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DONATIONS
From page IA
Douglas Kahn, has given more than $100
to the MCRI in the same period. He donat-
ed $150.
RC Prof. Carl Cohen donated $2,400 to
MCRI in 2004, but has not written a check
to the group since then.
One United Michigan has spent most of
its $2.5 million on TV and radio ads as well
as staff and mailings, leaving it with just
over $34,517 on hand.
The MCRI committee raised $911,408
during the same period. Most of that
came from the California-based Ameri-
can Civil Rights Coalition, a group found-
ed by anti-affirmative-action crusader
Ward Connerly. MCRI still has $622,410
in the bank.
Contributions from University employ-
ees were nearly as lopsided in the race for
governor. They donated $5,806 to Gra-

Monday, October 30, 2006 - 7A

nholm and just $1,225 to DeVos between
Aug. 29 and Oct. 22.
The race for governor is already the
most expensive in state history.
DeVos has spent more than three times
as much as Granholm since the campaign
began. Granholm has spent $11.6 million,
while DeVos spent $39.3 million. Much
of that came from DeVos's own fortune.
He has donated $34.5 million to his cam-
paign.
Granholm has $4 million on hand,
compared to DeVos's $1.9 million. But
that number is almost irrelevant, as the
wealthy Republican can continue spend-
ing his own money.
DeVos is the former CEO of Alticor,
the parent company of Amway. His father
founded the company.
University men's basketball coach
Tommy Amaker will join Michigan State
University coach Tom Izzo and coaches
from across Michigan at a press confer-
ence in Okemos today to voice his opposi-
tion to Proposal 2.

HOT DIGGITY DOG

LOOKING OUT FOR
THEIR OWN
Donations by University Regents to
colleagues up for re-election:
* Andrew Richner(R-Grosse
Pointe Park)
$200 - David Brandon for re-election
. Larry Deitch (D-Bingham Farms)
$500 - Kathy Whitefor re-election
. Olivia Maynard (D-Goodrich)
$250- White
* Rebecca McGowan(D-Ann Arbor)
$1,000- White
. Andrea Fischer Newman (R-Ann
Arbor)
$1,000-- Brandon

GRADES
From page IA
complain about the grades they receive.
Speth recommended students figure
out what went wrong on the assignment
they are unhappy with and ask advice on
how to improve their performances in
the future.
He also suggested comparing missed
test questions with the lecture notes on
the subject.
"Try to assess the nature of the mate-
rial that didn't get into the notes," Speth
said. "If the critical material did in fact
get into your notes, then the issue is how
you studied."
DON'T OBSESS ABOUT A PROFES-
SOR'S PREFERENCES WHEN WRITING
A PAPER
"The problem with students' logic is

thinking they need to crack the code of
what a professor likes in a paper," Whit-
tier-Ferguson said.
He said that when faculty come
together to discuss grading, they often
come up with the same grade for a
sample paper. Writing with clear and
focused logic, he said, should appeal to
any teacher. He also said that going to
office hours to discuss a thesis or a draft
prior to the paper's due date can help
students understand what a professor is
looking for.
USE OLD AND PRACTICE EXAMS AS A
STUDY AID, NOT DIVINE REVELATION
Tarle recommended simulating test
conditions while taking old or practice
exams. These exams should be taken
after the bulk of studying has occurred,
he said.
DON'T SKIM THE READING
Whittier-Ferguson especially empha-

sizes this for discussion-based classes
and English classes.
"If you're skimming for an overview,
you might as well read Spark Notes," he
said. Despite Jacobs's contention that
professors often assign more reading
than they expect students to read, Whit-
tier-Ferguson emphatically disagreed.
The exception, he said, is secondary or
supplementary readings.
ATTEND CLASS REGULARLY
This may seem obvious, but Jacobs
stressed how important it is to take notes
- yourself. As Whittier-Ferguson said,
"Writing is a way of learning," and tak-
ing notes helps internalize the informa-
tion so the student will have to do less
studying later.
Test material is often mostly drawn
from issues presented or raised in class.
"If you don't go to class, as far as I'm
concerned, there's no reason you should
pass," Speth said.

