A 2015 interview with Ann 
Scanlon McGinity, Michigan 
Medicine 
chief 
nursing 
executive, is record of the 
administrator’s 
hostility 
toward unions, nurses say. 
Scanlon McGinity — a lead 
player in the University of 
Michigan Professional Nurse 
Council’s ongoing contract 
bargaining with the hospital 
system 
— 
spoke 
in 
the 
interview of her dislike for 
unions and her experience 
of locking the nurses’ union 
out of the hospital when 
they held strike during her 
time as an administrator in 

the University of Maryland 
hospital system.
In the interview, Scanlon 
McGinity makes seemingly 
disparaging remarks about 
working with nurses’ unions.
Scanlon McGinity began her 
position at Michigan Medicine 
this June, shortly before the 
expiration of the UMPNC 
contract. Now, nurses are 
questioning portions of the 
2015 interview, which she 
participated 
in 
with 
the 
Women’s History Project at 
the Texas Medical Center. 
UMPNC is currently voting 
on whether to authorize a work 

In a survey of over 1,800 local 
governments in Michigan, the 
Ford School of Public Policy’s 
spring 2018 Michigan Public 
Policy survey showed most 
prohibit medical marijuana 
and nearly half report that 
medical 
marijuana 
created 
issues in their community. 
This survey gauged where the 
state’s municipal governments 
stand on the issue of medical 
marijuana.
As 
of 
Aug. 
31, 
Ann 
Arbor, 
Ypsilanti 
and 
Sharon 
Township 
are 
the 
only 
Washtenaw 
County towns represented in 
the 8 percent of governments 
surveyed that allow medical 
marijuana 
businesses. 
The 
survey reports 75 percent of 
Michigan’s local governments 
are 
to 
prohibit 
medical 
marijuana facilities, while 16 
percent have not finalized any 
legislation. 
Of 
the 
local 
officials 
polled, 42 percent reported 
experiencing problems with 
medical marijuana use in 
their 
community 
and 
21 
percent reported witnessing 
benefits related to medical 
marijuana 
use. 
Though 
the 
majority 
of 
Michigan 
governments 
don’t 
permit 
medical marijuana facilities 
in their jurisdictions, many 
Washtenaw County residents, 
such as Ypsilanti local Michael 
Moriarty, see public health 

benefits associated with local 
dispensaries.
“I think there’s a number 
of conditions that medicinal 
marijuana is beneficial for in 
ways that maybe traditional 
pharmaceuticals 
are 
not,” 
Moriarty said. “I know, for 
example, a handful of people 
with 
migraines 
that 
it’s 
beneficial for, cancer patients 
who lose their appetites, that 
kind of thing.”
According to the Harvard 
Medical 
School’s 
Harvard 

Health 
Blog, 
about 
85 
percent of Americans support 
legalizing medical marijuana. 
LSA 
senior 
Johnny 
Cole 
said he thinks dispensaries 
should open where they can 
do the most good for the 
communities they are serving.
“I feel like if it’s been 
proven that it can help with 
certain conditions, then I 
think that dispensaries should 
be in places where people with 
those conditions are most 
common,” Cole said.

In addition to pain relief and 
other medical purposes, some 
residents, such as Moriarty, 
see the potential tax revenue 
and 
job 
creation 
medical 
marijuana businesses could 
generate. Michigan legalized 
medical marijuana in 2008, 
and 
according 
to 
Forbes 
magazine, 
the 
state 
has 
reported over $600 million 
in marijuana sales revenue 
to date. Medical marijuana 
sales are taxed at 6 percent in 
Running on a tight schedule? 
A treadmill desk could be the 
answer.
Weiyun Chen, a health and 
fitness associate professor at 
the University of Michigan 
School 
of 
Kinesiology, 
investigates 
correlations 
among 
exercise, 
sleep, 
mental health and academic 
performance, 
focusing 
on 
promoting healthy lifestyles 
for students in her Physical 
Activity & Health Laboratory.
In a recent study, Zhanjia 
Zhang, a Kinesiology graduate 
student in Chen’s lab, examined 
active 
work 
environments, 
such as the treadmill desk, and 
tracked participants’ executive 
function as they performed 
mental tasks during physical 
activity. These tasks tested 
working memory, inhibition 
— the ability to focus on a 
relevant task — and cognitive 
flexibility — the ability to 
transition 
between 
tasks. 

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Monday, September 17, 2018

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Executive on 
record with
anti-union 
sentiments

Griswold, outspoken critic of 
mayor, looks to first council term

KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily
Kathy Griswold,incoming City Council member, D-Ward 2, speaks with The Michigan Daily about the election and their endorsements of new officials at the Student 
Publications Building Sunday afternoon.

RESEARCH

Interview from 2015 of Chief Nursing 
Executive draws concern from nurses

MAYA GOLDMAN
Daily News Editor

Known for her passionate remarks at City Council meetings, Griswold will serve first term

The city of Ann Arbor saw 
three out of four incumbent City 
Council members defeated in 
the August primary elections. 
Councilmember Kirk Westphal, 
D-Ward 2, lost his primary 

race to Kathy Griswold bt 
53 
votes. 
The 
Michigan 
Daily sat down with incoming 
Councilmember 
Griswold, 
to 
discuss her platform and future 
plans.
Griswold is a former trustee 
for 
the 
Ann 
Arbor 
Public 
Schools district and will run 
now uncontested for her ward 

seat this November.
Though this will be Griswold’s 
first term as a council member, 
she has attended meetings for 
years and is known for providing 
frequent, impassioned remarks 
during public commentary in 
City Council meetings. Her main 
points have been promoting 
public safety and accelerating 

sewer and road repairs.
Furthermore, 
she 
spoke 
out against a 2014 proposal to 
expand transit services and the 
2016 proposal to increase City 
Council terms to four years.

RACHEL CUNNINGHAM
Daily Staff Reporter

Treadmill 
desk study 
finds few 
benefits

RESEARCH

Researchers look at 
connections between 
mental health, athletics

KATE JENKINS
Daily Staff Writer

CASEY TIN/Daily

Students, local governments express 
conflicting views on medical marijuana

In 2018 Ford School survey, 42 percent of local governments oppose use in community

JULIA FORD
Daily Staff Writer

Offense stays hot

For the second straight 
game, Michigan’s offense 
exploded, this time in a 
45-20 win over SMU to 
move to 2-1.

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In past years, the University of 
Michigan’s Wallenberg Medal has 
been awarded to anti-apartheid 
activist 
Desmond 
Tutu, 
civil 
rights leader John Lewis and 
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. 
This year medal will be given to 
two national anti-gun violence 
groups Bold Resistance Against 
Violence Everywhere and March 
for Our Lives. These awardees 
are distinct in two ways: They are 
organizations, not individuals, and 
they are the youngest recipients of 
the award in its 26-year history.
The award was created to 
commemorate the legacy of Raoul 
Wallenberg, a U-M alum who saved 
more than 80,000 Hungarian 
Jews near the end of World War 
II. It is awarded to those who 
“demonstrate the capacity of the 
human spirit to stand up for the 
helpless, to defend the integrity 
of the powerless, and to speak out 
on behalf of the voiceless… (and) 
demonstrate that one person, 
individually or collectively, can 

Wallenberg
awarded to 
gun control 
advocates

ACADEMICS

B.R.A.V.E, March 
For Our Lives to be 
youngest recipients

ZAYNA SYED
Daily Staff Writer

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