Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan
announced
Monday
that
the Detroit College Promise
scholarship program, a part
of the Detroit Public Schools
Foundation, will be expanded
provide full free tuition in
four-year college programs to
students who graduate from
Detroit Public Schools.
The program has provided
last-dollar
scholarship
funding — monies that aim
to fill the financial gap left
by
scholarships
to
cover
additional expenses— to more
than 700 students. Previously,
the program covered expenses
that were not otherwise met by
federal aid, including tuition
fees,
but
the
scholarships
were not full coverage awards,
which
would
satisfy
all
student expenses.
The new expansion has been
introduced as a pilot plan to be
tested with students from the
2016 graduating class and next
year’s 2017 class, according to
a press release from Duggan’s
office.
Private
funding
from
the
Michigan
Education
Excellence
Foundation,
a
Lansing-based
nonprofit
organization, helped support
the expansion into full tuition,
MEEF hopes to raise $25
million to support the program
Instead of thinking outside
of the box, University of
Michigan
architects
and
doctors are thinking inside of
it.
A
collaboration
between
faculty from the University
Medical
School,
Taubman
College of Architecture and
Urban Planning and University
Health Service has resulted in
the development of a portable,
box-like shipping container
turned ophthalmology clinic
that opened this month in
Sandy Bay, Jamaica.
Geoffrey Thun, associate
dean for research and creative
practice
and
associate
professor
of
architecture
at
Taubman
College,
spearheaded
the
project’s
development
alongside
David Burke, interim chair
of the Department of Human
Genetics
and
professor
of
human
genetics,
UHS
optometrist Joseph Myers and
a team of Taubman designers.
The
clinic
—
a
20-by-
8
foot
recycled
shipping
container named “Common
Health +” — was delivered
and set up in Jamaica by the
researchers and a group of
volunteers last month. The box
contains a number of eye care
technologies repurposed from
the University Health System.
Thun said the development
of the pop-up clinic combined
a number of multidisciplinary
efforts, which began in the
summer of 2015, resulting in
a unique medical facility that
could prove beneficial to a
number of areas lacking proper
eye care as well as other forms
of medical treatment.
“As
designers,
we’re
interested in what you can
do to make the (clinic) not
a container and how you
can
produce
additional
possibilities both for how
it’s used by the community,
but also in terms of the
way in which you read the
(container),” Thun said. “At
the base level, it’s the idea
of a set of technologies that
is embedded in a hyper-
engineered
artifact
which
then requires very low degrees
of medical training to be able
to operate.”
With funding from a Third
Century Initiative grant — a
$50 million, five-year initiative
at the University created to
develop new approaches to
teaching and scholarships —
the team also plans to ship
eyeglass equipment to the
Sandy Bay community. The
clinic aims to allow patients
to use automated technology
without
requiring
medical
attention from a professional.
The University of Michigan’s
Giving
Blueday,
a
24-hour
fundraising event for student
organizations,
raised
over
$5.5 million Tuesday from
about 7,000 donors. This is the
largest amount the program
has raised to date, surpassing
last year’s donations by nearly
$1.5 million.
Giving Blueday stems from
the
international
campaign
Giving Tuesday, wherein people
across the globe are encouraed
to donate to different charities
the week after Thanksgiving.
The event is meant to kick off
the holiday season — a season
that is marked by heightened
consumer
activity
and
purchases.
At the University, donors
could
give
either
to
the
University or to a specific
school,
unit
or
student
organization.
The campaign, first launched
in 2014, has become more
successful with each successive
year. It raised $3 million in its
first year, and just over $4
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CL A S S I FI E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5A
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Dr. Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, discusses possible changes in U.S. policy toward Israel and Palestine under
President-elect Donald Trump at the Ford School Wednesday evening.
The
future
of
diplomatic
relations between the United
States and the Middle East may
not be in good hands under
President-elect Donald Trump,
according to political experts
who spoke at the University of
Michigan Wednesday.
At the talk, held at the Ford
School of Public Policy to an
audience of about 20 students,
faculty and staff, the speakers
focused on the tense political
climate the next presidential
administration should expect in
regard to conflict in the Middle
East.
Both
Shai
Feldman,
the
director of the Crown Center for
Middle East Studies at Brandeis
University, and Khalil Shikaki,
the director of the Palestinina
Center for Policy and Survey
Research,
acknowledged
that
their speculation on Trump’s
actions in office could be proven
entirely incorrect once Trump is
inaugurated.
However,
Feldman
said
considering
the
comments
Trump made on the campaign
trail, which he described as
abrasive, he is uncertain of
Trump’s foreign policy goals.
Trump’s objectives include calls
See GIVING, Page 3A
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Polsinelli explores the world
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Detroit City Council voted
unanimously Tuesday in favor
of an ordinance that will
allow patrons of “pedal pubs,”
or mobile bars on wheels
powered by the pedaling of
the patrons, to now consume
alcohol on board in the city.
These
pedal
pubs
are
similar
to
“Trolley
Pub”
and other companies in Ann
Arbor that also offer the same
service. These pedal pubs
have been legal in Ann Arbor
since September 2015.
In July 2015, Gov. Rick
Snyder signed a bill allowing
passengers of pedal pubs to
drink on board, but individual
constituencies
are
still
allowed to decide at their own
discretion whether or not to
allow onboard consumption.
While Ann Arbor has allowed
onboard consumption since
the inception of pedal pubs,
Detroit had not until this vote.
Business
senior
Joel
Goldstein
has
patronized
pedal
pubs
in
both
Ann
Arbor and Detroit, and said
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See DETROIT, Page 3A
Scholarship
expands to
offer full ride
to DPS grads
Experts say U.S., Middle East
relations uncertain under Trump
ACADEMICS
Program to cover tuition for qualifying
Detroit Public School alums
KEVIN LINDER
Daily Staff Reporter
Campaign rhetoric leaves researchers concerned, confused about future policy
ETHAN LEVIN
Daily Staff Reporter
University
effort raises
more than
$5.5 million
CAMPUS LIFE
Giving Blueday breaks
records from previous
years
CAITLIN REEDY
Daily Staff Reporter
‘U’ faculty develops pop-up eye clinic
for regions lacking ongoing care options
Portable container project in Jamaica aims to rethink approaches to health
ALEXA ST.JOHN
Daily Staff Reporter
Alcohol on
pedal pubs
made legal
in Detroit
STATE
City Council votes
unaminously in favor of
regulation change
WILL FEUER
Daily Staff Reporter