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FACEBOOK ANALYTICS:
How University of Michigan profiles square up against Harvard, Columbia and Yale
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
SEX:
University of Michigan
Male-41%
Female - 40%
None listed -19%
Columbia University
Male - 30%
Female - 39%
None listed --31%
Winner: Columbia
With more students with unlisted
sexes than declared men on Facebook,
Columbia has a leg up on renouncing
traditional gender labels.
RELATIONSHIP STATUS:
University of Michigan
None Listed - 38%
Singie - 27%
In a Relationship 21%
Harvard
None Listed - 57%
Singie - 15%
In a Relationship15%
Winner: Michigan
Harvard students might be more
discreet in disclosing their romantic
activity, but honesty is still the best
policy. Besides, what's the point of
News Feed if not to inform you of the
exact moment your Facebook friends
had their hearts shattered?
TOP MOVIES:
University of Michigan
1. "Wedding Crashers"
2. "Anchorman"
3. "Little Miss Sunshine"
4. "Fight Club"
S. "OidhSchool"
6. "OfficeSpace"
7. "The Notebook"
8. "Gladiator"
9. "Love Actually"
10. "Crash"
Yale
1. "Amelie"
2. "Lord OfQThe Rings"
3. "The Princess Bride"
4. "OfficeSpace"
5. "Little Miss Sunshine"
6. "Garden State"
7. "Fight Club"
8. "Braveheart"
9. "Eternal Sunshine OftThe Spotless Mind"
10. "Good Will Hunting"
Winner: Yale
Yale gets points for having a foreign
film at number 1, while Michigan is far
too fond of Will Ferrell. But Yale still
needs to realize it can't hide behind
wholesome cult classics forever. When
was the last time you watched "The
Princess Bride," anyway?
After being nailed to the
cross, I feel so refreshed,
like all my sins are
washed away."
- FERNANDO MAMANGON, a 37-year-old
man from the Philippines, on being crucified
as part of a controversial annual tradition in
the country. He said he hopes his participa-
tion will help cure his ailing son.
"We're talking suicidal thou
"My one concession to
American sensibilities was
to remove my nail polish."
- SEBASTIAN HORSLEY, a 45-year-old British
author, on his attempt to come to the U.S. to pro-
mote his new memoir, which is filled with stories
of sex and drugs. After being interrogated for 8
hours at Newark Liberty International Airport,
Horsley said he was denied entry into the coun-
try because of "moral turpitude."
ghts here."
TALKING
POINTS
Three things you can talk about this week:
1. The Pope's "new Crusade" against Islam
2. Passport breaches at the State Department
3. The GEO strike
- J.K. ROWLING, the best-selling author of the Harry Potter series, on her struggles with depres-
sion when she was a single mother living with little money in a small apartment. Rowling has now
sold more than 32.5 million copies of her books, and she is one of the world's wealthiest women.
And three things you can't:
1. Obama's pastor
2. Subletting
3. Missing class for the
GEO strike
YOUTU BE
VIDEO OF
THE WEEK
Catfish country
Between William Faulkner and
"The Dukes of Hazzard," Lynyrd Sky-
nyrd and "Gone With the Wind," few
places have been romanticized quite
like the South.
Americans bear a strange affin-
ity for the land of the Confederacy, of
King Cotton, where high schools are
for football and not for fancy book-
learning. If you're the type of person
who yearns for mintjuleps in the sum-
mer or uagood, violent Civil War reen-
actment, this video is for you.
In the clip, called "How Real Men
Catch Catfish," we learn that "real
men" go shirtless, wear trucker hats
and sit shoulders-deep inmurky water
while waiting for the catfish to come.
Their hands are the bait, the fifty-
pound catfish the prey.
When a catfish bites, one fisherman
reaches deep into its mouth, push-
ing his fist through the fish's gills to
keep it from escaping. He picks up the
immense, wriggling bottom-feeder
and dumps it into his boat, then pulls
out his arm, which is bloodied by the
catfish's teeth.
"Hold it up, show your mama," the
cameraman says. "Oh, mama, look at
his hand."
It's as red as Chickamauga Creek,
but his family could eat fried catfish
for a week.
Mama'll be proud.
- GABE NELSON
See this and other
YouTube videos ofthe week at
voutube.com/user/michigandaily
r BY THE NUMBERS
Number of cosmetic procedures performed in the U.S. in 2007.
Liposuction was the most popular procedure
Approximate cost, in dollars, of the procedures
1 1
Percent increase in surgical cosmetic procedures
performed since 1997
Source: The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
THEME PARTY SUGGESTION
Stop the madness -Yeah, we know it's March
Madness. All your friends are bragging about how
they haven't been to class in a week. After all, the
NCAA tournament is much more important than
their future. We think you should rebel against the
college basketball frenzy by avoiding it at all costs.
Play Monopoly with friends. Watch "Ocean's 13"
on HBO. If you get really desperate, play beer pong.
Just don't catch the sports fanatic fever.
Throwing this party? Let us know. TheStatement@umich.edu
STUDY OF THE WEEK
Good college sports teams boost applications
The more successful a college's sports teams are, the more applica-
tions that school will receive, according to a study conducted by Jaren
and Devin Pope, two professors whose work will be published this year
in the Southern Economic Journal.
This phenomenon, dubbed the Flutie Effect after former Boston Col-
lege quarterback Doug Flutie, has generally been acknowledged by col-
lege admissions officials, but this is the first time it has actually been
documented. The researchers examined data on freshman classes at
330 NCAA Division I schools and compared it with the success of the
schools' sports teams from 1983 through 2002.
The study concluded that winning the NCAA football or men's bas-
ketball championship accounted for an 8 percent rise in applications. If
a school advances to the Sweet 16 in the men's basketball tournament,
it will likely see an average 3 percent increase in applications the next
year,.the researchers found.
BRIAN TENGEL