About 
50 
University 
of 

Michigan students and faculty 

alike 
gathered 
in 
Rackham 

Auditorium 
for 
the 
annual 

Tanner 
Lecture 
Wednesday 

evening, which is funded by 

The 
Tanner 
Foundation, 
an 

organization that helps patients 

with neurological diseases. This 

year’s keynote speaker was Sally 

Haslanger, the Ford professor 

of philosophy at Massachusetts 

Institute 
of 
Technology. 

Haslanger’s lecture focused on 

intersectional oppression, “thick” 

social categories and institutional 

capitalism. 

Haslanger teaches philosophy 

and women’s and gender studies 

at 
MIT 
and 
has 
published 

research 
on 
metaphysics, 

feminist theory and critical race 

theory. Haslanger’s collection of 

papers titled Resisting Reality: 

Social Construction and Social 

Critique have received critical 

acclaim, including the Joseph 

B. Gittler award for outstanding 

work in philosophy of the social 

sciences. During her time at MIT, 

she also helped establish the 

Women in Philosophy Task Force 

and PIKSI-Boston, a summer 

program 
for 
undergraduates 

hoping to study philosophy from 

underrepresented groups. 

Haslanger began the lecture 

by providing an overview on 

what both discrimination and 

social 
formation 
mean. 
In 

the 
lecture, 
she 
questioned 

how the formation of social 

groups revolves around shared 

identities 
between 
different 

people.“Intersectionality, 
as 
I 

understand it, is the result of the 

different dynamics at work in 

the system that produce social 

groups,” Haslanger said. “These 

different dynamics, and others, 

embed ‘logics’ of capital, gender, 

race, 
citizenship, 
disability 

and the like. They play out in 

historically complex ways.”

In an interview with The 

Michigan Daily at the event, LSA 

freshman Ellen Drejza discussed 

her motivations for coming to this 

year’s Tanner Lecture. Drejza 

said her International Studies 101 

professor encouraged her class to 

participate in any U-M lecture or 

event related to course material, 

and she chose to attend this one. 

“I thought that this talk just 

really 
covered 
all 
the 
bases 

because it’s just all about social 

injustice and different topics that 

tie into international studies,” 

Drejza said. “She talked about so 

many important social issues and 

economic issues.”

LSA junior Sabrina Kahlon 

said she found the discussion 

of 
intersectionality 
to 
be 

particularly interesting. Kahlon 

told The Daily that Haslanger’s 

explanation of how local systems, 

such as child protective services, 

can 
create 
oppressive 
social 

constructs,encouraged 
her 
to 

think about historical inequity in 

a new way.

“I think it was interesting 

how she discusses the social 

structures 
and 
oppression 
in 

society, whether that’s due to race, 

gender, sexuality, etc.,” Kahlon 

said. “Also, when she discussed 

intersectionality 
involving 

child protective services in the 

criminal justice system, that was 

very interesting.”

Kahlon 
said 
she 
would 

encourage other members of the 

campus community to attend 

talks like the Tanner Lecture 

to participate in conversations 

surrounding 
important 

educational issues and societal 

topics. 

“I think they’re important, but 

I would only go if you’re actually 

interested in it, not just for a 

class,” Kahlon said.

Kelly 
Campbell, 
chief 

administrator in the Department 

of Philosophy at the University, 

assisted in the organization of 

the lecture. In an interview with 

The Daily, Campbell said the 

department 
chose 
Haslanger 

to 
give 
this 
year’s 
Tanner 

Lecture due to her admirable 

qualifications in the field. 

“Professor 
Haslanger 
is 
at 

the top of her field in thinking 

about different effects of human 

values,” Campbell said. 

Michigan Medicine announced 

March 15 they will be partnering 

with Zipline, an autonomous drone 

delivery 
service, 
to 
distribute 

prescription medications to some 

Washtenaw County patients’ homes 

in 2024. 

The partnership aims to help 

deliver pharmaceuticals across the 

county and is projected to double 

Michigan Medicine’s prescription 

fulfillment. 
The 
partnership 
is 

a part of Michigan Medicine’s 

broader strategy to expand specialty 

pharmacy services, which provide 

medications to patients with complex 

diseases. 

