The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com MOCK ROCK From page 1 ing rendition of the Weather Girls' "It's Raining Men," led by freshman Scott Spann as a portly female in a purple dress and black high tops. "I've got those womanly moves," Spann said with a laugh in an interview after the performance. "I was pumped because it's always fun' to dress up and act ridiculous in front of as many people as possible. It's all for a good cause, so I just went out there and had fun." The men's track and field team earned straight los from the judges for their ren- dition of Michael Jackson songs through the ages. So did the men's soccer team for a remake of an Adam Sandler and Chris Farley SNL skit with a live band. Their par- ody, "Hoagies and Grinders," chronicled the life of a red- haired, gout-stricken lunch lady. Soccer players dressed as a banana, snowpea and takeout container danced to AUTHOR From page 1 of like she slapped you in the face." Kasischke said she began writing in high school and became more serious about it as time went on. She was a creative writing major as an undergraduate at the Univer- sity andstayed inAnnArbor to complete her master's degree. Kaischke has netted seven Hopwood awards during her career at the University. Talyor said he watched her their teammates' music. Then freshman Cam Cameron, dressed as a sloppy joe, won the lunch lady's heart and the crowd's applause with his original dance moves. "Some of the guys know I can dance, but I don't usu- ally do it at parties or out in the open," Cameron said. "We tried to think of a crowd- pleaser for our skit. There are a lot of guys that have musical talent, and we always wanted to play something live and show off our talent." But the team that brought the crowd to its feet - and won first place in an audience poll that determined the win- ner of the three-way tie by the volume of their cheers - was the men's crew team. Performing to the Lion King's "Circle of Life," a Rafiki look-alike strutted out and belt- ed the opening cry of the popu- lar Disney movie and Broadway musical. Athletes pranced and crawled onto the stage, clad in jungle-inspired body paint and paper headdreoses. "If I had one word to describe that, it would be uplifting," one of the emcees said after the performance. The audience agreed, giv- ing the crew team the only standing ovation of the night for their creativity, choreog- raphy and costumes. "I don't look like a giraffe regularly, so I had to make this thing last night," yellow- and-black spotted freshman Eric Dryer said after the per- formance, pointing to his 2- foot-high, construction-paper giraffe head. "It was a blast. We didn't think we had a chance to win. It was just surprising." But at the end of the show, the loudest round of applause when it came time to acknowl- edge the competition's volun- teers was not for Wolverine football stars or television- personality emcees - it was for Duey, whose presence at Mock Rock represented the purpose of the event and its powerful impact on the near- by children's hospital. "Everyone is a winner," the emcees said in their clos- ing speech. "But most of all, Dominique. She's the biggest winner of all." Tuesday, February 6, 2007 - 7 Two Apples end trademark spat By LAURIE J. FLYNN The New York Times --------- The long and winding road has come to an end for the Beatles, at least as far as the dispute over their Apple logo is concerned. Apple Inc., the maker of the iPod, and Apple Corps, the guardian of the Beatles' music interests, announced yester- day that they had settled their dispute over the technology company's name and its use of an apple logo. Under the new agreement, Apple Inc. now owns all the trademarks related to "Apple" and will license certain trade- marks back to Apple Corps Ltd., the London company founded by the Beatles in the late 1960s. The agreement immedi- ately raised speculation that the Beatles' music, which has been unavailable on legitimate digital music services, might soon be licensed for down- loads from the Apple iTunes service. Neither company would comment directly on that prospect, though both sides said they were happy to have worked things out. "We love the Beatles, and it has been painful being at odds with them over these trade- marks," said Steven P. Jobs, chief executive of Apple Inc., who is widely known as a huge fan of the Beatles' music. The companies declined to provide further details of the settle- ment. The new agreement replac- es one signed by the com- panies in 1991, when Apple Corps, which represents Paul McCartney; Ringo Starr; the estate of George Harrison; and Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon, moved to ensure that the computer company did not use the apple logo in the music business. TheApple Corpslogo is a Granny Smith apple. The logo for Apple Inc. is an apple with a bite taken out of it. But things changed in 2003 when Apple Computer, as it was known until it dropped "Computer" from its name last