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into the commemoration.

Themed Semesters

LSA departments will devote 

the winter 2017 semester to 
exploring the origins of the 
University of Michigan system 
and examining its role in the 
state, nation and world through 
course offerings and symposia 
complimented by a series of 
lectures and discussions. In a 
University press release, History 
Prof. Gregory Parker, a member 
of the theme semester planning 
committee, 
emphasized 
the 

intersection of University history 
with broader national and global 
trends.

“Our idea is to invite the entire 

campus to understand and unpack 
these connections, to learn how 
Michigan was shaped by our 
world and, in turn, how Michigan 
has influenced the globe,” Parker 
said.

Next 
year’s 
fall 
semester, 

named 
“Michigan 
Horizons,” 

will aim to foster brainstorming 
on what the future holds for 
large research institutions like 
the University. In addition to 
academic programming, Schlissel 
will hold an event with multiple 
university administrators from 
around the nation on the future 
of research institutions in June. 
Susan E. Alcock, professor of 
archaeology and classics and 
special 
counsel 
to 
Schlissel 

for institutional outreach and 
engagement, said in a press release 
the 
discussion 
will 
examine 

strengths and weaknesses of 
universities’ public missions.

“The conversation will focus 

on the ever-evolving bargain, or 

compact, between the research 
university and society at large,” 
Alcock said.

Outdoor festivals in spring, 

summer and fall

An outdoor fair will serve as a 

centerpiece for each semester’s 
celebration. 
In 
total, 
the 

University will hold expositions 
in spring, summer and next fall 
in Ann Arbor and will also host a 
festival in Detroit next September.

UMich200 
Spring 
Festival 

is the first of the celebrations, 
and will take place next April. 
Scheduled 
events 
include 

historical 
building 
tours, 
a 

cultural festival and a multimedia 
event capping off the celebration 
at Hill Auditorium that will 
feature actors Darren Criss and 
James Earl Jones, in addition 
to director of the White House 
Domestic Policy Council Cecilia 
Muñoz.

The summer fair will celebrate 

University faculty and staff in 
collaboration with the annual 
Ann Arbor summer festival.

The Third Century Expo, 

the fall finale, will preview 
projects and initiatives moving 
the University into its next 100 
years with a public fair spanning 
the Diag and Ingalls Mall on 
homecoming 
weekend 
next 

year. Gary Krenz, the executive 
director of the Bicentennial Office, 
said in a press release exhibits will 
be interactive and futuristic, and 
follow in the spirit of world’s fairs, 
such as the Chicago World Fair in 
1893.

“Fair-goers will find exhibits 

that 
encourage 
hands-on 

engagement, rather than a passive 
experience where they are told 
to ‘look, but don’t touch,’ ” Krenz 
said.

In between the summer and 

fall celebrations, the University 

is planning a day of festivities in 
Detroit in September to honor 
the University’s birthplace and 
its connection to the city with 
exhibitions and a large-scale oral 
history project headed by the 
Detroit Center.

Plans released by Bicentennial 

Office 
also 
includes 
a 

commemoration 
of 
native 

peoples, as tribes native to 
Michigan originally entered into 
a treaty ceding control of land to 
the University in 1817 when it was 
located in Detroit. Neither the 
press release nor plans from the 
office, however, specified what 
such events will look like.

Alumni Awards and Grant 

Initiatives

The University is dedicating 

awards and need-based student 
aid to students in an effort to 
include a greater portion of 
the campus community in the 
commemoration. 
One 
such 

initiative is the Bicentennial 
Alumni 
Award, 
which 
will 

acknowledge 
recent 
alumni 

making significant contributions 
in their fields.

The Bicentennial Office is 

also 
introducing 
a 
year-long 

design contest — with an award 
of $25,000 — asking students to 
reimagine both physical spaces 
and teaching methods in 2067. 
According to the Bicentennial 
Office, a “nationally renowned 
panel” will review submissions 
in the spring, and 20 teams have 
already submitted proposals.

