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 
about our University’s campus 

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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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