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Holi comes to Michigan Tech PAGE 9 PAGE APRil 14, 2016 Exploiting students, 13 PAGE MTU’s speciality Holi Night 2016 PAGE 3 PAGE Tech pioneer returns home Photo by Anil Kumar Malik 2 Thursday, april 14 NEWS Michigan T ech Lode Lead crisis spreads Michigan Governor Rick Snyder speaks after attending a Flint Water Interagency Coordination Committee meeting in Flint, Michigan in Feb. 2016. Courtesy of AP SHVETA DHAMANKAR “a wakeup call for America,” Durbin added, “elevated and unsafe” levels of lead in the sides of the city. “It’s a problem in Chicago as well.” The city’s drinking water. There is not a clear-cut roadmap as how News Writer data collected since 2012 tells a far scarier Chicago chemically treats its water in to go about the water testing program. story about lead poisoning. Whatever such a way that as it is transported across Parts of this program are as wide-ranging Last fall Michigan Governor Rick Synder happened in Flint was a catastrophe just the pipes, a hard coating is formed on and as complex as the water network received a briefing that told him there was waiting to be “discovered.” A 2012 study the inner side of the pipe. This coating is spanning Chicago. The recent policy no problem in Flint and that the outside by the U.S. Environmental Protection impenetrable to the very material that changes mark a shift in the government’s experts were not correct. On Sept. 28, Agency found “several” Chicago homes made these pipes: lead. However, since previous insistence that residents faced 2015, he had a conference call with the with elevated lead levels where water 2008, the city has been modernizing its nearly no possibility of lead poisoning. Michigan Department of Environmental mains had been replaced or a water meter water system by replacing pipes and Unfortunately, for many among the Quality and Department of Health and installed. He added that the EPA had water mains that date back to the 1800s. inner circles, this was no news. Two years Human services. As it turned out, the admitted that its current testing protocols The lawsuit states that during such a before the Flint crisis came to surface, EPA outside experts were far from being “not were “likely to miss” elevated lead levels process, the anti-corrosive coating that research in Chicago did find high levels correct” about the issue in Flint. The in drinking water. forms on the inner side of the pipe can of lead and traces of other toxic metals in conference call confirmed everyone’s In a 2013 study, researchers at the EPA fail if the pipes are disturbed during homes where street mains were replaced worst fears, especially Synder’s. Flint’s found that alarming levels of lead can heavy construction work, such as, say or new water meters were installed; water continues to be deemed unsafe for spurt out of household faucets for years overhauling the entire network that that is wherever the lead-driven water human consumption, with high enough even if the service lines were disrupted branches a city of 2.7 million people. distribution network was disturbed. levels of lead recorded in some homes for a considerably long time. As is the case The city’s administration has taken These testings were independent and also to cause potentially permanent brain in Chicago, this can happen even if federal an initiative to start testing tap water in went to show that even federally approved damage in children. Following the water standards are followed. For instance, the homes of children poisoned by the protocols can miss, rather easily, glaringly crisis, Snyder, who was once touted for federal protocol requires 50 houses to be potentially brain-damaging metal. A top high levels of lead concentration. Besides his presidential qualities, was featured tested every three years. But this is a petty official at the Chicago Department of Public conducting extensive tests, the program on Forbes’ list of the world’s most number compared to a city of 2.7 million Health revealed the new program Monday also aims at revamping its current testing disappointing leaders last month. where any home built before 1986 could April 11, 2016 during a presentation standards. For innocuous residents, the Building up on the Flint water crisis, have lead pipes. Following the scare in to lawyers, physicians, researchers and main problem with lead poisoning is that Illinois’ senior U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin Flint, a class-action lawsuit has been filed advocates. The presentation was aimed it cannot be detected by taste or smell. (D-Ill.) called for “mandatory lead testing against the city of Chicago. This lawsuit to address the lingering problems that Water from the pristine springs or from of pipes and water in cities across the claims that the city knowingly started have majorly affected African-American