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Discussion points 
to special interests 
as detriment to the 

collective good

By DANIEL OH

For the Daily

Hundreds 
filled 
Rackham 

Auditorium on Monday to hear 

Naomi Klein, a noted Canadian 
author 
and 
social 
activist, 

discuss her new book, “This 
Changes Everything: Capitalism 
vs. The Climate.”

The 
book 
discusses 
the 

detrimental path political and 
economic systems have carved 
for the environment and society 
as a whole.

“The theme of this series 

is conversion … conversion of 
the climate, conversion of the 

economy,” Klein said. “And that 
is at the heart of the work that I 
do for climate change. Climate 
change changes everything.”

Climate change and social 

policy often clash when natural 
disasters occur, Klein said. She 
shared the example of Hurricane 
Katrina, which devastated New 
Orleans in 2005. The storm shut 
down Charity Hospital, which 
Klein explained was “one of the 
only places where poor African 

Americans could get health care 
in the city.”

She noted that the hospital is 

still closed today as a result of 
negligent policies that prioritize 
minimizing costs over catering 
to constituents.

“(This) is one more example 

of taking advantage of a crisis 
that was born out of a collision 
between heavy weather and 
a deep neglect of the public 

For SCOTUS case, 
University details 
impact of Prop 2 on 
minority enrollment

By SAMANTHA WINTNER

Daily Staff Reporter

No stranger to court cases 

regarding the constitutionality 
of 
affirmative 
action, 
the 

University 
submitted 
an 

amicus 
brief 
to 
the 
U.S. 

Supreme Court on Monday 
highlighting its opinion that 
such programs are invaluable 
to colleges that strive to 
increase diversity on their 
campuses.

An 
amicus 
brief 
is 
a 

document in which a third 
party 
sends 
its 
opinions 

and additional information 
on a particular case for the 
court’s 
consideration. 
The 

University is the subject of 
two historic Supreme Court 
cases surrounding affirmative 

action, and the University of 
Texas is the defendant in the 
current case before the court, 
Fisher v. University of Texas 
at Austin.

In its brief, the University 

argues that the pursuit of 
diversity is a legitimate goal for 
universities, writing further 
that it supports the University 
of Texas in its endeavor to do 
so by operating race-based 
admissions programs.

“That view accords with 

the overwhelming consensus 
of 
American 
universities, 

which have concluded that 
racial diversity benefits the 
exchange and development of 
ideas by increasing students’ 
variety 
of 
perspectives; 

promotes 
cross-racial 

understanding 
and 
dispels 

racial stereotypes; and helps 
prepare students to be leaders 
in a global marketplace and 
increasingly 
multicultural 

society,” the brief said.

Law Prof. Richard Primus 

said in an interview Monday 

ADMINISTRATION

Faculty, students will 
form committee to 
consider release of 
teaching evaluations

By GENEVIEVE HUMMER

Daily Staff Reporter

The 
Senate 
Advisory 

Committee 
on 
University 

Affairs spent part of their 
Monday 
session 
discussing 

the 
most 
recent 
Faculty 

Senate meeting during which 
a majority of the 125 faculty 
members in attendance voted to 
support delaying the release of 
course evaluation data.

At a SACUA meeting last 

month, Engineering Prof. James 
Holloway, the vice provost of 
global and engaged education, 
announced the University might 
release course evaluation data as 
soon as the end of this semester. 
Holloway’s announcement was 
met with surprise by SACUA 
members, who said they were 
not consulted about such a 
release.

SACUA 
Chair 
Silke-Maria 

Weineck, 
a 
professor 
of 

Comparative Literature, said 
Monday that she was pleased 
with 
the 
Faculty 
Senate 

meeting’s turnout.

“I think a lot of it was personal 

outreach and people talking to 
their friends,” she said. “And I 
think it was a really successful 
meeting; I’ve received a lot of 
positive comments from people 
saying they were impressed 
with the turnout, the substance 

of the discussion, so I think that 
was good.”

During last week’s Faculty 

Senate meeting, Central Student 
Government President Cooper 
Charlton, an LSA senior, said 
he was still in favor of releasing 
course evaluation data in time 
for the winter 2016 semester.

“We want this to be a 

collaborative effort,” Charlton 
said. “By no means are we here 
to shove your concerns into a 
corner and not listen to you. That 
being said, it’s a decision, ‘are 
we going to release these now 
or are we going to kick the can 
down the road?’ We see there’s 
two conversations going on: the 
immediate release of course 
evaluations as they stand, and 
the second conversation is, how 
can we come together, through 
the committee Dr. Holloway has 
suggested, to determine what 
the instrument looks like going 
forward?”

