grotesquerie
of
the
first-
generation of Butoh dancers, he
emphasizes the imperceptible,
the
uncanny,
the
eternal.
Particularly so in Sankai Juku’s
upcoming performance in Ann
Arbor: UMUSUNA: Memories
Before History.
“Umusuna is a Japanese
word that means a place of one’s
birth. When I apply this word to
the whole of human being, the
earth itself becomes Umusuna,”
Amagatsu said. “I believe that
the relationship between the
place of birth and people is
always deeply affected by a
certain natural element, and
I don’t think this relationship
changes at present, and in
the future as well, as it didn’t
change in the past.”
Sankai Juku:
UMASUNA:
Memories
Before
History
Oct. 23-24,
8 p.m.
Power Center for
the Performing Arts
$12 (students) -$54