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NEWS BRIEFS
KABUL, Afghanistan
7 NATO soldiers
killed in bombings
in Afghanistan
Roadside bombs in southern
Afghanistan yesterday left seven
NATO soldiers dead, the alliance
said, as its forces continued an anti-
Taliban offensive in the world's
most fertile opium-producing
region.
It appeared to be the biggest
combat loss for foreign troops in
Afghanistan since 2005.
Six troops died and one was
injured when one of the bombs
struck their vehicle, the alliance
said in a statement. CanadianPrime
Minister Stephen Harper con-
firmed they were Canadian troops,
Canadian Press reported.
Officials did not release the
nationality of those soldiers and
did not give details or say where
exactly in the south the attacks
took place.
VATICAN CITY
Pope condemns
Iraqi violence in
Easter address
On Christianity's most joyous
day, Pope Benedict XVI lamented
the "continual slaughter" in Iraq
and unrest in Afghanistan as he
denounced violence in the name of
religion.
In his message for Easter, Bene-
dict said suffering worldwide puts
faith to the test.
"How many wounds, how much
suffering there is in the world,"
the pontiff told tens of thousands
of pilgrims, tourists and Romans
gathered yesterday at St. Peter's
* Square where he had just finished
celebrating Mass.
Benedict, delivering his tradi-
tional "Urbi et Orbi" Easter ad-
dress from the central balcony of
St. Peter's Basilica, denounced ter-
rorism and kidnappings, and "the
thousand faces of violence which
some people attempt to justify in
the name of religion," as well as hu-
man rights violations.
BAGHDAD
Iraqi cleric urges
police, army to join
against Americans
The powerful Shiite cleric
Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his mili-
tiamen yesterday to redouble their
battle to oust American forces and
argued that Iraq's army and police
should join him in defeating "your
. archenemy."
He urged his followers not to
attack fellow Iraqis but to turn all
their efforts on American forces.
"God has ordered you to be pa-
tient in front of your enemy, and

unify your efforts against them
- not against the sons of Iraq," the
statement said.
Al-Sadr commands an enormous
following among Iraq's majority
Shiites and has close allies in the
Shiite-dominated government.
ENDICOTT, N.Y.
Cartoonist of 'B.C.'
comic strip dies at
* storyboard
Cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose
award-winning "B.C." comic strip
appeared in more than 1,300 news-
papers worldwide, died at his home
on Saturday. He was 76.
"He had a stroke," Hart's wife,
Bobby, said on Sunday. "He died at
his storyboard."
- Compiled from
Daily wire reports

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SOLE
From page IA
The University currently moni-
tors the labor practices of its appar-
el suppliers through its Vendor
Code of Conduct.
In September of 2005, Coleman
charged the Advisory Committee
on Labor Standards and Human
Rights with examining the Vendor
Code of Conduct and the Designat-
ed Suppliers Program.
In May of 2006, Coleman accept-
ed the committee's recommen-
dation not to adopt the program,
mainly over concerns over the fea-
sibility of enforcing the program.
In her letter accepting the rec-
ommendations, Coleman asked
the committee to develop propos-
als to strengthen the Vendor Code
of Conduct and to continue to
monitor the Designated Suppliers
Program.
Next week will be a critical time
for the student campaign. The final
scheduled committee meeting is on
April 16 from 8:30 to 10 a.m. in the
School of Education Building. The
committee's year-end report is due
to Coleman on April 20.

Committee ChairLawrence Root
said the committee members are
aware of last Tuesday's sit-in.
"I don't know how it might affect
the decisions of individual mem-
bers about this proposal," he said in
an e-mail interview.
Root said because Coleman
charged the committee with con-
tinuing to monitor changes to the
Designated Suppliers Program, he
expects the committee to vote on
whether to change last April's rec-
ommendation.
Based on feedback from suppliers
through a joint website that the Uni-
versity of Michigan has set up along
with Ohio State University, the Uni-
versity of Southern California and
the University of North Carolina,
Root said the committee has also
begun to focus on developing ways
to make labor standards clearer for
small and medium-sized suppliers.
Root said he has found that smaller
suppliers are more likely tobeunsure
about the University's policy.
Coleman has offered to meet
with SOLE the day the report is
released.
SOLE also plans to demonstrate
during the Board of Regents meet-
ing on April 19, Everts said.

