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in the past month, and 21 
percent reported using mar-
ijuana at least once in the 
past month. Eight percent 
of undergraduate students 
reported using drugs such 
as cocaine, amphetamines 
and ecstasy in the past 
month. All of these numbers 
had increased since a previ-
ous NCHA survey taken in 
2010. 

Mary Jo Desprez, direc-

tor of Wolverine Wellness, 
said alcohol and other drug 
use is a problem that spans 
the entire student popula-
tion. Wolverine Wellness is 
a program housed in Uni-
versity 
Health 
Services 

that, in part, addresses the 
potential harm of drug use 
on campus.

Though 
freshmen 
are 

often the highest risk group 
for drug use, Desprez said 
students of all ages are 
affected. Though the bill 
addresses drug use, she said 
alcohol abuse continues to 
be a bigger issue on the Uni-
versity campus.

Desprez 
said 
medical 

amnesty laws are usually 
created to address the fear 
students experience when 
debating whether or not to 
seek medical assistance.

“At U-M we have a car-

ing community and most 
students tell us they would 
call for help regardless if 
they were worried about a 
friend or a fellow student,” 
Desprez wrote in an e-mail 
interview with The Michi-
gan Daily. “For those few 
that might not, this law 
could provide an additional 
measure of certainty.”

However, these laws have 

the potential to limit the 
ability of health care pro-
fessionals to follow up with 
drug users, Desprez said. 
Prior to the introduction 
of this bill, it was often the 
citation that students would 
receive 
from 
drug 
pos-

session or other unlawful 
acts that allowed the court 
to require an educational 
intervention.

“When you remove that 

accountability loop we lose 
a strategy to talk with peo-
ple about what role alcohol 
and other drug use is play-
ing in their lives,” Desprez 
wrote. “We should continue 
to advocate for these laws to 
include options for address-
ing the potential continued 
harm to that person beyond 
the danger that is happening 
that night.”

Desprez 
said 
through 

education programs, Wol-
verine Wellness aims to 
intervene before any over-
dose happens in the first 
place.

“We have a lot more 

potential to help people by 
moderating 
their 
behav-

ior before they get to the 
point of overdose,” Desprez 
wrote. “If students learned 
how to care for their friends 
long before a potential over-
dose was happening we 
could prevent a large major-
ity of these situations.”

LSA junior Erin Dunne, 

co-director of the Students 
for Sensible Drug Policy 
organization 
on 
campus, 

said 
students’ 
misunder-

standing of the amnesty 
policy plays a large role in 
limiting reporting.

“There’s a lot of catches in 

these laws that might make 
some students be afraid,” 
Dunne said.

While some believe that 

medical amnesty laws could 
go too far, particularly in the 
case of students abusing the 
privilege to stay out of legal 
trouble, Dunne said SSDP 
generally believes medical 
amnesty should apply to all 
drugs and situations.

“You should never be in 

a situation where you are 
going to get in trouble for a 
medical condition, be that a 
condition, overdose or mis-
use,” she said.

Ultimately, Dunne said 

medical amnesty is crucial, 
especially considering the 
Michigan teen that died 
potentially because this pro-
vision was not in place.

she said. “You need to spread 
out across the country and make 
sure we walk, we talk.”

Rabhi said the way to achieve 

real input in climate change leg-
islation is by mobilizing young 
voters.

“This struggle will be won at 

the ballot box,” he said. “When 
we vote, we win. When we 
knock on doors, we win. When 
we go to the streets and protest, 
we win. We will win.”

Meghan 
O’Neill, 
a 
high 

school student in Washtenaw 
County, said she joined the 
march because she thought it 
was key for people to show their 
support.

“I think it’s really important 

to get involved in this because if 
we don’t take action, who else is 
going to?” she said. “We have to 
make a change.”

The demonstration followed 

the conclusion of the climate 
talks in Paris, where coun-
tries set a target of keeping the 
global temperature from rising 
more than 2 degrees Celsius, 

with each country submit-
ting specific goals for reducing 
greenhouse gas emissions. The 
University sent a delegation of 
students and faculty to the con-
ference where they were able to 
observe the negotiations.

Rackham student Mayank 

Vikas, one of the students on the 
delegation, said the deal is not 
as comprehensive as it could be, 
but he hopes it will lead to more 
progress in the future.

