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ACADEMICS
Scholarship expands to offer full ride to DPS grads Program to cover tuition for qualifying Detroit Public School alums
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Dr. Khalil Shikaki, director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, discusses possible changes in U.S. policy toward Israel and Palestine under President-elect Donald Trump at the Ford School Wednesday evening.
KEVIN LINDER
Experts say U.S., Middle East relations uncertain under Trump
Daily Staff Reporter
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced Monday that the Detroit College Promise scholarship program, a part of the Detroit Public Schools Foundation, will be expanded provide full free tuition in four-year college programs to students who graduate from Detroit Public Schools. The program has provided last-dollar scholarship funding — monies that aim to fill the financial gap left by scholarships to cover additional expenses— to more than 700 students. Previously, the program covered expenses
Campaign rhetoric leaves researchers concerned, confused about future policy ETHAN LEVIN
Daily Staff Reporter
The future of diplomatic relations between the United States and the Middle East may not be in good hands under President-elect Donald Trump, according to political experts
who spoke at the University of Michigan Wednesday. At the talk, held at the Ford School of Public Policy to an audience of about 20 students, faculty and staff, the speakers focused on the tense political climate the next presidential administration should expect in regard to conflict in the Middle
CAMPUS LIFE
University effort raises more than $5.5 million Giving Blueday breaks records from previous years CAITLIN REEDY Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan’s Giving Blueday, a 24-hour fundraising event for student organizations, raised over $5.5 million Tuesday from about 7,000 donors. This is the largest amount the program has raised to date, surpassing last year’s donations by nearly $1.5 million. Giving Blueday stems from the international campaign Giving Tuesday, wherein people across the globe are encouraed to donate to different charities the week after Thanksgiving. The event is meant to kick off the holiday season — a season that is marked by heightened consumer activity and purchases. At the University, donors could give either to the University or to a specific school, unit or student organization. The campaign, first launched in 2014, has become more successful with each successive year. It raised $3 million in its first year, and just over $4 See GIVING, Page 3A
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East. Both Shai Feldman, the director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, and Khalil Shikaki, the director of the Palestinina Center for Policy and Survey Research, acknowledged that their speculation on Trump’s actions in office could be proven
entirely incorrect once Trump is inaugurated. However, Feldman said considering the comments Trump made on the campaign trail, which he described as abrasive, he is uncertain of Trump’s foreign policy goals. Trump’s objectives include calls See TRUMP, Page 3A
that were not otherwise met by federal aid, including tuition fees, but the scholarships were not full coverage awards, which would satisfy all student expenses. The new expansion has been introduced as a pilot plan to be tested with students from the 2016 graduating class and next year’s 2017 class, according to a press release from Duggan’s office. Private funding from the Michigan Education Excellence Foundation, a Lansing-based nonprofit organization, helped support the expansion into full tuition, MEEF hopes to raise $25 million to support the program See DETROIT, Page 3A
‘U’ faculty develops pop-up eye clinic Alcohol on for regions lacking ongoing care options pedal pubs STATE
Portable container project in Jamaica aims to rethink approaches to health ALEXA ST.JOHN Daily Staff Reporter
Instead of thinking outside of the box, University of Michigan architects and doctors are thinking inside of it. A collaboration between faculty from the University Medical School, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and University Health Service has resulted in the development of a portable, box-like shipping container turned ophthalmology clinic that opened this month in Sandy Bay, Jamaica. Geoffrey Thun, associate dean for research and creative practice and associate professor of architecture at Taubman College, spearheaded the project’s development alongside David Burke, interim chair of the Department of Human Genetics and professor of human genetics, UHS optometrist Joseph Myers and a team of Taubman designers. The clinic — a 20-by8 foot recycled shipping container named “Common Health +” — was delivered and set up in Jamaica by the researchers and a group of volunteers last month. The box contains a number of eye care technologies repurposed from the University Health System. Thun said the development of the pop-up clinic combined
a number of multidisciplinary efforts, which began in the summer of 2015, resulting in a unique medical facility that could prove beneficial to a number of areas lacking proper eye care as well as other forms of medical treatment. “As designers, we’re interested in what you can do to make the (clinic) not a container and how you can produce additional
possibilities both for how it’s used by the community, but also in terms of the way in which you read the (container),” Thun said. “At the base level, it’s the idea of a set of technologies that is embedded in a hyperengineered artifact which then requires very low degrees of medical training to be able to operate.” With funding from a Third
Century Initiative grant — a $50 million, five-year initiative at the University created to develop new approaches to teaching and scholarships — the team also plans to ship eyeglass equipment to the Sandy Bay community. The clinic aims to allow patients to use automated technology without requiring medical attention from a professional. See CLINIC, Page 3A
COURTESY OF DAN TISH
A pop-up eye clinic prototype is constructed out of a shipping container in Jamaica.
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made legal in Detroit
City Council votes unaminously in favor of regulation change WILL FEUER
Daily Staff Reporter
Detroit City Council voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of an ordinance that will allow patrons of “pedal pubs,” or mobile bars on wheels powered by the pedaling of the patrons, to now consume alcohol on board in the city. These pedal pubs are similar to “Trolley Pub” and other companies in Ann Arbor that also offer the same service. These pedal pubs have been legal in Ann Arbor since September 2015. In July 2015, Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill allowing passengers of pedal pubs to drink on board, but individual constituencies are still allowed to decide at their own discretion whether or not to allow onboard consumption. While Ann Arbor has allowed onboard consumption since the inception of pedal pubs, Detroit had not until this vote. Business senior Joel Goldstein has patronized pedal pubs in both Ann Arbor and Detroit, and said See COUNCIL, Page 3A
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