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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FLa.) speaks at an event in Grand Rapids on Tuesday.

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LSA junior Rachael Ankley discusses how the community can help raise awareness of eating disorders and increase 
body positivity at Riots, not Diets hosted by The University of Michigan Body Peace Corps at the Union on Thursday. 

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‘Riots, Not Diets’ emphasizes 
building body image positivity

THREE THINGS YOU 
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

The Michigan women’s 
basketball team has 
won four of its last 

five games. They will aim to 
extend that streak against 
Northwestern Tuesday.

>> SEE SPORTS on 7

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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Stress 
workshop 

WHAT: This 
presentation will 
give an inside look 
to the side effects 
of sustained stress, 
particularly in relation 
to dissertation writing.
WHO: Rackham 
Institute 
WHEN: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 
WHERE: Rackham 
Graduate School

Nevada 
Gov. 
Brian 

Sandoval (R) removed 
his name from a potential 
list of Supreme Court 

nomineess, according to The 
Huffington Post. Sandoval 
reportedly dropped out in 
order to avoid what he sees 
as a vicious partisan battle 
occuring in Washington.

1

Viola recital

WHAT: Lindzy Marie 
Volk will perform a 
masters recital, including 
various pieces from 
“Romeo and Juliet,” as 
well as work by Johannes 
Brahms.
WHO: School of Music, 
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. 
WHERE: Earl V. Moore 
Building, Britton Recital 
Hall

President 
Barack 

Obama 
 
plans 
a 

historic visit to Cuba 
sometime in the next 

month. This will be the first 
visit by a sitting president 
to the country since 1928 
when 
Calvin 
Coolidge 

travelled to the country. 

3

Love Your 
Genes drive

WHAT: As part of Eating 
Disorder Awareness 
Week the Body Peace 
Corps will collect old 
clothes to celebrate “all 
bodies” by hanging up 
the clothes on a line.
WHO: Body Peace Corps
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
WHERE: West 
Quadrangle Connector

Latino 
political 
participation

WHAT: Ph.D. candidate 
Vanessa Cruz will have a talk 
focused on Latino political 
participation and ability to 
find opportunities while 
under political threat.
WHO: Latina/o Studies
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
WHERE: Haven Hall, room 
3512

Varsity Tennis 
match against 
Washington U

WHAT: The Michigan 
men’s tennis team will 
play against Washington 
University. They will be 
playing for their sixth 
straight win at home. 
WHO: Michigan Athletics
WHEN: 4 p.m. 
WHERE: Varsity 
Tennis Center

Basement 
Arts musical

WHAT: “Passing 
Strange,” the award-
winning musical, will be 
put on by the Basement 
Arts as a free show. 
WHO: Multi-Ethnic 
Student Affairs
WHEN: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. 
WHERE: Walgreen 
Drama Center, Studio One

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

Yiddish Reading

WHAT: The reading group 
will be open to the public.
WHO: Judaic Studies
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: 202 S. Thayer, room 
2000
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International 
engineering

WHAT: IPE will host 
a free consultation for 
engineers wishing to 
plan for internationl 
experiences. 
WHO: International 
Programs in Engineering
WHEN: 1 p.m. to 4:30 
p.m. 
WHERE: Chrysler 
Center, room 245

Student org holds 
event for National 
Eating Disorder 
Awareness week

By NEIL SCHWARTZ

For the Daily

The Body Peace Corps held 

a group presentation and dis-
cussion in the Michigan Union 
Thursday evening to discuss the 
positives and negatives of body 
image associated with eating 
disorders.

“Riots Not Diets” was one 

part of a week-long event, held in 
conjunction with Active Minds 
and the University of Michigan’s 
Counseling 
and 
Psychologi-

cal Services for Eating Disorder 
Awareness Week. The series of 
events focused on promoting pos-
itive body image through online 
articles, poster making, sharing 
experiences about eating dis-
order recovery, clothing drives, 
events and fundraisers. 

Throughout the presentation, 

event coordinators Traci Ayub, a 
first-year master’s student at the 

School of Public Health, and LSA 
senior Rachael Ankley encour-
aged the audience to talk about 
current issues society is facing 
regarding the portrayal of body 
image and eating disorders.

