among a list of illicit drugs used
on campus, and that 11 percent of
students in 2013 indicated they had
taken the drug for a non-medical
use in the past year.

“We’ve seen a lot of our

friends plagued by these issues
and now that we’re in a position
to be heard and we have the
foundation to do something we
want to do something,” Schafer
said. “Personally, I’ve seen my
friends misuse in so many different
occasions in so many different
ways.”

Public
Policy
junior
Lucky

Lakshman
Mulpuri,
a
CSG

representative involved in the
planning, said the campaign will
focus on opioids, depressants and
stimulants.

Mulpuri said he hopes the

campaign will not demonize the
drugs, but will instead focus on
emphasizing the fact that they’re
prescribed by doctors for a reason.

“It
feels
like
a
real
and

tangible step towards addressing
prescription
drug
misuse
on

campus,” Mulpuri said.

The
campaign,
which
will

begin the last week of January
and run until the first week of
February, will contain five events
that will alternate every other
day. It’s slated to begin with an
informational video on adderall
abuse featuring the University

football team, members of the
University’s chapter of Theta Chi,
the fraternity Levine belonged to,
and other students willing to share
their stories.

A
panel
discussion
led
by

representatives
of
the
School

of
Public
Health,
University

Health Services and the College
of Pharmacy is slated to focus
on the dangers of prescription
drug misuse. Levine’s mother,
Julie Buckner, has also agreed to
participate in the panel.

Third-year Pharmacy student

Caroline Quinn, president of the
Pharmacy Student Government
Council, said the dean of student
services for the Pharmacy School,
expressed interest in the school
supporting the initiative. Along
with providing speakers for the
panel, the school also plans to
screen any factual information on
stimulants before it is used in the
campaign.

Schafer said it is important the

campaign speaks to students while
remaining
inclusive
for
those

affected by the problem.

“It shouldn’t come from a

pedantic or overly condescending
place,” Schafer said. “CSG members
also face these unbelievably high
academic pressures, and we don’t
want to see students using these
drugs.”

The campaign is expected to

conclude with a signature drive
asking students to pledge not to
abuse prescription medicines.

in building a stronger Black
community at the University.

“Being a freshman here,

when I first got here, I felt
like I wasn’t a good enough
Black student because I wasn’t
involved yet. I didn’t know
what Black organizations I
wanted to join,” she said. “If
we as upperclassmen are here
and seeing new faces, let’s be
inclusive and talk to Black
people. Talk to people you
haven’t seen before. Let’s have
some type of inclusivity within
our own culture so there isn’t a
hierarchy of Blackness.”

Attendees also reflected on

a 2014 Martin Luther King Jr.
Day demonstration held by BSU
members on the steps of Hill
Auditorium.

Holding black signs with

tweets written in white chalk,
members protested low minority
enrollment and demanded the
University meet seven goals for
improving campus climate and
diversity of the student body.

A new location for the Trotter

Center and an improved race
and ethnicity requirement were
among the demands made by
the BSU. Additionally, the BSU
demanded an increase to Black
student enrollment equal to 10
percent.

The University has since

addressed some of the demands
outlined by the BSU, including
granting
the
organization

$60,000, for funding a variety
of student groups on campus,
an increase from the $37,000
previously
allocated
to
the

organization. The University
also
approved
Intergroup

Relations
courses
to
count

toward the race and ethnicity
distribution requirement, and
increased the classes’ credit
value from two credits to three.

Officials
also
digitized

Bentley
Historical
Library

documents with information
on the Black Action Movement
of the 1960s. The BSU made
the demand with the aim of
increasing
the
University’s

transparency on past dealings
with Black student activists.

During
Thursday’s
event,

one student said he thinks it’s
unnecessary to keep making
new
demands
when
the

demands from previous Black
activist
movements
haven’t

been met.

Former
BSU
Treasurer

Robert Greenfield, a University
alum, said gaining total support
from the Black community
on campus is necessary to
substantiate the demands.

“We first need 100-percent

buy-in of the Black community,
and the problem is that in the
past, action movements and
social action on campus, there
hasn’t been that 100-percent
buy-in,” he said. “The football
players and basketball players,
we need them. I think that in
the University setting, that’s the
only way we’re gonna really get
those demands met.”

