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Researchers find 
use of the drug 

negatively impacts 
verbal recollection

By MADELINE GERSON

For the Daily

According to a recent study 

by Deborah Levine, an assistant 
professor at the University of 
Michigan Medical School, long-
term marijuana use is associated 
with poor verbal memory in 
middle age.

Levine, who is an investigator 

of risk development in coronary 
arteries for young adults, practices 
at both the University Hospital 
and VA Ann Arbor Healthcare 
System.

Levine, along with Reto Auer, 

a researcher at the University of 
Lausanne, Switzerland, compiled 
data from a 25-year CARDIA 
study, which analyzed cognitive 
performance by observing and 
calculating the verbal memory, 
executive function and processing 

speed of participants.

According to Levine, there 

seemed to only be a correlation 
between marijuana usage and 
verbal memory, with no evidence 
of an effect on processing speed or 
executive function.

However, Levine emphasised 

that correlation is not equivalent 
to causation.

“Our results found a significant 

association between long-term 
marijuana use in early adulthood 
and 
decreased 
cognitive 

functioning at midlife,” Levine 
said. 
“However, 
our 
results 

demonstrate an association and 
do not prove causality.”

With 
large 
numbers 
of 

adolescent 
and 
young-adult 

marijuana users and an ongoing 
movement to decriminalize and 
legalize marijuana, Levine said 
the issue of the health effects 
of marijuana is relevant. States 
have legalized marijuana, and 
many cities including Ann Arbor 
have decriminalized its meaning. 
According to the 2013 National 
Survey on Drug Use and Health, 
NSDUH, marijuana is the most 

Thomas Perez said 
businesses benefit 
when they increase 
benefits for workers

By CALEB CHADWELL

Daily Staff Reporter

U.S. 
Secretary 
of 
Labor 

Thomas Perez discussed ways for 
businesses and the government to 

create a more prosperous national 
economy at the Ford School of 
Public Policy Monday evening.

Appointed by President Barack 

Obama, Perez has served as 
labor secretary since 2013 on 
Monday. Perez said the Obama 
administration has helped create a 
shared economic prosperity for all 
by encouraging businesses to make 
conscious decisions to benefit their 
workers.

Discussing national economic 

progress 
during 
the 
Obama 

administration, Perez noted that 
the unemployment rate is now at 
4.9 percent and that the number 
of jobs has grown by 14 million, 
according to the U.S. Bureau of 
Labor Statistics.

Perez said this growth is in 

part due to businesses’ starting to 
realize how adequately providing 
for their workers, pleasing their 
shareholders and taking care of 
their customers are not trade-
offs — successful businesses do all 
three, and gain revenue by treating 

their workers well.

“Businesses are seeing that 

investing in their workers is one 
of the best ways to grow the 
bottom line,” Perez said. “They’re 
embracing 
what 
Henry 
Ford 

embraced when he doubled the 
wages of people on the assembly 
line, understanding that better 
paid workers are more productive 
workers.”

Perez said businesses should not 

view raising wages and increasing 

See MARIJUANA, Page 2
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HALEY MCLAUGHLIN /Daily

U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez discusses the importance of worker voice and inclusive innovation in the production of a successful business model in 
the Annenberg Auditorium on Monday. 

Officials say 

Flintwater.com 
has illegally used 
government logos

By LYDIA MURRAY

Daily Staff Reporter

Michigan Attorney General 

Bill Schuette issued a warning 
to Flintwater.com, a website 
advertised as a charity raising 
money to aid the Flint water 
crisis, for potential charitable 
solicitation 
violations 
on 

Thursday.

The 
website 
was 
using 

logos 
from 
United 
Way, 

Pure 
Michigan, 
Flint 

Water Response Team and 
the 
American 
Red 
Cross 

without permission from the 
organizations or notification 
of their use, according to 
Schuette’s office. 

Earlier last week, Schuette 

issued a consumer alert to 
the public warning them to be 
vigilant for potential charity 
scams in relation to Flint. He 
urged people to be cautious of 
websites asking for personal 
information and checks to 
make sure the organization is 
listed on the attorney general’s 
website as a registered charity.

Andrea 
Bitely, 

communications 
director 

at 
the 
Michigan 
attorney 

general’s office, said both state 
Sen. Jim Ananich (D-Flint) 
and 
United 
Way, 
a 
local 

charity, alerted the office of 

the potential scam.