One student commented on 

the large volume of body image 
stories focused around adoles-
cent girls and younger women 
and the lack of stories about 
the transition to adulthood and 
beyond, where she said these 
issues remain a major concern. 
Another 
student 
highlighted 

the sensationalized way losing 
weight is treated, which they said 
leaves out the emotional struggle 
that those affected by eating dis-
orders might go through.

Ayub and Ankley emphasized 

those issues in their presenta-
tion, along with several other 
topics, such as the prevalence 
eating disorders in marginalized 
social and ethnic groups. In par-
ticular, Ayub discussed the feel-
ing of being alone that she said 
members of this group may expe-
rience, along with fears about 
being accepted by their peers.

“We started mentioning sto-

ries about men, stories about 
people of color, stories about 

those in the LGBT community... 
anything that wasn’t that typical 
story about the white woman,” 
Ayub said. “That is an important 
story, but it is being told already. 
It’s just that there are not a lot of 
identities talked about in terms of 
eating disorders.”

The 
presentation 
also 

explained 
several 
underly-

ing concerns in the treatment 
of eating disorders. One of the 
most common ways individuals 
with eating disorders suffer in 
everyday life, they said, is from 
comments of others about their 
image.

“You can’t tell if somebody is 

healthy looking at them,” Ayub 
said. “And a lot of times, we try to 
police people of a certain weight. 
You’re not really helping them. 
They are aware of their health 
status. They have seen a doc-
tor; they know whether they are 
healthy or not.” 

The coordinators also pre-

sented facts about eating disor-
ders. Approximately 28 percent 
of women and 10 percent of 
men at the University who were 
screened in a U-SHAPE survey 
were found to have an eating dis-

See DIET, Page 3

Council to address possible dioxane 
contamination in A2 groundwater

Work session to feature 

remarks from Dept. 
of Environmental 

Quality

By BRIAN KUANG

Daily Staff Reporter

Ann Arbor City Council will hear 

the Michigan Department of Envi-
ronmental Quality’s plans for mov-

ing forward with the plume of toxic 
1,4-dioxane in the city’s groundwa-
ter during a Monday working ses-
sion.

The contaminated plume — 

located underground in Scio Town-
ship and Ann Arbor, and creeping 
toward the Huron River, which is 
where the city’s drinking water is 
drawn from — was caused by Gel-
man Sciences’ improper disposal of 
1,4-dioxane from 1966 to 1986. Pall 
Corporation, which acquired Gel-
man in 1997, is the company cur-

rently liable for the contamination.

Public scrutiny on this issue was 

re-energized in recent months by 
the Flint water crisis, and local lead-
ers have been clamoring for DEQ to 
take a harder stance.

In a Washtenaw County Board of 

Commissioners meeting earlier this 
month, DEQ representative Robert 
Wagner said state regulations and 
legal settlements dictate Pall is only 
required to “risk manage,” rather 
than clean, the dioxane plume.

According to the City Council 

meeting agenda, Pall Corporation 
was invited to give a presentation at 
the meeting but will not be attend-
ing.

Councilmember Sabra Briere 

(D–Ward 1) said her first priority is 
to learn how soon DEQ’s cleanup 
guidelines for 1,4-dioxane will be 
revised. With revised guidelines, 
Briere hopes that further legal 
action could be taken against Pall 
Corporation to compel a more thor-
ough monitoring and cleanup sys-
tem.

The current DEQ standard for 

1,4-dioxane is 85 parts per billion 
in groundwater, despite EPA stan-
dards saying 3.5 parts per billion is 
carcinogenic. Ann Arbor has been-
pushing for the revision of DEQ 
standards for the past three years. 
Wagner hadassured the Washt-
enaw County Board of Commission-
ers that revised standards would be 
released soon despite unforeseen 
delays in releasing them in the past.

“Once we have (revised stan-

dards), the city and the county are 
in a position to go to the courts, and 
ask the courts to enforce to that 
standard instead of the 85 parts per 
billion,” Briere said. “That allows 
us to open up the entire discussion 
about how the enforcement works, 
what the cleanup looks like, how 
effective the cleanup needs to be.”

She added that she thought that 

the current agreement between the 
state and Pall Corporation over-
whelmingly favors Pall.

“Unlike every other major pol-

lution issue in this state, the state 
of Michigan is paying for this, not 
the polluter,” Briere said. “All the 
time that the DEQ spends on this is 

See CITY, Page 3

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