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Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, March 30, 1987
Diatoms back

dinosaur theory IN BRIEF

By REBECCA COX
A University scientist has removed one ob-
jection to the most commonly accepted theory
explaining the extinction of the dinosaurs.
The theory - that the dinosaurs died out
about 65 million years ago because of global
darkness caused by atmospheric dust - has
been questioned partly because of the large
number of diatoms, a photosynthetic plankton,
that survived.
According to University geology Prof.
Jennifer Kitchell, however, diatoms possess the

ability to survive long periods without light or
nutrients that could mean extinction for other
forms of life.
In a paper on mollusks delivered at the
Fourth North American Paleontological
Convention last August, Kitchell noted that a
seasonal survival mechanism in diatoms could
be useful in a catastrophic event such as global
darkness.
D I A T O M S have three life stages,
depending on the availability of light and
nutrients: vegetative, resting and reproductive.
In a seasonal process, diatoms enter a resting
stage when there is too much light and too few
nutrients, which causes them to sink to the
ocean floor until conditions return to normal.
A complex process called up-welling, which
brings nutrients up from the ocean floor,
determines the availability of nutrients for
diatoms, and global darkness would affect this
process. The decreased availability of nutrients
would cause the diatoms to enter the resting
stage, said Kitchell.
The uneven extinction rate of photosynthetic
plankton evident in core samples from that era
has been one objection to theories of global

darkness.
Studies say that on average, only 17 percent
of most planktons survived, but the survival
rate for diatoms was 77 percent.
Scientists have claimed global darkness
would have caused these extinction rates to be
more equal. Kitchell's discovery provides an
explanation for the discrepancy.
GLOBAL darkness would have occured if a
comet or meteor had struck the earth, according
to a theory on the extinction of dinosaurs put
forward by Walter Alvarez at the University of
California at Berkeley in 1980.
In his theory Alvarez suggested that a comet
or meteor hit the earth, raising a large cloud of
dust that blocked the sun's rays. During this
period of darkness photosynthetic plants died,
causing extinction all the way up the food
chain.
Another global darkness theory is that
volcanoes spewed ash into the atmosphere.
However, according to Philip Gingerich, a
University professor of biological and
geological sciences, some scientists think
dinosaurs began dying out gradually before a S
period of global darkness.
The Associated Press contributed to this
story.

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Tuesday, March 31
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PARSONS
SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Special Summer Programs
Parsons in Paris:6-week program June 30-August 13, 1987
Painting, drawing; art history and the liberal arts. Paris and the Dordogne
countryside or Siena, Italy.
Fashion in Paris June 30-July 30, 1987
Fashion illustration, a history of European costume and contemporary
trends in French fashion. Slide presentations, museums, studio and retail
outlets, guest lectures.
Photography in Paris t June 30-July 30, 1987
The aesthetics and craft of photography. Lectures, gallery visits and
shooting assignments.
Architecture and Design in Paris June 30-July 30, 1987
European decorative arts and the history of French architecture. Parsons
faculty and staff members of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs.
Parsons in Great Britain June 30-July 30, 1987
A new program co-sponsored by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Architecture
and decorative arts in London. Four excursions to nearby country homes
and towns..
Parsons in Italy June 30-July 30, 1987
Contemporary Italian design and the history of Italian architecture. Rome,
Florence, Venice and Milan.
Parsons in Japan July 23-August 22, 1987
Fashion and textile design and a history of Japanese crafts. Workshops,
visits to studios, museums and retail outlets in Tokyo, Takayama and Kyoto.
Presentations by well-known Japanese designers.
Graphic Design in Japan July 23-August 22, 1987
Survey of contemporary Japanese graphic design and traditional influences
in Tokyo and Kyoto. Workshops, gallery and studio visits and presentations.
Parsons in West Africa June 30-July 25, 1987
Ceramics, fibers, metalsmithing, photography, archaeology or traditional
African art and architecture. The Ivory Coast and/or Mali (8/1-8/22/87).
Bank Street/Parsons June 29-July 31, 1987
A joint three-summer master's degree program with the prestigious Bank
Street College of Education. The curriculum examines educational supervi-
sion and administration with a visual arts focus.
College Session in New York June 22-July 23, 1987
Full-time study in a specified art and design area. Drawing, painting,
ceramic and textile design, communication design, photography, environ-
mental design, illustration, fashion illustration or fashion design.
Pre-College Session in New York June 22-July 23, 1987
A full-time opportunity. For high school students considering college majors
in drawing, painting, ceramic and textile design, communication design,
photography, environmental design, illustration, fashion illustration, fashion
merchandising or fashion design. Introduction to art and design also
available.
Pre-College in Israel June 15-August 11, 1987
A new program offered jointly with the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design.
Promising high school students visit major historical sites. Emphasis on ar-
chaeology and drawing or photography.
Pre-College in France July 15-August 12, 1987
High school students of artistic promise visit Paris and the Dordogne
region. College-level drawing and painting, with lectures in art history and
prehistoric archaeology.
All foreign programs include air transportation, land transfers and accom-
modations. Dormitory arrangements for New York programs are available.
Selected programs are offered with undergraduate credit, graduate credit
and no-credit options. For additional information, please return the coupon
below or call (212) 741-8975.

