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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.
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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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