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UMHS 
and 
CVS 
Health 

includes 
both 
CVS/pharmacy 

and 
MinuteClinic, 
and 
will 

be available at CVS pharmacy 

and 
MinuteClinic 
locations 

nationwide.

“We are always searching for 

new opportunities to provide our 

patients with the absolute best 

patient care possible,” said David 

Spahlinger, executive vice dean for 

clinical affairs at the University’s 

Medical School, in a press release. 

“This affiliation presents us with a 

unique opportunity to collaborate 

with CVS health care providers 

and enhance our system of care 

for our patients to better meet 

their needs.”

The connection will allow — 

only with patient consent — the 

electronic sharing of messages 

and alerts from CVS/pharmacy 

to UMHS-affiliated physicians 

in situations such as medication 

compliance. MinuteClinic will 

also be able to electronically share 

patient visit summaries with the 

patient’s UMHS primary care 

physician.

Currently, when a patient 

is seen at a MinuteClinic or 

other 
urgent 
care 
clinics, 

communicating what happened 

at those visits to their primary 

provider is not as connected. 

Providers rely on faxes, mail 

and the patients themselves to 

remember 
and 
communicate 

what happened at visits with 

other health care providers, Choe 

said. The new clinical affiliation 

between UMHS and CVS aims to 

provide better continuity of care.

“Having this ability to connect 

through our EHR allows us to 

communicate more efficiently and 

in a timely fashion without having 

to burden the patient,” Choe said.

The system will also provide 

aggregate data on interventions 

conducted by CVS pharmacists 

to UHS to improve a patient’s 

adherence to their medication.

CVS Spokeswoman Christina 

Beckerman emphasized that the 

new association will benefit both 

providers and patients.

“This relationship offers a new 

access point and improves care 

coordination 
and 
medication 

management, which are critical 

to a patient’s health,” Beckerman 

said. “UMHS and CVS want to 

ensure that our patients receive 

and have access to the best 

possible care and that means that 

care is coordinated, no matter 

where it is delivered”.

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brought up a lot of great points,” 
said Sheena Martenies, Ph.D. 
candidate in the University’s 
Department of Environmental 
Health Sciences. “You can’t just 
stop with challenging an issue, 
you have to move forward and 
deal with it. I thought that was 
very inspirational.”

The symposium also included 

information sessions on studies 
from the Detroit URC, such as 
ones on researching the social 
determinants 
— 
demographic 

characteristics, exposure to air 
pollution, social environments — 
of health inequities.

In 
an 
interview 
after 

Satcher’s address, Linda Pappas, 
communications specialist for 
the Detroit URC, described the 
symposium as a two-fold event 
to both celebrate the center’s 
research 
and 
to 
encourage 

young adults to pursue the 
fields of public health and urban 
research.

“One, to celebrate 20 years 

of success in fostering health 
equity through community-based 
participatory 
research 
(and) 

really celebrating how community 
comes together with academics to 
do research to benefit the health 
of communities,” she said. “But 
then also to inspire people for the 
next generation to take on this 
important work.”

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negative: Positive triggers that 
prompted an admissions officer 
to probe an applicant’s social 
media included interesting talents 
or special awards, as well as 
for scholarship considerations, 
while negative triggers included 
disclosure of a criminal record 
or disciplinary action, as well 
as an anonymous tip about 
inappropriate behavior.

LSA freshman Susie Meaney 

said she did not feel as though her 
social media would have affected 
her college prospects last year.

“I’m also very conscious of 

what I post regardless, so I didn’t 
really feel like I had a lot to worry 
about,” Meaney said.

Engineering sophomore Matt 

Schafer, on the other hand, 
expressed his discomfort with 
the practice. Schafer said posts 
on social media profiles are not 
necessarily representative of the 
candidate.

“It’s a little unfair because 

someone might have just like, 
said something stupid, being silly 
on Twitter, on Facebook, and 
that would end up possibly not 
letting them into the college they 
really wanted to get into, when 
everything else, they had qualified 
for, or not getting a scholarship 
that they really needed,” Schafer 
said.

Meaney also said she feels 

this practice is unfair, as it 
disproportionately benefits high 
schoolers who were aware of an 
admissions officer’s likelihood of 

checking social media.

“Basically, if someone had 

maybe an older sibling or a cousin 
that had gone through something 
like that, then they were more 
conscious, but I think some people 
hadn’t heard from other people 
that, ‘Oh, colleges actually do look 
at your social media,’ and those 
people didn’t really care (what 
they posted),” Meaney said.

The survey also found that 

social media could both positively 
and negatively affect a prospective 
student’s 
application. 
Thirty-

seven 
percent 
of 
admissions 

officers said an applicant’s social 
media had positively affected 
their view of the candidate, but 
an equal 37 percent said it had 
negatively affected their decision.

