w m w wm The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, November 7, 2007 w w w w w A TIP FOR DEVELOPING YOUR COCKTAIL PARTY VERNACULAR The Church of the SubGenius: A post-modern religion that originated in Dallas, Texas in 1953 and gained popularity over the Internet in the 1980s and 1990s. The central belief in the Church is the pursuit of Slack, described as the sense of free- dom, independence, and free-thinking achieved by the realization of personal aims. The Church asserts people are born with Original Slack, but lose it to a worldwide conspiracy of average people, or Earth Pinks. The central symbol is a clipart render- ing of the smiling, pipe-smoking face of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, who the Church claims was the best salesman the drill bit indus- try has ever seen. The Church also claims that "A True SubGenius, however, understands EVERYTHING, INSTANTLY upon exposure to the Word or even just the Face of Dobbs." Anyone can become a SubGenius minister for a $30 ordainment fee, a position that comes with the guarantee: "Eternal Salvation or TRIPLE Your Money Back!" So. You want one good reason to earn a pharmacy degree from the University of Michigan ? Here are 12 good reasons, for starters: 1. Respect: 50 percent of the students admitted to our professional degree (PharmD) program are cross-campus transfers - many from LSA 2. Unparalleled career choices 3. Financial support unequalled by any other U.S. pharmacy school 4. Continuous growth potential 5. Outstanding pay 6. Job security in economically uncertain times 7. The power to apply medical knowledge at the forefront of technological innovation 8. Life and career mobility 9. Membership in an influential alumni network spanning the globe 10. The prestige of owning a degree from one of US News & World Report's top-ranked pharmacy schools 11. Unlimited opportunities to improve people's lives 12. One-to-one learning with world-renowned faculty If you've had health-care patient experience, and if you've taken Chemistry 130, 210, 215, or 260; Biology 171, 172, 173, or 305; Physics 125, 126, 140, or 240; or Calculus 115 or 116, you're already on your way to a pharmacy degree at U-M. To learn more about the PharmD program at the University of Michigan, visit the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy Web site at www.umich.edu/-pharmacy. Or contact Assistant Dean Valener Perry at 734-764-5550 or by e-mail at vlperry@umich.edu. Your future never looked brighter. FOOD From page 5B breakfast food's rainbow, childish counterparts. Like in most dining halls, Cracklin' Oat Bran reigns supreme, while Lucky Charms, a favorite sugary cereals in other cafes, falls to 12th place. Granola consumption: average. WEST QUAD For reason beyond this article's scope of reasoning, West Quad eat- ers are the secret freaks of the din- ing services system. Pepsi, a classic cola heralded by commercials as the drink of agener- ation, never falls below third place for most consumed soda in a din- ing hall except at West Quad, where it's ranked sixth. The soda's almost equally adored kin, Diet Pepsi, is ranked seventh, In the duo's plac- es are pink lemonade at first and Mountain Dew at second - two underlings that receive moderate attention in other dininghalls. West Quaders are also eccentrics in terms of ice cream consumption. While the average residence hll diner eats .5 servings of ice cream per meal, diners in West Quad only manage .01 servings. That trans- lates to 1,715 fewer cones than the campus average of 2,390 cones served that week West Quaders eat an average amount of salad, about .6 servings per diner, but they don't enjoy the same quality lettuce. West Quad is one of two dining halls with salad bars that blend more nutritious Romaine lettuce with empty-calo- rie head lettuce at a one to one ratio: most dining halls mix in twice as much Romaine as Iceberg. West Quaders keep it mostly mature with their cereal selec- tions, choosing Special K Red Berries, Cracklin' Oat Bran and Honey Bunches of oats most often. But Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Honey Nut Cheerios slip in as the fourth most eaten cereals. As in the cases of ice cream and Pepsi, West Quad also has the low- est consumption of granola. ALICE LLOYD Alice Lloyd, though a smaller dorm, houses two learning com- munities and a slew of archetypical Hill-area freshmen --hungry fresh- men, as it turns out. With higher rates of salad, ice cream and gra- nola consumption thanmost other halls, it would seem Lloyd diners might be trying to eat through the stress of their first years in college. Ice cream consumption in Lloyd, at .92 servings per person, is almost double the campus-wide average of .5 servings. Only Betsy Barbour girls eat more, at 1.2 servings per diner. See NEXT PAGE aj s x ha : . £ ' ; 3 Ott Wednesday November 7,2007 - The Michigan DailyT3B QUOTES OF THE WEEK TALKING POINTS Three things you can talk about this week: 1. King Tut's face 2. Musharraf's martial law 3. An exploding comet visible to the naked eye And three things you can't: 1. Late-night show re-runs 2. Ugg boots 3. Pregnant pop stars "CHe wants to demolish things like the Department of Education, but we can do that very peacefully, in a constructive manner." - JESSE BENTON, campaign spokesman for Ron Paul, on how Paul doesn't advocate blowing uobuildings even though he raised millions of dollars on Guy Fawkes day, a holiday commemorating a thwarted bombing attempt on the Houses of Parliament in 1605 "We'd much rather work than stand in the cold. Writers are people who fear the sunlight." - JOHN OLIVER, "The Daily Show" writer, on the Writers Guild of America strike I would at this time venture to read out an excerpt of President Abra- ham Lincoln, especially to all my listeners in the United States." - PERVEZ MUSHARRAF in a statement about his decision to suspend Pakistan's constitution YOUTUBE VIDEO COF THE WEEK Rachael Ray doesn't have anything on him Who says the British don't know how to cook? UK beatboxing champion Dar- ren "Beardyman" Foreman man- ages to serve up ingredients you'll want to savor in a three-minute "cooking show." The bowls on his baker's table contain not spices or flour but the essential components of an "eclec- tro-funk daddy superstar break." Deadpan in his blond wig and apron, Beardyman is more funny than instructional - but then, his series of kickdrum, snare and "white noise" imitations isn't for armchair beatboxers. When he adds each component into his mixingabowl hemakes a sound or what he calls an "effective break." Like a true professional, he has an already-made break at the ready, as Julia Childs could have the per- fect souffl materialize on com- mand. Beardyman's recipe may be hard to follow, but his tough-love instruction is golden. -ABIGAIL COLODNER See this and other YouTube videos of the week at youtube.com/user/michigandaily BY THE NUMBERS October's death toll of U.S. service members killed in Iraq May's death toll of U.S. service members killed in Iraq U.S. service members currently employed in Iraq THEME PARTY SUGGESTION Get wrecked for the Edmund Fitzgerald - Toast in remembrance of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the ship that sank in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975 and thereafter shaped the November curriculums of elementary school music classes statewide. As for out-of-state friends unfamiliar with the history, edu- cate them: "The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down / Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee..." Throwing this party? Let us know. TheStatement@umich.edu WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE OF THE WEEK "Wikipedia" Wikipedia is a multilingual, web-based, encyclopedia project oper- ated by the not-for-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Many language ver- sions of Wikipedia are free content, while others, such as the English version, include non-free material. As of September 2007, Wikipedia had approximately 8.29 million articles in 253 languages, comprising a combined total of over 1.41 bil- lion words for all Wikipedias. The English Wikipedia edition passed the 2,000,000 article mark on September 9, 2007, and as of November 3, 2007 it had over 2,075,000 articles consisting of over 902,000,000 words. Wikipedia's articles have been written collaboratively by vol- unteers around the world and the vast majority of them can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet. Steadily rising in popularity since its inceptionit currently ranks among the top ten most-visited websites worldwide. source: i ne ivew Tom i imes