michigandaily.com
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM
INDEX
Vol. CXXV, No. 35
©2015 The Michigan Daily
michigandaily.com
NEWS............................2
OPINION.......................4
ARTS............................. 5
SPORTS.........................7
SU DO K U. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
CL ASSIFIEDS.................6
NEW ON MICHIGANDAILY.COM
Community reacts to Chad Carr’s passing
MICHIGANDAILY.COM/SECTION/NEWS
GOT A NEWS TIP?
Call 734-418-4115 or e-mail
news@michigandaily.com and let us know.
WEATHER
TOMORROW
HI: 47
LO: 35
Researchers find
website decreases
suicidal thoughts in
new doctors
By SANJAY REDDY
Daily Staff Reporter
Upon beginning residency,
newly licensed doctors often
feel a combination of inferiority,
stress and sleeplessness that
can lead to an increase in
suicidal thoughts. Fortunately,
a recent study co-conducted by
a University researcher shows
the benefit of a new web-based
tool to lessen, or even eliminate,
these feelings.
The study was published in
early November in the Journal
of
the
American
Medical
Association
Psychiatry.
Researchers
concluded
that
a
free
cognitive
behavioral
therapy website can cut the rate
of suicidal thoughts in first-year
residents in half. The program
included four weekly interactive
modules that covered topics
like understanding the links
between
thoughts,
emotions
and behaviors and teaching the
ability to challenge unrealistic
thoughts.
Srijan
Sen,
associate
professor of psychiatry at the
University,
and
Constance
Guille, assistant professor of
psychiatry
and
behavioral
sciences
at
the
Medical
University of South Carolina,
led the research team. The web-
based tool, called MoodGYM,
offers the same type of therapy
that mental health professionals
offer in therapy sessions. It
was developed at Australian
National University.
To carry out the study, Sen
and Guille requested the help
of 199 medical interns, another
term for first-year residents.
Half
of
the
interns
were
assigned to use MoodGYM, and
the other half received general
information on depression and
suicide and contact information
for mental health professionals.
Of those who just got general
information
about
mental
health, one out of five thought
about
suicide
sometime
in
their medical internship year.
However, only one out of eight
of the interns who used the
MoodGYM app thought about
suicide.
Additionally,
most
assigned to the app continued
to use it all year.
Guille said a focus of this study
is to emphasize the importance
of depression prevention rather
than treatment after its onset.
“We are showing that we
can prevent the onset of suicide
ideation, as opposed to treating
it once it is already there,” Guille
said. “It is much more difficult
to get people into treatment
once they have mental health
problems,
so
there
is
an
advantage to preventing the
onset.”
Sen said one of the biggest
implications of this finding
is that web-based cognitive
behavioral therapy, and tools
like it, can be used to help
others in high-stress, high-
pressure situations. He said this
could extend to undergraduates
HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily
Project Elephant came to the Diag on Monday after Asian-American students felt overlooked at the University’s
recent Diversity Summit. LEFT: Education junior Samantha Suh discusses issues of diversity with a visiting scholar.
RIGHT: Engineering senior Sean Jiu and Business senior Derek Siew speak about Asian-American representation.
Demonstration
addresses minority
community’s role in
diversity discussions
By ISOBEL FUTTER
Daily Staff Reporter
The cold didn’t stop three
students from standing in the
Diag all day Monday with a
wooden cutout of an elephant
to advocate for Asian-American
inclusion on campus.
LSA senior Brendan Wu,
Engineering senior Sean Liu
and Business senior Jennifer
Liu created the event, which
they called Project Elephant,
in response to the last week’s
University-wide
Diversity
Summit.
Sean Liu, who is co-chair of
the University’s United Asian
American Organization, said
the
demonstration’s
name
stems from the common idiom
of the “elephant in the room”
— meaning an important and
potentially awkward topic that
is clearly apparent to all, but
not discussed.
“We
felt
like
elephants
in the room where we were
invited to the party, but not
active participants,” Sean said.
“There are issues, there are
voices, there are people that
are being left out and they are
elephants in the room, and we
want to talk about them.”
While
attending
events
related to the summit, the
three students said they felt
as
though
Asian-American
voices were excluded from the
conversations about diversity
on campus, prompting the Diag
demonstration.