Compiled from Associated Press reports
UAW ends strike against GM
DETROIT - United Auto Workers members at three General
Motors Corp. plants yesterday overwhelmingly ratified a tentative local
agreement, ending a four-day strike that halted truck and bus production,
a UAW spokesman said.
Members of Local 594 in Pontiac approved the agreement by a vote
of 1,314-25 said Bob Schroeder, the local's education director.
"I don't think there was really much doubt about it," Schroeder said.
The settlement covered about 9,000 UAW members with GM's
Truck & Bus Group in Pontiac. Production of GM's new full-sized
pickups and popular sport utility vehicles would resume today, GM said
in a written release.
"We got everything we wanted on the strike issues and most ev -
erything we wanted on the other issues," Schroeder said.
Frank Cronin, a GM Truck & Bus Group spokesman said he did not
know how much production was lost during the strike.
Aquino backs 'people power'
DAVAO CITY, Philippines - President Corazon Aquino endorsed
unarmed anti-communist citizens groups yesterday as a legitimate
example of "people power" and blamed leftist and rightist extremists for
national instability.
The role of such groups has stirred national debate. Supporters be -
lieve the groups can contribute to combating communism. Critics fear
they will become a threat to law and order.
The military meanwhile remained on full alert against rebel attacks
as the Communist New People's Army commemorated the 18th an -
niversary of its founding. The military said the rebels threatened to kill
a general to mark the date, but there were no reports of attacks.
Aquino told about 30,000 people in Zamboanga City that "I blame
the leftists and the rightists for the present problems in the country."
Greece-Turkey standoff ends
ATHENS, Greece - Greeks rallied around the government yesterday
and labor unions canceled strikes as a standoff with Turkey over Aegean
Sea oil rights ended in what Greece saw as a victory for Prime Minister
Andreas Papandreou.
A 48-hour military alert was wound down yesterday, but officers
could not leave their units, said military sources, speaking on condition
of anonymity.
Greece planned a show of military strength with a five-day, air-sea,
exercise starting today in the northeastern Aegean, where a Turkish re -
search ship had planned oil exploration in a continental shelf area claim
ed by Greece.
Turkey stepped back from a military confrontation with fellow
NATO member Greece over mineral rights in the Aegean when it
changed the ship's course at the last minute Friday.
Protesters decry contra aid
DETROIT - An estimated 6,000 people marched peaceably
yesterday to protest U.S. intervention in Central America, Detroit po -
lice said.
No arrests or clashes were reported during the downtown rally de -
spite the presence of a few counter-demonstrators, said Sgt. Christopher
Buck, a police spokesman.
The crowd gathered at the McNamara Federal Building under cloudy
skies and marched several blocks to a plaza. Speakers, including actor
Edward Asner, criticized Reagan Administration policies in Central A -
merica, including support for the Contra rebels seeking to overthrow,
the government of Nicaragua.
EXTRAS
Money machine mixup
profits perplexed patrons
Students who went to withdraw money from the money machine at
the corner of South University and East University over the weekend
received quite a shock. A bank employee mistakenly put $20 bills into
the $10 bill slot. As a result, students received several hundred dollars
in free money before the bank caught its error, yesterday afternoon.
Many students apparently knew about the mistake as the line to
withdraw money remained very long all day yesterday.
From dead cats to aerobics:
Our elixirs haven't changed
CHICAGO - Bran for breakfast and aerobics in the afternoon may
not sound like folk medicine, but one researcher says they're simply
the latest in a long line of remedies that includes Huck Finn's cure for
warts - throw a dead cat at the devil.
Huck's cure, first shared by Mark Twain in "The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer," is recounted by researcher James Whorton in a review of

America's fascination with folk remedies in last week's Journal of the
American Medical Association.
Vol. XCVH-No. 122
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