Medical
School
Prof.
Michelle
Meade
addressed
common health and health-
care disparities and how to
promote
positive
changes
to
the
current
health-care
system for disabled people
Wednesday night in Mason
Hall. The event, sponsored by
the Interprofessional Health
Student Organization, drew a
crowd of about 20 students.
Meade directs programs for
the University of Michigan’s
Rehabilitation
Engineering
Program, developing health-
management technologies for
disabled individuals.
Meade
began
her
presentation by pointing out
problems with defining the
term “disability,” which differs
depending on which area of
academia or society people are
processing the definition from.
“The actual definition of
disability or having a disability
depends on where you look,”
she said. “In surveys and
research, it generally is defined
by limitations; in some policy,
it’s defined by a lack of ability
to work and then in clinical
practice, it’s diagnosis.”
As
opposed
to
health
disparities,
which
revolve
around medical treatment and
the burden of the illness, health-
care disparities deal with how
the disease is managed and
what is done to assist those
living with disability. Meade
said those who are disabled
have an equal amount of need
for health care as non-disabled
individuals, yet they do not get
the treatment or health care
they need.
“Despite
having
no
differences in regards to aspects
of health insurance or mutual
care … you have increased need
and decreased access (for the
disabled),” she said.
In
her
paper
“The
intersection
of
disability
and health care disparities:
a
conceptual
framework,”
Meade, along with University
researchers Elham Mahmoudi
and Shoou-Yih Daniel Lee,
created a narrative flowchart
to
describe
the
factors
contributing
to
the
poor
health care experienced by the
disabled. Meade said certain
elements contribute to health-
care disparities; more so for the
disabled.
“It’s not ‘one-size-fits-all,’
” she said. “I think the easiest
way to understand it, or for me
to explain it, is that you can
have the most wonderful doctor
providing fantastic information
… but if he’s speaking in English
and the individual only speaks
Spanish, there’s a mismatch
in terms of needs, and that’s
In the wake of controversial
emails, the desecration of prayer
space and other racially charged
incidents,
the
Residential
College held an open forum in
the Keene Theater Wednesday
night to debrief the campus
climate. During this session, RC
students, faculty and staff were
all encouraged to express their
thoughts on these recent events,
and offer support to fellow
Wolverines.
The
community
forum
was
run
by
members
of
the
Residential
College,
an
interdisciplinary
liberal
arts
living community within LSA.
Though
few
students
were
there, multiple faculty and staff
members were present at the
event. Administrators such as
Jon Wells, the director of the RC,
and Charlie Murphy, the director
of academic services for the RC,
sponsored the event.
The event was broken up into
three sections that included
reflections and small and large
group discussions. People were
invited to come and go as they
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RC forum
discusses
‘U’ campus
climate
CAMPUS LIFE
Students, faculty talk
inclusion in residential
learning communities
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For the Daily
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Medical professor Michelle Meade discusses ways to improve healthcare for individuals with disabilities in Mason
Hall on Wednesday evening.
Medical school prof. focuses research
on healthcare inequity for the disabled
School of Kinesiology hosts discussion on health management technology
MATT HARMON
Daily Staff Reporter
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See RESEARCH, Page 3
LSA Student Government
hosted a meeting Wednesday
evening to discuss resolutions
relating to the Sexual Assault
and Awareness Center and
increasing
resources
for
transfer students.
The
body
passed
a
resolution
co-sponsoring
SAPAC’s Healthy Relationship
Dialogues, aiming to create
conversation
and
advocacy
around sexual assault that
occurs on campus. With the
passing
of
this
resolution,
LSA SG will join the current
list of co-sponsors for SAPAC,
specifically by co-sponsoring
and helping to advertise a series
of dialogues toward the end of
March to help raise awareness
toward sexual assault.
LSA
junior
Nicholas
Fadanelli,
LSA
SG
general
counsel, explained that many
sexual
assaults
on
campus
may not be made public, and
highlighted
the
importance
of LSA SG’s role in creating
conversations
about
these
issues.
See LSA SG, Page 3
Resolution
to increase
the funding
for SAPAC
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
LSA body also encourages
committee to further
support transfer students
JORDYN BAKER
Daily Staff Reporter
When
posters
promoting
white supremacy were found
covering the walls of University
of Michigan buildings on multiple
occasions
last
fall,
students,
including Art & Design senior
Keysha Wall, tore them down.
When Islamophobic messages
were chalked on the Diag last
spring, a group of Muslim students
were some of the first to grab rags
and buckets of water to wash the
messages off themselves.
As bias incidents continue
to
occur
across
campus
despite University-wide emails
denouncing
the
actions
of
the
perpetrators,
students
have started to question the
effectiveness of the way the
administration responds to the
attacks. Many have also called
out University President Mark
Schlissel
for
not
adequately
affirming his support for what
they believe is minority students
on campus.
Wall,
a
member
of
the
University’s chapter of By Any
Means Necessary, expressed her
disappointment in the University’s
response to the posters targeting
minority groups on campus that
occurred earlier this year. She
believes the perpetuation of bias-
related incidents is contingent
on the lack of administrative
pushback against hate speech.
“We can say that these attacks
began with the racist and fascist
fliers that started going up last
semester,” she said. “Every time
they went up, it was students,
myself
included,
who
tore
them down. During this, the
University’s official statement was
that they would take no action
against ‘free speech,’ although I
think we can all agree that what
those fliers were expressing was
hate speech, not free speech. And
so the fliers continued to be put
up.”
Despite students’ expressions
of anger regarding the chalkings
and
posters,
the
University
legally could not remove either,
as they were posted in areas
meant for the dissemination
Social justice
groups call
on Schlissel
for action
Falsely reported hate crimes raise
marginalized students’ concerns
See ACTION, Page 3
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CAMPUS LIFE
Campus organizations highlight gap
in responses to numerous incidents
KAELA THEUT
Daily Staff Reporter
Critics demand consequences for victims while Muslim women fear backlash
Two of three hate crimes
reported in the week following
the 2016 presidential election at
the University of Michigan were
recently determined to be falsely
reported to the Ann Arbor Police
Department, and updates have
raised concerns about backlash
for marginalized students.
The first incident occurred on
Nov. 11, when a student reported
being approached by an unknown
man who threatened to set her on
fire if she didn’t remove her hijab.
The incident became national
news, with outlets like The
Washington Post covering the
report. The other reported crime
occurred on Nov. 15, when a man
allegedly scratched a woman’s
face with a safety pin. AAPd
deemed both incidents to have
never occured.
A student also reported being
verbally assaulted and pushed
down a hill on Nov. 12. While
this report was verifiable, AAPD
stated there was no evidence
to determine a suspect, and the
investigation
has
since
been
halted.
All three of these reports
motivated significant activism on
campus. Music, Theatre & Dance
senior James Ross Kilmeade
organized a protest that attracted
more than 200 people in response
to the first hate crime, and nearly
150 people gathered on the Diag
at an additional protest on Nov.
18.
While the student involved
in the Nov. 11 crime is not being
charged for the false report,
detectives
have
submitted
a
warrant request for criminal
charges against the Ann Arbor
resident involved in the safety pin
incident.
Some
community
members
have been dissatisfied with the
reaction to the falsity of these
reports, and have called for
repercussions, as well as a level of
action similar to events organized
after the initial reports were
made.
LSA junior Enrique Zalamea,
president
of
the
University’s
ALEXIS RANKIN
Daily Staff Reporter
See HATE CRIMES, Page 3