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Members of the Climate Action 
Movement and the One University 
Campaign 
released 
a 
joint 
statement Friday after staging a 
series of protests and blockading 
the 
exits 
of 
the 
University 
of Michigan Golf Course at 
Thursday’s Board of Regents 
Meeting. The statement reflects 
upon the decisions made at the 
meeting and condemns what 1U 
and CAM claim is inaction on the 
part of the University to divest 
from fossil fuels and equally 
distribute resources across the 
three campuses. 
Some of the two organizations’ 
principal 
demands 
to 
the 
University 
include 
extending 
the Go Blue Guarantee to the 
Flint and Dearborn campuses, 
committing to carbon neutrality 
by 2030 and freezing further 
fossil fuel investments. All of 
these demands were mentioned in 
the joint statement to the Board of 

Regents. 
“The 
shameful 
response 
from 
the 
Administration 
is 
symptomatic of a consistent lack 
of funding transparency, moral 
accountability, and commitment 
to productive dialogue with the 
student body,” the statement 
reads. “Members of the One 
University Campaign and the 
Climate 
Action 
Movement 
understand our demands require 
the Administration to undergo a 
deep examination of its priorities, 
and this process is not simple.”
On Nov. 25, CAM and 1U 
released their first joint statement 
announcing their list of demands 
and establishing a connection 
between the two organizations. 
The first statement also called 
on the University community to 
join 1U and CAM at the protests 
before, during and after the Dec. 
5, regents meeting. No students 
were arrested during any of 
Thursday’s protests. 

Doctor reflects on 150 years of 
history at Michigan Medicine

Author discusses evolution of University’s medical school since 1869

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Dr. Joe Howell, professor of internal medicine, recounts the history of the University of Michigan hospital at Ford Auditorium Friday. 

After protests at Board of Regents 
meeting, coalition reaffirms demands

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The University of Michigan 
Medical 
Center 
hosted 
a 
lecture this past Friday on the 
history of its development. The 
lecture was given by Professor 
of Medical History Joel Howell. 
About 120 people attended 
the event, including doctors 
from the medical center and 
applicants for the hospital’s 
intern program. 

Howell said the University 
Hospital was the first hospital 
in the U.S. to be owned and 
operated 
by 
a 
university 
when it was built in 1817. He 
emphasized the fact that the 
introduction of the University 
Medical School in 1850, was 
a key player in the hospital’s 
existence. At the time, it was 
not common for medical schools 
to teach in an application 
structured 
curriculum, 
let 
alone exist as a college. Due 

to the absence of any licensing 
laws on medical practitioners, 
most 
people 
aiming 
for 
a 
medical career would simply 
hold an apprenticeship for two 
years and could open their own 
practice afterward. 
“First of all, there were 
no license-laws. This meant 
that anyone could go out and 
hang up a shingle and start to 
practice 
medicine,” 
Howell 
said. “If you were good, people 
would come to you, and if you 

weren’t so good, people would 
stop seeing you.”
Howell 
said 
the 
school 
ran a two-year program in 
which students would attend 
a specific series of lectures 
the first year, and then take 
the same exact lectures their 
second year. Howell explained 
the hospital did this in the 
hopes students would absorb 
more information. 

JENNA SITEMAN
Daily Staff Reporter 

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Analyst examines impact of energy 
needs on nuclear nonproliferation
Expert highlights connection between domestic fuel industry, policy

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Ty Otto, analyst for the Pacific Northwest Laboratory, discusses nonproliferation policy and the U.S. Fuel Cycle at White Auditorium on Friday. 

