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Mathematics & Statistics
Hippocracy: Student Activism and the Human Rights Party in Ypsilanti
Nathaniel Yocum Mary Elizabeth-Murphy, faculty mentor
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Between 1969-1972 student activism at Eastern Michigan University fostered a political environment on campus that nurtured the rise of leftist, grassroots organizing. In 1974, the upstart Human Rights Party (HRP) won two seats on the Ypsilanti City Council and helped pass one of the most progressive local marijuana laws in the country. Prior scholarship has focused on the Ann Arbor branch of the HRP, and its subsequent downfall. Using the local press and student newspapers, this paper tells the story of leftist student activism at EMU that led to real political change in the 1970s.
Oral / Q & A Session B
Analysis of Diabetes Discrepancies by Levels of Education in the United States Using the CDC Data
Emma Krietemeyer Dr. Khairul Islam, faculty mentor
A polynomial of varying degrees will be studied in relation to fitting models to CDC Diabetes prevalence rates sorted by level of education in the United States. This model will be used to interpolate and extrapolate rates of future years, and how rates vary sorted by level of education. Assessments will be made at a National, State, and County level for comparison. Education is grouped by Less than High School, High School, or Beyond High School. The goodness of the fitted model will be assessed using the coefficient of determination and other related criteria. An open source software R will be utilized for computational aid.
