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Gov. Rick Snyder speaks on cyber security, including his own experience with identity theft, at the 11th annual Security at University of Michigan IT conference at Rackham Auditorium on Thursday.
Snyder talks cyber security during Rackham address Governor joins IT experts for annual conference on internet protection
Thursday to speak on a topic he says nerds know best: cyber security. “First of all, I am proud to say I am a nerd,” Snyder said. “One subset of that is being a techie. Technology is something that’s critically important, that’s transforming our lives, and it’s not going to go back, it’s only going to continue to advance.” Snyder spoke at the 11th annual Security at the University of Michigan IT conference at the
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Gov. Rick Snyder, the selfproclaimed “one tough nerd,” came to the University on
University, hosted by University Information and Technology Services. The conference focused on cyber security this year in honor of October’s status as National Cyber Security Awareness Month. “For everything we do to say we’re advancing information technology taking it to the next level, I think it’s equally important that there’s a corresponding effort to encourage better cyber security,”
Snyder said. University President Mark Schlissel introduced Snyder, and recognized the governor’s high value on educatoin. Snyder recieved his B.A., MBA and J.D. from the University as well as a honorary degree. “He’s persistent. It doesn’t matter what the climate is, he’s going to work to achieve goals he has for the citizens of this state and I’ve learned from See SNYDER, Page 3
Weiser Center, William Davidson Institute partner for development abroad By CAMY METWALLY Daily Staff Reporter
For four days this week, thousands of miles away, the University took the international stage in Slovakia. The Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and the William Davidson Institute at the University partnered together to sponsor a bootcamp in Bratislava, Slovakia, on leadership for nongovernmental organizations. From Oct. 20 to Oct. 23, the program welcomed participants from 20 NGOs in countries transitioning to democracy. Rachel Brichta, Weiser Center communications specialist, said the partnership demonstrated how units across campus can have interdisciplinary missions. “Both of our missions have
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UMASUNA grapples w ith life and death Japanese dramatists bring avant-garde theater to the ‘U’ By COSMO PAPPAS Daily Arts Writers
Editor’s Note: All quotes from the interview with Ushio Amagatsu were translated from English to Japanese Sankai Juku: and from UMASUNA: Japanese back to Memories English by Midori Before Okuyama History and Yasuko Oct. 23-24, Takai. 8 p.m. Butoh looms large in the Power Center for story of the the Performing Arts post-war $12 (students) -$54 avant-garde arts in Japan. The brainchild of Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo, Butoh is an experimental movement in dance that established a novel visual and physical vocabulary in dance. Slow, controlled movement and striking, often unnerving costume define this genre that strives “to find, in the depth of each human being, a common sense, a serene universality, even if, sometimes, it refers to cruelty or brutality.” For those first-generation
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innovators in Butoh, violent and unsettling images were the order of the day. But for Ushio Amagatsu, the director and founder of Sankai Juku, the world-renowned Butoh troupe founded in 1975 and based out of Paris, doesn’t draw its inspiration from violence in the pursuit of this universality. “I was born by the sea,” Amagatsu said in an interview via email. “Boundary between land and sea, a changing color from dawn to a blue sky, on the contrary, from red sunset to blue that is further darkened deeper, and the repetition of them that we may call as ‘eternity’ ... These impressions still dwell upon my mind.” Where Amagatsu departs from the violence and grotesquerie of the firstgeneration of Butoh dancers, he emphasizes the imperceptible, the uncanny, the eternal. Particularly so in Sankai Juku’s upcoming performance in Ann Arbor: UMUSUNA: Memories Before History. “Umusuna is a Japanese word that means a place of one’s birth. When I apply this word to the whole of human being, the earth itself becomes Umusuna,” Amagatsu said. “I believe that the relationship between the place of birth and people is always deeply affected by a certain natural element, and I don’t think this relationship changes at present, and in the future as well, as it didn’t change in the past.” See UMASUNA, Page 5
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strengthening democracy and civil society at our core, and so the fact that we’re able to work together and then find a partner overseas to do this together really shows that Michigan has so much to offer and these kinds of partnerships can really make an impact in the world,” Brichta said. The Pontis Foundation, an NGO in Slovakia, provided instructors to train participants with the goal of improving the managerial capacity of the organizations. Activities and workshops targeted five different areas: advocacy and public policy building, management, marketing strategies, planning and sustainability, and communication and negotiation. “Many NGOs have a clear idea of what they want to achieve, but sometimes it’s far more difficult to figure out how to achieve,” Political Science Prof. Anna Grzymala-Busse, Weiser Center program director, wrote in an e-mail to The Michigan Daily. “This workshop will provide See BOOTCAMP, Page 3
College Democrats hear from MDP chair Brandon Dillon stresses importance of youth involvement By BRIAN KUANG Daily Staff Reporter
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Etienne Hirsch, a director at the French Institute of Health and Medical Research, speaks about his research on Parkinson’s disease at the Udall Center for Parkinson’s Disease Research Symposium in Kahn Auditorium on Thursday.
University holds inaugural symposium on Parkinson’s Conference speakers pitch alternative approaches to study the disease By LYDIA MURRAY Daily Staff Reporter
The University hosted its first Parkinson’s disease research symposium Thursday, which focused on creative ways to approach the disease’s treatment. William Dauer, director of the Morris K. Udall Centers of Excellence for Parkinson’s Disease Research, a collaboration between several universities, said the center aims to study topics outside of mainstream Parkinson’s research.
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“The key theme is to look beyond the traditional focus to other aspects of the disease, to other chemical transmitters that are affected to try to better understand how those play a role is the disease,” he said. Etienne Hirsch, director at the Institute for Neurosciences at the French Alliance for Life and Health Science, delivered the conference’s keynote address in the Biomedical Science Research Building’s Kahn Auditorium. Hirsch’s talk focused on the ways in which brain cell deterioration causes symptoms associated with Parkinson’s, touching on his own research. He emphasized the role of glial cells, inflammatory cytokines and apoptosis, the automatic response within cells to destruct when they sustain a certain level of damage.
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Glial cells help maintain homeostasis, or stability, in the brain. Inflammatory cytokines are proteins that signal cells to cause inflammation. He said while those three elements are not always viewed as pivotal to understanding the disease, he hoped to convince the audience that looking at Parkinson’s disease in this way would provide a new way to think about treatment. In talking about his experiments, Hirsch said he found that a certain heat shock protein, HSP60, was responsible for increasing the amount of cellular degeneration. Heat shock proteins are a type of protein within the body that are produced when a cell experiences stressful conditions. “From this experiment, See PARKINSON’S, Page 3
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Despite the keynote speaker delivering his address through Skype instead of in person and the presence of a tracker for the Republican Party, the College Democrats heard from the head of Michigan’s Democratic Party on Thursday about how young people can become involved in politics. MDP Chair Brandon Dillon, who was elected in July after former chair Lon Johnson stepped down to run for Congress, was originally scheduled to speak in the Michigan Union. An upcoming event with presidential candidate Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, conflicted with the plans and led him to Skype in to the event instead. O’Malley is slated to appear in Dearborn, Mich. on Friday as part of a conference hosted by the Arab American Institute. During the appearance, he will discuss policy issues affecting Arab Americans and how they can be a part of the discussion during the 2016 campaign season. “(Even with the schedule conflict), Dillon still wanted to support students and reach out to us,” said Public Policy senior Max See DEMOCRATS, Page 2
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