More 
than 
150 
students, 

faculty 
and 
community 

members 
gathered 
Tuesday 

in Palmer Commons to hear 
five panelists address possible 
concerns regarding the future 
of environmental sustainability 
under President Donald J. Trump.

Panelists began by each giving 

a 
brief 
statement 
regarding 

the 
challenges 
environmental 

scientists and activists might 
anticipate 
under 
the 
new 

administration, 
including 

encouraging citizen education on 
issues related to natural sciences.

Trump has received criticism 

from 
environmental 
activists 

throughout his campaign because 
of his promotion of an increase 
in oil drilling and arguments that 
funding for the Environmental 
Protection Agency should be 
reduced or cut altogether.

However, 
Laura 
Rubin, 

executive director of the Huron 
River Watershed Council, argued 
that the idea of the president 
being 
the 
most 
productive 

section of government in regards 
to 
environmental 
care 
is 
a 

misconception. 
She 
explained 

the new administration in terms 
of the “sustainability spider web” 
analogy.

“You sort of have sustainability 

in the middle (of the spider web), 
and really when we understand 
that 
the 
role 
of 
the 
U.S. 

Central Student Government 

representatives Gaby Roth, an 
LSA junior, and Eli Schrayer, 
an 
LSA 
senior, 
introduced 

a resolution Tuesday night 
to 
fund 
monthly 
lunches 

promoting dialogue regarding 
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 
which was met with mixed 
reactions from the rest of the 
body.

“There were a lot of calls 

for us to take action and 
work together to address the 
issues that were brought up.” 
Roth said. “In trying to find 
something that we could really 
collaborate 
on 
we 
realized 

that until we actually stopped 
trying to correct each other’s 
narratives and just really try to 
work to understand each other 
… we need to acknowledge each 
other’s truths.”

Roth referred to Students 

Allied 
for 
Freedom 
and 

Equality’s resolution to divest 
its 
investments 
in 
several 

companies 
that 
allegedly 

commit human rights violations 
against 
Palestinians. 
The 

divestment 
appears 
in 
the 

body annually — this year, the 
resolution failed with 34-13.

LSA senior Devin Jones, one 

of the authors of the resolution, 
criticized the assembly after the 
resolution was rejected. 

“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 in November after it 
failed. “(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.”

Roth appealed to the board 

for $200 to support the lunches, 
hoping to talk to a selected 
group of people who would 

fill out a questionnaire before 
the event. Roth and Schrayer 
stressed 
the 
importance 

of 
fostering 
meaningful 

interactions especially in light 
of the recent election.

This 
proposed 
resolution 

received mixed results, with 
some members pointing out 
it would be unethical if the 
lunches were being funded by 
CSG but weren’t open to all CSG 
members.

CSG President David Schafer, 

an LSA senior, believed CSG was 
not in the right place to address 
the situation, stating the body 
should not fund divisive issues 
of this nature.

“My suggestion would be to 

look through different avenues, 
such as Hillel, such as other 
organizations on campus who 
might be more invested in 
this,” Schafer said. “I would 

A new research initiative at 

the University of Michigan will 
use germ-zapping robots to 
counter infectious, antibiotic-
resistant bacteria in Detroit 
hospitals.

According to the Centers 

for 
Disease 
Control 
and 

Prevention, 
antibiotic-

resistant bacteria pose a fatal 
threat to hospital patients, 
as one in seven catheter- and 
surgery-related health care-
associated 
infections 
are 

caused by these bacteria in 
acute-care hospitals.

The germ-zapping robots 

have long been supported to 
be effective countermeasures 
of the spread of these bacteria. 
Each unit uses pulsed xenon 
UV light to kill the bacteria.

Keith 
Kaye, 
director 
of 

clinical 
research 
in 
the 

Michigan Medicine Division of 
Infectious Diseases, will lead a 
team in monitoring the results 
of using the robots. Using 
a grant from the National 
Institutes of Health’s Agency 
for Healthcare Research and 

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Panelists talk
environment
policy in new
presidency

Margot Shetterly outlines social 
significance of novel-turned film

See ENVIRONMENT, Page 3A

HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily

Margot Lee Shetterly, author of Hidden Figures, discusses the makings of her book, and it’s subsequent Oscar nominated film, at Rackham Auditorium on Tuesday.

CAMPUS LIFE

Professors encourage students to engage 
in environmental, sustainability projects

JORDYN BAKER

For the Daily

“Hidden Figures” author discusses civil impact of true story to full Rackham Auditorium

Author Margot Lee Shetterly’s 

lecture focusing on her “Hidden 
Figures” 
book 
filled 
Rackham 

Auditorium and its overflow room. 
The event, which was sponsored 
by ¬¬the University of Michigan 

College of Engineering, highlighted 
the importance of Shetterly’s novel 
in social and political contexts.

“Hidden Figures” is the story 

of 
African-American 
female 

mathematicians at NASA in the 
years before and during the space 
race. The women, whose stories 
were covered up in history, helped 
put Apollo 11 on the moon through 

their work. The book was adapted 
to be a movie and has since been 
nominated for three Oscars.

Following an introduction by 

University President Mark Schlissel, 
Shetterly began by explaining the 
plot of the story, highlighting how 
the characters in the story pushed 
themselves to excel at school and 
were agents of much larger social 

change.

“Their next step was to convince 

their colleagues to look beyond, 
to look beyond their race, to look 
beyond their gender,” Shetterly 
said. “Their goal was, of course, 
not to stand out because of their 
differences, but fit in because of 
their talent.”

COLIN BERESFORD

Daily Staff Reporter

See ROBOTS, Page 3A

‘U’ robotic
technology
kills germs 
in hospitals

RESEARCH

Study to be conducted in 
Detroit to assess spread 
of bacteria with robots

RASHEED ABDULLAH

Daily Staff Reporter

ALEXIS RANKIN/Daily

Kevin Yang speaks to CSG members on behalf of the Student Organization Funding Commission at the CSG meeting 
on Tuesday.

Israeli-Palestine lunch resolution met 
with mixed response from CSG leaders

Central Student Government also highlights student organization funding

RHEA CHEETI
Daily Staff Reporter

michigandaily.com

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See CSG, Page 3A

See MARGO, Page 3A

The recent renaming of the 

University of Michigan Health 
System to Michigan Medicine, 
which took effect Jan. 9, is 
receiving criticism from nurses 
of the health center who believe 
the new title is exclusionary and 
unrepresentative of the hospital 
system as a whole.

John Armelagos, president of 

Michigan Nurses Association 
and grievance chair of the 
University’s Professional Nurse 
Council, spoke on behalf of 
the associate and voiced his 
displeasure 
with 
the 
name 

change after the announcement 
was made.

“The University of Michigan 

Health system was much more 
inclusive to include all employees 
at the medical center,” Armelagos 
said. “As we looked at the term 
‘medicine,’ 
it 
more 
implied 

physician dominated practice.”

The 
University 
Medical 

School 
and 
Medical 
Affairs 

recently came together as one 
system under the leadership of 
Marschall Runge. The name 
change was meant to signify the 

See NURSING, Page 3A

UM nurses
criticize 
hospital’s 
rebranding 

HOSPITAL

‘U’ Nursing Association 
finds name exclusive, not 
representative of services

ERIN DOHERTY
Daily Staff Reporter

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