More than 100 people showed 

up Wednesday afternoon at 
South Hall for a panel with 
three former general counsels 
for the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, hosted by 
the University of Michigan Law 
School’s Environmental Law 
and Policy Program.

The panel, comprising the 

EPA’s top lawyers during the 
Clinton, 
Bush 
and 
Obama 

administrations, intended to 
review the major environmental 
challenges during each of their 
tenures as well as discuss the 
future of environmental policy 
in the Trump administration.

Stephanie 
Campbell, 

a graduate student in the 
School 
for 
Environment 

and 
Sustainability, 
said 

worries 
about 
the 
Trump 

administration drove her to 
come to the panel.

“When all this was coming 

down last fall, when we heard 
who won the election, there 
was a lot of worry and concern 
inside 
the 
environmental 

school 
especially 
regarding 

what this would mean,” she 
said. “This seemed like a good 
opportunity to get more of a 
practitioner’s perspective.”

Current 
law 
and 
rules 

promulgated 
by 
the 
EPA 

obligate 
it 
to 
regulate 

greenhouse gases, as the EPA 

With 
close 
to 
60,000 

Americans diagnosed annually, 
Parkinson’s disease is the second-
most-common neurodegenerative 
disease in the United States 
following Alzheimer’s disease. 
With 
an 
elderly 
population, 

experts are predicting there will 
be an increasing prevalence of 
Parkinson’s disease with greater 
economic burdens on patients due 
to treatment and lifestyle changes.

At a Wednesday morning 

symposium 
held 
at 
the 

Biomedical 
Science 
Research 

Building, seven research experts 
discussed current Parkinson’s 
disease research and its clinical 
implications.

Parkinson’s 
disease 
is 
a 

neurodegenerative 
disorder 

resulting in loss of motor skills due 
to the progressive loss of dopamine 
in the brain, particularly the basal 
ganglia. The symptoms of the 
disease are often characterized 
by a tremor, rigidity, difficulty 
initiating movement and changes 
in balance. With the progressive 
death of brain cells, quality of life 
is also diminished.

The event was hosted by 

the 
University’s 
Morris 
K. 

Udall Center of Excellence for 
Parkinson’s Disease Research, 
one 
of 
nine 
such 
centers 

across the country, to promote 
understanding 
of 
advanced 

scientific research and, ultimately, 
its translation into cures for the 
disease.

The Udall group, supported 

by NIH National Institute of 
Neurological 
Disorders 
and 

Stroke, was founded in 1997 after 
former Congressman Morris K. 
Udall, who worked in Congress 
despite 
a 
long 
battle 
with 

Parkinson’s disease until 1991. He 
died from the disease in 1998.

Neurologist and researcher 

William 
Dauer 
directs 
the 

University’s Udall Center.

“My personal interest is in 

understanding 
fundamental 

mechanisms of disease as a 
necessary first step to devise 
new ways to treat them, at a 
minimum to reduce the impact 
of neurological disease on people 
by making the symptoms better,” 
Dauer said. “The long-term goal 
would be to devise ways to halt 
the progress of disease so many 
of these symptoms don’t develop 
at all.”

Dauer 
spoke 
about 
the 

University’s 
Udall 
Center 

focusing in particular on gait 
difficulties that emerge later in 
the progression of Parkinson’s 
disease. Augmenting cholinergic 
signals related to gait problems are 
being tested to delay symptoms 
associated with walking.

“It would mean a huge amount 

to patients if the problems in 
walking either didn’t happen or 
was delayed. The difficulty is a 

LSA senior Natalie Andrasko 

has 
worked 
hard 
to 
help 

University of Michigan students 
apply their unique language skills 
to a good cause in Washtenaw 
County. 

That “good cause” would be 

LingoMatch, a program created 
by three students to connect 
bilingual 
and 
multilingual 

students with an immigrant 
or 
refugee 
in 
Washtenaw 

County struggling to receive 
Supplemental 
Nutrition 

Assistance Program benefits due 
to a language barrier.

