the auto industry. Warren said
Obama’s leadership was key
in creating policy to support
the auto industry and helping
Michigan’s
economy
recover
from the 2008 recession.
“If you grew up in Michigan,
you probably have someone in
your family who has a job in the
auto industry or related to the
auto industry,” she said. “If the
auto industry had truly gone into
bankruptcy and had not been
able to recover, it would have
been devastating for Michigan’s
economy for a very long time. I’m
proud looking back at how that
support was there when it was
needed. I cannot imagine where
we would be now had we not had
that support.”
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bring a refugee solution to the
problem of illegal immigration
from Central America.”
Additionally, he touched on
initiatives geared toward large
universities,
including
grant
building opportunities and a
student competition, which began
last semester.
The
competition
allows
students to create a campaign
to
curb
Islamic
terrorist
messages to young people and
encourages students to consider
working
in
public
service.
He is currently working with
universities to allow students to
get credit for participation in the
competition.
“I want to encourage the
students here in particular to
consider a career serving your
country,” he said. “It’s a wonderful
profession, and we need smart
young people in public service.
We need a diverse array of smart,
young people to bring to public
service diverse experiences and
backgrounds.”
U.S.
Reps.
John
Conyers
(D–Detroit) and Debbie Dingell
(D–Dearborn) helped organize
and attended both the talk and a
roundtable discussion between
student leaders and Johnson prior
to his speech.
Following the speech, Conyers
and Dingell both expressed their
gratitude toward Johnson for
his visit. Conyers said he had
never heard these specific issues
addressed so well before.
“This
has
been
a
great
experience,” he said. “We have
been friends for a very long time,
but I’ve never heard the issues
examined so thoughtfully and
interestingly in terms of how to
get liberty and security working
together and complementing each
other.”
Dingell said she appreciated
that Johnson elected to visit
Dearborn immediately following
the State of the Union address as
it solidifies the message of unity
President Barack Obama delivered
in his address.
“This is my home and I am
proud to live here, and I’ve been
very concerned over the past few
months that we are letting fear
cause hatred and division,” she
said. “President Obama had a
strong message last night. Let us
hear that message.”
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huge diseases like listeria or
E.coli that can literally make
or break a business.”
Following
the
outbreak,
sales decreased by 37 percent
nationswide,
in
December,
and Chipotle’s stock dropped
42 percent in the last three
months.The company has now
adopted intensive safety and
washing procedures, including
their decision to begin testing
ingredients before the food
enters the Chipotle chains.
“Among the things we are
implementing in this area are
washing and cutting tomatoes
and lettuce in central kitchens
rather than in our restaurants,
shredding cheese in central
kitchens rather than in our
restaurants,
changing
the
way chicken and steak are
marinated
and
blanching
certain produce items (such
as avocados and limes) before
they are used,” Arnold said.
While
Fratkin
said
he
believes the average student
may be intimidated to eat
there, he added that he’s
looked into the new safety
procedures
and
thinks
Chipotle is now one of the
safer places to eat.
“From a scientific point of
view and health code testing,
there is a lot worse that you
can do than Chipotle,” he said.
“Really like any large scale
restaurant, the testing is a lot
more rigorous than some of
the smaller businesses.”
LSA freshmen Katie Biggs
said, under some conditions,
she still feels comfortable
eating at the restaurant.
“If they had had (the virus)
contained for a few weeks,
then I would definitely go
there,” Biggs said.
Arnold said he believes
profit recovery will come with
the enhanced safety plan,
allowing the chain to establish
itself as a leader in food safety.
Fratkin
said
he
thinks
that full recovery for the
restaurant will take time. He
compared this incident to a
1993 E. coli breakout at Jack
in the Box which hospitalized
144 people who had consumed
hamburgers from the chain,
ultimately killing three of
them.
“It took them like five years
to return to that same level,”
he said. “Just like any crazy
thing you see in the media, it
seems like it just takes time to
change people’s perspectives.”
He also said he thinks the
company’s
leadership
will
dig them out of the slump of
customers’ uncertainty and
low sales.
“I think there are smart
people running the company,”
he said. “So they will recover.
But, it just shows how variable
the food industry is and little
mistake or chance of luck can
possibly take down a huge
business.”
LSA
sophomore
Gabby
Rubinstein said she hasn’t
visited
the
Ann
Arbor
Chipotle since hearing about
the outbreak.
“The whole thing made
me too paranoid to go there,”
she said. “Plus I was eating
an
unhealthy
amount,
so
I
needed
to
broaden
my
horizons anyway.”
