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 
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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. 
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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 
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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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