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“This is the beginning of a movement, not the end.” - LSA senior, Florence Rivkin
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Protestors for the Women’s March walk through Washington D.C on Saturday. The rally began at 10:00 am and attendees began marching at 2:30.
Michigan students, Ann Arbor residents travel to D.C. to attend rallies alongside state lawmakers
50 local women, 4 men take bus, aim to promote women’s rights, protest election of President Trump at national march EMMA KINERY Editor in Chief
Ann Arbor was still dark at 7:45 a.m. as staff shielded by umbrellas from the rain filed into the LSA Building. Outside, a group of 50 women and four men in damp coats and signs shielded in plastic bags, some seeking refuge under the angles of the Cube, waited for their bus to Washington D.C. to arrive. In about four hours, Donald Trump would be sworn in as 45th president of the United States and
the 44th president, Barack Obama, would board a helicopter and fly out of the capital he had called home for eight years. The bus would never make it to D.C. by then, but it never intended to. The women weren’t interested celebrating the inauguration, rather, they wanted to be there for the aftermath. On Friday, Trump was inaugurated, and on Saturday, women from all over the country would gather for the Women’s March on Washington. A week before the inauguration, The Washington Post reported
RESEARCH
Veteran overdoses fall due to program Study finds plan reduced number of high-dose opioid prescriptions KENNEDY WERNER For the Daily
The number of high-dose opioid painkiller prescriptions written to veterans has declined following the release of a Veterans Health Administration plan to reduce the potentially addictive substance, according to a new study conducted by the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor researchers. Published in the scientific journal Pain, the research study found prescriptions written from high-dose opioids decreased by 16 percent and prescriptions written for very high-dose opioids decreased by 24 percent. The journal also noted the prescribed combination of opioids and sedatives, a possibly a deadly one, decreased by 21 percent over the course of two years. The plan, coined the Opioid Safety Initiative, was introduced in 2013 in an attempt to reduce risky opioid prescribing and other potentially lethal drug combinations. The OSI is a computer system that oversees prescriptions and provides physicians with additional knowledge for safer prescribing. See VETERAN, Page 3A
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that city officials had received 200 permit requests for bus parking for the inauguration itself, and 1,200 for the Women’s March. Going into Jan. 20, the president-elect had a 37-percent approval rating. Trump’s election was met with mixed emotions across the country — the president lost the popular vote but won on the electoral. Many women were saddened by the loss of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and even more so the loss of the prospect of the first female president. Regardless of political party, though, women were weary
of the incoming president — for his policies threatening issues like reproductive health, and for his rhetoric against women (see: the infamous “grab her by the pussy” hot mike video). It was these concerns which prompted the surge of Facebook events for women organizing and demonstrating in response. The movement eventually consolidated under the Women’s March on Washington — though, there were also smaller marches across the country — including one in Ann Arbor.
LSA senior Florence Rivkin, donning a pink “WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS” shirt, stood at the front of the bus and explained why she would march. “I think it’s going to be a really lovely message to show thousands and thousands of people, women, men, every identity, coming together and showing everyone that we actually love each other and the U.S. doesn’t have to be a hateful place,” Rivkin said. “I want the Trump administration to know I am going to be fighting for my rights and I am going to be fighting for everybody
else’s rights … this is the beginning of a movement, not the end.” Rivkin organized the event with high-school-friend-turned-collegeroommate LSA senior Lalitha Ramaswamy. Rivkin was upset following the election and a family friend suggested she do something about it and go to the march. “I came home and Lalitha was sitting in our room and I was like, should we do this?” Rivkin said. “And she was like, yeah. And she made the Facebook event and we ordered the bus the next day.” See MARCH, Page 3A
Students with temporary disabilities City looks face unexpected challenges on campus to ‘U’ for ANN ARBOR
Transportation issues among the chief concerns of those needing assistance COLIN BERESFORD Daily Staff Reporter
Last winter, Engineering sophomore Sam Greeley developed a severe case of Achilles tendinitis, an ankle injury confining her to crutches for weeks, adding unexpected challenges to her daily life. After receiving attention from the University of Michigan Hospital, Greeley was not informed of the accommodations available to her from Services for Students with Disabilities. It was not until two days after her hospital visit that she learned about the services available to students with temporary conditions. “I wasn’t given any contact information for a ride or a cab (from the hospital),” Greeley said. “While you are mostly mobile on crutches, travelling just down the hallway, especially in the beginning, was very tiresome.” In 2015-2016, 108 students were registered with temporary disabilities, according to the SSD Annual Report. When students injure themselves, they face an unanticipated number of challenges when confined to crutches, wheelchairs and others walking aids. All services are free to students. Nursing sophomore Madison Farmer broke her ankle during the winter of 2016 and was put on crutches. She wasn’t aware of SSD until four days after her injury. “I was (using Uber to go) to all
of my classes, but that got very expensive and so someone told me about Services for Students with Disabilities,” Farmer said. SSD offers a number of services to students with temporary disabilities, including Paratransit, which provides a free ride to students with disabilities around campus, and adjustable furniture, to ease the pain of injuries and
accommodate any student. SSD Director Stuart Segal his office could improve communication about its services. Often, students with permanent or temporary disabilities remain unaware of the services available to them. “I have to admit, this is one area where I think we could do a better job because this not only concerns
MARCH ON
students with temporary disabilities, this concerns students with all the disabilities,” Segal said. “It breaks my heart when I talk to a senior, who has been here four or five years, finally somehow makes it here and gets the accommodations and they look at me and they say: ‘Jeez I wish I knew you guys were here four years ago.’ ” See DISABILITY, Page 3A
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Ann Arbor resident Vick Haviland holds up a sign at the Women’s March in downtown Ann Arbor on Saturday.
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Vol. CXXVII, No. 13 ©2016 The Michigan Daily
street light funding
Ann Arbor City Council plans to prioritize repairs and additions in new plan ANDREW HIYAMA Daily Staff Reporter
The Ann Arbor City Council approved a $143,296 contract with OHM Advisors — an architectural firm based in Livonia — earlier last week to conduct a complete inspection of the city’s streetlights, including prioritization of repairs and cost estimates. Such an inspection occurs at least once every 10 years, according to City Councilmember Chip Smith (D– Ward 5). Smith said the inspection is regular, but noted it is coming after city employees noticed the bottoms of lamp posts were “rusted out” while looking into replacing lights in the Kerrytown neighborhood of Ann Arbor. Last October, Huron High School student Qi-Xuan “Justin” Tang, a 16-year-old, was struck by a car and killed while crossing a poorly-lit crosswalk on Fuller Road while on his way to school. Since that accident, more streetlights have been installed near the high school, and a school zone has been established, reducing the speed limit from 40 See LIGHTING, Page 3A
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