Andrasko, one of the project’s 

team members, alongside LSA 
junior Jamie Yeung and LSA 
junior Syeda Zaynab Mahmood, 
wrote in an email interview 
she believes the program is 
significant because it allows 
students to put their language 
skills to work in a meaningful 
way, 
helping 
immigrants 
or 

refugees get their food stamps.

“It provides bilingual and 

multilingual students at the 
University of Michigan with the 
opportunity to volunteer in a 

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Clinton, Bush 
Obama EPA 
lawyers look 
to the future

Japanese-Americans show support 
for American Muslims in Michigan

See EPA, Page 3A

DESIGN BY AVA WEINER

GOVERNMENT

Cannon says Trump can’t implement 
new changes due to valid research

ANDREW HIYAMA

Daily Staff Reporter

Exploring the similarities between internment camps and post 9/11 discrimination

In February 1942, President 

Franklin 
Delano 
Roosevelt 

issued Executive Order 9066, 
relocating all people of Japanese 
ancestry in the United States, 
documented and undocumented, 

into internment camps. Fast-
forward 75 years, and Arab and 
Muslim Americans are facing 
discrimination 
in 
ways 
that 

resonate with the memories of 
Japanese-Americans.

The internment of Japanese-

Americans 
followed 
the 

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 
in December of 1941. Nearly 

120,000 
Japanese-Americans 

were sent to the internment 
camps, roughly two-thirds of 
whom were native-born citizens 
in the United States.

Japanese-Americans spent, on 

average, three years in the camps, 
living in cramped barracks, often 
with only a single working light 
bulb.

Anti-Japanese 
sentiment 

was high before the attack on 
Pearl Harbor, and even higher 
afterward. 
The 
Japanese 

relocation 
to 
internment 

camps was met with nearly no 
opposition by the non-Japanese-
American population.

In November of 2016, shortly 

COLIN BERESFORD

Daily Staff Reporter

See PROGRAM, Page 3A

Program 
addresses 
language 
barriers

CAMPUS LIFE

LingoMatch to connect 
multilingual volunteers 
to immigrants, refugees

REMI MURREY
Daily Staff Reporter

JOHN YAEGER/Daily

Dr. Cynthia Chestek presents about the nervous system at the 3rd Annual Udall Center for Parkinson’s Disease 
Research Symposium at Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building on Wednesday.

University hosts third symposium for 
interdiscplinary research in Parkinson’s

Experts hope to challenge traditional prespectives of medical procedures

YOSHIKO IWAI
Daily Staff Reporter

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Daily Arts writers profile 
both Ann Arbor comedy 

clubs and clubs devoted to 

comedy on campus.

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See SUPPORT, Page 3A

To many, the issues we face 

today 
seem 
unsolvable 
and 

overwhelming: 
inequality, 

injustice, political unrest and 
the increasingly relevant battle 
to protect our environment. Yet, 
how these issues insect is what 
has allowed Dorceta Taylor, 
University of Michigan professor 
in the School for Environment 
and Sustainability, to shape 
a 
unique 
approach 
toward 

researching 
and 
examining 

the root of these problems. 
Taylor holds a Ph.D. from Yale 
University 
in 
environmental 

sociology, 
and 
specifically 

focuses on the environment, food 
security and urban agriculture, 
as well as establishing diversity 
within these fields.

For as long as she can 

remember, 
Taylor 
has 
been 

interested in how things grow, 
how certain aspects of the 
environment interact and how 
humans collaborate with their 
surroundings. This has shaped 
her interest in environmental 
history, justice and food security. 
Though she has always been 

See RESEARCH, Page 3A

Professor 
examines 
food justice
in Detroit

RESEARCH

Taylor takes on diversity 
in environmental studies 
with pipeline programs

KATERINA SOURINE

Daily Staff Reporter

