LOCAL/S TATE The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 29, 2001- 3A CAMPUS Top scholars to * speak at Tanner Lecture at 'U' The University will host this year's Tanner Lectures on Human Values Friday and Saturday. The pro- gram will bring a variety of scholars to the University to discuss philoso- phy. Prof Michael Fried, director of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University, will speak Friday about the philosophy of art criticism and the question, "what makes a good paint- ing?" The two-day series of events will include a symposium led by Duke University literature and Romance studies Prof. Toril Moi and Thomas Crow, director of the Getty Research Institute'and Harvard University phi- losophy Prof Richard Moran. Fried will be speaking at 4 p.m. on Friday in Angell Hall Auditorium A and the symposium will be at 9:30 p.m. in the Vandenberg Room at the Michigan League. The event is spon- sored by the University Depaiment of Philosophy. Leaders to talk about telematics at seminar "Participating in the Telematics Value Chain: A Seminar on Business Models and Practices" will be held tomorrow to discuss the problems involved with the telematics industry value chain. Leaders from the automotive, elec- tronics, telematics and the finance industry will participate in the event. They will give an insider's look at the topic by focusing on the challenges and factors associated with telematics investment. Featured speakers will include Anil Shrikhande, vice president of Boeing Ventures and the Boeing Corp., Jack Withrow, telematics director for Daimler-ChryslerAG and David Acton of General Motors Corps. The event is sponsored by the Uni- versity Business School's Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance and will be held in the Michi- gan League Ballroom. For registration or more information, contact the Cen- ter at 936-3528. Detroit roads exhibit on display at Bentley library An exhibit featuring the history of Detroit's roads is currently on display at the University's Bentley Historical Library. The exhibit is entitled "Getting Around Detroit: Detroit's Streets from the Woodward Plan to Free- ways," and will includes maps, pho- tographs, city plans, engravings and books from the 1800s to the 1960s. Several focuses of the exhibit will be the first street plan for Detroit and photographs of Woodward Avenue before it was widened. The exhibit will run through Dec. 21 at the Bentley Historical Library on North Campus and is free and open to the public. School design conference comes to 'U' The issues confronted when a community designs a new school will be discussed by K-12 educators, school board members, school devel- opment teams, administrators, teach- ers, parents and students tomorrow at the "Building for the Future" confer- ence. Michigan superintendent of public instruction Thomas D. Watkins will be the luncheon speaker. The conference is sponsored by the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the University School of Education and the Office of the Vice President for Government Relations. Registration is required and there is a registration fee of $50, which will include lunch. For more infor- mation visit www.urnich.edu/~gov- rel/bff html. - Compiled by Daily Staff Reporter Shannon Pettypiece. Blanchard attempts to woo student votes By Loule Melzlish Daily Staff Reporter After almost 11 years away from Michigan government, James Blanchard wants back in. The 59-year old who served two terms as governor from 1983 to 1991 and as the U.S. ambassador to Canada from 1993-1996 addressed the University's College Democ- rats last night, hoping to build a group of core supporters for his 2002 campaign to reclaim the governor's office. "I have 10 years of new and different and unique experiences that give me a fresh per- spective in Michigan," he said. In addition to being heavily involved in defeat- ing the state's voucher proposal, Blanchard also serves on the board of directors of several compa- nies, including Brampton, Ont.-based Nortel Net- works. Prior to serving as governor, he spent four terms as a U.S. representative. Defeated for a third term in 1990 by cur- rent Gov. John Engler, Blanchard wasted lit- tie time before taking shots at Engler, who is barred from running again by term limits. "We've been through record prosperity in the past seven years and we went from the motor capital of the world to the pothole cap- ital of the world," Blanchard said. Blanchard used his prior experience to position himself against the four other Demo- cratic gubernatorial candidates. When asked how he would deal with a Legislature that likely would be Republican-controlled, he pointed out that many members of the House and Senate will have had only a few years in experience in Lansing due to term limits. "The executive has a lot more power now than then, so I can hit the deck running," he said. With Michigan facing an economic down- turn and many stat colleges and universities substantially raising their tuition rates, Blan- chard emphasized the need for fiscal restraint. The governor, he said, should "jawbone" the schools into lowering their tuition, as he did three times. "We've been through record prosperity in the past seven years and we went from the motor capital of the world to the pothole capital of the world." - James Blanchard Democratic Gubernatorial candidate "Tell them you're going to cut (higher edu- cation) appropriations if they don't lower tuition," he said. Throughout the "town-hall meeting," the for- mer governor talked about his role in setting up and implementing the Michigan Education Trust, which allowed parents to pay for their children's college tuition in advance, thereby guaranteeing that their tuition would not be raised. He asked those in the audience