Lafayette Coney Island, located in the heart of Detroit, has remained successful throughout ai a fhe city's
troubles. According to legend, workers can mentally add the most complex orders and pour a glass of milk as
it sits on top of a patron's head. Some reportedly recite the first person's number on every page of the phone
book.

MITCH'S
From page IA
street became available in last
November, Thompson said Mitch's
jumped at the chance to relocate
there. The new location is owned
by nearby University Towers.
Thompson said the bar has been
paying rent on the new location
since June without generating any
income.
He estimated the bar is losing
$1,000 to $10,000 each week it
stays closed, but cautioned that
predicting future revenues is
tough because the new building
seats 50 fewer people than the old

one.
City Clerk Jackie Beaudry said
Mitch's owners started the pro-
cess of transferring the liquor
license on April 5.
All liquor license approvals go
through the city clerk's office.
Before license transfer requests
are placed on the City Council
agenda, the city's police and fire
departments and building inspec-
tor examine the location, and the
city treasurer checks whether
the owners have paid all required
taxes. All outstanding taxes must
be paid before the transfer can be
approved.
When the Ann Arbor Fire
Department inspected the space,
Thompson said they told him he

needed to widen to 41 inches a fire
door at the rear of the property.
Thompson said that after he
paid to have the frame widened
and a fireproof door installed, the
fire department changed its ear-
lier request and told him that 41
inches was not wide enough.
Without a complete inspec-
tion from the fire department,
the approval of the liquor license
transfer was kept off the agenda
for the Oct. 16 City Council meet-
ing.
The issue has since been
resolved, Thompson said, and the
fire department approved the 41-
inch door.
But a narrow door wasn't the
only thing blockingthe reopening.

Beaudry said there were also out-
standing personal property taxes
on equipment inside Mitch's. The
taxes were paid and the city trea-
surer signed off on this payment
on Oct. 11, Beaudry said.
. Beaudry said that the trans-
fer is on the agenda for the City
Council's Nov. 9 meeting. Fol-
lowing this meeting, Thompson
estimates that it will take about
a week for the Michigan Liquor
Control Commission to complete
its final inspection and approve
the transfer of the liquor license.
The bar plans to open immedi-
ately upon the state commission's
final inspection.
Students have been eagerly
awaiting the reopening of the

bar since the start of the school
year, especially because most cur-
rent seniors were not 21 at the
time of the bar's closing in 2004.
The Facebook.com group "Offi-
cial Petition to Get Mitch's Place
OPEN!" boasts 669 members.
"I had a lot of friends who went
and loved the place," said LSA
senior Perry Teicher, a member of
the group.
Teicher said that when some of
his friends returned for parents'
weekend a few weeks ago, they
were upset that they weren't able
to go to Mitch's.
Rachael Dorman, who graduat-
ed from the University six months
before the bar closed, said she vis-
ited the bar almost weekly during

her final year as a student.
"Mitch's was Monday night,
that's what we did," said Dorman,
who came back to visit Ann Arbor
for Homecoming festivities over
the weekend.
She said that the bar attracted
a lot of seniors and that its drink
specials and relaxed atmosphere
were what differentiated it from
other places like Touchdown's and
Rick's, two bars located nearby.
"It was a kick-back place, a good
time, dollar pitchers, good music,"
she said.
Thompson said he's eager to get
the Mitch's doors open again.
"We're not trying to blame any-
body," Thompson said. "We just
want to get it done and get open."

