and 
depression 
disorders 

comprehensively, focusing on 
medical research, clinical care, 
education and public policy.

The Eisenberg’s gift will 

mainly be used for medical 
research. John Greden, founder 
and executive director of the 
center, said the gift will help 
fund 
projects 
that 
aim 
to 

uncover the underlying causes 
of the illnesses, which will 
allow clinicians to personalize 
treatments for each patient with 
depression or bipolar disorder.

“Depression 
and 
bipolar 

illnesses probably have multiple 
different causes,” he said. “If we 
have multiple causes, we’ve got 
to treat the underlying causes … 
one-sized treatment will never 
fit all. We want to know: Will 
this type of depression respond 
to this antidepressant or this 
anti-inflammatory agent or this 
new medicine that will alter 
the genetic message? Then we 
can choose the treatment that 
precisely targets the underlying 
cause.”

LSA senior Reid Depowski, 

secretary for a new student 
group 
at 
the 
University’s 

Counseling and Psychological 
Services, 
CAPS 
In 
Action, 

wrote in an email interview 

that she thinks personalizing 
depression 
treatment 
has 

the potential to be highly 
impactful.

“Depression 
is 
such 
a 

widespread illness that not 
everyone responds the same 
to treatment or understands 
their symptoms in the same 
ways,” Depowski wrote. “Our 
Depression 
Center 
intends 

to 
focus 
on 
the 
personal 

development of those seeking 
treatment for their depression, 
which I think is a great step 
in the right direction to client-
focused therapy specifically to 
that client.”

Depowski also said the gift 

could spark conversations on 
campus about the necessity of 
research and the importance of 
mental health for everyone.

“That’s the goal of our group 

— 
to 
destigmatize 
mental 

health, mental illness, and 
make it normal to talk about,” 
she wrote.

The gift also established the 

Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg 
Professorship of Depression 
and Neurosciences. The first 
recipient of the professorship 
was Psychiatry Prof. Srijan Sen, 
whose goal is to develop more 
effective 
and 
personalized 

treatments for those who suffer 
from depression.

One 
of 
Sen’s 
ongoing 

research projects focuses on the 

relationship between stress and 
depression in medical interns. 
Sen said medical interns are 
appropriate models for his 
research because they suffer 
from high stress — working 80 
to 90 hours a week, suffering 
from sleep deprivation and 
dealing with life and death 
situations with their patients 
for the first time.

Sen said he hopes to further 

his study with the medical 
interns 
through 
his 
newly 

received 
professorship 
by 

utilizing mobile and wearable 
technology, which will allow 
him to get real-time and more 
reliable and objective data from 
his subjects.

According to Sen’s research, 

the rate of depression increased 
from 
3.9 
percent 
in 
the 

beginning of the internship 
to almost 27.1 percent during 
the internship. He added that 
depression in interns presents 
a risk to patients, noting that 
the young professionals are 
more likely to commit medical 
errors.

“Rates of depressions are 

very high, especially in (the 
medical intern) population,” 
Sen said. “It is important for 
health 
care 
to 
understand 

what’s causing the high rate 
of depression — finding ways 
to decrease it is important for 
them and for their patients.”

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other design projects similar to 
this greenhouse.

“I had read about Walipinis, 

which are theses underground 
greenhouses in the Andes, and 
they grow things like bananas 
at crazy high altitudes and 
crazy high temperatures,” she 
said. “I think a lot of gardeners 
in 
Michigan 
get 
depressed 

when winter comes and wish 
that they could grow for longer 
and 
extend 
their 
growing 

season.”

Project 
co-collaborator 

Steven Mankouche, Murray’s 
husband 
and 
an 
associate 

professor of architecture at the 
University of Michigan, said the 
greenhouse was inspired by a 
love of gardening. But now that 
it’s nearing its completion, the 
potential for more greenhouses 
in Detroit has become apparent.

“The project never started as 

us wanting to help people; we 
started the project as wanting 
to see if this idea would work,” 
he said. “While I think it does, 
I hate to talk about the project 
as if we are out there to help 
people and as if that were the 
mission of the work, which is 
not the case.”

The greenhouse plan was 

conceived of in 2009, according 
to the couple, but it took a 
few years for them to find the 
right house for the project. An 
additional year of fundraising 
after the house on Burnside 
Street was chosen and the plans 
were laid out in 2013 was also 
necessary for the project to 
launch.

“We 
wanted 
to 
find 
an 

abandoned 
house 
that 
was 

fire 
damaged 
and 
could 

not be saved,” he said. “We 

wanted the house to be in a 
neighborhood that wasn’t a 
fringe neighborhood with not 
much around it; we wanted it 
to be in a neighborhood where 
people lived but that was still 
struggling.”

