around the significant problem
that certain childhood cancers
have
in
causing
death
in
children.”
According to the National
Cancer Institute, cancer is the
leading cause of death past
infancy among U.S. children.
An estimated 10,380 new cases
of childhood cancer will be
diagnosed in 2016 and about
1,250 children ages 0 to 14 are
expected to die from childhood
cancer in the same period.
Opipari also said there is
a need for more funding in
pediatric cancer research and
treatment.
“The second thing we wanted
people to understand is how little
funding goes to the study and
research in childhood cancers,”
Opipari said.
A majority of cancers are
typically
associated
with
advancing age. However, Steven
Pipe, a pediatric hematologist
and oncologist at Mott, said some
of the most exciting advances in
cancer research are occurring
in the pediatric realm. Both the
University and Wisconsin, which
are ranked second and fourth,
respectively, for total research
and development expenditures
in 2014 by the National Science
Foundation, are at the leading
edge
of
this
fight
against
childhood cancer, he added.
“I’ve been working (at Mott)
for almost 25 years and I can see
us for the first time really making
major headway with some of the
more difficult to treat pediatric
malignancies,” Pipe said.
He
highlighted
two
breakthroughs
in
particular
being pioneered at Mott: precision
oncology and immunotherapy.
In precision oncology, doctors
comb through a patient’s DNA
to identify mutations in their
tumor, which can then be
matched to specific therapies.
The immunotherapy approach,
on the other hand, leverages the
patient’s own immune system.
Both of these methods are part
of a larger movement away from
nonspecific treatments, such as
chemotherapy and radiation, to
methods tailored to the patient’s
own unique cancer.
A team of Mott researchers
led by Rajen Mody, professor
of
pediatric
oncology
and
hematology at the University,
published a paper in late 2015
showing the results from the
first 102 patients enrolled in a
precision oncology study at the
hospital. In 46 percent of the
patients,
genetic
sequencing
revealed
new
targets
for
therapies and several children
were believed to have been cured
of their cancers, according to
Opipari.
“We now have a clinic at
Michigan,
a
personalized
pediatric cancer clinic, where
patients are coming from all
over the country to participate
in
our
sequencing
trial,”
Opipari said.
The University has had a
long history of participating
in cross-campus partnerships
to advance various health
initiatives. The annual Ohio
State-Michigan Blood Battle,
for example, began in 1982,
with last year’s battle bringing
in a total of 4,770 blood
donations. In 2003, students
began another tradition, the
Face-Off
Blood
Challenge,
with in-state rival Michigan
State University.
Opipari saidif this year
goes well, the hospital would
like to explore expanding the
competition.
“The big goal is that if this
works, what we’d like to do is
to make this a Big Ten wide
challenge,”
Opipari
said.
“We’d like every one of the Big
Ten teams to get onboard as
Michigan and Wisconsin have
started the charge.”
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of drinking water.
Robert Kellar, communications
specialist for the city of Ann
Arbor, said the spill was relatively
minor but the city cannot release
more information to the public
until it has submitted its report
of the incident to City Council.
Kellar said the report would
likely be turned in Wednesday
morning.
“The
overflow
was
quite
small, so there is not a significant
impact,” he said. “But we are still
taking tests out there.”
This is the third overflow
incident to occur this year, with
previous incidents at Bird Hills
Nature Area, where an estimated
36,000 gallons spilt over the
course of 60 hours, and at Malletts
Creek, where 400,000 of sewage
overflow was generated across a
two-week span.
At
the
City
Council
meeting Monday night, City
Administrator Howard Lazarus
said the city will be putting forth
greater effort going forward to
prevent such incidents.
“It is always our intent to
be protective of our natural
environment,” he said. “When
something like this occurs, we
all feel that we have let the public
down in protecting our natural
resources, and we will be ever
more diligent in making sure
that, to the best of our abilities, it
does not occur again.”
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student organization advising.
“Both our offices focus on
social identity as a core part of
who we are and how we interact
with students, so we decided that
we wanted to partner together,”
Chien said. “People often will visit
both of our spaces in their journeys
around learning about how they
want to be involved on campus and
who they are.”
