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2A - Wednesday, October 31, 2007
POPCORN PROTEST
Blame Canada
Autumn is upon us. Trees
burst with colors of red, yellow
and orange before their leaves
plunge to the earth. The winds
gradually change from pleas-
antly warm to uncomfort-
ably cold, and a veil of clouds
enshrouds the once-radiant
glow of the sun.
But is all that a good thing?
According to weather.com,
nine out of the next 10 days
in Ann Arbor will be partly to
mostly cloudy.
A 2006 study of Seasonal
Affective Disorder, which
tracked whether more peo-
ple become depressed when
there is less sunlight present,
showed it is cloudier during
the winter in middle latitude
states like Michigan.
The reason?
Canada, Wisconsin and the
Great Lakes.
Dr. Robert Aron, a meteorol-
ogy professor at Central Mich-
igan University, said air that
blows from those locations has
a lot to do with the cloudiness.
"It has to do with the great
lakes," Aron said. "When cold
air from Canada or Wiscon-
sin comes over the relatively"
warm water of the Great Lakes
there is both a lot of evapora-
tion from the lakes and the air
is heated from below causing it
to rise."
The Great Lakes yield one
positive, though. The warm
water from Lake Michigan
moderates the temperatures in
the state throughout the win-
ter.
Derek Posselt, an assis-
tant research scientist at the
University of Michigan, said
the lake keeps bordering land
warmer in the winter.
"In addition to moderat-
ing our temperatures, the
lakes act as a source of water
vapor," Posselt said in an e-
mail message. "The benefit
to us is that the air is not only
cloudy, but quite a bit warmer
'than it would have been if it
had not been modified by the
lake."
So the Great Lakes are both
a gift. and a curse, depending
on how you look at them.
One can only imagine how
frigid the temperatures would
be in the winter without the
Great Lakes.
E.J. HORSTMAN
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SOLE members ate popcorn while at an Advisory Committee on Labor
Standards and Human Rights meeting yesterday. The popcorn was sup-
posed to show that SOLE views the committee's work as comical. The
committee oversees labor standards for University-affiliated groups.
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CRIME NOTES
Student passes Flag football
out, wakes up in player hurts
ambulance knee at game
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
WHERE: Stockwell Hall
WHEN: Mondayat about 9 a.m.
WHAT: A student passed out
in the Stockwell dining hall,
the Department of Public
Safety reported. The dining
services staff called an ambu-
lance and the student was.
transported to the University
Hospital's Emergency Room.
She regained consciousness
before reaching the hospital.
WHERE: Mitchell Field
WHEN: Monday at about 10:10
p.m.
WHAT: A student was injured
while playing in an intramu-
ral flag football game, DPS
reported. His injury seemed to
be a dislocated knee, police said.
An ambulance was not called
because one of the player's
friends offered to take him to
the hospital.
History of Art
talk
WHAT: A talk by visiting
assistant History of Art pro-
fessor Alexandra Gajewski,
who brings a new perspec-
tive to the study of Gothic
architecture
WHO: History of Art
Department
WHEN: Today from 4 to 6
p.m.
WHERE: 180 Tappan Hall
Discussion
about religion
WHAT: Free pizza and casu-
al discussion about religion,
including the possible com-
parison between God and the
Flying Spaghetti Monster, a
deity created to mock reli-
gious fundamentalists
WHO: Socratic Club
WHEN: Today from 6:30to
7:30 p.m.
WHERE: 2271 Angell Hall
Women's music Body balance
A Minnesota woman is fil-
ing abuse charges against
a petsitter who she claims
made her pig fat, The Associ-
ated Press reported. Michelle
Schmitz claims her pig went
from 50 pounds to 150 pounds
in just nine months. Addition-
ally, she said the pig had a 4.5
hour surgery to have a collar
removed from its neck.
Michigan volleyball play-
er Stesha Selsky is just 23
digs away from 2,000 in
her collegiate career - a feat
that just 24 other collegiate
volleyball players have accom-
plished before. >>FOR MORESEE
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Vocalist Robert Goulet,
who famously portrayed
Sir Lancelot in "Camelot"
in 1960, died yesterday morn-
ing at age 73, The Associated
Press reported.
Adderall swiped Food thrown at
from student
WHERE: Kresge Business
Library
WHEN: Monday at about 12:15
p.m.
WHAT: A bottle of Adderall
was stolen from a student while
he was studyinginthe Kresge
Business Library, DPS reported.
DPS has no suspects.
student's car
WHERE: Lot NC-32, 1330 Hub-
bard
WHEN: Monday at about 11:50
a.m.
WHAT: Someone threw food
at a student's parked car, DPS
reported. It didn'tcause any
damage, police said. DPS has no
suspects.
history lecture
WHAT: A lecture by Claudia
Jensen, affiliate faculty of
music history, on the history
of women's voices in musco-
vite theater
WHO: Center for Russian
and East European Studies
WHEN: Today from noon to
1p.m.
WHERE: 1636 School of
Social Work Building
meeting
WHAT: A lecture by acu-
punturist Gary Merel
WHO: Whole Foods Market
WHEN: Today at 7 to 9 p.m.
WHERE: Whole Foods, 3135
Washtenaw Avenue
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