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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

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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 

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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. 