Chung Kwan Fan agreed, saying
that working together has been
beneficial for both organizations.
“I think that we really want
to address more the piece of
intersectionality,
of
addressing
different identities and multiple
complexities of those identities as
well, so we do already have great
collaborations between the two
offices so we decided to thrive
upon that,” he said. “So it’s not
just for LGBT students of color,
but it’s trying to address different
identities at the same time as well.”
He said the point of the open
house was to usher in new students
and offer them support through
what can be a difficult transition,
especially for LGBTQ and minority
students.
“Really to be aware of the
resources
that
MESA
and
Spectrum
offer,
especially
the
support
services, knowing that being part
of the LGBTQ community brings
all our challenges to somebody’s
transition to the University, so
knowing that those resources exist
for them to be able to get to know
more of their own identity, but also
how to navigate the system, of U of
M being such a large university,”
Chung Kwan Fu said. “Knowing
their resources about how to
explore themselves, but also how
to interact and connect with
others.”
MESA
Director
Trelawny
Boynton stressed that despite the
amount of racial progress made
in the last several decades, MESA
still has a necessary role at the
University, especially for incoming
students.
She noted that the organization
is in the process of creating their
own strategic plan, paralleling a
University of Michigan-wide effort
launched last year by University
President Mark Schlissel to create
a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
plan for campus.
“We were created almost 50
years ago, and we want to make
sure we’re answering relevant
questions for why we still need
to be here, why do we still need
to do the work that we do and to
what end,” she said. “And we think
there’s a compelling reason, we just
want to prove it to folks who still
need to know and be reminded.”
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that LSA offers. Units within the
University were each tasked with
individually
developing
plans,
which have now been combined
into one campus-wide plan.
According
to
Dillard,
parts of the plan have already
been implemented. She cited
administrators
working
to
incorporate diversity criteria to
justify faculty pay raises as one
an example. She also said the LSA
Opportunity Hub has established
a laptop loan program, which has
already loaned out 425 laptops
to students from family incomes
of less than $50,000, of which 40
percent
are
underrepresented
minorities.
During Tuesday’s forum, LSA
Dean Andrew Martin spoke of the
importance of implementing the
DEI plan because of how a strong
emphasis on diversity strengthens
the community.
“Now perhaps more than ever,
we need to embrace that diversity
makes us stronger and better,”
he said. “ ‘Diversity, equity and
inclusion’ must be more than a
slogan.”
Martin highlighted a part of
the called “Goal for Inclusive
Classrooms,”
which
involves
overhauling
LSA’s
Race
and
Ethnicity requirement by creating
smaller sections with more of an
emphasis on clear discussions and
dialogues. Currently, LSA students
must take one class designed as
R&E before graduation, though
the
requirement
has
faced
criticism from students over broad
criteria for that designation. The
College of LSA initiated a review
of the requirement earlier this
year.
Martin also emphasized that
the implementation of the DEI
plan will be effective only with
the efforts of every member of the
University.
“This
will
require
real
mechanisms for creating a campus
environment where all students,
faculty and staff feel valued and
where everyone is able to take
full advantage of the resources
and opportunities that make LSA
the premier public liberal arts
institution,” he said.
Dillard
also
noted
the
importance of unity, saying a
part of the plan responsible for
connecting to various departments
could use more detail.
“I think it’s a big hole in the
plan right now,” she said. “It will
take a lot of work and a lot of time
… LSA is huge. We have over 70
departments.”
LSA senior Nicole Rutherford
said that after consulting in a
small group at the forum that
while they were enthusiastic
about opportunity housing and
the positive impacts it could
have for transfer students, they
had concerns about some of the
practical aspects of the plan.
“Some
questions
that
we
had, that you identified it as a
hole, is the partnerships with
departments, what that will look
like,” Rutherford said.
Some parts of LSA are also
choosing to launch their own
efforts alongside the University’s
strategic plan. Trelawny Boynton,
director of the Office of Multi-
Ethnic Student affairs, said at
a different event Tuesday that
MESA was in the process of
creating a plan in order to reaffirm
their place in the community.
