Ahead
of
the
start
of
contract negotiations between
the
Graduate
Employees’
Organization and the University
of Michigan, approximately 200
GEO members and supporters
convened on the Diag for a
rally
Wednesday
morning.
Demonstrators
marched
to
the Michigan League, where
contract negotiations began.
GEO president Emily Gauld,
a Rackham student, said GEO
is taking part in a nationwide
campaign
to
improve
the
accessibility
of
graduate
education,
explaining
this
starts with a strong union
contract.
“This is the first day of what
will be a month-long process,
where there will inevitably be
a compromise made on every
side,” Gauld said to the crowd.
“If we, the graduate employees
and the GEO members at
the University of Michigan,
continue to show up every step
of the way to show support for
our team, for our platform and
for our union, the University
will hear us. We get what we
are organized to take.”
At the end of the winter
2017 semester, the University
and GEO reached a contract
agreement that included pay
caps on mental health services,
the formation of Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion Graduate
Student
Student
Assistant
positions
and
increased
protections for international
graduate
students.
This
contract — which expires on
May 1, 2020 — came after 27
bargaining sessions, multiple
sit-ins and threats of a walk-
out.
GEO bargaining committee
co-chair Sumeet Patwardhan,
a Rackham student, said some
of this year’s proposals include
improved mental health and
transgender health coverage,
mitigating pay inequity among
graduate
students
on
the
three
University
campuses
and having gender-inclusive
restrooms
available
across
campus. He said the platform
is the most ambitious GEO has
ever created.
“If you’re out there feeling
like other people are better
equipped to win this platform
than
you,
remember
the
strength of a democratic union
is not in its leadership, but in
its membership,” Patwardhan
said to the crowd. “Let’s let the
vision of our platform motivate
us. Let’s let our solidarity
immunize us to the divide and
conquer tactics, and let’s win
the platform we deserve.”
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Tim Sloan, University of
Michigan alum and retired
chief executive officer of
Wells Fargo Bank, discussed
“Building Trust in Crisis”
as part of the Business
and Society 2020 speakers
series Wednesday morning.
Sloan graduated from the
University with a BA and
MBA and spent 30 years at
Wells Fargo before becoming
the CEO in September 2016.
Sloan
assumed
the
position
following
the
company’s
disclosure
employees
had
opened
nearly 2 million deposit
and credit card accounts
without
customers’
knowledge, being forced to
pay a $185 million fine from
the
Consumer
Financial
Protection Bureau.
Lindy
Greer,
associate
professor
of
Management
and
Organizations
and
faculty
director
of
the
Sanger Leadership Center,
moderated the conversation
and began by discussing the
mission of the Business and
Society 2020 speakers series.
“We have a responsibility
to honor our mission to make
sure that in the sessions
we’re touching on issues that
are foremost in society right
now, which is challenging,”
Greer
said.
“Equality,
sustainability,
education,
economic growth. The goal of
the series is to bring together
a lot of leaders, industry
leaders
and
professional
development
opportunities
for students to engage in
structured dialogue about
this intersection of business
and society and how the
system positively engaged
society is all from these most
pressing challenges.”
The discussion focused on
the building of trust between
businesses and society as it
pertains to Wells Fargo and
Sloan’s role in a leadership
capacity.
A 17-year-old boy is believed
to be the first vape-injured
patient in the U.S. to receive a
double lung transplant in order
to save his life.
The
procedure
was
performed
at
Henry
Ford
Hospital in Detroit on Oct.
15, doctors said at a news
conference on Tuesday. Dr.
Hassan
Nemeh,
surgical
director
of
thoracic
organ
transplants at Henry Ford
Hospital, said in a statement
this procedure was crucial to
the boy’s survival.
“This
teenager
faced
imminent death had he not
received a lung transplant,”
Nemeh said.
The boy — who turned 17
while in the hospital — was
first admitted to Ascension St.
John Hospital in Detroit with
symptoms of pneumonia on
Sept. 5. However, his health
quickly deteriorated, and he
was transferred to Children’s
Hospital of Michigan where
he was placed on a machine
to keep his heart and lungs
active. Five days later, he was
moved to Henry Ford Hospital
for the operation.
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Wednesday
evening,
the
Michigan
Medicine
Department
of
Psychiatry
hosted
its
24th
Annual
Waggoner Lecture on Ethics &
Values in Medicine, featuring
medical
doctor
Pamela
K.
McPherson.
McPherson’s
lecture
focused
on
her
experience witnessing harmful
conditions
in
immigration
detention centers along the U.S.
- Mexico border, and her ethical
dilemma over what to do with
this confidential information.
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is
a
medical
doctor
triple-boarded
in
general, child and adolescent,
and forensic psychiatry, and
also works as an expert for
the Department of Homeland
Security’s Office of Civil Rights
and Civil Liberties.
As a mental health expert
for
the
CRCL,
McPherson
was working under a non-
disclosure
agreement
—
a
condition common for this
position. She was trusted in the
family residential facilities she
visited. She toured the physical
grounds, interviewed women
and children and examined
mental health records.
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17-year-old Detroit
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after vaping illness
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The city of Ann Arbor
and
nearly
40
partner
organizations
hosted
a
town hall on Wednesday at
Cobblestone Farm to discuss
how to help Ann Arbor
approach carbon neutrality.
At the event, more than 100
community members shared
ideas and concerns regarding
the city’s potential transition
to net zero carbon emissions.
Ann
Arbor
Mayor
Christopher Taylor opened
the town hall by explaining
Ann Arbor values carbon
neutrality.
“Ann Arbor is a place
that prides itself on its
environmentalism,”
Taylor
said. “This is something that
is really important to the
heart of our community.”
In a City Council meeting
on Nov. 4, councilmembers
voted to declare a state of
climate
emergency
and
passed a resolution to achieve
carbon neutrality by 2030.
Taylor said Ann Arbor has
personally experienced the
effects of climate change,
referencing a one degree
temperature increase during
the last few years as well as a
more than 45 percent increase
in precipitation within the
last 50 years. In 2017, the
city allocated $880,000 to
climate action, and the Office
of Sustainability created a
climate action plan for the
next five years.
Additionally,
Taylor
said the city plans to have
additional carbon neutrality
town halls in the coming
weeks
to
open
up
the
conversation to more of the
community.
Following Taylor, Regina
Strong,
environmental
justice public advocate for
the Michigan Department
of
Environment,
Great
Lakes and Energy, spoke on
environmental justice. Strong
said community members
must work together to create
positive change.
In her presentation, Strong
said
the
Environmental
Protection Agency defines
environmental
justice
as
the
fair
and
meaningful
involvement of all people with
respect to the development,
implementation
and
enforcement
of
environmental
laws,
regulations and policies.
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