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the eye of the storm, and give
a better understanding of sea
process during these events,”
Olson said. “We have a team of
scientist here at Michigan, along
with a few Ph.D.s, for this project.
It has truly been a department-
wide effort.”
According to NASA’s blog
on the project, CYGNSS will
be able to penetrate the eyes of
storms through a system of eight
microsatellite
observatories.
Through GPS technology, the
stations
will
measure
radio
waves reflected from the Earth
originally caused by satellites
used for phone calls, Internet and
many other common uses.
Each of the eight satellites
will carry a GPS receiver that
measures the strength of the
signal from the Earth’s oceans.
When the signal is strong, this
means the ocean is in a state of
calm; if it is weak, there is a lot of
wave activity with strong winds.
In a May interview with
NASA, Damen Provost, project
manager and physics researcher
at the University, said they
were testing the satellites using
several methods to ensure their
continued functionality in the
hostile environment of space.
“For the space environment,
there are thermal and vacuum
issues, so we have a chamber
that can simulate what CYGNSS
will see in orbit,” Provost said.
“We have a vibration table that
can shake it, it is a bumpy ride up
to space. If anything breaks we
want to make sure we can fix it
here on the ground.”
CYGNSS is expected to be
used for two hurricane seasons
and will return to Earth after
about two years in orbit.
NASA
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semester,
several
members
of faculty governance at the
satellite campuses — including
Jerry
Sanders,
UM-Flint
associate professor of biology,
Sarah Lippert, an associate
professor of art history at
UM-Flint
and
Quamrul
Mazumder, UM-Flint associate
professor
of
mechanical
engineering
—
discussed
concerns about the structure of
and faculty role in governance.
Of the faculty members in
attendance was Robert Fraser,
associate director of graduate
programs,
research
and
scholarly
communication
at
UM-Dearborn.
In an interview Tuesday,
Fraser
reiterated
the
discrepancies that arise due
to differences in governance
structures at each campus. He
noted the University Senate
Assembly in Ann Arbor is
composed of all the voting-
eligible
faculty
from
the
University, which includes all
three campuses. According to
the board’s bylaws, decisions
made by the Senate Assembly
are binding actions on the
three
university
faculties.
However, Fraser noted that
decisions made at this level
often do not extend to the Flint
and Dearborn campuses due to
miscommunication.
“If at the University Senate
Assembly in Ann Arbor …
everybody votes for a particular
proposition over which we have
authority, jurisdiction, binding
action.
In
the
Ann
Arbor
structure, it is enabled usually
within a very short period
of time,” Fraser said. “Often
at Dearborn and Flint, the
communication is not made or
the authority is not recognized,
and there is no effect on either
Dearborn or Flint with their
faculty governance.”
Weineck said while SACUA
and
the
Senate
Assembly
are meant to cover all three
campuses,
representation
is
mostly from Ann Arbor faculty.
Additionally, Ann Arbor does
not have a separate faculty
governance structure like the
Flint and Dearborn campuses
do.
In part because of this, the
tri-campus task force will assess
differences in the governance
structures and determine how
the three campuses can better
work together, Weineck said.
“We’ll look at two things:
first, have a task force with
representation from all three
campuses that explores how
faculty governance works at the
three campuses and whether
there’s room for improvement,
either
in
structure
or
in
practice,”
Weineck
said.
“Second,
to
explore
how
the
faculty
governance
organizations
on
the
three
campuses can strengthen each
other, perhaps better, and work
with each other and whether
we need to maybe reconsider
or make suggestions on how to
change the current structure.”
UM-Dearborn
Associate
Economics Prof. Chris Douglas,
chair of the Faculty Council at
UM-Flint, said in an interview
Tuesday he hopes the task force
will strengthen the governance
ties
between
the
three
campuses.
“We’re separate universities,
but we’re all in the Michigan
system, so I think we’re looking
for ways to work more closely
together on issues related to the
faculty governance,” Douglas
said.
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attendees as they marched in
the streets throughout campus,
taking a route past popular
buildings and residence halls.