Weineck said she met with 

Charlton 
after 
the 
Faculty 

Senate vote to discuss how 
students and faculty could work 
together on the issue moving 
forward.

During 
their 
meeting, 

Weineck said she and Charlton 
agreed to form a committee, 
comprised 
of 
three 
faculty 

members and three students, 
to determine protocols for the 
eventual release of the course 
evaluation data. Weineck said 
she anticipates the committee’s 
work wrapping up by April 2016. 

Holloway will lead another 

committee — comprised of one 
faculty member, one student 

Genetic depository 
informs advances 
in treating mental 

health issues

By ISOBEL FUTTER

Daily Staff Reporter

When 
Heinz 
Prechter, 

founder 
of 
the 
American 

Sunroof Company, died in 2001 
at age 59, his widow created a 
fund to advance research on 
mental illness he struggled with: 
bipolar disorder.

The 
Heinz 
C. 
Prechter 

Bipolar Research Fund started 
in 2001 and became associated 
with the University’s Depression 
Center in 2004. The fund 
engages in research on bipolar 
disorder, specifically through 

the Prechter Bipolar Genetics 
Repository, the largest privately-
funded bank of patient samples 
of its kind.

On Monday, the ninth annual 

Prechter Lecture explored the 
potential of genetics to inform 
research on bipolar disorder. 
Keynote speaker Leroy Hood, 
president and co-founder of the 
Institute for Systems Biology, a 
nonprofit biomedical research 
organization based in Seattle, 
covered the ways in which 
researchers can address disease 
based on genetic information.

“Genetics do not determine 

your destiny; they determine 
your potential,” he said.

Leroy said he was a strong 

advocate for “P4 medicine,” 
which 
applies 
to 
treatment 

that is predictive, preventive, 
personalized and participatory. 
He said this approach helps 

result in the earliest and best 
treatments possible.

He said research has found 

people can combat their genetic 
dispositions through wellness, 
with practices such as eating 
well and exercising regularly.

Hood 
also 
said 
family 

genomics, or the study of genetic 
sequences 
within 
a 
family, 

have 
produced 
interesting 

correlations between bipolar 
disorder and certain genetic 
triggers.

“We can stratify patients in so 

many new and powerful ways,” 
he said. “Stratification is really 
the key to complex diseases. We 
can bring wellness to those who 
are at risk to bipolar disease and 
those who have other genetic 
predispositions.”

LSA 
sophomore 
Maya 

Eter, a data entry assistant 

Abandoned 
structure was 

condemned by the 

City in August

By ISOBEL FUTTER

Daily Staff Reporter

The 
Ann 
Arbor 
Fire 

Department responded to a 
fire Monday afternoon near a 
vacant building behind Sava’s 
Restaurant on State Street.

The building, located at 212 

S. State St., was unoccupied 
and according to firefighters 
at the scene, only trash 
surrounding 
the 
building 

actually burned. It’s currently 
unclear how the fire started.

Firefighters at the scene 

also said the building looks 
exactly as it did before the fire, 
but since the vacant building 
was already deemed unsafe 
for entry, firefighters did not 
enter the building to assess 
potential damage further.

The city previously issued 

a blight enforcement warning 
to 
the 
building’s 
owner, 

Bloomfield Hills developer 
Howard Frehsee, according 
to a September report in The 
Ann Arbor News. The city had 
determined the building was 
dangerous and sent its owner 
a notice ordering demolition 
of the structure. He had until 
Sept. 9 to comply.

The fire was fully extin-

guished by 3:40 p.m.

Samantha Wintner 

contributed reporting.

PUBLIC SAFETY

RESEARCH

ACADEMICS

ROBERT DUNNE/Daily

Author Naomi Klein speaks about her most recent book “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate” at the 2015 Marc and Constance Jacobson Lecture at 
Rackham on Monday. 

See NAOMI KLEIN, Page 3
See AMICUS, Page 3

See SACUA, Page 2
See BIPOLAR, Page 3

AMANDA ALLEN/Daily

Norah Jones, a jazz singer and songwriter, performs songs from her album Little Broken Hearts at the Michigan Theater 
on Monday.

NOR AH JONES

‘U’ defends 
affirmative 
action with 
court brief

Activist Naomi Klein talks
climate change, capitalism

SACUA plans to 
work with CSG 
on course data

Lecture on bipolar disorder 
explores links to genetics

Fire breaks 
out behind 
Sava’s near 
vacant bldg.

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