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LSA and Art & Design freshman Gwen Burzinski practices the 
main theme from the video game “Xenoblade Chronicles”, on 
the carillon in Burton Tower on Tuesday.

ISIS 
released 
a 

propaganda 
video 

regarding 
the 
Paris 

attacks early this week, 
The New York Times 

reported. The video shows 
the names of the terrorists 
involved in November along 
with a beheading of a prisoner. 

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

“Savvy” 
talk series

WHAT: During the “Savvy 
Workshop Series,” students 
will watch TED-style 
talks from alumni about 
their transition between 
college life and career. 
WHO: Center for 
Campus Involvement
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Union, 
Pendleton Room

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Skeleton found near campus

Human remains were found 

Sunday afternoon in a Gaines-
ville, Fla., pine tree forest by 
the University of Florida’s 
campus, The Independent 
Florida Alligator reported 
Monday.

The Alachua County Sher-

iff’s Office received a call Sun-
day afternoon from the local 
man who found the skeleton. 
A press release announced the 
investigation Monday after-
noon.

Art Forgey, spokesman for 

the department, told the Alli-
gator that the skeleton’s age, 
sex and cause of death are 
uncertain, and that the scene 
would be cleared by Monday 
night.

“The remains will be loaded 

up and taken to the medical 
examiner’s office,” Forgey 
said.

Evidence was report-

edly been found at the scene, 
according to the Alligator, but 
the search will continue until 
identification is obtained.

UNC researchers create 

lung cancer treatment

University of North Carolina 

researchers developed a meth-
od of treating drug-resistant 
lung cancer using 50 times less 
chemotherapy, The Daily Tar-
heel reported Sunday.

Elena Batrokova, senior 

author of the study, said she 
wants to “load tumors with 

anti-cancer drugs” so patients 
have higher chance of survival.

“We are developing new 

drug formulations that will 
allow drugs to be more effi-
cient and pass through bar-
riers,” Batrokova told the 
Tarheel. “I’m taking potent 
drugs that may not be work-
ing and developing their drug 
delivery systems.”

Batrokova had help from 

colleagues at the Eshelman 
School of Pharmacy’s Cen-
ter for Nanotechnology in 
Drug Delivery. If the drug is 
pharmaceutically accepted, it 
would mean fewer side effects 
and greater chance of recovery 
for lung cancer patients.

— LAUREN LUKENS

TOWE R TU NES

THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

The first case of the 
Zika virus in America 
was diagnosed Tuesday, 
CNN 
reported. 
The 

flavivirus was detected by 
the Arkansas Department of 
Health in a man who recently 
traveled to Brazil.

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Lecture on 
Korea

WHAT: Guest speaker 
Jeong-Woo Koo will discuss 
South Korean media 
coverage of human rights 
during the 1990s-2010s.
WHO: Human 
Rights Initiative
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. 
WHERE: School of 
Social Work, Room 1636

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THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

MONDAY:

This Week in History

TUESDAY:

Campus Voices

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

Miro Quartet 
demo

WHAT: A quartet 
group based in Austin, 
TX will be performing 
a demo on Beethoven 
Rassoumovsky Quartets. 
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre and Dance 
WHEN: 7 p.m.
WHERE: Earl V. Moore 
Building, Glenn E. 
Watkins Lecture Hall

Film and 
discussion

WHAT: Dr. Jesse 
Hoffnung-Garskof will 
lead the screening and 
discussion of the film 
Empire of Dreams.
WHO: Latina/o Studies
WHEN: 6:30 p.m. 
to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: The Ann 
Arbor District Library, 
Multi-Purpose Room

Science 
Café Talk

WHAT: The Earth and 
Environmental Sciences 
department will host a 
discussion on the Bristle 
Mammoth that was found 
near Chelsea, MI.
WHO: Earth and 
Environmental Sciences
WHEN: 5:30 p.m. 
to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Conor O’Neill’s, 
318 South Main Street

Journalism 
discussion

WHAT: The Department 
of Classical Studies will 
hold a lecture about the 
problems journalists faced 
when they were putting 
together narratives from 
the Mt. Everest Disaster.
WHO: Department of 
Classical Studies
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: Angell Hall, 
Classics Library

Lisa Fischer 
concert

WHAT: Grammy Award 
winner Lisa Fischerwill 
perform with her 
band Ms. Lisa Fischer 
and Grand Baton.
WHO: University 
Musical Society 
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. 
to 9:30 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan Theater

Orchestra 
performance

WHAT: The University 
Symphony Orchestra 
will perform a collection 
of orchestral classics 
featuring a flute soloist. 
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre and Dance
WHEN: 8 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium

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LSA junior David Schaffer speaks at a Central Student Government meeting in the Michigan Union on Nov. 10, 2015.
CSG talks enhancing race 
and ethnicity requirements 

Assembly 

members bring two 
resolutions to the 
floor for review at 
Tuesday’s meeting

By CAMY METWALLY

Daily Staff Reporter

At their Tuesday meeting, 

Central Student Government 
discussed 
resolutions 
that 

would aim to enhance and 
strengthen 
the 
University’s 

race and ethnicity require-
ments.

CSG voted on two resolu-

tions pertaining to the require-
ment. 
The 
first 
resolution 

supported the expansion of the 
R&E requirement to all Uni-
versity undergraduate schools 
and colleges. Currently, it only 
applies to Literature, Science 
and Arts students. Some other 

colleges have similarly themed 
curriculum aspects, such as the 
Identity, Diversity and Organi-
zations requirement in the Ross 
School of Business.

