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.” 2-News 2A — Wednesday September 21, 2016 News The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University OF Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily’s office for $2. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $110. Winter term (January through April) is $115, yearlong (September through April) is $195. University affiliates are subject to a reduced subscription rate. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. 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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.” SEWAGE From Page 1A WISCONSIN From Page 1A 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.” MESA From Page 1A 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.” LSA From Page 1A 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.” BREXIT From Page 1A Read more at MichiganDaily.com