directly, recipients would be 
free to spend the money as they 
choose.

“To a large extent I think 

some of the problems with 
charities are that they’re very 
paternalistic,” 
Morgenstern 

said. “The problem with the 
income gap is that people don’t 
tell me how to spend my money 
and I would rather not tell the 
recipient how to spend this 
money. I would like them to be 
able to use the money for what 
they feel is most important.”

Morgenstern acknowledged 

potential kinks in the plan: It 
does not promise a constant 
year-to-year flow of additional 
income for all recipients, it has 
the potential to reflect poorly 
on the University and faculty 
and staff might be reluctant to 
participate in the program. In 
addition, decisions regarding 
what the pay scale cutoff would 
be for donors and recipients 
would still need to be made.

Ultimately, Morgenstern said 

the plan is not a form of charity, 
but a way to acknowledge the 
disparities that persist in society 
today.

“In my particular specialty 

in medicine, I am in the low 
end of the pay scale but still 
above the cut point. I don’t 
believe that I have the right to 
make that amount of money 
so much more than the person 
that cleans the toilet in my area 
for 50 years. I have a great job. I 
get to sit here with all of you and 

talk about this very interesting, 
intellectual thing. Yeah, I work 
very hard, I went to school. But I 
don’t get 50 years of rewards for 
that. To me the selling point has 
to be what are we really trying 
to do? This is different from 
charitable giving, you’re paying 
to play. You’re paying to have the 
job that you have.”

SACUA members also met 

with 
representatives 
from 

Central Student Government, 
Rackham Student Government 
and the Graduate Employees’ 
Organization 
at 
Monday’s 

meeting.

Charlton, the CSG president, 

expressed 
frustration 
with 

the course evaluation release 
timeline and said he hoped 
the meeting would be an 
opportunity 
for 
student 

government 
and 
faculty 

government to move forward 
with existing plans to make 
those evaluations available to 
students.

“I would love to find a 

way that we can collaborate, 
but I think it’s time for us to 
really get this conversation 
on the table so we can all 
move forward and have a 
positive working relationship,” 
Charlton said. 

As it stands, two committees 

are being formed to address the 
issue of course evaluation data 
release. One committee will 
evaluate the current course 
evaluation instrument and the 
other committee will evaluate 
best practices for releasing 
the data. SACUA has agreed to 
release course evaluation data 
to academic advisers. A pilot 

will be released to advisers 
in early December, and full 
access to advisers should be 
available by early January of 
next year.

There was also debate about 

which 
student-governing 

bodies 
have 
the 
authority 

to 
appoint 
representatives 

to 
University 
committees. 

Though 
the 
authority 
has 

generally fallen to CSG, an 
e-mail sent out earlier this 
fall 
has 
caused 
confusion 

around 
the 
issue. 
The 

e-mail 
mistakenly 
invited 

RSG to appoint committee 
representatives as well.

Charlton maintained that 

CSG should be the only group 
invited to appoint committee 
representatives, given it is the 
only group that represents 
the entirety of the student 
population.

“Central 
Student 

Government reserves the right 
to hold every appointment 
that goes in any of these 
committees, unfortunately a 
compromise that Chuky (the 
RSG president) did not want 
to take early on is making me 
arrive at a more stern and 
unfortunately 
professional 

tonality. I want to make sure 
that we move forward together, 
but think that we need to 
silence this conversation about 
which students are talking 
on behalf of which students, 
because CSG, in order to 
reserve the solidarity of all 
students, needs to be the only 
person at this table.”

In 
response, 
RSG 

President 
Chuky 
Mbagwu, 

an 
aerospace 
engineering 

doctoral 
candidate, 
said 

CSG 
appointments 
do 
not 

include enough graduate and 
professional students.

“We 
as 
RSG 
contend 

and maintain that for years 
CSG has not actually been a 
representative for the graduate 
student 
and 
professional 

student voice, only in name,” 
Mbagwu 
said. 
“There 
are 

so many other professional 
student governments that are 
saying the same thing. The 
appointments that they made 
before RSG started doing it did 
not have any representation 
from Rackham, and maybe 
just a few from professional 
schools.”

SACUA Chair Silke-Maria 

Weineck, 
a 
professor 
of 

comparative literature, said 
the University should stick 
with its current procedure 
for now, allowing CSG to 
appoint students to University 
committees. 
However, 

she added that the issue is 
something that has to be 
worked out among student 
government groups, not by 
SACUA.

“I 
want 
to 
respect 

the 
autonomy 
of 
student 

organizations and I do not 
think it should be SACUA’s job 
to arbitrate disputes you have 
within student government; 
I think that’s not our role,” 
Weineck said. “Right now our 
charter says Central Student 
Government, we’re not going 
to change the charter in the 
middle of the semester, it’s bad 
policy.” 

engage in broader discussion 
about genetics.

