“The classes were ungraded, 
and by that I don’t mean A, B, 
C, D, I mean that you heard the 
same lectures, two years in a row,” 
Howell said. “Presumably you 
got more out of it the second time 
around.” 
Howell also said the University 
used to run two separate hospitals: 
one for homeopathic medicine 
and one for allopathic medicine. 
Howell 
explained 
operations 
were performed in the medical 
school amphitheater prior to the 
development of operating rooms.
“The operations were done in 
the medical school amphitheater, 
which was a little bit dicey 
because dissections with cadavers 
were also in the medical school 
amphitheater,” Howell said. “After 
operating on patients, they had to 
be carried across the street and 
across the University to get back 
into the hospital.”

In 1881, the medical school 
became the first to admit women. 
People of color were also admitted 
around the same time, according to 
Howell. Howell shared a photo of 
a classroom in which men of color 
are sitting in the back row of the 
class and the women are sitting in 
a sectioned off bench to the side. He 
also shared a note from the Board of 
Regents in 1870 and two responses 
from news sources of the time.
“The 
regents 
resolved 
in 
1870 that ‘the Board of Regents 
recognized the right of every 
resident 
of 
Michigan 
to 
the 
enjoyment 
of 
the 
privileges 
afforded by the University and 
that they will admit anyone with 
the requisite in literary and moral 
qualifications,’” 
Howell 
said. 
“And with that, we became the 
first major medical school in the 
country to admit women, and they 
got national attention.”

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Inagape co-founder Patricia Griffin speaks at the Emerging Markets Conference in Ross Tauber Colloquium Friday.

Seminar highlights immigration 
lawyer’s work with government

Monica Dorman discusses career helping families navigate legal system

University of Michigan alum 
Monica L. Dorman spoke to about 
80 economics students in Lorch 
Hall Friday afternoon. Her talk 
was a part of a lecture series for 
the semester designed to help 
students implement the skills 
they learn in the classroom in 
everyday life. 
Dorman is an immigration 
lawyer 
and 
has 
represented 
clients from over 60 countries. 
She began her own law firm in 
2010 after realizing her previous 
work at a different firm was 
not allowing her to grow as an 
individual. 
She explained she begins her 
day by meeting with new clients 
and 
assessing 
their 
current 
immigration status.
“In any given day, I meet about 

four clients,” Dorman said. “At 
least one of those will be a new 
client — someone who’s coming 
into my office who has never 
met me before who’s going to 
be explaining to me what their 
current immigration situation 
is … I’ll sit down with them, look 
over all of their paperwork, and 
we’ll assess both their current 
situation and what their options 
are.”
During 
Dorman’s 
time 
at 
Michigan, 
she 
majored 
in 
economics. 
After 
debating 
whether or not to take the GRE, 
Dorman ended up deciding to 
pursue a career in law. Then, after 
pursuing law school and working 
at various corporations, Dorman 
said she wanted to help more 
people. 
“I realized that there were 
three main components that I was 
looking for in a job that I would 
derive utility from,” Dorman said. 

“One was contact with clients. 
I knew that I wanted to engage 
with my contacts … that I wanted 
some autonomy over my career, 
over my caseload. I wanted to be 
able to make decisions about the 
proper way to handle a case … to 
make decisions about whether 
or not I even felt comfortable 
representing that client at all.” 
Dorman told the economics 
students to only pursue a career 
they feel is rewarding to them. 
“I would encourage you as you 
go through your studies in econ, 
whether or not you’ve decided 
this is truly your academic 
home or not, whether or not you 
buy into the principles behind 
economics, at least utilize them to 
your advantage, so you’re able to 
make those decisions for yourself 
and come to a conclusion or 
come to a career or come to some 
other undertaking that you find 
rewarding,” Dorman said. 

LSA sophomore Ryan Perry 
said he thought Dorman’s words 
were different from what students 
typically hear from other guest 
lecturers. 
“The whole semester has been 
a series of different speakers, so 
this was very interesting, because 
it was something totally different 
from the rest,” Perry said. “The 
other ones were about consulting 
and business, which it great, but 
it was cool to get another, diverse 
view on what you can do with an 
econ major.” 
LSA junior Isabel Chaney said 
she was surprised by the event 
overall. 
“I really liked the diversity 
of 
questions 
that 
students 
had,” Chaney said. They were 
about a mix of her career, the 
immigration process in general, 
and I liked that she was able to 
touch on a lot of different things 
through the talk.” 

ANCHAL MALH
For The Daily 

I wanted to be able to make 
decisions about the proper 
way to handle cases ... whether 
or not i even felt comfortable 
representing that 