“I’m cautiously optimistic 

this deal will lead to some-
thing bigger and better,” Vikas 
said. “It’s a good start, but I 
don’t think the deal is ambi-
tious enough to actually match 
the aspirations that its text 
reflects.”

Information 
and 
History 

Prof. Paul Edwards, who also 
attended the conference, said he 
hopes the talks serve as a moti-
vating force for the University 
to take more action against cli-
mate change.

“We should be leading the 

way,” he said. “If we are really 
the leaders and the best we 
should be showing the rest of 
the world how it’s done.”

AMNESTY
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CLIMATE
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attacks in Paris, Lebanon and elsewhere.

Kang created the page the same day the 

photos were posted and said the page grew 
more popular when his friend posted the 
page’s link to her top comment on one of the 
photos.

Kang said he started the page because he 

recognized that many people get very upset 
over the refugee’s stories, but few took action 
to help the man and his family.

“A big reason why I started this is because 

I feel like people get so heartbroken over 
the refugee stories and then when it comes 
down to it, some people at the moment want 
to help but then afterwards they don’t care 
about it,” Kang said. “I wanted to jump in 
while people were prepared to help and 
give them the opportunity that they could 
do something.”

Actor Edward Norton had a similar idea. 

On Saturday afternoon, Stanton posted on 
the HONY page that Norton had contacted 
him asking to start a fundraiser for this same 
scientist. Stanton included a link to Norton’s 
fundraiser and commented on the post rec-

ognizing Kang for his fundraising efforts.

Kang said he did not expect to be recog-

nized by Stanton.

“I didn’t really think I did much, so to get 

a shout-out from (the) Humans of New York 
(creator), who I think is one of the most influ-
ential people in the world was pretty great,” 
Kang said. “The amount of people who had 
nice things to say was really foreign. I still 
don’t feel like I did that much … I can see that 
people will think that I’m doing good in the 
world so I really appreciate all of the sup-
port.”

Kang wrote in a top-ranked Facebook 

comment that he is trying to get in contact 
with Norton and has been in contact with 
other people and organizations who are 
also trying to give the scientist a better life.

Kang has also been working with the 

Lutheran Social Services of Michigan, a 
Troy-based nonprofit that helps refugees 
coming to the area find jobs, housing and 
translators if needed. If Kang cannot give 
the money to the scientist, he said he would 
donate the money to the Lutheran Social 
Services of Michigan.

Kang said he still hopes that the man will 

want to meet him when he arrives in Michi-
gan.

This refugee’s particular story touched 

Kang because the scientist said that he 
hopes Troy will be a place that respects sci-
ence.

“I think that Troy … except for maybe Ann 

Arbor is the best place (for) somebody who 
wants to raise a family that’s from another 
region and is interested in science,” Kang 
said. “It’s a very welcoming town, it’s very 
diverse and the education system is very 
good and they’re always pushing for bigger 
and greater things.”

Kang said he hopes that people will sup-

port refugees even if their stories are not 
made popular by the media.

“One big thing that I’m worried about 

regarding future donations and fundrais-
ers is that I feel that people are much more 
concerned about doing good for somebody 
that they can relate to even if they’ve never 
met them, than doing good for the masses 
in general. I think that it’s a problem with 
the media and the way of making the mass-
es unrelatable whereas Humans of New 
York always gives them a face, gives them 
a story.” Kang said. “I think in the future 
people should look towards acknowledg-
ing that everybody has their own story 
regardless of how nameless they are.”

FUNDS
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viate pressure currently placed 
on the states and allow for more 
positive growth.

“One of the big impacts will be 

that in many ways (ESSA) relax-
es the tremendous pressure that 
schools have felt from the fed-
eral level down to the states to 
local districts and schools,” Peu-
rach said. “It broadens the capa-
bilities of states and districts in 
finding successful ways where 
they won’t be nearly as pressure 
labeled.”

The bill will strip the fed-

eral government of some of its 
power, which will be returned 
to the states, allowing them to 
decide on appropriate measures 
when tackling various issues, 
such as how to rate the success 
of individual schools. It also will 
allocate a higher percentage of 
federal funding to low-perform-
ing schools as identified by the 
individual state’s accountabil-
ity systems, which may include 
graduation rates and English 
proficiency, 
alongside 
test 

scores.

“One of the things it will 

do is open up the opportuni-
ty to cultivate improvement-
focused climates in schools and 
improvement-focused cultures 
that have been difficult to culti-
vate when the achievement level 
was so pressured,” Peurach said.

