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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Ann Arbor, Michigan
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

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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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building a successful 
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for University health services

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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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