HEART
From page IA
at an advantage," Birla said.
Birla is experimenting with dif-
ferent techniques to develop what
he calls "3-D scaffolding struc-
tures." The structures are designed
to mold cells into the proper shape
to grow the organ parts.
Birla said the best type of cells
to use for tissue engineering varies
based on what organ part is being
produced. For now, Birla uses ani-
mal cells because they are readily
available, but embryonic stem cells
may eventually be used because of
their ability to multiply.
"We're waiting for the stem cell
biologists to figure it out, " he said.
To develop muscle patches,
researchers place animal cells in
a dish with other agents, carefully
controlling the culture's tempera-
ture, oxygen, carbon dioxide nutri-
ent and pH levels to coax the cells
to align into the structure of heart
muscle.
To create vascular grafts, Birla
injects cells and a polymer into a

tube-shaped mold, while Birla uses
a triangular two-piece plastic mold
to form tri-leaflet valves.
Birla's lab recently began testing
the heart muscle patch on rats that
had suffered heart attacks.
The lab is also developing a
microprofusion system that Birla
said could make tissue engineer-
ing more efficient. The system is a
network of pumps that would stim-
ulate growth by bathing a cham-
ber containing cell cultures with a
fluid. He said this would eliminate
the need for researchers to change
the culture fluids by hand.
Research into cardiac tissue
engineering began about a decade
ago, Birla said. He said research
is only now taking off at academic
institutions - about 90 percent of
the $3-6 billion invested in tissue
engineering is in the private sector.
Birla is working with the Univer-
sity's Technology Transfer program
- which helps researchers market
their research for commercial uses
- to patent his work and develop a
strategy to pitch the technology to
private investors.
"This technology is revolution-

Monday, April 9, 2007 - 3A
ary enough that a great deal of
thought and planning needs to go
into the commercialization process
and the developmental process,"
said Matt Bell, a licensingspecialist
at the Technology Transfer office
who has worked with Birla for two
years, in an e-mail interview.
Bell said that because the tech-
nology is far from approval for
human use, it will likely be used
initially for in-vitro drug testing.
The muscle patches Birla is
developing could be used as an
intermediate step between two-
dimensional drug testing - testing
on cells in a petri dish - and animal
drug testing, he said. He said this
could reduce the need for animal
testing in the long run.
Bell said no potential commercial
investors have contacted his office
because the technology isstill in its
early stages.
Birla's lab in the Biomedical Sci-
ence Research Building employs
four full-time researchers and sev-
eral undergraduates.
Birla's findings were published
in the currentissue of the journal of
Regenerative Medicine.

HASH BASH
From page IA
advertising a brand of rolling
papers.
The man, who was dressed in a
cardboard container designed to
look like a box of Zig-Zag rolling
papers, refused to give his name,
saying he preferred to be called
"Zag Man."
After an hour worth of speakers,
the crowd progressed to a make-
shift marketplace of pot parapher-
nalia on Monroe Street, where
attendees listened to music and
browsed a row of vendors hawk-
ing jewelry, colorful bags, rolling
papers and pipes.
But the event hasn't shed its
political focus.
Many speakers called for the
legalization of marijuana and told
the crowd to "light up."
"Where's the freedom?" one
speaker said.
One speaker told protesters to

take action by joining their local
branches of the National Organiza-
tion for the Reform of Marijuana
Laws.
He said anyone with enough
money to buy one bag of marijuana
can afford to join NORML. A mem-
bership costs $15.
"It's not enough tocome out here
and freeze your ass off once a year,"
he said.
A giant paper marijuana leaf on
a stick floated above the crowd as
people chanted "free the weed" and
clapped their hands in unison.
The event was smaller than it has
been in previous years, Department
of Public Safety spokeswoman
Diane Brown said.
Brown said the crowd reached
about 400 people at its peak. Last
year, about 750 people showed up,
she said.
The crowd was orderly and law-
ful this year, she said. DPS has
arrested 217 people at Hash Bash in
the last eight years - but none on
Saturday, Brown said.

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ORDER
From page IA
of Student Activities and Leader-
ship, in an interview yesterday.
"The idea is for student groups to
be clear about how they operate
and what they stand for."
The Order of Angell's constitu-
tion says that the group's purpose
is to unite leaders fromvarious stu-
dent organizations to discuss ways
to promote the University's inter-
ests and values as well as to perform
community service anonymously.
The group also released yester-
day alistofitsnew classofmembers.
The list was two members short of
the maximum of 25 students that
the constitution says can be tapped

for membership every year.
Yahkind refused to comment on
whether the group tapped the full
25 students and whether any stu-
dents turned down the invitation,
but he said the list includes the
names of every new member.
"The names of the classes of
2008 and onwards will all be pub-
lic," he said.
The group also announced yes-
terday that it plans to hold a con-
munity forum this semester. Its
members want to present an over-
view of the group and to field ques-
tions from students, Yahkind said.
"We have decided to hold it now
because we have undergone a year
ofhistoric change and are excited to
share where that year has brought
us," he said.

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FALLEN AM CAM
3,273
Number of American service
members who have died in the War
in Iraq, according to The Associ-
ated Press. The following were
identified by the Department of
Defense over the weekend:
Pfc. Jay S. Cajimat, 20, of Lahai-
na, Hawaii
Sgt. Forrest D. Cauthorn, 22, of
Midlothian, Va.
Pfc. Daniel A. Fuentes, 19, of
Levittown, N.Y.,
Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph
C.Schwedler, 27, of Crystal Falls,
Mich.
Spc Jason A. Shaffer, 28, of
Derry, Pa.
Pfc. James J. Coon, 22, of Wal-
nut Creek, Calif.

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