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HPV
From page IA
becoming cervical cancer.
HPV is typically described as
a sexually transmitted disease,
although many experts in the medi-
cal field prefer to call it a sexually
transmitted infection because of
the negative connotation that the
word disease carries.
Ernst said that because HPV is
so common, it seems unfair to label
it a disease.
"We try to reassure patients that
it is so common, that they're not
alone," she said.
HPV is not reserved to people
who "sleep around," which is a
common misconception among
students, said Tom Morson, who
provides counseling for students
diagnosed with HPV through
Counseling and Psychological Ser-
vices.
HPV is not always sexually
transmitted.
UHS Director Robert Winfield
said it can be contracted non-sexu-
ally as well: non-sexual HPV is
responsible for a variety of warts on
the hands and feet, including plan-
tar warts.
Chinyere Neale, a sexual health
educator at UHS, said that because
of HPV, sex is becoming correlated
with cancer and death.
"The underlying theme of it is,
you have sex, you die," she said.
Morson said that to most people,
there's nothing more frightening
than having a venereal disease.
"These kinds of words evoke all
kinds of fear and terror," he said.
While most cases of HPV fail to
produce a single symptom, HPV is
the second biggest cause of female
cancer mortality worldwide. Every
year, an estimated 240,000 women
die from cervical cancer associated
with HPV, according to the World

Health Organization.
Winfield said the new vaccine
has the potential to lower this num-
ber dramatically.
The current vaccine available at
UHS is tetravalent, meaning that
it protects against four different
strains of HPV. Among them are
high-risk strains 16 and 18, which
cause about 70 percent of the cases
of cervical cancer. The vaccine also
protects against strains 6 and 11,
which almost never lead to cancer,
but are responsible for 90 percent
of the cases of genital warts.
Contrary to the belief of some
men, HPV is not something that
only affects women or that men
don't have to worry about.
"I've seen plenty of guys with
warts on their penises," Winfield
said. "The problem is the guyswith-
out the visible warts."
HPV is just as prevalent in men
as in women, but men often fail to
show symptoms and unknowingly
pass it between sexual partners
without even realizing it.
The vaccination is not yet avail-
able to men, partly because the pri-
ority of the vaccine is in preventing
cancer-related death in women.
Ernst said viral effects have also
been more difficult to study in men
because of the lack of symptoms
they show and because of incon-
sistency of the HPV-DNA tests in
men.
While the current vaccine is only
available for women between the
ages of 9 from 26, vaccines for men
are in progress. Therapeutic agents
to treat individuals already infected
with HPV are also in the works.
Michigan may become the first
state to require an HPV vaccine for
sixth-grade girls. Two bills have
passed the state Senate and are
now waiting for the state House to
reconvene next month.
Not everyone agrees that vac-
cinating children as young as 9 is
appropriate.

Neale said she recognizes that
while some parents are fearful the
vaccination will make sex seem
acceptable to young girls, many
parents are willing to introduce
the vaccine to their children by
explaining that "this is going to
protect you from cervical cancer."
Winfield advocated the vacci-
nation at an early age because the
time a person has to fully benefit
from the vaccination is a "window
of opportunity that can disappear."
If the vaccine is administered
before a woman has sex, it is 100
percent effective in preventing the
four most harmful strains of HPV
infection.
"I think giving the vaccine is an
acknowledgement, not an induce-
ment to sexuality," he said.
Ernst said that during their
college years, 40 to 60 percent of
women will contract HPV, but the
vaccine is expected to provide life-
long immunity.
One deterring aspect ofthe vacci-
nation is the cost - many insurance
providers have not yet included it on
their lists of coverage. Some of the
providers who immediately picked
it up are MCARE and GradCARE,
but if the cost is not covered, the
vaccination will run about $570.
The vaccine is given in a series of
three injections, each one costing
$188.
Sheryl Kurze, a UHS physician,
said it's extremely rare to be infect-
ed with all four strains at once,
so the vaccine still almost always
offers protection after infection.
"Even if you've (already) had an
abnormal pap, you should get the
vaccine," Kurze said.
The consensus of advice from
health care professionals across
campus isto get vaccinated.
"Here's something that is a ter-
rible problem, that is now prevent-
able," Neale said.

