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Clinton, Bush Obama EPA lawyers look to the future DESIGN BY AVA WEINER
Japanese-Americans show support for American Muslims in Michigan
Exploring the similarities between internment camps and post 9/11 discrimination COLIN BERESFORD Daily Staff Reporter
In February 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, relocating all people of Japanese ancestry in the United States, documented and undocumented,
into internment camps. Fastforward 75 years, and Arab and Muslim Americans are facing discrimination in ways that resonate with the memories of Japanese-Americans. The internment of JapaneseAmericans followed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. Nearly
120,000 Japanese-Americans were sent to the internment camps, roughly two-thirds of whom were native-born citizens in the United States. Japanese-Americans spent, on average, three years in the camps, living in cramped barracks, often with only a single working light bulb.
Anti-Japanese sentiment was high before the attack on Pearl Harbor, and even higher afterward. The Japanese relocation to internment camps was met with nearly no opposition by the non-JapaneseAmerican population. In November of 2016, shortly See SUPPORT, Page 3A
Cannon says Trump can’t implement new changes due to valid research ANDREW HIYAMA Daily Staff Reporter
More than 100 people showed up Wednesday afternoon at South Hall for a panel with three former general counsels for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, hosted by the University of Michigan Law School’s Environmental Law and Policy Program. The panel, comprising the EPA’s top lawyers during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations, intended to review the major environmental challenges during each of their tenures as well as discuss the future of environmental policy in the Trump administration.
Stephanie Campbell, a graduate student in the School for Environment and Sustainability, said worries about the Trump administration drove her to come to the panel. “When all this was coming down last fall, when we heard who won the election, there was a lot of worry and concern inside the environmental school especially regarding what this would mean,” she said. “This seemed like a good opportunity to get more of a practitioner’s perspective.” Current law and rules promulgated by the EPA obligate it to regulate greenhouse gases, as the EPA See EPA, Page 3A
University hosts third symposium for Program Professor addresses interdiscplinary research in Parkinson’s examines
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RESEARCH
language barriers
Experts hope to challenge traditional prespectives of medical procedures
LingoMatch to connect multilingual volunteers to immigrants, refugees
With close to 60,000 Americans diagnosed annually, Parkinson’s disease is the secondmost-common neurodegenerative disease in the United States following Alzheimer’s disease. With an elderly population, experts are predicting there will be an increasing prevalence of Parkinson’s disease with greater economic burdens on patients due to treatment and lifestyle changes. At a Wednesday morning symposium held at the Biomedical Science Research Building, seven research experts discussed current Parkinson’s disease research and its clinical implications. Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder resulting in loss of motor skills due to the progressive loss of dopamine in the brain, particularly the basal ganglia. The symptoms of the disease are often characterized by a tremor, rigidity, difficulty initiating movement and changes in balance. With the progressive death of brain cells, quality of life is also diminished. The event was hosted by the University’s Morris K. Udall Center of Excellence for Parkinson’s Disease Research, one of nine such centers across the country, to promote understanding of advanced scientific research and, ultimately, its translation into cures for the disease.
REMI MURREY
Daily Staff Reporter
LSA senior Natalie Andrasko has worked hard to help University of Michigan students apply their unique language skills to a good cause in Washtenaw County. That “good cause” would be LingoMatch, a program created by three students to connect bilingual and multilingual students with an immigrant or refugee in Washtenaw County struggling to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits due to a language barrier. Andrasko, one of the project’s team members, alongside LSA junior Jamie Yeung and LSA junior Syeda Zaynab Mahmood, wrote in an email interview she believes the program is significant because it allows students to put their language skills to work in a meaningful way, helping immigrants or refugees get their food stamps. “It provides bilingual and multilingual students at the University of Michigan with the opportunity to volunteer in a See PROGRAM, Page 3A
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YOSHIKO IWAI
Daily Staff Reporter
The Udall group, supported by NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, was founded in 1997 after former Congressman Morris K. Udall, who worked in Congress despite a long battle with Parkinson’s disease until 1991. He died from the disease in 1998. Neurologist and researcher William Dauer directs the University’s Udall Center. “My personal interest is in
understanding fundamental mechanisms of disease as a necessary first step to devise new ways to treat them, at a minimum to reduce the impact of neurological disease on people by making the symptoms better,” Dauer said. “The long-term goal would be to devise ways to halt the progress of disease so many of these symptoms don’t develop at all.” Dauer spoke about the
University’s Udall Center focusing in particular on gait difficulties that emerge later in the progression of Parkinson’s disease. Augmenting cholinergic signals related to gait problems are being tested to delay symptoms associated with walking. “It would mean a huge amount to patients if the problems in walking either didn’t happen or was delayed. The difficulty is a See SYMPOSIUM, Page 3A
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Dr. Cynthia Chestek presents about the nervous system at the 3rd Annual Udall Center for Parkinson’s Disease Research Symposium at Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building on Wednesday.
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INDEX
Vol. CXXVII, No. 89 ©2016 The Michigan Daily
food justice in Detroit
Taylor takes on diversity in environmental studies with pipeline programs KATERINA SOURINE Daily Staff Reporter
To many, the issues we face today seem unsolvable and overwhelming: inequality, injustice, political unrest and the increasingly relevant battle to protect our environment. Yet, how these issues insect is what has allowed Dorceta Taylor, University of Michigan professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability, to shape a unique approach toward researching and examining the root of these problems. Taylor holds a Ph.D. from Yale University in environmental sociology, and specifically focuses on the environment, food security and urban agriculture, as well as establishing diversity within these fields. For as long as she can remember, Taylor has been interested in how things grow, how certain aspects of the environment interact and how humans collaborate with their surroundings. This has shaped her interest in environmental history, justice and food security. Though she has always been See RESEARCH, Page 3A
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