Discussions
between
the

BSU, University administration
and other community members
are ongoing. Last week, the
University held a weeklong
Diversity
Summit
intended

to
garner
input
from
the

community about improving

equality
and
inclusion
on

campus.

In a statement Thursday,

University
President
Mark

Schlissel thanked the BSU for
participating in a meeting with
him and E. Royster Harper, vice
president for student life.

“I would further like to

thank the members of the Black
Student Union who joined Vice
President Harper and me last
Friday for breakfast, as part of
our ongoing dialogue over the
past year,” he said. “Though the
breakfast had been scheduled
for weeks, the timing gave us
the opportunity to discuss the
nationwide campus issues of
racism and inequality.”

Schlissel also lauded students

for engaging in dialogues about
racism and discrimination on
college campuses.

Along
with
discussing

campus
efforts
over
the

past
few
years,
presenters

Thursday also dedicated time
to celebrating how #BBUM had
strengthened ties within the
Black community.

BSU
Political
Action

Chair Diego Zimmerman, a
sophomore in the School of
Music, Theatre & Dance and
the College of Engineering,
said he remembered the warm
greetings he received when he
came to his first BSU meeting.

“I remember my first BSU

meeting: Everybody said ‘What’s
up,’ met everyone, had the best
time,” he said. “I remember that
feeling of community I never got
anywhere else. I remembered I
need to stay here — my family is
here.”

LSA senior Arnold Reed,

former
BSU
speaker,
said

throwing tailgates on game days
helped draw Black students
closer together and is something
younger students should also
emulate.

“I want you guys to know,

especially
younger
students,

when it comes to throwing
events or doing things that you
feel like you don’t normally have
access to, do it,” he said. “Know
that this group right here is
going to always support you.”

During the event, Kinesiology

senior
Cap
Kendall
said

building
relationships
with

faculty members would also be
helpful in unifying the Black
community.

“I
think
oftentimes
as

undergraduates
you
often

forget that there are faculty and
professional students who are
also our allies (and) are here
to help us,” she said. “We need
to open up more and let them
participate in conversation like
this.”

In an interview with The

Michigan Daily after the event,
LSA senior Chris James, a BSU
executive board member, said
holding Thursday’s event was
vital in inspiring younger Black
students to continue the efforts
of past BSU members.

“#BBUM started two years,

so with the new incoming
freshmen, they don’t always get
to see the up close and personal
of what happens on campus
before they got here,” he said.
“It’s so important to have
this so they can carry it with
themselves and keep holding
the University accountable for
what they say they’re gonna do.
We have to keep this fire going.”

Miller, retired executive vice
president for health affairs at
Johns Hopkins University.

Johns was chosen last year to

serve as interim chief executive
officer of University of Michigan
Health System through March.

The board’s trip to Los Angeles

in 2013 involved meeting with
Robert
Birgeneau,
former

chancellor of the University of
California,
Berkeley,
Stanford

University
President
John

Hennessy, Robert Berdahl, former
president of the Association of
American Universities and Dan
Russell, a top Google research
scientist.

Fitzgerald
also
said
the

strategic planning sessions serve
as opportunities for the board to
interact with University alumni.
The board’s meeting in New York
was accompanied by a fundraising

dinner at Lincoln Center. At
this year’s strategic planning
meeting, the regents will interact
with alumni in Detroit, an area
heavily populated with University
alumni.

There
are
almost
60,000

alumni in the greater Detroit area,
one of the highest concentrations
nationwide.

As he enters his second year,

University
President
Mark

Schlissel has also focused on
strengthening the University’s
connection to the city of Detroit.
At an Amazon press conference
in the city this past September,
he emphasized the University’s
annual
student-led
Detroit

Partnership Day, in which 1,500
students participate in projects
across the city. In August, he
hosted an event commending the
work of students and interns in
the city.

The
next
regular
regents

meeting will take place Dec 17.

could prevent these dangerous
infections, how the exact process
works
remains
undiscovered.

VanEpps said the key may be
the nanoparticles’ shape, which
enables them to inhibit certain
enzymes important for bacterial
growth.

Because
zinc
oxide

nanopyramids
can
inhibit

multiple bacterial enzymes while
antibiotics
normally
disrupt

just one, it may be much harder

for bacteria to evolve resistance
against the nanoparticles.

