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2 — Wednesday, February 23, 2022
From the age of five, LSA senior
Ninnie Chiang knew she had a love
for dance — a realization that came
from her first kindergarten class
performance, where she soared across
the stage.
After
taking
a
break
from
dance, Chiang said she decided to
re-immerse herself in the art upon
arriving at the University of Michigan
to take back part of her identity.
Chiang said she planned to include
dance into her collegiate education but
there was one problem: a dance minor
was not offered through the College of
Literature, Science and the Arts.
Despite being recognized as a
minor in other schools, including the
School of Music, Theatre & Dance,
LSA has yet to establish a dance minor.
Even if LSA students complete all of
the required classes for a dance minor,
they will not receive a minor upon
graduation.
In November 2021, Chiang and
her peers, LSA seniors Kyla Hyatt and
Yuyao Sun, decided to take action.
They sent multiple emails to dance
advisors, department chairs and the
head of the LSA curriculum asking for
answers.
Chiang said she is disappointed
by the lack of action from the LSA
department. She said that although
she was previously notified about the
absence of the minor in LSA by her
advisor, she still chose to move ahead
with the hope she would be able to
eventually complete the dance minor
as an LSA student.
“What seemed at first like an issue
from the past 3-5 years now seems like
a decade-long issue,” Chiang said. “It’s
been passed for years from individual
to individual.”
In November 2021, Chiang, Hyatt
and Sun created a petition to increase
awareness and urge LSA to consider
recognizing the dance minor. As of
Feb. 15, the petition has received over
800 signatures.
“I feel like there is a path for the
minor to get approved, but for some
reason it’s so convoluted and difficult,”
Hyatt said. “I think it’s because the
minor was denied before, but not for
super clear reasons.”
Associate
Dean
Tim
McKay
reached out to the Daily about a possible
explanation for this discrepancy.
“The dance minor was proposed
to the LSA curriculum committee
about five years ago. At that time,
several concerns were raised by the
committee, including about the fact
that the minor requires 22 credits
(most minors require 15-18),” McKay
wrote. “Those concerns are now
being addressed by SMTD, and we are
hopeful that a credential for the dance
minor will be available to LSA students
in the near future.”
LSA sophomore Isabel Reid – who
also signed the petition – said she
considered switching to the School
of Kinesiology to complete the dance
minor, but faced many challenges along
the way.
“I’m pre-med and the education
that I really want in my undergrad
aligns more with what LSA offers,”
Reid said. “I knew it would be too big of
a sacrifice to have to start over with pre-
reqs as well, and I wasn’t willing to give
that up just for the minor, even though
it does mean a lot to me.”
Reid
also
has
an
academic
scholarship
through
LSA
that
would not transfer over to any other
school, further preventing her from
switching and being able to complete
her intended dance minor.
The dance minor at the University
consists of 22 credits over four areas:
technique, composition, dance history
and electives. According to the SMTD
course website, applicants for the
dance minor who have not completed
a U-M Dance Department technique
course at the 101 level or above should
send a video “that demonstrates dance
proficiency and a one-page dance
resume.” While awaiting acceptance,
students are able to enroll in Dance
101, 102, 103, or 104 as an entry-level
course in the program.
Hyatt said she currently has a job
teaching classes at an off-campus
dance studio and plans to take a year
off after graduation to teach full time.
When it comes to finding future jobs
in the dance industry, Hyatt said she
worries that the lack of a recognized
minor will limit her opportunities.
“If I were to want to get another
job similar to mine elsewhere, I don’t
necessarily have the credentials,”
Hyatt said. “So I guess I’d just have to
tell a potential employer that I’ve met
the requirements for a dance minor
and hope they’ll take my word for it.”
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Petition with over 800 signatures calls for recognition, increased awareness
Students express frustration with
dance minor not ofered in LSA
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Various University of Michigan
stakeholders for the past few
years, including student as well
as staff and faculty organizations,
have pushed for the University to
take an active role in combating
climate change by reducing its
greenhouse gas emissions.
The University has responded
to these requests by presenting
a path for the institution to
become
carbon
neutral
and
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committed to eliminating its
scope 1 emissions across all three
campuses by 2040, achieving net-
zero scope 2 emissions by 2025,
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1
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Community members argue
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Michigan Medicine, Detroit Zoo partner
on non-invasive procedure
Pediatric surgeons
at C.S. Mott perform
remedial surgery on
premature chimp
JINGQI ZHU
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When Dr. Marcus Jarboe, director
of Pediatric Minimally Invasive
Surgery at the C.S. Mott Children’s
Hospital, was approached by the
Detroit Zoo to perform a therapeutic
surgery on a newborn chimpanzee,
he jumped at the opportunity to heal
a non-traditional patient.
The premature chimp, named
Zane, had developed an inguinal
hernia — a painful bulge of tissue that
develops in the groin region — five
weeks after he was born, in January
2020. For unclear reasons, Zane’s
mother didn’t show any interest in
her newborn, so the caretaker team
began taking extra care of Zane in his
early weeks. After Dr. Ann Duncan,
director of Animal Health at the
Detroit Zoo, and the team discovered
Zane’s inguinal hernia, they reached
out to Mott for help.
“Chimpanzee
anatomy
and
human anatomy are very similar and
the equipment needed for neonatal
patients is specialized,” Duncan
wrote in an email to The Michigan
Daily. “For these reasons, we
contacted a human pediatric surgeon
with
expertise
in
non-invasive
laparoscopic repair techniques.”
Contrary to the open hernia repair,
the laparoscopic method allows the
surgeon to visualize the hernia defect
without making a large incision over
the operating site. A camera called
a laparoscope is inserted through
the incision, and the surgeon uses
the image relayed on a monitor to
guide doctors as they perform the
procedure.
For his first non-human surgery,
Jarboe said he decided to use the
laparoscopic method because of
his expertise in minimally invasive
surgery. He also said the scope helps
to better visualize the anatomy.
“I do most of my (surgeries)
laparoscopic and I think the hernia
is easier to do laparoscopic,” Jarboe
said. “I could figure out the anatomy
easier with the scope.”
Jarboe also said pediatric surgeons
have much expertise in performing
surgery on human patients that
are of similar size to Zane, so many
of the procedures can be similarly
performed on primate animals.
“Zane was somewhere around
three kilograms,” Jarboe said. “It’s
the same size we usually operate
on.
In addition to two pediatric
anesthesiologists assisting with the
surgery, Jarboe said he invited senior
pediatric surgeon Dr. Ronald Hirschl
and two pediatric anesthesiologists
to perform the surgery with him.
He said inviting the pediatric
anesthesiologists was important
because of their expertise in
inserting the endotracheal tube
so the patient can breathe during
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