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that you also work with people 
beforehand,” Mesa said. “So 
you answer questions like, 
‘What should I expect? How 
do I prepare? What do I bring 
with me?’ ”

Kate Stroud, an experienced 

birth doula, led Tuesday’s 
session. Stroud explained how 
doulas provide emotional and 
physical support, information 
and answers to the mother-to-
be and family.

A doula must be prepared, 

when 
on 
call, 
to 
drop 

everything to come in and help 
with birth, Stroud explained. 
There are two options for 
doulas when it comes to being 
on call: A doula must either 
be on call for five weeks, 
during which time they are 
not permitted to leave within a 
one-hour radius of where their 
client lives. The other option is 

through the Dial-a-Doula, in 
which doulas can sign up for 
24-hour on-call shifts.

To become a doula, one must 

take a training session and then 
complete a certification within 
five years of the training. The 
certification process involves 
helping in three births. If one 
acts promptly, they can become 
certified within six months 
from their training session, 
Stroud said.

Stroud also explained how 

students can balance being a 
doula, especially being on call, 
with their academics.

“One of my very close friends 

was a student while doing 
doula work,” she said. “I met 
her through a doula training, 
and she communicated with 
her professors what she was 
doing and if they didn’t know 
what it was, she explained 
what a doula was and she 
reported that very rarely did 
she get a lot of hassle or flack 
from her professors.”

Elizabeth James is a program 

associate for the department 
of Afroamerican and African 
Studies and has been a doula 
since 2013. James said it is 
particularly important to train 
young people in childcare and 
doula work.

“I think it’s really important 

just 
in 
terms 
of 
women 

understanding 
more 
about 

their bodies,” James said. “It’s 
important, I think, because 
many students on campus 
will become mothers at some 
point and so understanding 
and educating yourself so that 
you’re prepared and can also 
assist others.”

Social Work student Armaity 

Minwalla is a termination and 
abortion doula. Birth doulas, 
however, are the most common 
type of doula, and the only type 
of doula you can train to be in 
Michigan. However, Minwalla 
was able to go out of state to 
receive her specific type of 
training.

Minwalla also thinks it’s 

important 
to 
educate 
and 

empower young people, thus 
allowing them to empower 
others.

“Reproductive 
health 
is 

about choice and is about 
empowerment,” she said. “And 
I think that the way the system 
is set up, a lot of times, and not 
always, I think there are a lot of 
practitioners that really do use 
the empowerment model, but a 
lot of times the empowerment 
model can be forgotten and 
people can push their own 
biases and their own agendas 
on pregnant people.”

Giving students the power 

to leave the classroom and 
empower 
other 
people 
is 

something that Mesa also finds 
important about being a doula.

“I’m in the classroom doing 

classroom work, right, being a 
student,” Minwalla said. “But 
one of the most rewarding 
aspects about doing doula work 
has been that I’m doing the 
actual work that I’m passionate 
about, I’m not just learning 
about it.”

PROJECT
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research 
university 
and 

second among all universities 
in the country in terms of 
volume 
of 
research,” 
Hu 

wrote. “Since most of this 
funding 
is 
through 
peer-

reviewed competitive grants, 
it reflects the quality and 
competitiveness 
of 
our 

faculty.”

The Business Engagement 

Center worked with UMOR 
to 
strengthen 
industry 

relationships with over 1,200 
companies contributing to an 
overall 24.7 percent growth in 
industry-sponsored research 
expenditures, 
direct 
from 

corporations. UMOR has also 
explored innovative research 
funding programs such as 
MCubed, which encourages 

cross-campus 
faculty 

collaboration and grants seed 
money for research projects. 
MCubed has contributed $94 
million in research funding 
since being established in 
2012.

These efforts to diversify 

funding have led to the 14.1 
percent growth in the non-
federal sponsors bracket of 
total research expenditures. 
In the report, UMOR credits 
these 
alternative 
funding 

sources as the reason why 
the University has been able 
to sustain growth in research 
volume 
despite 
declining 

federal support.

“Federal 
support 
for 

research has on a decline 
or 
stagnant 
and 
future 

support is uncertain,” Hu 
wrote. “We must continue to 
work to diversify sources of 
research funding. Industry, 
foundations and philanthropic 

gifts represent a number of 
important opportunities.”

This breadth of funding 

has allowed the University to 
continue to provide research 
opportunities at all levels of 
study. LSA freshman Monica 
Olszewski is involved in the 
Undergraduate 
Research 

Opportunity 
Program 
and 

has 
spent 
the 
semester 

researching nanoplastics and 
the environment. Olszewski 
expressed gratitude for the 
opportunity to engage with 
research 
during 
her 
first 

semester on campus.