In an interview with The Michigan 

Daily, Dana Habers, chief innovation 

officer of Michigan Medicine, said 

using a drone delivery service allows 

the healthcare system to address 

multiple goals at the same time.

“We are on a continuous quest 

to provide … care to our patients at 

the lowest possible cost,” Habers 

said. “We’re also looking for ways to 

improve our carbon footprint and 

provide a more environmentally 

friendly series of services to our 

patients. And finally, of course, 

we’re on a relentless pursuit of open 

access and allowing patients from all 

different backgrounds … to access our 

services and get the care of our world-

class pharmacist team. So all of those 

things came together when we met 

Zipline.”

When 
the 
Zipline 
service 

launches, a new pharmacy facility 

in Dexter will host chargers and 

loading ports for the drones. Patients 

living within a 10-mile radius of 

the facility will be able to elect to 

receive their prescription drugs by 

drone. According to Habers, drones 

will provide faster delivery than the 

current system, where medications 

are packed to stay fresh for 48 hours 

and are sent to homes through 

delivery truck services.

“(The Zipline system) could be 

much more real-time,” Habers said. 

“(A patient) could hang up with the 

pharmacist and know their plan and 

then have the drug that day or within 

a much shorter period of time. So that 

48-hour window we think will be 

significantly shorter with this kind of 

instant delivery model.”

The 
Emergency 
Medical 

Services Club at the University 

of Michigan recently launched 

an initiative to install boxes 

containing Narcan — a naloxone 

nasal spray that reverses the 

effects of opioid overdose — around 

campus, starting with fraternity 

and sorority chapter houses. The 

initiative also offers a 20-minute 

presentation on recognizing opioid 

overdoses 
and 
administering 

Narcan.

In April 2022, the Ann Arbor 

District 
Library 
installed 
a 

vending machine that dispenses 

free Narcan at their downtown 

branch. Since then, the program 

has expanded to other AADL 

branches. Narcan also recently 

became the first over-the-counter 

nasal spray to be approved by the 

Food and Drug Administration on 

March 29. 

The 
recent 
initiative 
was 

proposed by Kinesiology junior 

Sophia Ghayur, a member of 

the EMS Club. Ghayur told The 

Michigan Daily she was motivated 

to pitch the project after students 

in her hometown of Boulder, 

Colo., overdosed on fentanyl. After 

seeing other universities like the 

University of Arizona implement 

similar programs, Ghayur said she 

decided to reach out to EMS Club’s 

executive board members about 

the idea.

Narcan boxes have since been 

introduced to five U-M fraternity 

houses: Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma 

Alpha Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta, 

Triangle and Sigma Nu. The club 

is currently working to expand 

the program to all fraternity and 

sorority houses at the University. 

“(We’ve) already gotten the 

funding for both (fraternity and 

sorority houses) through Central 

Student 
Government,” 
Ghayur 

said. “(The University) is obviously 

a huge school, so we just chose to 

start out with fraternities at first. 

And we’ll be installing them into 

the sorority houses soon as well.”

Though 
Narcan 
has 
been 

found to be highly effective in 

reversing overdoses, a lack of 

knowledge about the drug has 

impacted its use and availability. 

LSA sophomore Shane Ross, Phi 

Gamma Delta fraternity brother 

and EMS Club member, spoke with 

The Daily about how a critical part 

of expanding Narcan access is 

education.

The 
University 
of 
Michigan 

Sustainable Food Program hosted 

student-led “learnshops” at the 

Michigan Union Saturday as part 

of their three-day student food 

summit “Rooting for Change.” The 

interactive workshops were hosted 

by UMSFP members and students 

from other partner organizations 

like the Minorities in Agriculture, 

Natural Resources and Related 

Sciences, 
Student 
Sustainability 

Coalition, Sustainability Cultural 

Organizers and the Campus Farm.

The learnshops were the last 

event of the three-day summit, 

with more than 130 students and 

community members in attendance. 

