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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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 

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Polsinelli explores the world 
of DIY music, and the people 
who support it and create it. 

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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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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

