When
Ali
Darwish,
sophomore at University of
Michigan-Dearborn,
found
himself in the Henry Ford
Medical
Center
emergency
room in November of his
freshman
year,
he
was
frustrated by the inadequate
care he received compared to
the University hospitals he
went to as an Ann Arbor native.
Because U-M Dearborn does
not have its own on-campus
health clinic comparable to
U-M Ann Arbor’s University
Health Service, the HFMC
across the street from campus
was Darwish’s only immediate
option.
“They didn’t even figure
out what was wrong, and it
ended up stretching until 6
a.m. because no one saw me
for
hours,”
Darwish
said.
“They wheeled me around in
wheelchairs and left me in
hallways for extended periods
of time, and at the end, I still
had the pain and I just left
with it. I had to come back to
my U-M health doctor in Ann
Arbor.”
For most students at the
University’s Flint and Dearborn
campuses, however, finding
health care is not as easy as a
trip home to Ann Arbor. While
the University offers free UHS
care to all students at the Ann
Arbor campus, U-M Flint and
U-M Dearborn do not have
on-campus health care clinics.
Instead, they refer students to
health centers in respective
communities,
including
the
HFMC and the Genesee Health
System in Flint.
The U-M Flint and U-M
Dearborn student bodies differ
greatly from U-M Ann Arbor
in terms of socioeconomic
status. More than 40 percent
of undergraduates at U-M Flint
and U-M Dearborn are Pell
Grant eligible, compared to
under 20 percent at U-M Ann
Arbor.
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Christopher Hart, former
chairman of the National
Transportation Safety Board,
spoke to 70 University of
Michigan
students
and
community members at the
Ford School of Public Policy
Monday afternoon about the
innovation
of
autonomous
vehicles.
Hart is the chairman of the
Washington Metrorail Safety
Commission and the founder
of Hart Solutions LLC. He has
also worked for the National
Aeronautics
and
Space
Administration, the Federal
Aviation
Administration
and was nominated by both
President Barack Obama and
President George W. Bush to
the National Transportation
Safety Board.
Robert
Hampshire,
associate
professor
in
the
Public
Policy
School,
introduced Hart before his
lecture and spoke of Hart’s
vast experience.
“I had the pleasure of
serving on a panel with him
last year at Princeton reunions
... and I figured that the Ford
School
community
could
really benefit from hearing
his sage advice and his years
of experience and his career,”
Hampshire said.
Hart began his presentation
by discussing the common
misconception
of
the
complexity between aviation
automation and automation on
the ground.
“In
aviation,
automation
has shown amazing safety
benefits,
productivity,
operating efficiency, getting
more
airplanes
through
the airspace and reducing
pollution all at the same time,”
Hart said. “And I think that
the car automation scenario
has even more opportunities
for improvement, especially in
safety.”
Hart said many of the
problems with autonomous
vehicles stem from a lack
of graceful exits in case of
emergency or unanticipated
circumstances.
“When
automation
isn’t
perfect, you need to have some
graceful exits,” Hart said.
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Only one out of every two
students who enter the Residential
College graduate with a degree
from the program, according to RC
Director Catherine Badgley.
Students The Daily spoke to
who left the RC, which provides
LSA students with a four-year
interdisciplinary
liberal
arts
program in the form of a living-
learning community, cited stringent
degree requirements and financial
stress as reasons for dropping.
Badgley said about half of the
students who enter the RC program
drop within two years.
“Over the last 20 years, there
has been a very consistent rate of
about half the entering class leaving
the Residential College, but for a
variety of reasons, and at different
stages,” Badgley said. “Most of those
departures occur after the first year,
or in graduating seniors.”
RC requirements include first-
and second-year residency within
East Quad, a first-year writing
seminar, completion of RC Semi-
Immersion
Foreign
Language
Sequences and an arts practicum in
the form of an RC creative arts class.
Students who are non-RC majors
also have to take four additional
RC classes.
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Michael Fisher talks
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Flint, Dearborn campuses push
for University health services
1U members at all three campuses highlight socioeconomic differences,
put pressure on administration for equitable distribution of resources
Michael Fisher, legal division
director of the Environmental
Protection
Agency
Office
of
Criminal Enforcement, Forensics
and Training, spoke to a crowd
of about 20 Law students about
building a successful law career on
Monday morning.
The Environmental Law and
Policy Program (ELPP), a program
affiliated with the University
of Michigan’s Law School that
prepares students for careers in
environmental law, hosted the
talk.
Fisher’s talk touched on current
issues
surrounding
Michigan
water
quality,
among
other
environmental concerns. Since
2014, the city of Flint has been
striving to remove lead from its
drinking water, a public health
crisis that has caused 12 deaths
from
Legionnaires’
disease.
In December of last year, the
EPA provided $100 million to
the ongoing Flint water crisis.
Additionally, the EPA is working
to
implement
more
stringent
regulations of lead in drinking
water. According to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
they have not found a safe level of
lead exposure.
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NASA asks
Union board
to rename
south lounge
Maitland
Bowen,
the
chair
of
the
Native
American
Student
Association presented to the
Michigan Union Board of
Representatives on Monday
evening
about
how
the
University of Michigan can
help the Native American
community
feel
more
included and respected on
campus. About 50 students
and
community
members
attended the event.
Bowen proposed that the
Union’s
first-floor
south
lounge be renamed to honor
Native
American
students
and community members.
On behalf of NASA and
their
supporters,
Bowen
said that if the lounge were
to be renamed, it would
be one effort made by the
University
to
recognize
past offensive practices of
the
student
organization,
the Order of Angell, toward
the
Native
American
community. In 1902, then-
University
President
James Angell founded the
student organization, which
many
consider
a
secret
society,
under
the
name
“Michigamua,” the Ojibwe
word for water.
Michigamua
met
on
the seventh floor in the
tower of the Union. Their
meeting
space
resembled
a
wigwam
and
displayed
Native American statues and
artifacts. The organization
further
appropriated
Native
American
culture
by
incorporating
Native
practices into their meeting
rituals.
In 2000, the Students of
Color Coalition led a 37-day
demonstration at the Union,
protesting
Michigamua’s
appropriation
of
Native
American culture in their
organization’s
practices.
After the sit-in, the University
banned
Michigamua
from
using the tower as a meeting
space.
Seven
years
later,
Michigamua was reinstated
under the name Order of
Angell, a tribute to their
founder.
Currently, the Order of
Angell is again affiliated with
the University.
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