There have been several BAMN
rallies
on
other
university
campuses similar to Tuesday’s,
including
two
at
Wayne
State
University
last
week
and another one in Detroit
occurring Tuesday as well.
LSA
sophomore
Elena
Schmitt, a member of the
LGBT Michigan organization,
said prior to the event she had
watched a man writing Trump’s
campaign
slogan,
“Make
America Great Again,” in chalk
on the Diag. Schmitt said after
talking with the man, who
defended Trump’s platform,
she saw how necessary action
and rallies were.
“The most alarming part was
how much he excused Donald
Trump’s … language against
women — the ‘grab women
by
the
pussy’
comment,”
Schmitt said. “And I asked
him about the sexual assault
allegations, and he said that
it doesn’t matter. He said the
University of Michigan says
that conservatives don’t have
the freedom of speech.”
Schmitt added that the rise
in instances of discrimination
on campus — which she found
surprising due to the perception
of Ann Arbor as liberal-leaning
— was another primary reason
she attended the rally.
A Ypsilanti resident who only
gave his name as Steve said he
drove through heavy traffic
to make the rally because he
thought it was crucial for all
community members to be
present.
“We need to stand up to the
hate and oppression that a lot
of people are getting, and those
of us in a position to be able to
act and to be involved should
be acting and getting involved,”
Steve said.
Rackham
student
Lamin
Manneh
said
he
attended
because he has concerns about
Trump’s immigration policies,
citing Trump’s proposed ban
on Muslim immigration during
his campaign in particular.
“One of the main concerns
is immigrants and what this
new administration is going to
do with regards to immigrant
issues, which will probably
make life very hard for a lot of
immigrants — both documented
and undocumented,” Manneh
said. “For me, it’s important
that we do not normalize
Trump’s presidency and that
we are in a constant state of
protest.”
Event organizers announced
that they are planning to have
a similar march Thursday night
as well.
BAMN
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a bottle of opioid medication,”
he said.
Strobbe
highlighted
in
particular the role health care
practitioners play, saying the
number of opioid prescriptions
that have been written for
between 1999 and 2014 have
quadrupled
as
managing
patient pain has become a
priority in treatment.
Localizing the issue, Strobbe
noted
that
in
Washtenaw
County in 2011, there were 29
opioid related deaths. In 2014,
there were more than 65.
“So
what
has
happened
here at home?” Strobbe asked
the crowd. “The graphs look
very similar to what they do
nationally and that is that we
saw a marked increase in just
the period from 2011 to 2014
among
Washtenaw
County
residents alone.”
According to the Washtenaw
County Public Health Opioid
Report from June of this year,
since October 2015, there have
been about 20 Washtenaw
County residents who have
overdosed
on
opioids.
Of
those incidences of overdose,
25 percent of overdoses were
fatal.
Opioid and heroin overdose
data show that there have been
45 opioid-related deaths in
Washtenaw County in 2016.
Marci Scalera, clinical and
substance use disorder services
director of the Community
Mental
Health
Partnership
of
Southeast
Michigan,
emphasized
the
importance
of talking about this crisis and
the work her organization is
currently doing to address the
issue.
“Many people don’t have
an
understanding
of
how
prevalent the problem is, so we
are … wanting to ensure that
people understand that this is
a problem, we want to reduce
stigma, we want to save lives
and we want to get folks into
treatment,” Scalera said.
Nursing Prof. Gina Dahlem
also
highlighted
several
successful
efforts
to
train
Washtenaw County community
members on how to administer
opioid
overdose
reversal
medications.
“Since we first started to
train the sheriff’s department
in August 2015, within the
first two weeks, we had our
first officer that was able to
use (intranasal) naloxone to
reverse an opioid overdose,”
Dahelm said.
Two of the other panelists,
former heroin addicts who
are
currently
in
long-term
recovery, also shared their
experiences.
“At the very end of my
addiction, I was sleeping in
my car for weeks at a time, I
weighed 30 pounds less than
what I weigh today, my hair was
falling out,” said Washtenaw
County resident Ashton Marr,
an Eastern Michigan University
student. “I was miserable, I was
tired and I knew I couldn’t go
on like that.”