Mankouche 
said 
the 

neighborhood, informally called 
by the primarily Bangladeshi 
residents “Banglatown,” seemed 
to be a good fit because there 
was still what he referred to as 
a “neighborhood fabric” intact 
in the area despite the burned 
and derelict houses scattered 
amongst the houses of the 
residents.

Now the project is coming 

close to a conclusion, with 
several final steps remaining. 
The 
last 
touches 
include 

installing stairs that will lead 
to the sunken lower level of 
the greenhouse, which was 
completed 
last 
week, 
and 

bringing in and spreading soil. 
Mankouche 
said 
after 
soil 

is spread inside Afterhouse, 
it will be ready for the first 
round of planting. Some of 
the first plants will include 
small 
trees 
that 
require 

warmer temperatures that are 
not available during Detroit 
winters, 
including 
bananas, 

olives and pomegranates.

Mankouche said the house is 

roughly 600 square feet with a 
completely open interior. The 
sunken base is approximately 
five feet below ground level.

“We 
removed 
the 
house 

from the foundation up, and 
in that process of demolition 
we salvaged all the structural 
lumber from the house,” he 
said. “We were left with the 
bare foundation wall, which 
was concrete block wall, which 
required a lot of repair work.”

Murray said an underlying 

concern within the project was 

building a lasting infrastructure 
in the area and finding residents 
that would continue to use 
the final product well after it 
reached completion.

“One of the things that was 

always really important to us 
when we were looking for a 
site and looking for the right 
partner to work with or give it 
to was that it would be useful 
and wouldn’t just be another 
thing that’s falling down,” she 
said. “We will help maintain it 
over the next couple of years 
to make sure that everything 
is working and to troubleshoot 
problems.”

As of right now, Afterhouse 

will primarily be used by 
Burnside Farms, the community 
garden that operates across the 
street from the greenhouse. 
The 
garden 
will 
use 
the 

greenhouse 
to 
extend 
its 

growing season through the 
winter. Mankouche said he 
thinks that the greenhouse can 
give back to the community by 
enabling the farm to continue 
growing throughout the winter 
that it can give to members of 
the neighborhood.

Burnside Farms could not be 

reached for comment.

Murray 
said 
from 
her 

experience 
working 
with 

members of the “Banglatown” 
community, 
there’s 
high 

potential 
for 
growth 
in 

community gardening.

“There are a lot of structures 

that can be repurposed that way, 
and there are a lot of people 
who are using gardening and 
growing their food to empower 
people,” she said. “If you live in 
a place where fresh fruits and 
vegetables aren’t that easy to 
come by, they are easy to come 
by in your backyard.”

Mankouche also noted that 

the small size of the Afterhouse 

design helps it fit into the 
neighborhood, and the approach 
that they’ve taken — demolishing 
the house but retaining the 
original foundation — allows 
for 
a 
variety 
of 
different 

community-oriented 
designs 

to be incorporated into future 
projects, such as residential 
scale swimming pools or skate 
parks.

On top of potential for other 

uses, 
Mankouche 
said 
the 

completed Afterhouse is not 
necessarily the final product 
and that the maintenance of 
the original foundation means 
that the structure could be 
repurposed again for something 
else.

“It allows for a future for 

the house,” he said. “It’s like 
putting a cap on the house; 
there’s 
nothing 
that 
would 

stop someone from converting 
Afterhouse back into a house 
again.”

“I think that it can have 

a very positive effect on the 
neighborhoods and the reason is 
because it’s not a big structure, 
it 
pretty 
much 
replaces 
a 

house unlike, let’s say, a large 
greenhouse and things of that 
nature, and so just because of 
its residential scale and the 
fact that it is in the location of 
a house itself, it tends to have 
a different type of rapport as 
a piece of architecture than a 
piece of art would,” he said.

University 
alum 
Travis 

Williams 
worked 
with 

Stephen and Murray on the 
Afterhouse 
project 
through 

the 
Undergraduate 
Research 

Opportunities Program. He has 
volunteered 
throughout 
the 

entire project, including during 
the initial design phases, and 
despite graduating this past 
spring, plans to help until the 
project is completed.

A native Detroiter, Williams 

said he was excited by the idea 
of working on a project that 
would revitalize a home that 
had been completely abandoned 
and left to break down among 
the houses of residents in the 
neighborhood.

