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Michigan
Movement,
a
University of Michigan student
organization, held their annual
Project Connect event this Sunday.
Project Connect is a six-hour long
event modeled after Tent City in
Toledo, Ohio. The event brings
together University students and
volunteers with members of the
Ann Arbor homeless community
to build relationships and provide
resources.
Founded by Business graduate
student Hussain Ali and Public
Health graduate student Payton
Watt in 2017 when they were
undergraduates,
Michigan
Movement operates as the only
student organization on campus
dedicated to providing aid to
those impacted by poverty and
homelessness in Ann Arbor. The
organization highlights working
with the community rather than
for the community, a mission that
is conveyed throughout Project
Connect.
The event was broken up into
various stations, starting with a
check-in station where members
of the homeless community filled
out forms asking for their name,
housing
status,
basic
medical
information and services they
would be utilizing throughout the
event.
The next station provided MIM
kits, the cornerstone of Michigan
Movement’s mission. MIM kits are
care packages filled with everyday
necessities. The kits include items
such as oral hygiene supplies,
deodorant, flashlights and blankets.
Free water bottles collected from
the Intramural Sports building and
the Central Campus Recreational
Building which had been sanitized
by University dining halls were also
available as a part of the kit.
CULTURE
Students reflect on costs associated
with medical school applications
Expenses of applying include standardized tests, travel expenses, individual fees
LILY GOODING
Daily Staff Reporter
The first ever Israel Summit
at Michigan drew about 100
students
and
community
members to the Ross School
of Business Sunday morning
for
an
event
highlighting
Israeli
innovation
and
entrepreneurship. The summit
opened
with
accomplished
speakers in diverse industries
including entrepreneur tech
influencer Inbal Arieli and
Sivan
Ya’ari,
the
founder
of
Innovation:
Africa,
a
technology non-profit.
Business
senior
Nikki
Hassan, who helped organize
the event, said she was thrilled
with the speaking lineup.
“It made us so happy, the
willingness of people to come
and share the positive ways
that Israel’s innovation and
technology impact the rest of
the world,” Hassan said.
LSA senior Nadav Neuman,
who attended the summit,
commented on the importance
of Israeli innovations.
“It’s a small country that
has had a huge impact on the
world as we know it, so it’s
important to learn about it in
that sense,” Neuman said.
Ross event
highlights
Israeli jobs,
industries
BUSINESS
Inaugural Israel Summit
invites entrepreneurs,
influencers as speakers
CALDER LEWIS
For The Daily
DESIGN BY LAUREN KUZEE
André Aciman, author of the
novel “Call Me By Your Name,”
spoke to more than 400 people in
Rackham Auditorium on Saturday
night. Aciman’s new novel “Finding
Me,” is the sequel to “Call My By
Your Name,” which was adapted
into an award-winning film in 2017.
The event, sponsored and hosted
by Literati Bookstore, included a
Q&A and book signing following
a
discussion
with
Rackham
Merit Fellow and writer Zahir
Janmohamed.
Janmohamed started off the
discussion by inquiring about
Aciman’s memoir “Out of Egypt.”
The memoir is about Aciman’s
upbringing in Egypt, which stuck
out to Janmohamed because of
his own roots in Egypt. Aciman
had to dig into his past in order to
write that novel, he said. Aciman
said humor helped him write about
painful memories in “Out of Egypt.”
“Because there were parts that
were so horrible and painful, I had
to find a way of working around
those painful moments,” Aciman
said. “Usually, I did that by finding
out or digging out some disclosed
humor, because I think humor is a
way in which you can communicate
things that are very painful.
Literati Bookstore hosts
‘Call Me By Your Name’
author for discussion
JASMIN LEE
Daily Staff Reporter
Group builds
relationships,
aids homeless
population in A2
Michigan Movement partners with
businesses, orgs for Project Connect
TAL LIPKIN
Daily Staff Reporter
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Engineering senior Ryuji Arimoto
is on the tail end of the stressful
cycle of medical school applications.
After multiple rounds of online
applications and 10 interviews,
he’s finally started to receive
acceptances.
But
Arimoto’s
hard-earned
acceptances have come at a cost.
Factoring in testing fees, his primary
and
secondary
applications
to
40 different medical schools and
the travel costs of interviewing at
schools across the country, Arimoto
estimated he’s already approaching
$10,000 in total expenses, and he
hasn’t finished the process yet.
“That’s an obscene amount of
money,” Arimoto said.
The pricey application process
begins with the Medical College
Admission Test, or the MCAT.
According
to
Arimoto,
many
students take a prep course, which
can cost a few thousand dollars. The
test itself costs over $300, and it’s not
uncommon for students to take the
MCAT several times.
Second-year
University
of
Michigan Medical School student
Vy Tran, a first-generation college
graduate who identifies as someone
from a low-income background, said
even though MCAT preparation is
expensive, she took a course to make
sure she was setting herself up for
success.
“Medical
school
is
a
huge
process,” Tran said. “You want to do
everything you can, you don’t want
to be cheap on these things.”
Next
come
the
primary
applications.
Primaries
are
streamlined so students submit a
single application package through
the Association of American Medical
Colleges’ online service. Students
who applied this past cycle paid $170
for the first school and $40 for each
additional one. For the 2019-2020
cycle, students applied to 17 schools
on average, according to the AAMC.
If
a
student
meets
the
qualifications
for
a
medical
school, they’ll be asked to submit a
secondary application answering
school-specific questions. The cost of
secondaries varies, but Arimoto said
it’s often around $100 per school.
U-M Museum of Natural History
opens three new exhibits to public
Opening draws close to 1,000 visitors for interactive learning experience
SOPHIA AFENDOULIS/Daily
The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History opened three new exibits , “Exploring Michigan,” “Under the Microscope” and “People and the Planet” Sunday.
ALICE TRACEY
Daily Staff Reporter
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The University of Michigan
Museum of Natural History
opened three new exhibits and
two investigative labs to the
public Sunday.
Funding for the new museum
was first announced by the
provost in 2011. In April of
this year, the Natural History
Museum had its grand opening
that saw about 3,000 visitors.
On Sunday, for its second
opening with new exhibits,
more
than
1,000
students,
families and local residents
came through to explore the
museum and get a first look at
the new interactive exhibits
and research stations.
Museum
Director
Amy
Harris
gave
The
Daily
a
tour
around
the
facilities,
highlighting
all
the
main
attractions. She started off
by talking about the new
exhibit, Exploring Michigan,
which
includes
information
and displays on the state of
Michigan’s
own
ecosystem.
Centered at the entrance of
Exploring Michigan is none
other than a wolverine, an
ode not only to the University
but also the state, as Harris
explained.
“It’s
our
old
taxidermy
wolverine
which
we
sent
out to get fluffed and buffed
and
freshened
up for the
21st
century,”
Harris
said.
“Actually, wolverines may have
never lived in Michigan, but
they are still a symbol for the
state because they are really
fierce animals.”
Harris continued then to
show the five new dioramic
replicas
of
the
ecosystems
in Michigan, complete with
interactive
screens,
wall
displays, soundscapes in the
background and even a cave for
younger visitors to crawl into
and get a closer perspective.
“There’s
a
touch
screen
where you can learn about ice
age features in Ann Arbor. One
example is the Diag, which was
a glacial outwash plain, and
that’s why it’s so flat,” Harris
said.
Harris also drew attention to
the interactives run by student
docents dispersed throughout
the exhibits, which allow for
visitors of all ages to touch and
learn about the different fossils
and artifacts.