The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com CENTER OF ATTENTION PROTESTERS From page LA shop - a punishment considered by many activists to be too lax. Jen Hsu, co-chair of the Michi- gan Student Assembly's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Commission and organizer of yes- terday's protest, said her primary goal was to expose the public to injustice. "The main thing is education through visibility," she said. At a press conference after the game, which Michigan won 55-41, Portland didn't acknowledge the protest. When asked if she saw the purple shirts in the crowd, Port- land said, "No, I'm only blue and white." Nicole Stallings, president of the Michigan Student Assembly, which teamed up with the Uni- versity's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs for yesterday's event, also donned a purple shirt. "I think it's really good to show that it's not acceptable behavior," Stallings said. At the entrance of CrislerArena, three students in "Lavender Men- ace" shirts handed out small pur- ple flyers explaining their cause. They also sold rubber rainbow bracelets, purple ribbons, and T- shirts.. Inside the arena, the protesters crowded two main seating sec- tions. Others sat throughout the stadium. Not all protesters were students at the University - high school stu- dents sat among elderly citizens in protest. Veronica Cisneros, a gradu- ate student in the School of Social Work, who is straight, said she jumped at the opportunity to sup- port the event. "Everything that social justice seeks to equalize, that's what I believe in," Cisneros said. Ann Arbor resident Diane Noth- aft, who helped organize the event, said she considered the situation "shocking" and "maddening." Because the protesters didn't carry signs or chant slogans, and the only shouts of anger came when the referee called traveling on a Michigan player with seven min- utes left in the game, some fans weren't even aware that a protest was taking place. Some people in the crowd were intrigued, Hsu said. "So many people have been ask- ing me what it's all about," she said. Kath Borg, the mother of a Mich- igan cheerleader and who was not a part of the protest, said she thought the protest was effective and sup- ported the cause. "I tend to agree with the ladies in lavender," she said. -Dan Feldman contributed to this report WIRELESS From page LA afflicted computers to the show- case to be fixed. "We've been dealing with it for at least a year," he said. "That's one of the things the Computer Showcase is for." Fortunately for Apple owners, the technological malfunction doesn't affect Macintosh com- puters. Tishhouse said Intel had already corrected the problem by the time Apple started using Intel processors in its computers last summer. Musbach's dilemma was never completely resolved. After visiting the showcase twice and installing two different drivers, her laptop still won't work. Computer Show- case employees said her computer might not be compatible with the University's wireless network, Musbach said. Musbach said she thought the University should bear some responsibility for the compatibility problem. "Can't this be cut two ways?" she asked. Some computer owners have Monday, January 8, 2007 - 7A had more success than Mus- bach, though. Other students have enjoyed improvements after upgrading their drivers. Kinesiology junior Monica Sil- vian experienced problems with the wireless network in the Under- graduate Library and the Graduate Library, so she decided to take her Dell laptop to the Computer Show- case. After installing the new drivers, she was able to use the wireless net- work. "It was fixed, and they gave me instructions about what to do from there on," she said. CHARLEY'S From page 1 are wondering whether they have lost their jobs for good. "We don't know if we were laid off," Crooms said. "We just came back and it was closed." Crooms, who has worked at Char- ley's for three years, said worried employees have been contacting him in their search for answers. Many of them want to know whether they will receive their paychecks fromthe bar's last few weeks of business. Both Crooms a and University alum Brian Yeager, also a manager at Charley's, said Buhr's nephew, Joe Hahn, told them during the bar's last week of operation that it wouldn't be reopening in January. Hahn is also a manager at Char- ley's. Crooms and Yeager said they tried to spread the world to as many employees as they could, but some had left early for the break and oth- ers were unavailable. Yeager said that once Charley's employees learned the business was for sale, many began to worry about their job security, and some stopped coming to work altogether. "As soon as people found out, we had a dramatic loss of employees," Yeager said, "At one point I think we had one server who was sched- uled even show up for their shift, out of six or seven servers." Even with a decline in the num- ber of employees, Yeager estimated that between 40 and 50 people are unemployed because of the bar's closing. "I'm currently jobless and every- body else is too, so it's a sad situa- tion," Crooms said. Owners of other popular near- campus establishments have expressed interest in the property, according to one potential buyer who wished to remain anonymous because the sale was still pending. Yeager speculates that the bar's ownershipmaybe "testingthewaters" to see what the business is worth, and that the sale of the business may not even occur. He said he is optimistic about the bar's future, regardless of whetherit changeshands. "I think there's a pretty good chance that it's going to stay Good Time Charley's and keep the name, rather than become something else," he said. AtLSON G, HAiAN/baily LSA sophomores Jason Wu and Anastasia Alekseyev teach members of the Univer- sity Ballroom Dance Team in the Michigan Union ballroom on Saturday night. PRAYER From page LA write their sins on their hands in red marker and wash them away in the bowl. A world map was taped to one wall. Underneath it were sheets of star stickers for students to mark the areas they've prayed for. "It's when we pray that God moves and I believe things on this campus will change with our prayer," LSA junior Michelle Hol- liday said. Michael said he hopes the event will send a different message than the one espoused this fall on the Diag by radical Christian preachers who made headlines by screaming about their hatred for gay people and others. "Our foundation is that God loves us and cares for us, not that he is going to condemn is, but that he sent his son for us," Michael said. "Even though we would be classi- fied in the same genre as the Diag preachers, our approach is a loving one. We seek unification -not sepa- ration." Stuy: ween girls more likely than teens to be fat WASHINGTON (AP) - As if to creeping waistlines and poor Participants were called ir being a tween weren'thard enough, dietary habits, particularly in this early 20s to check their weig scientists now call it an age when age group, said Dr. Denise Simons- Some 7.4 percent of the girls are especially at risk of get- Morton of the National Insti- . girls and 17.4 percent of the ting fat. tutes of Health, which funded the already were overweight by Girls were more likely to become research. year through age 12, between overweight between age 9 and 12 "It seems tobe a particularly vul- cent and 5 percent of the rem than during their teenage years, nerable period," said Simons-Mor- girls became overweight, re researchers report today in The ton, who heads obesity-prevention Douglas Thompson of the Journal of Pediatrics. efforts at the NIH's National Heart, land Medical Research In The study could not say what Lung and Blood Institute. the paper's lead author. that was and did not examine boys Some 17 percent of U.S. young- After the girls reached 1 to know if they face a similar risk, sters are obese and millions more cases leveled off to between But it did highlight consequenc- are overweight, a problem affecting cent and 2 percent a year. es of that adolescent weight gain.. all ages. Overweight children are at Other research has show Chubby tweens already were seeing risk of developing diabetes andthey the preteen years are when their blood pressure and cholester- grow into overweight adults who, sters switch from heedin ol levels inch up, backing up earlier in turn, develop heart disease and ents' dietary advice to eati research that fat's toll on the arter- other ailments. their friends do, Simons-I ies begins early. Also, being over- The study tracked more than said. Less physical activity weight in childhood brought More 2,300 white and black girls start- role, too. She recalls from h. than a 10-fold risk of a youngster's ing at age 9. Researchers measured daughters' tween years long growing into a fat adult. height, weight, blood pressure and tary hours on the phone an Parents should pay attention cholesterol every year through 18. ries about gettingsweaty. n their ht. white blacks 9. 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