“We felt like we were not
included in the discourse and
presentations of the Summit,”
Wu said. “In some instances,
Student-run
teams will work
over three months
to develop startups
By GENEVIEVE HUMMER
Daily Staff Reporter
‘Tis
the
season
for
entrepreneurship.
Dozens of people gathered
in the East Liberty Street
headquarters of TechArb, an
incubator for student startups
sponsored by the University’s
Center for Entrepreneurship
and
the
Samuel
Zell
and
Robert H. Lurie Institute for
Entrepreneurial Studies, for
the launch of its semi-annual
startup program Monday night.
The incubator, which was
founded in 2009, selects a
number of startups each fall,
winter and spring semester
to participate in its out-of-
the-classroom crash course in
business development.
This fall, TechArb selected
21 teams from 50 applications,
which TechArb director Ryan
Gourley said is the highest
number of applications the
incubator has ever received.
See WEB, Page 3
See ELEPHANT, Page 3
See TECHARB, Page 3
Chad Carr
dies after
battle with
brain cancer
COMMUNITY
Carr, 5, united ‘U’
community with
strength during
yearlong fight
By JAKE LOURIM
Managing Sports Editor
The Michigan football faithful
received
sad
news
Monday
afternoon when Chad Carr, the
5-year-old grandson of former
Michigan
coach
Lloyd
Carr
and former Hall of Fame safety
Tom Curtis, passed away after a
yearlong fight with brain cancer.
Carr was initially diagnosed
with an inoperable brain tumor
called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine
Glioma
in
September
2014.
In
June,
doctors
escalated
his
treatment
and
began
to provide him some relief.
But two weeks ago, with his
condition worsening, Carr went
into hospice care after several
attempts
at
recovery
were
unsuccessful.
Carr’s
disease
has
united
Wolverines
and
rivals
alike.
On Nov. 14 at Indiana, the
Michigan football team wrote
“#CHADTOUGH” on its helmets
and dedicated its 48-41 victory to
Carr. A week later, Michigan State
and Ohio State wore decals in
support of Carr on their helmets
during their game in Columbus.
More
statements
of
support
turned up on social media after
Carr’s mother, Tammi, tweeted
the news of his passing.
After Carr was diagnosed,
his
family
established
the
ChadTough Foundation to raise
awareness for rare pediatric
brain tumors such as Carr’s.
“It’s
incredible
sadness,
and I don’t know if it’s going
to get better any time soon,”
said
Michigan
coach
Jim
Harbaugh
during
a
weekly
radio appearance Monday night.
“Heaven got stronger … heaven
has another angel now.”
RYAN MCLOUGHLIN/Daily
Engineering freshman Shivam Sharma, center, makes repairs to a blimp with guidance from his team members during testing for an introductory aerospace
engineering course in Francois Xavier-Bagnoud Building on North Campus on Monday.
BLIMPIN ’
Students, faculty to
attend UN session
to brainstorm new
treaty after Kyoto
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
A team of eight University
students
and
two
faculty
members will travel to Paris
for two weeks at the beginning
of December to observe the
process of negotiating a new
treaty
to
address
climate
change.
The team will attend the
United Nations’ Conference of
Parties, with representatives
from more than 190 countries
and
nongovernmental
organizations, including other
universities.
The COP will focus on
creating a treaty to replace the
Kyoto Protocol, which expires
in 2020. The Kyoto Protocol
is an international agreement
that was adopted in 1997 at the
United
Nations
Framework
Convention on Climate Change
to create binding emission
reduction
standards.
The
conference in Paris will also
focus on reducing emissions.
“The Conference of Parties
happens every single year,
and broadly its role is to help
nations
around
the
world
to work to figure out how
to
reduce
or
manage
our
impact on the environment,”
said Engineering sophomore
Allison Hogikyan, a member
of the team. “This particular
COP we need to rewrite the
international agreement.”
Hogikyan said the main
reason the UN allows observing
parties to attend the COP is to
increase the transparency of
the event.
See PARIS, Page 3
RESEARCH
ENVIRONMENT
Web therapy
helps first-year
med students
‘Project Elephant’ calls for
inclusion of Asian students
TechArb
kicks off
incubation
program
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
‘U’ group plans Paris trip
to observe climate talks