“The way it served as an 

intermediary between blighted 
out 
homes 
and 
new 
home 

owners, I was delighted to work 
on it,” he said. “Seeing it go 
from a dilapidated home that 
was firebombed and complete 
desolation to seeing what we 
could deconstruct and salvage 
and completely rebuild it to a 
whole new design and use, it’s 
been enlightening.”

An 
aspiring 
architect, 

Williams 
said 
working 
on 

the project has helped him 
understand how to bring in 
community input to influence 
design and planning, as well 
as the role that communities 
themselves 
play 
in 
efforts 

to 
rebuild 
the 
houses 
and 

neighborhoods around them.

“(Steven) was more receptive 

and took more of a participatory 
role from the community itself 
and the people that it would 
actually house and serve, and 
listened 
to 
their 
thoughts,” 

he said. “That was a very big 
teachable 
moment, 
where 

it showed me the role that 
communities can play in their 
own reinvention, and have to 
play in their reimagining.”

Mankouche said since the 

project is nearing completion, 
he is interested in reaching 
out to other communities and 
working with others on similar 
projects in the future, though he 
said he does not want to be the 
one who build them anymore.

The 
couple 
believes 
the 

precedent set by the project 
has the potential to change 

the approach that the city of 
Detroit takes to demolishing old 
and broken houses. Beyond the 
risks and technical knowledge 
required to safely demolish a 
house, Mankouche said it is 
feasible for communities to 
come together to construct new 
buildings using old foundations 
in the way that Afterhouse does.

“I think it absolutely is a 

project that can be done by 
smaller 
communities,” 
he 

said, mentioning that several 
people from the immediate 
neighborhood surrounding the 
Afterhouse project volunteered 
time to help build the structure.

To 
demolish 
and 
rebuild 

the house cost Murray and 
Mankouche 
approximately 

$5,000 in total, a process they 
contracted out. According to an 
article written by The Atlantic, it 
costs the city of Detroit roughly 
$12,000 to fully demolish a 
derelict house, which includes 
removing the foundation and 
filling in the hole in the ground 
that is left behind.

Both Mankouche and Murray 

noted that one obstacle relevant 
to 
demolition 
projects 
for 

both the city of Detroit and 
the Afterhouse project is that 
without the proper permits 
for renovation, the city doesn’t 
allow for partial demolition. 
This means that to reduce costs 
by saving the foundation of 
houses, Detroit would have to 
take a remodeling approach, 
rather than demolition. 

“If the city changed the 

ordinance in such a way that 
one was allowed to demolish 
and leave the existing first floor 
intact, because all these houses 
are platform framed, you could 
then go about it quite safely and 
give time to the community to 
go about rebuilding a house,” 
Mankouche said.

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in that you constructed them as 
sluts and bitches who are there 
to entertain men in fraternities. 
I just wanted you to know that is 
not Greek life at Michigan.”

Barnitt’s comment was met 

with applause and catalyzed the 
departure of most of the audience.

“What I hope to accomplish 

tonight is to get a conversation 
going about what we can do to 
prevent this from happening,” 
Burkman said as students exited 
the auditorium. “So if you’re not 
willing to have the conversation at 
all, then you’re not open-minded. 
I don’t want to offend anyone and 
(Barnitt) is perfectly entitled to 
her opinion, but I think everyone 
is entitled to their opinion, 
including me. I firmly believe 
that this is a powerful tool for 
constructive change.”

Producer 
Jayme 
Aronberg 

expressed 
surprise 
and 

disappointment at the reaction 
of the majority of the student 
audience to the film, which has 
won multiple awards, including 
the 
D.C. 
Independent 
Film 

Festival’s best feature film, and 
has been screened at dozens 
of film festivals and college 
campuses across the country.

“This is the first time that 

we’ve ever had this reaction,” 
Aronberg said. “First time. Maybe 
the truth is that Michigan does 
an exceptional job at not having 
(hazing incidents) happen. If that’s 
the case, then that’s amazing. But 
it is also important to recognize 
that’s not the case everywhere. 
And that’s disturbing.”

The 
makers 
of 
“HAZE” 

have 
been 
traveling 
around 

the country screening the film 
exclusively at universities before 
the commercial release, which is 
slated for the spring of 2017.

In an interview with The 

Michigan 
Daily 
before 
the 

screening, 
Burkman 
said 
he 

hadn’t initially planned to tour the 
film to college campuses.

“When we set out to make the 

film, it was not with any specific 
agenda in mind other than to 
make an entertaining, thought-
provoking, illuminating feature 
film,” Burkman said. “The film 
has taken on an unexpected life 
of its own by virtue of its subject 
matter.”