“Jim 
Ananich 
and 
the 

United Way both called our 
office and let us know what 
was going on,” she said. “We 
sent them a cease and desist. 
They can’t have those up.”

Pam Smith, president of 

United Way of Washtenaw 
County, said the organization 
does everything it can to 
prevent such scams, but often 
has to rely on individuals 
informing 
it 
of 
potential 

violations.

“We do the very best we can 

to protect our brand,” she said. 
“Anybody can grab a logo shot 
off the Internet, so we rely 
on our donors, our volunteers 
and the general public to let us 
know.”

Smith said after learning 

about the misuse of their logo, 
the organization took the 
necessary steps immediately 
to have it removed.

“Once we were made aware 

of that, we immediately filed 
a cease and desist order,” she 
said. “The logo was taken 
down the same day.”

According to Bitely, the 

Michigan attorney general’s 
office said their responses to 
potential scams depend on the 
nature of the issue.

“If it’s similar we will do 

another cease and desist. If 
it’s a door-to-door scam we 
encourage the public to call 
law enforcement,” she said 
referring to Flintwater.com

Many 
individuals 
both 

locally and nationwide have 

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KRISTINA PERKINS/Daily

Marv Fox, personal trainer, basketball coach, and inspirational speaker, discusses the path to achieving personal 
success at the 2nd Annual William Monroe Trotter Lecture in the Michigan Union on Monday. 

Presenters at 
the event urge 

attendees to pursue 

personal success

By BRANDON SUMMERS-

MILLER

Daily Staff Reporter

Speakers 
challenged 

University 
students 
and 

faculty to succeed Monday 
night during the second annual 
William 
Monroe 
Trotter 

lecture at the Michigan Union.

The annual lecture was 

created as an opportunity for 

Trotter to engage the public 
with its works and also for 
students and faculty to hear 
the 
stories 
of 
University 

community members who have 
been affected by racial inequity 
or have overcome obstacles.

This 
year, 
the 
lecture 

featured remarks from Sean 
Pitt, an LSA junior and Central 
Student 
Government 
chief 

of staff, Public Policy junior 
Hattie McKinney, vice speaker 
for the Black Student Union 
and motivational speaker Marv 
Fox Jr.

Pitt 
emphasized 
the 

importance of speaking up on 
the University’s campus.

“Your voice matters just as 

much in a leadership role as it 
does when you meet a friend 
for coffee,” Pitt said. “Or make 
any other decision that reflects 
your values and your truth.”

McKinney 
provided 

historical 
background 
on 

William Trotter, for whom 
the 
Trotter 
Multicultural 

Center was named, relating the 
history of Trotter to students’ 
ability to gain and exhibit self 
confidence. Trotter, an activist 
for racial equality, experienced 
segregation in the early 1900s 
and worked to combat Klu 
Klux Klan propaganda.

“Knowing who you are is 

essential,” 
McKinney 
said. 

See TROTTER, Page 3

Schlissel also 

discusses ways to 
augment minority 

student experiences

By ISOBEL FUTTER

Daily Staff Reporter

University 
President 
Mark 

Schlissel 
joined 
the 
Senate 

Advisory 
Committee 
on 

University 
Affairs’ 
meeting 

Monday to talk about his goal to 
increase collaboration among the 
19 schools and colleges within 
the University.

“The 
current 
system 
and 

model of the traditional and 
decentralized 
leadership 
by 

means of separate schools has 
driven the schools to individual 
excellence,” Schlissel said. “We 
have left one more layer on top 
that we’ve really tried to tap 
into and that is the strategic 
collaboration 
between 
our 

schools.”

Schlissel also said he hopes 

collaboriting 
on 
issues 
will 

excite not only those inside 
the University, but the larger 
community as well.

“I value scholarship where 

it’s scholars talking to other 
scholars, 
because 
long-term 

insight comes out of that,” he 
said. “I also value scholarship 
that produces things that the 
public can understand and can 
really emotionally engage with.”

Schlissel 
said 
this 
public 

engagement reinforces the value 
of the University and informs 
others of what goes on at the 

See SACUA, Page 3

Study links 
marijuana 
use to loss
in memory

RESEARCH

U.S. Labor Sec. discusses 
ways to improve economy

AG says scams 
targeting Flint 
crisis charities

GOVERNMENT

Speakers at W.M. Trotter 
lecture stress individuality

Members of 
SACUA talk 
interschool 
collaboration

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