Proceeds from bicentennial 

merchandise slated to be sold at 
the M Den, the official retailer 
of 
the 
University’s 
Athletic 

Department, 
will 
go 
toward 

the Undergraduate Scholarship 
Fund, one of the University’s main 
avenues for distributing need-
based aid to students.

BICENTENNIAL
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of things we can clean up. And we 
saw that during the game, and we 
saw that we didn’t play our best 
game in the fourth quarter. And 
that’s kind of disappointing — 
kind of took away a little bit from 
our celebration, because I wanted 
to dominate them and we didn’t.”

Until midway through the 

fourth quarter, Michigan was 
dominating. The Wolverines led 
30-10, verging on a blowout win 
in a series that had haunted them 
for the better part of a decade. But 
then Brian Lewerke, the third 
quarterback Michigan State used, 
threw a touchdown pass to Monty 
Madaris, and with 7:31 remaining, 
the would-be comeback started.

In a rivalry that last year 

came down to a fumbled punt 
snap that was returned for a 
touchdown, the tension built as 
the Spartans (0-5, 2-6) started 
putting it together. After being 
benched earlier in the game, 
Spartans starter Tyler O’Connor 
led another touchdown drive 
in the game’s waning moments. 
He hit freshman Donnie Corley 
in the end zone with one second 
remaining, trimming the deficit 
to seven.

At the time, there was still a 

chance — however infinitesimal 
— that Michigan State could pull 
off another miracle. A recovered 

onside kick could have given the 
Spartans half a prayer.

But instead of kicking the 

extra point, Michigan State went 
for two and ended up fumbling 
the ball. It was picked up and 
returned by redshirt sophomore 
linebacker 
Jabrill 
Peppers, 

bringing the score to 32-23 and 
smothering any hint of a spark.

Then came a kneel-down by 

redshirt sophomore quarterback 
Wilton Speight, a backflip by 
Peppers and a celebration that 
must have felt like an eternity 
in the making. Even as players 
maintained that they approached 
this game like every other, fans 
surely felt the tension as they 
swallowed one last breath of 
doubt before a triumphant exhale.

“(The 
fourth 
quarter) 
felt 

like the whole second half,” said 
senior running back De’Veon 
Smith. “It literally felt like the 
whole entire second half. I just 
wanted it to end. I wanted it to be 
over.”

Right from the outset, the 

Spartans showed they wouldn’t 
go quietly. On the first drive of 
the game, Michigan State rode LJ 
Scott’s legs to a 12-play, 75-yard 
scoring drive. Scott carried the 
ball 10 times on that drive and 
finished the game with 22 rushes 
for 139 yards and a touchdown.

Michigan responded, though, 

with a pair of big drives of its 
own. Peppers evened the game at 
seven with a touchdown run from 
the wildcat formation, and after 

a defensive stop, Smith punched 
it in from a yard out on the next 
drive to give the Wolverines a 14-7 
lead.

From that point on, Michigan 

never trailed. It tacked on another 
touchdown and a pair of field 
goals in the first half, going into 
halftime up 27-10. At that point, 
the Wolverines had piled up 287 
yards at 8.7 per play.

A scoreless third quarter made 

the outcome seem like a foregone 
conclusion, and ultimately, it 
turned out to be. Michigan 
outgained the Spartans, 436-401, 
and Speight said the game was not 
as close as the score indicated. But 
it wasn’t lopsided, either.

Michigan State racked up 

231 yards in the fourth quarter 
compared 
to 
41 
from 
the 

Wolverines, carving up a defense 
that until then had been stingy.

“We just didn’t go out and 

play,” Lewis said. “They played a 
tough game the whole way. They 
were trying to beat us. They were 
trying to give us their all the 
whole game. And we just didn’t 
come out as intense as we did (in) 
the second and third quarter.”

In 
that 
sense, 
it 
wasn’t 

necessarily the victory Michigan 
wanted. But at Spartan Stadium, 
against an upstart team looking 
for an upset, the Wolverines 
took the win, and the trophy, 
regardless.

