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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

Design by Mariah Gardziola