“I walked into my chem lab 

not knowing what a microbe 
pipette was, but being in 
the lab now I know all the 
tools that I need, research 
methods, how to collect data, 
the proper tools I need to 
analyze that data and actually 
make educated conclusions 
in the end,” Olszewski said. 

“They really taught me a lot, 
more than I ever expected to 
learn in the last few months.”

LSA 
senior 
Olivia 

Kaiserlian, 
a 
research 

assistant in the Adolescent 
Brain Cognitive Development 
Study — which studies the 
relationship between brain 
development and substance 
abuse — said through her 
involvement 
in 
research 

she has come to appreciate 
the role of research at the 
University.

“At 
a 
University 
as 

resourceful as this we can 
really begin something bigger 
by starting small and even 
though we are just students 
we can really learn from 
(research),” Kaiserlian said. 
“I think it is great that (the 
government) put time and 
money into us, which we can 
return back to them once we 
come full circle.”

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that constant loud noise has 
detrimental effects on our 
health.”

According to a Pipedown 

fact sheet, a survey of 215 
blood donors at University 
of 
Nottingham 
Medical 

School 
in 
January 
1995 

found 
piped 
music 
made 

donors more nervous before 
donating and more depressed 
afterwards than silence. The 
sheet also describes other 
health 
concerns 
of 
piped 

music 
including 
triggering 

or aggravating those with 
autism, Asperger’s syndrome, 
myalgic 
encephalomyelitis, 

tinnitus, 
hyperacusis 
and 

blindness. 
Choe 
discussed 

how 
noise 
pollution 
can 

decrease our immune system 
function and lead to higher 

risks of hypertension, stroke 
and heart failure. 

Pipedown states there is an 

increase in prices passed onto 
customers of the stores and 
restaurants which play this 
music. 

“Many 
people 
in 
our 

community 
have 
shared 

stories with us about their 
negative 
experiences 
with 

piped 
music,” 
Choe 
said. 

“People are really struggling 
with piped music and we really 
hope to alleviate some of that 
stress in our community.”

In research commissioned 

by the Royal National Institute 
for Deaf People, now known 
as Action on Hearing Loss, 34 
percent of the general public 
find piped music annoying. 
It also found that 86 percent 
of those who have difficulty 
hearing find this background 
music 
annoying, 
but 
36 

percent of the general public 
said they were “indifferent.” 

The 
Quiet 
Ann 
Arbor 

founders 
debunked 
the 

belief 
they 
themselves 

hate 
music. 
Choe 
played 

the piano, the guitar and 

enjoyed performing. Hunter 
graduated from the School of 
Music, Theatre & Dance and 
taught music.

“We don’t hate music,” 

Choe said. “We just want to 
make music special.”

Pipedown has spread to 

Australia and has been shared 

on the national Pipedown 
page in the United Kingdom. 
They hope to grow their 
website, write letters to local 
Ann Arbor businesses and 
collect and publish decibel 
levels. Quiet Ann Arbor seeks 
to have restaurants and shops 
hold 
quiet 
hours 
without 

piped music during certain 
days and hours of the week.

LSA senior Jessica Murray 

said she works in an autism 
clinic and understands the 
significant, 
various 
ways 

piped 
music 
can 
impact 

members of the Ann Arbor 
community.

“There are obviously pros 

and cons to it, obviously 
music is meant to create an 
ambiance 
and 
atmosphere. 

But at the same time it is 
still important to consider 
members of the community 
who are negatively affected 
or negatively impacted by the 
piped music,” Murray said.

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included it in their eMerge platform 
last semester.

Many details have yet to be 

finalized, Shetty said, but the 
competition is expected to span a 
couple months and feature three 
stages. 
Any 
undergraduate 
or 

graduate student at the University 
of Michigan is invited to participate. 
Multiple winners will be awarded a 
hierarchy of prizes, including grant 
money to pursue the proposed 
public service project.

Innovate 
was 
the 
primary 

focus of CSG’s Giving Blueday 
fundraising campaign. Though the 
amount of prize money remains 
undecided as CSG continues to 
raise funds for the project, they 
plan to use the money obtained 
from Giving Blueday and money 
in their Executive Discretionary 
account for winter 2018 to fund the 
competition.

Chief 
Programming 
Officer 

Isabelle 
Blanchard, 
an 
LSA 

sophomore, said CSG also aims to 
supplement partnerships with the 
Center for Entrepreneurship and 
Library Student Mini Grants.