lead-contaminated pipes, it all tastes the country.” Calling the water crisis in Flint, construction projects that have created neighborhoods on the south and west same. Michigan T ech Lode NEWS Thursday, april 14 3 Tech pioneer returns home SAMANTHA STEIN News Writer Dr. Bill Raduchel took time to return to his hometown of Houghton, Michigan to speak at Michigan Tech, a school he once attended. His presentations included “Why you need to become a technological authority to thrive in today’s business world” on Tuesday April, 5 and “The journey from michigan rech student to Harvard professor, CEO, Angel Investor and philanthropist: a leadership reflection, musings, successes and failures” on Wednesday April, 6. Both talks reflected on his stories and experiences. Since leaving Houghton, Raduchel has gone on to get his bachelors in economics from Michigan State University and a masters and PhD from Harvard. He also worked as Dean of Admissions Dr. Bill Raduchel Courtesy of Michigan Tech and Financial Aid at Harvard. Raduchel has had a long and successful career to Michigan Tech to study chemistry, and held executive positions with he used the computers on campus major companies including Xerox, Sun and taught himself programming and Microsystems, AOL Time Warner and computer science. Raduchel switched to McGraw-Hill. He eventually went on to economics from chemistry. He says the become CEO of Ruckus. Throughout reasons for the switch were his “great his career, Raduchel has accumulated 23 professor, Ken Alexander” and the fact patents in his name, the most important that “chemistry and economics are of which he says were from his time similar in the way that they are both about with AOL. Some of his patents involving equilibrium.” Raduchel then transferred digital media interactions were sold to to MSU where he graduated early. He Microsoft and eventually to Facebook. then went on to receive a masters and PhD from Harvard. His PhD thesis was “Success in in computing and economics, including media data and distribution. life doesn’t Raduchel spoke on how “success in life doesn’t come in solving forwards. It comes in solving backwards.” His come in solving explanation included making sure to pick a meaningful objective, leading by forwards. vision, planning and taking steps to get to an end goal. When asked what his It comes advice was to current students seeking out jobs, he said “If I were 20-21, I would in solving focus on what I want and what I can get out of college. Focus on skills that the backwards” companies want.” Internships and out of class experience with organizations - Bill Raduchel also contribute to skills that employers find valuable. Raduchel also said that Raduchel’s interest in technology came having empathy for people is important. about during the push for science and By knowing what people want, you can technology development after Russia better suit their needs. launched Sputnik. He was bumped up The School of Business and a grade in high school and took science Economics, the Pavlis Honors College, classes at Michigan Tech alongside his the Department of Computer Science classmates. He also attended the Joe Bird and Student Affairs and Advancement Summer Science Institute at Northern sponsored Dr. Raduchel’s visit to Michigan University. When he came Michigan Tech. 4 Thursday, april 14 NEWS Michigan T ech Lode Supreme Court tackles World Report DANIEL STOCKARD criminal justice reform News Writer Hundreds of migrants injured in Macedonia About 300 refugees sought medical assistance after clashes between migrants and Macedonian security forces reached an ugly climax. About 11,000 people are camped at the border crossing between Greece and Macedonia, which lies along the route to northern Europe. Macedonia has restricted traffic along that border for months, and tensions have been rising. This came to a head on Monday when 2,000 migrants clashed with security forces, who used tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets to subdue the crowd. Hundreds of refugees, including children under the age of five, were treated for respiratory problems. Yemen reaches shaky ceasefire The civil war in Syria has attracted the bulk of international attention for the past few years, but Yemen has seen war break loose as well. On Sunday evening, The Supreme Court on Feb. 17, 2016. Courtesy of AP the United Nations brokered a ceasefire EVAN MAYER as unconstitutionally vague. Welch’s case looks promising for between the Yemeni Army and Houthi Since the Johnson ruling, appeals him due to several factors. One is that rebels, hopefully setting the stage for News Writer courts across the country have been the Justice Department had originally peace talks scheduled for April 18 in split over whether the Johnson decision opposed any type of review by the Kuwait.

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