month, began signing deals with record labels to distribute music online through iTunes. Apple Computer had approached the British compa- ny in hopes of distributing the Beatles' music on iTunes, but Apple Corps instead accused the technology company of breaching the 1991 contract, arguing that Apple was essen- tially entering the music busi- ness with its service. Last May, a judge in London ruled in favor of Apple Com- puter, agreeing that the com- pany's use of the logo was fair and reasonable. Apple Corps' appeal of that ruling was scheduled for this month. "It is great to put this dispute behind us and move on," Neil Aspinall, manager of Apple Corps, said in a statement. "The years ahead are going to be very exciting times for us." The Beatles are considered the last major holdout from online downloading services like iTunes. Today, Beatles fans can play Beatles music on an iPod only by transferring the songs from a CD. But the latest settlement does nothing to resolve that issue, and Jobs said nothing about it on Monday. Specula- tion about a deal to sell Beatles songs on iTunes reached fever pitch on fanWebsites and blogs after Jobs appeared to givethe band a highly public nod last month. In introducing the Apple iPhone, he demonstrat- ed the device's music-playing capabilities by displaying Bea- tles album covers and playing the song "Lovely Rita" for the audience. Elizabeth Freund, a spokes- woman for Apple Corps, said the settlement had no bearing on any move to make Beatles music available on iTunes, saying that that was a sepa- rate matter for the Beatles to discuss with EMI, which holds the rights to the Beatles' recordings. improve over the years, from her first poetry book, "Wild Brides," published in 1991, to the release of last month's novel, "Be Mine." Her first poems were clut- tered and ornate, Taylor said, but over time became more thoughtful and quieter. Her novels, however, kept an edge. While most writers pub- lish a book every three or four years, she manages to publish one almost every year, he said. Nithya Joseph, an LSA sophomore and one of Kasischke's former students, said in an e-mail interview that Kasischke created a "strongsense of respect in the class, which is crucial when you read and comment on each other's work." Joseph saidthatKasischke's encouragement was inspiring "in a world where saying you want to be a writer can be such a dubious claim to credibility." There is a lot of rejection in writing, and even when things are going well, it's a long process between writing a piece and publishing a piece, Kasischke said. "There is no instant gratifi- cation," she said. AUTISM From page 1 database of the genetic infor- mation of autistic people. But unlike that network, the Simons project will only col- lect information from patients who are the only child in their family to have autism. Lord said the new data- base will help find different causes for the disorder that aren't apparent by study- ing heredity alone. In addi- tion to taking DNA samples, researchers will interview the parents of the child for information about the child's birth, the onset of symptoms and the child's behavior pat- terns. "Fifteen years ago, when the first push for genetic autismwas startingeveryone thought it was one gene and it would be easy to solve the problem, but it is clear there is not one gene but multiple combinations," Lord said. "This approach also assumes that some genetics of autism are not really inherited but just a coincidence, and hope- fully there is a pattern there that we can find with the use of this database." According to Lord, the methodbehind collectingand sharing data is very restrict- ed to ensure the privacy of participating patients. Each clinic will give the patient's information in code, so out- side researchers cannot match data to any individual. If scientists find a possible trend in the database, they can contact the home clinic and ask to contact the patient for further study. "What we are trying to do is protect peoples' privacy but have the clinics as an intermediary," Lord said. "If there is anything that comes up from these studies then you will know where to find these patients." Along with Gerald Fisch- bach, the scientific director of the Simons Foundation, Lord began discussing the project with other research- ers in June 2003. Prof. Edwin Cook at the University of Illinois at Chi- cago was one of the many who helped start the project. "(The Foundation) con- tacted our university because they know we have a very active autism clinic and an active interest in autism genetics and an interest in participating in collaborat- ing efforts," Cook said. Cook said he takes monthly train trips to Ann Arbor to visit and observe the Michi- gan clinic. "Dr. Lord is the world's authority on the diagnosis of autism," Cook said. Lord was optimistic about the project's progress. "I think there is a huge amount of energy going into it," Lord said. 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