“We think it’s important that 

all students are being taught 
this,” said LSA representative 
Micah Griggs, an LSA junior. 
“It provides students with the 
skills to work in a multi-ethnic 
environment.”

Rackham 
student 
Trevis 

Harrold asked about expand-
ing the requirement to gradu-
ate schools as well. However, 
Public Policy junior Lakshman 
Mulperi, a CSG representative, 
said this currently is not a fea-
sible goal because CSG doesn’t 
have resources to expand it to 
all graduate colleges as well.

Before referring the resolu-

tion to the review committee, 
representatives 
suggested 
a 

clarification be added to deter-
mine whether or not other 
schools would develop their 

own requirement or adopt 
LSA’s current standard.

LSA’s R&E requirement was 

established in 1990 in response 
to the 1987 Black Action Move-
ment after a series of racist 
and discriminatory incidents 
against students of color that 
took place on campus. The res-
olution highlighted that such 
instances 
of 
discrimination 

and intolerance continue to ail 
students today. Expanding the 
requirement to all colleges was 
also one of the seven demands 
issued by the Black Student 
Union as part of the #BBUM 
movement in 2014.

The second resolution con-

sidered by CSG called for the 
establishment of a support 
center for R&E courses, simi-
lar to other centers such as the 
Sweetland Writing Center, the 
Michigan Language Center and 
the Science Learning Center. 
Course support was discussed 

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In a press release, Weaver said 

the most essential part of the 
process is getting the necessary 
supplies to those who need them.

“We need help in the form of 

supplies including water, filters 
and water test kits,” she said. 
“We also need help distributing 
those supplies to get them in the 
hands of the people who need 
them most.”

State Sen. Jim Ananich (D–

Flint) said his team is working 
on addressing the issue at three 
levels: immediate, short-term 
and long-term responses. He 
said the immediate priority is 
ensuring citizens have access to 
bottled water and filtration sys-
tems, while the short- and long-
term actions involve monitoring 
the health of affected individu-
als and repairing infrastructure.

Peter Jacobson, professor of 

health law and policy, said it’s 
important for the government to 
take steps to provide follow-up 
health care for affected citizens, 
especially children exposed to 
lead, and pay for water costs.

“The pressure should be from 

the state and federal govern-

ment, to provide Flint with the 
resources the city will need to 
monitor the children and to pro-
vide counseling and educational 
health therapy,” he said. “The 
state of Michigan should pay the 
water bills for Flint residents 
until the water is safe to drink.”

This week, the state Senate 

will be reviewing a bill recent-
ly passed in the state House 
approving an emergency request 
from Snyder for $28 million in 
emergency funding for both 
short and long-term needs.

Ananich said the city is now 

able to adequately supply resi-
dents with the water and filtra-
tion systems they need due to 
donations, meaning the focus 
moving forward should be on 
longer-term health monitoring.

“All sorts of folks are now pro-

viding a really good amount of 
water to my community,” he said. 
“We’ve almost sort of turned the 
corner on the immediate need. 
The most important focus is to 
get these kids assessed to see 
what kind of issues they may 
have long-term and place them 
in programs to make sure they 
get the individualized help they 
need.”

According to state Rep. Shel-

don Neeley (D–Flint), the state 

House is also preparing to con-
sider a series of bills as part of 
the Water Quality and Afford-
ability Package; however the 
bills have not yet been scheduled 
for hearings. 

Along with the legislative and 

executive actions, the U.S. Attor-
ney’s office has also launched 
an investigation into the crisis, 
spearheaded by former Wayne 
County 
assistant 
prosecutor 

Todd Flood. However, Jacobson 
said it is unlikely that any indi-
viduals will be charged because 
of an emergency manager law 
enacted during Snyder’s first 
term as governor. The law allows 
the state to appoint an emergen-
cy manager at an earlier stage 
in the case of a serious financial 
emergency. Jacobson said this 
law provides the officials tasked 
with addressing the water crisis 
near immunity for the actions 
taken during an emergency situ-
ation.

Jacobson 
said 
though 
he 

doubts residents’ ability to find 
legal justice for the crisis, he still 
believes the issue was the fault of 
the government.

“The state failed here,” he 

said. “I’m not suggesting that the 
state is anything but culpable.”

Amid the crisis, UM-Flint 

officials have also launched ini-
tiatives to aid the Flint commu-
nity. Citing a campus fact sheet 
— which details that water on 
UM-Flint’s campus is filtered 
and regularly tested — UM-Flint 
Chancellor Susan Borrego issued 
aletter to students on Monday 
assuring them campus water 
was safe. According to Borrego, 
UM-Flint installed water filters 
across campus after the city 
advised residents to boil their 
water in the fall of 2014.

Flint residents have also been 

advised by the state to use filtra-
tion systems in their homes, and 
various groups have donated fil-
ters and water bottles to citizens.

Terese Olson, professor of 

civil and environmental engi-
neering, said it is unclear how 
effective these filtration systems 
truly are, and they should be 
carefully monitored.

“These filters are designed to 

treat water that’s been polished 
already,” she said. “It’s an uncer-
tain question how well they will 
work or how long they will work, 
and there’s not a lot of guidance 

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