“We came in here expecting 

to get it back,” Speight said. “It 
wasn’t like a surprise.”

FOOTBALL
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Sonya 
Rodolfo-Sioson, 

Miya’s mother, spoke before the 
screening about the moments 
following 
the 
shooting. 
Her 

daughter had been a student at 
the university and was working 
as receptionist when the shooter 
entered a conference room full 
of professors with a .38-caliber 
revolver and shot the associate 
vice 
president 
for 
academic 

affairs before turning the gun 
on Rodolfo-Sioson. She survived 
the gunshot to the throat, but 
was rendered paralyzed from the 
neck down.

“We didn’t know whether she 

wished that he had killed her, 
or whether she wanted to live 
damaged,” she said. “I could just 
see her going through this time: 
‘OK that door shut, that door shut, 
what can I still do?’ And at the 
very end, she said she could still 
be an activist.”

The shooter, former graduate 

student Gang Lu, opened fire 
on the conference room in 
frustration 
over 
losing 
the 

prestigious D.C Spriestersbach 
Dissertation Prize in physics to 
a rival student. Miya Rodolfo-
Sioson survived after she was 
shot by Lu at her receptionist’s 
desk. 

Sonya 
Rodolfo-Sioson 

emphasized 
Miya’s 
resilience 

following 
her 
injury, 
which 

included continuing her activism 
in 
areas 
such 
as 
disability 

rights, 
humanitarian 
causes 

and women’s rights through her 
work for the Women’s Resource 
Action Center, the Rape Crisis 
Center and the Battered Women’s 
Shelter.

“When she came back (from 

rehab), she said ‘I can help the 
formatting of newsletters, I can 
help spread the word.’ And it 
continued on from there.”

Miya al story included her fight 

against breast cancer, diagnosed 
16 years after the shooting. 
Her mother said it was due to 
her weakened immune system, 
which is often a side effect in 
quadriplegics.

“I was thinking she was going 

to live to be 50,” she said. “A lot of 
people in the disabled community 
live to be 50 as long as they had 
support. Well, she was 39 years 
old and inflammatory breast 
cancer had set in.”

She said despite this challenge, 

Miya continued to fight for the 
causes that were most important 
to 
her 
while 
simultaneously 

getting treated for her cancer.

“She still kept on going, she 

still kept on attending rallies, 
protesting against injustice, and 
then she would have to go and get 
chemo,” she said.

Miya 
passed 
away 
just 

before her 41st birthday in 
2008. Anderson said despite 
the efforts of the University of 
Iowa and other communities 
to commemorate the shooting 
over the years, she believed the 
memory of it was disappearing.

“With the 25-year anniversary 

(of 
the 
shooting) 
and 
the 

connection to the theme that 
we have this year, I thought, 
‘Somebody needs to do this,’ ” 
she said. “We don’t want the 25th 
anniversary to go by without 
somebody remembering.”

LSA 
senior 
Abbie 
Bowen, 

the only University student in 
attendance, said she admired 
Miya’s perseverance in the face of 
overwhelming adversity.

“I thought her story was very 

inspiring,” she said. “It was very 
good to see that even though she 
was a quadriplegic, to get out 
and still have a life and be very 
active.”

Bowen said she attended the 

event because her organization, 
PULSE, designated this event 
as one of its training institutes 
required for members.

PULSE 
is 
a 
student-run, 

UHS-sponsored 
organization 

promoting health, wellness and 
social justice around campus 
through peer interactions and 
events. 

Sonya said there are many 

aspects of Miya’s story that 
college students can learn from, 
noting that in the face of what 
Miya went through after her 
injury, she still found a way to 
keep going. 

“You can always keep going, 

no matter what happens to you,” 
she said. “You don’t have to let 
you get you down. If I could keep 
going without even the ability to 
brush my teeth or feed myself, so 
can you. That is the message that 
(Miya’s) life tells.”