“We became enamored with 

this idea because it seemed like 
an early example of engaged 
learning,” Schlissel said on 
Monday. “Students could send 
in their own DNA sample and 
then be able to interact with the 
results of that sample directly.”

However, 
the 
California 

Department of Public Health 
said because the actual genetic 
testing would be conducted 
in a university, not a clinical 
lab, the tests would need to 

be 
ordered 
by 
physicians. 

Critics also pointed to privacy 
concerns and argued students 
were not equipped with the 
proper knowledge to interpret 
the information they’d receive 
about their DNA.

Schlissel 
said 
“Bring 

Your 
Genes 
to 
Cal” 
was 

designed 
as 
an 
alternative 

to reading an assigned book 
prior to orientation, with the 
intention of allowing students 
to more actively engage in 
learning about personalized 
medicine. 
By 
testing 
non-

disease associated genes that 
commonly vary among the 
population, the program was 
not designed to provide medical 

information, but to involve 
students in the life sciences 
and demonstrate how genetic 
testing in the modern age could 
enhance medical treatment. 
In the end, the University 
organized campus discussions 
and educational sessions about 
genetic testing instead.

“Things got pretty heated,” 

Schlissel said. “Some criticisms 
involved 
groups 
expressing 

their opinions in a pretty 
incendiary way.”

After the lecture, a panel 

consisting 
of 
Schilssel, 

Internal Medicine Prof. David 
Ginsburg and Scott Roberts, 
an associate professor of health 
behavior and health education, 

facilitated a discussion with 
audience members.

“There 
is 
something 
to 

the idea that students would 
be more engaged,” Roberts 
said. “It is an interesting and 
personal teaching topic.”

Human Genetics Prof. Sally 

Camper said the purpose of the 
seminar was to bring awareness 
to genetic testing and the debate 
surrounding it.

“Genetic testing is being 

marketed directly to consumers 
and being used ‘recreationally’ 
through searches for ancestral 
connections etc.” Camper said 
in an e-mail interview. “This is 
relatively new and not without 
controversy.”

solving tool based on respectful 
conversation — preceded the 
performance. In the circle, Waln 
talked 
about 
his 
experiences 

with education and the issues 
the Native American community 
faces.

During 
the 
circle 
session, 

he reflected on his experience 
transitioning from high school 
on a poor reservation to college. 
He said he often felt secluded 
in an education system built to 
primarily boost white males.

“These 
systems 
of 
higher 

education are not built for us,” 
Waln said. “They are built for 
white men to succeed. It is hard 
being a person of color in these 
types of systems. I learned that 
going to school in these systems, 
and I often felt very isolated and 
alone.”

Waln added that the most 

important thing for people to learn 
about Native Americans is that 
the population was continuously 
subject 
to 
institutionalized 

subjugation.

“Genocide happened in this 

country, and we survived it,” he 
said. “We are talking about the 
Jewish Holocaust in our high 
schools, but they don’t tell you that 
holocaust and genocide happened 
here, on the land that class is being 
held on.”

The concert featured a set 

of songs and dances in Waln’s 
style, which incorporates native 
elements with hip hop. Waln 
performed 
lyrically 
while 

Sampson 
accompanied 
with 

traditional 
instruments 
and 

dance.

During 
the 
performance, 

Sampson, 
who 
had 
not 

participated in the talking circle, 
shared his story. Sampson grew 
up in Southern California and said 
he stayed connected to culture 
through his mother’s influence 
and the Palo community present 
there.

“She 
did 
what 
she 
could 

to provide for us and keep us 
connected 
to 
our 
culture,” 

Sampson said. “We got connected 
to the Palo culture, and that is how 
we maintained our connection.”

Between songs, Waln spoke 

about the story behind each song 
he performed. At one point, he 
talked about his forthcoming 
album.

“I consider what I do to be 

storytelling,” Waln said. “This 
album is telling my story of how 
I’m trying to actively heal from 
all of these wounds that I have 
because of colonization.”

Alexis 
Syrette, 
a 
Central 

Michigan University freshman, 
said Waln will continue to have 
success and inspire people if he 
continues performing.

“I think Frank is a really 

inspirational person, and he is 
going to continue to inspire young 
indigenous people all across the 
country,” she said. “As long as he 
keeps doing what he is doing, he is 
going to succeed.”

Public Policy senior Isa Gaillard, 

a co-chair of NASA, said this event 
is a start to increasing the visibility 
of Native Americans on campus.

“This is a start so we can have 

more opportunities for events like 
this and to raise awareness about 
the native community,” he said. 
“Michigan has one of the highest 
indigenous populations in this 
country, so as a University that 
really prides itself on being on the 
forefront of social justice issues 
and making sure that it promotes 
diversity, I think this is a really 
great chance to highlight one 
of the areas where this is really 
lacking.”

