U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell,
D-Mich., announced Thursday
she
would
be
introducing
legislation to crack down on
drunk drivers in a speech to the
House of Representatives.
Issam Abbas, 42, his wife, Dr.
Rima Abbas, 38, and their three
children, Ali, 13, Isabelle, 12, and
Giselle, 7, were driving home to
Michigan from their vacation in
Florida when they were struck
by an oncoming pickup truck.
The driver was intoxicated.
After the tragic accident of the
Ann
Arbor’s
new
Constellation Collective, a
curated
grab-and-go
food
market, opened Monday, Jan.
7 in Nickels Arcade. The new
marketplace aims to provide
local, wholesome food to the
community.
Constellation
Collective
uses a cooperative model
to to provide food space for
anyone who doesn’t have
their
own
restaurant
or
storefront and grants small
For LSA junior Ryan Bennett,
the High Achieving Involved
Leader scholarship was the
deciding factor in his decision
to apply to the University of
Michigan.
Before receiving the large,
embellished mailing from the
University in his junior year
of high school commending
his
academic
achievements
and encouraging him to apply,
Bennett had not considered
U-M. Finding out he could
receive four years of free tuition
changed Bennet’s mind.
“My eyes weren’t even set
on Michigan yet, because I
knew I wanted to do film, so I
was just looking at schools out
west,” Bennett said. “I ended
up getting a package in the mail
from U of M that I didn’t even
open up. Later on, a couple of
weeks after I got it, I decided
to open it up and learned that
I got the HAIL stuff, and it
was obviously a life-changing
experience because it turned
my eyes onto Michigan. I
learned about how I could make
my interests come to fruition
there, and ultimately, it was
the scholarship that made a big
impact on my choice to go here.”
In collaboration with the
University,
the
National
Bureau of Economic Research
published a report analyzing
the success of the HAIL — a
Each month, The Michigan
Daily
Administration
Beat
sits
down
with
University
of Michigan President Mark
Schlissel to discuss important
questions
about
University
policy,
commitments
and
challenges.
This
month’s
interview included discussion
about hate crimes on campus,
Title IX policy revisions, carbon
neutrality
and
more.
This
transcript has been abbreviated
and reordered for reader clarity.
The Michigan Daily: An FBI
report found the University of
Michigan to have the second-
highest number of reported
hate crimes of 110 public and
private universities surveyed in
2017. The report claimed there
were 15 hate crimes reported at
the Ann Arbor campus, while
the
Dearborn
campus
and
Michigan State University only
reported one hate crime. While
the increase in reporting hate
crimes may come from students’
familiarity and willingness to
disclose them to the University,
some students are still frustrated
with the University’s inadequate
responses to bias incidents on
campus. What do you think
the FBI report’s findings say
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Emory professor discusses relationship
between heart disease and discrimination
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Emory University Epidemiology professor Tene T. Lewis speaks about discriminator stressors and early markers of cardiovascular disease in African-American women during the Race, Health, and
Wealth Disparities seminar series at the Institute for Social Research Monday.
Tene Lewis says African-American women’s cardic health decline is linked to racial discrimination
Dr.
Tene
Lewis,
a
University of Michigan alum
and professor at the Rollins
School of Public Health at
Emory
University,
spoke
Monday on the relationship
between discrimination and
cardiovascular disease among
African-American
women.
The
presentation
was
the
first in the Research Center
for Group Dynamics seminar
series,
in
which
notable
researchers
speak
about
interdisciplinary social issues
like race.
Lewis
opened
her
talk
by describing her field of
interest,
which
combines
psychology,
epidemiology
and cardiology. Her research
centers around poor health
outcomes within the African-
American
community
as
opposed to other racial and
ethnic groups.
“If you are born African-
American in this country,
you will live sicker and die
younger
than
your
white
counterparts,” Lewis said.
Lewis
focused
on
the
relationship between reported
accounts
of
racism
and
discrimination from African
Americans and indications of
poor
cardiovascular
health
such
as
coronary
artery
calcium, which hardens the
walls of the arteries.
“Chronic
reports
of
everyday
discrimination
are
associated
with
the
occurrence of coronary artery
calcium in African Americans
and not whites,” Lewis said.
Lewis
said
racial
discrimination
impacting
African
American
woman,
causes
unhealthy
plaque
buildup inside the artery wall
called carotid atherosclerosis.
“The
more
expectations
of racism women had, the
more carotid atherosclerosis
they had,” Lewis said. “For
whatever reason, reports of
racism experiences weren’t
as strongly associated with
outcomes in African-American
women.”
Public
Health
doctoral
student
Traci
Carson
expressed interest in the study
after the event. Carson said
she wants to delve further into
combating the physical effects
of discrimination.
“I’m really interested in
the physiological stress work
that she does even though
my research is a different
area,” Carson said. “I’ve been
really inspired by Tene’s work
because of my colleagues in
public health who do work
really specific to her field.”
Despite
the
consistent
negative
effects
of
discrimination in relation to
cardiovascular health, Lewis
said the overall levels of
reported discrimination were
lower than expected. It is
unclear whether the levels are
lower due to a lack of reporting
or an actual decrease in racist
incidents.
“Across studies, reports of
discrimination are actually
relatively low,” Lewis said.
“On
average,
people
are
not reporting a lot of these
experiences.”
Lewis
further
explained
her discovery that everyday
discrimination may not impact
ABIGAIL MURO
Daily Staff Reporter
See SCHLISSEL, Page 3A
See DUI, Page 3A
See FLAVOR, Page 3A
Schlissel
talks hate
crimes on
campus,
new Title
IX policy
The Michigan Daily
interviews University
President on recent
challenges and concerns
facing campus community
Study shows, HAIL increases low-in-
come population, still lacks integration
Scholarship raises enrollment but lacks guidance for low-income recipients
SONIA LEE
Daily Staff Reporter
See DISCRIMINATION, Page 3A
Dingell
proposes
a new bill
to provide
protection
from DUIs
Ann Arbor
food shop
brings new
flavor to
the local
community
GOVERNMENT
BUSINESS
Congresswoman calls
for ignition-interlock
device after family
killed in car accident
Constellation Collective
sells specialty foods
from local Ann Arbor
vendors, restaurants
CATHERINE NOUHAN
Daily Staff Reporter
ANGELINA BREDE
For the Daily
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A R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
S U D O K U . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
CL A S S I F I E DS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
S P O R T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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