onday, Oct. 30, 2006
h 21 to April 19)
efinitely can benefit from the
f others today. People will do
r you. You might inherit some-
get a gift today. Keep your pock-
US
20 to May 20)
rsations with partners are
positive and joyful today. You
oyan exchange of ideas, aswell
laughs. (Thai's because people
y happy today.)
NI
21 to June 20)
s related toyour health and your
very promising now. You might
relieved. Business looks very
ay as well.
ER
21 to July 22)
an artistic, playful, fun-loving,
day. It's about as good as it
ke sure you set aside some time
yment with others, especially
or any involvement in profes-
orts.
23 to Aug. 22)
, discussions are joyful today!
r, this is also art excellent day for
; therefore, look to real-estate
hey exist. (You can do very well
0
23 to Sept. 22)
unusually convincing with oth-
. If you need to make someone
lh you, now is the time. You
ke a winner, and your enthusi-
es others believe in you!
23 to Oct. 22)
s an excellent day for business
merce. You can enjoy making
nd you can enjoy spending it as

well! Your cash flow looks good.
SCORPIO
(Oct. 23 to Nov. 21)
You see the big picture today, and this
allows you to make plans with intelli-
gence and foresight. Your comprehen-
sion of anything is quite keen and pro-
found.
SAGITTARIUS
(Nov. 22 to Dec. 21)
Hold fast to your idealistic ideas.
Today you find you can actually walk
your talk. You see that what you believe
in actually works. (This is reassuring.)
CAPRICORN
(Dec. 22to Jan. 19)
Group activities are full of fun today.
This is a greatday to schmooze with oth-
ers. It's easy to be tolerant of different
points of view.
AQUARIUS
(Jan. 20to Feb. 18)
Giscussions with important people
will yield positive results. They think
you know what you're talking about.
They're impressed with your vision and
your daring eagerness to think big.
(Great!)
PISCES
(Feb. 1910 March 20)
Your ability to understand broad
issues - especially related to politics,
religion and philosophy- is excellent
today. You can wrap your head aroand
anything!
YOU BORN TODAY You're very
confident. You're talented at many
things, and you're a natural leader. You
know how to motivate others. You'll
pitch in at every level just to get the job
done. People like you and want to work
for you or with you. In the year ahead,
you will face an important decision.
Choose wisely.
Cirthdaeyof Diego Armando
Maradona, soccer player; Henry
Winkler, actor/director; Grace Slick,
singer.

Sunni vice president threatens to quit

BAGHDAD (AP) - Suspected
SunniArabgunmenkilled 23police-
men yesterday, including 17 in one
attack in the predominantly Shiite
southern city of Basra, signaling
the possible start of an intensified
insurgent campaign against Iraq's
predominantly Shiite Muslim secu-
rity forces.
Political tension deepened in
Baghdad when Vice President
Tariq al-Hashemi, the country's
highest-ranking Sunni politician,
threatened to resign if Prime Min-
ister Nouri al-Maliki did not act
quicklyto eradicate two feared Shi-
ite militias.
Al-Maliki, a Shiite, depends
heavily on the backing of the two
Shiite political parties that run the
militias and has resisted American

pressure to eradicate the private
armies - the Mahdi Army of radi-
cal cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the
Badr Brigade, the military wing of
Iraq's biggest Shiite political bloc,
the Supreme Council for the Islam-
ic Revolution in Iraq.
Shiite gunmen, especially
those of the Mahdi Army, are
deeply involved in the sectar-
ian killings that have brutalized
Baghdad and central Iraq for
months.
Police have been targeted
throughout the insurgency in an
effort to destabilize the U.S.-sup-
ported government, but the num-
ber of attacks Sunday was a sharp
step-up in attacks aimed at security
services.u
The surge in violence also

comes amid U.S. efforts to bring
Sunni insurgents into a reconcilia-
tion process and a public squabble
with al-Maliki over a timeline for
crushing the Shiite militias and
moving forward with measures
to soothe the disaffected Sunni
minority.
Thirty-three people in all were
slain across Iraq yesterday in a
second day of rising violence that
ended a five-day lull in attacks after
the end Muslims' holy month of
Ramadan.
Officials also found 24 bodies,
some of them decapitated, the latest
victims of sectarian reprisal kill-
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in Samarra, north of the capital,
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