Burkman, 
an 
Indiana 

University alum, was invited to 
screen the film at his alma mater 
and said he was struck by the 
effect that the film could have in 
generating conversation around 
the problems in Greek life and 
hazing. After the film started a 
dialogue at Indiana University, 
Burkman decided to screen the 
film exclusively at colleges before 
its commercial release.

“It wasn’t our original intention, 

but when we went to Indiana, it 
was really fascinating to see what 
an incredibly productive tool the 
film could be in generating a kind 
of 
constructive 
conversation.” 

Burkman said.

He acknowledged the disturbing 

nature of the film, but said he felt it 
necessary to fully relate the horrors 
of hazing to the audience.

“Our 
hope 
is 
that 
the 

conversation doesn’t end when we 
leave campus, when the lights go 
up and the film is over,” Burkman 
said. “I think it’s important to 
have a film that shows this thing in 
a realistic way, that upsets. While 
I do not want to upset people and 
traumatize people, we made this 
film with the hope that it would 
get under people’s skin.”

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The 
gradually 
expanding 

plume, first discovered in 1985, has 
contaminated groundwater, forced 
the closure of more than 100 private 
residential wells and is expected 
to reach the Huron River in the 
coming decades and potentially 
contaminate Ann Arbor’s water 
source at Barton Pond, according 
to several projections.

In 
2006, 
a 
court 
ruling 

denied the city of Ann Arbor 
the right to be a party in a state 
of Michigan lawsuit and 1992 
consent judgement against Pall 
Corporation, 
which 
mandated 

the corporation undertake the 
monitoring and remediation of 
the contamination. Because Ann 
Arbor was denied involvement 
in the lawsuit, the Michigan 
Department 
of 
Environmental 

Quality, not the city, is primarily 
responsible for overseeing the 
polluter’s remediation efforts.

However, the discovery last 

week of 1,4-dioxane in the shallow 
groundwater at Waterworks Park 
by the MDEQ has sparked new 
concerns of human exposure, 
and some city officials are now 
entertaining the possibility of 
a new legal action against Pall 
Corporation that would make the 
city of Ann Arbor a party.

The 
contaminants 
in 

Waterworks 
Park 
were 
in 

concentrations of 2 to 3 parts 
per billion. 1,4-dioxane carries 
carcinogenic risk at 3.5 parts 
per 
billion, 
according 
to 

Environmental Protection Agency 
guidelines.

City 
Councilmember 
Chip 

Smith (D–Ward 5) — whose 
constituency includes Waterworks 
Park — said he hopes new legal 
action, either to make the city 
a party to the state’s lawsuit 
or a new suit altogether, could 
allow it to bypass the MDEQ and 
possibly push for a full cleanup. 
He added that he considered the 
MDEQ unreliable in managing the 
contamination.

Smith confirmed this option 

was discussed, among several 
other legal options — including a 
petition to the EPA for superfund 
designation — during a closed-
door special session of City Council 
Monday night, though he declined 
to offer more specific details.

“I believe that we need to be 

somehow as a party in some of 
the judicial actions,” Smith said. 
“(Washtenaw 
County 
Circuit 

Court Judge Donald) Shelton said 
10 years ago … this is between the 
DEQ and Gelman. I believe that is a 
flawed way of thinking since it’s the 
people of Ann Arbor who are most 
directly impacted by this and the 
DEQ clearly has not represented 
the citizens here adequately.”

City 
Councilmember 
Sabra 

Briere (D–Ward 1), who serves 
on 
the 
City 
Environmental 

Commission, was also open to 
the possibility of a new legal 
action against Pall. Briere told 
the Daily before Monday night’s 
special session that the new 
discovery of contaminated shallow 
groundwater may grant the city 
grounds to pursue this option.

“Until 1,4-dioxane was found 

in shallow groundwater, the city 
had no evidence of immediate risk 
to the health of the community,” 
Briere said. “Now, with the 
discovery of 1,4-dioxane, that may 
change.”

When asked about specific 

legal strategies the city could take 
and what was discussed during 
Monday night’s special session, 
Chief Assistant City Attorney 
Abigail Elias declined to comment 
but reiterated that the city is 
considering all available options.

Several 
other 
city 
council 

members also declined to discuss 
the proceedings of Monday night’s 
special session when reached for 
comment.

Meanwhile, other jurisdictions 

in the county — including Ann 
Arbor Township, Scio Township 
and 
the 
County 
Board 
of 

Commissioners — have sought to 
bypass the MDEQ altogether.

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