Positive 
findings 
included 

previously 
undisclosed 

community 
involvement 
or 

leadership roles, while negative 
findings included evidence of drug 
or alcohol use, criminal activity or 
otherwise inappropriate behavior.

The 
University 
admissions 

website does not explicitly say 
they check social media profiles, 
though they state valuing traits 
outside of an applicant’s test 
scores, such as “evidence of 
leadership, awards and service.”

“We look at each student as a 

whole package, a combination of 
talents, interests, passions, and 
skills,” the website states. “In this 
way, we can look beyond grades 
and test scores to recruit the 
most dynamic group of students 
possible.”

Engineering freshman Niko 

Sawan said using social media 
as a measure of judgment for 

admissions is justified since a 
serious candidate would already 
be wary of posting inappropriate 
content on social media.

“I don’t see a problem with 

them checking social media,” 
Sawan said. “If you’re really 
worried about your stuff on (social 
media), there’s so many ways to 
make yourself private, change 
your name, do all this stuff. So 
if you’re really serious about 
applying to college, I don’t think 
there’s any reason for you to have 
something that would make the 
difference between you getting 
into college or not.”

Despite the fact that some 

may be unaware that college 
admissions can look at applicants’ 
social media, Meaney said overall 
she feels it’s justified in verifying 
jobs and awards as well as 
allocating scholarships.

“I think that your social media 

pages are kind of like an extension 
of yourself and can kind of reveal 
more than you would put in an 
application,” Meaney said.

Schafer 
echoed 
Meaney’s 

sentiments, and said reviewing 
an applicant’s social media allows 
a college admissions officer to 
get a more holistic view of that 
applicant.

“I think it’s okay to a certain 

extent. It definitely does give 
admissions officers a different side 
to the person, so it’s not just what 
I’m trying to show you. When 
you’re doing an (application), you 
kind of put all the good qualities 
about you, not necessarily the bad 
ones, so social

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a mission to Mars right now,” 
Billings said.

Billings 
added 
that 
he 

learned 
extraterrestrial 

colonization is going to be 
different from the image 
that media and pop culture 
portrays.

“You have this concept 

from sci-fi of how you see 

manned missions and how 
you see media pick up on that 
but then when you get down to 
reality it’s a lot different but it’s 
still possible and even in our 
future,” Billings said.

Billings and Katz both 

expressed their excitement 
that the University was able 
to get ahold of a speaker like 
Logan.

Logan also held a Q and 

A 
session 
with 
students 

following the presentation.

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damages caused at Boyne were 
determined to be non-malicious.

Four 
members 
of 
SAM 

fraternity, 
including 
the 

chapter’s former president and 
treasurer, have faced criminal 
charges on accounts of malicious 
destruction of property and the 
provision of alcohol and drugs to 
minors over the incident.

Mary Beth Seiler, director of 

Greek life at the University, said 
the events served as a call to 
action for members of the Greek 
life community.

“It was a huge wake up call 

I think for everybody,” Seiler 
said. “I think there was a lot 
of surprise at what ultimately 
happened to the organizations 
that 
were 
involved. 
Maybe 

organizations 
didn’t 
realize 

when it first happened how big 
it could get and what that public 
opinion meant.”

In September 2015, University 

President Mark Schlissel held 
a 
community-wideGreek 
life 

assembly that required at least 70 
percent of all chapters to attend 
— an unprecedented action for a 
University president. Fraternities 
and sororities were told that if 
they didn’t meet the attendance 
requirement, they would face a 
$1,000 fine and social probation.

The 
meeting 
marked 
the 

first time the entire Greek 

community, 
including 
the 

National Pan-Hellenic Council 
and Multicultural Greek Council, 
gathered in the 170-year history 
of Greek life on campus.

Central topics of the September 

meeting included a pressing 
need for Greek organizations to 
curb sexual assault and alcohol 
abuse, stemming from what was 
characterized by administrators 
as 
excessive 
party 
culture. 

Schlissel warned students their 
behavior 
would 
ultimately 

devalue their own degrees and 
taint the University’s national 
image.

“The value of their degrees 

are gonna go down because the 
reputation of the University 
of 
Michigan 
won’t 
be 
the 

excitement in the Big House or 
our teams doing well under our 
fantastic new coach,” Schlissel 
said at the September meeting. 
“It’s not gonna be the kids who 
receive the Rhodes Scholarships 
and the Fulbright Scholarships, 
and the famous professors who 
do the work that you’re going 
to get reflected on for, or the 
National Medal for the Arts that 
our faculty won this past week. 
It’s going to be the ‘Shmacked’ 
videos. So it’s really up to you 
what the value of your education 
is going to be, what the reputation 
of this institution’s going to be.”

Speaking 
to 
Schlissel’s 

September 
statement, 
Seiler 

said she had concerns over 
the heightened visibility and 

therefore 
negative 
scrutiny 

Greek life organizations attract 
on campus.