IOWA
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contrast with their opponents, 
who have built their campaign on 
dividing people. Clinton and Kaine 
will truly live up to their motto of 
‘Stronger Together.’ ”

During his speech in Taylor, 

Kaine also discussed the Clinton 
campaign’s 
economic 
policies, 

outlining their four-pillar plan. 
He 
highlighted 
in 
particular 

the campaign’s plan to invest in 
manufacturing, 
infrastructure 

and research, improve education, 
raise wages and close corporate 

tax loopholes. During his speech 
later later that night in Warren, 
Kaine addressed similar economic 
concerns to a crowd largely made 
up of UAW workers.

In Taylor, Kaine said the 

campaign’s economic plan would 
grow the economy and more 
equitably distribute its benefits. 

“Many 
economists 
are 
in 

agreement that our economic 
policies would grow the economy 
by adding 10 and a half million jobs 
by the end of the first year,” Kaine 
said, prompting applause from 
the crowd. “The Trump plan, in 
contrast, is estimated to shrink the 
American economy by three and a 

half million jobs.”

In 
Taylor, 
Kaine 
also 

emphasized that the results of 
the early and absentee voting are 
trending positively for the Clinton 
campaign, noting he has a proven 
record of success in elections.

“In states with robust early and 

absentee voting we are seeing good 
results so far,” Kaine said. “The 
turnout has been tremendous, 
in particular, in states that we 
are targeting like Ohio, Florida, 
Pennsylvania and North Carolina 
… The good thing for us is that I 
don’t lose elections, even though I 
don’t win by a lot.”

KAINE
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arrest in this country,” he said.

Working with a comprehensive 

team of cardiologists and health 
care workers, Sinha’s project 
aimed to address gaps in the 
current evidence and literature 
in the field. After many months, 
he said his team designed a 
comprehensive 
systematic 

review of randomized control 
trials, that has included 65,000 
patients to date, for immediate 
treatments of cardiac arrest. 

Sinha 
said 
there 
are 
25 

to 86 times more published 
clinical trials for other diseases, 
including 
heart 
attacks 
and 

stroke.

“What we found here was 

an opportunity to try to better 
understand how we prioritize 
what the research needs are, to 
meet the public health burden of 
disease,” Sinha said.

He said the deficiency in 

research partly speaks to the 
availability of funding, systems 
for reporting results and the 
overall design of the studies.

In particular, Sinha’s team 

found a significant lack of focus 
on in-hospital cardiac arrests, 
happening more than 200,000 
times a year. Despite their 
prevalence, there were only 
four randomized control trials 
over 20 years that looked at this 
particular patient population.

“I think part of the challenge 

is 
recognizing 
where 
the 

opportunities are, strategically, 
to 
help 
optimize 
the 
care 

for these very high risk and 
vulnerable patients,” Sinha said.

Internal 
Medicine 
Prof. 

Brahmajee 
Nallamothu, 

cardiologist for the University 
and the Ann Arbor Veterans 
Affairs 
Medical 
Center 
and 

co-author of the study, said the 
study 
of 
in-hospital 
cardiac 

arrests remains difficult, serving 
as an obstacle in developing 
effective treatments.

“The question is how can 

we change our model for how 
we study this condition, and 
how we can do things that 
will be meaningful in terms of 
evaluating therapies that could 
help,” Nallamothu said. “It’s 
tough in two ways — it’s tough 
because it’s hard to study, and 
then it’s a tough problem in 
terms of finding solutions.

Though past research has 

primarily focused on survival 
numbers, Sinha’s team aimed to 
shift that paradigm by looking 
more at the patient’s quality of 
life after cardiac arrest.

“I think the goals for our 

systematic 
review 
was 
to 

help 
inform 
the 
literature 

about whether it is possible to 
standardize how we measure 
the outcomes of care and focus… 
more 
on 
patient-centered 

outcomes, 
like 
returning 
to 

work, or having a reasonable 
quality of life, as opposed to 

simply whether they survive,” he 
said.

