The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
News
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 — 3A

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
From Page 1A

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.

TASKFORCE
From Page 1A

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
From Page 1A

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.

OPIOID
From Page 1A

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
From Page 2A

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.”

CSG
From Page 1A