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WEATHER
TOMORROW
HI: 16
LO: -2
Days after
candidate’s visit,
daughter tours
treatment facilities
By LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
FLINT - Chelsea Clinton,
Democratic
presidential
candidate
Hillary
Clinton’s
daughter, followed her mother’s
path with a visit to Flint on
Thursday. While there, she
toured the Hurley Children’s
Center
and
the
United
Association Local 370, the local
section of the plumbing and
pipefitting union.
Clinton’s trip comes shortly
after Clinton’s visit to the city
last Sunday, during which she
met with community leaders
and
addressed
patrons
at
House of Prayer Missionary
Baptist Church.
Chelsea Clinton has been
campaigning for her mother
since
January.
Thursday’s
visit
occurred
in
advance
of the Democratic debate in
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
that
evening.
While at the hospital, she met
with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha,
the
doctor
whose
findings
about lead levels forced the
state government to address
the crisis. On Wednesday she
also met with Flint Mayor
Karen Weaver in Washington
D.C. earlier in the week.
Chelsea Clinton said her
Flint visit was motivated by her
interest in understanding what
the city’s leaders need as the
crisis evolves.
“I really came to Flint today
to listen to Mayor Weaver, to
Dr. Mona, to the people here,
the plumbers and pipe fitters,”
she said. “To know what more
those of us who are not here
can do to support the work
that they now know needs to
happen. What they need now
is different from what they
needed a few weeks ago.”
Clinton said the city now
has enough bottled water, but
See CLINTON, Page 2
See SYMPOSIUM, Page 2
MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
Dr. Desmond Upton-Patton, assistant professor of social work at Columbia University, discusses the role of social media and the internet in racial activism at
Rackham auditorium on Thursday.
At workshop,
speaker discusses
how demographic
reacts to the virus
By IRENE PARK
Daily Staff Reporter
Nursing
Prof.
Robert
Stephenson
on
Wednesday
led a session on navigating
conversations
about
HIV
status.
The
session,
“HIV
&
Me,” was part of this week’s
Sexpertise series and aimed to
help students utilize campus
resources and how to get
involved in advocacy groups.
HIV,
which
stands
for
human
immunodeficiency
virus, can lead to the acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome,
or AIDS. AIDS patients have a
compromised immune system,
making them more susceptible
to infections and diseases that
people with working immune
systems can usually fight off.
In the United States alone,
more than 1.2 million people are
infected with HIV, and one out
See HIV, Page 3
Games work to
separate fact from
fiction, reduce
stigmas
By TANYA MADHANI
Daily Staff Reporter
A sex-themed carnival on the
second floor of Michigan League
drew a full crowd of students
Thursday
night,
welcoming
students to “Come one, come
all.” At the carnival, attendees
could play games to win raffle
prizes, eat candied apples and
learn about sexuality and sexual
health on campus.
The carnival, part of a three-
day
Sexpertise
conference
hosted by the University Health
Service, aimed to reduce stigma
about
sexual
identity
and
experience
among
students.
Public Health graduate student
Tahiya
Alam,
who
helped
organize the event, said the
group hoped to engage students
in discussions on topics they
may not think about often.
“We know that there are
certain realities in the student
population
and
there’s
not
always
access
to
safe
sex
information,” she said. “Also,
it’s just a fun way to interact
with the multitude of different
sources of great knowledge
we have on campus. It helps
students find out what they’re
interested in and what they’re
not interested in.”
The
conference
included
multiple
speakers
and
showcased presentations on a
wide range of topics including
sexuality
research
and
stigma attached to HIV/AIDS
diagnoses. The carnival aimed
to combine those experiences as
a capstone event.
“We
want
to
basically
cement down everything that
they’ve heard throughout the
conference, some of the things
that our sex educators have
really been taught throughout
the year, and have them interact
with
that
information
in
different ways and learn,” Alam
said. “Learning happens both
visually, orally and auditory-
wise so this carnival is looking
to stimulate all those senses
and learn a little bit more about
sexual health.”
The carnival, Alam said, was
meant to prompt even more
open conversation about sex.
“Anyone who is in sex health
education aims to dispel stigma
See CARNIVAL, Page 3
Speakers discuss
sexuality in the
media, human
trafficking
By CAMY METWALLY
Daily Staff Reporter
Students gathered in the
Michigan League for the final
three sessions of Sexpertise
— a three-day long University
Health
Service-sponsored
conference
to
engage
the
community in discussion about
sexuality and relationships —
on Thursday. Three keynote
speakers
aimed
to
address
stereotypes, stigmas and myths
in relation to sex.
Stigma and Sexuality:
The evening kicked off with
an engaging start. Dr. Terri
Conley, professor of psychology
and
women’s
studies,
challenged
several
popular
myths surrounding gender and
relationship differences that
have been reinforced culturally
over time.
The first slide, in simple blue
font, read, “Women naturally
dislike casual sex.” Conley
explained that this first myth
is based on the assumption that
there is something biological or
genetic that prevents females
from
enjoying
unattached
sexual activity. Conley said
her own research, however,
debunks this myth.
“The
most
important
predictor for both women and
See RESEARCH, Page 3
• There are 50,000 new HIV diagnoses each year
• 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV as of 2012,
but 12.8 percent of these people do not know they are infected
• 26 percent of new infections in 2010 were among people ages 13
to 24, but more than half of these people do not know they are
infected
Panel looks at
representation in
traditional media
By BRANDON SUMMERS-
MILLER
Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michi-
gan’s School of Social Work
held a day-long event Thursday
focused on engaging partici-
pants on strides made by mem-
bers of the Black community
and its allies in the digital age.
#UMBlackout, held in Rack-
ham Graduate School, featured
a panel discussion, several
keynote speakers and multiple
workshop sessions for an audi-
ence of more than 50 students.
The day began with a key-
note address from Dr. Mark
Anthony Neal, Duke University
African and African American
Studies professor, who spoke
on the relationship between
young Black Americans and
traditional media outlets. Neal
said he believes this group is
turning away from traditional
media to express their senti-
ments of social change through
mediums like Twitter and
other social media platforms.
He elaborated on the shift
through citing differences in
how young African Americans
reacted to the death of Michael
Brown and the way he was por-
trayed in mass media. Brown,
who was shot by police in Fer-
guson, Mo. in August 2014, was
a catalyst for the Black Lives
Matter movement and sparked
a national conversation on
police brutality.
Young people reacted to
Brown’s death, Neal said, by
creating an online movement
with the hashtag #IfThey-
GunnedMeDown.
“So they began this moment,
In Michigan
stop, Chelsea
Clinton talks
water crisis
FLINT
#UMBlackout highlights
benefits of online activism
Event looks at
HIV risks for
young adults
CAMPUS LIFE
Sex-themed carnival aims
to teach, engage students
Researchers
help debunk
myths about
sexual health
SCIENCE
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