Sens. Peters and Cory Gard-

ner (R–Colo.) proposed a bipar-
tisan amendment supporting 
dual and concurrent enrollment 
in schools. This will allow high 
school students to receive col-
lege credit from courses taught 
by college-approved teachers 
while still in high school. The 
amendment will also permit 
fifth-year programs to allow 
students to continue with their 
concurrent enrollment and thus 
receive more credits.

“My provisions in this bill 

will support funding for dual 
enrollment programs that can 
help make college more afford-
able, arm students with the tools 
they need to make responsible 
financial choices in the future 
and protect our most vulner-
able children from falling into 
the school-to-prison pipeline,” 
Peters said.

Peters also championed the 

addition of two other measures. 
One concerned supporting fund-
ing for financial literacy pro-
gramming — particularly among 
at-risk youth and immigrants. 
The other additional measure 
worked to identify dual status 
youth.

In a letter to the Senate 

Health, Education, Labor and 
Pensions 
Committee, 
Peters 

described dual status youth as 
those who have “come into con-
tact with both the child welfare 
and juvenile justice system.” He 
wrote that these children are 
considered most at risk for not 
succeeding in school and con-
tribute to the current “school to 
prison pipeline.” By more accu-
rately identifying at-risk youth, 
as Peters pointed out in his let-
ter, the government can work on 
improving intervention services 
to benefit them.

Despite the intended benefits 

of ESSA, Peurach said there are 
concerns about the implications 
of 50 different achievement stan-
dards from 50 different states.

“It locates a lot of the respon-

sibility of making all of this work 
on to the state departments of 
education,” Peurach said. “Some 
departments are healthier and 
have more capacity than others 
so there is a risk in variability 
in what counts as success across 
states and variability in support 
for schools across states.”

Still, Peurach said the bill’s 

overall benefits should lead to 
greater trust in the educational 
system, and will perhaps inspire 
current college students to tailor 
their studies to the field of edu-
cation reform.

“I expect to see a real change 

in the climate and culture of 
change in schools,” he said. 
“We’ll see a rise of students 
interested in program evalu-
ations to continue to become 
more active in schools and edu-
cational innovations to make 
sure that what these people are 
trying to do actually works. I 
think it continues to open up 
the opportunities for under-
graduate and graduate students, 
as well as faculty, interested in 
getting into schools and helping 
them get better.”

EDUCATION
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KRISTINA PERKINS/Daily

Rackham student Zoë McLaughlin performs Tari Sri Pamoso, a traditional Javanese dance, with the UM Gamelan 
Ensemble at Hill Auditorium on Saturday. The event was sponsored by School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the 
Center for Southeast Asian Studies and the Residential College.

TARI SRI PAMOSO

where they are today.

“We need to keep winning,” 

he said. “We need to keep doing 
new research, innovating and 
being new. Things went well 

first semester, they went better 
in the second half of the first 
semester than the first half 
and I attribute that to being 
comfortable, being practiced 
and being very prepared.”

“The 
pressure 
is 
on,” 

Morgan said. “But that is what 
you want.”

DEBATE
From Page 2A

Partnership, she said she began 
to dream about starting her 
own Korean restaurant. Path 
to Partnership is a program 
through 
which 
current 

Zingerman’s employees have 
the 
opportunity 
to 
apply 

to become a partner at an 
existing restaurant or create 
a brand using the Zingerman’s 
name.

Kim talked to Z ingerman’s 

founders Paul Saginaw and Ari 
Weinzweig about her ideas. She 
said they were very supportive 
and encouraged her to start 
small.

Accordingly, Kim and a 

co-worker acquired a food 
truck and sold meals at Mark’s 
Carts on Washington Street for 
four years, then this January 
applied for and received a 
partnership with Zingerman’s.

“The 
process 
is 
usually 

faster,” Kim said. “But I chose 
to do it slowly because I wanted 
to figure out exactly what I 
wanted to pinpoint and do.”

She also plans to make her 

own versions of the more 
famous Korean dishes, like 
bibimbap. Above all, she said 
she wants the food to fit well in 
the Ann Arbor setting.

“The kind of Korean food 

I want to do will inevitably 
reflect the setting I am in, 
which is Ann Arbor,” she said.

ZINGERMAN’S
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