Nallamothu also emphasized 

providing 
more 
effective 

education 
on 
immediate 

treatments for cardiac arrest, 
like a CPR outreach event 
fellow project member Robert 
Neumar, an emergency medicine 
professor, held at a Department 
of Emergency Medicine tailgate 
last year where a video was 
played of team members giving 
CPR demonstrations.

“I think for me, the message 

to the community is always to 
try to improve education around 
basic life support and CPR,” 
Nallamothu 
said. 
“Bystander 

CPR is so critical to outcomes, 
that as well as early access to 
AEDs. Those are two community 
based solutions.”

Sinha said the research he is 

conducting should help lead to 
standardization and eventual 
accreditation of hospital care 
for immediate cardiac arrest 
treatment, 
like 
the 
current 

existing methods for stroke and 
heart attack.

“I think we’re still several 

years removed from that, but I 
hope that our study helps guide 
resuscitation research on where 
the priorities should be,” he said.

He said his team also hopes to 

galvanize interest from national 
organizations in the United 
States on this area of research 
because most trials on cardiac 
arrest have been done outside 
the country.

lives than a public relations 
maneuver of saying ‘we’re going 
to tackle the Packard Plant,’ ” 
Thompson said.

Some students, such as Art 

& Design junior Arica Cykiert, 
said they are also worried 
Detroit will lose a cornerstone 
of its cultural and artistic 
value. 
Cykiert 
has 
studied 

street art during her time at the 
University. 

“Graffiti 
is, 
most 
often, 

an 
opportunity 
for 
people 

who find their environment 
oppressive to respond to it,” 
Cykiert said. “I understand that 
to many it represents a culture 
out of control, but to so many 
more it represents hope and 
optimism, especially in a city 
so economically depressed as 
Detroit.”

Ann Arbor resident Mary 

Thiefels, founder and owner 
of TreeTown Murals — a 
mural art company based in 
Ann Arbor — said she believes 
that graffiti being produced in 

Detroit is critical for the city 
to allow these young artists a 
space in which they can express 
themselves.

“I cannot condone illegal 

graffiti in my line of profession, 
but I do support the human 
desire to leave our mark that 
graffiti culture has done such 
a great job of encouraging,” 
Thiefels said. “I support that 
desire to leave our mark, but at 
the same time I don’t encourage 
young people to vandalize or 
trespass.”

While this push for the 

elimination of graffiti is an 
effort to reinvigorate the city, 
some, such as Antonio Cosme, 
founding member of the Raiz 
Up Collective of Detroit, a 
neighborhood 
collective 
of 

Southwest 
Detroit 
residents 

that use hip-hop as a tool to 
create social awareness, feels it 
is a declaration of war against 
art and the creative spirit of the 
city.

“This is art we’re talking 

about,” Cosme said. “This is not 
the War on Drugs. This is the 
war on art that’s taking place in 
Detroit.”

Painting over the graffiti 

is not the first step in their 
efforts to reduce the presence 
of vandals at the site. In the 
past, the city’s attempts to 
increase the value of the plant 
have been thwarted by the 
continual appearance of street 
artists. In an attempt to combat 
the frequent tagging, the city 
began reconstructing the plant 
to make it more secure.

Jessica Parker, the graffiti 

removal 
project 
manager 

through 
Detroit’s 
General 

Services Department, said in an 
interview with the Detroit Free 
Press that the plant is among 
several historic ‘graffiti havens,’ 
from around the city that will 
be cleaned as part of a city-wide 
initiative to increase the overall 
well-being of Detroit and its 
inhabitants. 

“We’re trying to remove the 

idea that the city is in disarray 
because 
we’re 
making 
a 

comeback and we’re doing it one 
block at a time, we’re removing 
one tag at a time,” Parker said. 
“And we’re trying to restore the 
hope back into the community 
that the city of Detroit, we are 
here, we’re building and we’re 
on our way back up.”

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CARDIAC
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