The summit started on Thursday 

with “Bite-Sized Talks about Food 

Justice” at the Blue Llama Jazz 

Club, with student speakers and 

performers hosting short talks 

about different cultural approaches 

to food justice. The series also 

featured a keynote panel at the 

Michigan League on the economics, 

society and politics of food on 

Friday. 

In 
an 
interview 
with 
The 

Michigan Daily, Chase Dautrich, 

LSA senior and co-president of 

UMSFP, said he hoped the summit 

would expose people to food justice 

organizations on campus and new 

ways of creating positive change.

“A big goal of (the Rooting for 

Change summit) is just bringing 

people 
together 
and 
showing 

them that there is a food justice 

community here on campus and 

that we do have a lot of ‘people 

power’ when we all come together,” 

Dautrich said. “Being exposed to 

new skills … is really powerful for 

shaping people’s mindset when it 

comes to imagining the ways that 

they can create change.” 

In one of the sessions hosted 

Saturday, SSC members presented 

on the intersection of decolonization 

and global food systems, while 

other workshops included hands-

on tutorials related to fermentation 

and composting. 

Jasmine Paulk, LSA sophomore 

and a member of the Sustainability 

Cultural 
Organizers, 
hosted 

a learnshop on the concept of 

“cultural organizing.” Paulk cited 

Arts & Democracy’s definition of 

cultural organizing, explaining the 

concept as “a fluid and dynamic 

practice about integrating arts and 

culture into organizing strategies” 

and “organizing from a particular 

tradition, 
cultural 
identity, 

community of place or worldview.” 

Attendees were invited to engage 

with cultural organizing by crafting 

a 3D abstract visualization of their 

culture with fabric scraps.

Paulk said she hoped the fabric 

crafting activity at the learnshop 

would allow participants to connect 

with their culture in a meaningful 

way while also giving the leftover 

fabric scraps and buttons a new life.

“I wanted to share with people 

what 
the 
concept 
of 
cultural 

organizing is and give them a 

window into how they can connect 

with their culture and sort of have 

fun doing that,” Paulk said. “I hope 

that they leave today thinking about 

what they’re most connected to, 

what’s meaningful to them, and 

then they’ll have a little physical 

reminder of those things.” 

Engineering 
senior 
Jordon 

Horton 
and 
Environment 
and 

Sustainability 
graduate 
student 

Naajia Shakir, the president and 

vice-president 
of 
MANRRS, 

presented on food sovereignty, a 

community-driven 
food 
system 

where farmers help craft food 

production policies to mitigate 

food inequity. They highlighted 

organizations who practice forms of 

food sovereignty, such as the Detroit 

Black Community Food Security 

Network 
and 
Cadillac 
Urban 

Gardens, a one-acre urban garden 

located in southwest Detroit. 

Shakir said in an interview 

with The Daily she hopes people 

leave the learnshops with a better 

understanding of how to take 

control of the food system. She also 

mentioned her personal experience 

growing up in Camden, N.J.

“Growing 
up 
around 
a 
lot 

of corner stores and fast food 

restaurants, I’ve always wanted 

there to be space with more 

affordable, equitable and accessible 

grocery stores,” Shakir said. “I just 

hope that folks know that there is 

a possibility to have control over … 

where your food is coming from, 

(to) grow your own food and also 

connect with your community.” 

Shakir attended some of the 

other workshops and said she felt 

the summit was a good opportunity 

to connect with other students 

and 
organizations 
involved 
in 

food-related 
and 
environmental 

advocacy.

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fourth-annual food justice summit

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PiTE & LSA German Alumni Renu Dabak-Wakankar teaches students how to make kimchi in a session about fermenting foods at the Food Lab during the Student Food Summit Learn-
ship Program Saturday afternoon. 

Annual UMich Tanner Lecture discusses intersectionality and oppression
 U-M community members gathered to hear from keynote speaker Sally Haslanger on intersectional 
oppression and institutional capitalism

The University’s EMS Club launched an initiative to provide Narcan 
around campus, starting with fraternity and sorority chapter houses

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