A recent study conducted 

by 
University 
of 
Michigan 

researchers has found 20 percent 
of adolescents and teenagers have 
sustained a concussion at least 
once. 

This 
research 
project 

was directed under the 2016 
Monitoring the Future study, a 
broader project conducted under 
the University, which explores the 
behaviors of American students 
from 
kindergarten 
through 

university level. This study is 
funded by the National Institute 
on Drug Abuse and is conducted 
by 
the 
Institute 
for 
Social 

Research at the University.

This specific study, “Prevalence 

of 
Concussion 
Among 
US 

Adolescents 
and 
Correlated 

Factors,” was conducted using 

data from the MTF 2016 survey, 
a project that occurs annually and 
conducts an in-school survey in 
grades 8, 10, and 12. In this 2016 
survey, 49.8 percent of students 
were male and 46.8 percent were 
white. The age range of students 
surveyed was 12-18 years old, the 
modal age being 16 years old. 

University researcher Philip 

T. Veliz, one of the authors of the 
report, explained this data has had 
an important role in solidifying a 
base knowledge on this issue.

“Part of this study was finding a 

baseline number of what the self-
reported/diagnosed concussion is 
within the adolescent population, 
and then starting to track it,” Veliz 
said.

He 
emphasized 
the 

implications of this research 
will only be inferable with time, 
as they continue to survey and 
record whether there are long-

The 
Senate 
Advisory 

Committee 
on 
University 

Affairs 
met 
on 
Monday 

to 
discuss 
methods 
of 

encouraging more interaction 
in meetings, budget concerns 
and award recipients. SACUA 
also 
mentioned 
possible 

solutions 
to 
the 
textbook 

availability problem campus 
faced at the beginning of the 
semester.

Members first spoke about 

ways to improve the structure 
of 
meetings. 
To 
address 

comments made in previous 
Senate 
Assembly 
meetings, 

members considered moving 
meeting locations to rooms 
more conducive to interactive 
discussion. Rooms in Rackham 
Graduate 
Building 
were 

suggested, which led to a 
motion 
to 
re-examine 
the 

committee’s budget.

The discussion then turned 

to the issue students had buying 
books at the beginning of the 
semester, specifically with the 
relocation of Ulrich’s. SACUA 
Senate Secretary David Potter, 
a classical studies professor, 
believes 
the 
University 
of 

Michigan needs to handle the 
textbook availability problem 
better, as it created difficulties 
for students. 

“We need to discuss the 

failure 
of 
the 
University 

to react to changes in the 
bookstore 
market; 
Ulrich’s 

closed and students were left 
to find books whatever way 
they could,” Potter said. “Not 
having bookstores on campus 
where students can buy used 
books is putting our students 
at a grave disadvantage.”

SACUA 
Chair 
Robert 

Ortega, a professor in the 
School of Social Work, agreed 
with Potter and noted the 
impact the problem had on 
faculty as well.

“What 
happens 
to 
the 

faculty 
is 
they’re 
moving 

forward while students are 
still trying to get books,” 
Ortega said. “It’s a dilemma for 
instructors as well.”

To combat the problem, 

members mentioned a central 
location for students to pick 
up books, focusing more on 
electronic books and having 
a library representative talk 
to the assembly. They also 

suggested 
a 
University-run 

bookstore 
to 
alleviate 
the 

issues caused by privately 
owned bookstores. Students 
picketed administratrors for 
a 
student-run 
bookstrore 

through 
the 
`70s 
due 
to 

exorbitant textbook costs, but 
those calls died down as the 
online market due. 

Members 
moved 
on 
to 

the 
Faculty 
Undergraduate 

While most University of 

Michigan students spend their 
gamedays tailgating, Business 
sophomore Gabi de Coster 
spends her Saturdays going 
back home to Grosse Pointe, 
Mich., to work on crafting 
scents for her aromatherapy 
company, MONTA.

MONTA is a health-and-

wellness business that utilizes 
all-natural products to create 
unique products like scented 
rollerballs, bath soaks and 
body sprays.

