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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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

