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Vol. CXXVI, No. 115| © 2016 The Michigan Daily 
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NEWS ....................................
OPINION ............................... 
ARTS ......................................
CLASSIFIEDS.........................
SUDOKU................................
SPORTS................................10

NEWS
New FDA decision 
restricts e-cig use

Regulations call attention 

to University study

>> SEE PAGE 8

NEWS
Faculty named to 
prestigous society

4 professors join National 

Academy of Sciences

>> SEE PAGE 3

OPINION
Don’t waste your 
presidential vote 
With high rates of 
unfavorability in both 
parties, every vote counts

>> SEE PAGE 4

ARTS

Prince celebrated 
at the Blind Pig

Prince Dance Party brings 

fans of all ages together at 

local concert venue

>> SEE PAGE 7

SPORTS
‘M’ softball enters 
postseason

Big Ten Tournament begins 

Friday in Happy Valley

>> SEE PAGE 12

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‘U’ and Ann Arbor schools 
address e-waste recycling

New Trotter 
facility name
sparks worry 
in students

Residents drop 

off electronics for 
proper disposal

By IRENE PARK

Daily Summer News Editor

The University of Michigan’s 

Office of Campus Sustainability 
partnered with Ann Arbor Public 
Schools for the University’s annual 
e-waste recycling event — which 
aims to help community members 
dispose and recycle electrical or 
electronic devices — Saturday in 
Pioneer High School’s parking lot.

The annual event began in 

spring 2008, around the same time 
the Climate Savers Computing 
Initiative — a campus campaign 
aimed at promoting sustainable 
computer use — and Sustainable 
Computing program began at the 
University. Since then, events have 
collected 1,792 tons of e-waste.

The events are open to anyone 

who wants to recycle his or her 
e-waste, including non Ann Arbor 
residents.

E-waste specifically refers to any 

discarded electrical or electronic 
devices, including cell phones, 

televisions, stereos and wires. 
Last year, the United Nations 
Environment Program referred 
to it as the fastest growing waste 
stream in the world. A study in 2013 
estimated a 33 percent growth of 
e-waste worldwide by 2017, about 
72 million tons total.

Incorrect disposal of e-wastes 

can create serious health hazards, 
especially in developing countries, 
where developed countries often 
dump 
their 
e-wastes. 
Many 

electronic gadgets contain toxic 
metals such as mercury, lead and 
cadmium, which can seep into the 
ground and contaminate water 
sources. Exposure to such toxic 
metals can cause damage to the 
nervous systems, kidneys and 
bones of both adults and developing 
fetuses. 

MaryBeth Stuenkel, University 

Information 
and 
Technology 

program manager and a volunteer 
at Saturday’s event, said recycling 
e-waste is not only a way to 
reduce the amount that ends up 
in landfills or water, but it’s also a 
way to reuse valuable resources for 
new electronic products without 
harming the environment. For 
example, producing one ounce 
of gold requires mining and 

processing seven to 11 tons of ore, 
but gold can also be extracted from 
e-waste.

“It’s a double reason to recycle 

(the e-waste),” Stuenkel said. “They 
are dangerous to the environment 
plus they are valuable resources 
that can be reclaimed and reused. 
That benefits the environments 
in another way — if you have gold 
from recycled materials, then you 
don’t have be mining for gold.”

Stuenkel 
said 
the 
most 

common items people recycle 
at the events are old television 
sets. 
Unfortunately, 
these 

television sets do not contain as 
much precious metal that can 
be recycled as computers do, 
according to Stuenkel, adding that 
old televisions comprise mostly of 
plastic and glass.

Stuenkel also mentioned that 

she and rest of the University’s 
Sustainable Computing program 
were surprised by the increasing 
turnout of e-waste recycling in Ann 
Arbor since 2008, with the number 
of cars attending increasing from 
3,548 in 2010 to 7,000 in 2015.

“When we started doing this in 

2008, we expected the number of 
cars dropping off the waste to taper 
off,” Stuenkel said.

JEREMY MITNICK/DAILY

Ann Arbor Pioneer High school hosts electronic-waste recycling event on Saturday. 

CAMPUS LIFE

Students voice 

mixed reactions in 
response to naming 

of new building

By RIYAH BASHA

Daily Summer News Editor

Several students voiced concern 

over the University of Michigan’s 
decision to name the new building 
which will house the William 
Trotter Multicultural Center after 
Regent Mark Bernstein and his wife, 
Rachel Bendit. The building’s new 
name — Bernstein-Bendit Hall — 
comes after the University laudeda 
$3 million gift from the couple three 
weeks ago. The donation will help 
build the new facility, which will 
move from its current Washtenaw 
Ave. address to a more centrally 
located spot on South State Street. 

A number of students protested 

the name on social media, arguing 
it erased the legacy of the center’s 
current 
namesake: 
William 

Trotter— 
the 
prominent 
Black 

activist and co-founder of the 
Niagara Movement, a civil rights 
organization founded in 1905.

Trotter director Jackie Simpson 

refuted these claims. She said the 
legacy of both Trotter will remain 
intact despite concerns surrounding 
the decision to rename the center.

“I’ve 
heard 
many 
student 

concerns that the legacy of Trotter 
was going away,” Simpson said. “It’s 
not going to happen.”

University 
President 
Mark 

Schlissel addressed the controversy 
in an open letterposted on the 
Trotter Center’s Facebook page, 
in which he drew comparisons to 
the Ford School of Public Policy — 
named for former President Gerald 

See TROTTER, Page 9