“I’m taking inspiration from 

the place the products are 
named after and translating 
that into scent,” de Coster said. 
“It’s the colors, feelings and 
emotions that I tie to those 
important places in my life that 
are relayed in the plants I use 
to make the scents.”

Originating in a South Quad 

Residence Hall dorm room, 
MONTA now has a dedicated 
studio in de Coster’s home. 
The extra space was needed 
to keep up with additional 
products and rising demands, 

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Study finds 
high rates of 
concussions 
in American 
adolescents

City Council urges community to 
unite after local, national incidents

See SURVEY, Page 3

AYUSH THAKUR/Daily

Ann Arbor residents listen to speakers at the City Council meeting in City Hall Monday.

RESEARCH

20 percent of teenagers have sustained 
head injuries, underscoring role of sports

KATHERINA SOURINE

Daily Staff Reporter

Council members demand expedited installation of parking garage protective railing 

City Council was held in a 

somber mood Monday after a 
gunman killed 59 people in Las 
Vegas and a 56-year old man 
fell from the parking structure 
at the corner of South Fourth 
Avenue 
and 
East 
William 

Street.

Mayor Christopher Taylor 

expressed frustration at the 

lack of coordinated response 
to the Las Vegas incident, the 
deadliest mass shooting in U.S. 
history.

“The fact that this occurs 

in our country, I believe it is a 
national disgrace,” Taylor said. 
“Other nations are able to deal 
with it as a matter of culture, a 
matter of legislation. I believe 
we should do so as well.”

He also lamented the incident 

at 
the 
parking 
structure, 

the third in a month after a 

22-year-old man also fell from 
the same parking lot Sept. 7 and 
an 81-year-old man was found 
dead in the Huron River Sept. 
20.

“It is a tragedy of mental 

illness, of community health,” 
Taylor said. “It’s something 
we need to focus on. We need 
to make sure that people who 
apply for help receive them.”

Councilmember 
Chuck 

Warpehoski, 
D-Ward 
5, 

urged residents to engage in 

community 
activities 
that 

will distract from the sadness 
and forge bonds with other 
residents.

“This has been a heavy day 

for a lot of us in the community,” 
Warpehoski said. “In heavy 
times like these, it’s important 
to find things that give us life.”

Warpehoski added there are 

signs of hope. He explained 
the city is going to expedite 
the installation of railing on 

ISHI MORI

Daily Staff Reporter

Student-run 
business
enjoys nat’l 
successes

BUSINESS

MONTA aromatherapy 
started in dorm room, now 
sold at Urban Outfitters

CORY ZAYANCE
Daily Staff Reporter

JOSHUA HAN/DAILY

Faculty government pushes for ‘U’ 
resources for textbook affordability 

Noting poor access and high costs, SACUA proposes University-run bookstore 

CORY ZAYANCE 
Daily Staff Reporter

michigandaily.com

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See COUNCIL, Page 3

LSA sophomore Jane Sheedy 

came to school this fall excited to 
start composting in her off-campus 
apartment. Her hometown doesn’t 
offer composting services and after 
learning about harmful methane 
release that results from putting 
organic materials into landfills last 
year, she was thrilled to learn Ann 
Arbor does.

“We’ve got some mixing bowls 

in our freezer and any time we’ve 
got something compostable, we 
put it in there,” Sheedy said. “So 
vegetable scraps or if something 
goes moldy… or something like 
that. And when that’s full, there’s a 
bin behind our apartment complex 
that we can just empty the bowl 
into.”

From there, the city of Ann 

Arbor takes over. A roadside pick-
up service picks up the compost 
much like it picks up regular trash 
or recycling and takes it to the city’s 
compost facility located only about 
five miles from campus.

As it turns out, the facility is also 

the site of a local controversy.

In 2010, the city of Ann Arbor 

decided to award its compost 

See WASTE, Page 3
See MONTA, Page 3

See SACUA, Page 3

A2 compost
company 
accused of 
negligence 

CITY

Competing waste firm 
accuses WeCare of site 
and contract violations 

MAYA GOLDMAN

Daily Staff Reporter