how many of them were "MET students" and sever- al raised their hands. Blanchard then passed out a notepad for MET students to add their names to so he could contact them in the future. Blanchard is the marginal frontrunner in the race for the Democratic nomination for governor. The top two candidates behind him are state Attorney General Jennifer Granholm and U.S. Rep. David Bonior of Mt. Clemens, with state Sens. Gary Peters of Bloomfield Township and Alma Wheeler Smith of Salem Township trailing far behind. Engler's longtime ally, Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus, is the frontrunner for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, trailed by state Sen. John Schwarz of Battle Creek. Something fishy Young and old gather for pro-peace rally on Diag By Michael Gazdeckl For the Daily Ann Arbor resident Andy Hart- man wants a more peaceful world for his young daughter to grow up in. That's why he helped plan a peace rally for Ann Arbor families on the Diag Saturday afternoon. "I'm a stay-at-home dad, I stay at home and fret about a two-year-old daughter," Hartman said. "I was horrified by the atrocities of Sep- tember 11. Our policies put us in harm's way. Government policies that I feel partly responsible for." The roughly two dozen people who attended the Ann Arbor Fami- lies for Peace Analysis Rally didn't look like the average protest rally. Grandparents joined University stu- dents and young children to hold signs and chalk the Diag. "I'm a Quaker. I think any war is an atrocity," said Carolyn Diem, one of the protesters and a grand- mother who lives in the city. The protest was organized by Angela Maanaki and Hartman, who stays with his children while his wife works as a fellow in the Uni- versity Medical School. Maanaki said she developed the idea after she heard reports that 95 percent of Americans support the war in Afghanistan. After talking to her friends and finding that none of them had been polled, Maanaki said she had to make herself heard. "I don't believe you should just tell your kids life's not fair. If you don't agree with something you should fight for it," Maanaki said. She encouraged people to take a peaceful stand and to teach their kids to stand up for what they believe. Some protesters expressed shame toward U.S. policies and political agendas. "I feel that in order to be able to stop a racist war abroad we need to stop racism at home," said LSA junior Neal Lyons. The goals of the Ann Arbor Fam- ilies for Peace Analysis Rally included preventing the likelihood of crimes like those of Sept. 11, preventing the martyrdom of Osama bin Laden, preventing the unlawful creation of an Afghan government on the grounds that it is not in the best interest of the Afghan people, as well as stopping the war immediately to allow peace organizations bring food and med- ical aid to Afghan refugees. The protest culminated with a speech by Sajid Qazi, a local doctor. Likening America to the classical Roman empire in its greatness and professing his love for America's diversity, Qazi stressed the impor- tance of tolerance, diversity and understanding. Qazi made mention of the U.S. involvement in helping to free Afghanistan from Russian occupation and then leaving the - country in the hands of fanatics whom the U.S. government had armed. "We as Americans need to wake up. The people we elect need to be responsible to us," he said. BRETT MOUNTAIN/Daily A clay fish'hangs in the booth of Pond Scum Inc. at the 28th Ann Arbor Winter Art Fair. Prof. addresses root of drug addictions 1 Brain might not be able to distinguish between "wanting" and "liking" By Kylene Kiang Daily Staff Reporter Aside from pleasure-seeking and fear of withdrawal, the actual roots of drug addiction may lie in the brain's failure to differentiate between "wanting" and "liking," asserts University psychology Prof. Terry Robinson. Robinson made this argument last night as part of a free lecture series sponsored by the Life Sciences, Values and Society Program. ' "Physical dependence and with- drawal are neither necessary, nor sufficient conditions for addiction," said Robinson. Robinson added that although many researchers equate addiction with pleasure seeking, which is related to the release of the chemical dopamine in the brain, there is no actual scientific evi- dence that proves that dopamine mediates pleasure. In fact, research has shown that dopamine can be released in adverse situations as well. "The easy way to explain addic- tion may be that drugs release dopamine, dopamine creates plea- sure, addicts want pleasure, so addicts take drugs, but it's not so simple," said Robinson. Robinson's "Incentive-Sensitiza- tion Theory of Addiction" proposes the idea that the brain's capacity for "wanting" and "liking" becomes disassociated when stimulated by drug use. After prolonged drug use, incentive to take drugs may rise even as a person's liking for the drug decreases. This can distort goal-oriented behavior that can cause an individ- ual to move towards compulsive patterns of drug use at the expense of everyday activities. "That is essentially what addiction is ... when the intensity of wants become disassociated from every- thing else in life," Robinson said. Even after the discontinuation of drug use, the adaptations that an ex-addict's brain have made to the drugs remain persistent and so addictions are likely to reoccur. "If you start to muck around with your brain, strange things start to happen," Robinson said, listing problem drugs as Ritalin, mor- phine, ethanol, nicotine and caf- fei-,e, among others. The Life Sciences, Values, and Society program will sponsor a lec- ture every Sunday night until the end of the Fall Term and will begin again in February 2002. 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