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Monday, September 9, 2019

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Local businesses grapple with the effects of flavored e-cigarette ban US Rep. talks Store employees, students take next steps in responding to state-wide mandate strategy, plans in North Korea GOVERNMENT

Stephen Biegun explains diplomacy, challenges surrounding the region JULIA FANZERES Daily Staff Reporter

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MELANIE TAYLOR Daily Staff Reporter

In an effort to combat the formally-recognized public health emergency of youth vaping, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced a ban on the sale of f lavored e-cigarette juice on Wednesday. With just over three weeks before the ban goes into place, many

local Ann Arbor businesses and University of Michigan students have been left to consider the next steps in response to the state-wide ban. This announcement follows a spike in high school students’ e-cigarette use between 2017 and 2018, as well as a surge in national attention paid to vaping-related illnesses becoming more common across the country. The announcement also follows e-cigarette brand

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1U to keep advocating following fiscal report Campaign focuses on tri-campus funding ALEX HARRING Daily Staff Reporter

When the One University Campaign launched last year, it aimed to change the way the Michigan state legislature and the University of Michigan administration allocate funding among the three University campuses. Though the University’s Board of Regents did not change the budget model to reflect the coalition’s platform this May, 1U members remain undeterred in achieving their platform points. Over the past year, One University has studied the University’s policies and budget and found specific instances in which the University can better support students on its regional campuses.

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Juul’s decision last November to stop selling fruity f lavors in gas stations, allowing them only in designated smoke shops. According to LSA junior Zac Kolbusz, the University has a pervasive “nicotine culture” which will be heavily affected by the ban. “I feel like a lot of people get here for the first time, try it at a party or something, and from that point on, there is the

big risk of addiction,” Kolbusz said. Though Kolbusz uses a Juul himself, he says he supports the ban and believes Whitmer “did the right thing.” As a result of the ban, Kolbusz said he and many of his friends will try to quit using nicotine. However, Kolbusz is fearful the ban may turn many previous e-cigarette users onto cigarettes instead. See BAN, Page 2A

Since North Korea began building their nuclear arsenal, maintaining diplomacy with North Korea has been a point of contention in the United States. The individual tasked with the challenge of negotiating U.S. diplomatic efforts with North Korea is U.S. Representative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun. He spoke at a packed Rackham Auditorium on Friday afternoon as the inaugural speaker in a launch series organized to celebrate the opening of the Weiser Diplomacy Center, hosted by the Ford School of Public Policy. Biegun serves on behalf of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and directs all U.S. policy talks on North Korea, leads negotiations and spearheads U.S. diplomatic

Ingalls Mall hosts largest group of organizations for 2019 Festifall Center for Campus Involvement adds new tables, space for increased demand NIKKI KIM

Daily Staff Reporter

This year’s Festifall was bigger than ever, with 623 students organizations setting up tables in North Ingalls Mall, according to the Center for Campus Involvement. Last year,approximately 500 clubs participated in the annual club fair, which is held on the first Friday of school each year.. According to Devon Vaughn, the organization consultant for the Center for Campus Involvement, they needed to add more tables and spread out to make more space for more new clubs on campus this year. LSA senior Amanda Gross, co-President of MUSIC Matters, a student-run nonprofit that hosts concerts on campus, explained Festifall has always been instrumental in attracting a variety of new members to the club. “We want to get as many kids as possible,” Gross said. “A large bulk of the kids that do show up — we get their

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signatures through Festifall. We don’t want to have to target any specific groups on campus and this way anybody who wants to can find out about us.”

Business sophomore Nina Farahanchi, a member of the Persian Students Association, was dancing in front of his organization’s table with a boombox in one hand.

Farahanchi emphasized that it’s the energy at Festifall that draws potential members in.