While
many
panelists
focused
on
the
success
of
training
efforts
and
community
involvement
in
the administration of opioid
overdose
reversal
drugs,
Dahlem also noted how to
recognize an overdose during
a Q&A session after the panel.
“If the person does not
respond in a loud voice and you
see signs of shallow breathing
… blue lips, blue fingernails,
lack of oxygenation, as well as
unconsciousness … then you
can suspect that person is in
opioid overdose,” Dahlem said.
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solidarity
with
an
open
#NotMyCampus
letter
to
administrators written by LSA
sophomore Amanda Delekta.
Last Wednesday, a vigil and
anti-Trump
rally
attracted
a
crowd
of
nearly
1,000
University
students,
faculty
and staff, as well as community
members,
in
protest
of
President-elect
Donald
Trump’s win.
About 30 students gathered
as Sedlak was writing “Make
America Great Again,” and
some poured water on each
letter in response after he
wrote
it.
Minutes
later,
when Sedlak began writing
“Stronger Together,” students
continued to pour water over
the message.
LSA
senior
Sean
Smith
arrived on the scene after one
of his friends notified him that
someone was chalking the Diag
with Trump’s campaign slogan,
and said he came to wash it off.
“Somebody told me we had
a (Trump) supporter writing
“Make America Great Again”
in the middle of the Diag,”
Smith said. “We just came in
here to get this off the Diag.”
Smith said he didn’t take
issue with Sedlak trying to
express his political views,
but was bothered that Sedlak
was writing “Make America
Great Again,” a message that
he said he believes represents
exclusion of minorities, racism
and fascism.
“It’s
not
necessarily
the
fact that he was expressing
his political beliefs, it’s more
so the implications behind
that statement and what it’s
emblematic of — I think that’s
what people had a problem
with,” Smith said. “I personally
had a problem with him putting
“Make America Great Again”
in the Diag, because who does
that then exclude from that
narrative?”
Smith
said
he
was
not
impressed with any broader
message Sedlak was trying
to
spread,
especially
after
witnessing Sedlak take off
his red “Make America Great
Again” hat and put on a hat
bearing
Clinton’s
campaign
logo.
“He’s basically trying to be
a troll,” Smith said. “He thinks
he’s the Riddler or something
like that. He’s trying to cover
up what he’s doing by playing
both sides, but it’s not working
— that’s what I’m gathering
from it.”
When asked if Sedlak could
be initiating a dialogue, Smith
said he didn’t think so.
“He’s
not
inciting
conversation,” he said.
Police briefly arrived at the
scene to monitor the situation
from afar, but declined to
comment
on
the
situation,
saying
there
was
nothing
illegal happening.
An LSA student who gave
only his first name, Robby,
said he was also confused as
to what the message was, but
recognized Sedlak had a right
to free speech.
“This guy is either a jokester
— I’m not quite sure what he
is — but he was exercising his
right to free speech,” Robby
said. “Everyone got triggered
over nothing.”
Sedlak
said
the
whole
incident was also part of a
marketing ploy for his website
on American politics.
“It
was
an
elaborate
marketing ploy and it worked
brilliantly,” Sedlak said.
CHALK
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ARNOLD ZHOU/Daily
Nursing Prof. Stephen Strobbe introduces panelists for a discussion of the dangers of opium at the Ann Arbor District
Library on Tuesday.
would not have automatically
ensured divestment from the
investments, but rather would
have called on the University’s
Board of Regents to form an
ad-hoc committee to investigate
the University’s investments in
the area.
“Israeli
state
policy
infringes
upon
Palestinian
human rights,” the resolution
read.
“The
University
of
Michigan’s investments in the
aforementioned
companies,
which are involved in socially
irresponsible
and
unethical
activities
in
Palestine,
not
only
personally
impact
Palestinian students at the
University of Michigan, but
also calls into question the
University’s
commitment
to
invest in socially responsible
companies.”
