2 - Friday, January 11, 2008 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers TUESDAY: Arbor Anecdotes PUPPET PERFORMANCE WEDNESDAY: THURSDAY: FRIDAY: The Extremist Explained BeforeYu Were Here A e g EEGEOFReAiLROAD JACK e Areneg~a e renaissance man In the 1920s and early 30s, Ann Arbor owed much of its local color to the frequent presence of the man known to students only as "Railroad Jack." Over the years Railroad Jack gained a following that included the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and The New York Times - all of which wrote about Jack's visits to their respective cities. It was Ann Arbor, however, that earned the distinction of being called his "headquarters." In "The Making of the Univer- sity of Michigan: 1817-1992," for- mer University Professor Howard Peckham writes that "Jack" was born in Wisconsin around 1854 as Harry Cooper, but took up his better-known moniker while working as a writer for a railroad periodical. In his youth, Railroad Jack spent time as a journalist and publisher in Chicago. According to Peckham, he made his living for most of his life using his remark- able memory for historical facts. After he left his publishing busi- ness in Chicago, Jack never had a permanent home. The self-described "World's Champion History Expert" assembled crowds on campus and invited onlookers to shout out dates in history he didn't know. In addition to passing around a collectionplate,he would oftenbet against the crowd, daring them to stump him. On some occasions he even accosted students and pro- fessors as they filed out of classes to take his challenge. While the Post estimated Coo- per knew biographical details for 500 historical figures, other arti- cles of the time report him boast- SAM WOLSON/Daily Under the direction of theater artist Dan Hurlin, School of Art seniors Michelle Panars, Karen Hoenke and Wesley animate a puppet yesterday in the Michigan Theater. CRIME NOTES CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES Steak, shrimp Purse snatched Presentation on salad stolen from from Children's human rights West Quad Hospital issues WHERE: West Quad WHEN: Wednesday at about 2 p.m. WHAT: A steak and a shrimp salad were stolen from a refrig- erator in the food service area in West Quad, the Department of Public Safety reported. Police are investigating the case but have no suspects. Driver hits parked car WHERE: Lot M-15, North Medical Campus WHEN: Wednesday at about 7 a.m-. WHAT: A driver hit a parked car while leavinglot M-15, DPS reported. No one was injured in the accident. Both cars suffered minor body damage and paint scratches. WHERE: Maternal & Child Health Center, C.S. Mott Chil- dren's Hospital WHEN: Wednesday at about 6 a.m. WHAT: A purse was stolen from the Children's Hospital, DPS reported. A debit card was reported stolen from the purse. DPS has no suspects. Wallet taken from Markley Hall WHERE: Mary Markley Hall WHEN: Wednesday at about 3 a.m. WHAT: A student's wallet was stolen from Mary Markley Hall, DPS reported. The wallet con- tained $40 in cash. DPS has no suspects. WHAT: University of Wis- consin Political Science Prof. Leigh Payne will discuss her book about political recon- ciliation and human rights violations. WHO: Center for Inter- national and Comparative Study WHEN: Today at noon WHERE: Room 2022, 202S. Thayer St. Chinese history discussion WHAT: A discussion by Chi- nese theater scholar Claire Conceison on the visits of photographer Inge Morath and writer Arthur Miller to China. Conceison will also discuss the 1983 performance of Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" in Beijing. WHO:sCenter for Chinese Studies WHEN: Today at 5 p.m. WHERE: 4th floor, Rackham Graduate School Lecture by civil rights activist WHAT: Carl Mack, a former director of the National Soci- ety of Black Engineers and NAACP official, will speak to the University's chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers. WHO: National Society of Black Engineers WHEN: Today from 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Stamps Auditori- um, Walgreen Drama Center CORRECTIONS OPlease report any error in the Daily to corrections@ michigandaily.com. ing of memorizing more than 5,000 persons and 10,000 impor- tant dates. Cooper also flaunted his abil- ity to identify the key of a popular hymn when he heard it played. Peckham writes that Cooper began his travels - mostly by train - in 1895, but a 1908 article says that he had already been "spiel- ing" for 26 years. In 1933, Cooper was found dead of heart failure outside of Coldwa- ter, Mich., at the age of 79, accord- ing to The Associated Press. The Times printed that he had left his body to the University Medical School for research, but Peckham writes that a University Pastor claimed the body and had Jack buried in a local Catholic cem- etery. CHARLES GREGG-GEIST T H ETHNSYOU Arizona governor and Republican presidential candidate John McCain will be speaking at a town hall meeting at Clawson High School in Clawson, Michigan, at 3:45 p.m. tomorrow. McCain comes to Michigan on the back of a primary victory in New Hampshire on Tuesday. The Michigan women's basketball team lost to Purdue yesterday, mark- ing their 18th straight loss to the Boilermakers. The Wolver- ines lost a lead going into the final two minutes of the game. >>>FOR MORE, SEE SPORTS PAGE8 The British government announced yesterday that citizens are no lon- ger allowed to keep elephants as pets, The Guardian report- ed. A 12-year-old British boy has started a national petition to reverse the law. 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Elledge, is a geneti- 273 proteins that the AIDS virus cist, and this is his first work on the needs to survive in human cells, human immunodeficiency virus, opening up new potential targets which causes AIDS. His previous for drugs. work has been on cancer, Elledge Their work, published online said, trying to figure out how cells yesterday by Science magazine, sense when their chromosomes used RNA interference to screen are broken, and this paper was a thousands of protein-making collaborative effort. genes; previously, scientists had "I can't even grow HIV in my identified only 36 human proteins lab," Elledge said, so he had to use that the virus uses to break into virus grown by Dr. Judy Lieber- cells, hijack their machinery and man, director of the medical start reproducing. school's AIDS division and one of "This is just terrific work," said the co-authors. Dr. Robert C. Gallo, director of the Elledge's team used a library of Institute of Human Virology at the tens of thousands of different short University of Maryland and a co- interfering RNAs, bits of genetic discoverer of the virus. "I think it's code -- each of which, when intro- destined to be one of the top papers duced into a cell, knocks out the in this field for the decade." cell's ability to make a single pro- Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director tein. of the National Institute of Allergy Next, about 21,000 samples of and Infectious Diseases and the cells, each crippled in its ability to government's top AIDS expert, produce one protein, were placed in separate wells on laboratory plates and dosed with the virus. If the virus could not reproduce normally in a given well, it sug- gested that the missing protein was one of those it needed. Of the 273 human proteins iden- tified, only 36 had been previously found by other methods. 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Even with more time, more fed- eral help and technical advances, REAL ID still faces stiff opposi- tion from civil liberties groups. To address some of those con- cerns, the government now plans to phase in a secure ID initiative that Congress passed into law in 2005. Now, DHS plans a key dead- line in 2011, and then further mea- sures to be enacted three years later, according to congressional staffers who spoke to The Asso- ciated Press on condition of ano- nymity because an announcement had not yet been made. Without discussing details, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff promoted the final rules for REAL ID during a meeting Thursday with an advi- sory council. "We worked very closely with the states in terms of developing a plan that I think will be inexpen- sive, reasonable to implement and produce the results,"hesaid. "This is a win-win. 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