2 - Friday, November 30, 2007 MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com TUESDAY: Arbor Anecdotes WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY:F- 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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It is scheduled for Sunday at 7 p.m. Please report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com. 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. >>FOR MORE, SEE PAGE 4 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. 4 4 INTERESTED IN REDESIGNING THE DAILY'S WEBSITE? E-mail grossman@michigandaily.com. "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. 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