“We’ve seen that the zinc oxide

nanopyramids
hinder
biofilm

growth, and it’s been shown that
they inhibit certain enzymes.
Next, we want to figure out how
these two facts fit together,”
VanEpps said.

The researchers plan to learn

more about the nanoparticles
before they can be adapted for
medical use. For example, they
will observe whether different
concentrations of particles can
inhibit other types of bacteria
without harming human cells.

the hopelessness as I felt that no
one cared about the people who
died the day before because they
simply look different and came
from a different part to the world.”

First-year Law student Asma

Husain, who spoke during the
rally, said she often feels like
she must bear the burden of her
entire culture as a Muslim and
answer for things she doesn’t
agree with, such as the actions of
extremists.

“Being a Muslim in America

now means you have this kind of
tax placed upon you,” she said.
“Which means when anything
happens that involves anyone
whose identity has any tenuous
or
untrue
or
contradictory

connection to Islam or claims
that connection, you feel like
it is a weight put upon your
shoulders to explain or apologize
or distance yourself from those
actions.”

First-year Law student Zahrah

Fadel, who also spoke, echoed
Husain’s sentiments.

She said groups like the Islamic

State are trying to bring back
the hatred and fear that existed
following the 9/11 attacks.

“It took me years after I

moved here from Lebanon. I

was embarrassed to bring a pita
sandwich to school for so long. I
was embarrassed to admit that
I was a Muslim, but I realized
growing up that I’m American.
I’m just as American as anyone
else,” Fadel said. “We’ve (made)
so much progress in this country
to
move
from
that
divisive

mindset, so let’s not go back. I
don’t want this generation to
grow up hopeless. I want us to
grow up together.”

Along with speeches from

community members, organizers
also held a moment of silence
for victims of terror worldwide,
as well as taking a picture in
solidarity with Parisians.

Second
year
Law
student

Nicolas Kabat, president of the
Racial Justice Coalition, said
his inspiration for the rally
came from how upset he saw
members of his community were
in response to the week’s events.

“I think everyone was very

upset with the Paris attacks, and
yet we were also equally upset by
the response we were seeing from
local politicians, from media
pundits,” he said. “We wanted to
have a rally that would show our
solidarity with the victims of the
Paris attacks and also show our
solidarity with all Muslims in
the U.S. and anyone experiencing
hatred.”

The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
News
Friday, November 20, 2015 — 3

CSG
From Page 1

PEACE
From Page 1

REGENTS
From Page 1

STORY
SLAM

The Daily aims to tell the story of campus,
Ann Arbor, the state, and our society at large.
But the Daily also wants to hear from you.
What do you want to tell?

Friday, November 20
7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
420 Maynard St.

The Michigan Daily invites
storytellers of all kinds to join
us for a our first community story slam.

Send entries to Sam Gringlas at gringlas@umich.edu by Nov. 13.

We want to hear your
poetry, short stories, essays --
anything you can read or perform aloud.

SUNSCREEN
From Page 1

#BBUM
From Page 1

study linking autism with measles,
mumps and rubella vaccines, but
in 2010, the study was retracted by
the publishing journal because the
study used false data to reach its
conclusion.

In 1975, one out of 5,000 people

were diagnosed with autism, but in
2009, one in 110 were. Smith said
the increase is due to the change
in the diagnosis criteria and raised
awareness of the condition, not
vaccinations. Smith cited the 1988
movie “Rain Man,” starring Dustin
Hoffman as an autistic savant, as
one of the reasons autism gained

recognition in the society, for both
the public and physicians.

“(Numbers) really took off when

the movie ‘Rain Man’ came out,”
Smith said. “It changed the prac-
tice. Even physicians recognized
the changes in the diagnosis crite-
ria.”

Finally, Smith rebuked anti-

vaxxers argument that parents
have the right to choose whether
they vaccinate their children.
Smith said not vaccinating the chil-
dren will put other children who
cannot get vaccinated at risk.

“The society has the duty to pro-

tect (children who cannot get vac-
cinated) from people who could be
vaccinated but choose not to,” she
said.

VACCINES
From Page 1A
FOLLOW THE

MICHIGAN DAILY

ON TWITTER

@michigandaily

AND ‘LIKE’ US ON FACEBOOK

#READTMD