U U Wr w w w w w w W- w W- W-.- f -w- -w- --w- 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