“You all have I’m sure heard of
a strategic plan that’s happening
campus-wide. Know that we’re
doing something that is our own
strategic plan in MESA, so it’s a
good time to think about why we
exist,” she said. “We think there’s
a compelling reason we just want
to prove it to folks who still need
to know and be reminded. So, I’m
going to do a strategic process
with a whole bunch of our staff
involved, our student leaders, and
a group of students that are going
to guide me through that process.”
LSA senior Eitan Katz, who
attended the forum, said that
he likes the plan’s emphasis
on administration and faculty
overhauls because of their lasting
presence at the University.
“To me, a lot of it really focused
on faculty which I am really happy
about,” he said. “Students come
and go every four years, but faculty
stay here for a lot longer and they
can have a lot more of an effect on
the University.”
However, Katz said he is
concerned about the lack of
planned student education on the
principles of the plan, especially
for first-year students.
“I didn’t see much of a focus
on orientation,” he said. “And I
think that’s a big thing because
students are coming from all
over the country and it’s a chance
to have everyone together and
understand what it means to have
equity, diversity and inclusion on
campus.”
Rutherford, in response to
administrator’s comments, cited
questions she had about how the
programs within the plan would
be evaluated.
“So
I
saw
some
of
the
measurables in terms of we know
that this part has gotten off the
ground if we receive this by this
date, but I’m wondering about
some of the back end,” Rutherford
said. “Are we seeing this program
have the effect that we are hoping
to, maybe some of the climate
effects that we’re hoping to see
overall? And wondering at what
point some of those evaluations
might happen and in what way.”
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sovereignty while not giving the
union enough authority to make
up for a loss of strength at the
national level.
He said one example of
the power vacuum was the
European debt crisis, caused
in part by a global economic
downturn beginning in 2009.
Because the EU has limited
the powers of member states
to regulate their own currency,
countries like Greece were hit
harder by the crisis, but the
impact of the EU to help was
muted.
“The
European
Union
eliminated Greece’s power to
regulate its own currency and
to react locally to pressures
of a downturned economy,”
Halberstam
said.
“At
the
same time, they did not give
the
European
Union
the
corresponding powers to ship
money into Greece.”
Overall,
Halberstam
said
he
saw
Brexit
as
Britain’s
attempt to gain national power
and distance itself from an
ineffectual EU that had little
power to begin with. He noted,
however, that the process is still
far from done — the UK now
needs to notify the EU Council
of its intention to leave
“That would set into place a
two-year period, during which
they can negotiate a ‘divorce
agreement,’ ” Halberstam said.
Once
this
two-year
period begins, Britain must
negotiate
new
trade
deals
and border agreements with
the remaining 27 EU nations.
As
a
result,
politicians
in
Britain are currently debating
how to swiftly go about with
negotiations but also notify the
EU of the country’s intention to
leave.
Panelists also discussed a
number of other ramifications
of
Brexit,
such
as
the
resignation of former British
Prime Minister David Cameron
in June following the vote.
“The UK might not be left
anymore, all you might have is
‘little Britain,’ not ‘Great Britain
anymore,”
Halberstam
said.
“That’s going to be something
that the UK doesn’t want and
David
Cameron
certainly
doesn’t want to be remembered
as the man who destroyed the
United Kingdom.”
The current prime minister
of the UK is Theresa May, a
member of the Conservative
Party, selected after Cameron
stepped down. May became the
second female to occupy the
role since Margaret Thatcher
resigned in 1990.
Looking beyond the UK, Jones
also noted the the implication of
Brexit for Russia, saying a weaker
EU will lead to greater Russian
strength in the long term. He
said this could be a concern
given Russia’s 2014 forceful
annexation of the Ukrainian
peninsula of Crimea, and plans it
may have beyond that.
“The UK was central to the
EU’s
strength,
which
really
means the UK was central to
the EU’s unity,” Jones said. “The
UK was viewed as the biggest
anti-Russia proponent within
the EU, and the biggest problem
for Russia when it came to
negotiations with the EU.”
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