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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.”
EXPENSE
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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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