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researchers from the Department
of Human Genetics suggest that a
molecule called Xist RNA, which
was previously understood to be
responsible for making one of the X
chromosomes inactive, is actually
insufficient in doing so on its own.
Instead,
according
to
the
research,
there
have
to
be
other molecules exist on the X
chromosome that interact with
Xist to inactivate the chromosome.
Human Genetics Prof. Sundeep
Kalantry,
who
headed
the
project, said to conduct the study
researchers engineered male cells
to express Xist RNA, which they
normally don’t do.
“Xist is normally only expressed
in female cells from the inactive
X chromosome,” Kalantry said.
“When we took away an RNA
transcribed
in
the
opposite
direction too, we got male cells
to express Xist. We saw that
these male cells expressing Xist
do not undergo X chromosome
inactivation, so this allowed us to
conclude that Xist is insufficient to
cause inactivation.”
Once researchers found that
Xist RNA does not by itself cause
X chromosome inactivation, they
were able to move toward a better
understanding of what else is
needed for the process to occur.
The answer ultimately pointed
toward other molecules in the cell.
“We found that female cells have
other factors on the X chromosome
itself that male cells don’t, and these
factors are the master regulators of
X inactivation,” Kalantry said.
Implications of finding those
factors are far ranging, he added.
“If you were to increase or
decrease the levels of these
regulators, then you can turn on
or off particular genes on the X
chromosome that normally would
not be turned on or off,” Kalantry
said. “As a result, you can modulate
X-linked gene expression.”
Controlling
X-linked
gene
expression — the appearance
of
certain
characteristics
or
illnesses
tied
specifically
to
the X chromosome — permits
researchers to be better able to
understand how X chromosome
inactivation occurs.
Postdoctoral fellow Srimonta
Gayen said this understanding
could
then
have
therapeutic
applications, by allowing scientists
to activate the healthy parts of
the silenced X chromosome to
compensate for disease-causing
aspects
within
the
originally
activated chromosome. This type
of activation has previously not
been possible.
Diseases
linked
to
the
X
chromosome
include
autism,
hemophilia
and
muscular
dystrophy.
“If we increase understanding
of the mechanism of how X-linked
chromosome inactivation actually
occurs, we can better understand
X-linked chromosomal diseases,”
Gayen said.
The study’s authors said future
research aims to further investigate
the regulating factors this study
suggested were responsible for X
chromosome inactivation.
“We want to find these other
factors,” Kalantry said. “We already
have one of them worked out, and
this is close to being published.”
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organization in the country,
the City of Warsaw and the
Polish Ministry of Culture and
National Heritage.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
said one of the difficulties of
establishing this museum was
that the creators began the
process without any sort of
collection of artifacts.
However, since its opening,
the
museum
has
proved
remarkably
successful,
according
to
Kirshenblatt-
Gimblett. Over 1 million people
of all ages and backgrounds
have come to experience the
multimedia
exhibition
that
documents more than 1,000
years of Jewish presence on
Polish soil.
When
talking
about
the
beginnings of the museum,
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
said
the
founders
wanted
to
share important events in an
applicable manner.
“What we had was the story
and we had the commitment
to tell the story in a vivid,
compelling way,” she said. “The
exhibition presents remarkable
history in a fascinating way.”
She said there is no master
narrative, but rather many
historical principles that the
exhibit tries to convey. Along
with her speech, Kirshenblatt-
Gimblett
also
displayed
a
slideshow with images of the
interior and exterior of the
POLIN.
The Hebrew word “Polin”
in
English
means
either
“Poland” or “rest here” and it
is a reference to a legend that
describes the arrival of the first
Jews in Poland. The museum
itself stands on land that
was once part of the Warsaw
Ghetto.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
also
spoke to the symbolic nature of
the appearance of the museum.
“The building is covered
completely in glass because the
message of glass is a gesture of
hope and openness in the face
of tragedy,” she said.
She said the museum aims
to situate the Holocaust within
1,000 years of Polish Jewish
history, noting that the creators
did not want the Holocaust to
be the sole focus of the displays.
“We were able to present the
Holocaust in its moment from
the perspective of those people
who did not know what was
coming next,” she said. “We
held strictly to the idea of being
in the moment and not looking
forward.”
LSA senior Colleen Murphy,
who attended the event, said
she found the talk interesting,
especially the discussion of the
physical building.
“I’ve always loved museums
and as I’ve learned more about
them through this class, my
interest in history continues
to grow,” she said. “What I
thought was most interesting
was when she talked about
museum architecture and the
importance of the design of
the building. I think everyone
can learn a lot from visiting
this museum, regardless of
religion.”
