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Climate Action Movement, 1U stand by calls for divestment
After protests at Board of Regents meeting, coalition reaffirms demands LIAT WEINSTEIN Daily Staff Reporter
EMMA MATI/Daily Dr. Joe Howell, professor of internal medicine, recounts the history of the University of Michigan hospital at Ford Auditorium Friday.
Doctor reflects on 150 years of history at Michigan Medicine Author discusses evolution of University’s medical school since 1869 JENNA SITEMAN Daily Staff Reporter
The University of Michigan Medical Center hosted a lecture this past Friday on the history of its development. The lecture was given by Professor of Medical History Joel Howell. About 120 people attended the event, including doctors from the medical center and applicants for the hospital’s intern program.
Howell said the University Hospital was the first hospital in the U.S. to be owned and operated by a university when it was built in 1817. He emphasized the fact that the introduction of the University Medical School in 1850, was a key player in the hospital’s existence. At the time, it was not common for medical schools to teach in an application structured curriculum, let alone exist as a college. Due
to the absence of any licensing laws on medical practitioners, most people aiming for a medical career would simply hold an apprenticeship for two years and could open their own practice afterward. “First of all, there were no license-laws. This meant that anyone could go out and hang up a shingle and start to practice medicine,” Howell said. “If you were good, people would come to you, and if you
weren’t so good, people would stop seeing you.” Howell said the school ran a two-year program in which students would attend a specific series of lectures the first year, and then take the same exact lectures their second year. Howell explained the hospital did this in the hopes students would absorb more information. See HOSPITAL, Page 2A
Members of the Climate Action Movement and the One University Campaign released a joint statement Friday after staging a series of protests and blockading the exits of the University of Michigan Golf Course at Thursday’s Board of Regents Meeting. The statement reflects upon the decisions made at the meeting and condemns what 1U and CAM claim is inaction on the part of the University to divest from fossil fuels and equally distribute resources across the three campuses. Some of the two organizations’ principal demands to the University include extending the Go Blue Guarantee to the Flint and Dearborn campuses, committing to carbon neutrality by 2030 and freezing further fossil fuel investments. All of these demands were mentioned in the joint statement to the Board of
Regents. “The shameful response from the Administration is symptomatic of a consistent lack of funding transparency, moral accountability, and commitment to productive dialogue with the student body,” the statement reads. “Members of the One University Campaign and the Climate Action Movement understand our demands require the Administration to undergo a deep examination of its priorities, and this process is not simple.” On Nov. 25, CAM and 1U released their first joint statement announcing their list of demands and establishing a connection between the two organizations. The first statement also called on the University community to join 1U and CAM at the protests before, during and after the Dec. 5, regents meeting. No students were arrested during any of Thursday’s protests.
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Smoothie King celebrates grand opening of Ann Arbor location
Chain launches local store with ribbon cutting ceremony, raffle MADDIE MADDEN For The Daily
Smoothie King held its grand opening of its Ann Arbor location this past Saturday. The new store is located in the Westgate Shopping Center at the intersection of Jackson Road and I-94. About 20 people attended. The location held a soft opening two weeks ago, making it the eighth location in Michigan. Bob Bannatz, Smoothie King’s district leader for the state of Michigan, described the reasoning behind the brand’s plan to open 50 locations in Michigan within the next five years. “Smoothie King has a big footprint down South, and because of the cold weather and the smoothies and ice, people were afraid to move into (the north), but we found out that it’s a high-quality product,” Bannatz said. “People like it, and it sells all year round, so we came to Michigan.” Bannatz said he anticipates a mutually beneficial relationship with the students at the
University of Michigan. “Smoothies are the kind of product that fits,” Bannatz said. “We have the healthy smoothies, we have ones for wellness and slim, and then we have a dessert blend, so that’s kind of our target, what we’re looking for. So we hope to grow our relationship with the students at the University of Michigan.” Ann Arbor resident Zhao Chen, who currently works for Google, was very eager to attend the grand opening. “I tried it once at the airport. I have had the other place before, Tropical Smoothie,” Chen said. “They’re all right. So, when I tried Smoothie King out, it was so good. So, when we heard there was an opening here, we got so excited.” Other locals who hadn’t previously heard about the grand opening were also intrigued by the event and enthusiasm about the opening of a Smoothie King in Ann Arbor. Washtenaw Community College student Joel Karschbaum learned about the event that morning and said he was compelled to attend.
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SOPHIA AFENDOULIS/Daily Ty Otto, analyst for the Pacific Northwest Laboratory, discusses nonproliferation policy and the U.S. Fuel Cycle at White Auditorium on Friday.
Analyst examines impact of energy needs on nuclear nonproliferation
Expert highlights connection between domestic fuel industry, policy PETER HUMMER For The Daily
Friday afternoon, about 50 of University of Michigan students, professors and Ann Arbor community members gathered to hear Ty Otto, an analyst at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, speak about nonproliferation policy and how it relates to and affects the nuclear industry at the Nuclear Engineering and Radioactive Sciences colloquium. Otto began by explaining nonproliferation in the nuclear space. “The nonproliferation regime … is an overlapping set of institutions, laws, treaties, informal treaties between
governments … that are all working to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and to help roll back nuclear arsenals where they might currently exist,” Otto said. He then illustrated the difficulty of nonproliferation from a policy perspective and the many intricacies involved in nonproliferation. “The nuclear nonproliferation regime has emerged as the art of the possible and every one of these agreements requires a serendipitous alignment of political will and interest coming together,” Otto said. “The nonproliferation regime is not perfect … but when you have 195 countries in the world and you want them to all … commit to giving up their freedoms and
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rights in order to take part in these, sometimes you have to take what you can get.” Otto continued his talk by discussing the Atomic Nuclear Energy Act of 1954, specifically Section 123 of the act, which lays out the requirements for cooperation between nations. “The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 … set out a guideline in Section 123 for the requirements for peaceful nuclear cooperation with other countries,” Otto said. “And prior to that time, it was not really something that the United States had meaningfully engaged in.” He also described the issues facing the U.S. today in an increasingly competitive nuclear industry.
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“Back in the day, the United States was basically the sole provider to most of the Western world of enrichment services,” Otto explained. “But now China, South Korea, Russia, France, there is a whole host of different countries that we are competing against the nuclear marketplace, and some of them have different perspectives on nonproliferation than we do.” In an interview with The Michigan Daily, Todd Allen, chair of nuclear engineering and radiological sciences at U-M, explained why Otto had been invited and the NERS colloquium.
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