She said Greek life tends to be 

a target for scrutiny due to the 
6,000-person 
membership 
as 

well as visible letters on clothing 
and houses. She noted, however, 
that the poor decisions of some 
organizations 
unfairly 
reflect 

poorly on others.

In an interview with the Daily 

directly following September’s 
mass meeting, one fraternity 
member — choosing to remain 
anonymous due to Greek life 
chapters’ strict rules prohibiting 
members of organizations from 
speaking to news or media 
outlets 
— 
expressed 
similar 

sentiments, saying Greek life 
receives magnified scrutiny for 
campus-wide issues.

“If anything, a lot of the 

times when incidents happen 
it’s people from outside of the 
organization that come to our 
parties 
and 
cause 
trouble,” 

he said at the time. “So, it’s a 
message that really should have 
been transmitted to the entire 
University.”

Seiler 
said 
she 
thought 

Schlissel’s comments may not 
apply to all Greek life members, 
and that she hoped joining a 
Greek life organization would not 
devalue a Michigan education.

“I would certainly hope that it 

wouldn’t devalue the education, 
and that would be the last thing 

inclusion of ZP, a highly purified 
form of nisin, as opposed to 
some 
other 
commercially 

available forms of nisin, which 
are concentrated at 2.5 percent. 
Kapila said the ZP is the most 
effective.

Kapila said they are currently 

working to see if the bacteriocin 
could be toxic to cancers in other 
areas of the body aside from 
head and neck cancer cells. She 
said it would be beneficial to try 
to do the experiment and feed 
the mice the nisin milkshake 
prior to injecting them with the 
tumor cells to see if they can 
prevent the cells from initially 
even taking root.

Ultimately, Kapila said she 

is hoping to do a clinical trial, 
but finding funding has been a 
setback.

Though 
the 
research 

suggests that nisin could help 
prevent the development of 
cancer cells, this does not mean 
overconsumption of products 
that 
contain 
preservatives 

such as nisin will be beneficial 
to one’s health. One common 
misconception is that over-
consuming 
products 
that 

contain 
these 
and 
other 

similar preservatives will have 
positive effects and reduce the 
likelihood of developing cancer 
cells. This is not true, Kapila 
said.

“The preservative that’s in 

the food, there is a shelf life to 
it,” Kapila said. “So by the time 
people ingest foods that have 
nisin in it, a lot of it is probably 
broken down. So the amount 
of it that people actually ingest 
is not anywhere near to the 
quantities that have been tested 
in the animal models or the cell 
models.”

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grateful to have been recognized. 
Goold works on the Detroit 
Design/Build Dreamscape, which 
helps renovate the landscape 
of the James and Grace Lee 
Boggs School through utilizing 
sustainable technologies.

“I was completely taken by 

surprise,” Goold said. “I am really 
overwhelmed with gratitude. It is 
really such an honor to be named 
a Spirit Award winner, especially 
with the namesake of Dr. Martin 
Luther King Jr.”

Munson 
and 
Christopher 

Kendall, former dean of the 
School of Music, Theatre & Dance, 
were also honored at the event for 
their efforts to promote diversity 
in their various schools. The two 
spearheaded an effort to increase 
diversity events on North Campus, 
as well as encourage and increase 
minority representation within 
their respective schools.

This year’s awards are the first 

to include a collaboration between 
the deans and students in planning 
the event. Derrick Scott, Director 
of Inclusion and Multicultural 
Engineering 
Programs, 
said 

students showed a desire to help, 
so 
they 
accommodated 
their 

ambition.

“This is the first time the 

students have come together the 
way that they have,” Scott said. 
“Once they did, we said we are 
going to find a way to make sure 
we can blend it with them.”

This new partnership resulted 

in a new addition to the event: 
the Agents of Change gallery. 
The gallery, which highlights 
the importance of diversity and 
community on campus, has been 
on display since Jan. 8, and is 
a combined effort among the 
different schools located on North 
Campus.

The idea for the gallery initially 

came from Stamps in Color, a 
student organization aimed at 
promoting diversity for students 
in the Art and Design school. The 
project started with the goal of 
creating an event to better honor 
Martin Luther King Jr. on North 
Campus, ending with the exhibit, 
which 
aimed 
to 
incorporate 

aspects of every school on North 
Campus.

Amy Kamdem-Wandji, LSA 

and Art & Design senior and one 
of the founders of Stamps in Color, 
said the organization wanted to 
make students on North Campus 
more aware of the importance in 
promoting diversity.

“The 
conversation 
doesn’t 

happen very much up here,” 
Kamdem-Wandji 
said. 
“We 

wanted to do something where 
for once the focus was here. 
We wanted to say, ‘Hey North 
Campus, you too have to talk about 
this. This matters in your work 
and your schoolwork.”

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