In November, The Michigan
Daily administered a women’s
health survey to 1,000 randomly
selected respondents at the
University of Michigan campus.
There were 147 respondents,
with
115
self-identifying
as
female.
The following article includes
data collected in this survey,
particularly
with
regard
to
beliefs about sex on campus.
From a young age, LSA senior
Ariana
Headrick
considered
premarital sex a healthy and
important
component
of
a
relationship.
In
contrast,
LSA junior Alexis Babbitt, a
volunteer team leader for the
Christian ministry organization
Young Life, does not believe
in premarital sex because of
personal and religious reasons,
and thinks it can be damaging
for relationships.
According
to
a
women’s
health survey administered by
The Michigan Daily to female
students in November, both of
these views are prevalent on
campus, though the latter is
much more common. 72 percent
of respondents in the survey said
they have parents who oppose
premarital sex, and 28 percent
said they oppose premarital sex.
Many respondents identified
a variety of factors that influence
opinion
and
belief
about
Since 2011, cases of opioid
overdose deaths have dramatically
increased in Washtenaw County,
becoming an epidemic.
At a community-wide event “In
Our Midst: The Opioid Epidemic,
and a Community Response”
Tuesday night at St. Joseph Mercy
Hospital, experts discussed the
crisis, and potential ways the
community can engage to help
find solutions. A similar event was
held last week at the Ann Arbor
District Library
The event was hosted by
Dawn Farm, a 501c(3) nonprofit
organization based in Ypsilanti,
with an outpatient center in Ann
Arbor, that works to assist addicts
and alcoholics achieve long-term
recovery from drugs and alcohol.
Nationwide, opioid addiction
has taken an approximate 150
lives a day, five to 10 people an
hour, leading to a total of 48,000
lives lost in 2015, according to
Center for Disease Control. In
Washtenaw County, there were
49 reported deaths from opioid
overdoses in 2015, and in 2016
there have been 45 thus far.
Event
coordinator
Mark
Albulov, a residential therapist at
Dawn Farm, said in an interview
that breaking down stereotypes
around recovery and educating on
its effects was the main goal of the
evening.
“We
want
to
disseminate
the fact that people can and do
recover, that there is an option …
also to educate people that it is a
medical disease,” Albulov said.
“It’s not a moral failure, it’s not a
criminal behavior, it’s a medical
disease that has treatment.”
Stephen Strobbe, University
of Michigan clinical associate
professor, said the national crises
of overdose deaths and the patterns
of addiction-related incidences in
Washtenaw County are strongly
correlated. Strobbe is also the
co-chair for the Washtenaw
Health Initiative Opioid Project,
a volunteer organization that
unites law enforcement, public
health, treatment facilities and
other providers to secure opioid
addiction treatment.
“This is a community initiative,”
Strobbe said. “A handful of
experts alone are not going to turn
this around, it really does take a
concentrated and concerted effort
and those communities who have
responded cohesively have had
the best outcome.”
In explaining the magnitude of
the issue, he cited CDC data that
shows opioid overdose deaths
have quadrupled from 1999 to 2014
in the United States and exceeded
the amount of motor vehicle
deaths last year. He added that
there were enough prescriptions
written for every adult in the
United States to receive a bottle of
opioid pain medications.
He told the crowd that the WHI
implements the Lazarus Model,
an
evidence-driven
platform
Throughout
the
2016
presidential campaign, stricter
immigration policies have been
at the forefront of President-elect
Donald Trump’s platform.
His
policies
have
shifted
in extremity over the passing
months, from a call for a ban on all
Muslim immigration to a broader
ban to terror-prone nations such as
Iraq and Syria. His list of priorities
released after his election includes
many of his initial proposals, such
as deportations of undocumented
immigrants,
building
a
wall
along the U.S.-Mexico border
and cancelling executive actions
signed
by
President
Barack
Obama.
Trump
has
deemed
these
orders, which include ones aimed
at
protecting
undocumented
children and adolescents and
the families of U.S. citizens, as
unconstitutional.
The main orders that Trump
can immediately override once
he steps into office are the
Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals and Deferred Action
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Vol. CXXVI, No. 34
©2016 The Michigan Daily
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O PI N I O N . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Parents,
religion drive
views on sex
premaritally
See SURVEY, Page 3A
SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily
Ypsilanti resident Zahra sews for Hope Carried, a local Ann Arbor company that hires refugees.
HEALTH
Student survey indicates many don’t
talk to parents about sex
MADELEINE GERSON
Daily Staff Reporter
For
seven
years,
Ypsilanti
resident Yousuf was an interpreter
for American troops deployed in
Afghanistan. Wearing an American
uniform and carrying a rifle,
Yousuf was away from his home
in the north Afghan city of Mazar-
i-Sharif for extended periods of
time, traveling the country with
American
combat
soldiers
to
translate and help train local forces
and often being subjected to hostile
ambushes on the road.
“The reason that I really wanted
to work for U.S. troops and our
government’s army to fight against
the Taliban was because they were
killing our people … they’d go to
schools to fire on kids. They killed
my cousins,” Yousuf, who asked to
be identified by only first name due
to safety concerns, said, adding that
his long absences were difficult for
his wife, Zahra. “If I get the chance,
I would go and work for them
again.”
After getting wounded in a
firefight, and as the Taliban began
targeting local interpreters for
assassination, Zahra and Yousuf
chose to accept an offer from his
employer to resettle in the United
States as refugees to protect their
three sons.
“They
consider
interpreters
See TRUMP, Page 3A
AMANDA ALLEN/Daily
Clinical Assistant Prof. Gina Dahlem, a nurse practitioner at the University, demonstrates how to administer
naloxone, a medicine used for opioid reversal, as a part of the Dawn Farm Education Series at St. Joesph Mercy
Hospital in Ypsilanti Tuesday.
The Statement
Design Editor Francesca Kielb
explores the state of the print
medium at the Wolverine
Press.
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See OPIOID, Page 3A
See REFUGEES, Page 3A
The University of Michigan
announced
Tuesday
it
will
participate in the 2017 deer
management
program,
in
partnership with the City of Ann
Arbor.
The Ann Arbor City Council
voted to implement a deer cull
again this year, following the
2016 program, which resulted
in the death of 63 deer in parks
and nature areas from January to
February.
While the specific timing and
locations of the deer culls are not
yet determined, the University has
indicated that Nichols Arboretum,
areas
between
the
railroad
and Huron River, areas east of
Fuller Road and south of Glazier
Way, and areas west of Huron
Parkway and south of Hubbard
will be locations where lethal cull
methods, including firearms, may
be used. If any University property
is used, it will be closed to the
public from 4 p.m. until 7 a.m. on
weekdays when the cull is taking
place.
Potential
non-lethal
deer
See DEER, Page 3A
Ann Arbor entrepreneur aims to
employ, empower refugee women
Hope Carried aims to economically empower individuals adjusting to U.S.
BRIAN KUANG
Daily Staff Reporter
‘U’ students
under DACA
fearful for
their future
GOVERNMENT
Reversal will impact
undocumented campus
community
LYDIA MURRAY
Daily Staff Reporter
Community event on opioid addiction
emphasizes need for local engagement
University faculty highlight impacts of epidemic on Washtenaw County
YOSHIKO IWAI
Daily Staff Reporter
University
to aid in A2
deer cull
initiative
ANN ARBOR
In 2017, lethal and
nonlethal methods will be
used on campus property
RHEA CHEETI
Daily Staff Reporter