In
closing,
Kirshenblatt-
Gimblett said POLIN hopes to
continue the storytelling the
museum has strived to uphold.
“It is a living organism. It is
completed by the interaction of
visitors with the exhibit,” she
said. “We are working hard to
keep our story going. Our task
now is to keep up the success.”
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Matter, We Matter, Black
Lives Matter.” The message
stuck and Garza ,with two
others — Opal Tometi and
Patrisse Cullors — began
promoting
the
hashtag
#BlackLivesMatter
on
social media. The hashtag
ultimately
prompted
a
nationwide
discussion
on
race relations, specifically
after recent police shootings
of unarmed Black men and
boys such as Michael Brown
and Tamir Rice.
Garza
also
discussed
the
future
of
the
civil
rights movement and the
importance of the people
perpetuating activism in the
real world.
“Hashtags
don’t
start
movements,”
she
said.
“Hashtags
are
ways
to
continue a conversation. But
movements are comprised of
people who share a vision,
who share a set of values,
who take action together, in
order to bring about some
kind of change, and without
the work that it takes to make
that happen, we would just be
talking on Facebook.”
James Hilton, University
librarian and dean of libraries,
also spoke to the theme
of this year’s symposium,
#WhoWillBeNext,
during
the event. He said the theme
is meant to ask both who will
be the next victim and who
will be the next leader of the
movement.
“Who will be next to suffer
racial
discrimination
and
oppression?,” Hilton asked.
Who
will
be
next
to
suffer due to their gender,
gender identity or sexual
orientation? Who will be
next to suffer oppression
because of their birthplace
or religion? On the flip side
but equally important, who
will be next to take up the
banner of leadership, to fight
discrimination,
oppression
and injustice?”.
LSA junior Jay Akolkar,
who attended the event, said
she wanted to learn more
about the Black Lives Matter
movement firsthand.
“You see a lot about it
on social media, but you
don’t really get to see a lot
about the people behind it,
and I thought it was very
interesting,” Akolkar said.
Garza also spoke about
her
experience
attending
Tuesday’s State of the Union
address, where she was a
guest of her congresswoman,
Rep. Barbara Lee (D–Calif.).
She came to the University
directly from Washington,
D.C.
Garza
said
she
felt
compelled to attend in case
she got the opportunity to
speak with President Barack
Obama. Though she did not
get the opportunity, she said
her message to the president
would have been to discuss
Black lives in the United
States, as well as to spread
peace internationally.
“We can still be proud that
we have a Black president,
but I’d be even prouder if that
Black president could admit
that Black people in this
country are having a really
hard time surviving,” Garza
said.
In particular, Garza said
she would have appreciated
clearer
language
in
the
president’s address about the
issue.
“We have violent, racist
rhetoric that is taking hold
in this country and it impacts
all of us,” Garza explained.
“First, it’s directed towards
Muslims. Then, it’s directed
towards
Black
people.
Then, it’s directed towards
immigrants. And then who’s
next?”
LSA
sophomore
Kayla
Countryman, who attended
the event, said she came after
seeing and following the
Black Lives Matter Twitter
and finding it relevant to her
personal and academic life at
the University.
“She
is
so
personable,
and what she was saying
felt so relevant and easy to
understand, but it was also
deep in a sense where I really
felt it, and it made me want
to go out and do something,
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While the consensus among
the three professors was that a
return of Crimea to Ukraine was
unlikely, Uehling proposed twos
steps that could be taken by the
United States and other countries
to alleviate the situation. These
countries, she said, could help
groups there trying to monitor
human rights abuses in Crimea
and continue to impose economic
sanctions on Russia.
LSA freshman Amelia Feuka,
who attended the event, said
she came because Suny is one
of her professors and she was
interested
in
the
historical
aspect of the conflict in Ukraine.
She added that she didn’t expect
to be presented with issues
pertaining to human rights in
Crimea or international law, but
noted that she walked away with
a new perspective on the issue.
“There is often a very narrow-
minded view on this really
complicated subject and in reality
there are so many different
elements and components to it,”
Fueka said. “I thought this was
really enlightening and useful for
me to hear.”
Public Policy junior Graham
Steffens said he attended because
he is part of the Michigan
Journal of International Affairs
Club and has a strong interest in
foreign policy.
“Russia’s actions are a big
deal right now and I think it’s
really important for students
to actually listen to what actual
professors have to say about it
instead of just talking back and
forth and not understanding
everything,” Steffens said.
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RUSSIA
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