The first stage of the competition, 

a mingling event intended to 
introduce individual projects and 
find partners who share similar 
passions, will take place on Jan. 
19. The next two phases, pitches 
in front of a panel of judges, and 
perhaps, the student body, are 
unscheduled, Blanchard said.

“I hope students will be able 

to realize the actual impact they 
can make on a college campus, 

whether it’s their first year or their 
last year,” she said. “I think that 
competitions really open a lot of 
doors for groups, and I think it’s 
really rare for students to be able to 
receive so much funding and work 
on a project continuously.”

CSG 
representative 
Zoha 

Qureshi, a Public Policy junior, 
believes it’s valuable for CSG to 

fund projects like Innovate.

“It is important for CSG to 

fund these kinds of competitions, 
because 
they 
elevate 
student 

voices, allow collaboration between 
students, and foster understanding 
of various perspectives — all 
important to making our campus a 
better place for us,” she said.

Qureshi hopes Innovate will 

inspire students of all academic 
backgrounds to consider the role 
public policy can play in their long-
term goals.

“As a Ford student, I hope the 

competition inspires first- and 
second-year students to consider 
how their interests and goals 
(health, economics, law, etc.) can 
be 
manifested 
through 
public 

service work, and how learning 
more about public policy can help 
these students reach those goals,” 
she said.

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HALEY MCLAUGHLIN/Daily

A student walks to class past the old Ulrich’s location Tuesday.

CONSTRUCTION CIT Y

Many people ... 

have shared stories 

with us about 
their negative 

experiences with 

music

I hope students 
will be able to 

realize the actual 
impact they can 

make

Ethics 
Committee 
Chair 

Lloyd Lyons, a Public Health 
senior, also announced an ethics 
investigation, which regarded 
a 
statement 
and 
“improper 

usage of CSG materials” by 
an assembly member without 
consulting 
CSG, 
had 
been 

closed. This member, Lyons 
clarified later to the Daily, had 
released a statement weeks 
earlier regarding #UMDivest 
on the behalf of CSG without 
discussing it with any of its 
members.

The group voted to not seek 

penalization 
of 
LSA 
senior 

Joe Goldberg, who is also on 
the executive member of the 
assembly, Lyons said.

“It was a statement on how to 

act (like) CSG stating we need 
to act in a certain way around 
this issue as it’s a divisive topic, 
where of not seeing the second 
half of him correcting himself it 
could be seen as CSG only takes 
one side on the issue and it’s 
not going through a collective 
process of letting the members 
themselves 
think 
about 
an 

issue,” Lyons said.

Goldberg also spoke to the 

members.

“I 
am 
glad 
to 
see 
the 

committe clear my name of 
any 
wrongdoing,” 
Goldberg 

said. “I thank them for their 
time and diligence in making a 
firm, thoughtful and attentive 
decision. ”

In a majority secret ballot, 

the group voted Engineering 
sophomore Zeke Majeske the 
new 
ethics 
committee 
vice 

chair.

Majeske has been outspoken 

this past semester. During CSG’s 
debate to support the name 
change of science building C.C. 
Little, Majeske was one of the 
few critics of the resolution — 
which passed, 25 in favor and 
four against.

Majeske said in an interview 

with The Daily he had concerns 
with the lack of historical 
context in the resolution that 
did not compare the former 
president to people of his time.

“I voted no because I thought 

the resolution was really one-
sided. 
I 
didn’t 
think 
they 

brought up any of the concerns 
of the people who actually didn’t 
want the building to change its 
name,” he said.

In 
community 
comments, 

members 
of 
BAMN, 
the 

national coalition to Defend 
Affirmative Action, Integration 
and 
Immigrant 
Rights 
and 

Fight for Equality By Any 
Means 
Necessary, 
expressed 

concerns over the ending of 
the DACA program’s effects on 
undocumented students and the 
possibility of Richard Spencer 
speaking at the University.

Last meeting, Kate Stenvig, 

an organizer for BAMN, linked 
the violence that unfolded in 
Charlottesville, Va., in August 
to Michigan State University’s 
decision to not allow Spencer to 
speak on campus.

“There are a lot of campuses 

that have denied him … and that 
doesn’t have anything to do with 
the First Amendment,” she said. 
“Everywhere Richard Spencer 
has gone has been accompanied 
with physical violence.”

A resolution calling for the 

University to prioritize student 
physical, mental and emotional 
safety over Richard Spencer 
passed 20 to 3.

Majeske 
proposed 
an 

amendment to ask students not 
to engage in potential violence if 
Spencer were to come to campus. 
However, the amendment failed 
due to concerns over its relevancy, 
since 
the 
University 
is 
still 

negotiating with Spencer’s group.

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