Dr. Robert Ernst, University
Health
Services
executive
director
and
associate
vice
president
for
Health
and
Wellness,
addressed
student
concerns about the University’s
recent policy change to UHS
coverage for sexually transmitted
infection testing at Tuesday’s
Central
Student
Government
meeting.
Ernst explained the reasoning
behind removing STI testing
from the Health and Wellness fee
was to allocate funding toward
other priorities within UHS, like
mental health resources.
“There’s
ongoing
concern
about student mental health,
and we’ve made a number of
initiatives at Health Services
over the last year trying to
elevate physician resources and
have plans to grow that,” Ernst
said. “There’s always a concern
about access to health service
in a timely fashion and trying
to reduce our wait times. It
was really clear to make those
investments while, at the same
time, being respectful to the
growing cost of attendance, many
in leadership were expecting
we try to tap into alternative
revenue sources to try and fund
those priorities.”
Ernst
addressed
student
backlash to the policy change by
assuring the Assembly student
voices were heard.
“I think the personal stories
people have about their anxieties
and experiences were sufficient
for us to say we can make an
amendment
to
what
we’re
doing,” Ernst said. “So, the plan
would be to try and find some
additional resources to address
some of those pressing health
and wellness issues for students,
but we would carve out a not-bill
for STIs and other potentially
sensitive things.”
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
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As the threat of climate change
continues to dominate national
and political discourse, Wallace
House
hosted
environmental
journalist
McKenzie
Funk
to
discuss the political and economic
ramifications of the issue. Funk
shared his findings from his book
“Windfall: The Booming Business
of Global Warming,” addressing
how
businesses
often
take
advantage of environmental issues
to generate a profit.
The Knight-Wallace Fellowship,
based in Wallace House, gives
practicing
journalists
the
opportunity to take a step back from
their careers and take classes at
the University to refine their craft.
Funk, a 2012 Knight-Wallace Fellow,
is this year’s featured journalist for
the 34th annual Graham Hovey
Lecture entitled “Seeing Green: The
Business and Inequity of Climate
Change.” The lecture, named after
former journalist Graham Hovey
who directed the fellowship from
1980 to 1986, is an annual event in
which the fellowship welcomes
its incoming class and highlights a
former member whose work relates
to issues prevalent in the national
conversation.
Director
of
Wallace
House
Lynette Clemetson opened the
event,
introducing
University
President
Mark
Schlissel
and
emphasizing the need for more
public support for journalists.
“We know that in (University)
President (Mark) Schlissel we have
someone who not only supports
our programs, but who supports
the vital role of journalism in our
society,” Clemetson said. “Having
that support publicly is evermore
important today at a time when
the press has often been maligned,
often been called ‘enemies of the
people,’ and to know that we have a
space here at the University where
we uphold the role of journalism
and we support the careers of
journalists means so much to me
personally and to everyone who
passes through this program.”
Soul Smoothie & Bowls, a
student-run smoothie and açaí
bowl company, opened in the
Seigle Cafe in the Ross School
of Business last Tuesday.
The company was created
last year by DJ Bailey, a 2019
graduate of the Business School,
after he assessed the potential
profitability and demand of the
cafe using market research and
surveys. Bailey said he got the
idea when he and a group of
Business School seniors found
the market for smoothies and
bowls in Ann Arbor lacked
healthy options that offered
fresh ingredients or convenient
locations.
According to Business junior
Sabeen Khan, Soul’s director of
marketing, the process behind
the opening on Tuesday was
extensive. Once the menu was
set, the team had to figure out
their
suppliers,
packaging,
design, go-to-market strategy
and operation analytics, which
included answering questions
like how many employees they
needed or how many smoothies
they could sell in an hour,
as well as the technological
aspects of the app.
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to challenge
Rep. Dingell
in 2020 race
Solomon Rajput mounts bid for
congressional seat in 12th district
In
light
of
the
2020
budget’s impending due date,
Oct. 1, the Washtenaw County
Board
of
Commissioners
rejected
a
proposal
for
increased funding for the
Community Mental Health
program
in
Washtenaw
County. The potential budget
cut came last Wednesday,
when the commission began
reevaluating
funding
for
several county programs.
The
program
has
continually received support
from the county and provides
mental health resources to
adults
and
children
with
emotional disturbances and
developmental
disabilities.
This
year,
the
program
requested additional funding
to close the $10.3 million gap
needed to continue providing
services,
county
officials
explained.
Washtenaw
County
Commissioner
Katie
Scott,
chair of the Ways and Means
Committee,
said
that
this
shortfall is, in part, due to
policies the state and federal
governments have failed to
implement for mental health
treatment.
Mental
health
proposal
rejected
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The Dingells have been
a household name in Ann
Arbor politics for more than
85 years since John Dingell
Sr. began representing the
15th Congressional District in
1933, now known Michigan’s
12th Congressional District.
Second-year
medical
student Solomon Rajput has
decided to challenge this local
political dynasty.
Rajput
announced
his
campaign
against
Rep.
Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., on
Thursday. He is running on a
progressive platform with the
slogan, “We’re done waiting.”
“I care about a couple key
progressive issues that a lot
of other key progressives care
about as well, like getting
money out of politics, fighting
climate change through an
aggressive
mobilization
of
our economy through the
Green New Deal, making
college
tuition
free
and
eliminating student debt and
Medicare for All as well,”
Rajput said. “And for many
issues,
unfortunately,
our
current representation with
Congresswoman Dingell is
not. She is not a champion for
these issues.”
Students
have
varying
levels of support for their
current representative. Public
Policy senior Noah Rothstein,
who previously worked on
Rajput’s campaign, said while
Dingell represents some of
his political views, he wishes
she would take more radical
action against climate change.
“In some areas, I think
she
does
well,”
Rothstein
said. “On local issues, such
as PFAS, she has delivered.
But, on the whole, I think
Congresswoman Dingell has a
lot of room to improve. Climate
change, which is personally
my most prioritized issue, has
been one that she has not given
enough serious attention to.”
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UHS director addresses STI
concerns at CSG meeting
Robert Ernst discusses changes made to lab testing policy following backlash
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County Board votes
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