Friday afternoon, about 50 of 
University of Michigan students, 
professors 
and 
Ann 
Arbor 
community members gathered to 
hear Ty Otto, an analyst at Pacific 
Northwest National Laboratory, 
speak 
about 
nonproliferation 
policy and how it relates to and 
affects the nuclear industry at 
the Nuclear Engineering and 
Radioactive Sciences colloquium.
Otto began by explaining 
nonproliferation in the nuclear 
space.
“The 
nonproliferation 
regime … is an overlapping set 
of institutions, laws, treaties, 
informal 
treaties 
between 

governments … that are all 
working to prevent the spread of 
nuclear weapons and to help roll 
back nuclear arsenals where they 
might currently exist,” Otto said.
He 
then 
illustrated 
the 
difficulty 
of 
nonproliferation 
from a policy perspective and 
the many intricacies involved in 
nonproliferation.
“The nuclear nonproliferation 
regime has emerged as the art 
of the possible and every one 
of these agreements requires 
a serendipitous alignment of 
political will and interest coming 
together,” Otto said. “The non-
proliferation 
regime 
is 
not 
perfect … but when you have 
195 countries in the world and 
you want them to all … commit 
to giving up their freedoms and 

rights in order to take part in 
these, sometimes you have to 
take what you can get.”
Otto continued his talk by 
discussing the Atomic Nuclear 
Energy Act of 1954, specifically 
Section 123 of the act, which 
lays out the requirements for 
cooperation between nations.
“The Atomic Energy Act of 
1954 … set out a guideline in 
Section 123 for the requirements 
for peaceful nuclear cooperation 
with other countries,” Otto said. 
“And prior to that time, it was not 
really something that the United 
States had meaningfully engaged 
in.”
He also described the issues 
facing the U.S. today in an 
increasingly competitive nuclear 
industry.

“Back in the day, the United 
States was basically the sole 
provider to most of the Western 
world of enrichment services,” 
Otto explained. “But now China, 
South Korea, Russia, France, 
there is a whole host of different 
countries that we are competing 
against the nuclear marketplace, 
and some of them have different 
perspectives on nonproliferation 
than we do.”
In an interview with The 
Michigan Daily, Todd Allen, 
chair of nuclear engineering 
and 
radiological 
sciences 
at 
U-M, explained why Otto had 
been invited and the NERS 
colloquium.

PETER HUMMER
For The Daily

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Smoothie 
King 
held 
its 
grand opening of its Ann Arbor 
location this past Saturday. 
The new store is located in the 
Westgate Shopping Center at 
the intersection of Jackson 
Road and I-94. About 20 people 
attended.
The location held a soft 
opening 
two 
weeks 
ago, 
making it the eighth location in 
Michigan. 
Bob 
Bannatz, 
Smoothie 
King’s district leader for the 
state of Michigan, described the 
reasoning behind the brand’s 
plan to open 50 locations in 
Michigan within the next five 
years. 
“Smoothie King has a big 
footprint 
down 
South, 
and 
because of the cold weather and 
the smoothies and ice, people 
were afraid to move into (the 
north), but we found out that 
it’s a high-quality product,” 
Bannatz said. “People like it, 
and it sells all year round, so we 
came to Michigan.” 
Bannatz said he anticipates a 
mutually beneficial relationship 
with 
the 
students 
at 
the 

University of Michigan. 
“Smoothies are the kind of 
product that fits,” Bannatz said. 
“We have the healthy smoothies, 
we have ones for wellness 
and slim, and then we have a 
dessert blend, so that’s kind of 
our target, what we’re looking 
for. So we hope to grow our 
relationship with the students at 
the University of Michigan.” 
Ann Arbor resident Zhao 
Chen, who currently works for 
Google, was very eager to attend 
the grand opening. 
“I tried it once at the airport. I 
have had the other place before, 
Tropical Smoothie,” Chen said. 
“They’re all right. So, when I 
tried Smoothie King out, it was 
so good. So, when we heard 
there was an opening here, we 
got so excited.”
Other 
locals 
who 
hadn’t 
previously heard about the grand 
opening were also intrigued 
by the event and enthusiasm 
about the opening of a Smoothie 
King in Ann Arbor. Washtenaw 
Community 
College 
student 
Joel Karschbaum learned about 
the event that morning and said 
he was compelled to attend. 

Chain launches local store with 
ribbon cutting ceremony, raffle

MADDIE MADDEN
For The Daily

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Climate Action 
Movement, 1U 
stand by calls 
for divestment

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Smoothie King
celebrates grand 
opening of Ann 
Arbor location

