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Explained Before You Were Here E is
Michian'S manyMiChaels
If you're a student at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, chances are good
that you know a Michael or two.
For starters, there's Olympic gold-
medal swimmer Michael Phelps,
Michigan football star Michael
Hart and standout pitcher Michael
Powers.
But that's just the beginning of
the list.
There are 792 Michaels at the
University of Michigan - 348
more than the most popular
female name, Sarah.
That's surprisingly dominant,
considering the student body
is roughly half male and half
female.
LSA freshman Michael Spit-
ulnik said he wasn't surprised to
learn that there are 791 other stu-
dents walking around campus with
his name. Spitulnik said he has five
friends named Michael.
"I mean,Iknew alot of Michaels,
so it wasn't that big of a deal," he
said. "When we hang out, people
call me Michael or Mike - I don't
really care, just as long as it's not
Mikey."
According to social security
application data posted online by
the federal government, Michael
was the number one name given
to newborn boys every year from
1961 to 1988 and was the second
most common baby name last
year. It has 44 international vari-
ant forms, many of which are
equally popular in foreign coun-
tries.
That means Mick Jagger and
Mikhail Gorbachev are still
Michaels in spirit.
LSA freshman Ha Ryong Jung,
who is Korean, said his parents
and his Catholic Church gave him
the English name Michael when
he was in kindergarten. He was
named after Michael, an archan-
gel in the New Testament who
led heaven's armies and has a cel-
ebration in his honor on Sept. 29.
The name, which means "He who
resembles God" in Hebrew, is also
often an English transliteration of
Spitulnik's Hebrewname "Moshe,"
he said.
Spitulnik said religion played a
part in his own naming as well.
"There were some other popular
names like Max and Mark, but my
cousin that was born a year before
was named Max, and my mom's
brother's name is Mark," he said.
"Ashkenazi Jews don't believe in
naming someone after another
relative who's still alive."
Both Michaels said they appre-
ciate their name in different
ways.
Spitulnik said he was honored to
share the name of honorable his-
torical figures and that he views
himself as a capable leader. "It's my
name," Spitulnik said. "I don't have
any complaints about it."
SARA LYNNE THELEN
BENJI DELL/Dai
LSA junior Michael Chen (LEFT) sits with Ross School of
Business sophomore Michael Jung Wednesday night in the
Business School. They are two of the 792 University students
named Michael, the University's most common name.
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Cash taken from out of the spot and into traf-
fic. Police towed the car. The
owner recovered it later.
Camera stolen
WHERE: Spine Clinic, 325
Eisenhower Pkwy. from theater
WHEN: Wednesdayat about
1:25 p.m. WHERE: Mendelssohn Theat
WHAT: An employee reported WHEN: Wednesday at about
$45 stolen from a locked safe 12:30 p.m.
used to store petty cash in an WHAT: A woman reported a
office, the Department of Pub- camera stolen between 2 and
lic Safety reported. Police said p.m. on Nov. 24, DPS reportec
the incident occurred some- The woman left her Canon di
time between Nov. 21 at 11:30 ital camera, valued at $2,500,
a.m. and Nov. 26 at 8 a.m. DPS unattended, and she returned
is investigating the case. to find it missing.
Driverless Skateboarder
rolling car towed warned at Weill
WHERE: Lot SC-6, 1200 Kipke WHERE: Weill Hall
Dr. WHEN: Wednesday at about
WHEN: Wednesday at about 2:18 a e tb
8:10 p.m. 2:15 a.m.
WHAT: A driver parked a WHAT: A DPS officer saw a
green Ford Contour outside skateboarder outside the buil
Crisler Arena before heading ing, DPS reported. Skateboar
to the Michigan basketball ing is prohibited on campus.
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DPScreported. The driver left boarderdatherl earand
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Modern dance
performance
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WHAT: A student dance
group's fall semester show
WHO: Cadence
WHEN: Tonight from 7:30
to 8:30
WHERE: East Quad theater
his power and is dying
WHO: School of Music, The-
atre and Dance
WHEN: Tonight at 7:30
WHERE: Studio One, Wal-
green Drama Center
Lecture on
diversity in the
A 1950s take on corporate world
Shakespeare
WHAT: A performance of
"The Taming of the Shrew"
set in the 1950s
WHO: University Activities
Center
WHEN: Tonight at 8
WHERE: Mendelssohn The-
atre, Michigan League
Performance of
'Exit the King'
WHAT: A performance of a
play about a kingwho refuses
to face the fact that he has lost
WHAT: A lecture by Alonzo
Weems, the director of work-
force diversity at Eli Lilly
WHO: National Society of
Black Engineers
WHEN: Today at 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Cheseborough
Auditorium, Chrysler Center
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The 90-day wait required
under the Ann Arbor lease
signing ordinance expires
today for leases starting on
Sept. 1, meaning the managers
of those properties can start
showing them to prospective
tenants tomorrow.
According to the U.S.
Department of Education,
the state of Alabama went
from 22nd to fifth in meeting
educational standards of the
No Child Left Behind Act. A
report released earlier this
month by an Education Depart-
ment accused state educational
leaders of "gaming"the system.
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Ann Arbor police raided
David's Books on Wil-
liam Street yesterday in
an investigation of $40,000
in medical books stolen from
Ulrich's Bookstore on South
University Avenue, The Ann
Arbor News reported. Police
declined to comment but were
seen carrying crates of books
out of the store.
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"Silenced genes" mapped in humans
Understanding genes believed to play a profound
role in people's health.
silencing could lead More mtriguing,the work marks
an important step in studying how
to cures for diseases our environment - food, stress,
pollution - interacts with genes to
WASHINGTON (AP) - Remem- help determine why some people
ber biology class where you learned get sick and others do not.
that children inherit one copy of a "What we have is a bag of gold
gene from mom and a second from nuggets," lead researcher Dr.
dad? There's a twist: Some of those Randy Jirtle said about the col-
genes arrive switched off, so there lection of "imprinted" genes. The
is no backup if the other copy goes team's findings were published
bad, making you more vulnerable online Friday by the journal
to disorders from obesity to cancer. Genome Research.
Duke University scientists now Usually, people inherit a copy
have identified these "silenced of each gene from each parent
genes," creating the first map of and both copies are active, pro-
this unique group of about 200 grammed to do their jobs when-
ever needed. If one copy of a gene
becomes mutated and quits work-
ing properly, often the other copy
can compensate.
Genetic imprinting knocks out
that backup. It means that for some
genes, people inherit an active
copy only from the mother or onily
from the father. Molecular signals
tell, or "imprint," the copy from
the other parent to be silent.
Next comes work to prove exact-
ly what role these genes play.
Many of the newly found
imprinted genes are in regions of
chromosomes alreadylinkedtothe
development of obesity, diabetes,
cancer and some other major dis-
eases, the researchers reported.
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