16-year-old Qi-Xuan
“Justin” Tang, an Ann Arbor
high school student, was struck
by a car and killed Tuesday
morning around 7:20 a.m.
He was struck by a car while
crossing Fuller Road near
Huron High School, according
to Ann Arbor Police and Ann
Arbor Public Schools.
Tang was transported to the
University of Michigan Hospital
after the accident, where he
passed away, according to the
Detroit Free Press.
Ann Arbor Police Lt.
Renee Bush said the driver
stopped after the crash and
is fully cooperating with the
investigation.
Tang was a student at
Community High School in
Ann Arbor, according to an
email to AAPS parents from
Superintendent Jeanice Swift.
“Our hearts and our
thoughts are with his family
and friends at this tragic time,”
Swift said in the email. “Justin
was a highly engaged student
at Community High School,
an academic high-performer
and was very involved in
Community Ensemble Theater.”
Swift also said grief support
teams will be available to
students at Community High
and Huron High.
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“We’re
talking
about
a
dark side of science and
engineering
in
academia,”
he said. “I’m going to tell
you
today
that
we
have
failed miserably in terms of
honoring that public trust.”
In the first part of his
lecture, Edwards described
the
efforts
of
several
government agencies in D.C.
to cover up the effects of the
lead outbreak in the water
supply, calling whistleblowing
efforts partially a way to
uphold the duty of scientists
to the public good.
“This
crime
was
perpetrated by government
scientists
and
engineers,”
he said. “It was an EPA
regulation that inadvertently
caused lead to fall into the
water.”
In particular, he cited the
Centers for Disease Control’s
response
to
the
outbreak
as
deficient,
noting
the
government agency falsified
a report denying any effects
from the water crisis.
“The
U.S.
Centers
for
Disease Control came into
town and derailed any hope
of holding the perpetrators
of this crime accountable,”
he said. “In defiance of 2,000
years
of
human
history,
dozens
of
peer-reviewed
papers, the CDC found that
there is no evidence that kids
in D.C. drinking all this water
with high levels of lead were
harmed.”
Edwards
compared
the
mishandling of the D.C. water
crisis to the current crisis in
Flint, which has had elevated
levels of lead in its water for
at least the past two years
after a switch in the source of
their water caused lead from
the pipes to leach into the
water.
“Governments do not do a
good job of fixing problems
that they create,” he said.
“The lead pipes are there
because of a bad law that
required them. The consumer
had no choice.” Edwards also
emphasized that the series of
steps required to prove to the
government
and
American
public that the crisis in Flint
was real and had negative
health
impacts
aimed
to
be
both
comprehensible
and
understandable.“We
sent sampling kits to Flint
residents to sample the water
for lead,” Edwards said. “We
also did simple experiments
that anyone, even a reporter,
can understand.”
After Edwards conducted
several
more
public
experiments
following
the
state government’s refusal to
repeat his previous tests, he
received the media coverage
that attracted the attention of
the country to the crisis.
“By early October (2014),
it was front cover of The
New York Times,” he said.
“It wasn’t long before all of
America and much of the
world
learned
that
what
happened in Flint, Michigan
was
an
environmental
crime perpetrated by our
government against one of our
most vulnerable populations
in this country.”
LSA freshman Alec Kefgen,
who attended the event, said
he was surprised to hear that
nobody in the Washington
D.C. water crisis was held
accountable. He said he was
glad several perpetrators
in the Flint crisis are
being prosecuted.
“I
heard
that
the
government wasn’t really
helping
or
supporting
(the Flint community),”
he said. “I was happy to
see people got indicted. In
the future, people can see
what has happened, see
the work that (Edwards)
did, and be more open to
the effects.”
Chemical Engineering
Prof. Suljo Linic said he
thought
the
audience
would
benefit
from
hearing more about the
crises directly from those
affected.
“We hope that many
students,
faculty
and
colleagues
have
an
opportunity
to
hear
first hand what really
happened,
what
went
wrong and what can be
done differently so that
these kinds of things do
not happen in the future,”
he said.
WATER
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