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Syrian refugees 
expected to arrive 
in Ann Arbor

Even though Gov. Rick Snyder 

(R) has put a temporary restraint 
on incoming refugees from Syria, 
more are expected to relocate to 
Ann Arbor.

Currently there are about 16 

refugees living in Ann Arbor.

The sole refugee resettlement 

agency in Washtenaw County, 
Jewish Family Services, says 
Syrian families are currently 
waiting to be cleared before they 
can come to Ann Arbor. The 
application process in full takes at 
least 18 months.

Since 2012, around 240 refugees 

have resettled in Washtenaw 
County.

Report: Detroit to 
bounce back after 
bankruptcy

In its biannual report to Gov. 

Rick Snyder (R) on Nov. 30, 
the Detroit Financial Review 
Commission said the city is 
effectively moving forward in its 
restructuring and reinvestment 
plan put in place after it exited 
bankruptcy last year.

The commission of nine was 

created last year to monitor the 
city’s progress and ensure Detroit 
continues to meet its “Grand 
Bargain” requirements. Members 
are appointed by the governor, 
mayor and city council members.

For its review, the commission 

approved 237 contracts of city 
employees and the agreement 
between 
the 
transit 
union 

and 
Detroit’s 
transportation 

department.

According to the report, Detroit 

anticipates a $35 million budget 
surplus this year.

New study indicates 
ADHD medication 
leads to bullying

A study by the University 

suggests 
children 
who 
take 

medications which treat attention 
deficit hyperactivity disorder have 
double the chance of experiencing 
physical 
and/or 
emotional 

bullying than children who do not.

Middle school and high school 

students who sell or share their 
ADHD medications were 4.5 
times more likely to be bullied.

The four-year study was funded 

by the National Institute on Drug 
Abuse and took data from about 
5,000 middle and high school 
students.

It is the first study of its kind to 

research the link between ADHD 
medications and bullying. Other 
studies have shown a link between 
children having ADHD and an 
increase in bullying.

ADHD has been increasing in 

recent years. There has been a 42 
percent increase in diagnoses for 
ADHD between 2003 and 2011, in 
the United States.

Daily antibiotics 
can prevent spread 
of tuberculosis

Daily doses of antibiotics can 

better prevent the creation of 
drug resistant strains than the 
current recommendation of one 
to two doses a week, according to 
a University study.

The study was conducted using 

a computer model of the virus 
because animal experiments are 
expensive and take a long time 
to complete, and often come 
with ethical concerns. Computer 
models can be more accurate 
than animal tests because they 
can detect issues with antibiotic 
regiments sooner.

Turberculosis is difficult to 

treat and about 10 million people 
contract it each year. Antibiotic-
resistant strains of tuberculosis 
are on the rise as well.

Because doctors are unable to 

tell whether someone has been 
completely rid of the virus or if 
it has become dormant in the 
patient’s body, strains of the virus 
can face exposure to antibiotics 
for years.

—EMMA KINERY

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themselves.” 

SAPAC and the University have 

worked together in recent years 
to bring additional awareness to 
sexual assault on campus, creating 
programs like Relationship Remix, 
a mandatory seminar for first-year 
students. However, attitudes toward 
the administration’s treatment of 
students’ experiences on campus 
varied. Some speakers found that 
coming to college provided new 
insight regarding the definition of 
assault.

“It took this campus to teach 

me the appropriate terms and to 
understand what happened to me,” a 
survivor said.

Kundert pushed for more services 

for student survivors, especially 
in light of the ongoing federal 

investigation into the University’s 
handling of sexual misconduct.

“This is important especially 

on a college campus where it’s so 
prevalent,” 
Kundert 
said. 
“And 

SAPAC has five staff members … for 
40,000 people.”

Barkin 
also 
stressed 
the 

importance of Speak Out and 
survivor care on a large campus.

In 
2015, 
the 
University 

participated in two surveys designed 
to gauge the campus climate related 
to sexual assault. A survey conducted 
by the Association of American 
Universities found that 14.6 percent 
of University students experienced 
nonconsensual sexual contact since 
coming to college.

“22.8 percent of (female) students 

identify as survivors of sexual assault 
… so you could have a 100-person 
class and 22 people with you are 
survivors … It affects everyone, 
regardless of identity.”

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ROBERT DUNNE/Daily

University President Mark Schlissel gives a lecture on issues surrounding genetic testing at the Human Genetics Seminar at the Biomedical Science as 
Research Building on Monday.

SPEAK OUT
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“BE SURE YOU PUT YOUR FEET 

IN THE RIGHT PLACE, THEN 

STAND FIRM.”

—ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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