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This year’s Festifall was 
bigger than ever, with 623 
students organizations setting 
up tables in North Ingalls 
Mall, according to the Center 
for Campus Involvement. 
Last 
year,approximately 
500 clubs participated in the 
annual club fair, which is held 
on the first Friday of school 
each year.. According to Devon 
Vaughn, 
the 
organization 
consultant for the Center for 
Campus 
Involvement, 
they 
needed to add more tables and 
spread out to make more space 
for more new clubs on campus 
this year. 
LSA senior Amanda Gross, 
co-President 
of 
MUSIC 
Matters, 
a 
student-run 
nonprofit that hosts concerts 
on campus, explained Festifall 
has always been instrumental 
in attracting a variety of new 
members to the club. 
“We want to get as many 
kids as possible,” Gross said. 
“A large bulk of the kids that 
do show up — we get their 

signatures through Festifall. 
We don’t want to have to 
target any specific groups on 
campus and this way anybody 
who wants to can find out 
about us.”

Business sophomore Nina 
Farahanchi, a member of the 
Persian Students Association, 
was dancing in front of his 
organization’s 
table 
with 
a 
boombox 
in 
one 
hand. 

Farahanchi emphasized that 
it’s the energy at Festifall that 
draws potential members in. 

ADMINISTRATION
Ingalls Mall hosts largest group 
of organizations for 2019 Festifall

Center for Campus Involvement adds new tables, space for increased demand

NIKKI KIM
Daily Staff Reporter

Michigan 
Medicine 

published an article last month 
notifying patients about a 
possible health information 
breach. An estimated 5,500 
patients were put at risk due to 
an email phishing campaign.
The 
incident 
occurred 
when an email containing 
a malicious link was sent 
to 3,200 employees in July. 
Three employees clicked on 
the link.
“Employees were directed 
to a webpage that looked like 
a legitimate site requesting 
the username and password 
for their email account,” the 
Michigan Medicine statement 
said.

U-M health 
system data 
breach calls 
for concern

1U to keep 
advocating
following 
fiscal report

RESEARCH

Students, expert consider 
cybersecurity, privacy 

FRANCESCA DUONG 
Daily Staff Reporter

ALEC COHEN/Daily
University students visit various student organizations at Festifall on North Ingalls Mall Friday afternoon.

GOVERNMENT

Squeaked out
The Michigan football team 
narrowly skirted an upset 
loss to Army on Saturday, 
winning in overtime, 24-21.
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When 
the 
One 
University 
Campaign 
launched 
last 
year, 
it aimed to change the way the 
Michigan state legislature and 
the 
University 
of 
Michigan 
administration allocate funding 
among 
the 
three 
University 
campuses. 
Though the University’s Board of 
Regents did not change the budget 
model to reflect the coalition’s 
platform this May, 1U members 
remain undeterred in achieving 
their platform points.
Over 
the 
past 
year, 
One 
University 
has 
studied 
the 
University’s policies and budget and 
found specific instances in which 
the University can better support 
students on its regional campuses. 

Campaign focuses on 
tri-campus funding

ALEX HARRING
Daily Staff Reporter

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In an effort to combat the 
formally-recognized 
public 
health emergency of youth 
vaping, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer 
and the Michigan Department 
of Health and Human Services 
announced a ban on the sale 
of flavored e-cigarette juice 
on 
Wednesday. 
With 
just 
over three weeks before the 
ban goes into place, many 

local Ann Arbor businesses 
and University of Michigan 
students have been left to 
consider the next steps in 
response to the state-wide ban.
This announcement follows 
a spike in high school students’ 
e-cigarette use between 2017 
and 2018, as well as a surge 
in 
national 
attention 
paid 
to 
vaping-related 
illnesses 
becoming more common across 
the country. The announcement 
also follows e-cigarette brand 

Juul’s decision last November 
to stop selling fruity flavors 
in gas stations, allowing them 
only 
in 
designated 
smoke 
shops.
According to LSA junior Zac 
Kolbusz, the University has a 
pervasive “nicotine culture” 
which will be heavily affected 
by the ban.
“I feel like a lot of people 
get here for the first time, try 
it at a party or something, and 
from that point on, there is the 

big risk of addiction,” Kolbusz 
said.
Though Kolbusz uses a Juul 
himself, he says he supports the 
ban and believes Whitmer “did 
the right thing.” As a result of 
the ban, Kolbusz said he and 
many of his friends will try to 
quit using nicotine. However, 
Kolbusz is fearful the ban may 
turn many previous e-cigarette 
users onto cigarettes instead.

US Rep. talks 
strategy, plans 
in North Korea 

Stephen Biegun explains diplomacy, 
challenges surrounding the region

Local businesses grapple with the 
effects of flavored e-cigarette ban

Store employees, students take next steps in responding to state-wide mandate

JULIA FANZERES
Daily Staff Reporter

MELANIE TAYLOR
Daily Staff Reporter

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Since North Korea began 
building 
their 
nuclear 
arsenal, 
maintaining 
diplomacy with North Korea 
has been a point of contention 
in the United States. The 
individual tasked with the 
challenge of negotiating U.S. 
diplomatic efforts with North 
Korea is U.S. Representative 
for North Korea, Stephen 
Biegun. He spoke at a packed 
Rackham 
Auditorium 
on 
Friday 
afternoon 
as 
the 
inaugural speaker in a launch 
series organized to celebrate 
the opening of the Weiser 
Diplomacy 
Center, 
hosted 
by the Ford School of Public 
Policy.
Biegun serves on behalf 
of U.S. Secretary of State 
Mike Pompeo and directs all 
U.S. policy talks on North 
Korea, leads negotiations and 
spearheads U.S. diplomatic 

efforts 
with 
allies 
and 
partners. Previously, Biegun 
worked as a foreign policy 
advisor 
to 
members 
of 
Congress and was formerly 
the 
vice 
president 
of 
International Governmental 
Relations for Ford Motor 
Company.
Public Policy Dean Michael 
Barr introduced the series and 
explained the significance of 
the Ford Public Policy talks 
and fostering conversation in 
polarizing political times.
“As you well know, these 
are 
challenging 
times 
in 
our nation, with fractious 
political discourse, gridlock 
and 
partisanship 
and 
increasing lack of trust in 
institutions 
everywhere,” 
Barr said. “It is in moments 
like this when the craft of 
diplomacy 
is 
even 
more 
essential.”

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