The resolution also stated that
divestment would defund the
“weapons and equipment used
in Israel’s illegal occupation
of Palestinian territories and
in violation of international
human rights law.”
However, some opponents
of the resolution charged that
voting in favor of divestment
would gesture to the student
body that a decision had been
reached on the issue for the
assembly as a whole, dividing
communities
and
ending
dialogue on the issue.
LSA junior Joe Goldberg,
a CSG representative, said he
voted against the resolution
because he said it challenges
what he stands for as a member
of the Jewish faith with a
complicated relationship with
Israel.
“This resolutions challenges
the core of what I stand for...
this resolution calls for the
delegitimization of Israel and
that is not what the majority
of this campus stands for,”
Goldberg said. “This resolution
divides and more important pits
students against each other.”
For
the
debate
on
the
resolution,
CSG
moved
its
meeting from its chambers
in the Michigan Union to the
Modern
Language
Building
to accommodate nearly 200
student
attendees.
Many
hundreds
more
watched
a
Michigan Daily livestream of
the proceedings. The more than
four-hour long meeting, which
also
considered
other
CSG
business, drew many speakers
on both sides of the resolution.
History
Prof.
Victor
Lieberman, who teaches classes
on
the
Israeli-Palestinian
conflict and has addressed
the body on the past few
occassions
divestment
has
been
discussed,
also
spoke
out against the resolution. He
charged that it did not meet
the three prongs for divestment
outlined by the University —
that the institution must be
uniquely responsible for the
problem, there were moral or
ethical issues surrounding the
support of that institution, and
consensus at the University
against that group.
The
University
has
only
divested twice in its history,
from South Africa over “serious
moral or ethical questions”
raised
by
its
policies
of
apartheid and from tobacco
companies in 2000. In 2015,
CSG voted to formulate an ad
hoc committee to investigate
the University’s investments
in fossil fuels, a precedent
the resolution drew on in its
argumentation.
Public Policy senior Lucky
Mulperi, a CSG representative,
said he voted for the resolution
because he wanted to represent
the small faction of Palestinian
students on campus.
“I’m an Indian Hindu, so I
have no real personal stake in
this besides my own concerns.
But
Mathma
Ghandi
went
ahead and said with a small
group of people, India needs
to lead,” Mulperi said. “I really
think that is the most important
thing for all to realize that
these discussions will never
occur unless as...a small group
of
thoughtful,
committed
students change the world.”
University alum Devin Jones,
who said he was a Palestinian
citizen, told the story of his
mother and grandfather, born
in the same house on the same
street, but facing drastically
different political climates in
their lifetimes.
“But she was born in a different
state… We were not indigenous
to our own land because we
were on the wrong side of a
battle, a battle that wasn’t our
fault,” Jones said. “Basically, we
were stripped of our Palestinian
identities and forced to become
Israeli citizens.”
Public
Policy
senior
Matt Fidel said for him, the
resolution does not represent
peace, and instead is seeking
for a scapegoat in the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict.
“Divestment
emboldens
the radical wings of Israeli
and Palestinian governments,
which oppose peace,” Fidel said.
“Divestment drives our campus
apart at a time when we need to
come together the most…it will
only fan the flames of conflict
both over there and right here
on campus.”
“We should all pray for a day
when peace can be achieved
between Israeli and Palestinian
citizens. We should pray for
a future when Israeli and
Palestinian families do not
have to face the threat of daily
violence. We should pray for a
future when Palestinians are
able to live in an independent
Palestinian state free of any
Israeli interference.”
After the resolution failed,
many
CSG
representatives
discussed why they voted in
favor of the resolution. During
this, several attendees began
to shout and chant. CSG Vice
President
and
LSA
senior
Micah Griggs allowed Jones to
speak to the body.
“When you argue on the
claim that we did not know
what we were talking about,
that you are somehow better
than us...that is the epitome
of privilege,” Jones said. “[I
am] paying tuition, in which
a portion of my tuition goes
to companies that go to the
oppression of my people...You
have to live with this. You have
to stare me in the the face.”
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